rabies phobia

Hello everyone I’m new to this, i actually stumbled across this website when I was doing my now routinely rabies google search, I’ve developed this intense obsession over this horrible disease. Ever since December 30th when I was on my way to a New Year’s Eve party and I swore up and down that I...

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...

23 F USA hi guys :( im a major hypochondriac & have been suffering the past 2 weeks. about two weeks ago, i woke up with a stiff neck. this led me to freak out & assume i had meningitis. the stiff neck subsided, but i started to get a pretty bad headache, one that weaned in and out, all around...

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...

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...

I'll keep this short because I want to make it concise -- I work on a farm and the TL;DR of it is that I was closing tobacco sheds earlier this evening when my sister and her friend (who were also closing the sheds) had an encounter with a bat that flew at them that may or may not have been...

Hello everyone, I've had an irrational fear of rabies for as long as I can remember. Recently, I was cleaning out my basement when I felt something hit my back. I was wearing earbuds at the time so I didn't hear anything from my surroundings. Now, I'm concerned it could've been from a rabid bat...

Hi guys I’m scared of rabies but my family thinks I’m irrational. So when I was on holiday in Turkey near Didim we would take a walk by the sea through beaches and collect sea shells. It was about 10 in the morning when I was about to pick one near some black object I interpreted it as a sea...

Hello, i have posted before here when i had a kinda valid concern that i had contracted rabies from a scratch from a stray cat. Now that this danger is gone and this cat is still fine almost a month later i find myself still scared to death by rabies, all the info i learnt while researching are...

hello fellow health anxiety sufferers, my story is really classic. I am from greece where we have A LOT of strays, everyone pets them especially cats and they go and sit on everyone and ask for food etc. So, 15 days ago i was scratched on my hand by a cat i was petting, it was a minor scratch...

Hello I live in the Philippines. About 8 days ago I had a bat encounter, I was out buying beer for my dad around dusk and when I got back my sister screamed that there was a bat on my back and climbing up to my neck(I was wearing a shirt at the time). Of course, I didn't felt it was on my back...

I sometimes sleep in balcony. I have two little bruise. I have anxiety about bat bite and got rabies so much. I’m so nervous and scared. Could this be a bat bite? Please help

So a few days ago I noticed I had what looked to be a bite mark on top of my foot. Since then it's scabbed over and hurts to touch ... I'm absolutely terrified this is a possible bat bite! I know rationally I have not encountered a bat (to my knowledge) and we have not found a bat in our home...

Woke up with this on me and worried about a bat bite. Now I’m hyper focusing on it!

So Tbh I AM anxious about rabies , cuz 2 months ago I had touched a normal street dog (alive till now) and the ate food without Washing hands so i had a fear about it and became so anxious that i went depressed for a month, after 20 days of that day (I went to give some food to street dogs and...

Yesterday myy dog jumped on my bed and licked my whole face while I was sleeping. I am worried about rabies. The dog is vaccinated but what If the vaccine failed? The dog was in rural area about 4 weeks ago with my grandma and I am not sure If she got bitten by a rabid animal. I wouldn't be...

Nothing has bitten me. I feel so stupid when writing this, but I have extreme fear of getting rabies from anything. anything like food, cups, bathroom sink, fruit, soap, my phone, shoes, things that my vaccinated dog might have licked, etc. I have lost 22 pounds because of worrying. I only slept...

Everything started about 1.5 months ago when my puppy bit me. I didn't get rabies from her because she is still alive an well. But after what I have read about rabies, completely destroyed my life. Everytime I touch something, my mind keeps telling me that I will somehow get rabies. If I touch...

Hi, I’m new here, but wanted to get all this out because it is consuming me. On 6/30 I noticed a linear bite mark, 1/4” wide. I thought maybe it was a spider and brushed it off. On 7/4 we had a bat fly into our house, got it out, didn’t think much off it as we live in a heavily forested area...

Hello All, I am currently living through enormous anxiety and fear of rabies. Two years ago in June, I was touched by a bat near a train station. I went to the ER and the doctor decided to vaccinate me. I took both immuno-globulin and vaccines has recommended by the doctors. Since then I have...