Anyone else? It’s not exactly heart-pounding anxiety, and it’s not quite hopeless depression. It’s somewhere in between there, with a heavy focus on fears related to getting older (and weaker and less independent) and a bleak outlook on the world (especially the US) in general.
I don’t feel doomed but I do feel overwhelmed. It’s like I can (and don’t want to) multitask solving everyone else’s problems.
I look in the mirror and see a face I don’t really recognize, well I do, it’s my mother. So many things inside of my body are changing. My ideas are changing and then to top it off the world is like a dumpster fire everyone keeps driving by hoping someone else will deal with it. So I have moved back and forth between skepticism, nihilism, and existentialism crisis. not to mention I am the slow walker in my family now. Yeah, so I feel the doom. The only positive of the world issues is maybe it’ll wipe out my student loans that I have had since 2000.
Yep. I have a constant, low level anxiety and sense of doom a lot of the time. It’s not great.
Holy shit, yes.
Oh hell yes. The minute I try to slow down and stop burying my feelings under distractions, the existential dread starts creeping back in.
I mostly ignored the aging stuff up until recently, it’s starting to catch up to me which is why I am here I guess. Bit I’ve had thst kind of feeling about reality in general for most of my life. Just a whole lot of why does it have to be this way kind of thoughts and what not. Some days I just want to give up. Also, aging, especially as a woman sucks. Glad I found this group.