Can someone explain this?

Question

I remember a long time ago when I was younger...I can't exactly remember how old, but I'd say in the range of 9-12 years old...I would get extremely nervous about my mother not coming home or something...like I was afraid she was going to get into an accident or get hurt by someone. I really have NO idea how this started, there was nothing that happened to create this feeling, my dad was always there, and there was nothing wrong.

I remember many times, she would go shopping on Thursday nights...around 8 or 9 PM. Around the time she was supposed to be getting back (about an hour or so after she left), I would watch out the window for her car pulling in the drive way while I watched TV. Sometimes I would think she was late, and get extremely panicked. I would get very nervous and fearful that something had happened. Then she always ended up pulling in, and I felt so relieved, it was very strange.

I really can't remember how long this went on for...it was either close to a year or just over a year I think. But then I just all of a sudden stopped worrying and wondered why I had gotten so panicked in the past.

This was just a very strange phase I went through, and I really never understood it and never talked to anyone about it because it was, well, embarrassing. I'm into psychology and how events in people's lives can trigger certain emotions and feelings, but I cannot think of a single thing that could have triggered this. One day, I just started getting panicked about my mother's safety, and a while later, it just completely died out. Anyone have any idea why I may have felt like this?

So is it possible that this just happened, then went away? Or is this something that I may still suffer from? I don't really feel anxiety over anything in particular right now.

Answer 1

Yeah, it's anxiety disorder. You should ask a doctor about this.

Answer 2

Life is complicated. More so with new information said to be doubling every three and a half years with about seventy two hours predicted within about forty years. The key to handling the stress levels or the 21st century, which are beyond the conscious mind's capacity, is or at least starts with Emotional Intelligence and intuition. Emotions, and hence thoughts, are hard to control with thoughts, but a simple word change, like using only positive non-judgmental words, works wonders and alliterates also. Paradoxicaly it gives us pengy's better judgment, because the scientific method is unbiased research. As Einstein seemed to indicate, with enough of the right information, the conclusion is obvious, no thinking required. That's Easy World.

I think that I knew at ten that I knew all I needed to know to be ten, but maybe not enough to be eleven. Knowing more with more responsibilites just before puberty and a scarey unpredictable world, maybe that's an average time period for that at ten, because I'm awfully average. For a penguin that is. And/or another possibility is that one hour is not realistic for going to the mall and coming back. And, too, that's pretty late for a woman to be shopping alone, unless she's going somewhere else and we don't want that in our conscious minds, ever. Often parents scare us. Normal and nothing wrong doesn't seem normal.

I find that, at least sometime, the anxiety comes forward as the problem is still manifesting in the present and soving the present seems to take care of it, although it may be in an earlier wrong conclusion. In a way, a fear is just a missmatch of images in the subconscious with a lot of thought and therefore neutral energy attached to it. A change to a positive constructive thought and the energy moves to that, it's impartial, itself, as is the right brain, which may be our higher self as it's in there somewhere. I ran across it one time while I was diving for eels. Maybe you could help me with 'my' problem.

Answer 3

Until now you are feeling this kind of so called anxiety attack that your love one might never come back once they drove out of the house?

Are you a mama's boy if you happen to be a boy. Are you pumper much when you were still a child? You are afraid to be ALONE IN THIS WORLD, that is why you feel this way. You are not INDEPENDENT or matured enough to stand in your own feet, correct? You always need SOMEONE to tell you this or to tell you that. You cannot even organize your life, correct?

Afraid if they all die, you donot know what to do in this life. Nobody would care for you, or even feed you. That is why you are having these nightmare or fear. What you need is a psychiatrict to help you evaluate your life and give you some advice.

Answer 4

Just wanted to let you know what I experienced the exact same thing as a child, from i'd say around age 9 to 12 or 13. I'd intentionally go to the supermarket with my mom when she went not because I wanted to go, but to make sure that she wasn't harmed/came back. I'd also stay up whenever my parents went out somewhere until they came home, which was always a great relief.
I have no clue where this fear came from either, but eventually it went away. You're not alone :)

Answer 5

go to wikipedia and study anxiety disorders, they don't require triggers, they can just happen