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Posted: 1/7/2009 8:49:14 AM | | Please have a look at my site www.myphobia.co.uk | |
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Posted: 1/7/2009 8:55:37 AM | | Maggots, especially when they are crawling out of something putrid....ugh, just got a shiver... | |
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Posted: 1/7/2009 9:17:48 AM | Spiders and midgets ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww | |
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Posted: 1/7/2009 10:32:24 AM | totally irrational fear of pubic hair.
cannot get it anywhere near my nose.
right pain it is, have to take scissors and brylcreme everywhere with me. 
and dentists. | |
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Posted: 1/7/2009 10:38:14 AM | | Ballons, hate the things. I'm ok with the foil helium ones though. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 1:18:19 PM | | I hear the cure for Agraphobia is just around the corner | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 1:21:46 PM | Heights, am ok with flying now but took a long time to get over that one.
Worms, I can't bear worms. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 1:26:46 PM | totally irrational fear of pubic hair
cannot get it anywhere near my nose
right pain it is, have to take scissors and brylcreme everywhere with me
and dentists.
Stilton, I know it's been a few months since you posted this, but why do you need a dentist if you get pubic hair near your nose??? | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 1:50:51 PM | Jats you plagiarist, you just watched Mock the Week 
I have various things I don't like but not sure they are on the phobic scale. I used to think I had a fear of heights but eventually realised it was a fear of hitting the ground at speed. I love flying (in planes as I don't have wings), have parascended, climbed an indoor climbing wall and abseiled down it ...................... but cannot climb a step ladder to get into my loft.
I was fine on the London Eye until it stopped mid flight and I had visions of having to climb out of the capsule, fortunately the engineers fixed the fault and prevented my heart attack happening 
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Posted: 9/3/2009 2:02:07 PM | | So the quickest way to cause chaos at a POF meet is to bring along a big spider with a red nose? | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 2:25:03 PM | Ugh phobias...I got two: Spiders and needles (injects and such). I just can't stand spiders, they just creeps the hell out of me. It's probable some childhood scare that was the reason for it (as most things are). When I was a kid I was sleeping on a bunk bed, and one night I woke up and saw this huge spider hanging over my head from its web and I just freaked. Since then..brrr.
Needles I know is from my childhood, when I was very sick and they tried to get blood samples from me. Apparently I didn't agree with it and they had 4 people holding me while getting the blood. I guess that left a mark, since I just cant stand needles since then. Gotten better though, now I do allow the dentist to give me something before pulling out a tooth ;)
At least this phobia is kinda beneficial, since I would never turn into a needle-junkie ;) | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 2:31:49 PM | | Toilet doors with funny locks.I,m ok if they have those sliding locks or an actual bolt but any other type and i,m scared i wont be able to get out!Really phobic about getting shut in small places. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 2:35:36 PM |
Toilet doors with funny locks.I,m ok if they have those sliding locks or an actual bolt but any other type and i,m scared i wont be able to get out!Really phobic about getting shut in small places.
My mother got that, freaks out when the toilet is small, always have the door open (which is quite impractical when you have visitors). Can't even stand tents anymore, they are just too small for her. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 2:37:11 PM | I have developed a really bad fear of flying, I dunno if it could be classed as a phobia as I did actually fly to Malaga this year but had to be dragged kicking and screaming... I thought I was gonna die with fear and panic as the plane took off. I had also taken 6mg of diazapam prescribed by GP for that purpose AND nearly a bottle of wine and was still literally paralyzed with terror. I want to get over this as I love travelling and want to visit Bali next year as my best buddies wedding witness. (She met him on POF by the way!!) Has anyone else got over their fear of flying please and if so how?  | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 4:24:58 PM |
Has anyone else got over their fear of flying please and if so how?
I read somewhere that airlines do acclimatisation type courses to overcome this phobia, in much the same way as you can touch tarantulas to overcome arachnaphobia. It's a bit of hypnotherapy with CBT I think. Touch the plane, sit on the plane, go up in the plane type of thing.
Take the drugs without the alcohol, a set of head phones plug into the movies or music and SLEEP. You are more likely to have a car crash than a plane crash, so I am told, and think what it would mean to your friend to be at her wedding.
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Posted: 9/3/2009 4:29:46 PM | Balloons!
Everyone laughs but its horrible.Parties were the worst when i was a child and my ex's son had loads of them at his parties.I felt shakey | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 5:14:45 PM | | EFT is good for flying phobias, cured mine. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 10:05:54 PM | Actually dating someone off here.
Now that is scary !  | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 12:12:44 AM | Ive just looked into Virgins Fear of Flying course and its only £199! Scared me just reading about what you do on the day but its got a good sucess rate. Thanks for the suggestions I will look into them.
VVV....I used to have a fear of travelling in cars too but forced myself into learning to drive and Im obviously over it now, driving is now part of my job but funnily enough I wont drive on motorways ....yet... but at least I will go when other people are driving now... | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 12:23:04 AM | Not me, but my best mate has a fear of travel of any kind..She wont even go on the local bus unless we really have to.
She even canceled the family holiday to Blackpool a couple of years back as she was getting so worked up about travelling down the motorway in the car. | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 1:08:16 AM | Hypnotherapy is great for flying phobia and most other phobias actually. honestly it can be so easy to sort some of these things out.
The only phobia I've got is of commitment. Shan't be getting hypnotised for that anytime soon though.  | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 1:23:09 AM | | It's not a fear of 'flying'.......it's a fear of crashing! | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 1:29:18 AM | Yeah I used to have a' fear of heights' ... only it wasn't, it was the fear of the urge to jump that I got when at a height ... hypno is good. Lots where you are Gary. | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 1:31:58 AM | Message 147
It's not a fear of 'flying'.......it's a fear of crashing!
WRONG!!!!
It IS a fear of flying, crashing doesn't come in to the equation for the majority. Yes that fear of crashing may be a contributory factor, but it is the flying, being in the air, being enclosed in the small fuselage that is the phobia.
Anyway, whilst that message really didn't add anything to 'the discussion', my own fears are volcanoes, heights and ladies tights. If I cam across all three at the same time I would be a quivering wreck. | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 1:39:26 AM |
Anyway, whilst that message really didn't add anything to 'the discussion'
The OP asked me a question, and I answered it.
I noticed that you did the same.......
WRONG!!!!
It IS a fear of flying, crashing doesn't come in to the equation for the majority. Yes that fear of crashing may be a contributory factor, but it is the flying, being in the air, being enclosed in the small fuselage that is the phobia.
How can you possibly claim that the quoted post is 'wrong'?
You have no idea how I view flying (I enjoy it, FYI) - my fear is of 'crashing', as plainly stated. Please don't tell me that I don't like being in planes! | |
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