tagged w/ Phobias
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Have you got a friend who is terrified of spiders? Well why not make them a feel a little bit worse this Christmas by giving them Gary Greenberg’s Pop-up Book of Phobias.
Video via link.Have you got a friend who is terrified of spiders? Well why not make them a feel a... more
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Social Networking for Shy People.
Have you seen this video on YouTube?
f you feel that shyness is taking over your life and preventing you from doing the things that you want in life, you may be suffering with social anxiety disorder.
People suffering with social anxiety may have the following thoughts.
I am so lonely I sounded so stupid
All I need is a friend I can't show the real me
I feel embarrassed and blush Why is it only me?
My mind keeps racing
I don't know what to say
No one likes me Why do I sweat so much?
I can't stop shaking and trembling
People might see I'm anxious
My heart is pounding I'm not good enough
I feel acutely self-conscious all the time
It feels like everyone is laughing at me
Why can't I speak? They think I'm boring
I need to appear more confident
I feel so tense and awkward I want to hide or run away
They must have thought I was an idiot
Research suggests that that Social Anxiety Disorder (also known as Social Phobia) is the most common anxiety disorder, so you are definitely not alone.
http://www.socialphobiatube.comSocial Networking for Shy People.
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Learning about strange afflictions like barophobia (fear of gravity -- damn you, Sir Isaac Newton!) and arachibutyrophobia (the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth -- damn you, Jiffy-delicious peanut butter) got us thinking about irrational fears. Fear of snakes or the IRS may be our most primal phobias, but surely there are some things we fear that only make sense in this ever-more-daunting information age. Here's what we found ...Learning about strange afflictions like barophobia (fear of gravity -- damn you, Sir... more
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A forty year old from South Fields who has spent half her life in her home for fear of open spaces claims Google street view has cured her.
Sue Curtis was so petrified to leave her house that she even married her husband in her living room! Now however, thanks to Google, she wants to see the world!
Do you believe it?A forty year old from South Fields who has spent half her life in her home for fear of... more
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Explore The Uncanny Valley and watch as one mannequin-phobe comes face to face with her greatest fear.Explore The Uncanny Valley and watch as one mannequin-phobe comes face to face with... more
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New research from Germany suggests that all those TV hospital dramas are making us afraid of going to hospital. The study has found that very regular watchers of medical dramas like ER and House "have difficulty telling fiction apart from reality when it comes to medical matters."
Do you watch hospital dramas? Are you more scared of hospitals as a result?
I used to watch Scrubs quite a bit, though that just put Lazlo Bane songs on loop in my head whever I smelt disinfectant...New research from Germany suggests that all those TV hospital dramas are making us... more
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"Under the shade of ficus trees stands the stone burial chapel that 73-year-old Freud de Melo built. Wind chimes tinkle above the wrought-iron door.
But it isn't a conventional final resting place. Inside the crypt, there's a TV, also a water pitcher and a fruit pantry. Fresh outdoor air flows in through four vents from the chapel roof. Within reach of the coffin are two makeshift megaphones -- plastic cones attached to tubes running out through the wall.
One Saturday recently, Mr. de Melo lay in the coffin, shouting into the cones in a voice that echoed into the countryside. "Help me! Come quick! I've been buried alive!"
See Mr. de Melo's burial vault, outfitted for survival in case of being buried alive.
It was only an equipment check -- not an actual emergency. Mr. de Melo, a resort operator and politician, built a burial vault he could survive in because he's gripped by a rare condition called taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive. "I have awful, awful nightmares of trying to dig myself out from underground," says Mr. de Melo, whose physician father named him, presciently, for the pioneer of dream analysis.
Mr. de Melo's life-affirming burial chapel has become one of the most talked about features of the eccentric tourist park he operates in Brazil's central hinterlands.
While Mr. de Melo's phobia may be over the top, fear of premature burial is one of the most chilling and persistent terrors. Fans of Halloween movie thrillers and people who relish a classic buried-alive story like the 1988 Dutch film "Spoorloos" ("The Vanishing"), have something in common with the ancient Greeks and Romans, who repeated tales of warriors and consuls, mistakenly thought dead, who rose up during their own funerals.
Fear of live burial crested in the 18th and 19th centuries, a time when medicine was comparatively unsophisticated and diseases like typhoid, cholera and plague sometimes caused people who were still alive to appear dead, says Melanie King, author of "The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death."
Overheated fiction stirred public fears about being buried alive. Edgar Allan Poe vividly evoked the claustrophobic terror of being trapped in a casket. "We know of nothing so agonizing upon Earth -- we can dream of nothing half so hideous in the realms of the nethermost hell," he wrote in the short story "The Premature Burial."
See Mr. de Melo's spooky way of coping with his fear of being buried alive.
Such was his anxiety about waking up 6 feet under that George Washington left instructions that his body was not to be buried for three days after his passing, just to be safe. On foreign travels, the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen would leave a sign near his hotel bed reading "I am not dead" to make sure strangers didn't get the wrong idea.
In Germany around 1800, apparent death and premature burial were "given more attention than almost any other medical topic of the time," writes Jan Bondeson, author of the book "Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear." The Germans even set up a system of waiting mortuaries, or Leichenhäuser, where presumed corpses were laid out for observation for two or three days before burial, Dr. Bondeson writes. In one Munich mortuary, the bodies' fingers and toes were attached with strings to a great harmonium that would play if they stirred. The only time the bodies moved and the music sounded was when putrefaction set in and the corpses swelled up, he writes..."
Read the rest and see the video at link ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122540935432186161.html"Under the shade of ficus trees stands the stone burial chapel that 73-year-old... more
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What are you scared of?
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My friend Emma was so painfully shy and suffering with Social Anxiety disorder when I met her over 3 years ago. Now she's running an event that is helping sufferers become self expressed through dance, drama, singing and much much more. I just want to say how proud I am!!! Well done!!
Don't forget to check it out! http://www.freedomtoshine.co.uk
Project Title: Freedom to Shine
Brief:
The outcomes of this project are to create Happiness, Joy, Freedom and Self Expression, for everyone involved.
The Target Audience:
People who suffer or have suffered with SA, general anxiety, depression, and low confidence/self esteem.My friend Emma was so painfully shy and suffering with Social Anxiety disorder when I... more
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My friend Steve is selling himself of ebay lol. He's offering the chance of 1 lucky bidder to receive 3 hours of Thought Field Therapy treatment and claims "I will cure any phobia". He told me that he'll travel anywhere in the world for the winning bidder and 100% will go to the UK's largest mental health charity MIND http://www.mind.org.uk
Haha Check it out. Auction ends: 19-Aug-08 11:08:10 BST
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260272924664
Ems :-) x
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Awww. A pig that's scared of mud. And got its own boots. And has been saved from becoming sausage meat as a result. That's evolution...Awww. A pig that's scared of mud. And got its own boots. And has been saved from... more
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There is an official word for just about every fear conceivable. Likewise, there is also a fear for nearly everything. This just goes to show how nimble and crafty the human brain really is. If we can invent it in our minds, it really exists, or so we believe. Here’s a list of phobias that would really suck to have. I honestly think I would shoot myself in the head if I had Eurotophobia!There is an official word for just about every fear conceivable. Likewise, there is... more
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Nicholas White was a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week. He was working late on a special assignment and wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague that he’d be right back and, leaving his jacket behind, headed downstairs. Thus commenced the longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life, a harrowing experience that began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999.
The Business Week offices were located on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building in mid-town Manhattan. When White finished his cigarette, he returned to the lobby, got into Elevator Car No. 30 and pressed the button marked 43. The car accelerated. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. But after a moment, White felt a jolt. The lights went out, immediately flashed on again and then the elevator stopped.
He was eventually trapped in Car 30 for forty-one hours. He never did learn why the elevator stopped. There was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer has his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and he’s lost all contact with his former colleagues. Now, he’s lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. White is currently unemployed.
Photographs and a time-lapse video of White's harrowing experience are included.
Nicholas White was a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week. He was... more
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A man should be charged for allowing his girlfriend to sit on their toilet so long that her body became stuck to the seat, the sheriff said Thursday.
Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple was among authorities who discovered the woman last month living in the bathroom of a mobile home she shared with her boyfriend, Kory McFarren.
"The house was cluttered but not in shambles," he said. "The smell was overpowering — a terrible smell about the house, obviously coming from where she was at."
McFarren, 36, told police his girlfriend, Pam Babcock, 35, had a phobia about leaving the bathroom and may not have left the bathroom in two years, although he's unsure how long she was in there.A man should be charged for allowing his girlfriend to sit on their toilet so long... more
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Lutraphobics look away now. Be kind about this post becuase I might suffer from rhabdophobia, the fear of being severely punished, beaten by a rod or severely criticised.Lutraphobics look away now. Be kind about this post becuase I might suffer from... more
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Oh sweet irony! This has to be a joke! I guess people can be afraid of anything. But why, really, does this phobia have to be the longest word...EVER? I think that those silly medical book writers thought they'd add a little fun to their day when they came up with this one. It can't be pure coincidence.Oh sweet irony! This has to be a joke! I guess people can be afraid of anything. But... more
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Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors. What are your worst spider stories?Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with... more
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