Spiritual crisis or we will someday be gone my grandmother, who is very close to me, from the fact that I will also die, that everything I do is meaningless. This makes me feel empty inside and hurt. There is nothing in my life that would bring me strength and give me energy.” The girl looked very depressed, rivers of tears flowed from her frightened, red eyes. Her breathing was intermittent - she was literally choking on her pain and fear in tears. So existential anxiety took all our strength. The state that the client was talking about is called SPIRITUAL or existential CRISIS in psychology. What is the reason for the spiritual crisis? The structure of our Ego consists of three components: I-material (body), I-social (our status ) and I-spiritual (semantic core). When negative changes occur in the ego structure, or there is some threatening factor for our personality, for example, for the body - a serious illness, traumatic sexual experience, loss of objects, etc., for the social self - forced stay in a role unusual for a person, loss important social connections, loss of one’s status, for the spiritual part - a moral crisis, loss of meaning, UNPREPARED involvement in various kinds of rituals, practices, group psychotherapy, then all this can be the CAUSE OF A SPIRITUAL CRISIS. But, unlike other crises (age-related, psychological ), existential may NOT happen to EVERYONE. It lasts a long time. And to overcome it, you need to find the meaning of life and your place in this world. You should work on your feelings in relation to the current situation in life (explore fear, anxiety, etc.). To overcome this crisis, SUPPORT and an atmosphere of TRUST are important. You need to understand that this anxiety is not a “disease”, but a manifestation of the transformation process. You need to feel the difficult state of dissatisfaction with your life. Analyze your desires and needs, look at the real you, and how you show yourself to society (masks), and at your POTENTIAL. We need to find RESOURCES through awareness of the finitude of life. FINITY OF BEING is one of the existential “inevitabilities” of man. Noel Salathé described 5 such givens: responsibility, FINITY, loneliness, imperfection and the search for meaning. He said that we all, in one way or another, encounter these spiritual “givens” that cause us anxiety, push us to action, or, conversely, immobilize us in action and make us doubt. Yes, indeed, everything in this life has its end, including life. The day ends at night, childhood ends with adolescence, youth with old age, life with death. When people encounter the thought of finitude, they begin to act in ways to reduce this ANXIETY: they write books, give birth to children, create a business to leave it to their children after their death, like a sign of their existence, they perform feats, write pictures, music... And here you can smoothly move on to the topic of creativity, about the important role it PLAYS for human life, in particular, it is the very resource in overcoming this crisis. #psychologist_in_Vitebsk #counselling_Kurilina #Vitebsk #therapy #crisis #existentialcrisis #spirituality #anxiety #fear #death #life #finitude #being