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
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?
Existential ocd is deeply affecting me. A lot of people say death is equally as meaningless, I do agree, however, if life is mostly suffering and anxiety to me, then death is not as equally meaningless. It seems logical. I have severe ocd and my life is just suffering, so if life is meaningless, it’s logical for me to not see a reason to keep going. I’m not necessarily depressed. Just incredibly aware of how pointless this all is? There’s no end goal to any of this. It baffles me of how people can care about money and materialistic things, because what’s the point? You’ll die in the end and nothing will matter. ****please please please do not tell me to get into religion I’m begging you****
I really need help. My ocd spiral has begun again over existential ocd…. That every second that passes becomes the past. Like my daughter will do something cute and my brain will go”thats in the past” it makes no sense but gives me panic attacks. I just want to enjoy my life. Anyone have this and have overcome it? Any help would be amazing!!
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