death cw how do you deal with knowing you’re going to have to die someday? this is eating away at me so bad. i can’t go a single night without thinking that i’ll die eventually, or that i’ll die in my sleep. it makes me sick to my stomach. it doesn’t help that i don’t know what i believe religiously either. i think i’m agnostic. if you’re gonna comment and try to tell me i shouldn’t be agnostic or anything, please don’t. it’s going to freak me out.

raccs

Date posted: 3y

I like to imagine how the cells in our body are just rented by us for our lifetime and they get recycled back into the earth when we’re gone, into plants and animals and other living things, so in a way we still live on :)

Dia Rancid

Date posted: 3y

I love that thought <3

Rohan123

Date posted: 3y

@Dia Rancid I never thought about it like that. Love that

Alaska girl

Date posted: 3y

You should listen to near death experience stories of people who were clinically dead and left their bodies and came back, it helped me overcome my fear of death and god. Now I’m agnostic but I know there’s nothing to fear when we die.

Dia Rancid

Date posted: 3y

I personally am a bit religious. Although when it comes to my death, I picture a different ending than my family. I think of drifting in a Void instead of retiring to Valhalla or suffering in Tartarus. I suppose the Void has peace and tranquillity. But in an attempt not to think of it I picture a dry eraser wiping everything away or something ripping it all to shreds. I don’t know if that helps, I’m sorry if it doesn’t.

MCT

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 3y

It definitely terrifies me, and it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot this year. My family dog died in august, we had him for 18 years. This was the first time I felt grief, and since then the fact that we all die someday has devastated me. Obviously I knew about the whole dying thing before, but feeling grief made it all more real. It’s a very isolating feeling and sometimes it feels like I’m the only one upset by it. I think most people just try not to think about it, but for me it’s hard not to right now. It definitely exacerbates my ocd as well.

InaPanic

Date posted: 3y

My dad died few weeks back, now I constantly fear death but I’m very spiritual and believe in reincarnation with a erased mind and fresh start

Dia Rancid

Date posted: 3y

I’m so sorry for your loss

bugzee

Date posted: 19w

Existential ocd moment or something else?

I can’t stop thinking about death today. Not like suicide or pondering how I could die. Just more so I’m going to die. It’s like. I was eating my pizza today listening to music and looking at the clouds. And I was like I love this this is amazing. And then Brain says “ur gonna die one day btw” Or I redid my wallpaper on my phone and I love the way it looks. I unlock my screen and admire the vibe I’ve created. And then brain says “one day you’ll be dead” When I feel a moment of joy or happiness or peace is when the thought screams at me. I’m really unsettled and distraught about thinking about being dead one day. This doesn’t come up often like other thoughts I have but I hate this one because it’s hard to cope with. Because I do the things and “techniques” to make them quieter. But then immediately Brain says “why are u even trying tho. It’s pointless because you’ll be dead one day.” Any advice ??

MJOCD2

Date posted: 18w

I literally have the worst death anxiety

My chest is aching from the stress of it all. I haven’t felt this bad in years. Please any words of advice would be most helpful. The fact that I’m going to die one day and I have no idea what’s going to happen next, possibly nothingness, and I lose out on all my memories of everyone I ever loved, everything I ever did, is messing me up. I’m 27, and idk how I never felt this way before. I never had these fears before. I never even thought about death like this before let alone it scaring me. Now it’s just stuck in my mind 24/7. The other thing about death is I have to do it alone! :( I love my mum and brother more than anything, I have to leave them one day. I can’t believe it. And they have to leave me?

MJOCD2

Date posted: 17w

Death OCD

It’s been several days of feeling paralysed with fear and engaging in compulsions by reading so many NDEs. I don’t even know how people live their lives knowing they’re going to die one day. I’m gonna miss my family so much!!! I mean I’m not gonna know because I’ll be dead! I can’t even look at them without feeling sick. What’s the point of life if we all die? GOD!!! I literally can’t do anything! I’m so overwhelmed!

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