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incognitopolls · 3 months
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batmanshole · 9 months
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i have two phobias and idk i dont see many people talking about phobias despite them being fairly common in my experience.
i have pyrophobia (fire) and turophobia (cheese)
also please dont be rude in the notes of this post ok?
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Vincent Price interview on the set of The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
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teaboot · 3 months
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I hope it's okay that I took a screenshot, cause I felt that this deserved it's own post.
It's a good question, and as someone with a needle phobia myself it's one I have some experience with and feel I can speak on.
It's going to sound stupid, but it's this:
First, keep facing your fear. I personally elected to start donating blood, which sucked ass, but helped me get used to the feeling of having a needle in in safe environment, and celebrating the small victory every time I finished was a good motivator to keep going back.
What I did then was focus on what my body was doing. Was I breathing fast? Tensing up? Sweating? Going cold? Was I shaking? Where? Was it better to fidget, or hold still? Did closing my eyes help? Plugging my ears? I got familiar with my own physical reactions so I could start to separate them from my mental reactions.
Now when I experience a panic response, I'm not just objectively aware that my body is doing it's own thing- I genuinely feel that my body is acting on it's own. I'm stressed, but not SCARED, because my brain doesn't just know that it's safe- it FEELS safe. I'm emotionally strung out and on edge, but I'm not totally losing myself anymore. I can have a conversation while it's happening.
Now, sometimes I can see someone use a syringe for small procedures without flinching and closing off. Not often, but it's miles ahead of where I used to be. I can hold an epipen. I can use safety gear to dispose of abandoned needles outside my work. I don't think I could give myself an injection if I needed to, because I know I still lock up, but the idea of someone else doing one on me isn't viscerally repellant.
So... not cured here yet, but better.
TLDR: Baby steps, keep trying, pay attention to your body, celebrate successes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Taking steps to confront a phobia has to be a choice. Forcing someone else to confront their phobia when they ARE NOT READY, WILLING, OR PREPARED is incredibly distressing and can make things way worse. And with how completely fucking miserable and exhausting a panic response feels, choosing not to "just confront it" is a totally valid and understandable choice. Like choosing not to run a 100 mile marathon barefoot. If you find yourself tempted to trick or pressure someone into amateur exposure therapy, don't. I'll fucking find you
Again, this is just what's been working for me, but if you wanna try it, I wish you luck! ♡
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terrifiedtable · 10 days
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Give me more "strong" or stoic characters who are rarely phased by anything who have very bad fears. Bonus points if they're the leader of a group/organisation/friendgroup/etc.
Give me characters who everyone relies on to help them breaking down and having panic attacks because they just can't handle this specific thing. And give me the guilt and shock the other character feels when they realise what's going on.
Stoic and strong characters facing their fears or breaking down in general never fails to interest me.
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selectivechaos · 9 months
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do not laugh at people for uncommon phobias
your phobias are not embarrassing. people can have phobias of absolutely anything, and they can be really precise and something that other people would think is strange to be scared of. your fears are valid feelings. you shouldn't have to be ashamed, but many people do not know about phobias beyond the common ones.
if it's something you don't understand because you've never seen it before, don't laugh at it.
they're not "being silly",
they can't "just get over it"
they need actual help, rather than unprofessional exposure therapy
they're experiencing real real fear
people with common phobias get sympathy; people with uncommon phobias get ridiculed at the worst possible moment: when they're in a state of fear.
so i repeat: don't laugh at them. 🌹🌹
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apolladay · 5 days
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wendodarkmoon04 · 2 months
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Español.
Nuevo AU de Ninjago, PowerPhobia.
Ya publicado en mi TikTok y Twitter o X.
English.
New Ninjago AU, PowerPhobia.
Already published on my TikTok and Twitter or X.
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bea-the-ao3er · 3 months
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I love the "Chuuya has a fear of lighting" headcanon, so I came up with other phobias for bsd characters:
Dazai: iatrophobia (fear of doctors)
Akutagawa: trypophobia (fear of clusters/patterns of holes)
Atsushi: nyctophobia (clinical fear of the dark)
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arrowmaker15 · 4 months
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(Tim and Jason sitting in the manor)
Tim, randomly: Aibohphobia, or the fear of palindromes, is a palindrome.
Jason: The fuck, Tim?
Tim, ignoring Jason: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Jason: But the phobia name is a long ass word?
Tim, still going: Xanthophobia is the fear of the color yellow.
Jason: Pretty sure the Green Lanterns have that.
Tim, continuing: Kinemortophobia is the fear of zombies.
Jason: Trying to tell me something, Tim?
Tim, forgetting who he's talking to: Taphophobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Jason: The FUCK did you just say?
Tim, realizing: Fuck.
Jason, loading a gun: Run.
Tim, scrambling to his feet: Already on it-
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hyperfixations-anyone · 11 months
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Throwing my penny into the Humans are space orcs thing
Phobias.
There's no purpose or justification for them, some humans will just be mortaly terrified of something for no reason. And aliens are so confused by it because aliens are very logical species, they can’t fathom why one would be scared of something unless it was for survival.
“Human Andrew I require your presence in the labor- human Andrew what are you doing?” Asked Tuuk
“Spider.”
“Hm?” He followed the quaking crew members finger down to the floor where a small spider sat “Oh yes, the many legged arachnid creatures from your planet, i suppose one must have infiltrated the ship with our delivery of Earth flora. But that does not explain why you are standing on the table holding a cylindrical object?”
Human Andrew was about to explain himself when the Australian abomination moved causing the poor human to scramble backwards on the table, brandishing the bug spray, which he had smuggled on board, in attempts to defend himself from the small attacker. Tuuk had hoped he was prepared to face whatever shenanigans humans could throw at him, but watching the 6'2, 210 pound Chief biologist be reduced to sheer terror was something he couldn't have seen coming. Surely the small arachnid couldn't kill human Andrew? Or could it?
“Human Andrew are you in danger!? If this small of a creature is a threat to you should I be concerned? How lethal is it? Do you need help killing it? What do I do? Has it bit you?” Tuuk frantically asked, looking between the Human on the table and the potential danger below him.
“Uumm well no. I'm fine Tuuk, it's kind of embarrassing even, i just don't like spiders. This one's probably not even venomous they just….freak me out.” Human Andrew responded, with a look that Tuuk had learned indicated some amount of embarrassment.
“….. may I inquire as to why you are hiding from it then? Are humans evolved to be afraid of all spiders due to the few dangerous ones?”
“No, some people actually love 'em, I have a friend who has a tarantula as a pet, I just have a phobia with spider- it mOved again! Tuuk would you step on it please? I really hATE SPIDERS!”
After Tuuk had moved the arachnid into a container in the labratory (“it could be useful to study” “I aint studying that thing, keep it away from my desk”) he infromed the alien crew memebers that some humans are irrationally scared of certain things even if those things pose no actual threat. Just another illogical and backwards thing that if course the humans do, they concluded. However human Andrew did notice that from then on, his bug spray was always well stocked and that the other crewmembers made an effort to keep any bugs away from him fear of “another episode”.
Just wait until they learn about fear of the dark.
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paradoxlemonade · 4 months
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I'm curious to see how this plays out! A friend of mine has arachnophobia because she was bitten by a spider as a child. Conversely, I was bitten by a spider and had no lasting psychological impact, but I have equinophobia despite no traumatic experiences with horses.
You can add what your phobia/phobias are in the tags if you want, but you don't have to!
Reblog for greater sample size and all that
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highladyofterrasen7 · 4 months
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When Sheldon said “you don’t have a fear of heights, you have a fear of falling” I felt that
I don’t even think I got the quote right but that’s like what it was
I’m pretty good with heights up to a certain point.
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convolutedblasphemy · 1 month
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Living with thanatophobia is just like.... "wow i feel really happy today! ☺️" and then your brain follows it up with "someday soon you will never feel anything ever again 🙂"
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hello can we please stop tagging things that can trigger a phobia with the name of the phobia. you are potentially putting people looking for support and community at risk of the very thing you're trying to protect them from. if someone has a phobia, it's their job to filter the tags for it - and if you're worried about triggering a phobia, you can simply tag what the phobia is of. it's the same reason you shouldn't use the epilepsy tag for posts with flashing.
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gay-jewish-bucky · 11 months
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Do other people with actual clinical phobias get exhausted of people without phobias policing terms like 'homophobia' or 'transphobia'? Because this doesn't do anything to help or actually destigmatize clinical phobias.
Like at all.
The same people who are saying those words hurt me and shouldn't be used, and going around harassing people into not using them, still think anyone who doesn't love dogs is some evil monster. No one could possibly have cynophobia (which is often rooted in a traumatic experience) and struggle with debilitating anxiety, no, it's obviously a red flag that you're an awful person and probably an abuser.
They still mock/belittle people with clinical phobias. They still don't take us seriously. They still get upset when we have symptoms of our psychiatric disorder instead of us "being normal".
That actually hurts people with clinical phobias, not the existence of words that describe bigotry.
Maybe we should educate people about the different clinical phobias and not stigmatize people not liking/avoiding things that are at the root of those phobias, especially when they ask for support/accommodation.
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