Jace
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Mine=Roller coasters.then, ferris wheels
We all have at least one...irrational fear
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Jules
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Just reading this, I realize I’m a coward because I can relate to lots of these things.
This is the one that really gets me. Just sitting here reading it, I realized I had started kneading my hands.
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
Weird thing was once i wasn't living city with constant challenges in regard to it, i sometimes would forget i was claustrophobic till i had to crawl under a house to rescue a kitten, or put insulation around water pipes under mobile home.
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OMG. BATS!! I never saw a bat IRL til I got home very late one summer night and saw something flying around in the treetops in a sort of group. I knew it couldn't be birds. Birds don't do that. From the streetlight which didn't cast as much light as I would have liked, I squinted and saw it was a bunch of BATS. They are much scarier in person than in movies or TV. I've never seen another since. Thank God.My mother had many fears, afraid of horses, spiders, bats
I vowed that I would never fear anything.
That said , I really hate being picked up & swung in circles.
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
Absolutely, meditation was such a huge help for me.I'm superhuman @Murrmurr
dseag2
Dallas, TX
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- Dallas, TX
A big part of my job responsibility for over 30 years was giving presentations. I think the largest audience I had was around 3000 people. I was rarely nervous once I got on stage, but my irrational fear prior was always that I would have some type of mental lapse, just go blank and forget everything I was going to say. It never happened.
I'm with others that have fears of cockroaches and snakes.
I'm with others that have fears of cockroaches and snakes.
Murrmurr
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- Sacramento, California
I use meditation, too. It helps keep my temper in check. Not that I'm bad tempered. I would describe it as occasionally explosive. But I mainly use meditation to keep my pain in check, and it does refill the ol' energy tank, for sure.I'm superhuman @Murrmurr
dseag2
Dallas, TX
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I have to share a story with you. When I was in College, our next door neighbors used to travel to Europe once a year. They hired me to watch their house and take care of their Great Dane. His food was in a huge trash can in their garage. One day I opened the lid and a swarm of Palmetto Bugs (flying cockroaches) flew out. I am still traumatized to this day!
You should have set some of the food aside for them. They make great pets.
Palmetto bugs eat any organic material that is available to them. They will eat decaying animals, scraps of food in the garbage, hair, paper and even glue! They can live three months without food and a month without water.
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Last year, I was doing some cleanup in the basement & I found a dead bat on the floor.OMG. BATS!! I never saw a bat IRL til I got home very late one summer night and saw something flying around in the treetops in a sort of group. I knew it couldn't be birds. Birds don't do that. From the streetlight which didn't cast as much light as I would have liked, I squinted and saw it was a bunch of BATS. They are much scarier in person than in movies or TV. I've never seen another since. Thank God.
He's still there. I guess I could get rid of it, but I figured, "Why? He's not bothering anyone."
It does help calm me down. I breathe slowly in bed every night for several minutes and it truly is helpful to both the mind and the lungs. My doctor told me I have outstanding lung capacity and I think it's because I teach meditation and breathing to people. After all these years, it's done some good.
hollydolly
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- London England
so that's what they're called?..*ugh*.. I was staying in an Air Bnb in Spain.. fortunately not where I ultimately bought a house, but we had the door open in the early evening, and what we thought was a small bird flew in.....I had no idea what it was but o/h knew immediately. I was repulsed especially when this thing wouldn't die.
..I'd never seen nor heard of Flying cockroaches...nor had I seen any other kind altho' I'd heard of them from American movies ( known as roaches) we very quickly learned to keep the doors and windows closed at night ... Anyway worse..much worse was to come.. , there was a whole building site near where we were staying and the drains were up, and also the workers would eat canned fish and then throw the empty cans down on the ground and leave them there attracting all sorts of vermin .. and ultimately we would see long lines of cockroaches at dusk, literally crawling out of the drains in the middle of the road ..they were everywhere..Never been so repulsed in my life!
They look like a mouse that somebody put wings on.They are nasty looking aren't they @win231 .
hollydolly
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- London England
I have a Bat Hat which I wear if I go out into the garden at twilight, because that's when the resident bat flies out from the Eaves and spends until dark flying round and round the garden yomping up midges.. I really dislike Bats, and I have a horror of them constantly peeing, albeit that it's negligible according to my husband , who loves Bats ..but *ugh*.. I don't want to risk having Bat pee on me..They look like a mouse that somebody put wings on.
IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
That is me also.
When I get to the point to where I consider that my quality of life is no longer worth living, that I'm diagnosed with something terminal or that I'm dependent and a burden on others I no longer want to be here.......hopefully I'll still have the mental and physical strength at that time to do what I feel needs to be done.
Marie5656
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- Batavia, NY
For some reason, taking that first step when having to climb down a long flight of stairs. Once I get going I am fine...but that first step off makes me cringe