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How early mortality awareness can create life paralysis

I am 25 and I feel like I am already behind on living because I see death everywhere and it makes everything feel urgent and impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Premature confrontation with death's certainty can overwhelm young adults before they develop coping mechanisms for existential anxiety.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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