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I am beginning to struggle with Agoraphobia and I was wondering what phobias other Eden people have and how you deal with these fears.
I included a list of the top ten phobias but this is not limiting, leave comments below.
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I am beginning to struggle with Agoraphobia and I was wondering what phobias other Eden people have and how you deal with these fears.
I included a list of the top ten phobias but this is not limiting, leave comments below.
Has therapy helped you?
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Never gone to therapy, but most of my phobias are due to one particular experience. I am certainly an arachnophobic! I checked the box for Astraphobia too because I freak when thundering or lots of wind occurs. I wouldn't actually go so far as to call it a phobia, but we had severe tornadoes last year (first time ever in our area!) and now nearly everybody here FLIPS over thunderstorms. I get some pretty rough anxiety, but nothing that I can't manage with lots of activity until it passes.
The other phobia was due to that particular bad experience so at one time I think I was at least borderline Androphobic/Arrhenphob ic, but it's gotten better. It still has not entirely gone away and I get tremendous anxiety around some men. Not all, but for years I did do well when being left alone with men. That's understandable considering what I'd gone through, but I think I'll always have suspicions and anxiety when I am alone with men (besides family and my partner). I didn't go to therapy for any of the problems associated with that "experience" of mine, but my partner and I struggled a lot for 4 years. I FINALLY made it to a breaking point, I guess you would say sometime last year and I'm like a new person! Those things never go away, but I can finally relax without having any sort of breakdown.
Other than those few extreme fears, I have bad fears that do limit me in many ways, but nothing I could consider a phobia. I don't like to use terms like that lightly. I can be scared of something without it being a phobia, but those that I mentioned, I truly believe were beyond abnormal. I have a fear of strangers going near my booty (such as during a pap exam) to the point where I've freaked when it was brought up (and refused it) but I wouldn't call it a phobia as it really doesn't limit or hold me back in life. Lol. I'm terribly afraid of messing up or failing at particular things, but not anything too phobic-like.
