LG18
11-12-16, 21:32
I thought I was the only one but I've seen a couple of posts on here already.
Mine started fairly recently.
I was fitting some new skirting boards in a room of our house, and the thought suddenly occurred to me, what if there is asbestos behind here in the plaster?
I read online frantically looking for parallels between my plaster and ones online, searching excessively through the original plans of the house looking for any reference to possible asbestos.
I then began looking around the house locating other areas I became worried about.
I then cast my mind back to when I was a baby and my parents and I moved into an ex council house.
My dad ripped everything out and replaced with new stuff - what if he moved asbestos unknowingly and now my whole family and myself have been contaminated from a young age? Or What if I've walked past somewhere in the past where someone has been moveing asbestos and I've breathed in the fibres?
I read it can sometimes take only minimal exposure to then get the deadly disease thirty or so years down the line, as little as a couple of diners.
I read also that 40% of people who contracted it didn't even recall being around any asbestos.
Given the fear surrounding this I wondered just how common a fear it is?
It sounds like the prime sort of thing for health anxiety to grab onto.
Would be interested to hear other people's struggles with the worry.
Thanks a lot!
Mine started fairly recently.
I was fitting some new skirting boards in a room of our house, and the thought suddenly occurred to me, what if there is asbestos behind here in the plaster?
I read online frantically looking for parallels between my plaster and ones online, searching excessively through the original plans of the house looking for any reference to possible asbestos.
I then began looking around the house locating other areas I became worried about.
I then cast my mind back to when I was a baby and my parents and I moved into an ex council house.
My dad ripped everything out and replaced with new stuff - what if he moved asbestos unknowingly and now my whole family and myself have been contaminated from a young age? Or What if I've walked past somewhere in the past where someone has been moveing asbestos and I've breathed in the fibres?
I read it can sometimes take only minimal exposure to then get the deadly disease thirty or so years down the line, as little as a couple of diners.
I read also that 40% of people who contracted it didn't even recall being around any asbestos.
Given the fear surrounding this I wondered just how common a fear it is?
It sounds like the prime sort of thing for health anxiety to grab onto.
Would be interested to hear other people's struggles with the worry.
Thanks a lot!