MagpieWitch
25-07-17, 15:23
Hello! I am Maria and I am new on this forum so hello! Nice to be around people that might understand.
I'm 21 and I've have been suffering with really severe anxiety and hypochondria on and off for the past 5 years and this summer since my exams ended I've been constantly anxious day and night.
Now I got this terrible fear that I have rabies. I am scared because as usual I was taking a walk in the park at night and there were many bats flying around (and there were also a lot of people, familes, people my age going out and so) and I got scared a bat might swoop down and bite me so I hurried back to the more opened area away from the trees. And then I felt this weird tingling like sensation on the back of my head.
Of course anxiety kicked in and I thought a bat had bitten me. Few weeks later here I am now and I began getting strange itching from that part of my scalp in the past week and began thinking that its the rabies coming to claim me since it says one of the first symptoms is pain and tingling at the bite site.
I just want to talk to people that might've had bat rabies fears too in hope that I can figure out if this is a irrational fear. My parents (who are doctors) dismissed it quickly and said I couldn't have had a bat land on my head without me feeling it while being completely conscious and also my mom said that I have long hair so if it were to scratch or bite me it would have to at least push my hair so there would be no way I wouldn't feel it. I mean I felt a small moth landing in my head few days later so I would have felt a whole entire bat?
I just remember reading stories of some woman who got touched by a bat and got rabies and died and that just comes back to me. I am pretty scared about this so if anyone can give me just a little peace of mind I will be very grateful
I'm 21 and I've have been suffering with really severe anxiety and hypochondria on and off for the past 5 years and this summer since my exams ended I've been constantly anxious day and night.
Now I got this terrible fear that I have rabies. I am scared because as usual I was taking a walk in the park at night and there were many bats flying around (and there were also a lot of people, familes, people my age going out and so) and I got scared a bat might swoop down and bite me so I hurried back to the more opened area away from the trees. And then I felt this weird tingling like sensation on the back of my head.
Of course anxiety kicked in and I thought a bat had bitten me. Few weeks later here I am now and I began getting strange itching from that part of my scalp in the past week and began thinking that its the rabies coming to claim me since it says one of the first symptoms is pain and tingling at the bite site.
I just want to talk to people that might've had bat rabies fears too in hope that I can figure out if this is a irrational fear. My parents (who are doctors) dismissed it quickly and said I couldn't have had a bat land on my head without me feeling it while being completely conscious and also my mom said that I have long hair so if it were to scratch or bite me it would have to at least push my hair so there would be no way I wouldn't feel it. I mean I felt a small moth landing in my head few days later so I would have felt a whole entire bat?
I just remember reading stories of some woman who got touched by a bat and got rabies and died and that just comes back to me. I am pretty scared about this so if anyone can give me just a little peace of mind I will be very grateful