01-16-2006, 05:40 PM | #181 |
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01-16-2006, 08:39 PM | #182 |
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and I of...................
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01-16-2006, 11:02 PM | #183 |
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I'm afraid of edges. As in, if I feel a metal edge against my skin (especially around the throat or wrist) or if I'm standing on the edge of a sheer/steep drop I will freeze up and won't relax until the edge has been removed from me.
It's weird, both those situations could point to other fears, such as fear of bleeding or fear of heights. But I'm fine with blood and I like looking down from a great height, it's the edge that triggers the actual fear. Something that I wouldn't say is a phobia for me but that never fails to distress me is being stranded or left alone in a place away from home. It's especially bad if I've forgotten my cellphone (or if it's dead) and there's no clock around because then the time just seems to go on and on and on and there's no way of telling when someone will realize that I'm not where I'm supposed to be (e.g. with family or friends). That particular fear isn't helped by the fact that I end up in such situations far more than I would like... Loud, unnecessary noises also upset me. Repeated loud, unnecessary noises can drive me into a near-homicidal rage. It's just one of those things.
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01-16-2006, 11:58 PM | #184 |
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Lady M, that fear of edges which you've mentioned immediately made me think of "past life trauma." There's this threory out there amongst those who believe in reincarnation and the like, namely that our unusual or marked phobias can be some "memory" of a trauma which ended in a death to us in a past life. My Dad insists that he was buried alive in an Egyptian tomb with a Pharaoh, which explains his intolerance for dark, confined spaces. He also thinks he was shot down in a wartime fighter jet in world war II before his "present incarnation," explaining his profoundly acute terror of being up high. One time I took him up the Space Needle in Seattle and he almost had a full-on panic/anxiety attack. Luckily, there's a bar at the top so he had a few scotches and was able to calm down - a little.
Dad used to do a LOT of drugs in the sixties and seventies. And eighties, too, actually... But still, it's interesting to think about!
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01-17-2006, 12:09 AM | #185 |
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The Space Needle is fun... had my junior prom up there, very pretty.
I don't think I've had any past lives. A bloody lot of characters living in my subconcious, yes. Lives in parallel worlds, maybe... But I've never felt there to be anything more to my past than this life... It is an interesting thought though.
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01-17-2006, 12:12 PM | #186 |
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i have this incredible fear of dolls and clowns and things. it all started when i read/watched "it". ever since then, if i see a clown? forget about it.
i don't know when the doll thing started. i used to have a million baby dolls and i loved them. but as i got older, they actually started creeping me out to the point that i packed them all away in my closet, then got creeped out that they were even in my room, so i moved them into my grampy's house next door. lol i didn't realize how badly they disturbed me, though, until last saturday when i was at my grandma's house with my family. my cousin brought up one of her baby dolls and her and my other cousins were fooling around with it, dressing it up in her little brother's (who is 2) pajamas. i walked into the room for a second, and one of them threw it in my face and i screamed! i hid my face and told them to knock it off, so my brother said alright alright. but when i opened my eyes he shoved it in my face again and i actually started crying! and i mean, like, full-out, hysterical crying! it was awful! i couldn't believe how wussy i was about the whole thing! so yeah, i'm a wee bit terrified of dolls... lol
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01-17-2006, 07:11 PM | #187 |
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I'd like to diagnose brownjenkins with absolutophobianorecognisis. That's when you make absolutes and refuse to recognize them - compulsively and repetitively and over and over and over and over ... again!
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01-17-2006, 07:11 PM | #188 |
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My pet phobia: The giant cricket that will come after me to avenge all the little crickets I've smushed.
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01-17-2006, 10:21 PM | #189 | |
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01-18-2006, 08:24 PM | #190 |
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I'm not even gonna say what I'd like to diagnose Inked with. He'd get too offended and miffed. How does a diagnosis completely taken out of context relating to his beef with a fellow mooter from a TOTALLY DIFFERENT THREAD have anything at all to do with phobias? How insulting.
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01-19-2006, 06:06 AM | #191 |
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All, let's not get too personal here. This thread is about your own phobia's, not the imagined ones of others.
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I have anxiety about going to class. This is a problem for a university student. [Insert student life joke here. Go on, you know you want to.] [It's not like you go to class anyway in university!] There, now doesn't that feel better?
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01-27-2006, 01:07 PM | #193 |
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The perfect thread for the following...
http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...h=Christianity paranoia, it's not just for conservatives anymore!
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You know, if you're gonna believe in something so strongly that you attend rallies and conventions and whatnot, I would think that you understand what it's like to believe in something very strongly. From there, you should have tolerance, then respect for other people's beliefs. You should understand that yeah, people believe in stuff. And still survive together, even together in a democracy. Imagine! These paranoid politicians fighting for religious anarchy just haven't thought about it, or else they would have come to that conslusion. They're the blindly faithful zealots. That was a good article. I figured I'd state that ^ here instead of any religious thread where it would be nitpicked and drowned in statistics, specifics, and whatnot in half a minute. People are nuts.
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But I used to have nighmares about one clown in particular. That was different though; I had a clown at my 5th birthday party or something, and I dreamed that I came across him somewhere else, and I forgot my shoes but didn't want him to notice, and he didn't like me. It makes no sense, but could scare the pants off a sleeping five-year-old. EDIT: Ah, shucks. Someone switched the "Edit" and "Quote" buttons on me again.
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02-03-2006, 01:15 PM | #199 |
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another thing to add to my list...CROWS
LARGE AMOUNTS OF CROWS....a f***ing crow attacked me yesterday...just flew over my and raked its claws on my head..the bastard..shoot it shoot it! jk i know they're endangered...but shoot the crow who attacked me!
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You're kidding; he just attacked you like that? How very Hitchcockian! Why on earth did the crow deliberately claw you; did he think you were some kind of threat or was he just being randomly terrifying? Animals are a trip, sometimes.
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