I'd be worrying that my boss thought less of me on a personal opinion level...
Oddly enough that is one of the things I worry about the most. I could end up a worthless bum, and I'd be fine with that, unless someone thought of me as a bum.
SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote:
Oddly enough that is one of the things I worry about the most. I could end up a worthless bum, and I'd be fine with that, unless someone thought of me as a bum. | |
If you can sit here and name 10 or 12 phobias you have, then you're either a) a nervous wreck in need of serious counseling or b) taking your quirks and dislikes and tagging a big long word onto it... kinda like the way people who have ordinary mood swings will read a description of bipolar disorder and decide they must be manic-depressive. Well, true, but there are varying degrees of phobias. After all, "phobia" just means "fear of". Literally translating, any fear of heights is an acrophobia. Also, a person's real willpower can ultimately decide how badly a serious phobia really affects them. Bringing up the instance of necrophobia again, I really am utterly terrified of dead things. I'm even more terrified of being the one to create the dead thing. I needed to will myself to do it, and it almost felt as though the air in front of me was like molasses when I went to pick up the dying rat. Of course, if you really want to get confusing, people have varying degrees of willpower, too. In recent years -- after my graduation from high school -- I've had a terrible lack of willpower in fighting my urge not to go to the classes I've taken. It's not laziness, because I've resolved to go many times, and I've gone days without turning on the computer, trying to force myself to go. Something mentally is just making me refuse to go. I don't know if I could call it didaskaleinophobia, but I might be able to get away with calling it a mild form of it. | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
They say the only way to overcome your fear is to confront it head on... you worthless bum. :P *Sniffle* =( *Runs off crying* | |
SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote:
I suppose there are a few ways that I wouldn't like to die (drowning would be one of the worst, I would think)... I dunno, I reckon drowning would be one of the better ways. According to people who have nearly-but-not-quite drowned, once you get past all the thrashing and trying to breathe and start to actually drown, it's quite peaceful. Certainly better than, say, getting your head smashed through a car windscreen into a telephone pole. Or getting shot in the head at point-blank range. Carbon monoxide poisoning would be the most painless way to die, I reckon. But drowning would probably come second. Darn, that post was macabre. =P | |
I went through the whole list, and honestly found nothing relating to me, I used to have a few fears, but I overcame them (fear of closed spaces, and fear of heights, but those weren't hard to get rid of.)
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Getting shot in the head, or getting slammed into a telephone pole would most likely be too quick to allow for any suffering... Therefore, those would be preferable...
And I too have heard that after you get past the initial terror of drowning, it does end up in a peaceful death (of course it does... once your oxygen levels begin to drop, you effectively go to sleep/pass out, and then you die... so it would be peaceful near the end) However, it takes an awful long time to get to that point (well, perhaps not very long, but when you're in that situation, it seems like long enough...lol)... Heck, I can hold my breath for over 2 minutes (having a pool in the backyard for the past 10 years or so really helps...lol), but after that point, if I can't get to the surface fast enough, it really sucks... I couldn't imagine having to go further than that, and being unable to do anything about it... The feeling of helplessness would almost be worse than the pain of not being able to breathe... Not desireable in the least...no matter how peaceful the end would be... CO poisoning would be alright... That would essentially be drowning without all of the "help I can't breathe" unpleasantness... Nothing but a gradual falling into eternal slumber...lol But odds are that I'm going to die of a heart attack one of these days... I'm the type that wouldn't go to the hospital, but would just wait the pain out, and end up dying because of it...lol | |
I am a bit claustrophobic, now that you mention it...
However, not to a great degree... I just really hate being in tightly closed places... I can handle anything where I am still free to move... But once the space is too small for me to move around, I get uncomfortable (even worse if I am not able to stand upright)... I wouldn't like to have to climb through a tunnel on my stomach, for instance... But it's not really a phobia, since it's not a paralyzing, irrational fear... I could make myself climb through that tunnel if I had to... I just wouldn't enjoy it...lol | |
Yeah, I still manage to get short of breath when in very tight spaces, but I can brave it, I used to start panicing, and have trouble breathing.
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Kunark wrote:
Yeah, I am ok if it is with people, but I wouldn't last long in a forest at night. I live nowhere near any wooded areas, but at night, alone in one, would drive me nutts, just because I feel like just about anything can pop out, scare you and kill you, from bears and snakes, ghosts, to men with chainsaws :P I guess it is because anything could be watching you and I seem to be afraid of the unknown. I like to look at it more logically. Most of the animals would be asleep anyway, so you don't really need to worry about bears roaming the woods at night looking for humans to prey on. And fearing people is also pointless, since they'd be able to see in the dark just as poorly as you. I guess it's more of a matter of overcoming fear itself, more than anything. | |
My only real fear is the fear of asking a girl who i have been friends with out in a romantic way and her not taking it well. I have had this problem many times and ended up letting the girl slip right past me. But whenever i try, my head goes blank on what to say, and i end up bringing up some stupid topic which utterly stops me from doing anything romantic. It really sucks.
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It is rather odd that even in the face of my one big concern, I'm still able to hold onto negatively viewed habits if I choose... That one being a prime example... Why in the world are you clinging to some negativly viewed habit as mundane but as annoying as this, which is easy to rid yourself of? However, that doesn't mean that it still doesn't bother me... Interestingly enough, it does bother me somewhat when I get lectured on it (and even worse that LummoxJR has been so put off by it that he seemingly avoids my posts...lol), but I'm able to supress that feeling and keep on doing it regardless... IT IS HIGHLY ANNOYING JUST AS ANNOYING AS ALL USING CAPS Or Capitalizing The First Letter Of Every Word. It makes your sentances harder to read. Elipses are a way of emphisizing a hanging thought and you lose any emphisis when you constantly use them or there is no hanging thought at the end of the sentance. It's not a hard habit to break even if is a habit or you just do it for some kind of odd attention. I constantly screw up the ordering of you when I'm typing it fast, but I don't just leave it in as an annoying habit I fix it when I scan through my post and find those errors. And knowing that fact is comforting, since it means that it's not a real phobia... If it were a real phobia, it would be an uncontrollable fear... Since I can control it, it must be far from a phobia... I'm sure you're comforted by many things which make it clear you're not afraid of them, but I'm sure you don't waste your time acknoledging them everytime you pass by them. The worst part is that since you've been doing people have been imitating you not entirly knowing what they are imitating. They just leave some random number of trailing periods after each statment which is even worse than what you're doing. | |
well actually I have an opinion/belief, or atleast it pretains to me... That after awhile you no longer feel pain. When I was younger in south dakota living on an indian reservation, I would get ganged up on by indians (ya blind hatred does exist!). I recall this one time I had a sun burn all over my body and while they were hitting me it hurt extremely bad but after awhile I no longer felt anything and as I was on my knee's looking out a window... it was strange because I didn't feel any of it. Perhaps I just reached a level of mind control that most people don't? I've always been able to control my dreams, I could jump off the highest peak and hit the ground and not be scared, nor "feel" anything.
In fact last night I was fighting with the "daughter" of the devil haha... I ended up losing most my teeth and getting darts and crap probably stuck in me but I know it's just a dream and in the end I finally beat her :P I would try to change everything she was throwing at me (throwing darts, etc) into food hahha... but she was creating them/throwing too fast couldn't change all of them :P The weird thing as I beat her in that dream I ended up either being enticed, or liking her... as in, I felt feelings for her lol... | |
The problem with the "Bloody Mary" myth, is that there are so many variations. The most common one I've heard, is you turn off ALL the lights, take one single candle, light it, and spin around 3 times saying bloody mary. Of course, I've heard up to "a huge gigantic monster comes out of the mirror and eats you!!!!" heh.
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To tell you 100% honestly, I don't have a real phobia. I may become a bit paranoid after a "scary" movie or something, such as the Holloween collection of movies, but never more than 3 days. I don't feel like going through that huge list.
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I too feel similar in that way. I am actually a very very calm person, and handle "situation's" well. While my other sibblings would simply just start blubbering during an emergency etc...But, any how, I have problems confronting women. Not completely, just around people. I don't really mind if I'm turned down, but to be in a large group infront of her friends...I can only think of what may be the rumor at the end of the day. And, to even have the courage to go out and ask a woman to a movie or some other place in public would mean I'm pretty confident they are single. I hate it when I ask someone out and they have a boyfriend, because on occasion, the girl tells the boyfriend to try and make him jealous and he confronts me. Mind you, I'm not a jerk who just says "shut up and leave me alone" I'm not a violent person (though I can be quite bad if you push the right buttons).
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There IS a fear of everything, if something exists, it can be feared. Anyways..
I fear spiders (I was born with that) I fear darkness (When I was 2 I was locked in a dark closet with almost no space for 5 hours and cried and screamed to be let out for 3 of those 5 hours, my mother later found me sleeping in the closet. My step brothers and sisters were soposed to be watching me, and instead locked me in there) | |
I suppose there are a few ways that I wouldn't like to die (drowning would be one of the worst, I would think)... But the fact still remains that if it's going to happen, being afraid of it won't change that... And if it isn't going to happen, then cool! lol So while I would dislike those types of situations, and I'll avoid them to the best of my abilities, I'm not going to fear them...
And that bit about ellipses I was actually going to mention at the bottom of that post...
It is rather odd that even in the face of my one big concern, I'm still able to hold onto negatively viewed habits if I choose... That one being a prime example...
I suppose I weigh the impacts of things subconsciously, and if I think that it's an acceptable loss, I'm willing to take it... After all, even though some people may be annoyed by my ellipses, or even potentially think that I don't know any better, that's still not really a big deal...
Another factor is that over the net, this "fear" is much weaker than it is in real life... As in, I don't care as much what you people think about me as I care about what people in the real world around me think of me...lol
However, that doesn't mean that it still doesn't bother me... Interestingly enough, it does bother me somewhat when I get lectured on it (and even worse that LummoxJR has been so put off by it that he seemingly avoids my posts...lol), but I'm able to supress that feeling and keep on doing it regardless...
And knowing that fact is comforting, since it means that it's not a real phobia... If it were a real phobia, it would be an uncontrollable fear... Since I can control it, it must be far from a phobia...