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How to cope with existential anxiety in isolated environments

Three weeks into my first deep-sea research mission and I keep having this recurring dream that the surface doesn't exist anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche struggles when familiar reference points vanish entirely.

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“Where Are You with Extreme environments — poles high altitude deep ocean?”

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