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nautilus_
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| Has anybody here gone though a time where you lived in a contant state of existential angst (with the accompanying overwhelming yet non-localized anxiety/despair/dread)? If so, and you resolved it, how did you? Just wondering... |
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ImTheGuyThatDidThat
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Yes, but hard to explain how it went away
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aintnowreck
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Yes, existential angst from 15 to 27 y.o.
Massive depression, 2 suicide attempts.
The fact that a lot of my favorite authors are considered "existentialists" probably didn't helped the matter.
I never seeked treatment... I should have.
It went away by itself... strangely enough, I started feeling better after the first (and last)Extasy pill I took. It gave me a whole new perspective on life.
Lucky that I didn't became an addict. |
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nautilus_
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| aintnowreck wrote: | | Yes, existential angst from 15 to 27 y.o. |
what do you think instigated it (apart from the obvious > 'realization that existance is meaningless')? What event/situation, led you to conclude, or even ponder, that your existance is empty and means nothing (and all that this implies).
You said you should have sought treatment...from whom? A psychologist? It isn't a psychological, or physical, problem, it's a philosophical one, so I don't know where you could have gone. It seems to me that this is something that an individual simply must struggle through alone. |
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twoshots
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: existentialism... |
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| nautilus_ wrote: | | Has anybody here gone though a time where you lived in a contant state of existential angst (with the accompanying overwhelming yet non-localized anxiety/despair/dread)? If so, and you resolved it, how did you? Just wondering... |
Easy. I became an existentialist (sorta).
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ShawnWilliam
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well this is my first post here so whatsup everyone..
like someone else who posted i've gone untreated, im 21 and am only right now seeking a doctor's diagnoses etc.. but im sure what will be the outcome.
I usually live alone and find it veryy difficult to live a normal life and very difficult to find it within myself to go to work everyday..
i think i just quit my job in fact.. i cant do it anymore.. i cant stand to know people for too long before they want to know things about me. I dont knoww whyy.. I could never explain the way I was until I learned more about this disorder then I felt less.. alone.. but it doesnt take away the struggle from having to pay my bills.. |
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Tim_Tex
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Welcome to WP!
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ShawnWilliam
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| Tim_Tex wrote: | | Welcome to WP! |
thank yoouu! |
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aintnowreck
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| nautilus_ wrote: | | aintnowreck wrote: | | Yes, existential angst from 15 to 27 y.o. |
what do you think instigated it (apart from the obvious > 'realization that existance is meaningless')? What event/situation, led you to conclude, or even ponder, that your existance is empty and means nothing (and all that this implies).
You said you should have sought treatment...from whom? A psychologist? It isn't a psychological, or physical, problem, it's a philosophical one, so I don't know where you could have gone. It seems to me that this is something that an individual simply must struggle through alone. |
It sure is a philosophical question that can transform in a psychological problem, i.e depression.
Jean-Paul Sartre said "No Exit", I think it is quite depressing when you think of it.
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Electric_Kite
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I have all my life struggled with the ineffable f*ed-upness of being.
It becomes more comical and easier to tolerate as I age. |
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MissPickwickian
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You haven't lived until you think about death all the time.
Seriously, I am a troubled person, but in a cheerful sort of way.
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Awesomelyglorious
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Yeah, that is my life, I still haven't resolved it. There are specific instances of manifestations of this, but there are elements of a core problem going on. My mind cannot make sense of sense, I doubt it's existence. I doubt I am so cheerful as MissPickywicky as I tend to be comprised of so many negative emotions with a cynical taunt and an angry defiance.
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Aurore
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My entire frikkin life 
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UndercoverAlien
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| aintnowreck wrote: | Yes, existential angst from 15 to 27 y.o.
Massive depression, 2 suicide attempts.
The fact that a lot of my favorite authors are considered "existentialists" probably didn't helped the matter.
I never seeked treatment... I should have.
It went away by itself... strangely enough, I started feeling better after the first (and last)Extasy pill I took. It gave me a whole new perspective on life.
Lucky that I didn't became an addict. |
it went away after taking xtc?
how did it feel to lose it? |
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ImTheGuyThatDidThat
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Pretty much everything goes away when eating those,
i`ve done a few of those, they rot the brain after a
long time of use - and they are often full of crap, its
all about the money. I felt insanly good for a while,
but then i crashed like a car into a brick wall, dangerous
stuff e. I for one am never eating another e in my life,
never! I knew a girl ones, a real sweet and nice girl.
A little over a year and 1500 E`s later she was gone.
She`s alive but the person i once knew is never comming
back. She acts a little like someone with alzheimers
and its never going away  she blew her brains out,
she is 26 years old now.. |
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