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Fearful obsession about skyscrapers

Postby emceeeq » Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:57 pm

Hey everyone, this is gonna sound completely ridiculous and I promise I'm not a total nutcase. I've just been struggling recently with what my mind got stuck on the other day after a huge panic attack. I've dealt with this before and got over it so I am hopeful I will again, but I'm feeling really lonely and insane right now so I wanted to ask for some advice if anyone has had a similar horrible obsession.

Basically, I have a really bizarre fear of skyscrapers. They just look inhuman and futuristic to me, and they fill me with so much fear I have no idea why. Right now I am obsessing over the worlds tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. I know I live thousands of miles away from Dubai and I will probably never go near there, but knowing that that huge building is out there somewhere in the world is completely ######6 with me. It makes me feel like I can't live a free and non-anxious life knowing that it is out there. When my anxiety gets really bad, sometimes I wish it would just collapse so I won't have to obsess about it anymore. But I would never want that to happen either because it would harm so many people, so that makes me feel like an awful person for even thinking about. Just typing this all out makes me realize how ridiculous it sounds.

Has anyone had another weird fixation on something they can't control like this? I feel really alone with this because I have never heard of anything similar. Any words will help. Thank y'all :)
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