Anyone else have an existential ever few months growing up?

It can be nasty, wether they never had an existential crisis or it’s been a looong time since they “took stock” of their lives and looked up from whatever sort of routine and idea of self that came from following their laser focus or dealing with each little thing to juggle the life they were living. I feel for them, I’ve known friends who have had this happen as late as their 50’s. Financial crises (global or more personal,) kids leaving, divorce/cheating, getting “pushed out” at work etc. sometimes one pillar is all it takes. A lot of these people started careers or families or both young, so most of all their lives they’ve been pushing to do more than get by, and that comes with a lot of “silly” regular problems they then need to push to solve. In all that pushing, the push and the goal can become their identity- and when you take that away or what they’ve tried to build is suddenly “done” or “destroyed”… it can be ugly. Lots of self destructive behavior and takes of regrets past..

TBH I don’t even know that I’d pin it on existential crisis in such cases. I think the crisis is what you have when you’ve let your existence get away from you. It’s the product of neglect and complacency and taking things for granted. People change over time and well… if over 10 or 20 or 40 years etc. we haven’t been noticing how we’ve changed and keeping up with our self awareness to know what we no longer like or how we feel etc. and being honest about it; and/or our partners haven’t either- it all catches up at once and you wake up feeling like you/they are a different person. Communication is a big one there. On the cases I’ve seen- to an outsider at least it just looks like the looming crises would be obvious to anyone paying attention, but I think a lot of people don’t actively pay attention to their lives because their focus is on these “day to day” things and distractions.