Talk About Your Fears

Aliens_Exist · June 19, 2014, 9:52am

Only the pokemon players of this community will get that joke.

Tsukasa · June 19, 2014, 6:48pm

shut the fuck up everyone gets it youre not special

Karo · June 20, 2014, 1:28pm

LoisLaneEl · August 25, 2014, 7:50am

There is a huge difference from being afraid of something and having a phobia. Being afraid of bees is sensible but a phobia means that a person will not leave the house during the entire summer because there are bees outside. I have been diagnosed with several phobias from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and GAD(generalized anxiety order).

I cannot hold a job because I am agoraphobic. Pretty much afraid of everything especially leaving the house. I can’t leave my house without a friend/family member or my service dog. I’ve had numerous anxiety attacks in public causing people to call an ambulance and losing a lot of friends who can’t handle someone this high-strung.

I have the fear of silence. Not awkward silences in a social situation simply silence. I must at all times have noise. A tv or music is always on. Being bipolar I can’t sit alone with my thoughts because they drift to suicide, self harm or leaving the country. I Often wear headphones in public and if I don’t I sing or talk to my dog.

I was stuck in a fire as a kid so I get panic attacks around fire and just hearing a fire alarm, even if it’s just a drill. I have to be told when a fire drill will be done so that I am not there.

I was raped in the woods near a park. I can’t go into nature or heavily wooded animals. I can’t go to a park I can’t go to my Niece’s softball games because it’s at a park. It’s been 12 years but I still get flashbacks and panic attacks when I’m there.

I have a phobia of hospitals. I’ve been in several times and unless held in psychiatric hold I can’t go in. I couldn’t visit my grandmother when she was dying in the hospital.

My fear of sharks sing as serious but I can’t get in the ocean. I can’t even get my feet wet. It’s an irrational fear but it doesn’t consume me since I don’t live near water. I can’t go in a boat for fear I might fall in or the boat might sink. I am an avid swimmer so I don’t fear water. I can’t be in a plane that goes over an ocean. I fly all the time around the US, but I can’t leave no matter how much I want to.

According to my psychiatrist, your phobia must interfere with your daily life to be diagnosed.

The point of all of this is that the word phobia should not be taken lightly. People that use that word generally don’t know the true meaning. They think because they freak out when they see a snake or a spider or a bee that they have what is a serious medical condition. A phobia is “irrational” fear. Being afraid of creatures that can harm you is not irrational, it is the human condition that keeps you alive. My friends never understood until they saw my first panic attack. When I had my first panic attack driving and wrapped my car around a tree. When I did the same thing 3 years later. When I didn’t leave the house for 6 months after that. When they get married and I can’t be there to show my support. I know that I will never marry, have kids or be able to live alone. That’s what it means to have a phobia.

Aliens_Exist · August 25, 2014, 8:49am

So glad this was bumped.

I’m deadly scared of Ebola.

cartrox01 · August 25, 2014, 1:48pm

LoisLaneEl:

There is a huge difference from being afraid of something and having a phobia. Being afraid of bees is sensible but a phobia means that a person will not leave the house during the entire summer because there are bees outside. I have been diagnosed with several phobias from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and GAD(generalized anxiety order).

I cannot hold a job because I am agoraphobic. Pretty much afraid of everything especially leaving the house. I can’t leave my house without a friend/family member or my service dog. I’ve had numerous anxiety attacks in public causing people to call an ambulance and losing a lot of friends who can’t handle someone this high-strung.

I have the fear of silence. Not awkward silences in a social situation simply silence. I must at all times have noise. A tv or music is always on. Being bipolar I can’t sit alone with my thoughts because they drift to suicide, self harm or leaving the country. I Often wear headphones in public and if I don’t I sing or talk to my dog.

I was stuck in a fire as a kid so I get panic attacks around fire and just hearing a fire alarm, even if it’s just a drill. I have to be told when a fire drill will be done so that I am not there.

I was raped in the woods near a park. I can’t go into nature or heavily wooded animals. I can’t go to a park I can’t go to my Niece’s softball games because it’s at a park. It’s been 12 years but I still get flashbacks and panic attacks when I’m there.

I have a phobia of hospitals. I’ve been in several times and unless held in psychiatric hold I can’t go in. I couldn’t visit my grandmother when she was dying in the hospital.

My fear of sharks sing as serious but I can’t get in the ocean. I can’t even get my feet wet. It’s an irrational fear but it doesn’t consume me since I don’t live near water. I can’t go in a boat for fear I might fall in or the boat might sink. I am an avid swimmer so I don’t fear water. I can’t be in a plane that goes over an ocean. I fly all the time around the US, but I can’t leave no matter how much I want to.

According to my psychiatrist, your phobia must interfere with your daily life to be diagnosed.

The point of all of this is that the word phobia should not be taken lightly. People that use that word generally don’t know the true meaning. They think because they freak out when they see a snake or a spider or a bee that they have what is a serious medical condition. A phobia is “irrational” fear. Being afraid of creatures that can harm you is not irrational, it is the human condition that keeps you alive. My friends never understood until they saw my first panic attack. When I had my first panic attack driving and wrapped my car around a tree. When I did the same thing 3 years later. When I didn’t leave the house for 6 months after that. When they get married and I can’t be there to show my support. I know that I will never marry, have kids or be able to live alone. That’s what it means to have a phobia.

Very good message.

WinkyWollyApocolopto · August 25, 2014, 9:58pm

LoisLaneEl:

There is a huge difference from being afraid of something and having a phobia. Being afraid of bees is sensible but a phobia means that a person will not leave the house during the entire summer because there are bees outside. I have been diagnosed with several phobias from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and GAD(generalized anxiety order).

I cannot hold a job because I am agoraphobic. Pretty much afraid of everything especially leaving the house. I can’t leave my house without a friend/family member or my service dog. I’ve had numerous anxiety attacks in public causing people to call an ambulance and losing a lot of friends who can’t handle someone this high-strung.

I have the fear of silence. Not awkward silences in a social situation simply silence. I must at all times have noise. A tv or music is always on. Being bipolar I can’t sit alone with my thoughts because they drift to suicide, self harm or leaving the country. I Often wear headphones in public and if I don’t I sing or talk to my dog.

I was stuck in a fire as a kid so I get panic attacks around fire and just hearing a fire alarm, even if it’s just a drill. I have to be told when a fire drill will be done so that I am not there.

I was raped in the woods near a park. I can’t go into nature or heavily wooded animals. I can’t go to a park I can’t go to my Niece’s softball games because it’s at a park. It’s been 12 years but I still get flashbacks and panic attacks when I’m there.

I have a phobia of hospitals. I’ve been in several times and unless held in psychiatric hold I can’t go in. I couldn’t visit my grandmother when she was dying in the hospital.

My fear of sharks sing as serious but I can’t get in the ocean. I can’t even get my feet wet. It’s an irrational fear but it doesn’t consume me since I don’t live near water. I can’t go in a boat for fear I might fall in or the boat might sink. I am an avid swimmer so I don’t fear water. I can’t be in a plane that goes over an ocean. I fly all the time around the US, but I can’t leave no matter how much I want to.

According to my psychiatrist, your phobia must interfere with your daily life to be diagnosed.

The point of all of this is that the word phobia should not be taken lightly. People that use that word generally don’t know the true meaning. They think because they freak out when they see a snake or a spider or a bee that they have what is a serious medical condition. A phobia is “irrational” fear. Being afraid of creatures that can harm you is not irrational, it is the human condition that keeps you alive. My friends never understood until they saw my first panic attack. When I had my first panic attack driving and wrapped my car around a tree. When I did the same thing 3 years later. When I didn’t leave the house for 6 months after that. When they get married and I can’t be there to show my support. I know that I will never marry, have kids or be able to live alone. That’s what it means to have a phobia.

holy shit dude amazing