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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does your therapist say?[/quote]

She said while it’s not impossible, it’s highly, highly unlikely. She also made a good point— That there are many places where we *could”* be poisoned or have harmful things done to us (restaurants, coffee shops, schools, work, etc.), but that, generally, people don’t want to hurt others and everything is fine.

She thinks I’m paranoid because my own mother was so paranoid about Halloween candy. She would THOROUGHLY check each piece with a flashlight and was clearly anxious watching us kids eat it. I remember so much candy being thrown out because it looked “sketchy” or “tampered with”. [/quote]

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but break the cycle.  You have severe anxiety because your mom had severe anxiety.  Now you have a chance to not pass that on to your kid, take it.  If that means that your spouse handles trick or treating and the candy, so be it.  My mom had severe anxiety and I have anxiety.  I've worked so so hard to make sure I don't pass it on to DS as well.  [/quote]

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