Is it normal i don't believe there's a future?

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I figured something out about myself. I do not "believe" that there is a future beyond about 24 hours ahead in time. I have a complete inability to acknowledge, plan for or see that there is probably going to be a tomorrow and beyond.

No, I don't think I am going to die every day. No, I don't think the world is going to end tomorrow every single day. It's different, I just don't have ANY foresight, nor concern for, a future beyond a day or so. I don't plan ahead, I CAN'T. The future is just....blank (literally)....if I try to think ahead I see NOTHING, I can't picture myself in a new day, I can't even imagine myself doing the most average, mundane thing tomorrow, like waking up or doing the dishes. I don't care what tomorrow will be like either.

I made this post a while ago:

http://isitnormal.com/story/is-it-normal-to-hate-any-sort-of-obligation-143641/

In my story, I say: "Sometimes something will seem like a good idea to me, so I'll agree to do it but as the deadline approaches I get angry about it and find a way to escape from following through."

For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I'd do this and then the answer came to me, and the answer is that I agree to do things in the future because I can't comprehend that that day WILL become a reality eventually. If I say "yeah I'll do it in a week", I don't actually believe that I'll EVER end up having to do what I just agreed to. Then right before I'm supposed to do it, that's when I get anxious about it actually coming to fruition.

Even upon realizing this I still can't accept that there's (probably) a future.

Is this normal?

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  • ProseAthlete
    11 years ago

    Obviously no one here can diagnose you, but it's far enough outside the realm of normality that you may want to talk to a doctor about it. This sounds like a neurological or developmental anomaly.

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    • Avant-Garde
      11 years ago

      I agree.

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  • q25t
    11 years ago

    This isn't normal. Some time during your teens you're supposed to develop the ability to plan ahead with your brain developing. This might have not gone off completely right?

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    You don't "believe", can't "accept." I agree you should get checked and I'm no expert but could be this is how you want to think about and see things. I'd think that if you had an organic inability to plan beyond a day you would have so much trouble functioning that it'd have not been just something you figured out. Anyway - do get help.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c

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  • Jeaneathean
    11 years ago

    Nothing wrong, if you ask, in just living in the moment.

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