#thank some diety for no one actuallu getting sick

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So, I have a severe phobia of people being sick. Like SEVERE phobia. Collapse to the group and scream and hyperventilate if someone gets sick around me levels of phobia.

And my coworker just made a sound to imitate that action about a news headline he read and. Im at work. I can’t have a panic attack here. Im only here for a few more minutes luckily but I am struggling to not sob at my desk right now and Im all shaky and my breath hurts. And just. I don’t know how to tell my coworker he needs to never do that ever again around me.

Im usually really good at advocating for myself and my mental health but this is like, the one thing where once Im already all fucked up about it, Im just. Incapable of doing that. Right now Im pretty sure if I so much as spoke Id end up crying immediately. So I just. I don’t know what to do. How do I make sure he knows to not do that again?