- Date posted
- 2y
Severe Anxiety about dying
Since I was in high school, I’ve always had the same thought being in a classroom setting, sometimes even in big public places such as the mall and movies theatre as well. That thought is the thought of a shooter coming in and killing me or everyone around me. I sometimes ever worry about this in the privacy of my own room at night and it has caused intense insomnia, even to the point where as I am catching my self falling asleep I jolt up and gasp for air. I am now at college and whenever I’m in my class room I’m constantly looking out the doors and out the windows. When I get off the elevator in my building I have this image of someone pointing a gun in my face as a get off and killing me. This fear used to only mostly be in big public spaces, but even when Im at home or in my dorm at college I am convinced something tragic and horrible is going to happen to me. I watch way too much news, and youtube, and tik tok and I feel like all of the morbid and horrible things I see online just triggers my OCD and anxiety more. Im not sure how to combat this exactly, especially since I have only seriously been obsessing over it for a few weeks.