Anxiety

I've mentioned my anxiety before, haven't I?

Well, when it hits I feel like an elephant is sitting on my chest.  Sometimes it is hard to breathe.  I feel panicky. 

And it is over silly things.  Saturday night, I started to have major anxiety over Sterling and "what if he gets hurt".  Yes, I turned out the light and started to think about having Sterling help shred potatoes at my parent's house Sunday evening and I started to feel extremely anxious (panic attack?).  I started to imagine all the things that could go wrong:  he could be shredding the potatoes and shred his fingers instead and then the skin and blood.  I literally couldn't breathe.  I started to panic about the fact that I have been over protective of my son and if he gets hurt he will completely break down in tears and then be made fun of.

I go through things like that.

My anxiety levels soar over silly things like that.  Can you imagine what they do when I am stressed about important things?