The Dark Night of the Soul [Spirituality & Religion]

So I have been going through a very troubling time. All the world is of its own means,I feel like I am no longer of that means. A means to what? At this time I feel like a void of darkness is sucking me in and trapping all the energy into an airtight container.

There is so much I don't understand and that which I thought I did, I am unsure.

God is but a memory, and sometimes I can feel the power, but it doesn't last.

For anyone who is going through a dark night of the Soul or some kind of Spiritual crises what have you done or are doing to make peace with the experience?

There is so much suffering in me, I just want a way out! :(

Share your experience to how it feels for you,

How does this horrifying experience feel for you? I have been told it is different for everyone.

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When I was a teenager, I had a huge existential crisis and for years I didn't believe that anything around me was real or really happening, and that I was just shifting back and forth between two kinds of dream. I started questioning whether "real" even meant anything at all. I didn't know who I was or whether I was "real," either.

It's never gone away totally, to this day I'm unsure whether the world around me is genuine. It got easier to live with that uncertainty, though, and I try to live in the moment as much as I can, and get happiness from little things as I swim alone and lost in a stormy and boundless ocean.