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Phobias

Lyndsay

Does anybody have any phobias? I detest clowns and, it sounds strange, but the sound of German language. I don't mean to offend anybody, but I can't listen to anybody speaking German. The person speaking could be the nicest person in the world, but I really can't stand to hear the language. Sometimes I feel so awful but I really can't help it. Also I can't stand clowns...There was a mime performing in the street and he had clown makeup on..I nearly screamed! I hate my phobias so much, I was wondering if anybody had a same phobia or any phobias at all!

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  • It's always easier to see phobias in other people than it is to realise what your own phobias are.

    When growing up I and my family had to deal with my mother's phobias.  One was lifts and escalators. This phobia got worse and worse over time.   Initially she refused to go down an escalator, she could go up but refused to go down, she was terrified because she couldn't see where it was going and had meltdowns in shops when we tried to persuade her to go on one.

    Then, before she could go up an escalator, she insisted that she could see actual manual stairs, where she could go down again, then because we were at the foot of an actual stairway, she refused to return to the escalator and insisted we climb up the stairs.  So she avoided using the escalator in either direction.

    As I got older the problem got worse.  In one part of the city centre there was a moving conveyor with a gentle slope.  She used to go up and down that. Then one day she had a panic attack and complete meltdown because it was moving and refused to go on it again.

    As an infant I remember us using lifts in stores.  But later she point blank refused to get in a lift saying that nobody knows how to operate a lift.

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  • It's always easier to see phobias in other people than it is to realise what your own phobias are.

    When growing up I and my family had to deal with my mother's phobias.  One was lifts and escalators. This phobia got worse and worse over time.   Initially she refused to go down an escalator, she could go up but refused to go down, she was terrified because she couldn't see where it was going and had meltdowns in shops when we tried to persuade her to go on one.

    Then, before she could go up an escalator, she insisted that she could see actual manual stairs, where she could go down again, then because we were at the foot of an actual stairway, she refused to return to the escalator and insisted we climb up the stairs.  So she avoided using the escalator in either direction.

    As I got older the problem got worse.  In one part of the city centre there was a moving conveyor with a gentle slope.  She used to go up and down that. Then one day she had a panic attack and complete meltdown because it was moving and refused to go on it again.

    As an infant I remember us using lifts in stores.  But later she point blank refused to get in a lift saying that nobody knows how to operate a lift.

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