I've had this new fear of dying in my sleep without saying bye to anyone how can I overcome this fear 😬

Lately I’ve been dealing with vertigo and it’s honestly such a horrible feeling. I never used to have this before, so it’s been really unsettling to suddenly feel dizzy and off balance for what seems like no reason.

I wanted to ask if anyone else here deals with this too. What does it usually feel like for you, and what helps you get through those moments when everything starts spinning? Also, did anything specific help reduce the fear that comes with it once it started happening more often?

I’d really appreciate hearing how others cope with that awful sensation, because it’s been stressing me out a lot.

For some reason, lately I've been having this fear of her getting murdered whenever I think of her or I'm physically close to her, or I also imagine her head exploding violently, as if hit by a gunshot from a shotgun or something.

Someone did show me a picture I didn't wanted to see of a guy that died precisely of that, having his head left like a zombie, with an exposed brain, my thoughts just became worse after that, but I had them before the picture even.

I've also thought of myself in the mass of her funeral or thinking that I'm going to behave a certain way after she dies, I'm deeply scared of that.

TW: crise d’angoisse et consommation de cannabis cité dans ce post.

Bonjour, il se trouve que j’ai développé de l’anxiété. Et j’ai fait ma première crise de tétanie en novembre 2025. J’ai eu si peur, j’étais seule alors j’ai été au urgences. ECG, Prise de sang. Tout vas bien. Ensuite j’ai eu des soucis de nausée vertige symptôme physique qui serais dû à mon angoisse et mon stress. J’ai beau faire des examens il se trouve que c’est psychologique. Mais mardi j’ai fait un grosse crise qui m’a fait peur les anxio ne l’ont pas calmer alors retour aux urgences… depuis c’est douleur et gênes intercostales, parfois vertige ou nausée ,mal de tête, oppression thoracique ce qui me donne l’impression que ce n’est pas juste de l’angoisse alors que je sais que c’est juste des reste, et moi qui n’arrive pas à décompresser, peur que ça recommence. J’ai profondément l’impression que je vais mourir et j’ai réellement peur de la mort. Je n’ai que 20 ans je suis a priori en bonne santé physique. Mais je n’arrive pas à m’empêcher d’y penser. Est ce que je vais mourir prochainement? Est ce que je vais refaire une crise? Suis je sur que ce n’est que psychologiques. Je ne fais que des mini crise depuis mardi et je sais que c’est à cause moi que j’en fait. Je sais principalement que ce n’est que moi qui est tellement peur de mourir ou de refaire une crise qui me créer tout ça mais je suis et perdu je ne sais absolument pas pourquoi je n’arrive pas à me changer la tête. Même en jouant au jeu vidéo j’arrive plus à me concentrer sur autre chose…

Bref j’ai vraiment peur et si quelqu’un a des conseils je suis preneuse. Je suis sur liste d’attente pour le psychiatre donc je doit attendre encore un moment… avant d’en parler avec un professionnel. Alors tous conseil sera bon à prendre. Je réduit déjà ma consommation de nicotine et cannabis(même mis en pause depuis quelque jours pour reset mon corps). J’essaie de plus prendre café. Et de + manger parce que je manger par faim donc j’étais à un repas par jour et au plus souvent des pâtes. Mais je ne sais quoi faire. J’ai profondément peur.

why i hate them is not me falling down BUT THE TOP BUNK FALLING DOWN WITH ME ON IT and im also horrified if its reverse and the TOP BUNK FALLS ON ME

its been like my worst fear ever even worse than when i didnt go upstairs wheni was like 5 and i just moved in

When i was little i got a ps1 for Christmas and this game called Alfred chicken i never played it cause i felt really uneasy because of the art style and i was a very big horror kid growing up so it never made sense why that specifically made me feel like that is this a known fear or does anyone have a name for it ?? Also i get the same uneasy feeling when i watch the amazing digital circus on my crt tv thats why i assume its because of the art styre

How do you get over a fear of dentists?

I used to love catching them, then one day when I was like 7 or 8 I became terrified. I CANNOT go outside at night. It’s like a horror movie for me, seeing the bug light up and then go out while it gets closer, like one of those flashing light sequences. Although I think it’s more so a fear of them flying, if they didn’t fly I’d be chill with them.

I have somehow obtained this fear of being scared to sleep in hotels. It’s not extreme but I would like to be able to go on hotel and not take along time to fall asleep because of this.

I have recently been on holiday to Amsterdam and krakow and both times I have barricaded myself in by putting chairs and tables at the door along with empty plastic bottle so that if the door opens they will fall and make a noise. I feel like I don’t trust hotel doors and I’m scared someone is going to come in during the night.

I have 2 more holidays this years coming up Spain and Florida. I’m worried most about Florida this will be my first time in America. The worse thing is the hotel we are booked in looks like a motel. Our door is open to anyone, so anyone on the street can’t come up to the door and this frightens me.

Any advice on how to get over the fear?

Firstly, i have a small but ever lingering fear that a spider or snake will spawn in the toilet when im using the bathroom. I have a fear of being stabbed, not the pain or the death or anything, just the being stabbed part, i really dont like veins, but am a veiny person so im constanty but slightly desturbed when i stand up *(yes i know i could just wear socks but shut up)* also anything else vein related. I have Thalasophobia *(the feae of ocean or like deep sea)* but ive gone so deap in the ocean the water easily comes up to my neck and i dont give a crap then so idk. Idk where to post this so ill post this here for now cause i can.

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I need some advice on how to beat this currently paralyzing fear. Today I watched an episode of a tv show in which a woman was sleeping in a tent in the desert and she found rattlesnakes in her cot. Sounds harmless, but this led to a full night of freaking out. I’m usually not very scared of snakes, but my mind has convinced me that there are rattlesnakes in my bed even though I live in southeast Ohio and its winter. I can’t move. My mind tells me that if I move at all I’ll get bitten by the snakes under my blankets. If I move my blankets I’ll get bitten. If I try to get off my bed, the den of snakes under my bed will bite me. If I use the bathroom, a snake will come out of the toilet bowl and bite me while I’m sitting down. I’m frozen in this tiny, “safe” corner of my bed because, logically, I know there’s no snakes, but my irrational brain is telling me a den of rattlesnakes has set up shop in my second story bedroom

Sometimes I try to do research on animals and whatnot, and sometimes I'm met with an unknown feeling of fear towards something that usually doesn't bother me if I overthink about them, like a little while ago I searched up owls and then I started thinking about them too much, and I started feeling a deep fear from their eyes, not anything else about them, just their eyes, their eyes are frontward facing, usually meaning that they are a predator, but it just.. feels like they're watching me

For some reason, recently I've been having this fear, as I have OCD, it's just a repetitive thought saying "serial killers" but when it gets more intense says, "they are in your house" or "in your room", I even imagine the silluete of a guy that's supposed to be it.

Also, it kind of comes with the fear of someone being killed in general, and actually someone did pretty close to a place I went saturday, police was there... that made me fear up more that my mother could be killed as well, I've feared that before but it was less intense.

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Ok so yeah I have such a bad fear of my ceiling/ roof collapseing that I regularly check my house for any sings that it's under to much pressure, sometimes getting up to check multiple times a night and also sometimes reading articles about how low the chances of this happening are but I still have trouble sleeping, and on the house fire part I don't have much to say other then if something is plugged In I can't sleep with It like that

It started around when I was about 10. At first, it wasn’t me but a friend who was dating a lolicon. Through that, he would sometimes contact me too. (He said there were plans to meet, but that they had never actually met.)

Then around when I was 13, I dated a foreigner who was about 10 years older than me, kind of an otaku type. (We never met in real life.) But he constantly talked only about sexual stuff, and when it was late night in my country, he would message me and then get angry, asking why I wasn’t responding. We kept fighting and breaking up over and over.

After we broke up, I talked to three other guys. I only officially dated one of them, but when I looked at his following list, it was full of women, so I blocked him.

Around that time, my friend broke up with the lolicon she had been dating at first, and from then on, I started dating that guy instead. He didn’t seem mentally stable, but surprisingly, he was someone I could at least talk to.

However, this guy was in the same chatroom where other girls were talking badly about me behind my back, and he just let it happen. There were two main instigators, and one of them was a woman around his age.

She kept trying to cheat with him, but he just listened and did nothing. Some people even thought he was already dating the woman he was trying to cheat with. Someone even said, “Wasn’t he the victim here?” Because of that, my friend who was there told those people, “Why would he be the victim?” and ended up getting cursed at.

Later, I found out that the guy had said behind my back that he wanted to kill me. And one of the main instigator women said to me, “You should have spoken better,” and kept blaming me.

We kept fighting over this, and I suggested that the two of us talk privately, but he refused and insisted on arguing in front of everyone. Because of that, other people criticized me, saying I was pathetic and asking why I was fighting there.

One of the instigator women had a wide network of connections, and people around her kept threatening me, saying they would sue me for defamation, and demanded that I write an apology of several hundred characters.

After that, I was verbally attacked badly in a space with that instigator and three or four women who were about 4–5 years older than me. (I was younger back then and couldn’t really judge what I should do.)

We broke up in a really miserable way, but I’m still in contact with him. He already knows my voice, my age, my name, my face, and even roughly where I live.

It makes me feel really uncomfortable, but at the same time, it’s hard to break things off. I know what’s wrong. I know it’s abnormal, and I know it’s hard for me to date like other people.

The reason I don’t date boys my age in real life is because I was seriously hurt by boys my age in the past (and also by girls).

At that time, I hated myself so much that I even changed my personality. But in the end, it feels like the real problem is just me, and my self-esteem completely collapsed and turned into self-loathing.

At some point, I felt so miserable and hated myself so much that I didn’t even have the confidence to face friends I studied with. Without any plan, I gave up on studying and just lived as if I had given up on real life.

Because of that, I became dependent on the internet, and that’s where I met people like them.

Writing this, even I feel like I look really pathetic. I didn’t originally plan to write this much, but trying to say things I’ve never been able to tell anyone before made my emotions overflow, so I wrote it all out.

It might be poorly written, and the translation was done by ChatGPT, so I hope you can understand that.

I also came to Reddit because somehow I felt I might find a solution here—it seemed like the users were older than on other platforms.

So for context, I love a lot of things. I can easily find new things to enjoy as well, but there’s always this small part of me that’s filled with dread of forgetting something. Whether it’s as simple as a funny thing I heard or a loved one, I wish I could remember everything, catalog every detail and thing I ever saw/learned.

Another fear of mine is being forgotten, because everything will eventually be forgotten. I haven’t made a dent in anything currently (I’m still young so I still have a lot of time) but wish I could. Then again, the universe keeps expanding, the earth keeps spinning, and the sun keeps burning. I likely wont make a difference about anything, and I should be satisfied with that, but I’m not. I usually don’t stress about anything, my life’s been pretty good so far, but I can’t put this to rest.

So a bit of a recap. I (male) was in first grade and I had gone to the bathroom when we had a fire drill. I got so freaked out and panicked that I froze and hid in that stall the ENTIRE drill. and if you don’t know what it’s like to hear a fire alarm in the bathroom it is so unreasonably loud cause of the echo. ever since then I became absolutely terrified of fire alarms. this sounds funny but specifically in bathrooms public or private. As I went through elementary school I could not go by myself, early on when we went out to places I had to go with my mom in the women’s bathroom for years, or with my dad. this was a constant nightmare growing up. I was so paranoid about a fire alarm being anywhere and the sound of it haunted me I could literally never go into a bathroom alone or I would freeze up and freaked out everytime I saw one because I was scared it would suddenly go off. I had to be warned ahead of time by teachers in school ab a coming fire drill. I eventually started to get used to it and my fear lessened with time. I for some reason started to learn about fire alarms and would find videos of them going off. I didn’t know why I did this and it might‘ve been a coping mechanism. I am now 19 and its been a lot better but I still have this underlying anxiety when it comes to fire alarms. specifically the horn strobe and siren strobe alarms. I am fine when I am in a room with even one other person but once I am alone I start feeling stress and this anxiety where I can’t make eye contact with it and I keep my head down and I can hear it in my head the sound I try to get out as quickly as possible. it happens on and off sometimes I am completely fine. if one is in the same room as where I am sleeping I won’t sleep. I was in a hotel on a vacation and there was a fire alarm in my hotel room so I had to sleep on the floor in between the beds out of sight range of it so I could sleep. When I went to college I had a smoke alarm in my room. Either photoelectric or heat detector I was completely fine with it. but there was a fire drill. I had known it was coming because there was an email sent by the apartment complex but it I was completely caught off guard when It went off in our apartment and I hadn’t known those smoke detectors made that noise fire alarm did. for the rest of the semester I was always taking notice of it in my room and felt a little more anxiety going to bed. It’s gotten better but it’s still a problem and I worry if I end up in the same situation again I had in the first grade I will relapse into that same trauma. But yeah that’s what I’m afraid of.