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Are You Having an Existential Crisis of Authenticity?

Are You Having an Existential Crisis of Authenticity?

Most people have some sort of existential crisis around authenticity, often but not always in our teen years, when our brains have developed enough that we find ourselves thrown into a complex world full of risks and choices. It is during these years when we first...
Are You Having an Existential Crisis of Isolation?

Are You Having an Existential Crisis of Isolation?

When we’re short on connection, we end up isolated. The pandemic accelerated an already-growing epidemic of loneliness in the US. According to that linked Harvard study, chances are that at least 1 in 3 people reading this are experiencing serious loneliness—a lack of...
Surviving an Existential Crisis with Six Feet Under: Isolation

Surviving an Existential Crisis with Six Feet Under: Isolation

Existential crisis gets at the core of what it means to be human and how we manage it all. The characters on Six Feet Under contend with the biggest questions we have: Who am I? Why am I here? What’s the point of life? Of death? Am I a good person? Do I know how to...