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Anyone else still have bad days,moments,weeks?The last 3 months have been on the whole good for me.Ive struggled a bit lately,when I started to think of where my life is at and going.I also struggle constantly with empty feelings and existential issues and although i normally can deal with them,have started to pull me down.Yuk.could this be a trigger for dp/dr or is it a result of it?For me,existential issues and the bigger picture seems to trigger it.I talked with my brother last nite.Hes a teacher,and reminded me that almost all people have to deal with the questions of meaning and direction in life as well.I wonder.I find it difficult to be ambitious and driven when the bigger picture catches up with me like this
Has anyone on the board gone beyond this stage,and is living life existential-thought free and unhindered by it?

 

[Kelson12]

I think about this type of stuff all the time. Honestly, when I feel like shit, which is alot of the time, I wonder why I am even here. What is the point. And at times, I don't even wanna be here cause I don't feel like living with this pain.

But I have my good days and bad days. I had been feeling pretty good for about the last 4 weeks, but since this past Monday I started feelin shitty again. I feel really depressed and overly sleepy and just have no mental energy. It's no fun at all. Yet, I still have to push through work and act like I care about life. It sux.

Kelson

 

[Guest]

thats like walking into a bar and asking "hey, anyone ever get drunk?"
but yeah you nailed it. tens of thousands or more would agree.

 

[Sojourner]

In my lucid moments, I know that the answer we are all seeking is described in _The Power of Now_ by Eckhart Tolle. But of course, I need to keep trying to stay in the present and fail often. If you research this book on amazon.com, disregard the bad first review, which was clearly written by someone who lacks any spiritual sensibility (unlike virtually everyone on this forum).

In this book you can learn how to watch your mind from the point of view of your true self, which is connected to eternal Being and has its life in eternal Being.

From the book's back cover, "To make the journey into _The Power of Now_ we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death."

This is not an escape from life but a way of viewing the very phenomena that are causing us difficulty -- the apparent meaningless of it all. It is just apparent -- it is not real. What is real is inside you -- you sense it right now and any time the apparent pointlessness of life makes you sick to your stomach.

If you did not sense its existence, you would have no problem with the apparent meaninglessness of everything.

 

[Universal]

the apparent meaninglessness of everything. GOSH that seems like something i'd feel. its good that i can at least express my feelings on this board without going completely insane with boredom... that's what i'm feeling now. it's like someone hit me with a truck filled with some existential potency and i can't get up and walk around. feeling nothing - gosh thats something to behold isnt it? feeling emtpy... like a shell that's been left over from eating. i don't wanna write a poem here but i'd just like to express my feelings of inadequacy, ineptitude, boredom, freedom-less, joy-less , paralysing effect of DP.