Hi everyone,
I'm new to this site, and am really grateful that this exists. I always thought that I was the only one with this horrible fear. Anyways, I have a tough situation. I work full-time on an ambulance and am constantly around sick people. Lately this horrible stomach virus has been going around and I'm terrified I'm going to catch it. Everytime I go to work, I pray I won't have a patient who has, but I keep getting patients who do have it and then I stay up all night long thinking i'm going to be sick. It is getting so bad that I want to quit my job all together. I am also in nursing school and am considering dropping out because I don't want to be around sick patients. I'm so scared. I don't even know what to do anymore. I'm causing myself to think that I have the virus, especially because I had a patient yesterday who had it. Of course I scrubbed my hands multiple times but i dont know what to do. Any suggestions? I feel like my life is falling apart because of this fear.