Woah! Let's not get ahead of ourselves. One step at a time....
Sorry, I do have a habit of running before I can walk - tis why I fall over so much!!
Count Steer wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:36 pm
Lots of things so far seem to be more self-preservation than phobias. It's like 'fear of flying' is usually actually a sensible fear of plummeting 1000s of feet in a burning tube of metal.
I forgot about this one! (Probably cos I've not travelled in so long!). I am fine once up there but landing and takeoff freak me out. Add in any kind of 'wobbly' weather and I have serious issues!! Given that I travel alone, it has been known to freak out passengers in the next seat and even the stewardess occasionally!!
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:30 am
, I'm not scared of the height, I'm scared of falling off,
Ditto. That's how I feel. When we're doing a tricky climb, it's not the difficulty, it's what can go wrong.
If I had an overhead safety cable, I'd attack some proper stuff
It's the landing that worries me. I get definite sphincter tightening even if I watch a film about heights and in real life situations I'm actually drawn to the edge. I tend to avoid any thing too high.
These all seem like rational fears - I tend to think of phobias as more irrational?
Me, I have a phobia of 'circular fastening devices used in clothing'. To the extent that I avoid using the actual word. Might be something related to trypophobia or perhaps I had a nasty run-in with a Pearly King or Queen as a child...it's a mystery to me.
ChrisW wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:01 pm
These all seem like rational fears - I tend to think of phobias as more irrational?
Me, I have a phobia of 'circular fastening devices used in clothing'. To the extent that I avoid using the actual word. Might be something related to trypophobia or perhaps I had a nasty run-in with a Pearly King or Queen as a child...it's a mystery to me.
Guess that's another Xmas you won't be going to panto...............
ChrisW wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:01 pm
These all seem like rational fears - I tend to think of phobias as more irrational?
Me, I have a phobia of 'circular fastening devices used in clothing'. To the extent that I avoid using the actual word. Might be something related to trypophobia or perhaps I had a nasty run-in with a Pearly King or Queen as a child...it's a mystery to me.
Guess that's another Xmas you won't be going to panto...............
Conflict scares me, genuinely makes me sweat, even shake, but I deal with it. Part of that is from my youth when I found myself losing control on occasion and hurting others, so I try to avoid it. I’m a very chilled dude nowadays.
Heights, no fear of them, probably because I used to free climb stuff, tower cranes, buildings, anything that I could climb. I find myself looking over edges to see what’s there, the girlfriend hates it.
In Hallstatt in Austria there is one of them glass things that stick out from the mountain with a sheer drop beneath. I love them, but last time I was there I was at the pointy end and decided to see how stable it was by jumping up and down on it. Seemed fine so when I turned to leave I hadn’t realised that behind me was a Chinese or Japanese couple who were clinging to each other in fear of the mad biker bouncing the thing up and down!! Like I say, no fear of heights.
Mick
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:30 am
, I'm not scared of the height, I'm scared of falling off,
Ditto. That's how I feel. When we're doing a tricky climb, it's not the difficulty, it's what can go wrong.
If I had an overhead safety cable, I'd attack some proper stuff
It's the landing that worries me.
That seems reasonable to me. It's not the height or the descent but the stop at the bottom thst kills you.
My phobia is really silly. I've trained myself to cope most of the time but having gardening as one of my hobbies isn't the best option. My fear of worms, slugs and other similar looking creatures, means that I can still go into a full on screaming panic if I accidentally touch any that sneak up on me.
I used to have a bit of a phobia about wasps after one flew into my open face helmet and stung me on the way out (back when open face helmets were A Thing), but have largely got over that.
I remember trying to read Stephen King's 'The Shining' in the 1980s and couldn't get past the bit where the main character was up on the roof and disturbed a hive of malevolent wasps.
