EXISTENTIAL DREAD AND QUESTIONING YOUR EXISTENCE

IT is no secret that the occurrences of different events and the unfolding of some experiences in our lives evoke a variety of different psycho-emotional responses and feelings; some of which linger for longer than others. Questioning our existence and even sometimes dreading life itself, may be somewhat viewed as an encapsulation and an indication of an existing depressive state in an individual and the way they view the world around them.

Emotional

Normally, it is the product of numerous life events that constantly yield psychological trauma, emotional strain as well as a social environment that is filled with insecurity and perceived threat. Examples of such are plenty and it is overtime that the individual experiencing these will begin to succumb to psychological impacts of these events, eventually leading them towards the engulfing feelings of psych emotional dread coupled with thoughts of ‘wishing you never existed’, amongst others.

Failure

Experiencing complex traumas such as loss (of a loved one or relative), losing employment, being disappointed in a relationship or facing constant failures (in life, generally) are some instances that weigh psychologically heavy on an individual, and having to go through such a range of emotions can come at a very high price for that individual’s mental health.
Also, once-in-a-lifetime worldwide events like the pandemic exposed a large percentage of humanity to an ‘odd’ world where very few things were within the bounds of normalcy, and with that came a lot of confusion, inconsistency and uncertainty.

As relating to feeling a sense of existential dread, consistent negative experiences figuratively impinge on our sense of being as well as on the confidence that we have to progress and go on with our lives. We begin to assimilate the products of all we go through after which, we adopt the byproducts (the trauma, the emotional reshuffling as well as other psychological impacts) and allow them to redefine who we are, even after the events have passed. Slowly, we begin to loathe our lives (and everything in them), not only that, but we also begin to loathe ourselves and secretly hope to cease existing. This is the dread of existence that begins to grow and grow, and slowly, this morphs into a full-blown questioning of one’s own right to exist as these negatively impacting mental health instabilities begin to show more clearly.

Test

In as much as life itself is a gallery of psychologically impacting instances that test our resolve with each passing day, it remains a vital point to note that this should not become a fabric of our being. Therefore, we always ought to understand that what we go through is solely for the purposes of strengthening our psychological resolve as well as enlightening to us the different perspectives and different ways in which we should view the world. Our existence remains no mistake and essentially, how our survival skill-set is broadened by the amount of life challenges we manage to sieve our way through day after day. Even though the impacts of one event may be different from the next, it remains a way in which we grow our mental health as well as how we develop the necessary skills to combat the next life obstacle we might face. Send comments to runsford0505@gmail.com

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