Okay, before I start I just want to say that rabies has always terrified me beyond belief and I get minor scares about it once in a while anyway. This time it was way worse though. I've had my cat (named Star) for about 2 years now and I've never had any worries about her health or anything. She is a completely indoor cat (except for when I go out on the balcony sometimes to read and I bring her out to sit next to me) and she has never escaped. She's quite terrified of the outdoors actually. Recently though, I've been VERY scared that she has rabies. Since she is indoor and I do not have ANY rodent problems, I do not find it necessary to give her the rabies vaccine but I have this itching fear that somehow, just SOMEHOW, a bat or a mouse or something got in and bit her and now she is on the verge of death. I know. It sounds so stupid, but I'm so terrified. I've been letting her sit next to me on the balcony since I got her, but I googled how long rabies can live in you and it said it can live up to 6 years without showing symptoms. What if she has it but it just hasn't kicked in yet? What if we both just die? This fear has gotten so bad that I'm at the point where I won't even play-fight with her anymore because I'm scared I'll contract the disease and die too. Heck, I'm watching her super closely at all times to make sure everything she does is normal and if she does one thing that seems even slightly weird I'll go on my phone and look it up to see if it's a symptom of rabies. I hate myself for this!! I KNOW deep down that there is nothing wrong but I just can't get this fear out of my head! There wasn't even anything that really triggered this anxiety in real life, I just watched a video about rabies in a human and it mortified me to the point where I started researching it and started fearing that my indoor cat living in a rodent-free, third-floor apartment magically contracted this deadly disease and is going to wipe us out of existence.