I have a daunting, irrational fear of losing loved ones. I know it will happen one day, and that it's inevitable - which is the completely depressing part. It plagues my mind constantly and I'm not sure what the name of the phobia is but I'm definitely afflicted by it.
It scares me that my grandparents and older relatives could be gone at any minute, and even younger loved ones due to unnatural causes. It's something I don't ever want to face and at times I want to die young so I don't have to suffer by watching death, but then again I'll never experience high school, college, life.
I don't know how to get over this phobia. :(
2006-07-30 18:01:18 · 5 answers · asked by random 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I am like that with death period ! I haven't found anything that works except Zoloft helps tons !
2006-07-30 18:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phobia Of Losing Loved Ones
2017-01-19 03:32:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Therapy can help. I saw a video one time (I was a psych major in college) about a boy who had an extreme fear of his mother dying. You may recall the TV show that MTV or VH1 put out where the girl had a phobia of her mother dying.
Yours, however, is a rounded fear. Do you accept the fact that everyone will eventually die? If you do, then start celebrating peoples *lives*, not mourning their death yet to come.
When I was in school, I suddenly having these awful thoughts of my grandmother dying. Suddenly, out of nowhere, something in my mind said "don't worry, she will be watching out for you".
Regardless of your faith, I believe that whomever on this earth dies lives on in another place, and they will always be watching you.
Celebrate life, and go talk to a counselor or a priest/religious figure. You are NOT crazy, but you could be suffering from a sort of depression and externalizing/projecting it onto your fear of others dying. Truly accept that death is a part of life.
2006-07-30 18:11:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bachman-ette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is natural. There is birth, there is death. You have to understand, that there is still life after death. Soul still lives on. For all you now, the passed on loves ones are always beside you.
Read more about topics like that. It should right away bring comfort to you.. To know that even one day when it occurs, it is only a temporary seperation.
Other than my grandparents, I have lost a mother, and a brother through death.
The things is treasure NOW. Treasure all people around you.
2006-07-30 18:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by Pencil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that feeling!!! I am married with three kids and I am very over-protective of them and the rest of my family. I am just so scared of someone dying because I have never lost anybody close to me and I would not know how to deal with it. I dont know what the phobia is but it defiently runs in my family. we are all like that. I always get stressed when someone goes out of town or if my husband has the kids because sometimes he does not watch them too closely as I would!!
2006-07-30 18:30:23 · answer #5 · answered by luvinmjc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋