I suffer from GAD and health anxiety and have sent myself into a huge spiral.
Last week we painted my daughters bedroom whilst she was away. My other daughter was sleep in the bedroom next door both doors shut. No paint smell in her room at all. When my eldest daughter came home she slept in her bedroom 24 hours later. There was still a very faint paint smell, nothing strong.
I have since realised that the paint we used was high VOC paint and I’m now obsessing over whether I let my eldest sleep in her room too soon afterwards and if the fumes could have travelled into my youngest bedroom even though there was no smell. Both kids are fine. I am making myself unwell with worry and struggling to rationalise if this is just my anxiety speaking.
My husband is says we just won’t use that paint again but I fear some sort of health damage may have already been done :(