In this research, 20 classic works by 9 authors (Augustine, Camus, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Kafka,Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sabato, Sartre) as well as secondary sources have been consulted in ahermeneutic reading to investigate how the existential dimension of health can be explained in thecontext of the ‘problem of existence’ as it is portrayed in Existentialist philosophy and literature.The following dimensions of the problem of existence have been identified: meaninglessness,alienation, responsibility, absurdity, existential dread, individualisation. In the relation to existentialhealth these dimensions can be united under the banner of the necessity of ‘being accepting of thenature of existence’. Additionally, hope, as well as a psychological ‘solution’ to the ‘problem ofexistence’ have been discussed.