Phobias?

[Toms306]

Lol Chris, adds to the flavour? Hope you enjoy shit flavoured sandwhiches lol.

Apart from flavour though, I think the cleanliness thing is really more fear of the unknown, I wonder if people would be so worried if we could see germs. I mean I don't believe the soap bottle sometimes....kills all known bacteria....but still doesn't 'feel' clean until 2 or 3 more times....if I coukd see there were no germs it would be less of an issue I think.

Only afraid of two things, being trapped and fear itself.

By trapped I don't just mean physically - although that is part of it. So if I'm on the motorway and things grind to a halt, then I panic because I'm trapped and I can't get out of the situation that I'm in. But I also mean socially "trapped", by which I mean if I'm in a public place, say waiting in the queue at Tesco I start to get panicky because I'm "trapped" mainly because I know it's not socially acceptable to just leave my trolley load of shopping on the belt and just walk out. Sounds odd I know, but it's part of agoraphobia. Or if I'm having a conversation with someone I start to get panicky as well, for the same reasons - I can't just get up and walk off.

And by "fear itself" I simply mean that I panic that when I drive to/from work I might get stuck in traffic, so I'm simply worrying that I might start worrying later, real helpful eh?

Makes perfect sense Martin, can definitely relate to both of those!

Heights. Have a real fear of heights even watching the diving or playing lego batman on the ps3 when you drop from the sky makes my stomach churn. Do get abit clostrophobic also if I don't know an easy escape from a tight or small place.

I do hate disorganisation also such as tools they all have to be in there right place and the same way round, all open ends facing the same way ect.

Did you ever play assassins creed? That bit where the guy jumps off huge buildings into bails of straw had me shit scared every time! And its only a game!

I'm not great with heights. I'll still fly in a plane or go to the top of a building, chairlifts, paragliding, etc. Doesn't mean that it doesn't scare the shit out of me though.

This is kinda where is like to be, I know I'll never be fearless like jonny or grant lol, but I want to be able to do things, regardless of phobias surrounding them. At the moment I have many what I guess youd call 'serious' phobias at the point where I would honestly rather die than attempt to do the thing, just completely impossible currently. One of them is a medical phobia, I've probably said about it before, but I'm in constant fear that I'll need medical treatment, or even just a dental checkup or jab gives the same kinda thing. And then I'm scared that I'll never get over it, and what happens when the time comes when there's no choice in the matter. I've been thinking about it today rather than just panicking about it and I'd probably say that is my biggest fear tbh and one of the major things holding me back. I can deal with spiders or germs or trappedness in different ways, but this is one thing I can't get around. Basically in my mind its 'omfg its gonna happen one day, I can't cope with it, might as well just give up and die before the time comes so no point in planning for the future at all'. And I realise this is ridiculous, (almost) everyone is scared of something to a degree as this thread has shown (so thanks, woulda been gutted if it turned out you were all fearless lol) BUT you guys find ways round it, and still manage to do things you want/need so something to aim for there.

Anything with the word: diet, healthy, gym, vegetables, fruit, exercise etc

Haha, oh dear, not looking good for losing weight then!