Is this anxiety?

Mattimuss
Community Member

How’s it going everyone?

Can anxiety try make you doubt yourself over something that happened, making it like something else did? To hopegully explain more I’ll give a quick story.

Ladt Friday the 23rd November 2018, it was a windy and had been raining during the day. After watching a movie and about to head to bed as I was feeling sleepy. I noticed that the fireplace wasn’t going to make it through the night so went out back to get a log. After I got the log which was just over a metre or so from the back sliding door. When almost back inside I heard a weird vibrating noise that was quite loud and with an occasional thump. It gave me a freight, looked around and didn’t see anything so quickly went back inside and closed the door. I then later thought in bed just as I was about to fall asleep my mind came to the conclusion I was bit by a bat. I didn’t see or feel anything land or even bite me but somehow my mind came to the conclusion I missed it even though I’m confident I didn’t. The next morning I was telling my parents about the noise and my dad said it’s from the wind pushing some styrofoam against a pole along the pavers next to the fence as he occasionally hears it too when windy feeding our dog. I did also make the mistake of using ole google and that made it worse reading about the diseases bats have such as rabies or Ablv in Australia even though it’s rare I freaked out and couldn’t help myself. We do have quite big bats around the area, however for some reason my mind thinks I missed seeing it and feeling it land on me and subsequently biting me. I know it’s illogical however the thought of what if is there a lot of the time, coming and going throughout the day. So can anxiety play tricks on you and create doubt over something you know didn’t happen?

Thanks for reading and helping out

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Mattimuss
Community Member

Things were going really good until yesterday. Yesterday when I got into work, I picked up a small black thing on my desk that I thought was dried up glue from the last week but was informed it was mouse poo. I put it down, then got paper towel to pick the rest of the pieces up before throwing the out. There was also a green tinge on the end of some of them as apparently poison baits were placed on Friday. I did wash my hands after picking the one piece up, however I stupidly googled to see what mouse poo looked like and that was my downfall as all these diseases that can be spread by it came up. Which freaked me out, wondering if I will get one of those said diseases listed. However one of the worse ones doesn?t seem to be in Australia however that doesn?t stop my worrying. I am going to get back to writing down my thoughts again as last time it really helped; I shouldn?t have stopped doing that. I am also pretty sure growing up as a kid I would have picked up mouse droppings and was obviously fine. Same with my coworkers who touched some bits on Saturday while cleaning up.

A fresh annoying thought came to my head today while getting a blood test done for an upcoming doctors appointment for an unrelated manner, but after holding the swab with a finger after they’ve taken blood, my damn mind thought what if you get sick from that. I don’t get why these silly thoughts come to me. I know they’re silly but can’t ignore them fully. I wish I didn’t have them and when I go to my doctor on Thursday I’m just gonna ask him what he thinks. I wanna get on top of it again so it doesn’t get worse. Anxiety does seem to run on my mothers side of the family, maybe it’s genetic a bit as well