Can philosophic thoughts make go crazy?

[lana823]

I suffer for about few months of existential thoughts. It's about "life,universe,why humans are here,what is all this and for what, what is life,is the life real? What is afterlife,what is eternity and what is time? etc"... All the intrusive thoughts,and they are like nightmare, I don't have answers and I get anxiety and big fears because of this. It's really,really scary.
I'm sitting for example in room with my familly, and then I start to think "How all this life and existence is so strange" and I imagine in my head planet earth and how we are small to huge universe,and then I freak out. Because of that kind of thinking now I look at the world from different perspective,it's like I'm not the old person anymore, everything now is little strange,life and all in this world. Is that sign that Ia'm crazy?

They said Nietzsche went crazy because of thinking about it too much, and THERE IS A PROBLEM.
I bet he was a human more stable and smart than me of course, but anyway he went crazy.
And I'm just a woman of 27 year who is even afraid of little bugs, so now you can even imagine how these intrusive thoughts about humans,universe,life etc.. make me scared, which mean if Nietzsche went crazy, then there is big chanse I will go crazy too  :-(

[Paxiled]

These thoughts are only "intrusive" if you don't recognize them as thoughts that every thinking person has, every creative person has.  It's not the thoughts that drive people crazy, it's the predilection to let the thoughts be frightening.  There would be no music, writing, morality, science without people considering such things, so it's how we react to these thoughts that is the issue, not the thoughts themselves.

[remar]

I don't think you're crazy, or going crazy. I know exactly what you're talking about because when my anxiety is high I think about these kinds of things too. It can be so overwhelming. We don't have all the answers as to why we're here, why the universe is so big, and so on. It's just the way that it is.
You said this all started a few months ago. Were you having problems with stress around that time? Family problem, job problems, anything you can think of? I'm asking because stress can bring on anxiety. Once you get your anxiety under control these thoughts won't seem so strange any more. Have you thought about getting in to therapy? It could really help with your thoughts and anxiety.