Hi. While I feel very sad that others on this forum experience the same abject terror I am going through about asbestos, it is helpful to know I am not alone. And EMF is another terror.
For some reason, over the past month I have been going through the worst anxiety I have ever experienced. If I manage to come to terms with one angst, OCD serves me up another - it is the gift that keeps on giving, despite me having started on meds (only a week ago), seeing GP and psychologist, and doing hypnotherapy.
I am wearing myself out by constantly trying to find solutions often on Google (yep, I know it is bad), only to have another take its place. And my family cannot understand what I am going through.
My latest anxiety relates to my teenager putting up the Christmas tree and decorations with a friend while I wasn’t at home. About 10 of the ornaments were old ones from my mother-in-law’s estate - I had kept them as keepsakes and we have put them on the tree or mantlepiece for the past 5 years.
Good old Google tells me that pure asbestos was used on old Christmas decorations and trees often as fake snow. So even though I don’t recall any specifically looking likely they have fake snow, my anxiety is now in free fall. Especially as my teenager is so precious to me.
Now I am faced with trying to locate and isolate the ornaments that are worrying me to get them tested. If they are, it probably means tossing out all the other decorations and the tree as well.
Then I have to deal with the possibility of future fallout for both the teenager and the friend.
Any constructive comments much appreciated.
