Crippling Existential Dread: How Do I Cope?

I get like this. Last year was really hard because of trying to comprehend the uncertainty of death and how to not let it get to me. Lately I feel like the universe is against Mr and laughing at my joke of a life. I was just reading up on coping skills yesterday. Some fascinating reading

I feel this, quite deeply. It's often hard for me to understand why people talk about anything else given that it's constantly on my mind, & I consistently find the need to remind myself to not have it be all I talk about in order to keep up the social charade. I'm sorry to hear it's so debilitating for you. I'd say it's likely the same for me, just blanketed in a perpetual existence of masking / dissociating too hardcore as a default that I've become efficient at ignoring how I'm truly feeling (yay trauma!). I concur that my autistic friends share this dread while my allistic friends look at me like I'm morbid / hyper focused on negatives if I even bring the topic up.