r/Existential_crisis

It seems kinda weird and boring and pointless. Can someone explain what the point is? I’ve asked people around me and they usually say things regarding family, friends, and relationships and I don’t really understand any of those things because I don’t really think that’s something I would point to a “purpose of life”. Some say passions but I don’t have any. I feel basically the exact same no matter what I do. Can someone give me the answer?

I just want to know the experiences of people who have gone to therapy, is it effective or did it not do much. I don’t want to tell my parents about my situation unless it would actually help

I am a person with multiple interests. And so much curiosity that my mind will wither with the wind.

Too many interests / hobbies. Can’t keep up with , and I keep adding more.

Work is some side quest to me. Just for the paychecks. But I’m lacking there as well. How much ever I deny, there is some level of earnings that is expected. That insecurity makes me anxious. I don’t even want to work in IT.

Generally- I don’t know what I want from life. Career wise. Goals wise. I know I want to try as many things. Watch too many movies. Travel. Food. And Ngl bedrot sometimes too.

The constant pressure of “u can do better” just kills me inside. All of them friends family colleagues bf.

Need to take care of some health issues , visit therapist too for mental health , work on switching careers, work on moving out of parents house, work on my interests (which are 100) (priority which I’m unable to) , studying, keeping up with shit , gym , ugh. I can’t.

All of it and I end up doing nothing. Also I feel like bcz of my stupid past decisions, which have shaped my teenage and early twenties (formative years) and I deleted those from my head. Feels like I started life some 2-4 years ago. Hence the urgency to catchup or something.

And my title isn’t even appropriate to this post.

I have an amazing bf and friends- who have achieved well in life , ofcourse everyone has their thing , no comparison but it does hit the nerve. Then I go into isolation mode.

Would appreciate some advice on how to navigate. Or any insight.

im fully debilitated by this. i cant do anything. i cry all day and panic all day and i can never calm down now that ive realised that everything is temporary and ill die one day. how can i ever feel safe and comfortable again? im ironically getting suicidal thoughts because i feel like i just need it over and done with if its going to happen anyway. im absolutely ruined. i feel like ill never be okay again. what do i even do :/

Newbie to the group here. I think my issues started in 1995 when I has this sudden feeling that something was missing. so I started looking for it. Problem was and still is, I don’t know what is missing so don’t know what to look for or where to look for it 🤷‍♀️
Over the years there have been periods where things have sort of been good, but the underlying depression is always there. I’ve gotten my masters degree, had open heart surgery, got married, got my PhD, my black belt in jujitsu but what ever is slowly eating me returned with a vengeance about 10 years ago. tried various meds to no real benefit. I’m beginning to think I will never shake it…🤷‍♀️

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.