Hi everyone, I apologise that this is a first world problem but I’m struggling with anxiety and depression after buying a house and discovering some issues with it after settlement/closing on the house.

The issues are fixable/in the process of being fixed (a roof leak and poor side drainage) but are compounded by and have triggered the trauma from a previous property where we had so many problems that I sold it at a AUD$100,000+ loss just to get rid of it.

I’m now consumed by anxiety and panic and worry and I’m scared to even move in to the new house now. I can’t stop thinking that other things are going to go wrong, that I will be financially ruined, that I’ve made a huge mistake buying again and that I should have just stayed renting forever. I even panic that the agg drain/French drains installed will somehow ruin the foundation, and that the roof repairer is not going to do his job properly (I don’t even know why I feel this way). I try my best to meditate and exercise and practice mindfulness and have just started taking Lexapro, so I go to sleep each night feeling okay but then I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep because my thoughts race and my worries flood my mind. I then spend the first half/most of the day just feeling miserable and devastated and worried.

My sadness and anxiety is so overwhelming that I wish I could sell before even moving in, but I feel that that might be an overreaction. I feel like I am terrified of home ownership now. Has anyone else here been able to overcome anxiety brought about by buying a house? Thanks for reading this far and I’m sorry again to complain about a first world problem; if I could just snap out of this I would but it’s all so overwhelming and depressing.