struggling with existensial ocd and what the meaning of life is and alof of whys in my mind right now! makes it so hard to focus and gives me really bad anxiety. any tips on how to recover from this? thankyou!
Going through the SAME thing!! What kind of thoughts do you get?? Mine are more like “what’s the point if we die” :(
@AD8888 mine are not too much about death. mine are like why do we exist and what is the purpose of life? and i look at my sorroundings and pay too much attention to them if that makes sense and it gives me anxiety also have you ever wondered like who says we have to follow the rules of life ? or who invented the rules of life and why do we follow them? for example kids marriage, jobs, etc…
@Pmon92 I see. Do these thoughts cause depression in yoh
@Pmon92 i’ve really struggled with existential ocd for the past year. but my therapist shared something with me that really took away the anxiety. i reframe the existential thought and ask myself “what would change if i knew the answer to that?”. as to your example if you knew the meaning of “why we exist” or what “our purpose it”, what would it change? it’s ok to not know the answer and ive personally accepted the fact that knowing the answer to all of these existential questions will not change the way i live my life. i’m still going to eat my breakfast, go to school, go to work, and learn that there are some questions that don’t need my full attention because they don’t have a definite answer/i can’t solve anything. i know how hard existential ocd is and i was constantly dissociating from my body nearly everyday. it gets better!
@jack27 thankyou for sharing this ! it does make sense i think eventually when you start to get comfortable with the idea of not looking for an answer the anxiety or the thoughts start getting better
i don’t know if you’re religious at all but i’ve gone through this and i am christian, so a big thing for controlling these thoughts is believing in God. when i didn’t have a relationship with God or even think about it i smoked a lot of weed and did shrooms and i had these thoughts BAD so growing my relationship with God has really helped
@iluvjesus yes i am super religious and i have seen that ocd is attacking my religious side with this aswell for example i have a thought that how do you even know hod exists if there is no point to life it is super stressful 😰
@Pmon92 it’s so hard😭😭😭like especially in the christian community a lot of people don’t even believe in mental health and so i’m like so am i just a terrible person? but ya it attacks and makes me doubt God which I hate because he has proved real in so many ways, i just always see things that trigger doubt and it feels like i am obsessing over religion idk it’s all so confusing im trying to just let every thought be allowed to come and go and lean into God during these trials
So this past week I’ve had a really bad ocd spiral. I can’t stop thinking about death and what happens after. Because of this, I’ve felt no motivation to get out of bed. I don’t know if it’s burnout from school, depression, or just existential ocd. I can’t focus on the present,and I feel like I’m in a dream like state. I went through a similar time a few years ago, and was able to get out of it. Even if I do accept that death is inevitable, how do I get motivation to do anything when I know it won’t matter in the end? Any tips?
Been struggling with existential OCD lately. Very hard to describe the thoughts/feelings, but it is a constant feeling of being stuck in my head. Like what is consciousness and where do I think from? Like I think it’s OCD, maybe it is maybe it isn’t. But if it is, what would be good ERP exercises? Just existing (lol)? And what would be my response prevention? I’m not even sure what mental compulsions I may be doing.
Hey guys so I’m new here and just recently started struggling with some health ocd and thinking I had a brain tumor but it’s taken a turn for the worse and become this existential ocd where I’m questioning quite literally everything in my life, the purpose of being here and stuff. I just started meds yesterday, which is scary for me cause I’ve never been on them before. I keep having thoughts like, why does everything feel like a blur, what’s the meaning of this and I wake up every day with just existential dread. I’ve been having very vivid dreams that make dreaming and reality confusing I also am scared cause I’m dealing with some DP/DR as well. I just wish my life could go back to a few months ago before I knew all of this was possible. I guess I’m just writing this too get it off my chest and see if any of you all have gone through something similar and made it out okay?
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