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Trigger warning: Fear of death / oblivion / Existential Crisis

Jax

I wanted to know if anyone has extreme issues with this that have been helped in any way by anything

I had a psychiatric episode recently in relation to this and its been getting worse over the years

TBC I am not asking for medical advice and I am being seen and looked after by medical teams 

I just want to know (without triggering detail) if anyone has gotten through the same and what helped them

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  • I used to fear death and what happens to the body afterwards, I found learning more about the processes of death and what hapens to the body afterwards strangely comforting, it enabled me to seperate "me" from the body I inhabit.

    Having a faith helps with the what happens to "me" after, as I believe I will go to an after life for a while before being reincarnated. I used to fear not existing anymore at all, but not anymore, I sort of find the idea comforting, maybe because I also have a stupid fear that as soon as I die some numpty will come along and come up with a foolproof method of necromancy or something and I'll still be bothered by people asking me stupid questions, lol.

    As I once said to my son, when were discussing this topic, 'when I die, if there nothing, there wont be any me to care, whereas if you wake up dead one day you're going to feel a right, numpty'.

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  • I used to fear death and what happens to the body afterwards, I found learning more about the processes of death and what hapens to the body afterwards strangely comforting, it enabled me to seperate "me" from the body I inhabit.

    Having a faith helps with the what happens to "me" after, as I believe I will go to an after life for a while before being reincarnated. I used to fear not existing anymore at all, but not anymore, I sort of find the idea comforting, maybe because I also have a stupid fear that as soon as I die some numpty will come along and come up with a foolproof method of necromancy or something and I'll still be bothered by people asking me stupid questions, lol.

    As I once said to my son, when were discussing this topic, 'when I die, if there nothing, there wont be any me to care, whereas if you wake up dead one day you're going to feel a right, numpty'.

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