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What Is an Existential Crisis After Disaster? Why Meaning, Faith, and Moral Injury Need Clinical Spiritual Care

A disaster can end in the weather report and keep unfolding inside people for years. When the questions turn toward meaning, God, guilt, moral responsibility, death, purpose, or whether ordinary life still makes sense, the concern may be existential crisis — and that requires a different care lane than generic burnout language.

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