
BUT NOW I'VE GOT THIS WHOLE NEW BRAND AND I'M SO SCARED
It first came with these thought after a minor stressor "is this all really life is? What is the point and purpose of life? What's so great about life anyway?" which then turned into "I'm existing, like I'm a body with a spirit and a brain that has thoughts", "what if I didn't exist?" and "if you're never going to get rid of this you should just go and die". This led to a series of suicidal obsessions which I could list but there are waaay too many. Now, I'm a religious girl and I've got my own set of beliefs about what life means to me, and why I'm existing but even though I combatted that thought with my religious doctrine the thought just kept resurfacing. So when I was trying to shut the suicidal and existing thoughts down with the typical "this is just OCD, everything's fine" I had a block that said "are you sure? like you said you just hate having these thoughts so much to the point that you just want to escape them all together so you actually want to die." When I visited the psychiatrist they told me it was depression, but I literally have nothing to be depressed about, I eat healthy, exercise regularly, and feel well rested, I'm not overly stressed about school or work (a few blips here and there but nothing shattering), I have a great relationship with my family, friends, no trauma, no history of self harm, I don't hate myself, I don't think my life is purposeless, and I have much I want to do and accomplish. BUT I WANT TO DO IT WITHOUT THESE OBSESSIONAL THOUGHTS, and every time I think of doing something in the future I think "well you're just going to experience these thoughts when you do that anyways". The prospect that these thoughts will never go away and that there's not really a way to get rid of them is what's making me feel hopeless and I just really don't enjoy life with them. I'm scared to do any sort of ERP because I fear it making the depression/hopelessness sort of worse.
This is driving me insane. Like there's the suicidal obsessions and the questions of existence, but then there's the thought of I really don't want to live with these thoughts the rest of my life that is causing a logical block of just dismissing it as OCD.
One more quick comment, I'm on 50mg Zoloft and 10mg Lexapro (I'm tapering off Lexapro and going up to 100mg Zoloft. Zoloft worked for my mom so hoping it will work for me!), but I'm also having an issue with this, like I will start to feel OK for a few days, then an existential or suicidal obsession will just pop up and I will ask myself "isn't thoughts of death the first thing to go on medication? Is the medication working if I'm having these thoughts?" and that turns into a tailspin of hopelessness. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it
