Really insane thoughts

[gothique]

I have been having anxiety for a long time because I am a hypochondriac an think I'm dying of everything. I have been getting better a little at a time, but I also have found myself thinking absolutely nutty thoughts that have no relevance to anything.

Here's a great example. I was watching some New Year's fire works yesterday and I suddenly had this thought: "What if the Earth suddenly just went out of whack and hurdled off into the universe?" This thought seriously bothered me for about 10 minutes and then it just stopped. Other times I'll stress out because I worry that the sun is going to explode and kill us all.

I know you're all probably like WTF?!, but I was just curious if anyone else had any of these weird random thoughts. I hope so because I feel so crazy when I have them! They don't last very long, but they don't make sense either.

[johanni]

I would be more worried about crossing the road and driving a car, than worrying about things that will probably not happen in our lifetime.As JSGeare said denial is agreat asset!So yeah,stop worrying and keep occupied with things in life that you have CONTROL over.There is one undeniable certainty out of our control,death and taxes.

[JSGeare]

Tell me where you came up with that handle and I'll tell you something about your strange thoughts. The interesting thing is that your thoughts are perfectly reasonable given the subject matter. The earth is, in fact, hurdling through the universe at a high rate of speed. And the sun will, in fact, blow up one day and global warming will seem like an ice-box compared to that. But that's only if we are not wiped out by a big rock hitting us first. Scientists study this stuff all the time. They've even told the government to start looking for big rocks out there. My guess is you picked these things up on some Science Channel or Discovery or National Geo program or something similar.

There's not much you can do about any of that -not much anybody can do. So how do folks get on with their lives, then? One word:

DENIAL.

You realize that those awful things probably will not happen today -someday, yes, but not today, probably not this week, this year or this century. So, meanwhile, what are you going to do with yourself? What you are going to do is something you CAN do something about. Your income, your love life, repairs to the house, change the oil -whatever. And you find yourself thinking about that stuff, instead.

'Nuff said?