Originally Posted by
LittleLionMan
I didn’t realise someone had posted about this before. After a truly awful time with my anxiety, I started having intrusive thoughts about planets and it just freaked me out a bit (the idea that we live on a rock called Earth and the nature of it all) so I started avoiding tv shows and things that which talked about it, even using Twitter differently because it says location ‘Earth’ when people send tweets now. Then I went out for a cigarette one night and saw the moon and got panicky, so I started putting my hood up when I went outside so couldn’t see the sky, and now I have panic attacks as soon as it gets dark because the moon is ‘out there’ and I just hide away having panic attacks all night, it’s recently escalated to the sky in general, and I don’t know how to get out of it. If go and purposely just stare at it to challenge it, I know what will happen and it will make a bigger deal of it, as I’ve tried just revealing a little bit, and doing things outside and it just escalates the fear, so I just don’t know what to do… I feel so silly, but it's truly destroying me.
Any advice very welcome.