First things off: I would like to thank everyone who in this megathread keeps spreading positive, confirmed and unbiased news about people recovering, you guys have been a life saver so far.
Now, onto my problem:
These past few days have been hell on earth for me, at first I wasn't taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously, but when my country became one of the most with confirmed cases that's when it hit me.
I was destroyed while hearing the news, I fell into a huge depression and I'm now spending all of my days at home doing nothing, not even play videogames, I just lay in bed with phone for pretty much all day.
No matter how much I try to remain calm and try to look at realistic facts, the irrational mind always manages to make the situation worse.
"there's has been a lot of cases in which most patients have recovered from the virus, it's not that bad!"
"yes, but are we really sure about that? What if those people who recovered get reinfected again? And what if those people who get infected a second time actually due because the virus is deadlier the second time it hits?"
"my country only has 2k cases confirmed in a country with 60mil people, this means there's roughly only a 0,002% chance that I actually get the virus!"
"yes, there's only a 0,002% chance of you getting the virus, but if you get it, there's a 100% chance that you will die from it because the virus will keep reonfecting you over and over again untill your lungs gave in and you die"
It's doesn't matter how much I try to look at statistics and remain positive, the irrational mind always manages to find a "Yes, but what if" that contradicts the previous statements and make things look worse.
The irrational mind doesn't care about reality or facts, if it can get me to panic with lies and doubt it will do that, and so far, it has succeeded in its objective.
The worst one so far has been:
"You have throt burning, perhaps you already have the virus and you are about to die in a few days".
I can no longer cope with it, it's horrifying really.