Managing Existential Dread and Existential Anxiety through Counseling

Someone who is experiencing heightened existential dread is likely feeling disconnected from what I call ‘life’s cornerstones,’ which have brought them a sense of security in the past. Often these cornerstones are represented by personal and shared beliefs about people, places, activities, communities, etc. When it is perceived that these belief systems are under duress, or the cornerstones are threatened, dread spikes.

And when there is a mass event affecting the entirety of a community, population, or society, it creates an existential experience that is then tied into ‘the human condition.’