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Okay, I am having severe anxiety, which is just making everything bad.
I read this thread in another place earlier today, about a cat licking a bit of garlic dressing, so I ended up googling it cause although I know garlic is bad for cats, it destroy red blood cells, I don’t know how bad it is. Just took it as a way to educate myself a bit.
Well that was a bad idea I think, cause now I am going crazy and giving myself a whole bunch of anxiety I would not have if I had not read this. If I had just not read this!
I had dinner that had a lot of garlic in it. Cremed potatoes with loads of garlic. I would never ever let my cat eat off my plate when the food contains garlic or any onion and such. But after I was done eating (I had cleaned up and came back to my seat), my cat was licking the carpet right by where I was eating, and yeah I am freaking out by it.
I would not really ever freak out by this, cause he does this everywhere, all the time. Especially if he finds some of his fluff on the floor he will eat it. So normally I would not react at all to this, something he has done 100 times and more. Absolutly not anything I would usually react to. What if I had not even seenhim do this, I would not be reacting to anything he does right now
But now I am just freaking out. What if there was some garlic there? What if I dropped some sauce down there as I was eating? What if? The «what if» is the drive behind my insane anxiety. And I don’t know how to make it go away. Cause I am fairly certain that there was no food on the floor (can’t remember dropping anything), like I am very sure, but that small «what if» just I keep looking at him, and thinking is he breathing a bit fast? Is he acting a bit different? I can add this happened about 3 hours ago, and its been some long 3 hours I know calling the vet can be a thing to do. Problem is; its expensive. Don’t get me wrong I would never heaitate to take him to the vet, but can I afford to pay hundreds of dollars just because of my anxiety? Cause I really absolutly do think I am making a big deal out of nothing. And the vet would be expensive since its evening and also a holiday where I live.
Does anyone have any calming words for me? How to put stuff like this out of my mind. Fudge, I hate my mind sometimes. I keep overthinking everything. Currently he is resting (not really deep sleeping, but doing that cat - I am sleeping but not really deep sleeping - thing.) He is currently lying steady at 17/18 breaths pr minute. Deep breaths not shallow. Yes I spent 10 minutes counting his breaths cause my mind is going crazy.
I read this thread in another place earlier today, about a cat licking a bit of garlic dressing, so I ended up googling it cause although I know garlic is bad for cats, it destroy red blood cells, I don’t know how bad it is. Just took it as a way to educate myself a bit.
Well that was a bad idea I think, cause now I am going crazy and giving myself a whole bunch of anxiety I would not have if I had not read this. If I had just not read this!
I had dinner that had a lot of garlic in it. Cremed potatoes with loads of garlic. I would never ever let my cat eat off my plate when the food contains garlic or any onion and such. But after I was done eating (I had cleaned up and came back to my seat), my cat was licking the carpet right by where I was eating, and yeah I am freaking out by it.
I would not really ever freak out by this, cause he does this everywhere, all the time. Especially if he finds some of his fluff on the floor he will eat it. So normally I would not react at all to this, something he has done 100 times and more. Absolutly not anything I would usually react to. What if I had not even seenhim do this, I would not be reacting to anything he does right now
But now I am just freaking out. What if there was some garlic there? What if I dropped some sauce down there as I was eating? What if? The «what if» is the drive behind my insane anxiety. And I don’t know how to make it go away. Cause I am fairly certain that there was no food on the floor (can’t remember dropping anything), like I am very sure, but that small «what if» just I keep looking at him, and thinking is he breathing a bit fast? Is he acting a bit different? I can add this happened about 3 hours ago, and its been some long 3 hours I know calling the vet can be a thing to do. Problem is; its expensive. Don’t get me wrong I would never heaitate to take him to the vet, but can I afford to pay hundreds of dollars just because of my anxiety? Cause I really absolutly do think I am making a big deal out of nothing. And the vet would be expensive since its evening and also a holiday where I live.
Does anyone have any calming words for me? How to put stuff like this out of my mind. Fudge, I hate my mind sometimes. I keep overthinking everything. Currently he is resting (not really deep sleeping, but doing that cat - I am sleeping but not really deep sleeping - thing.) He is currently lying steady at 17/18 breaths pr minute. Deep breaths not shallow. Yes I spent 10 minutes counting his breaths cause my mind is going crazy.