As I guess most of us do, I think about death sometimes. Most of the times I try to fight the thought back. Recently a friend suggested that maybe it’s not always about death, sometimes maybe it’s my anxiety or distress – the dark side – that manifests itself in the shape of a thought about death.
Sometimes our energy level goes down, we feel tired because of a decrease of mental or physical energy and thus we feel sad. And this sadness is actually how our brain “presents” this lack of energy to us. What I mean is that maybe our brain needs to give a shape to sadness linked to physical/chemical fatigue so that we can identify it and deal with it on an emotional level, so we give to it a “meaning” according to our story, even though the emotion attached to it it’s not really the reason why we feel that way. Maybe when I am mentally tired I think about death but it’s not really about death; death is how this fatigue is manifesting itself to me.
Blabbering of a millennial 