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What’s the point if it’s all going to end
Existential crisis pls help guys🫶 I’m finding that everything is pointless What’s the point of reaching my goals? Is God even real? Please help guys!!!!!
Existential crisis pls help guys🫶 I’m finding that everything is pointless What’s the point of reaching my goals? Is God even real? Please help guys!!!!!
God may be real, God might not be real, but he’s real to me :). I went through a few years where I was pretty much atheist after being raised in church. I was angry at how people twisted things and made stuff up about religion. I was so angry at how judgmental, hypocritical, and ignorant people who claimed to be devoted followers were. It took a long time honestly, but I eventually came back and realized that I shouldn’t let those people taint my relationship with my God. He might not be by definition the God they follow, he might be 🤷🏻♀️, I really don’t know, but he’s a God I’m comfortable with following and believing in. Full of empathy, love, kindness, and understanding. I don’t know anything for a fact but I’m okay because even though it took nearly a decade, I finally feel comfort in the thought of a God and not fear. I’m sorry you’re struggling right now, I went through a terrible existential crisis before I was diagnosed and in the end I decided to just shrug. It might end 🤷🏻♀️ but I’m going to continue what I’m doing because what’s the point in wasting away time that I could be present in. I forced myself to think about the present and not the future. It was hard and I failed a lot but I eventually was able to breathe at the thought of the unknown because I was okay with the present. Anxiety isn’t a problem of the present. It’s always brought on by the past or the future. Stay in the present. You’re strong, even if it feels hopeless hang on to that strength. You’re never alone.
Watch nathan perterson youtube channel ocd-anxiety he has a video on Existential ocd and how to do ERP for it
God's real. No matter what god you pray too. The OCD struggle is real. I understand it all too well. It's stressful. You can achieve your goals. You just need a therapist to help 100%
@Glitchgkojdyu! How did u really get that strong faith!? I envy that! What about the whole evolution theory?
@sophielove I prayed to jesus and he returned my prayer blessing me with £80. I prayed to Allah and asked for forgiveness and got gifted a book. Turned a page it said Allah forgives. Now I pray to Ganesh and hope he removes my obstacles. I'm not clued up on it. Happy to hear all about it.
@Glitchgkojdyu! But I thought there was only one God?
@sophielove Well I believe god has many names. No matter who you call them they'll still answer.
Certainly, everything in this life will eventually come to an end, but there is the promise of an eternal afterlife. According to religious teachings, it is up to you to decide where you wish to spend eternity. To secure a place in the good part of the afterlife, such as Heaven, it is essential to perform good deeds and lead a virtuous life. This makes setting and achieving goals in this life incredibly important.
Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety I’m only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know it’s a silly thing to be scared because it’s not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I won’t care , if you don’t have a working brain then how can you care 🤷♀️. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, I’ll remind myself it’s okay but then with my ocd i don’t stop thinking and thinking about it and it’s seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I can’t scrub it away it’s miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything that’s out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but I’m subjected to it anyways so why should it matter
Of course we can’t stop the inevitable but with my ocd it’s all I can think about. I’m afraid I’ll be alone for ever and I’ll fear forever. Fear does not stop death it stops life. But how do I stop fear??? I can’t think of anything scarier than the fact that our conscious will vanish for eternity. I am only 20 years old but I mean the last 5 years flew by like nothing.
First off - I’m sorry, I post here a lot. My thoughts are going to be scattered because I have the adhd/ocd/executive dysfunction wombo combo. Im so embarrassed I am THIS neurodivergent. I swear my brain couldn’t pick one struggle and settle with it. I’m not making these diagnoses quirky personality traits by any means, in fact, in this post im venting about how exhausting and embarassed I am living with a brain like this on the daily. I need to hear someone’s advice please. I love hearing everyone’s advice on posts because it’s so useful, and brings me back down to reality. Everyone on here gives advice so tastefully in a way where it doesn’t feed into the self reassurance compulsion, but it’s also been thorough and constructive enough where it’s reminded me to ground myself in a healthy way. I love seeing others helping others, it soothes me. This community has been so kind, and I’m so happy I found it. I wish I could ask more, but I have so many questions I think it’d drive everyone here crazy lol. I am doing erp therapy now, and it’s been teaching me so many amazing techniques. I’ve been making progress. However, I sometimes have my moments of vunerablity. I’ve been experiencing this especially now more than ever because I am going through a breakup. He did it through text after nearly 9 months together. I’d do anything for him and love him through anything, and he broke my heart when I least expected it. I’d make his bed for him multiple times, but I haven’t done that for myself in years. I’d sit with him for hours to watch and do anything he likes, but he’d never do the same and I’d never do the same for me. I’m also at fault because I was too scared to speak up so I let a lot of disrespect slide. Why did my ocd do that? Why does ocd make me people please even when I don’t want to? Why does OCD make me care so much about things that will never effect me (like wanting validation from a random person on the street and hoping they’ll think I’m pretty enough to look at), but then when it comes to my future or positive wellbeing (like focusing on college/doing well in classes/personal hygiene/health), forces me to not care/neglect myself and those needs? I don’t understand it. Ocd makes me think everything’s a setup or a trap. I can never believe that I am fine right where I want to be. Why am I so hard on myself? Why do I even think this much? I care and feel so deeply but it becomes unhealthy so fast because ocd makes me fixate and I stay there for a while. For some reason I let this breakup define my self worth. I let it topple into the ocd fear that I will never make it in life - that I won’t be successful, I’ll never get the career I want, the love I want, or the life I want. My OCD’s version of “logic” isn’t even logical. Yes, I understand how the breakup means feelings of low self worth which will then topple into feeling bad about other things. But why has my brain been wired to think this way? Why does it seem so easy for everyone else to function normally with life but not me? Honestly this is the first time in my life where I’m dedicated to focusing on myself and learning more about myself instead of others in my life and it’s a very odd and bizarre feeling. I’m excited of course, but I’m also scared. My ocd makes me ruminate like “what if I will never make the most of this life I’ve been given”, “what if I truly have no worth and the most I will ever be in other people’s lives is a background character”, “why do I care if I’m a background character or not? I should feel guilty and ignorant for assuming everyone will automatically like me”, “are people lying to me when they call me pretty, smart or kind?”, “I need to look and sound perfect in both pictures, videos and in real life. I will never be satisfied for accepting who I am now”, and a bunch of other annoying questions. But sometimes it’s like I just can’t take the reality for what it is but at the same time, but I also acknowledge that I know this is ocd talking. This is so, so difficult. Do I make any sense with what I’m saying? Can anyone help?
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