I’ve always had death anxiety, ever since I was a small child. The idea of just not existing anymore terrifies me. The idea of having to watch my friends or family die also scares me. Sometimes I’ll be hanging out with a loved one and I’ll have to go to a different room to cry because I think about how much I love them and how I’ll lose them one day. When I was 10 years old I watched the movie 2012 and had a huge fear of the apocalypse happening. More recently, I’ve been scared that one day the world is going to suddenly end. This was because I read a thread on Reddit about sudden ways the world can end. I don’t know why I read it, it was stupid of me. I’m an atheist, so it doesn’t help that I don’t believe in an afterlife. Every time I talk about this fear, people say “well what does it matter, you won’t even know it’s happening.” But this doesn’t help, this just makes me more scared. I keep getting panic attacks over this, I can’t sleep. It’s disrupting my life in every way possible. Anyone else have this fear? If so, what do you do to deal with it?