Existential Anxiety

Existential Anxiety

Have you ever felt a strange kind of unreal anxiety that just made you think how weird life was? Have you ever felt that you were part of some gigantic board game? Have you ever gone dizzy wondering what was there before the universe was created in the big bang or made by god?

To question the above is quite normal, but to worry about it, or have it bring on negative physical reactions, is not. Symptoms of this existential anxiety can include (but are not limited to) dizziness, spacyness, nausea, panic, hyperventilation, vertigo and depression.

What can be done about existential anxiety?

The best therapy seems to be to accept it, and and keep saying to yourself “This is only existential anxiety and it can't do anything to me.” Also I have found Mindfulness Meditation to be particularly good when it comes to simply letting anxious thoughts be there.

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