ehley
12-21-2013, 11:00 PM
Hello people this is my first post
I have for a number of years, suffered from anxiety about many things, such as social phobia, or weight problems, or relationships etc
I have always had the comfort of coming home putting on headphones, watching a nice movie, and temporarily blanking out the evil cruel world in the comfort of my own home
To me, home is a sanctuary away from the big bad world.
However, i live in leeds.. which although isnt that rough a place, it has a higher than average burgulary rate for the uk.
The area i moved in, is not one of the bad areas.
However, a few weeks ago, the shop up the road about two blocks from us had an armed robbery.
Since i found out about that, i then spent the next day or so googling robberys in leeds... and like if you google practically anything, there were several results..
i know i should not have done it, but since then, i have spent the last two weeks, worried sick about being broken in, every time i hear the wind rattle nearby, i am convinced its somebody trying to break in.
We have lived here for two years and never had a problem, this is a relatively safe area, but after the incident at the shop up the road, i just have this mental paranoid anxiety in my brain that is gnawing away at it, and making my life miserable as hell at the moment.
Moving isnt an option as i work here, and this is a relatively safe part of leeds too
I would really appreciate getting some kind of reply to this, because i have never dealt with an anxiety before, that can not be solved by just curling into bed and forgetting about the world... but this is stopping me from even doing that :(
I have for a number of years, suffered from anxiety about many things, such as social phobia, or weight problems, or relationships etc
I have always had the comfort of coming home putting on headphones, watching a nice movie, and temporarily blanking out the evil cruel world in the comfort of my own home
To me, home is a sanctuary away from the big bad world.
However, i live in leeds.. which although isnt that rough a place, it has a higher than average burgulary rate for the uk.
The area i moved in, is not one of the bad areas.
However, a few weeks ago, the shop up the road about two blocks from us had an armed robbery.
Since i found out about that, i then spent the next day or so googling robberys in leeds... and like if you google practically anything, there were several results..
i know i should not have done it, but since then, i have spent the last two weeks, worried sick about being broken in, every time i hear the wind rattle nearby, i am convinced its somebody trying to break in.
We have lived here for two years and never had a problem, this is a relatively safe area, but after the incident at the shop up the road, i just have this mental paranoid anxiety in my brain that is gnawing away at it, and making my life miserable as hell at the moment.
Moving isnt an option as i work here, and this is a relatively safe part of leeds too
I would really appreciate getting some kind of reply to this, because i have never dealt with an anxiety before, that can not be solved by just curling into bed and forgetting about the world... but this is stopping me from even doing that :(