Hello everyone, I am new here and struggle with thanatophobia (fear of death). When I stay busy and get out the house it is much easier to manage, but if I stay in the house for too long or am by myself at night I sometimes have attacks where I cry uncontrollably holding my head, wishing I could just leave the world. This has been going on for years now, since I was a little girl and used to cry to my mom. I'm now 24 and married. If I am alone when I have my atracks, I still sometimes run to my mom (call her on the phone). If my husband is home I climb under him crying and he tries to comfort me, but once my attack starts it has to finish, I have to go through it. Then all of a sudden I'm ok. I feel like it's the worst, because death is something unavoidable. It will happen.... That's what I can't deal with.

Has anyone else dealt with this?? How do you cope?