Just lately I've been suffering from anxiety. Last week on holiday with my family, for example, we stayed in a caravan and there was a terrible thunder storm. Our caravan was under telephone wires and I was terrified that the wires would get struck and would fall down on us. Thats just one example, believe me. Anyway, I was hysterical and my dad was saying 'Stop being a drama queen' and my boyfriend just slept through it fine. My mum had to stay up with me because i was getting pretty bad about it.

Coming home from Spain was possibly the worst experiance of my recent fear over everything that could be unsafe. It was a flight less than 2 hours and I paniced the whole way through. Infact, I prayed the whole journey that the flight would be ok.. before i never even use to have faith in God? At one point the turbalance (sp?) was really bad and everyone yelled and even my boyfriend was stirred up a bit. After this i suddenly became sure that the engine of the plane would conk out. It sounds stupid but I couldn't even put my feet on the floor because i could feel the vibration. I had my ear phones in and cried.

My little sister is 13 and she's going to America today. Infact she just left. Her mate's dad is dying of a type of cancer. He want's to see his daughter one last time before he goes. He has payed for lauren, my sister and his daughter, to travel to America and stay with him for two weeks. She's going to new mexico and i think it's a wonderfull thing that she's got the chance to do this. But i am so scared about her getting on a plane. She goes on one for about seven hours and lands at Chicago, then she travels to new mexico. I am so scared. I know its silly, but I can't stop crying and praying.

I think what makes it worse is that there was a terrible car crash a few miles up the road from me. It happened in the early hours of the morning i returned from spain a couple of days ago. It was horrific to even drive past, let alone find out that the four people involved in the accident were well known. The driver use to drink with my parents at the pub and chat to them. He is apparently paralysed from the waist down and there is even a rumour that he has died in hospital. The passenger was my friends little brother.. i havn't even managed to get hold of her yet. Thankfully, he was 'walking wounded'. Unfortunatly, the lads in the back seat were instantly killed. My boyfriend's brother's mate. His brother is devastated. The other guy was an extremely popular person were i live. This accident has defiantly made me worse. I am so worried right now about my mum and sister as they even drive to the airport, with all these stories about crashes and the weather being so bad.

I know this was a lot of nonsense and it's stupid, but if anyone has any advice please help. There's a lot more i could say but i've said enough really.

At this moment in time, i am shaking a bit with fear about them driving to the airport. I can hear a siren and I'm panicing, and i'm so worried about the plane flight.... i don't know what can help me.

you have control issues

What do you mean by this?

I can honestly say I have never felt like this before, it's unlike me and it's a very recent problem.

What you are experiencing is common. Its just so overwhelming because its all happening at once- the vacation in the caravan, your sister traveling and you being on a plane. If these events were a bit more spread out, it wouldn't be so bad. Maybe you should get a little bottle of emergency xanax.

yeah, there have been a lot of bad things happening lately. it sounds weird but the weather has made me so unsettled. like one day about a month ago, the floods in England got bad and i was stranded in my boyfriend's house.. it was really, really bad. Then people have been getting ill.. people have been dying.. it's just all at once. I'm getting edgey because i tried ringing my mum on her phone and she didn't answer. It's so silly. Do you think it's worth going to a doctor about?