General 12/21/12 Anxiety

[Jezebel]

Please excuse me if this is in the wrong forum, as I'm not sure where to post.

Has anyone else's sufferer experienced an uptick in vigilance and paranoia related to the Mayan calendar thing? My sufferer doesn't directly believe that the world will actually end, instead believes that people that *do* believe are going to go nuts and cause havoc (I'm not sure on what specific type of havoc, although I think he means lots of mass casualty incidents).

We are (were) supposed to be driving home from California to Pennsylvania this week, but this upswing in paranoia coupled with a burst of "I need to be alone" time has caused him to ask that I fly home with the baby and he drives the entire trip (!!) alone himself. Obviously, I'm not a fan. I'm also not sure exactly how much I should push back against this idea.

Help?

 

[Serasen]

As a supporter I can say I've seen this. But weirdly enough it's me that thinks those things. My husband who has ptsd can not stand for me to even mention anything about it. I try not to stress him out more than he already is.

I guess I have a little bit of ptsd still hanging on from years past and an unhealthy dose of paranoia to go with it.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I do not know if you have been interested, I do not think the world is going to end.

 

[therapybankrupt]

I believe the Myans just did not predict any further in their calendar! That is all there is in my opinion. My goodness how many millions of years ago did they do the calendar? It probably seemed so far away to finish :roflmao:

 

[Deleted member 12723]

My daughter told me today the mayan calendar goes on forever. It does not end. Where can a person get some facts to find out? I think we will all be ok. I do not think anythng bad is going to happen. Just my two cents.

 

[therapybankrupt]

Gizmo Probably google it! The nice thing about it is nobody knows when the end is coming so I guess it will not matter until it happens. Then its to late to worry about it!:tup:

 

[Innordinate]

I'm not a supporter, but I agree somewhat with your husband. There will be people out there that believe this and some people I think will go crazy. I expect, sick as it, to hear of a few homicide suicides on that day, but I think most people that might be worried will just stock up on extra food perhaps.

If it helps maybe find something online related to the Y2K panic and show him the facts that nobody went beserk on Dec. 31 1999?

An interesting paranoia fact:

There is an astroid (DA14) that is going to pass by the Earth, closer than some of our sattelite orbit. Feb 15, 2013. It was predicted that it may actually connect with the Earth in 2020, but scientists have completely ruled it out now. If I were you, though, I wouldn't mention that to you're PTSD partner.

 

[amethist]

The way the Mayan calender was written all those years ago, means it does not now fit with our modern calendar.

I am not sure how it fits, but as far as I am aware it is out of line. So to be honest the day that the world should have ended could have passed years ago.

 

[Bilby]

I think most people that would be worried about it would stock up too, although I do fail to see the point. If the world is going to end, what can you do about it anyway?

Seriously, I'm not paying too much attention to it, and if you were to travel separately, the world ending would still have the same consequence for all of you - together or apart.

Perhaps he just wants the alone time - it could just be a coincidence.

 

[AS1975]

Has anyone else's sufferer experienced an uptick in vigilance and paranoia related to the Mayan calendar thing?

I find it kind of hard to attribute much faith to predictions from a group that not only died out before the Aztecs took over, but who failed to predict the arrival of the Conquistadores under Cortes. Same thing with gypsy fortunetellers, it seems strange that so few predicted what Hitler was going to do to them, just saying

 

[Innordinate]

Plus... it makes sense to end a calender on Dec. 21st...the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, would have been significant in those days.

What the heck, the Egyptians thought comets passing by meant something big was going to happen.

Caribbean tribes used to get high and thought their hallucinations were spirits.

Primitive doctors use to drill holes in peoples heads to relieve headaches.. etc etc etc.

 

[shell]

I heard given they didn't factor in all the leap days, all those years ago, apparently it should have ended five years ago, but being the cynical person I am, I never believed it anyway.