Poll Do You Have a Sense of Impending Doom?

[Deleted member 19804]

I used to have this feeling all the time. I kept feeling like something absolutely horrible was going to happen to either me or someone I love. It was the most terrible time of my life and I felt like I was losing my mind in fear. Consequently I am forever grateful for having been given the chance to get myself back with antidepressants and therapy. The feeling's still there, but it no longer makes me lose touch with reality.

 

[Hashi]

No, I know other people often seem to but I've never really understood it. I have anxiety about many things - what I have to do at work tomorrow etc - but not the impending doom thing. Maybe I just don't care about myself or anyone else enough?

 

[Madhather]

Occasionally, up until I broke free of my last abuser it was all the time. Now it is more of a warning system that I am somewhere I should not be or I am with someone that is not what they appear to be. When I find myself getting depressed I have a heavy sense of doom, it is a signal that I need to be mindful of my thoughts and actions.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

@Hashi: I don't think that you don't care enough. When the doom thing was really bad with me,, I had still for a large part repressed the memory of my trauma, which had been about 2 months ago.

I was so afraid all the time and I could not think of an explanation for it, and was suffering severe depression at the same time.

So I concluded something very bad must be about to happen. And that it would all be my fault.

The mind is capable of extreme things when given extreme circumstances.

 

[Lionheart]

I voted for often. A lot of the time, I seem to think/believe that I am not going to live very much longer and have no real reason to think this way.

 

[Changing4Best]

I answered occasionally, but it sure is awful when I do! It's like someone kicked me in the guts! My muscles all tense up and I worry, but often it happens (when it does) at a time when I seemingly have nothing to worry about and that is when it hurts the worst. I would usually ask God to help me with what I am worrying about, but if I was not worrying, and cannot figure out why it is happening, then praying to God about it is much harder, as I sit there and try to figure out what is causing it.