Donna Hunter

Death Obsession

I think about dying a lot and it really upsets me. I worry about what my kids will do once I am gone and I get very sad about what I will be missing if I die early. If I look at things rationally, I am only in my mid 30s and I don’t have anything really wrong with me, but whenever I get any kind of unexplained ache or pain I always overreact and fear the worst. Why do I do this to myself? It’s like this daydream fantasy that I can’t turn off and that I don’t enjoy and once I start worrying about death and dying I can get into a sadness funk that lasts all day. I am not depressed, by the way, because there are lots of days where I don’t worry about dying and everything is fine then. But there are too many days when I do. Do you have any advice for me? First of all, is it within a normal range to be thinking about death on several days of the week? I can see that these thoughts do not do me any good. How can I stop myself from thinking this way? Thank you G.