Phobias and other irrational anxieties - Page 13

BeardofPants · 10-06-2007, 01:05 PM

Roya? I think, given the chance, I could agree with you there.
*is very glad SHE is no where near landmines

Stay safe chica.

Lief Erikson · 10-06-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The last sane person

Now, to be on subject; I have an outstanding fear of landmines.

Is it the left-overs from the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s that caused that fear?

The last sane person · 10-07-2007, 04:19 AM

Why, however did you guess?

Nearly planted my foot on one yesterday, I was officially just a little jittery after that, and to think, I was walking along what was supposed to have once been a playground.

Lief Erikson · 10-08-2007, 05:33 PM

Jeesh.

The Gaffer · 10-08-2007, 06:07 PM

I think that would be enough to give you a phobia.

Landmines are a curse on humanity.

Thain Peregrin Took I · 10-16-2007, 12:51 AM

What's really weird is that sometimes I'm afraid of the dark, but sometimes not. Like you know when you're sleeping over at a friends house and you wake up at night, and there's no lights on, then you start hearing like little creaking noises or whatever that just turn out to be the house creaking or something along those lines, but you bulk it up to someone in the house and then you freak out. Yeah, but other than that, sometimes I just freak out a little bit when I'm going to bed at night and there's not lights at all and it's just really weird because lots of other times I'm perfectly fine.

***Tessar*** · 10-16-2007, 01:36 AM

I'm not really dark-phobic either, Sane, but I always leave a small light on, like in my closet or in the bathroom down the hall from my room. Or even the little entrance light downstairs. Just enough that I can barely make things out.

I'm perfectly fine sleeping in a pitch black room, but if I have a really bad nightmare or if I can't sleep, I just prefer to be able to see

. Not a requirement... just a quirk. You might consider a nightlight, as silly as it might sound. I personally have no qualms about indulging my little whim in this particular

.

Lief Erikson · 10-18-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Tessar

I'm not really dark-phobic either, Sane, but I always leave a small light on, like in my closet or in the bathroom down the hall from my room. Or even the little entrance light downstairs. Just enough that I can barely make things out.

Interesting. When I walk around after dark, I sometimes feel a bit less comfortable when there's a little light on than I do when there's no light on. So long as I don't trip

. I think it's because that way I can't see all of the potential hiding places for some lurking marauder.

***Earniel*** · 10-18-2007, 08:10 PM

It's not the dark that is scary for me, but what might be in it. At this point my prolific imagination usually -and unfortunately- runs away with me.

I remember this one time I had to walk through a nice, pretty much remote tree-bordered lane to a gateway (think 200 meters) to pick up an abandoned bike. In the rain. After dark. With only lights at the house and at the far-away gate. (It wasn't even my bike. I volunteered to it, how stupid was I?)

I will not tell you how much I cursed myself for ever seeing and remembering (at the worst moment possible) some X-files episode with a werewolf.

You know it will never happen, but at the same time I could literally envision something coming from behind the trees and attack me. Vivid imagination is one thing you do not welcome at those times. The more I started to near the house the faster I started to move. Had to force myself not to run 'cos, you know, a flight triggers a chase response.

When you know perfectly nothing is going to happen. I swear, if anyone had gotten it into their head to go out and help me with the bike, I'd have died on the spot.

BeardofPants · 10-18-2007, 09:08 PM

See, werewolves would have been the least of my worries - I would have been gearing up for the regular rape&pillage scenario. x_x

Nautipus · 10-18-2007, 09:11 PM

I had a dream one time that my friend was a werewolf. But he was still cool.

***Earniel*** · 10-19-2007, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by BeardofPants

See, werewolves would have been the least of my worries - I would have been gearing up for the regular rape&pillage scenario. x_x

We-ell, in a nice cottage on a fenced old abbey domain, in a nice rural community, but with several minutes biking distance to the nearest houses, you don't really come across many rapists and pillagers onless they're into trees....

You don't necessarily come across werewolves either, but then that's part of the irrational things.

Midge · 01-24-2011, 04:32 PM

*Reviving old thread time!*

I have emetophobia. It's not as bad now as it used to be. I would bawl and run from the room if I even saw a sign of gagging, let alone vomiting. I couldn't stand to hear it. I remember being at preschool and seeing a classmate throw up from at least 30 yards away. I was incapacitated for the rest of the day. Once my brother was ill and I spent an entire evening holed up in the pantry with one small book and my fingers stuffed inside my ears.

I bring this up because my husband got sick last week. Though I freaked out a little bit, I was proud of myself for giving him a hug, bringing him a glass of water and cleaning up the bathroom after he felt better.

It's funny because some people get a nervous stomach for things like public speaking or doing something they've never done before. I get a nervous stomach when people around me are sick. Even thinking about it, I'm wishing I hadn't eaten so much for my lunch. Though I didn't get sick last week, I ate like I was for four days.

I don't know why I'm like this. I don't remember anything from when I was young. I can't remember a time when I wasn't emetophobic, though.

I do know it's improved though because I can now read stories when people get sick, or hear about them without worrying. I still can't watch them on TV or in real life, or hear the actual event, though.

EllethValatari · 01-24-2011, 07:54 PM

It's not a phobia, but I have a very serious case of OCD. Every night I have to go through the house, straightening the rugs and chairs to line up exactly with the tile. Then I go and straighten all my books and computer, keyboard, and frames. It takes about 10 minutes, and if I try to go to bed without doing these things, I can't sleep because I feel like a horrible person for not doing them. The same thing happens when I'm out of town.

It sucks. Anyone else have this or am I completely crazy?

***Rían*** · 01-24-2011, 09:21 PM

I have it in a very minor way - there's just a few things that I feel I have to do. One of them is I have to put the tv volume on even numbers, except I can also have numbers ending in 5. Weird, innit?! There's a few other things, but I can't remember them now. It's not an every-night kind of thing, its just when certain things happen I have to do them a certain way, so I can't remember them right now.

EllethValatari · 01-24-2011, 10:09 PM

Yes, I probably would do the TV volume thing too.

katya · 01-24-2011, 10:26 PM

I used to do a lot of weird stuff like that too, but not to the point where it would interfere with my life or anything. I think I remember being very particular about TV volume. Now the thing I do the most is walking on floor tiles in patterns. But it's not like I have to or anything.

Midge · 01-25-2011, 12:56 AM

That's my favorite part of the definition of "phobia" or "disorder" - that it interferes with everyday life. It helps me know that my emetophobia isn't extreme. I've read stories of people with severe enough cases to nearly have agoraphobia because they didn't want to chance running into someone who was ill.

And I don't think you're weird for straightening things. If we didn't have order in our world, where on earth would we be. Rian, my brother does the same thing with the volume in his car. Basically his thing is that it can't be a prime number. It can be even or divisible by 5, and maybe 3 (I can't remember). But like, 17 or 19 or 23 are unacceptable.

I never step on cracks with tiled floors or sidewalks if I can help it. Who's with me here?

EllethValatari · 01-25-2011, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Midge

I never step on cracks with tiled floors or sidewalks if I can help it. Who's with me here?

I am, but I often forget all about it

It's good that your emetophobia isn't extreme enough to interfere daily.

katya · 01-25-2011, 05:28 PM

I either don't step on the cracks or I step on them in a certain pattern.

10-06-2007, 01:05 PM	#241
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Roya? I think, given the chance, I could agree with you there. *is very glad SHE is no where near landmines Stay safe chica. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-07-2007, 04:19 AM	#243
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Why, however did you guess? Nearly planted my foot on one yesterday, I was officially just a little jittery after that, and to think, I was walking along what was supposed to have once been a playground. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

10-08-2007, 05:33 PM	#244
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Jeesh. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

10-16-2007, 12:51 AM	#246
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	What's really weird is that sometimes I'm afraid of the dark, but sometimes not. Like you know when you're sleeping over at a friends house and you wake up at night, and there's no lights on, then you start hearing like little creaking noises or whatever that just turn out to be the house creaking or something along those lines, but you bulk it up to someone in the house and then you freak out. Yeah, but other than that, sometimes I just freak out a little bit when I'm going to bed at night and there's not lights at all and it's just really weird because lots of other times I'm perfectly fine. __________________ Here we were trying to take Rommel, when who do we kidnap but Admiral Todley himself. What? Hahahaha. That wasn't the plan you know. - Col. Crittendon Monk: I'm 100% sure that she probably killed him. Stottlemeyer: What does that mean? Monk: 95%... I feel like Pepé Le Pew when he look up "pew" in the dictionary. French accent Le pew? Moi? Noo. -Shawn Spencer British accent It's a bobble head Bobbie! head bob -Special Agen Seely Booth

10-18-2007, 08:10 PM	#249
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	It's not the dark that is scary for me, but what might be in it. At this point my prolific imagination usually -and unfortunately- runs away with me. I remember this one time I had to walk through a nice, pretty much remote tree-bordered lane to a gateway (think 200 meters) to pick up an abandoned bike. In the rain. After dark. With only lights at the house and at the far-away gate. (It wasn't even my bike. I volunteered to it, how stupid was I?) I will not tell you how much I cursed myself for ever seeing and remembering (at the worst moment possible) some X-files episode with a werewolf. You know it will never happen, but at the same time I could literally envision something coming from behind the trees and attack me. Vivid imagination is one thing you do not welcome at those times. The more I started to near the house the faster I started to move. Had to force myself not to run 'cos, you know, a flight triggers a chase response. When you know perfectly nothing is going to happen. I swear, if anyone had gotten it into their head to go out and help me with the bike, I'd have died on the spot. __________________ We are not things.

10-08-2007, 06:07 PM	#245
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	I think that would be enough to give you a phobia. Landmines are a curse on humanity.

10-16-2007, 01:36 AM	#247
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'm not really dark-phobic either, Sane, but I always leave a small light on, like in my closet or in the bathroom down the hall from my room. Or even the little entrance light downstairs. Just enough that I can barely make things out. I'm perfectly fine sleeping in a pitch black room, but if I have a really bad nightmare or if I can't sleep, I just prefer to be able to see . Not a requirement... just a quirk. You might consider a nightlight, as silly as it might sound. I personally have no qualms about indulging my little whim in this particular .

10-18-2007, 09:08 PM	#250
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	See, werewolves would have been the least of my worries - I would have been gearing up for the regular rape&pillage scenario. x_x __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-18-2007, 09:11 PM	#251
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	I had a dream one time that my friend was a werewolf. But he was still cool. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

01-24-2011, 04:32 PM	#253
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	Reviving old thread time! I have emetophobia. It's not as bad now as it used to be. I would bawl and run from the room if I even saw a sign of gagging, let alone vomiting. I couldn't stand to hear it. I remember being at preschool and seeing a classmate throw up from at least 30 yards away. I was incapacitated for the rest of the day. Once my brother was ill and I spent an entire evening holed up in the pantry with one small book and my fingers stuffed inside my ears. I bring this up because my husband got sick last week. Though I freaked out a little bit, I was proud of myself for giving him a hug, bringing him a glass of water and cleaning up the bathroom after he felt better. It's funny because some people get a nervous stomach for things like public speaking or doing something they've never done before. I get a nervous stomach when people around me are sick. Even thinking about it, I'm wishing I hadn't eaten so much for my lunch. Though I didn't get sick last week, I ate like I was for four days. I don't know why I'm like this. I don't remember anything from when I was young. I can't remember a time when I wasn't emetophobic, though. I do know it's improved though because I can now read stories when people get sick, or hear about them without worrying. I still can't watch them on TV or in real life, or hear the actual event, though. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more! Last edited by Midge : 01-24-2011 at 04:33 PM.

01-24-2011, 07:54 PM	#254
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	It's not a phobia, but I have a very serious case of OCD. Every night I have to go through the house, straightening the rugs and chairs to line up exactly with the tile. Then I go and straighten all my books and computer, keyboard, and frames. It takes about 10 minutes, and if I try to go to bed without doing these things, I can't sleep because I feel like a horrible person for not doing them. The same thing happens when I'm out of town. It sucks. Anyone else have this or am I completely crazy? __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

01-24-2011, 09:21 PM	#255
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I have it in a very minor way - there's just a few things that I feel I have to do. One of them is I have to put the tv volume on even numbers, except I can also have numbers ending in 5. Weird, innit?! There's a few other things, but I can't remember them now. It's not an every-night kind of thing, its just when certain things happen I have to do them a certain way, so I can't remember them right now. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

01-24-2011, 10:09 PM	#256
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Yes, I probably would do the TV volume thing too. __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

01-24-2011, 10:26 PM	#257
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I used to do a lot of weird stuff like that too, but not to the point where it would interfere with my life or anything. I think I remember being very particular about TV volume. Now the thing I do the most is walking on floor tiles in patterns. But it's not like I have to or anything. __________________ ~~eat until you can't anymore, play until you drop, sleep the day away, laugh, cry, yell, just live live live!~~

01-25-2011, 12:56 AM	#258
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	That's my favorite part of the definition of "phobia" or "disorder" - that it interferes with everyday life. It helps me know that my emetophobia isn't extreme. I've read stories of people with severe enough cases to nearly have agoraphobia because they didn't want to chance running into someone who was ill. And I don't think you're weird for straightening things. If we didn't have order in our world, where on earth would we be. Rian, my brother does the same thing with the volume in his car. Basically his thing is that it can't be a prime number. It can be even or divisible by 5, and maybe 3 (I can't remember). But like, 17 or 19 or 23 are unacceptable. I never step on cracks with tiled floors or sidewalks if I can help it. Who's with me here? __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

01-25-2011, 05:28 PM	#260
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I either don't step on the cracks or I step on them in a certain pattern. __________________ ~~eat until you can't anymore, play until you drop, sleep the day away, laugh, cry, yell, just live live live!~~