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Originally Posted by gonegirl99
I've had high anxiety for the past few months now and recently it got worse. I started to question reality and like my entire life, why didn't I question being alive? I don't have blurred vision symptoms or anything like that but the questioning reality has been driving me crazy.
I've been waking up recently with the disturbing thought of why we don't die in our sleep, why we wake up in the morning. Why there are 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week and is that it?
Like I can't believe I'm alive and how long am I going to be alive? It's really disturbing.
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Im sorry but we can not tell you whether you are having dissociation problems or not, only your own treatment providers can say that....
what I can say is that one of the diagnostic criteria for dissociative disorders is that reality testing remains intact...what that means is people with dissociation problems know whats real and what isnt, there is no questioning reality, they just .....feel...disconnected, .....feel numb...feel... but they know the reality....
questioning ones existance and why they havent died yet is not one of the diagnostics for any of the present dissociative disorders recognized as dissociative disorders in the USA.
that said I have felt the way you describe. in me, my own treatment providers call it normal, and part of my having OCD (obsessive Compulsive Disorder type thoughts)
sometimes human beings naturally do question why they are still here, what have they done with their life, what will happen if they die in their sleep. I took care of my worries about this by going to a lawyer and having the lawyer draw up a will, that way if I do die in my sleep and other worries like it my children and wife will be taken care of and know what i want to be done upon my death.
as for why are there 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week how many weeks in a year... you can find those answers by google searching your question complete with the scientists that came up with then and why.