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Fear
Does anyone else fear they may die in there sleep?
Does anyone else fear they may die in there sleep?
Passing away in my sleep would be a peaceful way to go . One never knows. Life is short. Each day is a blessing, I try to make my peace at the start and end of each day , just in case “my number is up “sorta speak .
uhm yes. i can't go to sleep unless i physically can't keep my eyes open anymore. I always have to be on my phone and watch a show or scroll endlessly
@BeccaPar4 me too, lately my friend and I have been FaceTiming because I can’t not fall slower
@abbygene27 Asleep
@abbygene27 omg same, We have to fall asleep on facetime every night because we're both genuinely terrified. my screen time for facetime is 47 hours just from the start of this week🧍🏽♀️
This happened to me before my psychotic episode. I believe it was one of the first signs of my psychosis. Not saying you have psychosis but that’s what it was for me. Very scary to experience. I hope that you can find a way to manage this symptom and get some good sleep.
Yesss
This is why i have OCD and got diagnosed
@LaylaRed Me too
Yes 😭
@Anonymous813 Mine is so bad I developed insomnia
Mine probably is too
Yes. I had this happen to a dear family friend (she was only 53) and I didn’t sleep for a week. Every time I went to go to bed I had to tell my partner I love you and it terrified me for a while. Overtook any other themes I had. But I had to sleep, it’s vital to my health (always has been important to me and my recovery). So it became its own exposure and I had to resist the compulsions like telling my partner I love them before bed. It’s hard and I don’t wish it on anyone, especially while dealing with the grief of losing a friend.
Yess. I have OME, (I think that’s what it was) and it causes clicking, and/or a heavy feeling in the head. Because of this clicking sound I’d hear sometimes, I would stick my fingers in my ear and thought I found a bump. (Literally just the shape of the ear canal.) but I literally thought I had a tumor in there. I would lay away, so anxious about it, and because I was so anxious about it, I could felt the anxiety in my chest, which caused me to believe I had something wrong my heart. I would lay away, listening to my heartbeat, believing any second it would just stop. Eventually it had gotten so bad I just had a attack of some kind since I wasn’t sleeping, and the anxiety was just getting worse.
I’ve been perturbed for a couple of months now with incessant thoughts about aging and dying. I really am not sure what to do. This feels like other OCD themes, but also really different, because this time, what I’m afraid of is sure to happen. I will either die, or age and then die. It’s been so difficult to enjoy anything lately. I just want to pull a blanket over my head and wait until death comes. Has anyone else felt this way? I feel quite alone. I am trying to enjoy life, but I just remember that it will all be gone in a flash. Nothing really seems to help me feel better. The only escape I have is in my dreams where I can fantasize about never aging or dying. Or at least being able to rewind the clock to have more time.
I worry I will have mental health issues the rest of my life. Not sure I could live a life like that, Not really sure why I'm posting this, I guess does anyone else have the same thought?
Few years back I went to a funeral when I come home I have developed irrational fear of death my legs were shivering I am unable to sleep at night my life become hell. I could not take food properly and irrational fear make my life worse after some time I developed blasphemous thoughts about God and religious figures and it becomes worse everyday was hell for me the fear was so terrific that God will kill me some numbers comes in my mind like next Friday I will died etc then my sister helps me in it that is just thoughts you are not doing then gradually I started living with them in between these thoughts used to come but I was normal but now again one of my loved one death trigger these thoughts again and I am suffering all the above mentioned stuff in a horrible way. I cannot sleep fear of hell blasphemous thoughts what will happen with be afterward the first night in grave everything is horrified me I don't know what to do death fear making it more worse.
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