I'm having a quarter-life crisis and everyone says it's normal but that doesn't help. I'm [age] and here's what's falling apart: [describe career doubts, relationship status, location uncertainty, purpose confusion, comparison spirals, and existential questions]. Skip the "everyone goes through this" platitudes. Instead, triage my crisis: is this genuine misalignment (wrong path) or growing pains (right path, hard stage)? Categorize my crisis type: identity crisis (who am I?), direction crisis (where am I going?), meaning crisis (why does anything matter?), comparison crisis (everyone's ahead of me), or timeline crisis (I'm behind schedule). Then analyze each area: career - am I in the wrong field or wrong job? Relationships - am I afraid of commitment or waiting for the wrong person? Location - am I stuck or strategic? Purpose - am I expecting too much or settling for too little? For each, identify: is this a real problem or anxiety about a real transition? Give me the crisis resolution framework: the questions that separate real signals from fear noise, the 6-month experiment for each major doubt (how to test without blowing up my life), the comparison detox protocol (I can't think clearly while scrolling), the timeline reality check (what's actually "behind" vs. social media illusion), and the meaning-making process for THIS stage not some future stage. Include: the version of success I'm chasing that isn't even mine, what I'm grieving (the imagined life I'm letting go of), and the truth about whether this crisis is the beginning of my real life or the end of my delusion.