🌊 Yalom on Approaching Meaning

Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom once suggested up to half of all depression might really be a crisis of meaning — an existential sickness. 'If nothing matters, it should not matter that nothing matters… and yet, somehow, it does.' This piece weaves through philosophers, psychotherapists and poets in search of a way to live with the ache — by engaging outward, creating, serving, caring. Paired with a sharp counterpoint on how therapy culture can become a self-soothing loop that keeps us comfortably stuck.