I’ve suffered with these fearful feelings nearly all my life. It always seems to surround the person I need most in different times of my life (it was my mom when I was a child; it’s my husband now that I am an adult)

It affects me so badly I sometimes can’t eat or sleep & just want to cry. It’s ridiculous and irrational because everyone in my life is equally “at risk” of having an accident, illness, etc ...yet I can’t seem to shake these dark thoughts that relentlessly creep in.

Is this considered anxiety?

How do I deal with these feelings and thoughts? I try to rationalize & distract myself, but it only helps so much... they always come back...

Does anyone else experience this? How do you cope? I don’t want to be alone.. 😭