When meaning slips away from life: how Ukrainians experience an existential crisis during the war

The war has changed our perception of life, death, and ourselves. Many are asking themselves for the first time: why am I alive, who am I now that everything around me is destroyed?

LIGA.net contacted psychologist and crisis counselor Iryna Shenye to find out:

• how war changes the manifestations of existential crisis — the search for meaning, the fear of death, the feeling of absurdity.
• how loss and unpredictability affect new identity and meaning in life.
• Is "survivor's guilt" a manifestation of an existential crisis?
• How to live with the fear of death and turn it into strength.
• how shared pain and struggle give birth to new meaning and unity.
• that helps to find inner strength and understand oneself during the war

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