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Old 02-23-2011, 08:24 PM
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Spiders in the bedroom. I make the husband kill them which he laughs at "you afraid it will kick you to death?". If he's away on business and I find a spider in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa that night.

Somehow I'm OK with them when they're outside and just "sitting" there, and I can kill one in any other room.
But there is NO WAY I'm going to bed with a spider in the bedroom, and I can't kill it.

This phobia came about when I was kid and shared a bed with my sister. I saw a Daddy Long Legs on the wall when we went to bed and teased my (older) sister. Sister always slept with her mouth wide open. Yup. When I woke up I saw the spider sitting on her tongue.

Oh god ... now I got the heebie jeebies and I'm going to have to check every inch of the bedroom. WHY did I read this post at 10:24 PM?
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Old 02-23-2011, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Lv2sew2011
I have a Harley, and gravel scares me to death when I'm on it since I had a spill because of gravel...LOL

Glass Elevators don't like looking down from them...
Oh, I hate glass elevators, too! Who's idea was that???
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Old 02-23-2011, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Dolphyngyrl
I am phobic of needles, even though i give shots to cats and dogs everyday. I always laugh at the chihuahuas because they are big baby's which is funny because i act like them with needles, I have bit pushed cried. Also claustrophobic
Presume, since you quilt, that your OK when YOU are holding the needle? Otherwise, your on the wrong board :)
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Presume, since you quilt, that your OK when YOU are holding the needle? Otherwise, your on the wrong board :)
Loved this - and needed it, too, what with everyone talking about the same things I'm afraid of!

For me, it's spiders, snakes and very high heights. I'm okay with flying, also routine bridges and overpasses, but the ones spanning mountainsides way up near the tops of the mountains... noooo. Riding a ski lift? Nuh-uh.

My other major phobia is having anyone touch my eyes. Eye doctors cannot do it. Eye surgery? Never gonna happen. Yeah, they can put me out or paralyze me, but I'm sure I'd wake up insane from the horror of it. or lose my eye because I'd jerk no matter how well they paralyzed me or strapped me down.
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Freeways....I can ride on them, drive on them if there's somebody else in the car....but not by myself. Even on anti-anxiety drugs I still can't. And I can get anxious even driving on busy roads on the way home from work...7.5 miles and a straight shot home.
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Originally Posted by sawsan
Originally Posted by Riversong
Another of mine. I wont read library books any more. Nasty!!! A friend of mine works at the library and you would not believe what gets returned in books!
WHAT? I can't imagine. Tell us???????????


NOOOOOOO don't! I read 4-6 a week and there are some things I don't need to know!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by sewTinker
There IS a magic pill... :-D Talk to your doctor. Mine is Lorazepam.

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wow... Thank you for this information. I'll be Thrilled to be a pill popper! How exCiting if this will really work!!! oh Yay! thank you... xoxo
Lorazepam is good; I combine it with Ativan, works better for me that way. I said I'd never be a pill popper but hey, I like having an active life and these help.
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My list is heights (I can get up there but can't do a whole lot once I am there.) Snakes (They have there place and it is not around ME!!)
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Spiders in the bedroom. I make the husband kill them which he laughs at "you afraid it will kick you to death?". If he's away on business and I find a spider in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa that night.

Somehow I'm OK with them when they're outside and just "sitting" there, and I can kill one in any other room.
But there is NO WAY I'm going to bed with a spider in the bedroom, and I can't kill it.

This phobia came about when I was kid and shared a bed with my sister. I saw a Daddy Long Legs on the wall when we went to bed and teased my (older) sister. Sister always slept with her mouth wide open. Yup. When I woke up I saw the spider sitting on her tongue.

Oh god ... now I got the heebie jeebies and I'm going to have to check every inch of the bedroom. WHY did I read this post at 10:24 PM?
My husband always says "Don't sleep with your mouth open!" Edie
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1. High places (I can only go up to the 3rd step on a ladder),
2. small spaces like closed MRI machines,
3. I seem to be in the beginning stages of germ-a-phobe. I have a large bottle of hand sanitizing gel in my purse at all times now.
4. re-marriage-phobe :) :)
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