The horrible thoughts...

[Mandy26]

Well after suffering from the norovirus over the past week I have well and truly been drained. I had moments where my anxiety raised its head but I actually feel really good about the fact that I got through the illness without any horrible health anxieties. The issue I have experienced though is horrible thoughts and I am putting this down to tiredness. I have this horrible and slightly obsessive hate towards animal cruelty and for some reason, whenever these random horrible thoughts decide to take hold, it's always this topic that comes up. I feel completely out of control when it happens. For example I was lying in bed last night so tired after being drained all week by being ill and all I wanted to do was sleep, but horrible images and thoughts just flashed into my head and I just thought why!? I then started to get upset leaving our dog downstairs (we do every night, we always have - in his lovely comfy bed, he's absolutely fine) then started thinking about the day we have to put him in a kennel when we go away and would people abuse him, that i'd have to buy a camera for his collar to keep an eye on him. Just all of these horrible out of control thoughts. I eventually managed to push them to one side but I always think, why does my mind pick the worst things to think about. It makes me feel like I'm mental. I know you just have to avert your mind to something else which I do but it's just thinking about those things in the first place. I try to acoid horrible cruelty stories too but these days it's impossible. I always watch the news, read the newspapers and they're laden with cruelty cases.

Just another side to anxiety and the mind I suppose....

[ellabella]

Oh God the mind wanders when we have this dreadful condition! I have the most ridiculous conversations with myself about situations that haven't even happened yet! and might never happen....much the same as you and your lovely doggie. I put mine down to having far too much time on my hands at the moment to think about anything and everything. I just tell myself to shut up and do something. Truth is Mandy if we were mental we wouldn't blooming care because we wouldn't know anything about it. My elderly Mother had a brain haemorrage 4 years ago ( can't even spell it lol ). Do you know Mandy, she became the most lovely lady my sister and myself could simply not believe it!!! She went for a drive in her car( never found out where ?) came home and parked sideways in the road...this alerted me immeadiatley. After asking her a few questions whilst she was dancing around the kitchen with 1 shoe on eating a chocolate biscuit, I phoned an ambulance. The brain is so complex it will never be understood...thankfully she survived after extensive surgery. The transformation was amazing!! she was so happy....I often wonder if I should have not signed for the op. She remembers NOTHING and is back to her usual self lol., and we are not allowed to talk about it. Our thoughts are normal for us, it's only when they are distressing or different that we notice them really. Take heart love, these things are sent to try us and they do

much love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[hairyfairy]

My biggest fear about this time of the year is not the long dark nights, or even freezing temperatures. It`s the dreaded norovirus. I would rather have TB than that! Iv`e been reading some real horror stories on facebookng one woman who threw up 11 times! I would have jumped out of the window after the second time because I`m emetophobic & just can`t handle that. I`m at present researching which anti-emetic is strong enough to counteract the symptoms of this evil bug.