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I’ve had obsessive existential thoughts, too...it can get really hard. In my experience, embracing the uncertainty is the way to get thru it. Like: “Maybe life is meaningless, I don’t know! And I’m gonna live my whole life not knowing. Thinking about it more won’t give me a definitive answer, so I’m just gonna accept this and move on to the next part of my day” and then I take a walk or eat a taco or whatever. Just keep living your life and see what happens...eventually the anxiety will spike, then lessen, and you’ll get through it. Hang in there!
Thanks ljb, just curious how are you now? does it still bother you, how long did you recover?
I’m doing much better now! For me, it started at the end of May and lasted through the summer, off and on...last intense episode was in early September. It was really hard, but I kept up w therapy and trusted that in time my anxiety would lessen. There are definitely some things that still trigger those thought patterns, but I can dismiss the thoughts much more easily now (the anxiety lasts minutes, not days). The way you feel right now is not how things will always be! Be patient and try not to engage w the obsessive thoughts - easier said than done, I know, but worth the effort. Routine, distraction, exercise - whatever gets your mind off things is good. That’s been my experience anyway - hope it helps!
Just want to ask if you will still feel normal after recovery of existential ocd? Im just anxious that I will never be normal again. I am thinking if I sucessfully recovered thid OCD will everything get back to normal as before? I really appreciate your answer. Thank you.
Is anyone experiencing existential OCD as well?
For the past week-ish I have been having a really scary existential crisis that feels like it is stemming from ocd. It started with me being freaking out that i’m going to die one day, then it merge into me being freaked out about what was going to happen after I die (mostly the thought of nothingness). I found some very brief relief in some spiritual beliefs and watching psychic medium readings but then I started think about even bigger and harder to answer questions such as, “if there is a God, who created God?”, “Is the afterlife scary?”, “Could the afterlife end one day?” “What is the point of anything at all?”, “Will the sun exploding destroy whatever afterlife exist?” Really ridiculous questions. I truly believe that there is something after death and something that exists as a life force science cannot explain, but the fact that my mind can’t comprehend or figure it out is really really scary. I feel as if I am going crazy. I have been thinking about nothing but the universe and the meaning behind it all and where it all came from. I can’t enjoy anything anymore. I just want to lay in bed all day and even that is hard. I have been non-stop watching videos about people’s beliefs about this topic trying desperately to find some sort of answer and I am starting to think that may be a compulsion. I am trying my best to remind myself that I when I die I will have all the answers to these questions and I don’t need to worry about this right now because it truly doesn’t affect anything or change anything in my life but it is really hard. I feel as if I have “uncovered” something and my life will never return to normal again. I am terrified that I am going to go crazy or start having hallucinations and that I’ve ruined my life by researching into something so complex and not understandable at all. Any kind of suggestions or anything would be helpful, I hate dealing with this and feeling so crazy and hopeless.
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