1. closed spaces/suffocation
2. Deep water for some reason... I like swimming and kayaking and such but for some reason it creeps me out to be swimming or boating in a really deep lake or body of water...
3. Strange diseases
1) being burried alive, being underground like in a cave or something alone. Or being left alone in the middle of no where with out a way to get in touch with any one.
2) The Supernatural.
3) Rabid Dogs.
They are great things to talk about but not great things too have.
Fears are bad a enough but phobias a much worse.
I don't think - or more correctly DIDN'T think - that I had any phobias at all as I had conquered all of my fears.
( Fears can be fought and beaten but phobias are another thing altogether ! ).
While I was working at my trade ( and before I went into the civil service ), I was often asked to go into small places to work, ( under floors and into small workspaces etc' ), and I didn't think that I had any claustrophobia, ( the worst phobia of them all ! ).
I didn't think that I had this phobia until I had to go for an MRI scan.
This machine...which hums & clicks... is wrapped around a long narrow tunnel that has a narrow bench on it for passing the patient into.
I lay down and they strapped me in, ( well at least my head ), so that I would not - could not - move it. I was then passed down the length of this two-foot wide tube and into the bowels of the machine.
( Incidentally, the nurse/technician gave me a bulb to hold before I went in.....suspicious that ! ).
Anyway.... I went into the bowels of the machine and immediately began to feel uncomfortable. I tried to fight the feeling off but couldn't. I went into a cold-sweat panic and pressed the bulb. There was about a second and a half delay before they got me out but by that time I was in terror and soaking in sweat.
THAT....my dearies...is phobia...NOT fear !
*SHUDDER*
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I think that that was a CT scan or a PET scan as these scanners are only like large do-nuts that are about a foot deep. ( You can put a whole person into an MRI machine ).
Incidentally... I was getting my head looked too, ( many people had told me to do this in the past ), and after I had had the bad reaction to the MRI scan they told me that I could tolerate the CT scan. I did and incidentally my head was as-sound-as-a-pound !
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1: Heights. I am absolutely terrified of heights, and do not like being more than three feet above ground.
2: Needles. I've got no idea why, but I have a totally irrational (and horrible) fear of needles.
3: Small enclosed spaces. Yes, I'm claustrophobic.
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Aug 23rd, 2004 01:57 PM
, but it was a open mri, so not as bad as a normal one that looks like a drainage tube! those are freaky looking 
), and after I had had the bad reaction to the MRI scan they told me that I could tolerate the CT scan. I did and incidentally my head was as-sound-as-a-pound ! 
