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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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
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All the time, but only briefly, and it's mostly when things are good.  I lost a baby to cancer and it was traumatic, and it made me realize how fragile life is, and how important it is to appreciate each moment.  But it has oddly also given me less anxiety about illness or death - I've already experienced a great loss and know what it's like, and know intimately that it's just part of life. A part of life that I had not really wanted to think about before that happened.

We are all going to die at some point.  So the greatest risk is not using your time here wisely thinking and worrying about pointless stuff you have zero control over.  The greatest risk is living in fear instead of living your life fully and with love.  For yourself and others.  Let yourself experience joy.[/quote]

That's not how anxiety works. That's like telling someone who is depressed "don't be sad, be happy!"[/quote]

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