I'm wondering if there are other children who worry about their existence. For some reason, I remember having this crisis when I was around the first grade.
Through the years, my son has experienced this and I was first aware of it when he was in the 5th grade. He was clearly upset about why he exists in the world eventhough we had given him the parental reason and what our faith taught us. He was not satisfied.
We would get periods where this upset him but it never lasted more than a day. Now that he's a teenager, he seems to handle this though he seems very sensitive. The last time I noticed he bothered by the topic was after seeing the movie Knowing. He was upset to the point he did not want to share in the discussion we were having afterwards and asked we don't discuss it.
I saw an article recently on existential crisis therapy and wondered if anyone had tried it and if it had made a difference.
