How do you explain a phobia?
guilliano
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My shop has BBC Oxford coming in to do an feature on cycling demonstration towns and cycle to work schemes etc tomorrow and I have been told I am to do the interview. But I have a very real phobia of cameras..... I actually get panicky when one is pointed in my general direction. I have explained this to my boss before and I REALLY don't want to do this. How do you explain to someone that you can't do something because you are terrified?
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A phobia is an irrational fear of a usually normal situation. This is not that normal though, many would be fearful (to an extent) in a similar situation.0
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It's not just this situation though... I get the sweats just holding a camera, they really do scare me0
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That does sound like a genuine phobia. I'd have a word wiith the doctor, they understand these things and may be able to help your boss understand more.0
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No chance of talking to the doc before 12:00 tomorrow when the feature is scheduled for.0
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Just explain to your boss. Tell him that you think you may reflect badly on the shop because you really don't like being filmed. If he/she's a decent boss, they'll understand - may do the interview him/herself.0
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He's off tomorrow which is why I was nominated. Have texted him explaining that I have been close to panic since. God I sound like whining twat.0
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Not at all. It's totally understandable. I know several musicians, even, who are happy to be on stage, singing or playing an instrument, but when they're planted in front of a camera for an interview, they brick it!guilliano wrote:He's off tomorrow which is why I was nominated. Have texted him explaining that I have been close to panic since. God I sound like whining fool.
Every time we get a film-crew in the studio, I run off and hide
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i have a phobia of snakes, they really scare me. anyone else got a phobia?0
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Yeah, I'm afraid of standing structures in water, like piers, dams, outlet pipes etc. Actually scares the sh*te out of me.0
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Mottephobia.
In irrational fear of moths.
Seriously, I've been for counselling and everything, but believe me when I tell you that if the only way of getting that moth away from me is by sacrificing new born children, then I'll happily go on a CSI-style killing spree in the maternity unit.
I can't be in the same room as one, even a dead one. I can't really look at them on the tv, not without feeling my anxiety level rising to DefCon 2 and god forbid one of the big hairy f*ckers buzzes me!
I flail about like Graham Norton being tazered!
Don't even go there :evil:0 -
Many people are scared of spiders or don't like them - are you truly phobic like Joe is though? Utter abject fear and adrenaline overload (and I know what that is like - the worst feeling ever)0
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Sounds like Chatelsupersonic wrote:Utter abject fear and adrenaline overload 0 -
Joe_Pineapples wrote:Mottephobia.
In irrational fear of moths.
god forbid one of the big hairy f*ckers buzzes me!
I flail about like Graham Norton being tazered!
sounds like me the last time one of the fuckers got in my bedroom, fucking enormous too, by far the biggest i've seen in many a year, tried to go for the bastard with the classic rolled up newspaper.
all i succeeded in doing was batting it across the room, the sickening thump as it hit the opposite wall and the rattle of wings against the wall told me i was going to need something a bit more meaty to take care of it. i couldn't bring myself to get so close to it again i ended up getting out the henry hover and pulled the head thing off and used the long tube at arms length to suck mothra up. don't think my downstairs neighbour appreciated me "hovering" at the back of 1 in the morning either.
moths fucking hate them. butterflies no problem but moths, urgh gives me the shivers recalling that.Fancy a brew?0 -
This thread has been around before.
I suffer from bambakomallophobia :oops:It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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supersonic wrote:Many people are scared of spiders or don't like them - are you truly phobic like Joe is though? Utter abject fear and adrenaline overload (and I know what that is like - the worst feeling ever)
if one is on telly un expected i shit myself (not litrally) or if theres a pic in a book i'll skip the page :oops:0 -
Worms. Absolutely terrified of the things. The sight of them moving has been known to make me vomit!
Weird thing is I keep snakes, how does that work?0 -
77ric wrote:sounds like me the last time one of the idiots got in my bedroom, ******* enormous too, by far the biggest i've seen in many a year, tried to go for the bastard with the classic rolled up newspaper.
That's where you and I differ. I'd have bolted from the room and demanded that the girlfriend deal with the bugger. I wouldn't have returned to the room until she'd cast-iron-guaranteed me that it was dead/gone (this has happened).
Did anyone see the tv documentary last month about the team that journeyed into an extinct volcano and discovered umpteen new species never before seen?
At one point the entomologist set up a white sheet with a light under it at night to attract flying insects. Within seconds the sheet, and indeed the bug bloke, were literally covered in flying insects, moths mostly. Up until that point I had been enjoying the show, and even though I knew it was coming, I still felt my heart rate shoot up and my palms start to sweat.
The g/f has a good head on her shoulders though and fast forwarded past the rest of this part, she's well trained. Thank god for PVR's.
My flesh is crawling typing this.0 -
I find a badminton raquet is the best way to deal with moths..... they never recover from being diced.0
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My wife has a shark phobia.
Now, there's no name for that, because apparently a fear of sharks is not irrational on account of the fact that they can kill you, but my wife DOES have a full-on phobia. If there's one on telly, she gets proper panicky and has to get her feet off the floor and if there's one in the newspaper she's not expecting, she'll scream and lob the paper as far away as she can.
She doesn't swim in the sea because of them and it's hard work even getting her onto a boat.
She even used to worry about them in the shower! 0 -
I like moths. Not going to torture Joe by talking about them, but they are nice creatures.0
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You're sick in the head :?0
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I'm none too keen on Clowns.. it's not a phobia, but there's something about grown men in make up entertaining children that creeps me out.
I also don't like horses, but thats just because I don't know what they're thinking..
The missus though, hates Spiders... like, freaks out like Joe and moths.. I can't even say the word Spider around her, if for some reason I have to mention one, the words 'land crab' have to be used... :roll: 0 -
'Land Crab' - classic!0
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definately snakes for me, my cousins used to keep them and i would always play up so i didn't have to go round to their house when i was a kid. Everything about them scares me, can't see pics of them or watch them on tv. (I'm now all itchy and checking round the room that there are none in here).
AND just to make it even weirder i read a story once that a woman was living in a flat and her neighbours snake came out of her toilet.........so that gets checked EVERYTIME! Now i know you can't believe everything you read but it's made me scared of the toilet in case a snake comes out of it!
now i feel like a big freak.........0 -
Welcome brother, no one will judge you here.
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does that welcome extend to sisters? being a girly and all??0
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Damn, I wasn't sure. It's a 50/50 gamble!0
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Don't worry, you're expected to get scared by things. It's ok to admit that you need a man around to protect you.Kaz01 wrote:does that welcome extend to sisters? being a girly and all??
Thus ends 'whyamihere's day of outrageous misogyny'. Tomorrow I may go after horses. Those bastards have had it all their own way for far too long.0 -
I have a phobia of dead fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't know how or why, i can't even walk the past where they display them in the supermarket. WTF!!!!!!!0
