Guess it’s my midlife crisis. I’m not unhappy, have a good life, plans for the future but thoughts about our purpose on the planet can really get to me. Almost obsessive. And cause major anxiety some days. When I tell myself then that life is great i feel great, but then there is that little voice that says, not it’s not, there is not purpose, it’s fake news. Most days I can just let thoughts rum around in my head, but other days they overwhelm and scare me. Anyone else? Tips and or tricks? I do meditate, practice yoga etc. and have a loving wonderful family.
Wow, describes me perfectly. My family is great, loving, supportive, understanding, but there are days my thoughts are just too much and too loud. I obsess over the smallest things, like the recycling bin, I'll go through the trash to make sure everyone is separating it out, then I worry about if the trash collectors are really even recycling it at all🤤....the thought of landfills really freaks me out, (the movie,"WALL-E" didn't help, I couldn't sleep for days after watching...) and the thoughts about what we do to the earth can make me physically sick. Some days I get really proactive and optimistic, the next I'm just envious of all the young "green" activists making their statements...lol! I'm taking Zoloft for my anxiety, it helps a lot but lately I've had really low energy and felt very fatigued. Working in my yard, gardening, growing my own herbs really, really makes me feel better, but this last winter we had a bad freeze and it killed all my plants.... so there's that, lol, I have to start over and I'm feeling overwhelmed. (Sigh. So it goes......😕)
Oooops, must have missed your reply. Well, you nailed it, my Dr switched me to Prozac, I don't know how to feel about that as I don't have much experience with these meds. I thought maybe she would up my Zoloft, but she didn't like that I was having some mild side effects. To me, they were worth it, (night sweats, muscle twitches, tongue biting in my sleep) but she wants to try to see if we can find something with no side effects. Just the idea of switching had me really on edge. Keeping optimistic as I can.... we'll see🤞
This is pretty philosophical. I personally get this a lot. It’s also pretty normal. Philosophers have spent countless thousands of years combined thinking about it. Maybe try watching something like ‘Cosmos, a spacetime odyssey’ if you haven’t already. It deals with the big concepts of the universe, but also exposes the wonder of the amazing universe around us. At first, it might feel like it’s taking you in the other direction. But you gotta jump to fly.
We humans are the single most complex things going in the universe, and we literally are the universe thinking about itself, and if we can do that, why, I think that gives us the right to say we do indeed have purpose.
Not sure if that helped, but good luck, and good purposing
Thank you so much!! Obviously when you’re a thinking human, you cannot help but think about these things. This time it coincided with some events, that made me question why we should even put in any effort. I recognized that that wasn’t very helpful, but occasionally it still causes quite some anxiety. I’m pretty confident I’ll emerge stronger and will have had a huge growth spurt, but it’s not always easy. Ah easy is overrated anyways
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