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  1. To get rid of the existential crisis, you need to go through it. A crisis is a transition from one quality of life to another. In fact, the presence of a crisis means that you need to make a transition to some new quality for you. During the transition, everything that was before is devalued and loses its meaning. To get past the crisis in practice, you need to reconsider your life goals, relationships, and experience. This will help you get rid of the old cargo. After that, you need to look at your present and answer the question ” what do I want?”. If you do everything right and do not look for the answer in the past, but in the present, then this will be the beginning of a way out of the crisis. And the truth that you will find when you get out of the crisis will give you new values and interests, desires and goals, meaning to live.

    Separately, we can also say about the life vocation and purpose. It is possible and important to find them, and this will also be very useful for getting out of the crisis.

  2. You know, the same thoughts… As one great man wrote: “Not even Shakespeare is eternal.” So I think, what is the meaning of life? I want to be above supporting the parasitic-consumerist machine in which we are all involved, and which is ruthlessly destroying a planet that was originally ideal for life. The planet will soon begin to destroy us. And what we have been striving for for millions of years, and all this progress of the last centuries – everything will be reduced to decay.

  3. Since recently, I have also become so, no matter how banal it may sound. I understand you very well. I think that here you need to wait it out, survive it, find some new incentives and interests in life-this is the best and optimal option in such a situation. Or there is a less pleasant option – to get used to living as it is now. I haven't been able to find what I described in the first option yet, but I'm looking for it because the second option doesn't suit me. There is, of course, a third option – this is to finish everything, if you understand, but I do not consider this option at all and do not advise anyone.�

    Good luck, strength and patience, believe in good things and try to do something for them.

  4. To live as I have lived, because nothing has changed, and life is really ” a meaningless game for the sake of the game.” This is good, if you have reached this point with your head – in fact, now you may have some meaning to live. And then it may be that this is age-related-hormonal. Then find good nootropics and life will be even brighter than it was. It's a pity only in Rush a good half of nootropics are prohibited, it is believed that such problems should be treated with vodka. But, who is looking for-he will find, and vodka does not work, but simply kills quickly, and there is no person – there is no problem.
    In general, in this situation of yours, there are only pluses, whatever one may say.

  5. It's very simple: you can't read everything that “well-wishers” write to you here. You urgently need to see a psychiatrist, well, or first to a psychotherapist. The main thing is not to confuse real specialists with homegrown psychologists, of whom there are now a great many divorced.�

    If you have real depression, don't be afraid of medication. It will restore your hormone balance and then, with a cool mind, you will be able to understand what you really want and whether it really makes sense. Believe me, it is always there. Personally yours. Not public, average, or normatively approved by The question community. Yours.�

    Good luck!

  6. Slowly, gently live, as they say. Although the question is probably asked incorrectly and does not reflect the actual state. Reformulate it so that you can respond appropriately.

  7. If you have absolutely no desire for the game of life, then you should be absolutely happy. If you are still unhappy, it only means that there are hidden tendencies:

    Hidden tendencies

    Bhikkhus, depending on the eye and its forms, eye consciousness arises. The meeting of these three is a contact. With contact as a condition, there is a [feeling] that is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-pleasant-nor-painful. When a person is touched by a pleasant feeling, if he enjoys it, welcomes it, continues to hold it, then a hidden tendency to thirst lies in him. When a person is touched by a painful feeling, if he is sad, grieves and weeps, sobs, beats his chest, becomes distraught, then a hidden tendency to disgust lies in him. When a person is concerned with a neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, if he does not understand in accordance with reality the emergence, extinction, attraction, danger, and salvation of this feeling, then a hidden tendency to ignorance lies in him.

    Bhikkhus, for anyone to put an end to suffering here and now without giving up the latent tendency to crave a pleasant feeling, without destroying the latent tendency to avert a painful feeling, without destroying the latent tendency to ignorance about neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, without giving up ignorance and generating true knowledge – that is impossible.

    Monks, depending on the ear and sounds, ear consciousness arises…
    Monks, depending on the nose and odors, the consciousness of the nose arises…
    Monks, depending on the language and tastes, the consciousness of language arises…
    Bhikkhus, depending on the body and tangible things, body consciousness arises…

    Bhikkhus, depending on the mind and mental objects, the consciousness of the mind arises. The meeting of these three is a contact. With contact as a condition, there is a [feeling] that is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-pleasant-nor-painful. When a person is touched by a pleasant feeling, if he enjoys it, welcomes it, continues to hold it, then a hidden tendency to thirst lies in him. When a person is touched by a painful feeling, if he is sad, grieves and weeps, sobs, beats his chest, becomes distraught, then a hidden tendency to disgust lies in him. When a person is concerned with a neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, if he does not understand in accordance with reality the emergence, extinction, attraction, danger, and salvation of this feeling, then a hidden tendency to ignorance lies in him.

    Bhikkhus, for anyone to put an end to suffering here and now without giving up the latent tendency to crave a pleasant feeling, without destroying the latent tendency to avert a painful feeling, without destroying the latent tendency to ignorance about neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, without giving up ignorance and generating true knowledge – that is impossible.

    http://theravada.ru/Teaching/Canon/Suttanta/Texts/mn148-chachakka-sutta-sv.htm#a6

  8. And I have the same thing-somewhere a couple of years ago it started out of the blue, you can say. It seems to have learned to just live by inertia with this, I got used to it. I try to look for positive moments – everyone is alive and well, there is a job and they pay for it regularly, if you don't want anything, then you can save time and money very much. Why not? And life will really be meaningless until death is defeated. You just need to think less about it and try to exist here and now.

  9. What you experience is called chronic fatigue, depression, apathy, learned helplessness. This is a set of symptoms that lead to:

    • Insufficient amount of sunlight during the day – you sit indoors a lot, do not walk outside
    • Hence the violation of the daily rhythms of the daily routine – do not go to bed and do not wake up at the same time
    • Hypodynamia – you do not give the necessary minimum of physical activity
    • Monotonous uninteresting activity, hidden aggression
      To eliminate it, you must::

    • Walk in the sun for at least an hour a day, when a person sees sunlight, serotonin synthesis occurs. During the day, serotonin regulates the activity and tone of the body, as well as many mental functions, it is called the happiness hormone. When it gets dark, serotonin is converted to melatonin, which ensures normal sleep.

    • Normalize employment, don't try to finish your work overnight. Get up and go to bed at the same time. Failure of circadian rhythms leads to disorders of many body systems, as a result of poor health. Also, the brain's ability to work with intensive intellectual activity is limited to 4 hours, the reason is in the metabolism of neurons. The rest of the working time should be filled with mechanical or combinatorial work that does not require any mental effort.
    • Give a minimum of physical activity, which helps to maintain the body in good shape and improve blood supply to the brain. Surprisingly, solutions to work issues will come more often after hours, because the formation of neural connections-the synaptogenesis of neurons-is also limited by metabolism. During physical exertion, motor areas of the brain are involved, which increases the area of activity in addition to those areas that were involved in solving work tasks. No need to bring to fatigue, feel your norm, physical activity should be pleasant. The ideal option is a swimming pool.
    • After the previous points are completed, after a couple of months, your head will become clear enough to find the reason for what annoys you in life or work. Eliminate these irritants, ignore conflicting people, and do something that will attract you. In your free time, do something that is not related to work, try different activities that involve vision, hearing, and motor skills.

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