Snow causing panic attacks and outbursts

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It is well into October now and I know we've not got long until snow risks start again. I can't cope with snow. I know other countries have it worse than me, but people here freak out when it snows, and act like they've never seen snow before, and it all gets on my nerves. Also it disrupts my routine, and I have panic attacks going out because of the slippery ice on the paths and being so scared to slip over. This year it's going to be worse because I have recently damaged the bottom of my spine and the doctor said it will be sore for a few months, and I do not want to hurt that again by slipping and falling on my back. It also doesn't help when people point and laugh at me when I slip, because it has happened before, and I get easily embarrassed and fear being in situations where I am in the spotlight, even if it doesn't mean people are laughing horribly it still upsets me, and I wish people would show more consideration instead of pointing and laughing like idiots.
Also I don't like to think that the grass is going to be all covered in this cold white stuff, and the air is going to be colder, and the snow just lingers around for days, sometimes turning into weeks - then there comes a day when it all just about melts, then it starts snowing again. I don't know why the cold weather can't just stay where it should stay, and have the UK be mild and wet through winter, maybe having one or two flurries that aren't enough to become a disruption and will definately melt away within a day, just like we always used to get throughout my childhood.

Seeing snow being forecasted on the weather and hearing other people talking about it just sends my stomach in knots. I know it's not the end of the world but snow is just one of my anxieties and I really don't want all that to come. Last February I went into one when I found it was snowing. I yelled, cried, swore, and got my dad trying to get into the room angrily to hit me for being such a nuisance (that was really scary). But that was February, so next February I'm going to try and stop and think that winter's almost over. But it's November and December what are the worst times to get snow because you don't know how long it's going to last. Ugh, horrible!

wow. It feels weird to think someone would freak out because of snow. Like. I live in north Europe, next to Russia, and we might have over two meters of snow in some places and so cold that you can't go out without a mask over your mouth. So for me snow and cold and slippery is normal. But somehow i understand because i have the same thing with hot weather and sunny days. They make me have migraine, they make me exhausted and feel so sick. I'm scared i will forget to drink enough water and just. Ewgh. And the fact, after hot weather there is thunder. And thundering is one of my biggest fears...

I remember that time I drove 50 miles with my pickup truck - with no weight in the back - in crap so bad I was watching cars slide down hills.

How I survived that is a mystery. Had a touch of PTSD from it. Now I keep chains and sandbags.

I'm jealous, I haven't seen snow in 7 years! I love the snow

I don't understand how you can hate snow so much really. Nothing oblige you to touch it, it don't pursue you and the cold is not a problem if you're dressed for it. (Boots, snow pant, gloves and so on.)

I live in Alabma. We have snow maybe once a year and it's flurries or possibly one inch. Once every hundred years we get real snow and that happened in 93, so I don't have to worry about it again. We freak too, because we might get snowed in and nobody knows how to drive in it so we go buy everything at the grocery store (when flurries only are predicted) especially milk, bread, hamburger meat, and beer.

I would suggest you get some sort of shoes with bottoms made just to walk in it. If you can't find anything and it's pretty thick where you live, get golf shoes or kleats or something like for football. They look funny but you won't fall.

Also, I know you have mentioned before feeling embarrassed for falling, but please let me tell you this. Most people are concerned when others fall but don't offer to help because they don't know what to do or whether or not the person wants them to. When people laugh in a situation like that it's usually nervous laughter unless they are a real a**hole and that's probably not often. It's hard to tell nervous laughter from real laughter, especailly if you are embarrassed anyway. Plus, they won't remember it for five minutes even if they do find it amusing. If I didn't have a good chance of getting hurt falling, I would laugh at myself if I fell and make in, in my mind, into some sort of slapstick comedy thing. Most people's minds immediately go to slapstick comedy when someone falls, especially a young and healthy person, so that may be an automatic thing.

I'd just get some kind of shoes. Also, you can make sure you salt your own walkways in the morning, etc.

Good luck. I'm afraid of snow too because we don't have it.

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and. In my country. You can buy these "ice spikes" to your shoes. Like you can put them on any of your shoes when you go out and it's slippery then take them off when you go in.