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I'm sympathetic to the existentialist ideas. That in a meaningless, absurd world (Camus), the struggle for meaning, despite knowing that it's absurd, can at least help us to live authentic(De Beauvoir) and free (Satre) lives. And maybe even make our own kind of meaning.

Of course living authentically meant these philosophers were all active communists as was the person they admired the most for personifying existentialism better than them in her own life, Simon Weil.

Also, have you tried writing about your life? It's called narrative writing and might make you feel even worse (yay!). At least initially. But the idea is to own your live as an author, even if it's challenging. It's a kind of framing technique. You'd be a bit like an existential hero. Those always suffer, but now it's your story and at least you alone get to decide, how you tell and interpret it.