Fear mongering.. maybe it worked

[Grace360]

The devil works hard against my anxiety but my family works infinitely harder. Ever since I mentioned I wanna take the vaccine they've been instilling fear in me ever since. They just so happen to know all these people and stories on Facebook of people who died of the vaccine. It further made me scared when she said a nurse friend suggested against the vaccine.
I guess she might have won. I don't know. Its evil how she used my anxiety against me but maybe it worked. I'm so scared to take it now. Even though, I need to. I'm gonna be an adult soon. I wanna take my mask off. I wanna stop worrying about this so much.
I just heard a story, no I didn't look for this story, this girls mom died. No prior conditons, of Covid. My chances of something awful happening gets higher as I become an adult. Something is urging me to bite the bullet, take the risk, and get an uber tomorrow to get the vaccine. On another hand my moms voice is echoing in my head of everything that could happen, her going so far as to say that she might let me go to the er myself if something happens.
I just don't know. I'm so scared. I just wanna be safe. Logically I should just do it. But anxiety is powerful. Especially when everyones against you.

 

[MATD]

Have you considered she was afraid for you because of your anxiety? I doubt it, you are a teenager, thinking like a typical teenager. I was one too, so I know how they think. If your mom was against you, she wouldn’t give a sh*t if you got vaxxed or not. Your mom cares about you and your well being. Not only that, she accepts her responsibility of keeping you safe from yourself and the world. You just don’t have the capacity to recognize it right now. Someday you will. Just because a parent won’t let you have your way doesn’t mean they are against you, thank your lucky stars she really is for you.

 

[Cuchculan]

In Ireland people 16 or under need their parents to sign a form to have the vaccination done. Anybody over 16 is considered old enough to make their own minds up. That is what it is all about. Making your own mind up. Based on what you know. Not based on the opinions of antivaxxers or even the opinions of pro vaccine people. Both of those lots of people have their own agenda. One to stop you taking it. The other to make you take it. We have a few of both on this forum. Others, like myself, couldn't care either way. If a person wants it, they get it. If they don't want it, they don't get it. Simple as that really.

 

[Phillies Phan]

Grace, you’re right..you are almost an official “adult”. From your posts it’s obvious that you are a very intelligent young woman. Adulting is not easy, believe me. But being an adult means believing in yourself to do the right thing. I’m presently going thru an issue where I had to as you say, bite the bullet and proceed with what I know is right. No, it wasn’t easy. I wanted so bad to put blinders on and ignore what I know is the intelligent approach.

I hope you can take this giant step towards adulthood, and do what you know is the best thing for your health. As you know, if you don’t have your health, everything else you might have, like wealth, power, etc is useless.

 

[Phillies Phan]

Have you considered she was afraid for you because of your anxiety? I doubt it, you are a teenager, thinking like a typical teenager. I was one too, so I know how they think. If your mom was against you, she wouldn’t give a sh*t if you got vaxxed or not. Your mom cares about you and your well being. Not only that, she accepts her responsibility of keeping you safe from yourself and the world. You just don’t have the capacity to recognize it right now. Someday you will. Just because a parent won’t let you have your way doesn’t mean they are against you, thank your lucky stars she really is for you.

You know how “they” think, huh? Not every teenager is an ignoramus. My 15 year old is mature beyond his years. An older son certainly was not so at that age. Grace may have anxiety, but she clearly is able to reason. Just stop with the damn preaching and let this young woman make her own decision Without pretending you “know” her, her mother and her life situation because guess what..you do not.

 

[Grace360]

You know how “they” think, huh? Not every teenager is an ignoramus. My 15 year old is mature beyond his years. An older son certainly was not so at that age. Grace may have anxiety, but she clearly is able to reason. Just stop with the damn preaching and let this young woman make her own decision Without pretending you “know” her, her mother and her life situation because guess what..you do not.

They both insult any ounce of intelligence I have and also assumes my mother is a saint. At this point I have to ignore it.

 

[MATD]

You know how “they” think, huh? Not every teenager is an ignoramus. My 15 year old is mature beyond his years. An older son certainly was not so at that age. Grace may have anxiety, but she clearly is able to reason. Just stop with the damn preaching and let this young woman make her own decision Without pretending you “know” her, her mother and her life situation because guess what..you do not.

Everyone has the right to their opinion, even you. I call it the way I see it. You really have a problem with me. Why are you obsessed with me? I have never did anything to you or said anything about you, yet you persist. I guess your opinion is the only correct one on here. My humble apologies to his highness.

They both insult any ounce of intelligence I have and also assumes my mother is a saint. At this point I have to ignore it.

99%+ recovery rate versus a vax that no scientist can guarantee will not affect you now or later in life. The math isn’t that hard. I was trying to help you see reality. So be it.

 

[Grace360]

Update ig. My fear is both in catching covid and also getting the vaccine. I've seen the deaths that have happened after the vaccine. While I believe the numbers are inflated vastly, some I see are true. Or are attributed. Heart enlargement, myocarditis, blood clots. A fever or a little bruise fine but seeing those things happen after the vaccine even in just very few instances, scares me. It ties into my fear of things that happen rarely to people my age, but happen nonetheless.
And of course getting covid. Numbers are on my side but there are outliers.
I hate the uncertainty and there is a lot of it.

 

[Nutmeg]

I’ve had three doses of the vaccine now, and during the height of covid worked in a hospital that was a covid centre. I haven’t caught it…yet (we have to test twice a week).
I don't tend to look at numbers, because they are very often misleading and have been designed to fit a narrative. Instead I see what I see with my own eyes, and I wait for things to unfold. The truth will always out in the end, but sadly in this situation we are the lived experience, and that doesn’t help us much at all on a personal level. When researching anything we need to be very careful of confirmation bias, and that is something that most social media ’researchers‘ don’t seem to understand. It’s also worth considering that there is no definitive answer to it all yet, and that’s a really difficult thing to have to admit to ourselves.

I would never tell someone they should or shouldn’t have the vaccine, as that’s personal choice. We make decisions everyday that impact ourselves and others, and we don’t always know whether we’ve made the right one. This is no different.

 

[MATD]

Grace, in reality, life is uncertain. It’s always been that way, and it always will. It’s how we learn to cope with the uncertainty that is important. That’s the bottom line, how we cope. We ALL have to learn how to do it. Unfortunately some of us just don’t learn very well. But that can be fixed if we start educating ourselves, realizing we don’t have control of life in general, but we do have the ability to control ourselves. The anxiety we develop is a result of low confidence in ourselves and a lack of understanding reality and life. That’s where we can begin to make the changes in ourselves that can help us live a better, more meaningful and peaceful life. Right now, you have the best opportunity to make these corrections. Youth is on your side and you haven’t had years of anxiety embedded in your mind like us older folks have. You also have older and hopefully wiser folks to guide you a little, having learned from their own life experience. Anxiety is an emotion, just like love and joy. But it is a misleading emotion. Always remember that. It produces negative thoughts about ourselves, it literally erodes our confidence. We ALL have to learn how to control our emotions or the emotions will end up controlling us. What you are experiencing is a result of your emotions controlling you. Same with me, I’m no different. But we can learn how to control them and not let them make us miserable, so we can live better. I hope this helps you understand.

 

[Lorysoms]

Joe, just don't let your daughter do the shopping for you....this jar is 6 or 8 years old, and I haven't put much of a dent in it.
78 fl oz is a lifetime for me and you both
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