I recently saw a tiktok about rabies and now I can't stop thinking about it. I'm so scared a bat bit me and I didn't notice and now I have rabies. I haven't seen a bat in a long time and in my country there hasn't been a case since 2018. But I'm so scared what if I have it or what if I get it. What if I wake up tomorrow and I have hydrophobia(one of the symptoms). I can't stop thinking about this:(
I literally had smth similar like this happen to me and i rly do get it I used to check my arms for bites and legs and used to be so scared that i would have rabies but u just gotta keep going with these thoughts in ur head as much as uncomfortable they are u just gotta do it also bats like only 1 in 200 does have rabies . I just try to keep maybe and maybe not :)
me too, one time i was at my grandmas house in the mountains, i was like 9 and she told me that I had to pay attention because animals that lived there could pass me rabies, i was so scared that i never leaved the house, and now too, im so scared, sometimes i drink water for checking if that would have some effects, and also, when the new hunger games movie came out and I saw the scene of the boy with rabies i nearly died of anxiety
@sasy I check my drinking water too. It's terrifying. I'm like frozen in fear. How can people not worry about this?
@Pija glad im not alone, i just tought that this was normal for anyone, like how people can live peacefully with things like rabies existing?
@sasy exactly! thats what I think about many illnesses. How are people not worried? I don't knowledge how to not think about it. How do I stop obsessing?
I have extreme fear of rabies and it triggered my usually bearable ocd to the point i cant function normally. Whenever I pass by something on the ground resembling a bat my brain tells me its a bat and that I have touched it with my hand and that I have rabies now. Sometimes I take a photo of potential triggers to be sure I wont ruminate later aka ask myself what if it was this or that and i just look at the photo i took and be sure its nothing. The triggers are also becoming harder to bear everytime, for example 3 days ago it was night and I saw something small and dark on the ground and didnt see it clearly, phone was almost dead and i couldnt take a photo of it, probably wouldnt anyway because there were two people nearby so i just left myself a note in the phone that it was nothing and I didnt touch it, but you guessed it, my brain says its a bat and that i touched it, creating a false memory and now i feel like i cant know what actually happened..rn i cant think of anything but being terrified of dying of rabies because i cant trust my memory. I feel like Im going crazy
I have health concern ocd and my current obsession is rabies. I just opened my window to get some air and now I'm convinced there's a bat in my room that's gonna give me rabies... I checked my room and didn't find one but now I can't stop thinking about it and I can't fall asleep. I think I would be able to see it if it was in my room but...
I have no idea why but ever since I came across a video on rabies, I've been absolutely terrified of catching it. you can apparently go years without any symptoms and then once you start there's like no chance of survival. I've had no exposure or been bitten by anything mind you but I'm so scared that I've caught it or am going to catch it. I don't know why this fear suddenly came out of nowhere but I've been avoiding my pets because of it. Any ideas on how to get my head off of this?
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