I just want to see if this is normal, or if I should seek counseling. I have a 1 year old little boy, and ever since he was born I’ve had a terrible fear of bad things happening to him. He’s totally happy and healthy. My husband is an amazing husband and father, and we have awesome, supportive family on both sides. I’ve never had anything traumatic happen to me. But for some reason I have this suffocating fear that, for instance, I’d get in a car wreck with my child in the car and he’d die or get badly injured. I’m in fear all the time that he could choke on something, fall down and hit his head so hard it kills him/severely injuries him, that someone will break into our home and kidnap him, etc. Those are examples of the types of things that go through my head constantly. It causes me to be easily emotional and overly protective. Aside from my husband, no one else knows I think about this stuff so much. Even he doesn’t know just how deep it goes- that I often end up in tears when I’m alone thinking about that if our child died I wouldn’t want to live. (I’m NOT suicidal in any way! I just have this harsh realization that my life change forever for the best when he was born and I just don’t know if I could go on if something happened to him). I’ve never had mental health issues- depression, etc. I even have college degrees in psychology so I’m not naive at all to mental health issues

I know every parent deals with these types of fears, but I don’t know if everyone deals with them at this magnitude. Since I don’t share these issues with anyone, I thought well, maybe we all deal with them and don’t share it.

Does it sound like I should seek counseling to get a grip on my fears, or do you all experience the same thing?