Feeling glum and dont know why

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Lately, I've been feeling glum. I won't say 'depressed,' because I'm pretty sure this isn't depression. But I have been feeling less than happy: I feel like my life is going nowhere, like I'm just drifting through the motions. I feel like I'm squandering my life, like I am destined for failure as a human being. And oddly enough, lately I've just felt so...insignificant. Like in the end, I will just have been a worthless blip on the face of existence.

I have no right to feel this way: I'm in grad school, on my way to a solid career. I am better off than some people are, and havent had any truly bad things happen to me. So why have I been feeling this way? Why on earth have I been so down? Is this just a phase or something?

I go through these phases regularly but now I cycle out of them because I'm medicated. I guess you need to see how long it lasts. I can feel OK about my life or horrible about it depending completely whether my mood is down or level. I'm never up.