anxious.adam
18-02-18, 11:07
I am in a mess.
I have not eaten, hardly slept and tearing my hair out!
Our old house is covered in Artex paint in ceilings (certainly from a period where this paint contained Asbestos). My saga started after a small leak in roof created a few small crumbly patches of this over my bed some time ago. I polyfilled it up ignorant to the risks involved.
I recently discovered about the asbestos content and now I am going insane! I bashed my loose light fitting by accident as it was swinging I could see dust coming down from around it (a hole in Artex of course for light cable to come through). Seeing this I took pillows and duvet downstairs in panic, as I did they brushed against another loose crumbly bit of Artex in damaged corner of ceiling on stairway.
Not knowing what to do in panic I thought tumble dryer would expel any dust so I bunged them in there.
I have emptied my room, ordered a new mattress and bedding, carpet cleaning, everything nothing is helping the more I do the more hopeless I feel I can’t sleep in there my clothes feel contaminated from using the washer and dryer that has been washing and drying other things in the room.
My mother I live with has been polyfilling and sealing any open areas but too late for those bits. I am worried about her exposure now too! I feel like even if the asbestos was just contained safely in dust then the washing cycles has just pulverised it in to lingering fibres.
There is also a hole in wall caused by clothes hook on back of door bashing in to it! I could almost live with small risk of the white Artex asbestos but this could have been blue/brown boarding or wall it is a hollow wall much more dangetrous asbestos contaminating clothes hoodie hoods right by my face and air with every door open for years I have not worried so definitely not a short term exposure! The house is over a hundred years old I think with extensions and renovations in that time.
I am on buspirone long term and now diazepam with this but it is not making me forget!
I am lost. I don’t know what to do! Please someone help me find a way I can get my clothes clean and head on a clean pillow. Feet constantly feel contaminated from walking round the house. Even if it was immaculate I am still terrified about the exposure I’ve already suffered.
I really can’t see a light right now. I have callled 111 but if I’m not planning on killing myself they don’t care.
I have not eaten, hardly slept and tearing my hair out!
Our old house is covered in Artex paint in ceilings (certainly from a period where this paint contained Asbestos). My saga started after a small leak in roof created a few small crumbly patches of this over my bed some time ago. I polyfilled it up ignorant to the risks involved.
I recently discovered about the asbestos content and now I am going insane! I bashed my loose light fitting by accident as it was swinging I could see dust coming down from around it (a hole in Artex of course for light cable to come through). Seeing this I took pillows and duvet downstairs in panic, as I did they brushed against another loose crumbly bit of Artex in damaged corner of ceiling on stairway.
Not knowing what to do in panic I thought tumble dryer would expel any dust so I bunged them in there.
I have emptied my room, ordered a new mattress and bedding, carpet cleaning, everything nothing is helping the more I do the more hopeless I feel I can’t sleep in there my clothes feel contaminated from using the washer and dryer that has been washing and drying other things in the room.
My mother I live with has been polyfilling and sealing any open areas but too late for those bits. I am worried about her exposure now too! I feel like even if the asbestos was just contained safely in dust then the washing cycles has just pulverised it in to lingering fibres.
There is also a hole in wall caused by clothes hook on back of door bashing in to it! I could almost live with small risk of the white Artex asbestos but this could have been blue/brown boarding or wall it is a hollow wall much more dangetrous asbestos contaminating clothes hoodie hoods right by my face and air with every door open for years I have not worried so definitely not a short term exposure! The house is over a hundred years old I think with extensions and renovations in that time.
I am on buspirone long term and now diazepam with this but it is not making me forget!
I am lost. I don’t know what to do! Please someone help me find a way I can get my clothes clean and head on a clean pillow. Feet constantly feel contaminated from walking round the house. Even if it was immaculate I am still terrified about the exposure I’ve already suffered.
I really can’t see a light right now. I have callled 111 but if I’m not planning on killing myself they don’t care.