- What are you afraid of? (High places? Crowds? Snakes? etc.) Can you think of when you first had this fear, and why? How do you deal with this fear? (Hartmann, 2007, p. 176)
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I am afraid of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), I can not remember when it happens first, and why I fear in enclosed space. I avoid to go to enclosed space place, or if I must go then I ask some friend to go with me.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid of many things such as high place, darkness, speed ,and being in a small area. But today I will talk about speed which I think is quite wired. When I was young, about 3 years old, I was sitting in the car which my father drove and when he drive faster to some speed, I started crying because I was afraid of high speed. However, after sitting in fast cars for many time, I started adapted myself to get use to it and now I am much better. I am still afraid of speed but I do not cry anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm not afraid of speed but I'm not a person who drive a car too fast. I think it's quite dangerous not only for myself but for everyone also.
DeleteI'm not afraid of speed, but I am afraid of my mother's driving. My father used to drive faster, but it never worried me. My mother, on the other hand, is awful to have driving: she accelerates quickly, brakes quickly, and constantly talks about all the other bad drivers on the road. Although very glad, I'm also surprised that she hasn't had any serious accident, and is still driving every day at age 83, but thankfully now only locally, not all over the country as she used to. At her age, she has to have test every year to keep her drivers licence, and the testers would not pass her if she was good enough, so I guess she is safe, however much I prefer to have someone else driving.
DeleteHigh places don't worry me much, although I do like a barrier between me and the drop, and I'm not afraid of snakes. In fact, I used to keep a python as a pet: some of my guests were a bit worried when I let Adam out to stretch his four metres, but he was very well behaved and only ever bit the hand that fed him when the hand smelled like the mice that I used to feed him when he was a baby.
ReplyDeleteBut I am fairly batrachophobic. I've been scared of frogs for as long as I can remember. I have no idea why I'm scared of these harmless creatures. I know not all frogs are harmless, but the green frogs at my parents' home in the country in Australia were completely harmless - they had no poisons, no teeth, no claws and no other way to harm me. But I was terrified of them. This was a problem because living in the county in a warm climate surrounded by a river, there were a lot of frogs around. If I saw one on a path, I would walk around it. If one suddenly jumped out because I had disturbed it, I had a panic attack. It was perfectly irrational, and I knew that, which also made it embarrassing.
Thankfully, my phobia weakened as I grew older, and there are not many frogs on Silom Road.
I'm afraid of narrow place and I can remember that I was in an elevator and there many people, I felt it was difficult to breath after that I stopped it and ran out.
ReplyDeleteI fear of ghosts. Every time, when I am alone or stay in the dark place, I usually think that there are something in the darkness or it is not only me staying at the place. I can't remember when am I start to fear.
ReplyDeleteI afraid of a ghost same as you, because I live in the rural area. When I was young, my family said that if I did something inappropriate and not followed their command, then ghost is going to attack me. There explain many kind of ghosts, and I started imagine about those ghost appearance, and those appearances still are in my mind until today. I experienced with ghost(something that I believed it was) I scream out loud and my parents woke up, but actually it was my school bag which seemed like human face in the night.
DeleteIn the past, I really a natural person. I love the trees, grasses and flowers. But when I was about 7-8 years old. I had a lucid dreams that I can remember it even today. In my dream, it was a billion of worms,millipede, centipede and bugs. They keep increasing thier populations in my bedroom! Until it filled up my bedroom. I couldn't breath and then I woke up. It was very scary and nasty dream ever in my life. Since that, I'm really afraid of all reptiles. Maybe it developed to phobia now. If I see some of them I will avoid to starring at them and walk away as fast as possible. But the sad thing is that I don't want to go around the natures so much.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, There is no special thing that terrifies me so that I can't control myself when I see it. Anyway, there are some kind of reptile that disgust me, such as small lizard and snakes. I just don't like the way they move but I think I can touch them if it's necessary. I mean I'm not scared of them because I always try to be clam and get over them every time I see them. That's way I say that I'm afraid of nothing, but something seem disgusting for me.
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