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[Great Order]

How to cope with debilitating existential dread?

Asking for a friend.

I get on with things. Also acknowledging that regardless of the outcome of my existential questioning, nothing's actually going to be different.

Doesn't work 100% of the time, but it works enough.

[EuchreJack]

Your friend will need to exercise to burn off all those calories from the ice cream. This also helps with debilitating existential dread.

I exercised A LOT during COVID and my various bouts with unemployment.

[King Zultan]

Has your friend tried to ignore it that's what I do, ether that or I find a movie or book to take my mind off of it.

[Magmacube_tr]

My friend appreciates the advice, thank you.

[scriver]

I've learned from many an awful anxiety bouts to trust myself that in a few days, things will start going back to normal levels again (which arent nice, but at least they're escapeable). And that knowledge has made it easier for me to just endure the awfuls when they happen, just kinda accept that they're happening now but I just need to feel them for a while and then I will be better.

I don't know if that helps somebody young who don't have that repeated and re-repeated experience over many years yet. I don't think it would have helped me if somebody told me that when I was younger, I'd probably be all "but I'm feeling what I'm feeling now now" and disregard it. But it is the thing that helps me the most in my current life, and I wish I had come to this conclusion sooner myself. Sometimes you just have to be the skerry in the storm.

[hector13]

When did scriver become a Buddhist master?

[scriver]

Anxiety is the mind-killer. Anxiety is the little death that kills a thousand times. Let anxiety pass over you and through you, and when anxiety has passed only I will remain

[Il Palazzo]

Anxiety is the mind-killer. Anxiety is the little death that kills a thousand times. Let anxiety pass over you and through you, and when anxiety has passed only I will remain

Wait. If I let it pass over me I turn into you? Do I want that?

[dragdeler]

If you materialise at the spot where scriver was beforehand that might come in handy.

[scriver]

Anxiety is the mind-killer. Anxiety is the little death that kills a thousand times. Let anxiety pass over you and through you, and when anxiety has passed only I will remain

Wait. If I let it pass over me I turn into you? Do I want that?

Probabyly not


Best not to follow my advice Magmacube, you never know

[Magmacube_tr]

Anxiety is the mind-killer. Anxiety is the little death that kills a thousand times. Let anxiety pass over you and through you, and when anxiety has passed only I will remain

Wait. If I let it pass over me I turn into you? Do I want that?

Probabyly not


Best not to follow my advice Magmacube, you never know

You could have told this before I turned into you!

[dragdeler]

  I hope you catched that he was heckling you because you switched from "you" to "I" midsentence. I tried to make it a little more obvious but both came across kinda mean.

[Il Palazzo]

Shhh. Keep pulling his tongue and we might get him to divulge the secrets of anxiety-fuelled scriverportation.

[scriver]

No I caught it, no worries

I've known Palazzo long enough to trust that he's only mean to my face behind my back

[hector13]

One fine day, in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot the other.