Fobia's?

[guineagurl]

Trust Ly to pull me up on a spelling mistake!
I'm going to get a PHOBIA about my spelling one day!

Oh boy, thankyou all for the kind replies, I am going to see a therapist I think. I have small kids and I can't let this get the better of me and I cannot expect my hubby to stay away from work if I need to go somewhere new either. This is my only fear, I can handle any other stressful situation but getting lost I just can't.

To me, panic attacks are all consuming, I can't hear anyone around me, it's like a train is going through my head and the sound gets louder and louder,the beat faster and faster, I can't turn it off, sometimes I throw up, I get severe body shakes and my blood sugars drop to passing out. Its pathetic.
It only ever happens when I least want it too also so very inconsiderate

 

[Trixie]

Ditto that Guineagurl. I have the same problem. I hate doctors. My kids have been in and out of doctors offices. Well I can't go. My son needs his shots. I can't take him. I can go to the parking lot but I can't get out of the car. This goes for my pets also. My Snickers (rat terrior) pulled a nail half way off and she needed it removed. Well I took her into the vet and had to sit down on the chair before I passed out. I was soaked with sweat before even getting there. Man it was bad. I did the same thing when I took my piggies in for a nail trim and check up. I mean its sad when you can't even be in the room to support your kids when they need ya. My hubby can't do it either. He has passed out. LOL.. I haven't YET but came really close.
When an attack gets this bad I call my sis in law. She gets my mind off of whatever it is that has set me off. If she isn't available I call my mom or dad. Even though I am 30 yrs old. They are still my support line.
Sometimes talking threw it really helps. Get your mind off of it is even better. Though I know that is really hard to do but give it a shot. Try playing with the piggies or calling someone or even cleaning house. Something so you can't think of what is going on but more of what you are doing.
Counslers have never helped me. I hope if you go that route they can help you. Good luck.

 

[guineagurl]

Thanks trixie, but my piggies don't travel with me so I can't play with them.
I'm glad your capable of staying calm enough to make call's.
Also, I can't clean house when I'm in a car.

 

[Trixie]

Ahh I was under the asumption that they happen more then just in the car. Sorry. The only thing I have found that helps me when I drive and they show up. Turn the music up and sing along. LOUD!! Like as if I am singing to the whole world. LOL.. PPl look at me funny. I don't care.
In the car you can set up a wireless system so you can call and talk to someone. With a voice activated dialer. I have that system is really nice and easy to use. When I am driving( the bus) I am not allowed to hold a cell phone up to my ear. Need both hands on the wheel. So I have a voice dialer on my phone. All I have to do is push a side button and it does the rest. Hands free headset also! With a radio resever attached
to it.
Have you thought of purchasing a GPA? That will also help with the comfort zone that you are missing. You can also get Maps from Yahoo.com. As long as you have the address of where you are going they will give you perfect lefts.rights, and miles from point a to point b.
Just some more thoughts for ya!!

 

[guineagurl]

You are WONDERFUL trixie!
I never thought of that but I am going to go look at them!
I was going to treat myself to a new washer or tv cabinet (neither did I need)
but I might go get one of those global thingy's installed once I get my car back instead! Ohhh if I could give u a hug I would!!

I have had a few panic attack's at home but only after majorly stressful things.

 

[RubyPiggie2]

Wow, a lot of people are scared of needles?

Almost everytime I go in to the doctors, I have to get my blood drawn. I've had to go in once and be there for 3 hours - IV time!!! I slept most of the time... LOL. I have to get my blood drawn a lot because the doctors don't know why I'm so short .... It's sad, really. I'm 4'6, in 8th grade and 13 years old... They say I've got the body of a 10 year old. Great. So they're always doing darn tests... Oh, fun thingie... I was the 2nd person in my entire family (Meaning those before my time too!) to have their blood shipped to California for research!

I guess, my phobia is never growing... Weird, but I've been so short for so long I've got this huge FEAR of never growing. I have to stand on a stool to even reach halfway inside the 2x6 on a table... I have to get in the cage to retrieve the pigs and clean the cage...

Also, I'm so SCARED of snakes! Wild snakes, that is. I like snakes really, but am just so scared that in the wild one will come up to me and kill me!!

Also paranoid about burgulars, murderers, kidnappers, ect... And ghosts/spirits!! I know, a lot of people don't believe in them, but I'm wondering... T_T

Those panic attacks sound scary, I'd be so lost if I had one!
Sorry for the long post.... >_<

 

[Piglet]

Oh, I'm scared of ghosts and spirits too, always have been. I creep my self out sometimes, like if I'm lying in my bed trying to get to sleep, I always think there is someone out the window. I bloody shit myself when I'm at home on my own. It get's dark here quickly, so I get freaked out. Even the slighteset noise make me jump. As I've got older I'm getting better though! Me and zoe (best friend) went to watch the grudge and for days afterwards I kept on thinking about the movie. *shudder*

 

[Slap Maxwell]

Oh, I'm scared of ghosts and spirits too, always have been. I creep my self out sometimes, like if I'm lying in my bed trying to get to sleep, I always think there is someone out the window. I bloody shit myself when I'm at home on my own. It get's dark here quickly, so I get freaked out. Even the slighteset noise make me jump. As I've got older I'm getting better though! Me and zoe (best friend) went to watch the grudge and for days afterwards I kept on thinking about the movie. *shudder*

I get scared SO easy. I watched The Ring (which IS NOT a scary movie) and I had to talk about it in therapy I was so frickin scared! I can't subject myself to The Ring 2.

 

[gpcarman]

I'm a little clastaphobic(sp). I can be under a bed, but when someone is trying to push me all the way to the back, I freak out! =)

 

[Trixie]

I am glad that I could help out. I have dealt with this thing for 8 years now. You would be surprised at what "trix" I have come up with to help myself through the rough times.
good luck on finding a good system that will suit you. There are so many out there it is unreal. But they are wonderful little tools

 

[Marlania]

I don't particularly care for snakes, but I'm not horrified of them. However, I do my best to completely avoid them. I can be pretty claustrophobic. I'm uncomfortable in elevators, and I get extremely annoyed if someone gets too close to my face. I need room to breathe!!

 

[guineagurl]

I'm the same Marlania, I hate it when people are right up close in a que or something and I usually move away really obviously so they back off. I like my space.

I think a few poster's here are talking more about a healthy fear, not really in the same field as what I suffer with. The last house I lived in was a old Mance (100+ yrs old), and it had a ghost or 3 but none wer'e scary. There was a little girl I saw often, I heard footsteps up the long squeeky hallway in the middle of the night, my son swore he saw a man floating above his bed...I swear! The cellar was really cold, in 3 yrs living there I probally went down into it like twice! I might do back there one day, still own it. I tried to find out if a little girl died there but the records wer'e gone. Several people had said they thought my house was haunted but who know's. I'll never forget the time someone spoke to me..... but no one was there, talk about shat myself!!

 

[Trixie]

My brother and I used to play with a ghost that lived in our closet. My mom didn't believe us so we took her a really expesive broch that we had received from this woman. My mom had put it on her dresser. That night it was gone. My mom never seen it again. Then shortly after we moved out. Mom couldn't handle it. And to this day my brother can not sleep with the closet door open. I used to have to get up at night to close it for him when we were younger. This happened 26 yrs ago. I still remember it like yesterday.
That is situation #1.
Now #2. When we moved out of that house (which was in the middle of a chili farm) we moved into a mobile home. There was a little girl that would come visit me at night. I remember seeing her in a white night gown. She only came a few times then I never seen her again. Though my mom said she would hear her. I used to have the worst nightmares ever living in that home. I would wake up screaming. I started sleep walking. I had at one time walked into my parents room one night after a bad dream. And seen my dads head rolling around at the foot of the bed just laughing at me. I was screaming so hard and loud I woke the neighbors and scared the crap outta my parents. I never went back into there room at night after that.

I am one of those ppl that can tell when someone has passed away in a house. I get those horrble goose bumps and cold chills. I can't stay in a house where someone has passed away. I freak out.lol

Anyway the reason I came here to post is because I went to the doc today. A new one I haven't been to before. He put me on some new meds called Wellbutin xl and xanxis for my anxiety and told me I am also depressed. Wonderful news. LOL. to find out the reason your so darn lazy is because your depressed. Not because of the anxiety.

My biggiest fears.. are not snakes I used to have a python that was 8 feet long, and living in the desert I grew up around snakes.
But I am screared to death of... surgery,needles, anything to do with doctors. I have had 3 c-sections and I still can't handle that stuff. I had to have my blood drawn for the first time and this big man came in and took my blood. I didn't argue with him. He would just sit on me and could of done it. Well I left the hospital where they did it at. Went across the street to the doctors office and well, pretty much passed out on the sidewalk. I was 5 monthes pregnate at the time also. (and only 18)

 

[mncavylover]

I'm scared of:

-hypodermic needles
-losing my soul when I pass away (not saying I think it will happen, but it scares me as a possibility)
-spiders, although I have finally built it up where they can be close to me, just not within arm's length or where they can drop on me. Big ones (bigger than, say, a quarter) just freak me out wherever they are.
-used to be afraid of bees because I got stung just short of the eye when I was very young. I've worked up to it again though, and am not that afraid any longer, although yellow jackets/wasps still scare me with their stingers.
-I'm somewhat claustrophobic. For example, while in England I visited an old Norman castle. There was a very narrow "hallway" that curved like an L so that I couldn't see if it came out into a room or not. I had to ask someone to go ahead of me and tell me if there was a room ahead or not. I had to force myself to go in when they said there was. I get scared of being stuck.

 

[RubyPiggie2]

About (Trixie), how you know when a person just passed away, my mom has dreams sort of like that. She has dreams when someone close to her is about to pass away. Like when my grandma died, she had a dream when she was younger. She was at her school on the playground (though she was younger, the school playground was as new as it was presently), and her mother was there. My grandma waved at her, my mom waved back, then my grandma disappeared in fog. Sounds creepy, but then my mom woke up at exactly 2:00AM and heard her mother's last breath.
Yeah, Trixie, you would hate my house! My grandma died in it, in 2001. Every May 1st now (the day she died), at exactly 12:00AM (Two hours earlier than when she died), some creepy funeral music starts to play until 12:01... It's VERY weird.

 

[Trixie]

Ok Ruby thanks for the creepy chills thing..haha.. Its werid, how it works. I knew before my exhubby that is stepdad was going to pass away. So that night we headed back to our home town (we were 4 hrs away). Just so he could try and make it on time. I had told him earlier in the day that it was his dads time but he didn't believe me. Well we make it back 30 minutes to late. I knew when my grandma had passed away before my mom had a chance to tell me. I was very young at the time also. Maybe 8 going on 9 I think.

Phobia-- Oh my, I hate wasps also. I was stung by 17 of them when I was younger.

 

[Bre318]

I am afraid of being "put under" for an operation of some sort.

And then there is the panic attacks...

 

[lindsey's boys]

That is weird!