I Have A Fear Of Death. I Have Had It For Many Years It Makes Me Not
Want To Go To The Doctor Because I Feel Something Might Be Wrong
And He Will Find Some Disease Or Something. I Know This Might Sound
Funny But It Has Been Going On For Many Years And I Am Constanly Trying
To Free Myself Of This Fear Any Ache Or Pain I Think I Am About To Die

I Have Went To Counselors And I Keep Myself Busy But This Fear Never Leaves
Please Answer

ravenette

Can I ask you if you are saved? I myself have panic attacks and alot of depression. I know that when I die its my time and with reading the word I can handle that. You may be interested in learning a deeper one on one with Christ. Like do you only know of him or do you know him personally. Antidepressants could be a good thing to put you on for they make you feel better mentally and also if you are depressed you will have extra aches and pains. You can write if you need any thing. Have had alot of things in that line for years and years. Good luck, God bless.

Fr_Chuck

I will agree with ravenette, well said, none of us "want to die" but a saved Christian really has no fear of death, since we know that is what our life is about dying since that is the start of our real eternial life.

I would say you need to KEEP going to your couselors since an extreme fear of death is not healthy as you realise it is..

I will say from a rational side, not going to a doctor, who might find something is the wrong fear, since not going means you would not be treated for something, thus could die, going to the doctor even if he finds something, means it gets treated and can help you not die.

But if gone untreated, this fear can get worst.

missmuncy

thanks all for your answers to my fear. i know what you are saying about going to the
doctor, but i feared i waited to long. i also have taken care of alot of people who
were on hospice, and i still fear. i dont like taken meds. i have been going to the
church, but i think you are referring to born again, which i have gone to. but i will
give it another try. anyway have a happy New Year.

bkdaniels

When did you begin having A Fear Of Death? Can you recall a specfic event that could have possibly caused you to believe this way?

ordinaryguy

The prospect of being dead doesn't bother me a bit. It's the suffering that often preceeds death that I worry about. Father Chuck is right, of course. Not going to the doctor for fear you have something is just choosing ignorance over treatment if you do have something, and opting for fear over relief if you don't. Either way, far better to know than to remain in fear and ignorance.

J_9

I once feared death, until I was confronted with my cancer. Now, I am more like OG. I fear the pain and suffering that preceeds death.

I opted to go to the doctor and got treatment for my cancer. I am now cured. Had I not done that, I would have lost my battle.

I am no longer afraid to die, as I was given the chace to look death in the face and laugh. I conquored it.

missmuncy

thanks so much for all your great answers i will try to pray to overcome this
fear nothing happened to me i was raised by my grandmother and mother
my father was killed in the war. maybe this is why i dont really know
i have always been ther nervous type when i was younger i had very bad
anixety it is great to vent
thanks

colonel000036

I have a 25 mile drive to work. Sometimes my mind starts to wonder a bit and I think about life and how quickly it has passed me by. I am only 39. I have had brain surgery and was actually back to work two weeks after that. Modern medicine is incredible. I know this first hand. For the longest time I had a fear of death. I still do, but I have a way that I rationalize and imagine it will feel.

One morning I woke up and thought to myself. I am not dead! While I was asleep bombs could have gone off, the kids could have been yelling for water, or the alarm could have gone off. It wouldn't have mattered. For those 6 hours I felt dead. For all intensive purposes I was dead. I didn't move a whole lot. I didn't talk to anyone. I didn't do anything.

I started to think again. Sleep is like practice for death. Don't go and become an insomniac because of my email. Sleep and death are really one in the same. The way I have to look at it now is that I died a little every day. So, with this attitude I started up my old workout routine and am working out a lot more. I might as well make the most out of the sleep.

I still think about death. Why else would I have chosen this topic to look under. It is never going to be something I am okay with. I think most would agree. Venting and sharing my idea may help someone cope a little better. You hopefully.


Take care, get an annual checkup, exercise more. Even if it is only walking around the block. Get active.

James

missmuncy

Thanks James For Your Taughts/i Dont Know About The Checkup But I Will
Try More Exercise