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    Fasting Health Benefits?

    Has anyone else here looked into how Fasting can help with a WIDE range of benefits? I of course have been looking into natural ways to heal my gut of the lipoma in my intestine and while doing so, came across the benefits of fasting and how it can actually reduce anxiety & depression... I'd...
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    Rabies Anxiety is back. Possible bat bite

    Hello guys, So I already know that I have rabies OCD unfortunately and for the past 2 to 3 months I was doing ok, no scares, and everything was under control until 1 week ago. I was outside at 7:00 PM getting the mail out from my mailbox and I just stopped to check what mail we received and a...
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    Struggling with heart/stroke anxiety - does it get better?

    I'll preface this with the fact im 27 and i've never had anxiety issue my entire life and so this has been quite sudden and fast. Back in September I had what i'd call a stress attack while in bed. I couldn't get comfy, my heart rate was elevated, I couldn't lay down and my whole had the body...
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    Possible bat bite from a trash can outside

    Hi guys, so i will try to make this as short as possible. Unfortunately, i have a very bad rabies and bats scare. So, this happened in Los Angeles at 5:00 P.M. So yesterday was the day when I had to take out the trash cans outside from our backyard to the front of the house for the garbage...
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    Me again A possible bat bite from under the passenger seat

    A possible bat bite from under the passenger seat Location: Los angeles Time of exposure: Today Animal: Bat Vaccination status: None Hi guys, so i have a very bad rabies fear to the point of losing control of myself, i admit this unfortunately. So today stupidly i dropped something between...
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    Deathly scared of bats. Something flew on my face today

    This is the picture. Deathly scared of bats. Something flew on my face today Location: Los Angeles Possible animal: Bat Time of day: 1:00 P.M No vaccination Hi guys, so today around 1:00 P.M i was in front of my workplace holding the door to go outside and something flew on my face and...
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    So frustrated!

    Let me start by saying I’ve suffered with Health Anxiety since I was 16 years old, I’m currently 28 & it has been miserable. When I turned 21 I just let it be and decided to live my life. I have pcos, was able to get my cycle back on my own without any pills, great. Recently I had my period and...
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    Scared of Tetanus, symptoms presenting.

    Hi guys, so I will try to keep this short. While at work, a stapler ammo got stuck to a paper and I tried to remove it using my finger and upon doing that, the stapler ammo kind of pierced my finger, there was no blood or anything but it hurt and I see a pinprick spot now. Now me being scared of...
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    Doctor visits

    Anyone else sooooo afraid of getting tests done at the doctor? I have MRI and blood tests coming up and just can’t stop thinking about what it might be. Playing the worse scenarios in my head of when my doctor gives me the results. I’ve been having so much muscle and nerve pain- tingling...
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    TETANUS??

    HELP i scratched my leg on something rusty yesterday (technically the other day since it’s 12 am now) and i forgot until now and now i’m freaking out
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    Rabies anxiety is back. Possible bat bite.

    So I was very calm this past few weeks not thinking about rabies or bats again but something happened a few days ago. Hi guys, so a few days ago, i was at a movie theater with a friend watching a new movie. I am from USA and bats are not common around where I live but sometimes they are found...
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    Something got into my nose after seeing a flying thing resembling a bat. Possible rabies saliva

    Something got into my nose after seeing a thing that resembled a bat. Possible rabies saliva. Hi guys, I am new at this and i just wanted to ask a question and see if i have to worry about anything. I live in USA, in western coast and the most common species of bats in my county are Mexican...
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    20M Scared of rabies, possible bat or rat bite

    Hi y’all, so i will try explain why i am worried. Today my kitchen drawer where we store knives and forks, got stuck because a large knife was stuck in the drawer and it was not opening properly. So i had to put my hand in there to try to move the knife and after 25 minutes it worked. Now after...
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    Rabies anxiety is back. Possible bat bite

    Possible bat bite, scared of rabies. Hi guys, so i will cut to the chase. It was 5:30 P.M. and it was still very cloudy and very much light outside. I was in my friend's car chatting with him and decided to get out of the car and while getting out i felt my hair on top of my head getting...
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    Possible Rabies Exposure

    I was walking out of a convenience store at a populated rest stop and walked underneath a large tree. A very tiny drop of something hit my lower lip, could this have been saliva from a bat? I didn’t see any bats. For context it was a sunny day at 2pm in Florida and this was a populated rest...
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    Throat tight

    Does any one else have a tight throat or feel their food going down or stuck when eating . It’s freaking me out and I’m worried I have something serious
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    Rabies Concern, possible bat bite.

    Hi guys, so one month ago, I developed a rabies fear from bats. I live in a city where there are no bats, there are, but we don't see them. But still, I am afraid of them. I was researching bats when I learned about rabies, and that is where my fear started. I read that you could be bitten...
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    rabies indirect exposure please help

    so on october 26 i touched a trash bag directly where a raccoon ripped it open in the middle of the night. i don’t know if he did it with his teeth or hands. regardless i had a cut in my pinky that i got on october 25 (the day prior) and i had no clue if i touched the bag or not. the raccoon...
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    Cardiac fears regarding masturbation.

    Please delete this if this is not allowed. I’m not sure where this started. I’m 24 years old, I am overweight, and I struggle with PCOS. I also have had bouts of hypoglycemia, but do not have diagnosed diabetes. Within the past several months, I have had instances of severe panic attacks Post...
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    Rabies, scared, Possible bat bite.

    Hi guys. So, a while back, I had a bite, and I thought something rabid bit me, and that is when my fear of rabies started. I almost got out of it until a couple of days ago. This is another thing that happened to me that I think I may have been exposed to rabies and that I may be gone in two...
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