Just a weird little question.

[Liva]

Just wondering what people think I should do over a fear of mine, it's dying. I know probably everyone fears it a bit, but I've had bad.. Cases of it in my life, for example when I was younger and in bed about to sleep, I would always think of it and have panic attacks. The same is happening now, every time I'm in bed trying to sleep, it pops into my mind. A different situation a few months ago was about a week long period where whenever I wasn't distracted, it would come into my head and I'd actually have to say something out loud to stop that thought process.
I'm pretty sure what I'm doing is trying to understand it, because it seems like such a surreal thing - not existing anymore. I try and convince myself that I'll be over life by the time it's about to end. I've also hoped that I would lose a functional mental ability once I'm old so that I can't fear it anymore.

I don't know what to do about it, I've mentioned it to my mother and she says everyone feels this way. I don't see any of my friends having panic attacks, and dreading going to bed because they know the thoughts will come.

Is a doctor visit worthwhile? I dunno if she would say the same thing as my mum, and I've been to a psychologist before for a different reason but for cognitive behavioural therapy which I think they might recommend, and anyway it didn't work because I didn't think I'd be able to change my thinking and believed against it.

Sooo... Help? I just want to stop freaking out about it, and I enjoy sleeping but hate waiting to fall asleep.


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[David]

score some prozac and enjoy life

[buttons]

i was the same when i was younger but now it doesn't bother me unless i make myself think of it. a doctor visit wouldn't harm you and i think CBT might be effective because you've already mentioned having anxiety so that's what it'll be, it's just your anxiety manifesting into anything it can. it's like the more u try not to think of it, the more u will think of it. if you don't think you'll be able to change your thinkinb then you'll never be helped, therapy is there to help u change yourself, not do it for you. changing your beliefs is a very, very hard process and it took me years to do it. it was basically a fake it until you make it. you know your beliefs are irrational so you're half way there. everytime u think of dying you have to replace it with a more rational belief such as 'dying is normal and unpredictable so worrying about it will not change that fact' or something everytime u feel the belief pop into your head?

[Futz]

that's a really weird thing to fear but it's something you have to accept

we're all gonna' die, just be glad you don't know when

just focus on enjoying yourself and having a positive affect on other people

[kitten]

i am exactly the same. it happened to me a few weeks ago, i still don't know how to distract myself with it but just try to live in the moment rather than thinking about what will happen years and years from now.

you will enjoy yourself and your life a lot more if you don't overcomplicate it and take in life day by day