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Post by brydie on Sept 13, 2004 18:35:52 GMT 11
Brydie, I'm also really intrigued - why did the lorikeet attack? I DONT KNOW!!!!!!  :-/it just flew at me...it freaked me out so much!!! but i get freaked out at little things all the time, and then after a while i get over them....like after i saw american beaty, i had lots of nightmares!! and i'm not particulary afraid of spiders, but if something happens like one falls on my head then i'll be mildly paranoid for a few day afterwards. thats just me though. ...i never did anything to hurt it, though....stupid lorikeet... |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Sept 13, 2004 19:20:01 GMT 11
I also have a weird relationship with the dark. I love the dark, yet sometimes I'm still afraid of it. I love the dark, but it does freak me out occassionally at night, when i don't want to get out of bed. My other thing that sorta has to do with the dark, but usually the lights are on, is when i'm home alone in the middle of the night, and ever since I was little, I've been afraid of opening doors when no one else is home. I'm sorta over it now, but like I'd go to the toilet, and I'd be scared of opening the door again cause I'd think they'd be some axe murderer on the other side. I'm fine in the day though... And at night... In fact, I think I'm over it now...
Another weird relationship i have is with diving boards. I love them, but I'm scared of them. It all came about cause when I was a little kid I was at my Grandma's and she was watching this murder movie or something, and this guy was in a wheel chair and they showed what happened to him when he was a kid. He was a champion diver and he was practising one day and he hit his back on the board and broke it (his back, that is). And then, in the movie later on he commited suicide by handcuffing himself to the chair and driving into the diving pool. Diving boards have freaked me out ever since, and my fear of heights doesn't help either with that, but the other thing is that I love them. So I usually go on them anyway, but I always have to have a friend with me and sometimes I have to see them go first before I'll do it.
I seem to have love-hate relationships with a few of my fears...
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Post by Arien on Sept 13, 2004 22:37:48 GMT 11
Okay... well everyone else has revealed their deep dark fears, so I'm going to too. My fears are...
- Pain, like I won't go out and do something I know is likely to cause me physical pain.
- Being separated from loved ones (actually I know if I fear that, but I don't like the thought of it at all
- Dentists. I hate the dentist. I avoid it at all costs.
- Driving on highways/abandoned country roads at night.
I don't really fear spiders or anything like that. I don't like them getting too close (I suppose I fear them biting me actually) but I'm ok with them most of the time.Squarmi  aww, i love going to the dentist!!  (except when i was getting teeth out. i never wanted to go then!  ) But i agree about the country roads thing!!! AHHHH!! i can't be outside in a huge open space alone at night...especially countryish areas. it really freaks me out Delwyn, i know what you mean about confrontations don't like them... and i don't want to lose my eyesight, hearing....yeah. i'm afraid of lots of stuff  |
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Post by Miska on Sept 15, 2004 14:09:47 GMT 11
ooo wow ...this is really interesting...cos (As min said) ppls fears are so similar... brydie - (i think it is) i agree with u. ill be paraniod for a while about somethin that freaked me out...atm its with feeding my bros fish...(okies a little extreme) but i think we forgot to feed them and they were sooo hungry that they jumped up and bit my finger...so im a little paranoid that they'll jump out of the bowl and hence ill b killed by my bro...tho im sure ill get over it...(go figure - a 21yr old scared of fish nad her 16yr old bro)
ooo i ahve a love-hate-terrified relationship with sharks... i think they are sooo beautiful and the most magnificent creatures. i can sit and admire/watch them for days! in fact i feedthem in the syd aquarium...like went diving with them...BUT i get sooo freaked when i hear the shark bell at the beach. i go white and feeze...so stupid cos im usually in the water..:S
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Post by brydie on Sept 15, 2004 14:13:18 GMT 11
hmmm...i'm not particulary afraid of sharks, but i dont really like them either...i'd probably be terrified of actually swimming with them in an aquarium or something, tho...
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Post by Miska on Sept 15, 2004 14:15:06 GMT 11
yea... it was wierd cos i had this photo..i was swimming wit a group of ppl at narrabeen beach..it was late avo, but blah..i saw the photo like a week later and bout a meter from us there was this huge fin!!!! had to b a sharks on cos of the shape nad stuff...but i was like 'cool!!!!!!! thats sooo sweet'....im sure if i had seen it that day id be a royal mess!
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Post by Raineth on Sept 15, 2004 15:25:44 GMT 11
I'm rather scared that my gorgeous husband is going to die before me. He is in the Air Force and gets sent to places like Iraq for four or five months, which is very worrying.
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Post by Miska on Sept 15, 2004 22:08:57 GMT 11
i think that woudl truely freak me out!!!!
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Post by Lucy on Sept 16, 2004 9:01:59 GMT 11
I have a moth phobia. If there's one in my room at night I have to go sleep downstairs. I can't even stay around to kill/swat/catch them - I jsut run away screaming and crying!!
I think it's weird when we have phobias/fears that have no basis. I mean, I;ve never had a bad moth experience. I know they can be reinforced by the relief you feel of getting away from the object/subject but there's no real reason for why it starts (unless someone you spend a lot of time with when you're little has the same phobia as you, then their body language/fear can be a trigger). I did a whole module on it in college, it was really interesting - not very helpful though!!
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Post by Elspeth on Sept 16, 2004 10:57:02 GMT 11
I'm rather scared that my gorgeous husband is going to die before me. He is in the Air Force and gets sent to places like Iraq for four or five months, which is very worrying. That sounds like one of my fears, too. Although I don't have to send my husband away to dangerous places for four or five months at a time. I still worry if he's late home from somewhere, though.  |
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Post by Rilla on Sept 16, 2004 18:22:41 GMT 11
Delwyn, i know what you mean about confrontations don't like them... and i don't want to lose my eyesight, hearing....yeah. That was actually me who said that, but oh well ;D *hugs Raineth* |
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Post by Clare on Sept 16, 2004 19:47:48 GMT 11
Greatest Fears 1. Losing control or discovering that my control is only an illusion and subsequently things that might facilitate loss of control - eg. swimming too deep at the beach, being caught in rips and dumpers (fear just makes it all the more exhilirating of course), being in crowds, being alone with just one other person.... heh. I'm just a big scaredy cat 2. Losing my mind. I would rather be dead than not have use of my mind. 3. Heights, to a mild degree. |
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Sept 19, 2004 14:07:50 GMT 11
my greatest fear is dying before i've actually lived life seeing as everyones listed their pet fears, i'll list mine 1. im Mettephobic 2. im Ichthyophobic 3. im also Pnigerophobic 4. i freak out when people touch my neck, sometimes i start hyperventilating about it. my friends grabbing my neck just so that they can laugh at me doesnt help  |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Sept 19, 2004 14:23:13 GMT 11
And for all of us not associated with clynical terms, what do they mean?  ;D Cat |
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Sept 19, 2004 14:30:45 GMT 11
mettephobia is the fear of butterflies and moths
icthyophobia is a fear of fish
pnigerophobia is a fear of being choked and smothered
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Post by Rilla on Sept 19, 2004 15:03:30 GMT 11
*shudders at the thought of being chocked and smothered* |
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Post by Elspeth on Sept 19, 2004 15:22:12 GMT 11
I've heard of the neck thing before. It was on a TV show I was watching and a woman was talking about how she can't wear high-necked tops or scarves because she has a complete phobia about it. Apparently, when she was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and that was what caused her phobia. It was a really fascinating show, all up. |
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Post by Dameon on Sept 19, 2004 15:24:46 GMT 11
It really makes me wonder what causes phobias.
I can understand why I'm agoraphobic, that comes from my depression and anxiety issues.
But why fear of men?
What's THAT all about?
KSL
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Post by Elspeth on Sept 19, 2004 15:28:31 GMT 11
It really makes me wonder what causes phobias.
I can understand why I'm agoraphobic, that comes from my depression and anxiety issues.
But why fear of men?
What's THAT all about?
KSL Maybe it's because they throw their old, smelly socks at you. Oh no, that's just my Timothy, isn't it? * secretly plots to throw the socks back next time...* |
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Post by Rilla on Sept 19, 2004 15:29:27 GMT 11
Maybe all the men you've met are just all big and scary...
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Sept 19, 2004 16:14:05 GMT 11
maybe sometime at a young age, like a vague idea that men were bad was planted into your sub-concious, and over time, it grew without your knowing |
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Post by Dameon on Sept 19, 2004 16:16:00 GMT 11
That's the only thingI can think of.
Once I get to know them, I'm fine. It's only strange men. And it's not a fear of strangers because I'm not that bothered by women.
*shrugs*
Meh.
KSL
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Sept 19, 2004 16:19:10 GMT 11
yeah, well with all this stuff that you see on t.v, its not hard to fear strange men stupid t.v, only showing the bad stuff |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Sept 19, 2004 21:28:11 GMT 11
I got my fear of heights from my Mum. When I was little I was never afraid of heights, but my Mum's petrified of them and a few times we were somewhere high she'd start freaking out and then I'd freak out cause she was freaking out. I was little.
But, i'm not as bad as her. I'm more afriad of falling from the height than of the height itself. But i'm still a total dare-devil. Last time I went indoor rock climbing, I was freaking out from the height one minute, and on a total high from it the next.
I think I'm just weird...
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Sept 19, 2004 22:21:10 GMT 11
we are all weird in our own way |
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(except when i was getting teeth out. i never wanted to go then! 
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