Everyday Canvas

Separation Anxiety

Prompt: What things in your life have caused you to have separation anxiety?

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Separation anxiety is an abnormal clinging to a person, situation, or even a thing.

Separation anxiety are usually seen in children. That is why playing peek-a-boo with babies is good. It makes them realize someone they think is gone is there but not seen easily. I don't recall being clingy to anyone in my life; maybe I was in childhood but I don't recall it or anyone talking about me being clingy.

This is probably because I don’t normally cling to places or things, but people getting seriously sick usually unnerves me. I might have a slight separation anxiety concerning my husband as he is older than me and we have been together more than half a century, but it is not to the degree that it renders me useless, and I don’t really cling to him in the first place.

I might have other worries, mostly hidden and very slight though, like being in an accident, being incapacitated to a degree that I can’t do anything for myself, a hurricane hitting the area, or something bad happening to my children, neighbors, or friends. But none of these worries is so bad that I can’t function. I just don't like it when such a thought occurs in my head.