I have been having this deep feeling inside of me that I am going to die soon...!


Question: Hi. I'm 15 and lately I have been horrified by things. I guess you could say that it all started in class when we were reading a little pamphlet about those school shootings. I got terrified, but got over my fear until the news on tv began talking about all these deaths and shootings. Now, I have anxiety attacks, so that doesn't help.

To make a long story short, I have kinda become terrified to go outside now. I think that somebody is going to pop up and shoot me. I have this deep feeling in the pit of my stomach that I am going to die soon. I'm scared, and I need help really badly. This has been happening for about 2 or 3 weeks lately and I'm staring to cry at night, and I don't cry often unless something really gets to me. I just want to know if the feeling that I have is true so I can face it and just let things play out like they are supposed to. I talked to my mom recently about it, but she wasn't much help.

Please, help me.


Answers: Hi. I'm 15 and lately I have been horrified by things. I guess you could say that it all started in class when we were reading a little pamphlet about those school shootings. I got terrified, but got over my fear until the news on tv began talking about all these deaths and shootings. Now, I have anxiety attacks, so that doesn't help.

To make a long story short, I have kinda become terrified to go outside now. I think that somebody is going to pop up and shoot me. I have this deep feeling in the pit of my stomach that I am going to die soon. I'm scared, and I need help really badly. This has been happening for about 2 or 3 weeks lately and I'm staring to cry at night, and I don't cry often unless something really gets to me. I just want to know if the feeling that I have is true so I can face it and just let things play out like they are supposed to. I talked to my mom recently about it, but she wasn't much help.

Please, help me.

i also feel that way. but mine are accompanied by physical symptoms. and you think that you are going to die randomly...well i guess it could happen, but there isnt really anything that you can do about a random thing like that. all you can do is pray about it and dont do anything dumb. like unprotected sex, driving with a drunk driver, drugs etc. just be safe! talking with a friend can help, and listen to your intuitions. if someone warns you about something they feel, or have seen in a dream, take heed. gl

Do a little research honey. You are NOT going to die in a shooting. At your age the probability of dying is VERY small. Twice as many people died last year from bee stings as from school shooting. More people died from scalding in too hot tap water than school shooting. Just because the media wants to make money off hyping the shootings, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen.

Hello Brother
This is a kind of anxiety which is called "fear of Death". In which you feel that you are going to die or some one will harm you and so on..The same thing happened to me few months ago and i realised that this is a just an anxiety and anxieties are harmless. I will assure you that nothing is going to happen to you. I have lots of tips and procedures listed in my blog to help people suffering from this at http://trainyourmind.blogspot.com

I think you need to see a proffesional. i had the same issues at your age and I didn't get help. I tried to commit suicide at 17 and 18. Then I got help. Please, tell your mom you need a doctor to help.

Even though I don't know you personally, you are not going to die anytime soon. Surround yourself with positive things, and think happy thoughts. I've visited psychologists in the past, and they didn't help me at all, so I don't recommend that you go see one either. I learned to help myself when I felt terrified. I would simply tell myself that "this is not going to happen to me, & no one is going to kill me."

A second note, don't watch any horror movies. I never liked them and they would just make you feel worse.





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