New here, ill keep it short with the back ground
Have extreme OCD all my life pure O mainly (obsession kind).
step father died at age 12 (cancer) . Mother got addicted to painkillers neglected me for years. apologized as i got older relationship is better. still can't let go though. at age 18 mother got cancer, same kind as my step fathers.. she lived thankfully. Became an extreme hypochondriac which was actually just me obsessing about dying all the time. Always thought i had different cancers. On and off Lexapro since i was younger because of it. Father is addicted to drugs not in the picture.
So all this that I'm going through now started 7 months ago.. Thought I had a brain tumor because i had been feeling dizzy, had a major panic attack one night and had to leave my apartment, leave my job and move back into my Mothers house. I'm 22 years old. I was so convinced i had a brain tumor that i was having daily panic attacks for 3 months straight. I finally got over the fear of it. But i refuse to take anti depressants because i fear them. so after the brain tumor fear i developed something called derealization and depersonalization and that went on for a couple months, thankfully the derealization is gone but the depersonalization is still here. i basically feel weird in my own skin and i feel weird in my own body. All of this was manageable, what I'm going through now is NOT. A month ago i was fishing and i suddenly realized how pointless everything in the world is. This freaked me out. I suddenly became extremely "bored" of life. so if course my OCD kicked in and i started obsessing about suicide, even though i didn't want to do it i was afraid in the future i would get to that point. Well that led me down a very dark path. so over the last month this "boredom" i gotten extremely worse. I started becoming extremely existential and started obsessing over nihilism. I have lost my faith in God and i see no point in existence.. now i know you make your own point to life but everything is just so boring.. i cannot connect to people anymore whatsoever. My gf left me while i was going through the brain tumor fear and that was traumatizing. we are back together now but i still haven't gotten over it to be honest. But anyways i cannot connect to her, its almost like i have forgotten or dont understand the concept of love anymore. Everything has become dull and flat in my life.. I used to have high dreams and expectations but i no longer see a meaning. I used to love to travel but now oceans and mountains and the outdoors seems boring.. oceans are just water, mountains are just rocks.. i see no beauty and its almost like the world "isn't good enough" as stupid as that sounds. I literally get no satisfaction from anything and i long for something that doesnt exist. Its literally like i am bored of existence and it all seems pointless. I do not want to be this way, i cry daily because i miss who i used to be. I feel like the old me died and will never return. I feel like I've opened a door in my conscious on how i view the world now that cannot be closed. I find no happiness or adventure in anything anymore. I used to love cars but now they seem nothing more than just pieces of metal. Its just all so strange, its like I've figured out the meaning of life and i see life for what it really is and its boring. I HATE IT. I am intelligent, good looking and have a family that loves me very very much and i can't even connect and love back. I feel inhuman. i feel nothing. I do not want told **** myself because at the same time i understand that this is the only life you get so you must enjoy it i just dont know how anymore, everything is flat and ugly. Sex doesnt even interest me because I'm so emotionless and i just see people as skin and atoms.. I'm overanalyzing literally everything, its like I'm seeing right through the illusion we call life. As i said, i do not want to **** myself but i cannot see myself going on this way for very long. I can't do it because i only get one life and my family would be very very upset, especially my mother she has already had a hard life and i have brothers and sisters that have lost too much. So i basically stay for them even though life is so ridiculous and just boring. I have yet to find someone else that is experiencing this. What is going on with me? Please help.
oh and i have little to none of these feelings or thoughts while I'm dreaming.. i feel normal when i dream like i used too.