Tom wrote to ask about the reality of a site called
The Phobia Clinic. At first glance, the site definitely looks like it represents a real business that's selling a program to help people overcome their fears. The strangeness comes when you
dig into some of the fears that they claim they can cure, and you have to wonder... do such fears or anxieties really exist? For example, they can cure you of
Arachibutyrophobia (that's a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth),
Ballistophobia (a fear of bullets... but why would anyone want to overcome their fear of bullets? Isn't that a good thing to be afraid of?),
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words... the name of the anxiety alone probably sends sufferers into convulsions), and the list goes on and on. Despite all the weird anxieties, I think that the Phobia Clinic is real enough, in the sense that they'll take your money and offer some kind of 'cure.' But I'm skeptical about whether their cure actually works.
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I've looked the internet to see what the name is called but I can't find it.
I would really love it if you could help me.
I want to overcome this fear but I just can't. =[
Styrofoam is one of them.I find it very discusting.
Getting my hands wet.
If i wash my hands or get them wet (both of them have to be)i cant touch anything else until i dry them.
If i do one thing to on of my hands i have to do the same with the other or the rest of my bodie.
Say i step on a rock with my left foot, i must do the same with my right.
I freak out when i step in water but mainly when im wearing sox.I immediately take them off my feet.
Most soft material bothers me.Like the roofing on the inside of a car bothers me just like the carpet.
Deep water and dark empty spaces freak me out.
i just cant be near it.
Im very scarred of hospitals,growing old and oddly twins.
Ive have to shower 2-4 times a day or i start scratching my skin because it feels dirty and diseased.
I must keep everything in my room or house in a perfect order and when i go out to the store or something im always fixing stuff and putting them in a straight line.
I cant stand paper and when it rubes up against another piece.
The last thing is open drawers or doors.
I find myself often closing them if i see them open.
please help me, can't breathe...
KHUZDOPHOBIA ITS CALLED?
I CRY AT THE SITE OF THEM...HAVE PANIC ATTACKS AND THEN USUALLY PASS OUT.
NO IDEA HOW THIS FEAR CAME TO BE BUT I WANT TO BE A NURSE SOMEDAY SO HOWS WILL I TREAT MIDGETS?
My mum's asked me to look on the net for the technical term for a fear of whistling. She has it really bad and thinks it brings bad luck.
Can anyone help because for the first time, Google can't!
Thanks
Amy :o)
I've looked on the internet to see what it's called and I can't find anything about it!
But I'm afraid that everything inside of me is going to fall out of my mouth!!
It's the strangest thing ever!!!
I abolutely will REFUSE to bed down at all, and if I must bend down, I will bend straight down with my knees instead of leaning over.
If anyone else has this fear and/or knows what it's called please share!!!!
It makes me feel like a horrible person, I am so against racism, sexism, ageism... or any other ism that it makes no sense that I would have a fear of something people can't control...
If there are any little people reading this I am soooo sorry.
It's facing the fear in small doses until you overcome it. My guess is this clinic would just walk you through these steps... You could save a lot of money just going through it on your own with someone you trust.
its like its eternial stick will never release its self from you..
you will never be free from this monster.. feeling and being physically sick when one is in the same room as me.
its hard in school when teachers even in the last year of secondary they give them out to pupils and you say you dont want one and the dreaded question why!?!
replying under my breath being so ashamed of such a stupid and silly little thing even they tease me.
causing me to be so scared even more.. having never met any one the same as me i have no idea what im so scared of ..
have to go out of a room till the class are finished a task
crying .. why am i so different .. panic attacks!
what is wrong with me
i see know many people have phobias that some will never be cured or found out what this is because of, i dont know why mine began
However i do know that its an evil thing which the devil has a grip on your life. if takes controll! you need to demolish this. i am only 15 years old and in these 15 years of being alive i have began to realise the only way out of this trap because thats what it is, is to be saved by jesus!!!!!! pray its not hard
iim scared a whole bunch of nasty lookiin bumps on peoples bodiies!!!!!!!
iis there anyone who's scared of that??
I have a fear of puppets, have just been discussing midget phobia with a lady I work with, can't beleive how common it is!
bex
does anyone know wat the fear of towel textures is called?? i hate that feeling 😛
Thank you!!
Scratching stones together sends me whappy too lol
Using sandpaper is horrible for me, its the sound and texture.