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My therapist taught me a trick. Allow yourself half an hour at the same time every day to worry. You're not allowed to worry any other time so if a worry crosses your mind you must write it down and promise to worry about it at X time - then push it from your mind. It works because it frees you from all-day worry but I also found that when you come to worry about your worry the moments gone!

Same as @wheres_c: ! I had a ton of intrusive thoughts to the point where I couldn't cognitively manage them (& I have a master's in therapy so I know what I'm "supposed" to do). Lexapro helped immensely. I still worry and have thoughts like that but I'm able to shut them off, so to speak, without slipping into actual physical symptoms of despair.

If it is seriously affecting your life you should probably talk to someone about that. I think it crosses everyone's mind of course, but for me it is so clearly in the category of "can't do anything about it" that I don't ever dwell on it.

Yup, sometimes. It's the human condition--we all think about death and get a little disturbed by it. I'll never forget that when my dad died at age 57, my 80 year old grandmother went into a deep depression over it--for some reason, I thought that someone her age would be "used to" death by that age, but she kept saying she couldn't stop thinking about how one day, none of us will be here.

That sounds totally depressing, but it showed me that everyone goes through this. If it comes up occasionally and you are generally able to go on about life as usual, I think it's totally normal.

Dealing with an infant forces me to literally live day to day lol.. I don't have time or energy to worry right now and I'm usually a worrywart!