I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)

  • Rottcodd@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Almost never.

    I used to have it a fair amount, and medicate myself to avoid it a fair amount as well, and then just about exactly 20 years ago, in the span of about three days, I started feeling sick, got more and more sick, went to the doctor and discovered I had cancer, and had emergency surgery. Then I went through about six months of really awful chemotherapy.

    I definitely wouldn’t recommend having cancer as a cure for existential dread, but it worked for me.

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      1 year ago

      I think you got it backwards. I bet Cancer didn’t cure your dread, but caused it in the first place.

      Kind of like how a sense of impending doom can precede a heart attack.