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I have the same fear about asbestos. I live in a house where it contains popcorn ceilings and I was afraid that it contained asbestos. I kept getting obsessed with searching for answers and when asbestos became phased out. My house was built in 2009 and deep down in my gut I knew that asbestos was long gone before the build date, but I didn’t believe myself and continued to worry. I asked countless people on Quora about this and all the said it was very unlikely that the popcorn ceiling had asbestos since it was phased out long ago. But of course because of researching I doubted these answers and remembered that some houses had asbestos in the ceilings as early as the year 2000. Though in general it is unlikely to see asbestos as far as 2000 let alone my house which was built 9 years later it still left uncertainty.
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Hi! I have this same fear. How are you doing now?
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@jhadro I’ve been doing better. After countless times of emailing and asking Quora, I realized my house probably does not have asbestos. Although I had trouble realizing that I shouldn’t worry, I kind of just learned to let the fear pass right through me. The thought comes up so much that I kind of treat it as something not worth wasting my time with. With other people’s houses, I’ve been learning to be realistic with my fear, such as how truly likely it is to touch the ceiling if I’m sitting and just raising my arms up.
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@Khoables With the stress and worry, every time I’m in a situation that triggers me, I try to just not let the stress get to me as it’s very uncomfortable 😣
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@Khoables Hi! I have a really hard time going to houses or businesses that are old. I always what to know if any remodeling has been done recently because I'm worried asbestos could be in the air or in the carpet, etc. It's exhausting.
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@jhadro How are you now? I also worry about old buildings. I love history and want to visit Buckingham palace and Henry the viii palace but they are full of asbestos 😩 I don’t know how to do exposures around these things without going completely coco 😁
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Hi! I have the same fear and understand completely. How are you doing now?
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Panicking cause there’s people doing construction outside my house and there cutting in the ground it’s like black concrete and garden patio tiles and I’m now panicking about it releasing asbestos into the air and gone into my house through my window and now gone all over my room
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