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How do I get over feeling that everyone is going to leave me?

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Anonymous
December 3rd, 2017 10:57pm
To understand why you have this fear of abandonment, you need to look at your past and try to understand where this feeling is coming from. If you can figure out the basis of the fear, hopefully you can begin to heal and learn how to cope with the feeling when they arise.
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RaeAnn22
December 6th, 2017 4:32pm
Find a good group of friends who you can trust. If they are true friends they will not leave. Also, start building trust with others. Over time you will start to feel like they won't leave you. I just accomplished this myself! I often do not feel like everyone is going to leave me, but still on my bad days I start feeling insecure and like I am a bother to two of my closest friends and my boyfriend. They assure me that I am not a bother and they still love me. It was a hard journey but I started off by rebuilding trust.
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neptne
January 3rd, 2018 2:07am
Do your best to connect with people. If it seems overwhelming, start small. The people around you are there for a reason and the more you put into your relationships the more reassurance you'll get out!
Anonymous
January 19th, 2018 1:27am
You can get over the feeling that everyone's going to leave you is try to think what others have did and impacted you and decide if they ever left you before.
Anonymous
March 1st, 2018 5:12pm
You may not get over that feeling right away . Also may be very hard to get over it but nobody is going to leave you. You are overthinking
Anonymous
March 10th, 2018 3:04am
Fears of abandonment are so hard to experience, and it's often difficult to find the cause of them. I think part of helping that feeling is to find the reason for the fear. If people have left you in the past and you fear that happening again, you can try to think of what caused that. If nobody has left before, you can try to see what makes you fear they will leave, and at what times you feel like that.
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JustAFriendlyNeighbor
March 29th, 2018 6:18pm
By thinking that you’re too good to leave! You are perfect and no one would want to leave you. Think everyone loves you and tha everyone isn’t thinking about you because they are too focused on work.
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calmIris98
April 5th, 2018 4:02am
You distract yourself from that and love life to your fullest. Try destressing over a cup of tea? Or maybe an activity you do all the time
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tazmeen12931
April 27th, 2018 4:31am
There is nothing in life you can't get over with. I do agree that things are sometime difficult to tackle but they get better with the passage of time. All you should know is you have your own worth. If someones leaves you that's not your concern because at first place everyone is not meant to stay in your life. you would hardly come across 2-3 people who might be sincere with you. Remember whatever happens ,who is meant to stay will always be there for you. There is no need to blame yourself for this and also no need to worry. The day youl'll understand your worth to this world the fear of loneliness will automatically disappears.
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HugsNPugs3
April 28th, 2018 10:09am
If you feel like they're going to leave you, you have to make sure that the friends and family you have are there for you, if you find that most of the time they're always willing to help and that they truly do care, you don't have to worry about them leaving you.
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Sanaa99
May 2nd, 2018 10:41am
Our action is interpretion of our thinking. Therfore you have to change the way you think in order to chNge the result
Anonymous
November 15th, 2018 11:49pm
As time goes on the feeling will fade. As you begin to trust them the feeling will go away. Time is the only thing that will help you see that not everyone is coming into your life to leave you hanging. The real ones will stay. Regardless of how you act or what you do. I’ve had so many people that I thought would leave but they didn’t. Before you make your mind up on who’s going to leave or stay give them some time to prove their worth and if they chose to leave they’re missing out on someone wonderful.
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LoveLife47
December 14th, 2018 12:33am
You have to go with the flow..just keep telling self I'm enjoying this relationship at the moment. I'm not going to ruin this moment with negative thinking. I'm going to enjoy this person like it's our last day on earth. Have fun! Don't overthink...worry if this person might leave me..that cause you to feel insecure than you try pushing that person away..because you think..gonna eventually leave me. Let the relationship play out..be patient. That's the most important thing..give the other person a opportunity to prove their loyalty. In the beginning don't be too tense..serious. Just tell self right now we having fun! Tomorrow can take care of itself.
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MadisonJLynch
December 15th, 2018 1:51am
You get over the feeling by not thinking everyone is going to leave you but instead to think that everyone will stay by your side through everything. Even through the worst of times and through your easiest of times as well. You need to take deep breaths, relax, and do something that will help you forget on what your thinking about. You're anxiety is in your head and your anxiety is MAKING you believe that everyone is going to leave you. But in reality, no body will. Your mind can make you believe in tricky things to make you believe in anything such as being gullible.
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ExtraSoftBlanket
January 9th, 2019 6:17am
Sometimes, it is best to temporarily ignore thoughts like that, until you are in a good place to focus on them. I think it is best to ask yourself questions about those thoughts. Ask yourself why you have those thoughts. Ask yourself if those thoughts are rational, or if they're doing you more good than harm. It can also be helpful sometimes to just imagine the opposite thought and think about how they are always going to be there for you. This type of thinking can, at the very least, help you in the future to think more positively.
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BlankaM
January 9th, 2019 9:41pm
You are only worried about 'people leaving you' if you have not yet overcome certain insecurities within yourself. Self-love and care is so important, and once you accept and begin to love yourself, you will have so much more confidence. You will not mind people leaving you because you know that it is for the best. Everyone is meant to be in your life, but not everyone is meant to stay. You have to stay positive and take the best out of all the experiences you've had and try think of it constructively. Ultimately, you only really have yourself to always rely on 24/7 in your life. So take care of your body, meditate, eat healthy, exercise regularly and try and train your thinking to be positive! It's hard, but small steps everyday will make you achieve that ultimate inner peace that will leave you happy with the world, and won't leave you insecure.
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LetsWorkItOut
March 24th, 2019 5:13pm
Its true everyone is going to leave you at some point cause thats the way life works. But instead of seeing it as a part of life we think of it as fear, this feeling or fear starts mostly because some important person has left us in the past, what we fail to see is that it was the circumstances that made us apart. We start blaming ourselves that maybe we have some kind of problem and that we are replaceable in everyone's life but thats not true. We just have to start accepting this fact and remind ourselves that some people will leave us but some will stay.
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Breath929
May 3rd, 2019 7:41pm
Talk to people you care about, open up about how you feel. Find things you love about yourself, try and focus on these things. Stay busy, practice self-care, go out and explore a new place on your own. Try making new friends and doing things together. Think about good qualities you have that make you a good friend, try doing these things more. Try and find the root cause of what is making you feel like people are going you leave you. Maybe it's a bad experience or something from your past. Try and confront this and be honest with yourself.
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jocchi
June 7th, 2019 3:01am
It's important to put yourself in your peers' shoes. What would you do if you were your loved ones? Would you leave your friends because of the reasons that you think they're going to leave you? If you're not sure, it is always okay to ask. The best of friends are ones that you can have open communication with. If you feel as though something you said or did will make them leave you, talk to them about it! It will be good for both of you to have this open dialogue and see where each other's feelings stand.
Anonymous
March 21st, 2020 12:23am
Think about the positives and how many many people love you in this world. These people would do anything to protect, love and charish you no matter what happens to you they will always be on your side through thick and thin. Think about these people and how hard it would be for you and for all the other people who love and cherish you if something happend to you all of a sudden. Just talk about it and say something to family and they can help you get over this feeling that you will get left. If they truly love you they will never leave you.
Anonymous
March 21st, 2020 3:46pm
I don't Im still afraid of it every day but I believe one day i will be able to find a way to get over that feeling. This feeling still scares me but I guess I learned to talk with the people I love and let them know how I felt. My parents are worried about this I take pills but I still can't get over my anxiety and depression this is one of those reason I can't shake that feeling so I try to laugh with those people I try to smile and I try to be with them so they know I love them
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empathicAlly17
March 25th, 2020 4:03am
It sounds like something early on in your life made you feel like people who you love in life are going to leave you- have you spent time thinking about where you learned this? There is usually a reason our brains come back to the same thought patterns. And if it was a traumatic event, it might be a "survival feature" of your brain, trying to protect you. If you can do some work to figure out where you learned this thought/feeling, you may be able to recognize when current situations are bringing up this feeling from the past and label it as "that old pattern of feeling worried people will leave me again" and be able to distance yourself from it. It will take time and practice to learn to trust people and trust that they want to stay in your life as long as possible. I hope this helps a little bit.
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noideaijustwanttohelp
April 10th, 2020 9:54pm
the fear of getting hurt almost always gets you hurt. Why live a life in fear? you might get hurt but you also might live your best life and find someone who is truly amazing. are you sure you want to give up this kind of life only because your mind is playing with you? you risk some happy moments only because you think something bad could happen. it might not even happen at all. so your actions are based on probabilty. if they choose to leave you that means that they werent the right person for you in the first place. and remember that it is always better having no one than having fake people that furt you around you. What you dont change about your lifestyle you choose. do it wisely.
Anonymous
April 17th, 2020 11:10am
I use to struggle with this a lot and I'm sorry that you have to deal with this. Sometimes if a lot of people have left us, it makes us question ourselves and think that we're not good enough and maybe they left because of us!!! That's not true. I think if it seems like you have found people you are close to with now and you still feel that way- maybe try opening up with them and explained your feelings to them: they might help you and encourage you that'll they will always be there and try to help you so you can built trust and your feeling of being scared might start to fade... :) opening up to someone close that seems trustworthy often are trustworthy :P opening up helps
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Keldravna79
April 17th, 2020 6:59pm
Recognize they will but that's life and new people will enter your life making it better. You deserve love and companionship. You deserve to be happy! Everyone dies. That is just part of life. You can enjoy the little things. The sunrise the snow even the storms. Life is a series or events we just live through and learn from. You can only rely on yourself. Your truth. I would say move but just love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love and then you die.
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nebtita
May 1st, 2020 8:00pm
Try to remember times where you have felt affirmed by the people in your life, times where you felt loved or supported. It could be text messages, conversations, things they did for you, or times you spent together. And understand that those times were genuine. I also find it helpful to become more comfortable with being alone, learning to be alone but not necessarily feeling lonely. When you're not scared of being alone, the fear of everyone leaving goes away and it makes your relationships stronger because the constant worrying is gone. It also brings you comfort to know that even in the worst case scenario, you will be okay.
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3anonyms3
June 4th, 2020 6:15am
I have definitely felt this and I try not to ignore my feelings. I acknowledge them and try to figure out why I'm feeling them. It could be from a past experience, because of something someone said etc... Then I like to do some mindfulness that targets self confidence. I follow the steps provided in the mindfulness activity and do that regularly. I think the most important step is to understand why you're feeling those specific emotions. Fromm there you can change any negative feelings to positive ones. I'm no expert but I always try to recognize my emotions, listen to my body and and brainstorm on activities I think i could really benefit from.
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Darksaviour04
June 21st, 2020 9:30am
Every feeling has an origin, some past event that triggered this deep fear you need to find what was your trigger and what are the small things that make you feel this. Once you find your trigger you can try convincing yourself by analysing it and telling yourself it was one time and if it happens again I will just pick myself up because I am the one who made myself if I have myself I will find new people I need to trust myself and try to enjoy my relationships. You can even try talking about this with your friend the one who you think can assure you which will give you a mental reassurance
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strawberrychar
June 28th, 2020 8:05am
I'm so sorry that you are feeling like that and I completely understand how you are feeling. It could be a hard and scary feeling. It may be due from past trauma in the past or just your mind telling your silly thoughts to scare you. First know, that sadly it is normal for someone people to leave your life but that also means new people to come into your life. Know that the people you have in your life love you and support you. Know that they are in your life for a reason and won't leave you randomly. Friends are here to always be there for you. Remember that friendships can last a long time and not everyone will leave you.
Anonymous
July 15th, 2020 6:23pm
To get over the feeling that everyone is going to leave me, I think of how far I've come through the perseverance, tenacity and grit I have. I also think further upon this by remembering a few motivational phrases from speeches, "You didn't come this far, just to come this far," "How bad do you want it," and "Your life isn't over, every struggle is a new beginning." I remind myself I have manifested much through my lifetime and through this I find solitude in my struggle because the struggle leads to greatness. I also know from my childhood depression, you are never alone and when times are bleak and you feel alone, just remember that YOU MATTER.