Around the world, we are confronted today, both collectively and individually, with a profound existential crisis. Generally, an existential crisis "is some subjective or objective stressor that threatens our basic sense of security, self-esteem, identity, or survival" (Diamond, 2016).
An existential crisis can occur, as psychiatrist Irv Yalom (1989) explains, when existential reality shatters our illusion of specialness: a magical, childish, and typically unconscious belief in our immunity to the tragic side of existence, to suffering, and especially, to death.
For some, it may feel as if the so-called coronavirus (COVID-19) is stalking and killing us off, one by one. Those of us who do not serve on the front lines in the fevered fight
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