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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go see someone about your anxiety.
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+1 Seriously.

And you're still in the first year postpartum?  Do you tend towards anxiety?  I would be looking for some help from a therapist first of all.

This is not a real estate nightmare--rather bad luck with a bad illness.  Talk with someone about it.[/quote]

OP here -- yes, still in first year postpartum, and that is another wild card in all of this.  In the past I wouldn't describe myself as anxious but as type-A. Possibly at this point my descriptions and impressions are tinged with mild depression -- it's hard to say. Given that I'm still living with a sick husband in an isolated environment, I think I could be understandably depressed without a recent pregnancy, too.

However. I get that being scared of tiny ticks sounds like anxiety -- two years ago, as a born-and-bred New Englander, I would have been right there with you. It sounds like a Stephen King novel -- I know! But to see that I am not totally cuckoo, and to get the true flavor of what Lyme disease is and what it does to you and how and why it is spreading, check out this New Yorker piece:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/01/the-lyme-wars

Having experienced this directly, having met fellow residents who have been paralyzed and blinded and bedridden by this disease (there is also a huge Lyme disease support group, which I have never even attended, and endless conventions and town summits on the disease), and then picking a tick of my kid's leg after sending her out in long sleeves, long pants and sneakers and socks, I feel like a little paranoia is warranted here. Just as my concern about getting mugged in a city environment is warranted. Why do I know this? Because I was mugged in my lovely, pricey DC neighborhood. Our car was stolen too. It's not something I obsess over. But it is something that I acknowledge in weighing pros and cons of various places.

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