Anxiety anyone???

[Poohlove]

My whole life I have had crazy fear of medical issues. My earliest memory was in kindergarten when a classmate returned to school after having chicken pox. He still had the marks and I freaked out, my mom had to come get me. When we went to see ET I had to leave the theater when the men in white suits did the whole quarantine thing. My great grandfather had a stroke when i was about 7and I was afraid I would catch it, and so goes the story. As a teen I didn't think too much about it, two pregnancies and managed to stay rational. Had cysts removed from my ovaries with the possibility of losing one of them, handled it like a champ. A couple of years ago I found a lump in my breast and I lost my ability to leash my brain. Thankfully all turned out well, it was a mass, NASH the doctor called it. I had it removed but it gave me a lot to think about. Now I have this irrational thought process that takes place whenever I get a twinge. Menstrual cramps = apendicitis, you get the picture.

What gets your mind racing and how do you reel it back in?

 

[kimblebee]

Scary movies do it to me. I wasn't allowed to watch them growing up so I didn't get desensitized to them. I said on another thread about a week ago that scary movie trailers usually actually bring me to tears. Not like sobbing, but they freak me out. I'm trying to learn to overcome this by watching super scary movies (I'll never watch, Nightmare on Elm Street..Freddy is terrifying) but sometimes I'll watch one and then I can't sleep all night. Earlier this year I decided to watch Paranormal Activity..huge mistake. That is both the best and worst experience I've ever had watching a movie LOL. After it was done, every bump had me jumping and checking over my shoulder. I do believe in ghosts and have actually seen a few so that doesn't help things. As for how to control it, it always happens at night so I just wait until I'm so exhausted that I fall asleep. Not very helpful for you..

Hopefully you can learn to control your fears.

 

[Poohlove]

My dad always let us watch movies that were way inappropriate for kids from a very young age. I had seen all the Freddys, Jason's and Michael myers before most of my friends knew what they were. Faces of death was a regular in my house. Maybe that's my problem!!!

Paranormal Activity was a tough one, I have also had experience with ghosts and the bumps in the night so that one really got to me

 

[scrhsa]

I can't breathe when I watch Titanic. Or any deep underwater ANYTHING. That whole whale with Dory and Marlin scene gets me every time. I had a hard time going to visit my husband on his ships. Being in small spaces ON water....no thank you. Small, tight places in general too. I can't breathe just thinking about them

 

[Poohlove]

I can't breathe when I watch Titanic. Or any deep underwater ANYTHING. That whole whale with Dory and Marlin scene gets me every time. I had a hard time going to visit my husband on his ships. Being in small spaces ON water....no thank you. Small, tight places in general too. I can't breathe just thinking about them

I just watched a show about submarines. I don't know how anyone can do it. Just watching it made me want to run for the hills.

 

[King Schultz]

My dad always let us watch movies that were way inappropriate for kids from a very young age. I had seen all the Freddys, Jason's and Michael myers before most of my friends knew what they were. Faces of death was a regular in my house. Maybe that's my problem!!!

Paranormal Activity was a tough one, I have also had experience with ghosts and the bumps in the night so that one really got to me

Oh come on now. . tell us about the ghost.

 

[Kitty 34]

Going to the dentist......for real!!!

 

[Poohlove]

The dentist, that's a good one. Gets my sister every time. She has to be medicated when she goes.

 

[Poohlove]

The house I grew up in had seen quite a bit if you know what I mean. My sister and I used to see and older lady in period dress in our room at night, sometime we could smell some kind of perfume. My sister had bad asthma and the sightings increased when she was sick.

The home my sister lives in now definitely has something going on. At night strange things happen, balls roll across the floor, toys make noise and you can hear someone say something from time to time. My niece has a couple of imaginary friends, Maddie and Blue who wake her up asking her to play.

 

[Poohlove]

My dad's current home is rumored to have activity too. We have had things disappear and then reappear in places that don't make sense. It will sound like the back door opens and closes but no one is there and sometimes you can hear footsteps upstairs. My son swears our house is haunted but he is the only one who has experienced anything. They say you have to be open to see them.

 

[King Schultz]

The house I grew up in had seen quite a bit if you know what I mean. My sister and I used to see and older lady in period dress in our room at night, sometime we could smell some kind of perfume. My sister had bad asthma and the sightings increased when she was sick.

The home my sister lives in now definitely has something going on. At night strange things happen, balls roll across the floor, toys make noise and you can hear someone say something from time to time. My niece has a couple of imaginary friends, Maddie and Blue who wake her up asking her to play.

That's so cool!

I've never seen or heard anything supernatural- part of me is glad and part of me wants to.

Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Poohlove]

That's so cool!

I've never seen or heard anything supernatural- part of me is glad and part of me wants to.

Thanks for sharing that.

You're welcome! I know that there are a lot of non believers and that's ok. It's something that we have always found fascinating and I love to share.

 

[loves to dive]

My mother was a firm believer in ghosts, she swore one of the houses we lived in was haunted. It was a newer home, built in the 70s I think so no reason to be haunted. Anyway, she and my brother and my granny swore they would hear furniture being moved upstairs in the attic when no one was up there (there wasn't any furniture in the attic) and things would go missing then be found months later in odd places. I was alone often in the house and never heard nary a thing and nothing of mine came up missing. I guess I just didn't believe enough, how the ghost knew this is beyond me. But my granny was old south, you know lay the dead loved one out in the living room, dose with castor oil every spring, etc. My mom was crazy as a bat (she had a certificate to prove it) and my brother is an artist and everyone knows they are a little wonky so who knows. Daddy never heard or saw anything either.

As far as what makes me anxious, I can't really think of anything. I'm a practical kind of gal, lumps found are just trash, aches and pains are just growing old so going to the doctor is no big deal. I don't watch scary movies but not because I believe they are real, just not my thing I do read scary books though. I love experiencing new places and things and the more exotic the better. I'm a scuba diver so being under water is my happy place. I do believe in Tinkerbell though, cause, well who wouldn't.

 

[Poohlove]

My mother was a firm believer in ghosts, she swore one of the houses we lived in was haunted. It was a newer home, built in the 70s I think so no reason to be haunted. Anyway, she and my brother and my granny swore they would hear furniture being moved upstairs in the attic when no one was up there (there wasn't any furniture in the attic) and things would go missing then be found months later in odd places. I was alone often in the house and never heard nary a thing and nothing of mine came up missing. I guess I just didn't believe enough, how the ghost knew this is beyond me. But my granny was old south, you know lay the dead loved one out in the living room, dose with castor oil every spring, etc. My mom was crazy as a bat (she had a certificate to prove it) and my brother is an artist and everyone knows they are a little wonky so who knows. Daddy never heard or saw anything either.

As far as what makes me anxious, I can't really think of anything. I'm a practical kind of gal, lumps found are just trash, aches and pains are just growing old so going to the doctor is no big deal. I don't watch scary movies but not because I believe they are real, just not my thing I do read scary books though. I love experiencing new places and things and the more exotic the better. I'm a scuba diver so being under water is my happy place. I do believe in Tinkerbell though, cause, well who wouldn't.

My dad was getting ready for work and my sister had his watch on. He asked her for it and as she handed it to him it dropped on the floor between the chair and side table. When she went to pick it up it was no where to be found. My dad put on his boots and went to work. Every shift he wore the same boitd, about 4 months later when putting on his boots he found his watch.

Sometimes spirits can be attached to things and people, they don't always come eighth house. I personally feel like my sister had a ghostly friend.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Sometimes spirits can be attached to things and people, they don't always come eighth house. I personally feel like my sister had a ghostly friend.

It sounds like a helpful spirit.

 

[Micca]

Anxiety can bite my....it can bite whatever it wants, I mock anxiety, I ridicule it and laugh in its face.

I take a pill, they have lots of different kinds. All the best!!

 

[King Schultz]

The only thing that scares me is the thought of running out of rum.

 

[jevs]

The only thing that scares me is the thought of running out of rum.

On a Saturday night

 

[King Schultz]

On a Saturday night

Indeed!!

 

[bellebud]

I have major anxiety centered around my daughters health. She had an hour long seizure as a baby (and some seizures afterwards, and has an underlying (but not currently active) seizure disorder. Anyway, I started getting anxiety anytime she got sick (she'd get 106 fevers with a cold, always get much sicker than the average kid or her brother), and it turned into a couple of panic attacks for me. I went on Lexapro then, and it's helped me so much. My mind used to race to the worst possible scenario, like she'd show me a minor cut on her hand, and I'd think "she's got the flesh eating disease, she's a goner!", but I really felt it in my body and could barely function. After the Lexapro kicked in, I actually remember the first time I realized it was working, she showed me a cut, and I thought "let's get a bandaid for that", and I was like "omg, that was a rational reaction!" and I almost started crying in happiness.