You know sometimes when something happens to our closed ones, even if its just a bruise on hand, your entire heart feels for them. There is abundance of concern and a fear of losing a closed one.

The anxiety of losing someone we love is called Thantophobia. And I guess I'm suffer from this phobia way too much. Whenever my family have some kind of health issue I just have so much of anxiety that I freak out too much. And I have no idea how to calm myself down.

I don't know what I start imagining after such circumstances but its that I feel anxious that I start thinking about the extreme possibilities. And I know me reacting this way doesn't help the situation any better.

But then I decided to know the reasons behind this phobia. After evaluating and analaysing myself I got to know that the reason behind this anxiety is way too over concern and extreme dependence on your loved ones. But I also found that its okay to have this fear. But when it reaches to extreme that you start compromising your health then the situation worsens. These overthinking and anxiety led to taking tolls on my health and I eventually had more mental imbalance. I never wanted to be happy because I felt something wrong will happen if I laugh. All the time I was cautious about people preferences and health standards. But then as time progressed it just affected me. And it turned out that I was never helpful in situations of health emergency. So my parents started hiding their problems from me so that I focus on myself, but obviously this can't be helped for longer duration. 

So I started understanding that to keep my surrounding sane and optimistic, it's imperative that I keep my mental health Im proper way. Therefore, I started practicing yoga, meditation, breathing exercising and most importantly calming myself down. I think that's the best I can do for myself and try that these anxiety doesn't get problem with my health.

After a month of practicing these exercises, even though my concerns for my family remained same, but somehow it didn't turned into anxiety. I started understanding situations better and in a more calmer and serene way. I realized whatever is bound to happen its gonna happen anyway. By anxiety and overthinking I won't be able to solve any problem rather will create one. 

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