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I want to help you but unfortunately I don't know how😔😣 but I want you to know that I have similar thoughts, so you're not alone in this
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I understand you and you are not alone… it’s very hard not to think about because unfortunately it is the only thing certain in life… is death.. but I think with some therapy and maybe just some comfort and support from your loved ones you may be at ease for awhile about it… I know it’s so hard I’ve been dealing with the intrusive thoughts so much lately and I know how it is…. Just breathe and be in the moment for now. It’s all we can do. Just know you are not the only one. Do you believe in a higher power (if you don’t mind me asking)?
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I think I do. I’m hoping that’s not just a compulsion tho
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I just think by the time I’m 85 , I’d probably have enough of life but I also am very spiritual
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y
I read a post once that said “make lemonade, don’t ask why you were given the lemons.” I think you just have to engage with life as much as you can and try to enjoy it. I have this kind of fear as well but I just try to go out and live rather than ruminate about it. I also find comfort knowing we’re all in the same boat. I don’t know how old you are, but evolutionarily we’re supposed to fear death the younger we are. One day our fears will change. I remember when my grandmother was alive, she couldn’t wait to die because she was 97 and had already lived such a long and fulfilling life. Death anxiety right now is normal and can be healthy, but don’t let it ruin the rest of your life.
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True they say as you get older death anxiety decreases saying at 20 is when it peaks , my nan also lived to 92 and she said she was ready to go , she lived through both World Wars
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I cant give a definitive answer on how to help it but please know that it does get better. I used to obsess daily about death and eventually it went away and doesn’t bother me anymore, hang in there :)
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I’m bad today cos I did ERP watching all Final Destinations
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Of course we can’t stop the inevitable but with my ocd it’s all I can think about. I’m afraid I’ll be alone for ever and I’ll fear forever. Fear does not stop death it stops life. But how do I stop fear??? I can’t think of anything scarier than the fact that our conscious will vanish for eternity. I am only 20 years old but I mean the last 5 years flew by like nothing.
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so i have ocd but this is the main theme ive been dealing with for the last few months, im obsessed with my mortality and i feel trapped by the reality of death. i dont really believe in an afterlife which makes it scarier, not that i dont wanna my brain literally just wont let me. but i have daily panic attacks thinking about death all day, its honestly the toughest thing ive ever dealt with. does anybody have any tips on how they manage this if they have ever dealt with it? not looking for reassurance, just some non compulsive ways to kind of lessen the grip of the fear.
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I keep thinking about life and death and all that stuff and it’s making me so upset. I keep thinking about how one day im probably going to be old and on my death bed or something and my whole life will be nothing but a memory and im so scared for that day. i wont have my parents and my younger siblings wont have any of us. time feels like its moving too fast like i feel every second pass and think about how i can never get that moment back and i cant slow down time or go back or even just pause it because its always going and theres nothing i can do about it. And then i start thinking about whats after death and get even more scared because if heaven is real then what is eternity? wont i get bored of doing the same things… forever? and if its not real then what happens is it just nothing? because thats even more scary i don’t want to be nothing because that also means the people i love will be nothing and i wont be able to be with them. And if it’s not that then is it reincarnation? will i have to do this all over again? will the souls of the people i love be with me in their new forms? is the sun “God” because the planets revolve around it and the stars are all of the passed souls? what does it feel like to be a star? will i even just know i died? i have so many questions and the fact that none have an answer and i just have to wait to find out drives me insane. i try to remind myself everyone before me and everyone after me will experience death and loss at one point in their life and that I’m not alone but it doesn’t help. nothing helps. ive had “episodes” like this before when i was around 10-14 about once a year always around May-June which is the month my great grandmother died and June is my birth month which i hate because yk… time passing and aging which i assume is why i always get worse around that time. i was able to kind of ignore or turn it off the past like 3 years but this month its just too much i cant even deal with it. maybe because I’m turning 18? idk but its been bothering me so much and its all i can think about. Even when i seem fine the thoughts are always in there somewhere and some days they’re easier to ignore and others it feels impossible. I just wish I was like those people who can just turn their thoughts off if they don’t like them. My mom says she can do that if she thinks about how her mom died or something she can tell herself she doesn’t want to think about that and just… turn it off?? and thats so shocking to me because i’ve begged a god I don’t even know if I believe in to stop my thoughts and she can just turn them off herself? I don’t have another therapy appointment until next week I wish I could talk to them everyday so it could work faster but instead i’m on here. So if anyone has any advice PLEASE give it to me. I’m so tired it’s making me not enjoy anything in life because it makes me feel like theres no point in anything but I want to feel normal and I want to enjoy things. Sorry for writing so much just had to get this out there. Also i’m not trying to seek reassurance btw I just wanna know how other people coped with this or similar issues😭
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