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I am feeling very anxious.
I'm sitting here waiting to have a mammogram done.
My anxiety is completely irrational, I know it is, but I'm still a wreck.
My mom died when I was a kid. She died at age 41 from leukemia. So many people used to tell me how I was "just like her." They were trying to be comforting.
Unfortunately in my little kid head that got a bit twisted. I came to believe I was also going to die in my 40s from cancer.
See what I mean about irrational?
I know intellectually it's not true, and yet every time I have a test done my anxiety sky rockets until I get the results back.
So I'm sitting here focusing on my breathing and waiting my turn.
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