anon23
22-07-16, 09:25
Hi everyone!
I don't really know how to start but I'm just going to write as I am feeling completely hopeless.
I have had severe anxiety since I was a child, and it always manifests itself into different forms. I have had therapy before to try to help, and it has, but as soon as I feel like I get over one fear another one takes over.
I am in a relationship with an amazing guy for almost 2 years now. He is so supportive of me and my troubles, and very patient and loving. He has never judged me for any of my anxiety.
Recently, I have become increasingly terrified that I am going to lose him when we're not together. I always catastrophize and worry that he could die, almost to the point where I feel like something bad could happen to him by me making the tiniest mistakes (e.g. browsing social media while working).
I know these fears are irrational yet I still feel them. I feel very down and I wish I could just stop feeling these irrational fears.
My boyfriend is going camping for the next three nights and I am trying my hardest not to freak out but I feel like I cannot help it. I am so scared something bad will happen on the trip, like he will get lost and I will never see him again. I know this irrational because he is going with a group of really good friends and they have gone camping together plenty of times.
The thing is when I am out and about doing my own thing, I never worry that something bad would happen to me. If I were going camping this weekend for three nights I wouldn't think something bad would happen, yet I don't know why I cannot apply that logic to him.
Does anyone else experience them? I feel so down :(
I don't really know how to start but I'm just going to write as I am feeling completely hopeless.
I have had severe anxiety since I was a child, and it always manifests itself into different forms. I have had therapy before to try to help, and it has, but as soon as I feel like I get over one fear another one takes over.
I am in a relationship with an amazing guy for almost 2 years now. He is so supportive of me and my troubles, and very patient and loving. He has never judged me for any of my anxiety.
Recently, I have become increasingly terrified that I am going to lose him when we're not together. I always catastrophize and worry that he could die, almost to the point where I feel like something bad could happen to him by me making the tiniest mistakes (e.g. browsing social media while working).
I know these fears are irrational yet I still feel them. I feel very down and I wish I could just stop feeling these irrational fears.
My boyfriend is going camping for the next three nights and I am trying my hardest not to freak out but I feel like I cannot help it. I am so scared something bad will happen on the trip, like he will get lost and I will never see him again. I know this irrational because he is going with a group of really good friends and they have gone camping together plenty of times.
The thing is when I am out and about doing my own thing, I never worry that something bad would happen to me. If I were going camping this weekend for three nights I wouldn't think something bad would happen, yet I don't know why I cannot apply that logic to him.
Does anyone else experience them? I feel so down :(