It’s not depression.
It’s completion fatigue.
Millions were promised a narrative: work hard, progress upward, arrive somewhere meaningful. But the milestones came… and nothing followed. No arrival. No revelation. Just maintenance.
So people say they feel “done”—not suicidal, not hopeless—just used up by a life that already played its hand.
This is what happens when identity is built around productivity and purpose is outsourced to systems that don’t care if you feel alive. When curiosity is replaced by obligation. When survival masquerades as success.
What we’re witnessing isn’t a mental health crisis alone—it’s a meaning collapse.
The next era won’t be about finding yourself.
It will be about reclaiming unfinished questions—and refusing to let life be reduced to a checklist.
👉 Full article / source link: Psychology Today — “Existential Burnout Is Real”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meaningful-you/202306/existential-burnout—
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