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Hi and thank you for this question. I’ve frankly bees afraid to discuss this issue before now. I have always been fearless, me and my mom use to laugh together bc we thought something was wrong with us bc we feared nothing! Post Covid, I have become fearful about most anything . I do t even know how to handle the new emotion of fear; it’s foreign to me.
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Broken Record, here: please get help. Do not do this alone! Fear grows in shadow and isolation, loves corners and solitude! If you are not comfortable with professional help, please join a group like this one but that meets in person or online. I don’t know what resources Mayo has, I live far away, but. Please look around the site to see if they can give you a referral or assistance to get set up to see a dr or a psych Nurse Practioner in your area. She /He /They can help you get set up with group meetings, medications if you’re willing to try them, testing for deficiencies that may cause this distress. (Low thyroid can cause mental distress, brain inflammation can, etc for example.) NAMH is a great org, and THEY can help— (can you all guess what I do?)
The kicker about fear and anxiety is that going to see someone to get help causes… Fear. And Anxiety! Get someone to be with you— ask your mother to sit in while you call, or to even make the calls for appointments— for you. I wish I could beam you over to me, but I can’t. (Yet…)
Please do this for you. You are important enough to help. Truly.
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We are a lot alike...Did you get Covid or just the fear of it itself?
Covid never scared me and it doesn't now...But something in my body changed
after getting it.