Do you think about the future?

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The more I think about the future, the more stressed out I get, so I’m just living day to day at the moment. Does anybody else have ‘future anxiety’?

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i would get sick over it i feared so bad. i am in the process of changing how i view the future. Going to pick things to focus on and work on to create my future. I am planning on going from dis ease to ease. we all need to do that.

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High future anxiety… thinking about how easily it is for a life to go wrong… it scares me.

I can’t think too much about it… other wise I’ll really freak out.

One day at a time … that’s all I can face.

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In a vague kind of way.

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Lately I ping pong fm being serene and excited about the future to feeling very doubtful and scared but the intensity of fear and duration is shrinking slowly-progress!

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I used to feel smothered by the passage of time taking too long, but now I take sertraline and my anxiety is manageable.

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I fear my mom would leave me behind. I have dinner with my mom everyday. If she is gone, I will be all alone. I can’t imagine how I’d get used to that. I also fear that I’d have nowhere to live and not enough money for food and necessity. This will probably be my future.

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Well if you live in the US I’m pretty sure there are public assistance options you could apply for to help you get by. They aren’t great but it is doable with them.

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yeah, i am trying not to think about it though

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These days I’m fantasizing about my future - out of this house that contains my wife and I and the detested brother-in-law. Not only getting a new place, but fantasizing that clozapine will be the last drug I have to try. I’m plum worn out on meds.

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I’m 57 years old, and I definitely think about the future. I can see myself really old and in a nursing home with a big, nasty shot of Haldol waiting for me at the end. It scares me.

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I have hopes for the future but I fear my parents won’t be alive to see it. My partner and I want to get married after she becomes an RN.

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Sometimes for instance I have a wedding and possibly an interview coming up. I’m scared out of my mind

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Sure, the future scares the sh$t out of me.

My parents are very old and I know that I’m going to live on my own one day.

I have lots of fears and anxiety about living alone - at least I have my dog.

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I only get in trouble when I think of more than what to make for dinner.
Too much planning can be just as bad as not enough.

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Sounds like a wonderful idea to me (at least as regards projecting the future on the basis of evidence from the past… instead of just waiting to see what turns up).

Now. How does one come to be able to do that much, most or all the time?

DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBCT - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice - PubMed
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc

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I’m constantly aware I or anyone else could die at anytime from anything from a heart attack to a drunk driver accidentally hitting me walking on the sidewalk or anything. Doesn’t really scare me or anything, that’s just the way life is.

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My hopes aren’t high for the future. High anxiety. Mostly over the fear of losing loved ones. Try not to think of it. One day at a time. Pull my mind back to present when worrying begins.

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Oh yes, all the time…

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I get scared sometimes because I fear that my future won’t turn out to be what I have envisioned it to be. But I do fantasized about my future a lot.

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