How often do you have thoughts like these?

[Anonymous]

Rarely, though I suspect men are less likely to have these thoughts.

[Anonymous]

I have had scary thoughts before. Or that something happens to me. Usually as nightmares but sometimes as flashes during the day.
I think it is our instinct reminding us to be vigilant

[Anonymous]

Rarely but still happens sometimes. Depends on the circumstance. If that’s are flying without me for example I visualize a plane crash. I think it is a natural human coping mechanism, otherwise you would be completely unable to deal if it actually happens.

[Anonymous]

Rarely, though less rare these last few months.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much never. When kids were little maybe the "moment never coming again" thoughts about happy times but now that they are teens -- nada.

[Anonymous]

Rarely. But I worry about my kids contracting a stomach virus on pretty much daily basis. I did get help for it and now it doesn't bother me as much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please, save the “get help OP” comments. I am truly trying to gauge, on an anonymous forum, how often you have these thoughts.
Never-rarely-sometimes-often

Flashing images of:
Your child getting hit by a car
Your child dying in your arms
Freak accidents/brain injury

Thoughts of:
This is too good to be true, this won’t last, we are being set up for heartache.
Hold this moment, might not come again.


Fears:
Tumors
Cancer
Death

I have these thoughts a lot. Growing up I unfortunately knew several families who lost children in accidents or illness and it made a big impression on me.

[Anonymous]

Some of this sounds like intrusive thoughts. Not really that uncommon. I've dealt with them after the birth of both of my children.

[Anonymous]

I worry a lot about school shootings. If my kids are at school and I hear a siren, I always think 'oh, I hope it's not a school shooter.' The thing that helps me most is praying for my kids a lot.

[Anonymous]

Not daily but almost. It often happens in a nightmare. Strangely as scared as I am of car accidents or bad falls I have not been very worried about covid19.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, save the “get help OP” comments. I am truly trying to gauge, on an anonymous forum, how often you have these thoughts.
Never-rarely-sometimes-often

Flashing images of:
Your child getting hit by a car
Your child dying in your arms
Freak accidents/brain injury

Thoughts of:
This is too good to be true, this won’t last, we are being set up for heartache.
Hold this moment, might not come again.


Fears:
Tumors
Cancer
Death

I have these thoughts a lot. Growing up I unfortunately knew several families who lost children in accidents or illness and it made a big impression on me.

I can see that. My husband works on a trauma unit, and he is always thinking of bizarre ways our children could get injured using normal household objects.

I have probably read too many sad novels. My youngest is one of those children who is just beautiful with this magnetic personality. We were already a pretty happy family, but he just lit us up when he was born. I always felt like if life were a movie, he would die young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only worry about them getting hit by a car when they're running towards the street or the few times I've seen them run across without looking.

same

The other medical fears, very very rarely--mostly when I see something in the news about them. The 'this is too good to be true' thoughts I've never had except when I was first pregnant after more than a year of infertility treatments.

[Anonymous]

I am so shocked by the answers.

I have all of these thoughts, multiple times a day, every day.

It used to be worse, specifically the images of my kids dying. That went down after I took Zoloft and they got out of the baby stage.

I still worry every day about me or one of them or DH dying.

I honestly thought this was just part of being human and being blessed with people I love so absolutely-of course you’re going to think about it all being taken away in an instant.

[Anonymous]

I have fleeting thoughts of stuff like this once in awhile, especially when faced with news of someone in that particular situation. If I have some symptom that could be something serious (but likely isn't), I'll definitely have the "it could be cancer/tumor/heart attack/stroke/etc." thought. It passes.

We are living in really weird times. I think everyone is more anxious than usual.

[Anonymous]

Very rarely. Maybe 3-5 times a year, usually for a reason - read a news story, lost kid for two minutes in amusement park, etc.