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.

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

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?

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.

Well frankly OP and the rest who say the same.

GET HELP because you’re brain is seriously fuked

Daily. It's a problem

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.

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.

I've had those thoughts before.

rarely

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.

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.

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.

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.

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