Thoughts of dying every day? Do other moms have this because it scares me.
So a few months before I had my daughter. I’ve had this constant thought that something is gonna happen to me. Now I constantly have been thinking like this and having anxiety attacks about it since. It’s been three months maybe a few more. But it stops me from living life every day. I cry sometimes because I have two kids and thought of me dying js scary and not being with my kids scares me as well. They need me. I need them. So this thought that I have every day as I’m told it’s my anxiety as a mom and fears I have as a mom. Sometimes I worry that my body is trying to tell me something and I don’t notice. It’s scary. It ruins my life every day and I’m stuck on what to do. Does anyone else feel like this? Is this normal to freak out this much?
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i think about it a lot too. i don’t even mean too. i think it’s part of postpartum anxiety. i get so sad when i think i’m gonna die one day and my kids will have to carry that with them
every day I’m like this. It’s upsetting. I’m so young and feel like I can’t live my life because of it.
I can relate, I think it may be considered health anxiety. I definitely worry about my health and possibly dying way more than I should considering how healthy I actually am.
i can relate. i’m only 21 and i think ab it daily
I feel like this previous pregnancy with my daughter has definitely brought out my anxiety and fears. This pregnancy was a little traumatic for me.
my boyfriend always tells me not to worry I’m healthy but I do worry a lot and get scared and cry.
I have unfortunately dealt with these types of intrusive thoughts my entire life. I can think of times when I was really little having similar thoughts/worries/fears. And now that I'm a mom, it's definitely been magnified and it's so exhausting and hard to deal with. I have found it helpful to work with a therapist about this. Have you had the opportunity to connect with a mental health professional? Hang in there, mama. I know this challenge all too well and exactly how damaging it can be ❤️
I have actually. My therapist is great. She’s a mom as well. I just feel like it’s taking a little longer to really address my thoughts as a mom. We’re dealing with anxiety but I feel it’s more postpartum anxiety that is needing to be dealt with
@Jayde something that I have done for several years, that continues to help me on my PP journey, is when these thoughts happen, I visualize it in my head as a picture or a scene, or even words describing the thought or fear I'm having. Then I imagine myself screaming at or physically fighting that thought until I visualize it shattering like glass. I know, it makes me sound a little looney tunes lol. But I think the most challenging part about these types of thoughts and fears is we feel like they are controlling us. So it's important to identify a way in which we can interact with these thoughts that will give us more control. Because i think the fears will always be there, so now it just comes down to how to navigate them. But I 100% agree with you on the pp anxiety, and unfortunately, there's just not enough of pp care for mamas, and it's so disheartening!
I agree! It’s so hard when you don’t get the answers you want and leaves you wondering. It’s difficult for me for sure. I just miss my old self where I was happy and living life to the fullest. But this time around it’s difficult.
I'm sorry things are difficult. Definitely ask for meds, there's no reason to suffer!
Yeah I have anxiety about this - but moreso my kids dying. It’s terrible. Everything seems possible so it’s easy to spiral.
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