Death Anxiety.. Please Help

Since I was a little girl I used to get thoughts of what would happen to me after I die and I would think "what if nothing happens and I just cease to exist" I would get panicky but I would usually forget about it and move on, but about a week ago I had this thought again and this time I can't stop thinking about it, it's all I think about 24/7 and it just gives me this feeling of nervousness, anxiety and impending doom. I can't get over it, it has gotten so bad that I have complete loss of appetite. I have recently started hypnotherapy in hopes it will help me get over this feeling and move on with life, please help me and let me know what I can do to get over this feeling! Thank you.

Hi kapone12 - if these thoughts are affecting your ability to function i would contact a therapist and seek treatment. As i said in another reponse to a similar thread - its not unusual to have regular thoughts about death, i don't think its ever something we become immune too but with age and experience i believe we can learn to live with it. I hope that by entering therapy you will learn ways of accepting and coping with the uncertainty. Its a difficult topic for most so your certainly not alone but its down to you to learn how to manage these feelings so you don't miss out on having a happy, fulfilling life. All the best.

What is something more irrational than overly contemplating something unnecessary?

contemplating the oblivion and unknown.

i think you should seek treatment... I don't know what therapy you are talking about, but wishing you the best with it...

It sounds like you have anxiety. i would get a dx before doing anything further tho.

Well I said in another post that I have already died once and had a near death experience. I won't go into the NDE here but let me just say that I every day try and fail to experience what I felt then. I look forward to someday having that same feeling. Death is not something to fear. I don't even call it death or dying any more. Rather I prefer to say that it is crossing over.

I am sorry this is causing you such pain. What I do is try and think of other things, other people, I can help in the here and now. Why worry about something you have no control over? I try and stay in the moment, it seems to help me.

I don't know if this is the same thing but I would have existential pangs. Then I had what I thought was a near-death experience. And now I just see every day as a bonus becuse I felt I should have died in 2008.

Perhaps you can feel the same way by researching just how lucky you are to have been born in the first place? The chance of any of us actually existing is some astronomical number to 1.

But I think your problem is basically depression and anxiety, which needs to be treated. Do you have a psychiatrist?