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What's the best way to grapple with existential anxiety?

I've been reading about existentialism lately, and instead of feeling liberated, I feel more anxious??ike everything is ultimately meaningless and my choices don?? matter in the grand scheme. Is this normal? How do people actually live with that tension?

Yes, that?? not only normal??t?? a classic sign you??e engaging deeply with existential thought. Thinkers like Kierkegaard called this 'the dizziness of freedom,' and Rollo May described it as the natural discomfort that arises when we confront our radical responsibility. The anxiety isn?? a bug??t?? a feature: it signals that you??e no longer outsourcing meaning to external authorities (religion, tradition, social expectations) and are beginning to author your own values. Many find grounding through what Irvin Yalom calls 'existential givens'??eath, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness??ot by solving them, but by responding authentically: committing to relationships, creative work, or causes *despite* uncertainty. It helps to reframe 'meaninglessness' not as a void, but as open space??ike a blank canvas rather than an erased one.

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