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Afraid of burning alive in car crash

Postby Alexandruxxl » Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:37 pm

All my life I have been afraid of burning alive in a car or bus crash. I don't drive but I take the bus because I need to.

There was that bus crash in italy where it caught fire a few months ago and I happened to pass on the same highway a day earlier. While I was afraid of burning before, I am now even more terrified.

I also did a stupid thing and I looked for videos of people burning alive in cars, and I saw one with a girl that was stuck in a car and at first she called after her mother, after which she constantly screamed for about 2 minutes until she dies. They were the most vicios horrendous screams I ever heard, and people were trying to get her out but they couldn't, and at first the fire was covering only part of the car, but after about minute it covered the whole car and she was still screaming.

Now I cant get it out of my head, and while it does affect me because of what horrible thing can happen to someone, it affects me more because I am afraid it could happen to me. And there is no way to make sure this will never happen to me. Even if I never drive, people burn in buses too, like those people in Italy.

So I don't know what to do. Even if I go to therapy, it still wont save me from this, and it could still happen to me.
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Re: Afraid of burning alive in car crash

Postby Otter » Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:19 am

Obvious point: what is not going to help you is looking up accidents online. That is not a helpful kind of confrontational therapy.

It seems like you are running high levels of anxiety. Therapy and possibly meds could help with it. At any rate, therapy with a professional could at least give you some options. You came here to ask for help, so why not therapy?
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