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Phobias, and overcoming them

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sounds funny and daft.....IS funny and daft, unexplainable and irrational....but a very VERY real fear that produces very real physical symptoms!
Laughing at someone suffering from a phobia is like laughing at someone with a broken leg.
OK, they can get over it - with help, maybe you can't do anything to help - but it's still cruel.
Just found this thread.
I too have a fear of spiders and I really wanted to overcome this. A few years ago we went to a fete that was held at our kids school and there was a spider club there. I walked past them shaking as the kids really wanted to see them and the guy could see how scared i was... Even when one of them crawled across the tank! He said that they were great spiders and good to hold etc. Well, the guy asked if i wanted to hold a really small one and said it would help my fear. I reluctantly agreed and sat down with tears running down my face and hands shaking and he put this quite small spider in my hands.. i closed my eyes and he said" you can open them now" and when i did this spider was sat tucked up in the palm of my hand. I was ok with this as it just sat there. He then said ready to go a little bigger and then he put a bigger one in my hand and I really thought i couldn't do it but i did and hubby was video taping it too. I was so pleased to have done this and i am not so scared now. I still call for hubby when we find a spider in the house. biggrin
I have always been and still am a very pragmatic man, i seen the reason in everything, and i'm not sacred of anything........
except needles :scared:
I can not give blood, i hate to be inoculated but i know i have to. I will go to the doctors and will let them do it, i know it will not harm me, it will be just a slight sting.
But my body WILL NOT do as i tell it to, and i will usually react badly to any injection i have. I know full well where my fear comes from and what caused it, I'm fully over it but for the life of me i cant get ride of that one minor trigger in the far reaches of my brain to stop the bloody thing.
Like i said i'm a very very pragmatic man just sometimes the brain out rules you no matter what you do to convince it otherwise.