Thoughts of death

arevelyne · 10-07-2006, 02:03 AM

I know this is one of the symptoms of depression. I also know I have always been a person with tendencies to be depressed and anxious.

I have NEVER been suicidal or wanted to end my life. But what does it mean when people talk about thoughts of death being a symptom of depression? I think about death a lot - but mostly what happens when we die, fear that there is nothing, fear that it will happen before I am ready, etc. I think about this every day. Is this what is meant by "thoughts of death" as a symptom to depression?

I sometimes wonder if I am more depressed than I realize....

Ammaarah · 10-07-2006, 03:22 AM

I think it is normal to think of death fairly often but it sounds like you keep coming back to it again and again. I felt the same way myself for a while, and looking back on it, I was much more depressed than I believed. ((HUGS)) I hope you can get help if you need it and get through this soon.

Ren · 10-12-2006, 05:34 PM

For me it was thinking of how I would die, what people would say at my funeral and so on.

Think back to when it was 'right' for you. Did you think about death as much, or like you are now? That should be the big indicator for you.

thisfreakingsucks · 10-12-2006, 05:37 PM

i think they mean negative thoughts or something
i dont know
im dumb lol

10-12-2006, 10:32 PM

Dying seemed my only way out earlier this year, it seemed the best way to end the pain and the crying I was doing.... at my lowest I even stopped thinking of my family.... I just wanted to die but I was scare I would not suceed and that I would end up still alive having to explain to people why I did it, so I didn't bother in the end.....

I still think of death but I am not sucidal anymore.

SnowFlower · 10-13-2006, 12:28 AM

I think what you are saying might be the same thing I do/think which I am told is normal. I want there to be a pill so we can live forever! I try not to think about death because it scares me and wish I had answers about the afterlife and so on. Proof I guess. My mom is a huge believer and isnt scared of death at all and truly knows in her heart there is an afterlife and this is just the beginning. I am getting into the books that she has and would like to know and have faith but for me its hard to have faith sometimes bc I second guess everything without proof