Don't really know why I'm posting except to find out if I'm outside of the norm in this, or if this is just how all parents feel.
I find myself worrying constantly about my children; well, mostly my eldest (maybe because it's all new and I have no idea what to expect, what's normal etc.) I wind myself up in knots about things that I may well look back on and realise are trivial. I lose hours in my day overthinking and ruminating on some throwaway comment from the playground or some facet of my child's behaviour that may or may not be "normal" or a red flag for something. If my DD has some setback at school or with a friend, I'm sure it bothers me far more than it bothers her; I can't stand to think of her suffering in any way. (I know I need to grow a thicker skin. But how?)
I know that most parents feel this last bit- but does everyone also lose so much of their mental capacity to worrying. I feel like "worried" has pretty much been my psychological setting since the day she was born nearly six years ago! I don't like it; I want to feel happy and enjoy her for the wonderful person she is.
Whenever I google parental anxiety or somesuch I find lots of threads on here where parents are obsessively worrying about their child's physical safety- funnily enough that's not the trigger for my anxiety. But my worries for her emotional wellbeing are overwhelming at times. Can anyone relate or am I truly bonkers??? Is this something anti-anxiety medication would help with?