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Really bad phobia
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Ok this is probably a bit hard to understand if you dont have the same phobia but I am really really scared of wasps. I laugh about it when I think about it because I know it is totally irrational but it is starting to effect my life through the summer months. People will ask me to go for pub lunch etc and I will make an excuse not to go incase we have to sit outside which is really silly coz I want to be out in the sunshine. When I'm inside it still effects me because I will not open a window no matter how hot I am incase one comes in
I was concidering going to the doctors about it but I am not too sure if they would be able to do anything or refer me to anyone about it? I don't really want to have to take any kind of medication if I can help it really.
Does anyone have any good cures that they have used for a phobia at all? I have tried facing my fear but its not really doing the trick. I know they probably dont work but I was thinking about some kind of hypnosis or something? I mean it might work, even if is it just a mental thing? What do you think??
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I was concidering going to the doctors about it but I am not too sure if they would be able to do anything or refer me to anyone about it? I don't really want to have to take any kind of medication if I can help it really.
Does anyone have any good cures that they have used for a phobia at all? I have tried facing my fear but its not really doing the trick. I know they probably dont work but I was thinking about some kind of hypnosis or something? I mean it might work, even if is it just a mental thing? What do you think??
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I've had a quick look at it and the technique I was told to use was TAB (Tapping and Breathing). The guy that told me about it was petrified of spiders but now he loves them and keeps them as pets!
My arachnophobia sounds as bad as yours of wasps. I have to shake my clothes and shoes out before I put them on unless there's a spider hiding in them, I can't reach behind furniture or into the back of cupboards unless I can see there's no spiders and if a cobweb touches me I freak! Don't even ask about a real spider touching me :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
But, yea, I'll stop rambling (mostly because I'm freaking myself out). Have a look at the website and I hope it helps
I used to be fine with wasps and could pick bees up but now I run away.......
If you work out any way of getting over it let me know!
Cant offer any advice though, because ive not had any success getting over my fears.
Can always count on you lot
Off to the pub now, wasps dont come out much at night
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moths do. :nervous:
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Got a magic wand have you? :hyper:
TAB is meant to be really good. My boyfriends-mum's-best mate (god thats complicated - we'll call her Paula, which is incidentally her name) is petrified of flying. And we've all booked a holiday to Lanzarote this year, which is a four hour flight.
At first, she couldn't even talk about it. But she's getting better. It seems to work.
Don't know about Wasps but the one thing that as a child made me totally unafriad of bees was reading that when a bee stings someone it's sting is so large it virtually rip the bee apart to fire it - so it will only do so as the most utter last resort and most bee's will die after they sting someone - so I realised if you don't bother the bee it won't bother you.