Something is really bothering me and has been for a very long time so I decided today to come on here and find out if it’s just me or if I’m not alone..
I have severe anxiety and at one point was told I was depressed. Recently, I cannot imagine a future. This really scares me. I can’t see myself living till I’m older or imagine where I would be or what it would be like.
This really really scares me making me believe that something might happen to make that thought true.
Let me know if any of you feel the same or if this is connected to anxiety.
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I'm no expert, but it sounds like your depression and anxiety are working together. Inability to imagine a future can be a sign of depression, and it seems to be triggering your anxiety. Wish I could offer you some concrete advice, but I can totally relate. I think you'll find a lot of us can. Sending you courage and peace.
I'm not sure I'm talking about the same thing you're going through so I apologize but I too worry about getting older and cannot imagine it or imagine a future. I didn't think I deserved it and to me it's scary. I'm getting older (just turned 43) and I freak out sometimes as i have fears and suffer from anxiety and depression. mine goes hand in hand. One effects the other. But I just try to stay where my feet are and live in today. It's hard but I try. And so far, I'm still here aging and doing well most of the time. Please reach out to us anytime. This is a great group.
You may (MAY - I don’t know… 🥳) be experiencing a “quarter life crisis.” I see you are 26. There are big changes in your life in your mid 20s. Some people believe there’s a shift that happens and you “figure stuff out” at age 28. It’s happened to me and several people I know. I hated my 20s, personally. My 30s were so much better. It’s like, you’re still a kid in your 20s but not quite. It’s so hard. If I had any advice, it would be to let go, and hang on for the ride. Don’t give up on life, because some great ideas may very well be on their way to you. Hugs! 🤗🤗
I too think it is most likely depression with anxiety, but there is also the Covid to consider. Many folk are feeling low because of it and the uncertainty it generates, with whether we'll be allowed out again any time soon, are we safe going out in crowds etc.
Try to get an appointment with your doctor to discuss it.
Cheers, Midori
My advice to you is to live for today but worry about things that don't exist that may or may not happen.
It's very common to have both anxiety and depression at the same time. It's said that one is the flip side of the other but know that it is usually just temporary. It's also common when stuck in anxiety thinking to catastrophize, blow things out of proportion and think the worst and get stuck in those thought loops.
You don't say if you are in therapy or on medication but both can help you, at least temporarily. I've found being on the right medication has eliminated my depression and reduced my ruminating greatly. However, it did not eliminate my anxiety and I've read that this is common too. I had to learn what anxiety really is and learn how to float through and accept the anxious thoughts and feelings and change my thinking and reaction to them. Reading the books and watching the youtube videos by Dr. Claire Weeks and The DARE Anxiety book and program by Barry McDonaugh really helped me.
Another important thing for anxiety is to have you hormones, thyroid and adrenals checked out and make sure they are functioning optimally, if not, they can cause or contribute to anxiety/depression. Also, diet is important and eliminating caffeine for anxiety.
Also, a good valuable tool to learn for managing your anxiety is proper breathing and mindfulness which will help you learn to calm yourself down, detach from you thoughts and be more present in your life. It will also ultimately help you realize the value of your anxiety/depression in making you more aware and compassionate for others and yourself and self-accepting. It will also help you realize that thoughts are meaningless, they come and go like clouds in the sky, they have no power over you and you have nothing to fear.
I would maybe start by challenging that belief. Just because you can't imagine your future, does that necessarily mean you have no future? What do you think?
I used to be the same as described the problem and worry extended from my teens through to my early forties it was all put down to Anxiety and fear looking forward into the future. Now at seventy one the feeling disappeared when I became in my sixties, now I just realise that if I get another ten years out of my life I have managed to get passed those three score years and ten so I will feel I have had a good life, I will need to pass and I will not have any choice in the matter.
What I have found sad to say my health is beginning to get worse as things sort of break down, I dread seventy two onwards, I do not want to suffer
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