I have a serious arachnophobia... ( fear of spiders), as well as vertigo.. ( scared of heights).. and agoraphobia ( fear of crowded places!)
I don't mind mice, rats or snakes, in fact I would rather have a mouse in the house than a spider!!
Due to the heat here... the 8-legged & 8-eyed arachnids are invading my space.. :smth011
what are you afraid of??
I have an acute fear of falling over.
Bit of a bummer really, as it prevents me from skating (what half the town are currently doing on the lake right now). :cry:
I know. It is odd huh?
But i was royally plastered last night & managed to stay upright, despite the icy pavements. ;)
I think it stems from when I was run over when I was 10 & smashed up my face on the kerb.
I'm sorry about that steve, :cry:
i just remembered the post about that... I'm sorry!! :(
wow... maybe this is a thread where we need a psychologist!! :lol:
I have quite a few phobias but i think its partly because i have OCD.
My biggest fear is flying :shock: It often leads to panic attacks, pathetic i know! ;)
I also have phobias of spiders, eating and certain social situations!
if you really do have a serious case of arachnofobia, i wonder how can you post a pic like that? i would have never been able to do that...
i've had arachnofobia since i was very young and although it has gotten slightly better over the years, i still get a serious anxiety attack after just glancing a pics like that.
i remember that back at school my friends used to laugh about it and joke about it, i suppose they just thought i was making a big thing about something small. until after one incident: i think we were 17 or 18, we were in the school library, studying something. then somebody found this big two-page close-up pic of a tarantula from one of the books. and they thought they'd play a joke on me and they threw the opened book in front of me while i was reading something else. i panicked so much that i instantly fell back with my chair and hit my head on the floor and also injured my right arm. not to mention i was totally shocked mentally. i was allowed to leave school early and go home.
after that, i think people left me alone.
i don't tell a story because i'd want anyone to say "oh that was so nasty, poor you". that's not the point. i just think people should understand the difference between real phobias and some "oooo i don't really like rats, they are kind of nasty" kind of dislikes. phobias are not fun and they can really have effect on your daily life in a not-so-nice way.
(i can't refresh this page because the damn spider always jumps on my face from the first post! i think i'm not going to check this thread again!)
Yes, My fear is real,, I spend most of my time, everyday on the look out for spiders. But recently I have been thinking, that in order to overcome this really debilitating obsession, that maybe I should try the approach of controlled exposure... maybe understanding the spiders more, I won't be as scared! .. but since my son enlightened me to the fact that spiders have 8 EYES, NOT just one , as I had always assumed, I got a bit more creeped out!
I watched 'Home Alone' with my son last week.. and I screamed when the spider appeared on the screen!! I would've rather have watched a horror film, so this got me to thinking about the gradual exposure therapy. :shock:
I don't know if I will ever get over the arachnophobia, but I can't let it control my life to this extent. ( even cartoon pics of spiders freak me out!! ) laugh at me !! it sounds funny but, anxiety is not!! :( that's my OCD!!
one thing i've never understood about my fear of spiders is that ever since i was a kid, i've been very much into nature and animals and anything and everything there. especially when i was a kid, i was totally into all kinds of weird lifeforms - i loved nature programs on TV, especially anything that was rather strange, like some underwater/deep sea creatures and so on. i also spent a lot of time outdoors, observing all kinds of weird creatures "live". and i was never the slightest bit afraid/appaled of anything else i saw, quite on the contary: i was just very interested and excited. i could easily hold snakes or bats or or some insects or other creatures like that in my hand BUT whenever a spider appeared, i was totally unable to even look at it, not to mention i could have touched it.
i've always thought maybe i could understand my phobia better if i was also freaked out by lots of similar things too. at least then i could say it's a sort of more general thing, that there's an wider area of things that freak me out in a similar kind of manner. it would somehow make it all more acceptable for me, make it somehow possible to deal with it. but since it's very selected, very defined phobia - i somehow can't even start understanding it and i can't seem to deal with it fully, at least not by myself. and it's also a real mystery, where i got it from, where it came from and why...
hehe.. I'm sorry I freaked people out with the spider pic!! :shock:
I promise I won't post it again!! ;)
I feel the same as japanesebaby... I can touch snakes, lizards (used to keep these), and camping in the Aussie bush is in my blood! Grew up on a farm, acres and acres of bush.. BUT I remember now.... I am SCARED of COWS!! horses not too bad, BUT COWS!! they freak me out... they just stare at you... :smth100
I'd rather play with bugs and worms and six-legged things ... :smth020
Limousines! Yes, that is odd. Please don't ask me why. But everytime I see one I get a empty feeling in the pit of my tummy and my heart starts racing. Maybe it's cos I can't see who's in it or something.
Syringes. I HATE getting shots. Too many bad experiences with bad nurses who didn't know what they were doing. What's worse is my veins are hard to find so they usually end up poking and proding til they find one. OUCH!
Quote from: scatcat on January 05, 2008, 18:10:25
Grew up on a farm, acres and acres of bush..
I'd rather play with bugs and worms and six-legged things ... :smth020
me too, i grew up on a farm too! and yet... eight legs = BAD.
related to syringes:
spiders might get the gold but hospitals get at least silver - or maybe it's a shared gold? anyway. but i think i can handle my fear of hospitals better because i know where i comes from: i had all sorts of issues with my health when i was a small kid, like younger than 10 years. i had to spend time in hospitals, smetimes i had to be there for a week. and if you're a 4-year old kid and you never had to leave your home or be away from your parents - and then they take you to a big hospital and leave you there - that's a scary situation, for any kid i suppose. we also had other severe cases of illness in the family all throughout my childhood, so i had to visit hospitals a lot, even when i was not a patient myself anymore. nowadays, even the smell of hospitals makes me sick. today if i have to go to a dentist or to a doctor myself, i feel sick while sitting there and waiting for my turn - even if i was there for some very simple and harmless reason - but that hospital smell, it's awful and it's so depressing... it creates the atmosphere of complete hopelessness. like someone was repeating to your ear: "you're never going to get out of here."
and the fear of surgical operations: i REALLY do hope i never have to take one in my life. i'm not at all afraid of physical pain as such, but the idea of my body being cut open while i'd have to lie there, all helpless and unconscious - :smth100
OMG :shock: same, same here! needles.. I cry like a baby when I have to have blood taken. Even the 'flu shot.. I have to warn the nurses that I will cry.. and I do.. I'd rather go thru' labour than have someone stick something in my veins (which are so prominent they have no problem) or injection in a muscle!
I think my fear of doctors and hospitals comes from when I was hospitalised in an infectious ward/hospital for whooping cough when I was about 1. No-one was allowed to visit. I was behind glass. ( mum was expecting another baby and I was too infectious)
as for operations, I've always told my son.... "Don't keep me on life support, don't let them operate, just pull the plug and donate my organs!" I can't stand blood!! But do not fear death. STRANGE BUT TRUE.
Just wanna say PUBLICLY that scatcat's comments about my phobia (those who read them earlier) were in no way taken by me as insensitive. Sha has since deleted them & I hope that you put them back please. :D
I consider Lara as a genuine friend (even if I've never met her) & can say to all of you that my phobia is real & even I find it quite funny.
Hope that helps.
x
Quote from: scatcat on January 05, 2008, 19:14:42
OMG :shock: same, same here! needles.. I cry like a baby when I have to have blood taken. Even the 'flu shot.. I have to warn the nurses that I will cry.. and I do.. I'd rather go thru' labour than have someone stick something in my veins (which are so prominent they have no problem) or injection in a muscle!
I think my fear of doctors and hospitals comes from when I was hospitalised in an infectious ward/hospital for whooping cough when I was about 1. No-one was allowed to visit. I was behind glass. ( mum was expecting another baby and I was too infectious)
as for operations, I've always told my son.... "Don't keep m :?e on life support, don't let them operate, just pull the plug and donate my organs!" I can't stand blood!! But do not fear death. STRANGE BUT TRUE.
i agree, being hospitalized at a very early age is something that surely WILL stick in your psyche, i'm certain of that. it just cannot be a healthy experience, psychologically, having to be marooned like that, in a pretty hostile and scary environment. :smth011
strangely, i don't have any fear needles. i'm NOT saying i like to be stung or anything, but otherwise it's almost on the contrary: i only seem to get this feeling of strange mixed feeling of slight fear and lots of thrill when someone's about to take a blood sample of stick me with a needle - i guess that makes me a potential fetishist... :oops: but only a potential one!! :lol:
anyway. i'm not afraid to see blood either (someone else's or especially not my own), or i'm not afraid or pain as such. yet i'm afraid of operations - i don't fully get it.
about life support and so on - agreed. i've asked some people close to me the same, that please pull the plug if i become a vegetable. not sure if everyone considers it fair, to ask anyone such a thing. yet if anyone should ask me, i'd totally understand.
(anyway, maybe it's not something i should ask but i wonder how you weren't too scared to give birth to your son? weren't you afraid of that?)
i never feared death at all, until it changed very recently. and i still don't fear the possible pain and i'm not afraid of what might happen to my poor soul or anything. i guess i'm just afraid that i'll notice that i've just failed everything in life and then that suddenly it's all over and what was the point, that sort of fear i guess. it's more like a fear of failure, i guess. some kind of immense failure as a person, the biggest as there can be: what if you ended up wasting your life? made all the wrong choices, screwed up everything good? :?
**edit: ok now i think you know too much about me already! :?)
now I can't stop laughing... I am 'daft'!! ;)
(okay... the comment went something like..)
hahaha :smth082 :-D :smth037 'acute fear of falling over'??
how drunk are u? Are U like 7 foot tall, and the distance to the ground is terrifyingly frightening?
Quote from: japanesebaby on January 05, 2008, 19:32:33
(anyway, maybe it's not something i should ask but i wonder how you weren't too scared to give birth to your son? weren't you afraid of that?)
i never feared death at all, until it changed very recently. and i still don't fear the possible pain and i'm not afraid of what might happen to my poor soul or anything. i guess i'm just afraid that i'll notice that i've just failed everything in life and then that suddenly it's all over and what was the point, that sort of fear i guess. it's more like a fear of failure, i guess. some kind of immense failure as a person, the biggest as there can be: what if you ended up wasting your life? made all the wrong choices, screwed up everything good? :?
**edit: ok now i think you know too much about me already! :?)
NO, Not scared of labour, Not scared of pain. Pain won't kill ya'. It's the brain that controls these levels. I have high pain threshold I guess?
As for life/death... as someone once said " No one has looked back sadly on a life full of experiences, but many look back wishing they had the courage to do more"
I have had my life flash before my eyes, and in it was my son. No regrets. Courage is not a feeling, it is only when u look back, you can see courage was there. Fear is what u feel when doing a courageous act! Fear is what needs to be faced.
Quote from: scatcat on January 05, 2008, 19:34:17
now I can't stop laughing... I am 'daft'!! ;)
(okay... the comment went something like..)
hahaha :smth082 :-D :smth037 'acute fear of falling over'??
how drunk are u? Are U like 7 foot tall, and the distance to the ground is terrifyingly frightening?
Fank you xxx :-D
Quote from: scatcat on January 05, 2008, 19:44:58
As for life/death... as someone once said " No one has looked back sadly on a life full of experiences, but many look back wishing they had the courage to do more"
This ties in nicely with what we were discussing yesterday, japanesbaby... That's what I meant when I said that the inability to feel satisfied without change may not necessarily be a bad thing.
I don't think I have any real phobias, though when I found a cockroach in my house once I went ballistic and cried and hopped about on one leg until my husband got rid of it. Mmmmh, maybe not a phobia, but pretty close... :oops:
I'm scared to death that another Republican will get elected as president of the US later this year..... :shock: :smth018 :smth010 :smth009 :smth021 :smth096 :smth093
I can't imagine being afraid to fly...I currently take 4 flights per week for work!
I'm terrified of rejection. When I get booed or heckled, my heart-rate rises to scarily unhealthy levels. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to vomit my own insides!
That's why I could never do spelling bees and school plays. I'm too afraid!
'Tis spiders for me - HATE them. Horrible, 8 legged, evil things..grrrr... :evil:
So, imagine my surprise when I went to collect my mail a couple of weeks ago and found a red back spider (nasty, nasty poisonous thing) had set up house in my letter box. Damn thing held my mail hostage for a week as I was too afraid to try and kill it. Waited until a friend visited, then after a few drinkies, got her to help me kill it. Much girly squealing ensued. We ended up drowning the nasty thing in insect spray and spent the rest of the night convinced spiders were crawling on us. Hate,hate,hate spiders..... :smth011
Oh, and as I live alone, am also irrationally afraid of something happening to me and nobody noticing I'm missing.... :(
Hey CV - I know how you feel!!
I can understand you very good Carnage Visor. I hated it at school when i had to do give a presentation, because most of the time i began to studder or my voice turned over.
I'm afraid of birds, it's not that i don't like birds. But when i was, i think i was 12 or something, i walked to the garden door at my parents house and suddenly a blackbird flew in front of my face. And a australien parriot flew over my head, the bird was from a class mate. From this time on i don't like it when birds are flying in front of my face or over my head.
And please don't say, don't watch "Birds" by Hitchcock.
I've already watched it :)
Quote from: Carnage Visor on January 06, 2008, 00:55:43
I'm terrified of rejection. When I get booed or heckled, my heart-rate rises to scarily unhealthy levels. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to vomit my own insides!
That's why I could never do spelling bees and school plays. I'm too afraid!
I have played ice hockey all of my life....both club level and school levels (high school and DIII college). I think the most people I ever played in front of was about 5000 or so and it was the biggest rush ever. Hearing the cheers, jeers, etc was great.
I even had a great moment a few weeks ago at my son's game. He was literally hitting everything and everyone. By the third period, the other team's parents were running their mouths at my boy, calling him by his last name (even though they all have their names on their jerseys, you almost never hear a parent give a kid crap by name). I was so proud! He was even laughing about it on the bench. However, I told him not to wear his team jacket when we left the rink, just in case some nutty parent realized who he was!
I have a real terror...all consuming...of "going under" when about to have an operation...that feeling of total uselessness, having to "give in" to something so totally debilitating, having no control whatsoever on what's happening to me, to my body...*shudder*.. I fight it...by christ I fight it...to no avail...
operations don't scare me ( not that I've had many at all!!) but the f**king feeling of "slipping away"...eeekk...and I am currently awaiting notification of an op on both of my hands and wrists,( not at once, the right hand is much worse) which MUST be done or I will end up losing the use of it.. which is happening, with intense pain...I can feel the bile rising in my throat as I type this... :smth078 :smth009
Oh, joy of joys :?.
It's currently -5 degrees & actually raining here. Anyone remember that ice magic chocolate sauce stuff that went instantly hard when it hit ice cream?
Well, guess what the rain is doing when it hits the ground?
Some crayzees are actually trying to drive their cars :shock:
I'm going to a friend's for lunch & he lives up a hill.
Won't be a pleasant walk. :roll:
Quote from: j on January 05, 2008, 20:22:07
I'm scared to death that another Republican will get elected as president of the US later this year..... :shock: :smth018 :smth010 :smth009 :smth021 :smth096 :smth093
Very reasonable and very much reality, this phobia!
Because people say "I'm afraid of height" = don't go to height places. If "afraid to fly" = ok don't take a fly!
But when people choose shit politician run your country = you can't stop it. It can maybe ruin your life. Life of many other people. It can start wars and pollute our world adn destroy life.
This is true phobia for to have!
Quote from: Steve on January 06, 2008, 09:34:19
Oh, joy of joys :?.
It's currently -5 degrees & actually raining here. Anyone remember that ice magic chocolate sauce stuff that went instantly hard when it hit ice cream?
Well, guess what the rain is doing when it hits the ground?
Some crayzees are actually trying to drive their cars :shock:
I'm going to a friend's for lunch & he lives up a hill.
Won't be a pleasant walk. :roll:
Mmmmh...not a good day for someone who has a phobia of falling over. I wonder what will be more thrilling -- trying to walk up that hill or coming back down?? Let us know if you make it back whole and unbruised. ;)
Quote from: Steve on January 06, 2008, 09:34:19
Oh, joy of joys :?.
It's currently -5 degrees & actually raining here. Anyone remember that ice magic chocolate sauce stuff that went instantly hard when it hit ice cream?
Well, guess what the rain is doing when it hits the ground?
Some crayzees are actually trying to drive their cars :shock:
I'm going to a friend's for lunch & he lives up a hill.
Won't be a pleasant walk. :roll:
i just watched the news and they said it's been really weird weather in some parts of the world today, like it had snowed something like 40 centimeters in morocco. and they also said that eastern europe has been under heavy snowfall today. don't know how it's in hungary then(?)
Quote from: japanesebaby on January 06, 2008, 16:09:28
i just watched the news and they said it's been really weird weather in some parts of the world today, like it had snowed something like 40 centimeters in morocco. and they also said that eastern europe has been under heavy snowfall today. don't know how it's in hungary then(?)
No kidding....at this time of year, we are generally around -7 C (20F). The next 2 days are supposed to be a high temperature of 18C (65F)! I guess our glorious monkey leader GW Bush is right... there's no such thing as global warming. :smth011
Quote from: j on January 06, 2008, 16:58:05
Quote from: japanesebaby on January 06, 2008, 16:09:28
i just watched the news and they said it's been really weird weather in some parts of the world today, like it had snowed something like 40 centimeters in morocco. and they also said that eastern europe has been under heavy snowfall today. don't know how it's in hungary then(?)
No kidding....at this time of year, we are generally around -7 C (20F). The next 2 days are supposed to be a high temperature of 18C (65F)! I guess our glorious monkey leader GW Bush is right... there's no such thing as global warming. :smth011
That's right. It's a myth invented by people who want to sell more crap to us ;)
Apparently it's gonna snow big time tomorrow (I have a 2 hour drive at 6am :?).
Today, the pavements are lethal. I saw a dog slip over earlier & when I called my cat, he didn't look too steady on his feet either. :roll:
looks like it's going to catch us too: forecast tomorrow is heavy snowfall, -6 C (21 F) which will feel like -15 C (5 F) due to wind.
what a day for the holidays to end and for getting back to work! i think i need to leave home early tomorrow, just in case everything's screwed up traffic wise already by 8 am... :?
(otherwise i'm glad if we'd finally get snow, since it's been totally snowless ALL winter so far! which is just screwed up!
i think i'll blame it on george w. bush, just so that i can blame it on someone, anyone... :evil:)
(and sorry to derail this thread for a while)
Quote from: Steve on January 06, 2008, 09:34:19
Oh, joy of joys :?.
It's currently -5 degrees & actually raining here. Anyone remember that ice magic chocolate sauce stuff that went instantly hard when it hit ice cream?
Well, guess what the rain is doing when it hits the ground?
Some crayzees are actually trying to drive their cars :shock:
I'm going to a friend's for lunch & he lives up a hill.
Won't be a pleasant walk. :roll:
Come back down on your bum (WHHHEEEEEE!!)......stopping could be a problem though... :smth017
SPIDERS! :?
And it's strange that I started to love the cure when I saw Lullaby's video for the first time... :o
Quote from: Lady on January 07, 2008, 16:14:42
SPIDERS! :?
And it's strange that I started to love the cure when I saw Lullaby's video for the first time... :o
ohh man!! I love that video.. but the spider... big and HAIRY... crawling... Robert wrapped up in a web... freaky!!! It gets me jumping up thinking I have a spider on me!!! eeeeee :smth088
Quote from: scatcat on January 07, 2008, 16:19:34
It gets me jumping up thinking I have a spider on me!!! eeeeee :smth088
I'm somewhat comforted to hear I'm not the only one who does that.....
I have a phobia of heights!!
I also don't like being tickled!!! :smth011
And, it is a bit embarassing, but I have this bad thing about clowns, and dolls... they scare the wits out of me!! :smth100
Quote from: j on January 05, 2008, 20:22:07
I'm scared to death that another Republican will get elected as president of the US later this year..... :shock: :smth018 :smth010 :smth009 :smth021 :smth096 :smth093
I can't imagine being afraid to fly...I currently take 4 flights per week for work!
LOL!
My father is afraid of flying.He won'y fly, no mater what and since he can't drive, due to strokes. He stays put, even during the last big hurricane evacuation. My parents live in Florida.
My fear is excalators. I won't get on them, no matter what.
I got "stuck" in a lift as a kid..had to jump quite a few feet down when the doors were forced open, eventually..I was on my own, and my friend and I were "racing" each other, her up stairs, me in the lift..yeah yeah, I know, I deserved it for mucking around in one..but, as it started going up, I thought of something I wanted to tell her, and pushed a button to make the lift stop. Stopped alright..between floors... I HATE lifts, just hate them and will avoid them at all costs..
Also, (again as a child) in the UK, after school, I raced across the road, and was missed by a double-decker by a bees whats-it..I can still see the face of the driver..pure terror...and now, my partner has to wait for me whilst crossing roads...I panic a little, and look about 10 times each way before I'll go...led across like a little old lady... :smth012
Quote from: Cure Freak on January 08, 2008, 21:30:36
My fear is excalators. I won't get on them, no matter what.
I totally understand this, once my shoelace got trapped in one and it was really busy. I was stuck at the bottom on my own with all these people being annoyed at me and it started to chew my shoe. So i had to take my shoe off and walk home shoeless :smth011
My phobia are needles! :shock:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_heights
I HAVE TERRIBLE FEAR OF HEIGHTS!
ALL MY NIGHTMARES INVOLVE WALKING OR BEING ON A TALL BUILDINGS, TREES, ...
BESIDES THAT, NOTHING.
Quote from: Hero on January 09, 2008, 19:35:14
Quote from: Cure Freak on January 08, 2008, 21:30:36
My fear is excalators. I won't get on them, no matter what.
I totally understand this, once my shoelace got trapped in one and it was really busy. I was stuck at the bottom on my own with all these people being annoyed at me and it started to chew my shoe. So i had to take my shoe off and walk home shoeless :smth011
Sorry to hear that. That is one of the reasons, why I donm't. I fear something onme will get caught in one.
And back to the fear of flying. Our dear sweet Robert had a fear of flying.
Quote from: silversand on January 06, 2008, 01:38:47
I'm afraid of birds, it's not that i don't like birds. But when i was, i think i was 12 or something, i walked to the garden door at my parents house and suddenly a blackbird flew in front of my face. And a australien parriot flew over my head, the bird was from a class mate.
I have the same phobia :eek: Something similar happen to me, only that I was a little older (like 16), I was walking in the street and, suddenly, a pigeon appeared in front of my face!! I put my hands in my face and the pigeon hit me... just the sound of their wings scare me :(
Quote from: Pita on January 27, 2008, 01:53:06
I have the same phobia :eek: Something similar happen to me, only that I was a little older (like 16), I was walking in the street and, suddenly, a pigeon appeared in front of my face!! I put my hands in my face and the pigeon hit me... just the sound of their wings scare me :(
I can understand you very good Pita.
The sound of the wings of a pigeon is strange. And the curr sounds not very good.
I didn't wanted to say and i don't want to say i hate birds, not at all.
For example i like raven and crows very much, because they are clever and the
coat is nice.
Hey everyone,
I don't have a real phobia but since a coupla years I'm quite scared of swimming actually. It's not that I'm scared for water or something, I once saw something about someone who had a real phobia and was even scared to take a shower caus of all the water.
For some reason I started getting scared to go to pools from when I was 11 or something. My mum kinda forced me because she thought I was just scared to show myself in a bikini haha. If I was with a friend or something it was okay but I was always so axious to get into the water. After a coupla years it got into my head that it had something to do with the crowd around a pool and such. I am really scared to go in a pool when it's crowded like hell, I guess I'm really affraid to be trembled over and drown. I guess that's also why I would dare to go into the sea whereas I'd turn an invitation for the swiming pool down. If a pool is totally empty, I'd be okay, but I still wouldn't swim like when I was young. I'm just too stressed in the water, it can't be relaxing anymore. Now I think I haven't swum in 4 years in pools and 3 years in the sea.
I also quite often have dreams about that I'm in a big ocean and almost drowing by the waves. But I guess that's not just me!
Cheers
I have tons of phobias, I guess the most generic is snakes...ugh...I HATE snakes. Nope, not for me. I have this thing that I feel that there are a ton of spirits about me, and sometimes I think that I see them (and usually they are not overly friendly); and sometimes during the day it's worse. I always start to panic if I over dwell on the concept of "no tomorrow", but I don't know if that is just because I am a parent now. It's like my fears have intensified 10 fold since I have had a child. And I would say that one of my stronger ones is locked doors. I have to check to make sure that I have locked my door about 30 times before I will go to bed. I will pace over and over, even get up from bed, double check (meaning I have to phsyically feel that it's locked, a glance just doesn't suffice) it if I wake up in the middle of the night. And sometimes, I get that way over my car to. My boyfriend can't understand. He will tell me he has locked it, but 99% of the time, I still have to get up and double check. It's nuts! So am I totally crazy?
deep water...
&
small/medium size lizards... :( ( due to a(funny) but traumatic childhood experience)..
I don't mind the larger ones, iguanas....they're ok...I think I can only handle looking at them through glass though.
Quote from: scatcat on January 05, 2008, 19:14:42
I cry like a baby when I have to have blood taken.
In my case is not that I am afraid of neddles, but rather of getting a terminal disease by blood-contact. I'm really paranoic about that :shock:
Just few months ago I went to the barber and he accidentally cut a little part of my neck which make it bleed. Now, I was scared because I didn't know if he use a new shaving for my neck (the place was expensive so I hoped he did). Anyway, I was scary about that sometimes. Yes, I know, I'm a freak.
Awww you're not a freak, I think loadsa people have it!
Now I'm reading this thread again, this morning a huge spider was watching me shower while he was climbing his little ropes, gosh, I couldn't get my eyes off of him, just imagine him suddenly hanging nearby my face with his legs dangling in the air like sipders always do. YUCK, but it's not a phobia, I know.
I just realized something and now it all makes sense:
I'm afraid of people...at least other people my age. I can be around an adult, but when I am walking down the street and a group of kids 14 and up walk towards me, I bolt!
It doesn't help I dont go to a public school, because whenever the taxi drops me off at my house, I have to wait until the students from the public school are out of sight (because my house is near the public school) until I can get out of the cab.
Also, I had a full-on panic attack at a party recently (did I mention this already? I think...) and my heart was racing, simply because there were alot of other teenagers there! Nobody said anything mean, I was just dead scared!
It's getting worse, I'm afraid to call my own friends... :oops:
for anyone afraid of big ugly spiders, liverpool was not the place to be lately:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2SwINRfnI&fmt=18
:shock: :lol:
My biggest fear is psychiatry. They use too much force and unnecessary medicin.
Quote from: bluewater on September 06, 2008, 17:58:53
My biggest fear is psychiatry. They use too much force and unnecessary medicin.
hey,hey, there
bluewater.. I have also a fear of psychiatrists, doctors and psychologists.. ( i actually think they have MORE problems than the norm.!)
As far as I have read, the profession with the most suicidal tendencies are the Psychiatrists.. imagine listening to tormented/traumatised/perverted patients.. then going home to 'assume' a normal life.. :roll:
.. and yes, the profession just pop you on western 'medicine' that fails ultimately in the end. And like a bandaid, it solves nothing but a quick heal. Side-affects, and proper councilling , as well as internal healing, are worth more than being strung-out on meds!
IMHO 8)
For a long time I struggled with agoraphobia which is the fear of new and unfamiliar places. It was a terribly rough time for me. But luckily I got over that and can go out and meet people and have fun.
I also once had a fear of rejection which made it very difficult for me to get a girlfriend for the longest time... And the first one I had was a terrible time but I guess it kinda set me straight because I stood up got rid of the people keeping me down and now Im not afraid of anything haha
Although sometimes I get scared I might be going crazy but then I remember that if i was going crazy I wouldnt be worring about my own madness because id be crazy
Quote from: KingOfSomeIsland on September 08, 2008, 17:49:47
Although sometimes I get scared I might be going crazy but then I remember that if i was going crazy I wouldnt be worring about my own madness because id be crazy
Actually, that seems like quite good reasoning to me... :-D
I have fear from airplanes and trains, I don't know why... but when I see them I don't feel good :roll:
Creepy crawlys (like spiders, fluttery things, bugs etc ) :shock:
Needles.
Balloons. (especially those latex rubbery ones they have at kids parties) I know, weird, but always afraid they'll pop :shock: Hate that.