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Support Thread for anxiety .

108 replies

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 18/12/2012 17:24

This will probably on have me post on here, but another kind mn'er advised me to start a thread for people who are worried about the supposed doomsday on the 21/12/12.

I, myself am worried. I suffer from anxiety anyway, and this is just another problem in the long list!

I am worried because i think i won't be able to protect my kids.
I worry because i wonder if the government are covering it up.
I worry incase Nasa are wrong and we are hit by a rouge asteroid no one knows about.

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D0oinMeCleanin · 20/12/2012 10:30

I love watching disaster films. I love laughing at the way the film makers completely re write the rules of physics to suit their film.

2012 for instance "The Neutrinos are mutating" um, no, they can't. They are a single, tiny molecule. They cannot mutate, there is nothing to mutate.

"The mutation is heating up the world" - again, no. As they cannot possibly mutate, we have no idea if a mutation would cause them to heat up the world.

I love the fact that the lava, explosions, quakes etc. all travel at exactly the same speed as the main star. They are always just behind him. No matter whether he is running, driving, flying, they never catch up to him. I always want to know what would happen if he stopped or started walking towards them? Would the lava go backwards too? Grin

The fact that the lava gets so close to the plane but the heat of it does not blow up the fuel tank Confused It must special anti blow up fuel I suppose.

And the boat, if the whole world is heating up, where is the boat going to sail to? Surely the sea would heat up and evaporate? Why do they get saved at the end? Do the neutrinos un-mutate? How? Why? How did they know the mutation would only last x amount of days?

Dantes Peak is my favourite disaster movie with the whole super car thingy. We all know cars can drive through fast flowing floods, over lava without the petrol tank exploding and that they can out drive pyroclastic flows and support the whole weight of a collapsed mineshaft don't we? They should put cars in all mineshafts around the world to prevent cave ins. I need me a super car Grin

kaylasmum · 20/12/2012 13:04

so scared right now

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 20/12/2012 13:09

Dont be scared im here to hand hold x

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MrsJREwing · 20/12/2012 15:54

I hope you are ok. Anything planned nice for this evening?

EauRougelyNight · 20/12/2012 16:53

No, Towering Inferno is the best disaster movie- you can't beat Paul Newman and Steve McQueen! 2012 was very silly I only watched it because of John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Wasn't it directed or produced by the same fella that did the equally silly Armageddon?

Hope everyone's not feeling too anxious tonight. Glass of Wine, a soak in the bath and a massage from your DPs is in order.

BeckyBendyLegs · 20/12/2012 16:57

My eldest son read about this in one of his Horrible Histories books and has been worrying about it on and off since. It's difficult to know what to say to him.

catsrus · 20/12/2012 17:03

its already the 21st in Australia and I can see on FB that my nieces are still alive and active online. Everything is going to carry on as normal Xmas Smile

confusteling · 20/12/2012 17:06

Well the science stuff is definitely untrue - there's no credible evidence for any of it.

I don't understand much of it but it's definitely not true. You can even see for yourself that there are no solar flares, no weird alignments. There was a normal alignment on the 18th (or was it the 19th) but that happens every year, and we didn't even notice it..

The Maya - well, they had a very, very different to view to most of us.

The Maya believed in cyclical time - which we don't - and they also believed humans were created four times over, starting from, em, wooden things without souls.

They counted time very differently, and named a certain length of time a B'a'ktun. We are nearing the end of B'a'ktun 13 .. They believed that the last B'a'ktun 13 was the start of the fourth world .. Importantly this is all symbolic and not to be taken literally. So even to the Maya there'd be no reason to panic. Incidentally, the Maya there are left in the world aren't worried..

And not only that but we know it's most likely shite - because we all know about evolution, the big bang etc. Things which prove there haven't been four worlds.

Besides, the Maya believed the world started in like 3000BC or something. How do you then explain fossils that have been proven to be older, the dinosaurs, etc?

It is a set of beliefs and understandings that ancient people came up with as a way of explaining life's unanswerable questions. They used what they saw and knew. We know more, we can see more, we understand more so naturally over time their ideas and predictions lose credibility.

Not only that but the Maya referenced periods of time that would cover 20 b'a'ktuns. If they believed the world ended at the 13th one, why then have a period of time covering 20 of them?

Been less anxious today although still worrying about tonight/tommorow. Got my hair very very short (now sits at my ears rather than my shoulders!)

kaylasmum · 20/12/2012 17:08

Thanks rocking, really could do with a hand to hold x
Mrs JR - i have to work tonight, i work in asda and don't finish til half 10.

confusteling · 20/12/2012 17:16

Kayla

What job do you do in Asda? Xmas Smile Tills where you can chat to everyone and keep your mind busy or something else?

ladythatlunches · 20/12/2012 17:32

If it helps nortrodamous (terrible spelling) who has predict so much stuff that have happend 9/11, princess Diana , ww1 etc has predicted stuff way way into 3000

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 20/12/2012 19:23

Just seen itv news in so scared

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ladythatlunches · 20/12/2012 19:27

What did it say?

confusteling · 20/12/2012 20:37

Well it's now well into the 21st in some parts of the world.. I'm still worried and don't think I'll sleep much tonight, or be able to do much tommorow. At least not until 11ish!

EauRougelyNight · 20/12/2012 21:11

Hope you all manage to get some rest tonight.

Isabeller · 20/12/2012 21:54

What are your three jewel moments, the happiest or most meaningful experiences you have had?

confusteling · 20/12/2012 23:33

Most recently ? receiving a message saying someone I barely knew had nominated me for an award for being inspirational to her, due to my MH problems, the fact I?m a carer to my mum and sister and the fact that I do some voluntary work and go to uni.. I sat and cried at the thought of being nominated for such a thing. Two weeks later the organisers told me I had won, I cried more. And when I put it up as a status on facebook, and explained ? for the first time to a lot of people ? that I suffered anxiety, and agoraphobia, I was overwhelmed when people ?liked? my status and left me nice comments. I was bullied throughout school and don?t have a lot of confidence so it was a big shock.

The ?stranger? who has must touched me though was a woman when I was in hospital and feeling awful, on a foley catheter and very uncomfy indeed after a reaction to SSRIs. The surgeon who I had never met and didn?t talk much English stood in front of me: ?You cystoscopy. Two weeks. See you.? He took off, I was crying, the nurse came and held me while I cried that I didn?t want another cystoscopy (they are bloody painful!!), then when I was set off again that afternoon the lady opposite me gestured me over, offered me chocolate and a banana, and very tentatively said: ?I don?t wish to evangelise, but have you considered having a word with Him upstairs?? It made me cry as it was such a lovely thing to say, my family are all Catholic/ C of Scotland as am I and it was comforting, it was just something my great granny would say. I clambered onto her bed the next day and gave her a hug ? she said, that she?d been wanting to do that since she had seen me upset. Lovely, lovely person.

I am trying to think of a third thing but there are so many things that could apply there, some because they were so good and others because they were so meaningful. Difficult to pick a third one, going to have to think about it.

:)

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 21/12/2012 04:32

I cant sleep in so worried theres a story on sky news about it saying it PROBABLY wont happen oh my god i feel so sick

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EauRougelyNight · 21/12/2012 05:28

Turn off the news! If you can't sleep then try wasting time on stumble upon or something, or have a hot chocolate and read a book (something lighthearted!). Just keep yourself distracted. You can do this Smile

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 21/12/2012 05:32

Im so scared why put it on the news

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EauRougelyNight · 21/12/2012 07:03

Because it gets ratings. Can you get out anywhere today to see a friend or something?

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 21/12/2012 07:08

am going shopping with dp and dds2 wjile dd1 is at school dont want to send her to school though

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EauRougelyNight · 21/12/2012 08:40

Hope the shopping trip helps to take your mind off things- get yourself something nice! Your DD1 will be fine at school, I bet they'll be keeping an extra close watch on her :)

Isabeller · 21/12/2012 09:31

Hope you are doing ok Rocking sending (((hugs)))

EauRougelyNight · 21/12/2012 11:27

11.11am has been and gone and we're still here! How's everyone doing?