Rabies fear: How to deal with it?

[NervousSubject]

So I was looking out my door window, and I couldn't help but notice this weird flying thing near my garden. At first I thought it was a hummingbird or butterfly, from the way it would sort of hover around the plants, but it had wings that weren't like any butterfly I've ever seen, they were rather small, almost bird like. That's when I got worried at the possibility that it could be a tiny bat even though it was daytime. Mostly because the thing was black in color. When it flew over my house, I caught a glimpse of it's underside...I still couldn't really tell, It seemed to have some kind of yellow or white coloration, but I really couldn't be certain. I also saw it again in my front yard flying over the fence to my neighbor's house...

Right now I'm a little perturbed because I'm not sure if what I saw was a bat or not. It sort of flew low to the ground and glided sometimes. It kind of looked like a butterfly, but it didn't look like any other butterfly I've seen on Long Island.

[AMomentofClarity]

Let’s say just for discussion sake it was a bat....who the hell cares?!?! What difference does it make?

[NervousSubject]

Let’s say just for discussion sake it was a bat....who the hell cares?!?! What difference does it make?

Potential rabies exposure is a difference.

[utrocket09]

Potential rabies exposure is a difference.

You have to have been bitten to be at risk

[lucymarie]

Looking at a bat isn’t going to give you Rabies and that’s if it even was a bat, which you don’t know for sure anyway.

[AMomentofClarity]

You have to have been bitten to be at risk

Beat me to it...Yes this!

[KK77]

Bats are not bio-warfare bombs. Even if it was a bat flying over your house, it is not "exposure" to anything remotely dangerous.

You have HA and need to be tackling that, not some "googly-eyed" virus

[NervUs]

The others are right....just seeing a bat poses no risk to you. Why do you think you should be fearful of that?

I mean, I get it. I have periodic rabies fear, and I know how the mind can full in details that never happened, how you can mis-remember, how you don't know what to trust. Is that what's happening to you?

[MyNameIsTerry]

To be fair to the OP they never mentioned a fear due to perceived exposure therefore saying it's impossible might be completely irrelevant. They may be fearing potential future exposures just as anyone who sees a mouse may think about Hantavirus or someone being triggered by a Daily Mail article.

The issue is the trigger.

OP - in the daytime it's very unlikely to be a bat. Butterflies aren't that large. Everything points to a bird.

[paranoid-viking]

http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=219591

What are you doing to treat your anxiety? We have nough rabies threads now. More than enough! The link above says al there is to know. The rest should be up to the therapists. But us in here are not therapists.