u/Orchlius

I can’t stop fucking thinking about existence, brain processes, and consciousness in general. I no longer think of people as “people” and more than just meatbags with some certain sense of “consciousness”. Fucked up, I know. I can still treat people with sympathy, empathy, or compassion. However, I am having trouble discerning which of me is “me”.

I think I’m on the path of self-destruction if I’m not already there. And I think the ending would be hanging from a tree.

This shit started two years ago, I don’t want it to turn three. Has anyone else gone through the same shit or is currently going through this same shit?

Any insight, advice, or story would be appreciated. I would consider myself debilitated for the better part of my college years and I want to take anything I could get if it meant living a damn normal life and not in constant battle with my inner self.

Thank you.

Is anyone else’s life going to shit because of OCD. I can’t stop fucking thinking about existence, brain processes, and consciousness in general. I no longer think of people as “people” and more than just meatbags with some certain sense of “consciousness”. Fucked up, I know. I can still treat people with sympathy, empathy, or compassion. However, I am having trouble discerning which of me is “me”.

I think I’m on the path of self-destruction if I’m not already there. And I think the ending would be hanging from a tree.

This shit started two years ago, I don’t want it to turn three. Has anyone else gone through the same shit or is currently going through this same shit?

Any insight, advice, or story would be appreciated. I would consider myself debilitated for the better part of my college years and I want to take anything I could get if it meant living a damn normal life and not in constant battle with my inner self.

Thank you.

Hello,

I do not know where else to turn to, I am nearing my final year of college and I am pretty pissed about my lack of achievements and lack of action overall.

I am going to get checked out for OCD in a couple of weeks and I hope sincerely it will help me, I have been struggling with what I assume to be Existential OCD for a large chunk of my life. Something has to change.

I get demotivated and lose every energy in my body when I get hit by the belief that everything I do does not make a difference, life is fixed, someone is smarter or better, happiness is not real and everything are just chemical processes in the brain, and so on and so forth.

I am a pretty negative individual. And I always have been, and I really want to change but somehow, something is keeping me from fucking changing.

If there are any insights or advice you can provide, no matter how big or small, it would mean the world to me. Thank you so much.

Desperately in need of advice as I turn 22 and I am very lost. I have never really valued life until now, I was pretty sheltered.