I work in the industry and there are two things that helped me through my feelings of internal dread. 1) Becker's "The Denial Of Death" is an incredible summar

I work in the industry and there are two things that helped me through my feelings of internal dread. 1) Becker's "The Denial Of Death" is an incredible summary of Otto Rank's psychoanalytic work, explains Freud"s fallibility and explains more about human motivations in life and death (from corporations to cults, from fetuses to fetishes) than any book I've ever read. 2) A colleague once told me "life is like cake". I immediately asked him to stop because it sounded banal, but he continued with something like this: Don't waste the enjoyment of eating cake by worrying that you can't eat it forever. Just because it doesnt last forever doesn't mean you shouldnt ennoy it (just tbe opposite) . Things weren't so bad before you had the cake... and when you've finished yours, who knows, maybe you'll get to have cake another time later.. I probably butchered it and who knows where he got that from, but I found it much more motivating and comforting than carpe diem.