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Fear of loved ones dying

Hi all,
I'm new here but i thought id give this a try and see if anyone has any suggestions. I am 26 years old and as long as i can remember i have always STRESSED out about my familys well being. I know i can't control what happens but i see that now as i am getting older i stress about my family and loved ones dying on a daily basis. I know it might sound weird but you have no idea how bad this can get unless you go through what i go through everyday. It's getting to a point that i have panic attacks here n there. I am extremely close to my mother, father and sister and just the thought of them not being here scares me. I know this is a serious problem becuase i can't let go of it and i have tried over the years but the thought runs through my mind constantly. I was on anti depressants for a few months a couple years ago but decided to stop taking them. Does anyone have any suggestions? I want to enjoy the days i have with them right now and i dont want to waste time thinking of things that may or may not happen soon but i just can't stop on my own.
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This can be very hard to deal with. I've had this from the age of 4 or 5. I would tell my mother I never wanted her to die. She got cancer when I was four months preg with my baby girl. They said she had 6 weeks maybe. She made it three year. I can't say this was easy to deal with but what help was my baby because she need me now. But now I deal with the fear of losing her or my husband. I feel like I would not make it though. My girl is twelve now and this fear has caused alot of problem for us. She wants to go place with friends and all I can think about is what could happen to her.  But if I don't get help in the end I will lost her, she could run away from lack of any kind of freedom. So I would get help before you lose them anyway. I hope this help someone else with this fear.
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This is exactly what I experience, especially at night when I need to get up early. I'm a twenty-year-old college student and go to school in another state. Whenever I don't hear from my parents that day I imagine the worst. I am paranoid that one of them is ill and won't tell me. And this probably sounds stupid, but my dog is getting old and has had quite a few health scares in recent years, and my mom and I (and all our friends and neighbors) love him so much and I'm always worried about him, especially now that I'm going abroad for four months. I'm worried that something will happen to him while I'm away, or that he won't remember me when I get back. Or that something will happen to my parents and I won't be able to get home. I really want to spend a semester in another country and I don't want this superstition and fear to prevent me from doing what I want in life.
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I have the EXACT same thing. I don't even have a reason to, my mom had pancreatic cancer when I was young but she survived and she's fine now, so I don't know why I do it. It's gotten worse just these last like 4 years, but every time someone I love is out, I imagine that they've been killed in a car crash or something ridiculous like that. And it means that every time I say goodbye, I imagine in my head that it could be the last time, so I say I love you a ton and even if we've just had an argument or something I feel like I have to tell them I love them just in case. And no one knows, I guess it's not that obvious, but it's so upsetting and exhausing. And I feel like I'm the only person who has it.
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My grandmother died a couple of months ago and since then I have been terrified about my mother. I remember my grandmother died a month and a half after her birthday, and now I'm scared that the same thing is going to happen to my mom. She's reassured me, but I am still terrified
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Thats nt crazy i stress about suff like that to. But its nt crazy at all thats about of life
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