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Massive fear of death/dying

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HelpMePlease32 · 02/10/2024 23:05

I've had anxiety mainly health anxiety and OCD for many years, sometimes it can be very well managed and other times not so much. I have developed this intense fear of dying and death. It terrifies me and fills me with dread. There the fear of becoming sick or dying suddenly, checking my body obsessively etc and then there is the thought that one day I will die and I won't be here. I can't comprehend it. I think about it and it sends chills through my whole body, my whole body feels Shakey and horrible and it just makes me want to cry. Sends me into complete panic and meltdown. I just cannot get my head around one day I won't be here and I won't be a living person. It's fucked up. It's destroying my life. I've had many therapies and medications over the years but nothing has stopped it, it's always there. Anyone else ever felt the same?

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x2boys · 03/10/2024 11:10

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 03/10/2024 09:03

Please do not repeat this garbage
You do NOT go anywhere when you are dead. Nor do you exist on a different plane, haunt people, or wander endlessly in torment.
No do you go towards a light
near-death experiences have a clinical explanation

Who are you to tell somebody they can't beleive in an afterlife,? ,I'm a very lapsed Catholic and would describe my self as agnostic at best but i don't belittle people for having beliefs that differ from my own.

Nannyoggapple · 03/10/2024 11:18

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 03/10/2024 09:11

Oh, sorry for the omission
As a former clinician, I believe in science rather than woo
But of course, using science is just an opinion
So, you believe in an afterlife; how do you see it panning out? Sharing your thoughts on how it may look may help the OP worry less, and zone out the nay-sayers such as myself

Edited

My thoughts on how it might look.

Well I've read a lot of books that have been written about :
-the after life,
-near death experiences,

  • between life experiences.

Some of those books were written by medical professionals. They are extremely interesting.

I also like reading all near death experiences on the website

Nderf.org

This is a website that is updated every month with people's detailed near death experiences. There are thousands of experiences on there.

A sample experience usually describes how the person died in the hospital, then then went to the after life for a while, then they came back when they were resuscitated.
They remember their experience of where they went in detail.

Some common topics are related in a lot of these experiences.

Some common things that people have described, that happen to them after they die are:

When the first die, They go to the other side , and they go to a healing room to help them to heal from the dense energies of earth

They meet previous loved ones, if they had any.

They sometimes have a life review, where they look back at their life on earth.

They are able to do lots of beautiful creative things there. Lots of fun. Lots of joy. Its described as a higher vibrational place. That there is higher energy.

They are able to look at all their past lives on Earth.

Soitis83 · 03/10/2024 11:20

Highonthehillsisalonelygoatherd · 03/10/2024 00:15

I do understand that all encompassing fear OP, I felt it many times in the past. However, when I became a Christian, my fear left me and for once in my life the world, death, suffering and eternity made sense. I think, for me, it was not being able to understand why we are here etc that left me so scared of death. I can honestly say that I no longer feel that way and am at peace with death now.

Came to say the same thing. Jesus absolutely took this fear from me

LoveToRun866 · 03/10/2024 12:59

Yes, i can relate to that, OP, and sorry for your loss. I lost a parent very suddenly when i was six (over 50 years ago). Nothing was explained to myself and my sibling.
Hope you find peace and happiness.

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