Huge rabies fear! Please help!

[paranoid-viking]

I am 22 and I've been dealing with HA since I was 16 :(

And how do you deal with it? From what I read here your anxiety seem very intense and extremely creative. A creativity that could no doubt be used to something more useful.

[NervUs]

I am 22 and I've been dealing with HA since I was 16 :(

OK. I wasn't sure if you were younger.

I am 46, but in the past 6 years, I have developed HA. I had a reprieve for about 2.5 of those years, well the reprieve is something I worked hard to achieve. Came back when I was put through testing for possible cancer.

My HA started with cancer (biopsied for a cancer 6 years ago, then again about 2 years ago or a little less), but it veered off into zoonotic diseases including rabies. It intensified after discovering a dead bat carcass in my house last March, OMFG!

I have not been diagnosed, but I am really convinced that the zoonotic disease strain of my HA is OCD. Maybe the cancer stuff too. Maybe you should talk to a doc about the possibility of OCD in your case. There is treatment for it and you DON'T want to be associating rabies with all your encounters with animals. That's an intrusive thought and they can be debilitating if you don't lick them.

[MagpieWitch]

And how do you deal with it? From what I read here your anxiety seem very intense and extremely creative. A creativity that could no doubt be used to something more useful.

Well when I am not dying of rabies, I am an architecture student, artist and hobbyist creative writer (mostly young adult and children stories)

[Fishmanpa]

Please tell us then, how you as well as the kittens are still alive and healthy or exhibiting symptoms 6 weeks after the scratch? Facts only. And no "what ifs" or "yeah buts" involved in the answer.

You can include in your answer an explanation about how you saw a rat cross your path and using it's "Flash" like super powers, bit you and you didn't feel it.

Positive thoughts

[epistore]

MagpieWitch
your father and a doctor ... did you tell him about your fear?

[MagpieWitch]

I've been having weird symptoms for 12 days now and that's 9 for the rabies worries :(
I don't know if serious severe symptoms would've manifested by now?

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MagpieWitch
your father and a doctor ... did you tell him about your fear?

My father is a doctor and he was next to me when I got scratched. My mom is a ER nurse and she also thinks my fear is baseless. Her colleague from work handles stray feral cats and she thinks so too. My GP is a huntsman in his free time and he said not to worry because I wasn't bitten and the kitten is alive. I asked a lot of doctors trust me. No one is at all concerned which is both relieving but also worrying because "What if everyone is wrong" scenario

[epistore]

I think I trust your father more than you do. So much that I ask you to doubt my doubts. You will never have animal rage