Hello guys,

I'm new here so this is my first post. Thanks to the makers of this platform for an outlet to discuss freely.

So I have a religious background. My family is Christian, a serious one at that. Learned about God, devil, hell, heaven and afterlife. After several studies on religion, science and philosophy, I have come to be agnostic for the most part. I suffered gradual and mild depression over the period of this "de-conversion" from my childhood faith.

I think I have recovered from the depression of discarding almost all religious ideas that I use to believe in. But it remains that of afterlife. Looking at it objectively, it doesn't seem to me that there's an afterlife because it seems our reality is generated by the brain and when it is dead, the consciousness dies with it. I have also watched several near death experience anecdotes and I'm skeptical - I don't dismiss them completely. Why this is important to me is because I'm occasionally troubled that I will never see my family and friends again when I'm gone or when anyone of them is gone, and this is very worrisome to me; it's not death actually that disturbs me.

How do you guys deal with this kind of anxiety?