Phobias

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:06 am

I know it sounds crazy and with me being so sane it'll be hard to understand

........but I cant touch buttons the thought of holding one makes me bok..and if someone poured a jar over me I would spu my load! I think it goes back to when I was wee and my mum dressed me in cardigans (the most revolting piece of clothing ever thought of!!) and it's sort of stemmed from there....
and it's only plastic buttons that are the most horriblest..

EndlesslyRocking · Post by **EndlesslyRocking** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:33 am

Mr. Potatoe Head wrote:Thanks for the insight...

You're welcome.

That'll be $150.00 please...

Schuette, you're on the right track. Phobias are not about the object themselves, but rather the association of that object with trauma, anxiety, etc.

Take a plastic button, and hold it in your hand for 5 seconds. Then, hold it for 10, and so forth. You should become desensitized to the anxiety provocation fairly quickly as your body learns you can hold it with nothing bad happening.

Or, you can smash plastic buttons with a hammer, and express your domination over this inanimate object. Either way...

That'll be $150.00 please...

Zivo · Post by **Zivo** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:35 am

But who will clean up all the bok and spu?

*Lifesonite · Post by *Lifesonite » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:35 am

Yell at the buttons while you do it. Make sure to have your children present at the time so that they don't have to deal with this trauma someday.

Zivo · Post by **Zivo** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:38 am

Mum, hitting buttons with hammers, screaming at them....that's not going to traumatize them in some way

*Lifesonite · Post by *Lifesonite » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:43 am

That's just what I was gedding at! Thanks Zivo

Zivo · Post by **Zivo** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:06 am

Ah, sorry to be the king of the bloody obvious

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:22 pm

What about words...they don't bother me until I start thinking about them and how they can stand for what they stand for but I don't know what either is...how do we keep using WORDS!!!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:47 am

LOL!!!! you lot

......but alas I dont think I could ever hold them and as for traumatizing the kids Jade takes great pleasure at chucking them at me........the wee shit

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:53 pm

They are cutting paths in my mind...the Words they slice me with such arrogant points and scoff at the chaos

I HATE WORDS!!!

Zivo · Post by **Zivo** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:06 pm

Xanadu wrote:They are cutting paths in my mind...the Words they slice me with such arrogant points and scoff at the chaos I HATE WORDS!!!

So if I can't find "words" of comfort, thus saying absolutely nothing, that would be rather helpful, no? Oh...sorry. Too late

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Mon May 31, 2004 8:35 am

Words are deceptions, words are lies...when I was born there were no words...I thought without words...I thought all the time about things that words couldnot describe...concepts beyond the reach of explanation. I try to remember how to think without words...without rigid associations setting the boundaries. To be able to describe everything would not make sense to any one but me...some things...may not be repetative. If it can't be repeated in my mind is it lost in time?

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Mon May 31, 2004 3:38 pm

I have an unusual one, the fear of forgetting the password. Its called friendorphobia

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:31 am

LOL

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:08 pm

Actually, I have three phobias - mild cases of Accrophobia and Claustrophobia and a serious (and I mean SERIOUS) case of Arachnaphobia (watching Shelob's Lair in Return of the King was torture.)