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Whether to medicate existential anxiety

My anxiety medication stopped working and my doctor wants to increase the dose but I wonder if I should just sit with the groundlessness instead of medicating it away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual openings can be difficult to distinguish from psychological symptoms, creating confusion about appropriate treatment.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with No-self and identity in Buddhist thought?”

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