What do you think, does mental illness carry on after death or not?

[John Smith]

I really don't want to carry on my problems after death. I believe in reincarnation after doing a bunch of research on factually verified past life memories from Dr. Ian Stevenson's research and others.

 

[tevati]

You brain is dead ans with this your you. "there" is probably nothing.

 

[Xaphous]

I am quite positive you lose all attachment to your personality, ego and the body. What existed in the mind will not be there.

 

[Raggas]

On a religious or metaphysical scale? It seems like it would.

From what we can know and ascertain? No.

 

[15dec]

I don't know but I try not to think about it, it'll prevent me from ctb if I'm thinking something bad will happen after I die. What do you want to happen after death -do you want to go to heaven, for example? If so then tell yourself that is what will happen. That's what I've done and I feel a lot more comfortable doing that.

Though, if I were to ctb and have the same mental problems in another life, I think it would probably be much more likely for me to receive better, more effective treatment

 

[JustAboutDone]

I think we leave all mental problems etc behind when we die. I had an odd experience in hospital when I had some standard medical tests a few years back when, for no known reason, I passed out and my heart stopped. I can't say it was a "near death experience" and I have no medical knowledge so I'm only going on what it felt like for me and that was a complete and utter sense of blissful peace. I don't know how long for, then there was screaming and shouting and I was being violently shaken, for me it felt like coming round from a seizure. Came to to be told my heart had stopped and had to endure a barrage of tests which offered no explanation. Totally odd. Not happened since but I've missed that lovely feeling of utter serenity I've never had before. Gives me hope that's what we will feel when we pass

 

[DeletedUser4739]

During my most effective albeit still inadequate overdose in 2014, all I sensed was nothingness--not good or bad--just nothing. My heart and breathing had ceased for about 90 seconds, and my bladder and bowels released. Dark, quiet, no people or things, just nothing. Eventually, I woke up and that was a nightmare. Still is.

 

[Pan]

No, your mental illness will vanish with your death consider death, if you will,as the greatest luxury in life—-we get to recline,to rest for awhile before we begin again...

 

[Ghost2211]

Since you specifically mentioned reincarnation... I would say no. Each life would be different with different challenges.

 

[issyishere]

I'm an atheist so i believe in nothing after but my spiritual experiences under certain drugs lead me to interpret the afterlife in a different way. Something sort of like universal consciousness or energy that reverberates throughout the universe. Our brains are just little recievers and when we have mental issues, our receiver have been tweaked a little bit to experience something new. When we die we go back to that "energy" that flows through space and we become one with it again and things begin to make sense.

 

[foreveryoung]

I don't think it will, look up "apoptosis". According to this theory it might be our fate that we have to die like this. Whatever you think, the universe already has it planned out for you long before you were born. What you believe is the right thing at the bottom of your heart right now is probably how it was meant to be.

 

[faust]

If you believe in reincarnation, I think everything will be nullified with the next time you are born. You cannot be the same in your next life

 

[Pan]

I agree completely.

I think we leave all mental problems etc behind when we die. I had an odd experience in hospital when I had some standard medical tests a few years back when, for no known reason, I passed out and my heart stopped. I can't say it was a "near death experience" and I have no medical knowledge so I'm only going on what it felt like for me and that was a complete and utter sense of blissful peace. I don't know how long for, then there was screaming and shouting and I was being violently shaken, for me it felt like coming round from a seizure. Came to to be told my heart had stopped and had to endure a barrage of tests which offered no explanation. Totally odd. Not happened since but I've missed that lovely feeling of utter serenity I've never had before. Gives me hope that's what we will feel when we pass

Your description is very interesting to me, and, despite what you yourself think, the details you describe resemble those of a near death experience. A feeling of great bliss and serenity is frequently reported. Have you ever spoken of the experience with others? Did you discuss the episode with your physician? Interestingly, many survivors of this experience report as well that they miss what happened to them and maintain that the episode you describe was life changing.

 

[Amber1974]

How could it? When you're dead you're dead, everything is over, we cant be tormented after death by that shit