How often do you have thoughts like these?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Never. The only time I would have some of these thoughts is when I'm watching a TV show with a sick child and I imagine how horrible that would be to go through.

[Anonymous]

My phobia is heart issues related to thyroid autoimmune disease, because this is what I have, so I look for it in my kids.

It’s hard having a phobia, especially when it stems from something real you’re dealing with.

[Anonymous]

My child being injured or dead: every time I realize that I haven't seen him for more than a few minutes. So, probably multiple times a day. It rarely lasts more than a few seconds.

Thoughts of it's too good to be true: less often, but maybe a few times a month

Fears of cancer: it's rare. But I do think of it every time they come to me with some kind of unusual ache or pain.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

rarely

[Anonymous]

I've had those thoughts before.

[Anonymous]

I have this happen to me a lot - usually in smaller forms like my kid is going going too fast (running down the driveway, going down the stairs, riding his bike) and I get a pit in my stomach and envision him falling and getting hurt. I get that same feeling and envision me dropping my kid off the catwalk in our house when I'm carrying him to bed. I also immediately think my kid in drowning in the lake when we're at my in-laws lake house, or floating in the pool when we're on a beach vacation. But I have also had thoughts like thinking he has cancer when his lymph nodes were swollen, or convincing myself he has a learning disability because he had a speech delay.

I'm generally not an anxious person, but I do experience this a lot. It doesn't impact my life much more than outside of that moment, I'm not by any means overprotective and my kids hurt themselves quite a bit! And I never share those feelings with them.

[Anonymous]

I have those kind of thoughts maybe once a week. They don’t bother me in the least though- just a passing thought no different than any other.

I will say I drink only one coffee a day. On the rare day I have three or more, I acquire some serious anxiety. Watch out for that kind of thing, OP.

[Anonymous]

Daily. It's a problem

[Anonymous]

Well frankly OP and the rest who say the same.

GET HELP because you’re brain is seriously fuked

[Anonymous]

I now have a teen driver, so I am feeling more anxious due to that. But not to the extent you describe OP.

I had a health scare almost 2 years ago that lasted a while and I had a lot of anxiety about my mortality then, but that's subsiding thanks to medicine that is controlling the autoimmune disorder.

I would say seeking the help of a therapist and possible medication may be a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well frankly OP and the rest who say the same.

GET HELP because you’re brain is seriously fuked

Fuked?

It does sound like OP is more anxious than most, but I have those thoughts, too. They don't stress me out, though. I think some people spend more time in their imagination and have a richer inner dialogue than others.


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

Periodically (also flashes of my kids as wildly successful men, as regular guys with a happy day to day life and a family, as athletic stars, as losers with greasy hair, as academic stars, as greasy-haired geeks, ETC)

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

Never. I did have thoughts like that when I was a kid growing up, though.



There's nothing wrong with you OP, unless you find your thoughts troubling, or you are actually anxious about them. Maybe consider them passing flights of fancy?

[Anonymous]

yes, I have these thoughts. I also suffer from General Anxiety and since taking medication they are not every day.

[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 intense fears of bedbugs and head lice. I've never dealt with either.