Crossposted in r/dogs.

So to preface, I have terrible anxiety relating to anything health/medical related just in general BUT it’s 10000x worse when it comes to my dog. I think I just love her so much that the thought of something happening to her makes me so anxious!

I feel a ~normal~ amount of anxiety throughout the day when she’s doing her thing.. but as soon as something actually happens such as a sneeze, she coughs, does literally anything out of the norm I feel like I’m going to have a panic attack. I had to bring her to the vet last week for an unexpected emergency and if not for my boyfriend, I don’t think I could’ve mentally dealt with it.

This is my first dog (and I don’t have kids) so it’s the first time I’m fully responsible for another being but I don’t know how to deal with the anxious feelings all the time!