All your fears are the same.

[xUnknown]

Since the day my anxiety started, I developed fears I never had before. Now, I would always put those fears into certain groups and thought I had to get over them individually.
Recently, I figured something out. I never had a fear or thought of my parents dying, terrified of natural disasters, nuclear wars, terrorists, robbers, diseases, and many more fears I have, before I became anxious.

All those fears developed from the first day of my anxiety, and each time I thought I "got over" a fear, a new one would pop up. Basically my anxiety was always trying to find something to be anxious of, it got to the point where (I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this but oh well) I feared of choking on my own spit...like come on.

So what does this mean? It means that these fears are all symptoms of anxiety and not something that should be treated individually. They're all the same, because they all came from anxiety. Sure, there can be a coincidence where you developed a new fear from something else at the same time with your anxiety, but that's usually not the case.

What I'm trying to say is, don't seperate your fears into groups, and don't try to solve them all at once, because all your anxiety will do is look for new fears and it will get worse. If you get rid of anxiety, most of the time, you'll get rid of your fears.

Example if someone doesn't get what I mean:
*Person A asks: I have a fear of tornadoes, how do I get over that fear?*
*Person B tells them techniques and advice on how to not fear tornadoes.*
*Person A gets over the fear and is happy*
*Next week person A gets a new fear, and asks for advice again, and the cycle goes on.*

Not sure if I explained it well, just wanted to share something from my own experience.