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Do you ever feel like you’re dying?
I have existential ocd and dpdr and my mind keeps telling me I’m dying or will die. Is dpdr even manageable?
I have existential ocd and dpdr and my mind keeps telling me I’m dying or will die. Is dpdr even manageable?
It’s anxiety dpdr my doctor told me is ur body’s way of protecting u from anxiety, everything feels unreal , my family felt like strangers
Hey, I’m struggling with this too at the minute. It’s all I can think about all day, every day. I keep worrying there’s something wrong with me and I’m just blaming ocd/dpdr. It’s really hard to speak to people about too as they don’t understand. But we’ve got this and it will pass eventually ❤️ at the moment I’m trying to focus on small wins and it seems to be helping. Sending you lots of support!
Try not to fight it, dpdr can feel really scary but no one has ever died from it. Ride it out.
Yes I struggle with this. Sending support to you ♥️
im going through almost this exact thing rn idek what i think im going to die from my mind is just telling me its gonna happen and that its gonna be some kind of illness. its been over 2 weeks and its been in the back of my mind everyday and always makes its way to the front where i really get stuck on it but I’m fighting it and just letting it sit and hoping it goes away until i can see some kind of doctor. I’ve been sleeping in my parents room cause i’m scared to sleep and spending like 99% of my day with them cause i cant be alone for too long and it suckss and i feel like every little thing i feel like any minor pain or discomfort is something thats a sign of an illness or a sign that im dying. it sucks 💔
I needed this. Thank you all for being here virtually🩵
I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety I’m only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know it’s a silly thing to be scared because it’s not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I won’t care , if you don’t have a working brain then how can you care 🤷♀️. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, I’ll remind myself it’s okay but then with my ocd i don’t stop thinking and thinking about it and it’s seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I can’t scrub it away it’s miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything that’s out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but I’m subjected to it anyways so why should it matter
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.
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