in Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

Death anxiety

I’ve always struggled with anxiety, fearing I’m not doing well enough, not being good enough, upsetting people and overthinking most things. My boy is 15 months old and I’ve been taking anxiety medication for the last year. A few months ago I also had some talking therapy and this helped my anxiety in some ways but I still suffer with death anxiety. I cannot get my head around it or accept that people just die and that’s it. I constantly worry that my baby, partner, loved ones or myself will die. Just before I fell pregnant a close family member got really poorly and I watched as they slowly died and it’s never left me. I can’t shake the fear that the people around me are going to die. I spoke to my partner and he’s just like,’ it’s life, that’s the way it is’. Anyone else feel this way or have any advice for me please? X

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No advice, but I’m exactly the same, I think about it all the time. I always think something bad is bound to happen to me, my baby, partner or family sometime soon. Its horrible

Yup same here, major health anxiety and also death anxiety. I also cannot get my head around the fact that people, and myself, just die. All that life lived gone. I really hope we live on in some way. That’s the only thing that VERY minorly helps me

Death is a very hard topic to get our heads around. It is a very hard concept. I haven't had someone who I have felt super close to pass away and I sometimes worry what it is going to be like when that happens. Could this be PTSD in a sense, because you had the trauma of the death before you had your baby and now you have this new life, which is beautiful but alongside that you have the fear. Maybe keep at the counselling. Reach out to loved ones. Write down things and journal maybe xx

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