Top products from r/ExistentialSupport
We found 8 product mentions on r/ExistentialSupport. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Getting Together and Staying Together: Solving the Mystery of Marriage
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The Body Keeps the Score Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
4. How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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5. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
6. Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
7. The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
8. Leuchtturm1917 Medium A5 Notebook- Bullet Journal Special Edition- 240 Numbered Pages, Black
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
BULLET JOURNAL: Leuchtturm1917 brings to you a journal with all the quality of a Leuchtturm journal formatted with the Bullet journal method, Track the past, order the present, design the futureINKPROOF PAPER: Leuchtturm1917 A6 pocket notebooks have 80 gsm paper, which is equatable to 60lb...
Remember you are not your diagnosis. It doesn't mean you will be depressed and anxious forever. It means that's what you are dealing with right now. Maybe the anxiety and depression were indicators that you really needed to get out of that relationship. They are symptoms of your life at the time. So getting out of that relationship was possibly the best thing that could happen because it's a step in the right direction. One of the best things you can do in this time is read a good relationship book or listen to one. There are really good books for help with trauma experiences as well.
It's tough being on your own but being alone and working on healing is better than being with someone who pushes you down. Work on healing and being confident and comfortable being alone. If we switch the terminology, don't worry about being alone, work on being alone without being lonely. Remember Superman's fortress of solitude. Sometimes being alone is the best way to think and to decompress and to find that quiet space where we're comfortable with ourselves and the universe.
Consider keeping a journal of your thoughts to help you work on your anxieties but also to rediscover who you are. You don't have to write a lot, just enough to remember the persistent ones you're working on or things you would like to prioritize. Use the journal to plan things you want to do. It helps to do one small thing each day. Check out bullet journal and poke around r/bujo as a means of personal organization and discovery.
Who were you before this toxic relationship? Can you remember parts of that person you can reconnect with? You don't have to go back to that but it can help be a guide to who you are now and will be tomorrow. We have experiences and then we look back and evaluate them. The goals we have today are what we use to do that. If your goals change, how we view the past changes. You are changing and that's the best thing that can happen if you were recently in a negative place. Protect your "area", wave your arms over your head and around you and say "this is mine." Claim your space. Get your power back.
Online therapeutic classes can be expensive but there are several you can take here after a one time $10 registration fee. Take notes in your journal on what seems like it helps. Don't make it all work. Watch movies and read books you enjoy. Most of all be kind to yourself while you are figuring it out. Don't judge yourself harshly or beat yourself up about anything that happened. It's all in the past. Focus on today and tomorrow. Hang in there!
order out of chaos
check that book out OP. its got enough math, science, and commentary to keep you going for a while. it will help you to understand determinism in a much more robust way. we are not as predictable and determined as you think, and science is learning more and more that this is the case (and this book is from the 70's, so I am sure that you can imagine what has been written on it since. this is just the "original" material so to speak)
this is not "scientism". this is information.
These are normal thoughts to have, and it's healthy that you're confronting your own mortality. Check out some of these books. They might be useful in helping you deal with your existential dread/worries.
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
At some point, you'll have to accept that you and everyone you know will die, and given that fact, you'll have to come to terms with what that means and how you should live your life accordingly. It's not an easy task, but you have to be brave and really face what's in front of you right now, namely the terror of knowing that you will die one day. I promise you it's not a cosmic joke what you're going through, but rather a necessary process for living a more authentic life and becoming a more authentic being. Because we die, this life matters much more than you previously thought. It's a painful but important thing to realize, and I feel for what you're going through, maybe tantamount to how Neo must have felt when he woke up from the matrix.
Lastly, I think this video might be very relatable to what you're going through right now as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3tHo2rQ9Y4
Best of luck, and hopefully you find some of these resources helpful.