does anyone else have a super fear of storms?

[aprilr]

i am 21 and recently have been dealing with horrible anxiety and panic and stress and when it storms i freak and dont know how to deal it could just start sprinkling and i freak and i live where it storms all the time i just wanna know if anyone else has this problem and how the heck do you deal with it?

[victoriamissingla]

i am so terrified of storms my boyfriend and i argue everytime it rains about the weather .he cant seem to understand my fear thinks it is something i can just ignore. i have lost my 22 year old son to a car accident , my mom and dads house caught on fire so i moved back from  louisiana to take care of them they both  got smoke inhalation and  both died shortly after moving back to my hometown . i have 2 daughters a state away and i watch the weather channel constantly to try and keep  an eye on the weather in their area . i know i have a paralyzing fear of storms and of losing them to since moving back i have lost all my family members except my twin brother and 1 aunt and uncle . my home and land here is paid for  so moving is not really an option besides where is a safe place to live from the paths of natural disaster anyway lived thru Katrina and its only gotten worse  since then  got flooded out with ike while i was at work and was standed all weekend no phone to call my family or boyfriend who was at our house  didnt know if he was ok and he  couldnt find out about me either till it was over . i  also take meds for my anxiety but i am allowed to take as many as at the time to control it and it only knocks me out if i take 2  and  that  dont make me feel any safer ...i do not go to bed when i know bad weather is coming i  pace the floor and watch the weather on my pc and tv . i wish i had a way to deal withthis it is really causes frequent fights with my boyfriend and this is the only time we argue it makes me feel like i have a serious problem please  offer advice i could  surely use some    thank you guys

[alexis1988]

hi everyone I am 23 and i use to have a very bad fear tornados and everyone around me would not take it serious, i know and i knew what tornados can do because in middle school i decided i wanted to be a tornado chaser until they started happening around me. Now i dont know who on here is a Christian but I am, I am a true Christian and as i said i was bad with my fear and so  was my 4yr old until i realized to leave it in Jesus name because storms that harm is the work of the devil and call me crazy if you want but i know whats best for this fear and its trusting the man above. I live inMD and the last couple weeks we have been getting storms again and almost everytime we have a storm there is a tornado warning. I didnt belive it at first but now i see its true when there is a bad storm approachin my area me, my boyfriend and daughter say "in Jesus name i command this storm to leave there shall be no evil here and i command the holy angels to protect us, i command u to leave storm in Jesus name Amen."  give ur life to christ and u will see what u can do.

[blondie19]

"I'm absolutely petrified it'll come out and I'll be the same, has anyone had it out? have you gone back to being sane?!"

I saw somebody say this earlier but nobody has really noticed as it was quite a long post.

I am due to get the implant out tomorrow after having a terrible time with it for the past year. Mood swings, no sex drive, tiredness. So lucky my boyfriend has been so supportive.

I am scared that when I get it out I wont go back to normal :(.

[nessie9]

I know exacly how you feel.
I have quit jobs because of weather. I panic and want to pass out during a storm, I hide and cry but nothing makes it go away.
My doctor told me their was no medication to rid of this fear of mine
I didnt think their was so many people who felt like i do
Summer time I dont go anywhere if i can help it.
my life is surounded by looking up at the sky and wind and weather.
Its terrible.

Do you feel any better from the medication? I dont know what to do and storms are comming again we've already had like 5 in one week!

[gingin5450]

I too have an irrational fear of storms.  I believe that every storm is going to produce a tornado and it will hit my house.  I have no basement which makes the anxiety much worse.  I take anti-anxiety medicine everyday, and xanax when I begin to panic.  I live in Ohio so we have thunderstorms quite frequently.  I have at least 3 weather apps on my phone at all times and check them everyday.  In the spring and summer I check them before I will leave anywhere.  This fear has literally taken over my life.  It doesn't matter where I am at I will not leave that place until the storm has passed and I am sure it is over with.  I will not drive in a storm no matter what.  At home I usually take my dog a blanket and a pillow and go in our closet and hide.  My husband thinks I'm crazy.  I don't want to live on medication for the rest of my life, because it doesn't keep me from panicking anyways.  I still panic on xanax.  I schedule my whole life around storms.  I can't go to therapy because I cannot afford it.  I don't understand it when everyone says that it is "something you cannot control, that helped me."  That absolutely does NOT help me.  That makes it worse to know this is something that I cannot control!!  How that helps you I don't know.  I do not fear things that I can control just things that I cannot.  Knowing how storms work does not help either.  As far as facing your fears head on, I'm too afraid to face them head on.  If anyone has some useful advice please feel free to share.  My husbands best advice is not to stop worrying.  LOL

[KuntryKlucker]

I am glad that you mentioned your faith as a weapon in defeating this fear. I am a phobic when it comes to tornadoes. Every time I hear thunder I think that a tornado is coming that it is going to hit my house of all places. I know that it is an irrational fear that has taken over my life. The step of action I have taken is to block out the media. When I listed to the media I found that it made things much worse for me. Seem like the media these days have to put a label on every storm that comes through our area. Why can't a thunderstorm be a thunderstorm instead they put names on it like severe, or significant for just about everything that comes through our area. Then to make matters worse the advice that is given to combat these storms sometimes is  not obtainable for every one. Such as they tell you that you need to get to a basement on a small interior room on the lowest level of your home. some areas of the country do not have basements because the soil there is not the best for it. Either being too rocky or too wet thus causing lots of problems with leaking and mold. I for one have made the decision to cut the media out and see the storm for what it is a storm. I try to find the beauty in it. All creation has beauty of some kind. Rather in be in color or order or behavior. Before you label be as crazy I need to mention one more thing, I live in a Manufactured Home. When we were looking for homes we could not find a home with a basement that did not have major problems nor could wee continue to keep living in a small apartment with a growing family. So we decided to go manufactured. We live in the country with so much beauty around us. Now the media does not like any building or home that is manufactured rather it be mobile, manufactured or modular.  The suggest that you have a home with a basement or storm shelter of some kind. Well not everyone can afford such a fort and even if they could that is still no guarintee of survival. Many have died in basement because the house fell in on them. I have make the choice to look at the storm for what it is, a storm a part of nature a part of creation and let the one who commands the storm make the decisions beyond that. Either way, I want to live a life that is free of the media and free of the strong hold that I have let them put over me. It was not till I started really listening to the media that I got so afraid of storms. To take a step back and live like people did before the media has such a preveiance in society may seem crazy but it also bring peace.