Hello. 

Fairly new here so please be patient with me. I have been diagnosed with anxiety &amp; PTSD. Lately, it has been horrible. I have severe catastrophic thoughts. All. The. Time.

Currently I have a close family member going through a situation with another person. Said person hates me for some reason. I feel like because this family member is dealing with this person (a sensitive situation involving children) that this person is going to be out to get me as well. I don’t want to go into detail about what I am thinking, but let’s just say that I think this person is going to contact certain people that used to be in my life that DOES NOT need to be contacted. All this because this person reached out to another family member (not the one in the situation). Before this happened, I was having the exact thoughts about someone else. Except this was a person from my past I thought was going to come back and ruin my life. Until this happened today. Same scenario, different person and situation.

How do I stop or manage this? It’s so overwhelming it’s ruining everything around me. I know it sounds ridiculous… but I don’t know how to deal with this.