This happens to me as well especially when my anxiety is really high. I do believe it is intrusive thoughts. It certainly seems intrusive to me! Message me anytime for support or comfort. Your not alone.

Yes when I feel bad and tired I have that panic attack. I do not think it is intrusive thoughts. I just try not to think in that direction because if I think more it gets worse.

I have struggled with this for a long time... I have gotten such anxiety from it that I don't feel like I am here.. It is hard to explain but my body feels numb and it feels as if I am not really present. I have had many panic attacks and triggers because of it. I think my thing is more of not knowing what happens when we die and I always felt like I had to believe in God and I always felt so anxious because I struggled with not knowing if I would go to Heaven or if everything would end and be like an endless sleep.. Both are terrifying. But realizing what was actually causing it really helped because I could find out information and I learned a lot about science and it has comforted me enough to where I don't struggle with it as often anymore. I know it may seem irrational, but it is there for a reason.. I am here for you if you want to chat more about it.. Or anything else also (: Stay positive!

Sure. So then I exercise, have fun or otherwise do whatever the hell I want to do, because life's short, and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend my last days doing tedious, annoying shit that is making someone else rich! It's extremely empowering, giving one's self a play day, doing exactly what one wants to do, when one wants to do it, even if what one wants to do is absolutely nothing at all (and it was everything I thought it could be).

Personally, I think the afterlife will be a mixture of sleep, as needed, and being put to work, as needed by God, guiding souls over to the other side, being a guardian angel for our loved ones here on Earth, learning from higher spirits on the other side to attain higher levels of spiritual enlightenment than we could here.

Dy-ING scares the crap out of me, but actual death, crossing over into another dimension, doesn't bother me at all. And my dear, beloved brother has already made that trip into the great beyond, so I know he's there waiting to embrace me and welcome me to the bigger party.

I experienced it quite often. It has caused me a lot of distress. But I have found a way to get rid of the thoughts. I just decide not to continue thinking about it. Sounds simplistic, but I just tell myself that there's nothing I can do about it, and to not make myself miserable about things I can't change. I mean, what's the point of spending time freaking out when the end result is unchanged? I'm at the point in my experience with anxiety where I am determined to enjoy what I can, life's too short. Death is inevitable, I can't let that knowledge ruin living.

I just think you need to think it through. What about death is there to be afraid of?

It's an absence. It didn't upset you to not be born yet, and it won't upset you to be dead. You won't be there to be upset.

So what is upsetting you? Missing out on something someone else got? That won't bother you either. You'll be dead.

Worrying about how your children will survive without you? Make sure your will is in order. Make sure they know where that bundle of cash you stash hides, so that if you pop your clogs they can keep paying the rent till the insurance/will comes through.

Thing is, every thought is intrusive if you don't like it. How often have you ever sat there thinking about lying beside the beach, and then stopped and called it an intrusive thought?

Each thought is something deserving of attention. It deserves to be worked through. It is my private theory that thoughts not worked through, feelings not felt, are the absolute basis for anxiety and depression. And so if we have distracted ourselves our whole lives long to the point where we're a barking mess (talking about self here) then we need to stop distracting. We need to handle the backlog.

And that means take items one at a time, and think them all the way through to their natural conclusion. Once they have reached their natural conclusion they go away tidily, and don't come out again.

Such is the human brain. We want to analyse, we want to compartmentalise, we want to order our world. If we stop ourselves from doing that, our brain eventually poops the bed.

So let yourself think the bad thoughts, and let yourself feel the bad feelings, and eventually the ideas will come to rest at their natural point of conclusion, and so will your feelings. And then it's over.

:)