If you have a sustainable solution to provide you'll be rich. I default to squelching thoughts of my mortality. That is at the top of the list of mental frames that have improved my life. I otherwise lived in constant existential panic from the ages of 12 to 25. Thanks a lot Nietzsche...
What works for me is negative visualization. Thinking of the worst possible thing that can happen, and how I'd feel in that situation. It's kind of like exposure therapy.
I had the same issue I think, struggled with it up to around 25 when a doctor asked me to try melatonin.
It actually changed my life, now I can sleep and be like a normal person. I used to joke that I was a C-type person (instead of A/B) when it comes to sleep.
nefitty|4 years ago
HPsquared|4 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_visualization
geraldwhen|4 years ago
You are not one but many, and the ego is truly the only thing that dies in death we fear.
ungamed|4 years ago
tyfon|4 years ago
It actually changed my life, now I can sleep and be like a normal person. I used to joke that I was a C-type person (instead of A/B) when it comes to sleep.
nprateem|4 years ago
achenet|4 years ago
I have a thing where I get weird anxiety ~18hr after I eat pasta, maybe you get something similar.
If your anxeity has a biological cause (ie excess cortisol or something), then modulating what you put into your body may help.
Or maybe you just need to accept that every moment might be your last and try to enjoy it. :)