How do you cope with this fear? I know it’s probably the same for any other fears but like death ocd it’s hard to accept it when it’s a fatality. There is no « maybe, even if » cause we will all be old and die. I’m 20 and I can’t see hope in life cause of those stupid fear..
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@BlueMountain25 You’re right.. I love to think the same when I feel like this, but now it’s become to be a what’s after life? What if there is nothing, and I cannot accept it and swim in my anxiety
@BlueMountain25 Yes you’re right i can enjoy life for the moment.. but It’s sad to see how society don’t allow us sometimes to be happy, and I’m afraid after all of this I don’t have enough energy or faith to continue to believe on that.. but what you said helps me a lot actually I just take my meds and feeling tired helps a lot too lol.. but really thank you so much again even if I know it’s not the end of this one, you saved my day. Did you deal one day with existential OCD?
@BlueMountain25 You’re right.. but it so scared to think that my loved ones will no longer exists physically one day.. but I hardly want to believe that life is more than death.. aaaah.. i think it’s officially my worst theme, but yes you’re right I have to spend of my happy moments with them and continue to love what I love today.
@BlueMountain25 Thank you so much.. you’re very a beautiful person and I’m glad I’ve talked to you today. Really you helped me a lot on one day. If you struggle one day with your OCD or just want to talk.. you can come back to me and I will be glad to help you 🙏 Now I realized how everything is a bless, like talking to you today.
@BlueMountain25 You’re really are amazing.. you deserve to be in peace forever and have a wonderful life, truly remember when you feel lost that you helped someone’s life one day.. ❤️
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.
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.
Hey fellow OCD warriors! Wanted to ask if anyone else’s OCD tends to latch onto change and catastrophize with all kinds of worst-case scenarios. There’s a lot going on in my life, and even though they are all exciting things that I truly want and am happy about, I’ve had moments of deep fear at so much change happening and even a sadness that I can only think is a kind of grief of entering a new stage of life/a new me and leaving the old one behind. I am in my mid-20s and a lot of this centers around nostalgia and fear and intrusive thoughts of changes like my parents getting older, myself aging, friendships growing apart leading to loneliness, etc. I know I need to treat it as any other OCD flare-up and do ERP, but it also feels different than other OCD themes because I feel blue and like existentially sad. Even as a young kid, I always hated change and the thought of growing up (even if exciting things were happening) - like I cried when I turned 10 because I was leaving the single digits behind forever! 🤦♀️ I feel like I’m preemptively mourning things like losing my parents or my health even though I am healthy and my parents are too. I don’t want to waste the time I have ruminating about the future. I haven’t heard this kind of theme mentioned a lot so just wanted to see if any others could relate.
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