I have a fear of water..stems from my childhood, when my cruel father threw me and my brother in a pond for rolling a large stone down a bank and landing in the brook at the bottom..We thought it was funny, but he did'nt so after we had a good hiding we were thrown in the pond... Something that plays on my mind constantly...Daft really as I am now a grandmother..There were other things, but I will keep them to myself..Have a good day...Anne...
Many thanks for your reply,I understand your fear of water,as I too was thrown into a swiming pool when fully clothed ,(fotunately it didnt trun into a fear of water for me .I recall going right down to the bottom of the pool,grabbing somoen`slegs and coming up to the surface hanging on like grim death.
My own main fears are , of Drs and Hospitals,they have just occcured more recently though,I am now trying a something Holistic (cant give the name in here as it would be blocked) .I am really wanting to be rid of these 2 I can deal with the others without too much of a problem .If you wish Anne you could pm me with the ones you maybe don`t feel comfortable posting in public. I wish a good day for you too.
I have a fear of driving.,... When i was a teen in highschool i was in a total of 8 ride off car accidents within 3 years and always being the passenger, luckily i never needed to be hospitalized as i just had cuts and bruises but it was mentally where i suffered. I am now nearly 29 and still dont have a licence even with 3 kids. I really need to get it but im just so scared of everyone on the road. I just wish we would go back to the horse drawn carriage days i would so drive one of those lol
anything to do with medical things dentist ,doctors,hospitals because iv had bad experinces with all three ,and now i feel intimadated by them .
its always they no best attitdue and thats not always the case .
they never let you have your say ..so you never get a chance to to aliveate your fears so you go away all tense and worried because you have not been listened to
Welcome Tis my friend from our other groups, I relate to your fears of all things medical,(ie) as you see from my posting,
I don`t know how I came about them,I know like you you sometimes come away feeling ,you have not been listened to ,and also that sometimes you are wasting their time ,as others are waiting to be seen who could be worse than we are at that time.So how do we come to terms with our fears,I as said am trying the holistic therapy.Began it yesterday ,so not able to say yet if it works,but I do have faith in the person who prescribed it ,
I can either wait and see if it helps me with the 2 phobias I am wanting to be rid of .more than the others,as I can deal with them most of the time.
Then pm you with the results,or I can pm you with the name of the product and the name of the person who prescribed it for me ,just tell me which you prefer .
I know what you mean ,hoping prscibed meds will work ,but ,you do still tend to have side affects with them. like you say mwe can do without being made to feel worse
We are I think talking of rational fear and not a phobia. I have no problem with UK spiders. Make any spider 6 foot span and I would be a fool not to fear it.
We are talking about real irrationa fears that have escalated into phobias.
I know lots of people who don`t fear them ,but I also know tall well built men who do fear them ,and run away out away from them.they are strong men when they are able to speak about them openly. I have been ridculed so many times it is just so unreal,I have a couple of lady friends too with these phobias who too are ridculed ,,not very nice,and I say to them .I just would never wish any phobia at all on them .
Ah! My wife fears all spiders. She does not like to hurt them. I have to catch them with a post card and clear glass and then free then about 50 yards from the house.
when i was divorced from my first husband i had to learn not to pass on my fear of spiders to my daughter
one night i went in the kitchen and there was a large spider near the cupboard , i decided to give him a name so he would seem more friendly
i named him george so every time i went in to the kitcchen i would say good morning george etc and before long i was no longer scared of him
,i used to shake and cry when i saw them ,i still not keen but i dont go to pieces like i used to . i made a friend of him i missed him when he left .my little eight legged george .
I can never do that make a friend of them.I am afraid I find them so utterly repulsive,as do my 2 lady friends.I do get my Husband to get them for me and yes sorry but to kill them if he has to .This will be next on the list for using the product I am trying to remove the phobias .so I hope it does succeed ,and does the job.I can only put this one down to when I was in Hong Kong with my then Husband ,and believe me they were really massive out ther,we even had a black widow in the apartment we were living in at the time ,I feel maybe this is where the phobia came from,as I don`t even like any insects at all (,there were also lots and lots of huge cockroaches too), and they used to fly as well as crawl, but although I dont like them I dont have a phobia about them,
I know ,one night when we were out ,(in Hong Kong)we came home and as my H opened the gate he started to shake his leg,a C had crawled up his trousers,and at other times we would be sitting eating and one would fly across the room sometimes they hit the fan ,and yukkkkkkkkkkkkk ,oh they were everywhere .
