in worrying about the world ending on the 21st?

[kaylasmum]

I know i'm being irrational but i'm really getting worried. i suffer from anxiety and this is really getting to me.

aibu?

Thanks for all the replied, i fell asleep! Something i never do during the day.

I probably could ask to be referred back to my counsellor but i really don't think there's any point. I'm on 40 mg of citalopram so there's nothing more they can do there. Maybe some diazepam will help.

My life has been pretty stressing over the last couple of months so this could be a contributing factor.

I don't think citalopram or the other -type medication always works for everyone. I tried 5 different types until I found one that helped and even then, I had the dosage upped four times.
You mustn't give up on the CBT. Also, sleeping in the day is one of the red flags pointing to depression or anxiety.
Hope you're doing ok today?

Still stressing over this, anybody else?

How can you be sure its nonsense?

There are a lot of people really worried about it. This prophecy just seems scarier than some of the past ones.

why have there never been put on tv or news then?
Ive not heard of any other eotw stories, apart from this.

kaylasmum

We all have worries, small or large and we have to deal with them. This happens to be yours this month and you're fixating on it.

It's your anxiety talking - not reality. If you didn't have this to worry about you'd be lying in bed all night worrying whether you'd switched the xmas tree lights off or whether the noises in the garden were burglars.

You need to deal with the underlying problem so that you can handle the world better. Yes - we might all be blown to kingdom come tomorrow or have a small asteroid come down on our house. Is it likely - NO it's not.

If you are a betting person, you have to put in £10,000 to win £10,001 back, as I understand betting [never betted in my life].
So I dont think many people are doing that!

I'll be properly pissed off if the world ends on Friday as its pfb ds's 1st bday on Saturday and he's got an epic ball pit with his name on it

Just wondering whether the people who are worried about this, might find it helpful to tackle a massive house job that they have been putting off, to distract them till saturday, 1 minute past midnight.

Then the negative will have been turned into something positive.
Or perhaps visit an elderly person.

why have there never been put on tv or news then?
Ive not heard of any other eotw stories, apart from this.

There have been eotw stories in the news before. Maybe the difference is this isn't the same old 'Second coming' of christian mythology which comes round with such monotonous regularity. Misinterpreting a different set of myths is less boringly .

kaylasmum do you honestly think if it was true, the news networks wouldn't be all over it like a flash?
If 99% of the world is mocking it, science is saying it's a load of crap, and it's all because of a disproved calender from a Mayan prophecy centuries ago, how, for one second are you believing it?
Avoid the internet, because, honestly, on any serious website I'm seeing nothing at all.
Are you going on all the conspiracy theorist ones? Because if you are you've only yourself to blame if it's giving you anxiety.
Leave it alone, and I'll talk to you again on Saturday, we can discuss the horrendous winter fuel bills and paying of bloody Christmas.
Which is my only anxiety at the moment.

Still stressing over this, anybody else?

Your stress is made all the worse by constantly revisiting this thread. Please hide it. Because no matter how much commonsense advice is posted, you can't see beyond your anxiety. So far better not to have this thread around to make it worse.

The main thing that threatens our existence is us good thing Romney didn't get in

This is very disturbing.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250452/Moment-crazed-Doomsday-knifeman-Min-Yongjun-stabbed-23-children-attacks-schoolgirl-machete.html

The majority of people worried about this seem to be teenagers

She failed to see the funny side of a joke on the News Quiz on R4 last week. And discussed this with my hairdresser today and his teen is worried. DD finished school today and apparently they were all hugging each other and saying "If I never see you again" etc.

Please stop worrying OP, you will make yourself ill.

(And if the world does end of Friday you can do a Spike Milligan on us).

Someone started another thread about this Op.
Something about how those that believe in the end of the world are being rather silly. (or words to that effect).
I kind of directed them to this thread where people are taking it seriously.
And suddenly there were loads of posts about people with anxiety and how cruel people were not taking them seriously.
Someone has set up a support thread for you all, so surely that's more than enough.
And that could leave us mocking disbelievers to actually have a fun thread about this nonsense, without having to apologise?
Would have to do a search for both and I CBA, but please, please, if I start a thread about the End of the World (lighthearted) don't read it.

Oh, the thread was started by Wannabe, and the title was pretty much 'get a grip'. (I've just looked)
If you want to go through it, there is a support thread.

Support Thread Link
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feeling_depressed/1639519-Support-Thread-for-anxiety