[twitmwu]

I've spent the past few weeks going through the nervous breakdown you describe in your first paragraph.

A few years worth of stress (life/startup/etc.) managed to explode in a single night thanks to a rather traumatic experience with alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs, and in the weeks that have followed I've come to realize my anxieties come from this extreme fear of death/impermanence.

I'm still taking things day by day, and the panic attacks are passing more easily every day. I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your experience. Reading little things like this from other people has helped me more than I can express :)

[ak39]

Take it easy fellow "extension of this universe"! We are all in this together.

Like Alan Watts said "You are something that the whole universe is doing .... in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing".

I can't remember anything before I was born. That wasn't painful at all. Why should I assume that it will be different after I'm dead?

I'm sure even Marcus Aurelius got tired of talking about death at some point and simply went out to get a beer or hug a warm body. Let's go do that. :-)