A. Both are not the same. However, a mid-life crisis can be a type of existential crisis. A mid-life crisis makes you question your achievements. It gives you a feeling of not having done enough. An existential crisis is a broad umbrella term. One type of existential crisis is due to significant alteration in life events. Hence, something inevitable, like reaching middle age, experiencing empty nest syndrome, or similar expected events in one’s life cycle, can attain massive proportions in the mind and trigger an existential crisis.