How to Overcome Existentialist Despair

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[I found this essay by a Peter Zappf, 1933, titled The Last Messiah. I`ll summarize it here: An overdeveloped intellect is a random mutation that`s not beneficial to survival because it can result in suicide.]

A list of coping mechanisms (for those of us who don`t choose suicide): isolation, anchoring, distraction and sublimation.

• Isolation
  Will yourself to stop thinking nihilistic thoughts, stop talking about them with us, just shut it down.
• Anchoring
  Embrace a social construct: religion, altruism, hedonism, accumulation of wealth, anything that gives you a purpose or direction (tough at first if you see all of them as pointless, no?).
• Distraction
  The easiest one: get a job, listen to music, watch movies, hang out with friends, play sports, etc.
• Sublimation
  Turn your despair into art or literature such that you`re not experiencing it in the first-person but observing it from the outside.