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How I Managed Deep Existential Anxiety

OCD, Anxiety and Finding Purpose

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Joe Gibson
Sep 29, 2023
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OCD, Anxiety and Finding Purpose

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A few years ago I went through an existential crisis that saw me questioning my reality. I wondered obsessively over what my reality was, if life was one big simulation, or if a we were here by the fateful luck of evolution. I also worried about if there was life after death, and wh…

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