Posted by AMD on August 28, 2004, at 21:00:12
In reply to Re: Bleach! Fear of household cleaners! » AMD, posted by chemist on August 28, 2004, at 20:42:37
Thanks chemist. Yeah, of course I don't touch, drink, deliberately sniff the stuff -- I just worry about the breathing in of the fumes during regular household use. It sounds irrational, but I haven't yet found a way to cope with the fear. The other thing is, I can't avoid it. For example, if I'm at the gas station and accidentally breathe in some fumes, I'll freak. Nothing I could do to prevent that. The problem seems to be instead some psychosomatic and obsessive symptoms resulting from the worry. Hence anyone else last night would not have thought twice about it. But me, the moment I started thinking "uh oh, you breathed in some fumes," I get that dread in my head until I am worrying about it so much in actually interferes with my mental processes which, of course, I then turn around and blame on the fumes.
So, are these types of insults severely damaging to brain? I confuse breathing in some fumes with deliberant inhalent use, but I guess there is a big difference there.
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