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How much do you worry?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

20:17 / 01.12.06

I don't know what it is, but whenever I try to get a hold of certain people (family and loved ones) and can't get them, and don't hear back from them I get REALLY worried.

It is worse with people whose schedules I know pretty well, because I KNOW they aren't at work, so assume they should have gotten back to me already. The sane response is that either they left their phone on silent mode, or went to a movie, or any number of things.

My response is that I get a feeling in the pit of my stomach that there has been a car wreck or something. The really strange thing is that that has NEVER happened to me. I have never tried calling someone and not gotten through later to find out that they were injured or dead. I have no idea what the origin of this feeling is, but it makes it hard to be productive at work when it kicks in.

Anyone else have irrational worries about people all the time?

21:53 / 01.12.06

I've worried too much for my own good.

Although I've had very mixed experiences concerning the worry troubling me at the time (some turned out to be justified, while many others were not), it has been a big part of me for a few years now. Even though I'm in general a person with a positive outlook on things, night-time seems to be the right time for worry, and I worry in a hurry, in a fury ... (ugh)

I worry about people I love (justified), whether I'm losing my mind (partly justified), whether I'm drinking too much (which is true probably) or even where my S.A.S. survival handbook is, in case of all-out/fall-out type scenarios...

22:29 / 02.12.06

i get like that too, and then if i dont worry about loved ones or whatever i worry that if im not worrying about them something bad will happen. maybe its a tad OCD, like i worry about not locking the door properly if i go out, even if i know ive done it and the thought is irrational. oh dear, now im worried i worry too much! is there an end to this cycle of doom??????!!!