feeling lost

I've wondered about this.

I think it is related to a number of items. If you were recently diagnosed:

1. Identity not fully stabilised. Being diagnosed is a change to how you view yourself.
2. Past not fully re-framed. You are shaped by your past and experiences, if your interpretation of these changes it unbalances you.
3. Being in survival mode. Just making it through each day or week is a strategy, but it lacks a goal. Often you may not have the capacity to define a goal, due to overload. Focussing on the here and now pushes it out of your mind so you keep functioning, but it is there in the background.

Once you address 1 & 2 and make accommodations to get out of 3, you then face what now? What am supposed to be doing, where do I want to go, what life can I have, should I have, do I even want?

The confusion has gone, the diagnosis helped with that, but it doesn't tell you what to be or what to do.

You have to find these. They may be constrained by various things, which can be frustrating, but working them out is the solution.

This is a transitional phase I think, going from the old you to the new you.

Drifting is what contributes to the lost feeling. The problem is there is no easy answer as everyone is different. 

I've wondered about this.

I think it is related to a number of items. If you were recently diagnosed:

1. Identity not fully stabilised. Being diagnosed is a change to how you view yourself.
2. Past not fully re-framed. You are shaped by your past and experiences, if your interpretation of these changes it unbalances you.
3. Being in survival mode. Just making it through each day or week is a strategy, but it lacks a goal. Often you may not have the capacity to define a goal, due to overload. Focussing on the here and now pushes it out of your mind so you keep functioning, but it is there in the background.

Once you address 1 & 2 and make accommodations to get out of 3, you then face what now? What am supposed to be doing, where do I want to go, what life can I have, should I have, do I even want?

The confusion has gone, the diagnosis helped with that, but it doesn't tell you what to be or what to do.

You have to find these. They may be constrained by various things, which can be frustrating, but working them out is the solution.

This is a transitional phase I think, going from the old you to the new you.

Drifting is what contributes to the lost feeling. The problem is there is no easy answer as everyone is different.