I have always suffered from anxiety but I seem to be in the middle of a bout and I don't know what to do.
It always follows the same pattern. Every other aspect of my life is fine and then something happens which I obsess over and work myself up into a state. I don't feel like I've slept for days.
This time it's our gas fire. It's had a fault recently and the other day lit with a bit of a bang! It was really scary but luckily everyone was fine. I've booked an engineer to come out on Monday to look at it and check that everything is fine.
So in reality, nothing to worry about at all. However I can't stop. It's also leaking out into worrying about crashing the car, and all sorts of other accidents.
DH doesn't help as he just thinks I'm being ridiculous. I can't make him understand that this makes me feel worse, not better. He thinks he's reassuring me that everything is fine but, in my head, I think he is refusing the accept any possibility of danger and therefore making me panic even more that he is irresponsible.
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Mental health
Don't know how to deal with anxiety
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keepcalmdontpanic · 01/11/2014 18:46
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