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When siblings experience death anxiety in incompatible ways

My brother and I are both dealing with our own mortality anxiety in our thirties — his manifests as this frantic need to achieve everything immediately while mine shows up as complete paralysis about making any major decisions — and we're realizing our different responses are actually making it harder for us to be there for each other even though we're going through the same underlying thing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two family members are discovering that their different expressions of the same existential terror are creating distance rather than connection between them.

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“Where Are You with Existential psychology — meaning death freedom?”

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