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If anyone around here thinks I'm a pretty rational, stable person, you might be surprised to see the list that I'm working on of my obsessions and compulsions. It's nowhere near finished, but gives you an idea of how different a person can be from their disorder. Looking at the list myself, I'm rather amazed that I manage to function at all. The list has a specific purpose and isn't meant to be shown to just anyone, so if you do read it and don't understand what I'm talking about, you can see this.Specific phobia (SP) is characterized by extreme fear of specific objects or situations that present little or no threat in reality. A summary of the diagnostic criteria for SP, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, includes the following:
* Criterion A: The patient has persistent or irrational fear that is unreasonable or excessive and is triggered by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation
* Criterion B: Exposure to the above noted event or object almost always results in an immediate anxiety response
* Criterion C: The person acknowledges this response to be unreasonable or excessive
* Criterion D: The person either avoids such situations or objects or else experiences exposure with intensive anxiety or distress
* Criterion E: The avoidance or distressful response significantly interferes with a person's daily functioning
* Criterion F: Duration is at least 6 months for individuals younger than 18 years
* Criterion G: The anxiety, distressful response, or avoidance is not accounted for by other mental disorders (see Differentials).
Adults with SP acknowledge that their fear is excessive or unreasonable, but children may not.
- http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2659.htm
Apparently not, but there's help available!wolram said:I have a fear of touching cotton wool, it makes me cringe just thinking about
it, but i didn't see that in the list, am i unique ?
This hypnotic cassette or compact disc is suitable for all fears and all phobias such as: heights, death, flying, spiders, birds, failure, mice, dentists and pretty much anything you can think of including cotton wool!
- http://www.tosleep.co.uk/fearsphobias.htm
honestrosewater said:Apparently not, but there's help available!
Don't worry, you're still very peculiar in my book.
primal schemer said:Do they really need to have atomosophobia down there, surely everyone is afraid of atomic explosions.
Also, you got to love bogyphobia - fear of the bogeyman.
PS
honestrosewater said:That's a funny aspect of some anxiety disorders - it doesn't matter how absurd the feared object or situation is or how disproportionate their response; The person often feels like they have no control over it.
If anyone around here thinks I'm a pretty rational, stable person, you might be surprised to see the list that I'm working on of my obsessions and compulsions. It's nowhere near finished, but gives you an idea of how different a person can be from their disorder. Looking at the list myself, I'm rather amazed that I manage to function at all. The list has a specific purpose and isn't meant to be shown to just anyone, so if you do read it and don't understand what I'm talking about, you can see this.
Early summer when I was 17, a little over 5 years ago. It wasn't always as bad as it is now - I used to be able to go outside and such - I managed to keep jobs and everything.wolram said:Rose when did all this start ?
honestrosewater said:England, English - Anglophobia
Well, that's understandable. ]
honestrosewater said:Early summer when I was 17, a little over 5 years ago. It wasn't always as bad as it is now - I used to be able to go outside and such - I managed to keep jobs and everything.
Ha, I'm always on the lookout for woolierams.wolram said:you wouldn't be afeared of old wolram rose, you wouldn't have time :rofl:
Nope. Well, there is something that I think is connected, but it wasn't a bad experience - just realizing that I needed to be responsible for my own safety and success. It was phrased more like saving myself from the fates that I most feared, but these were things like never achieving some of my important goals and such; They weren't fears of snakes or anything like that. Oddly enough, I just noticed this connection last week!wolram said:I think some thing bad hapend when you were 17 ?
honestrosewater said:Ha, I'm always on the lookout for woolierams.
Your running from the possibility of failure, and you have set your goals sohonestrosewater said:Nope. Well, there is something that I think is connected, but it wasn't a bad experience - just realizing that I needed to be responsible for my own safety and success. It was phrased more like saving myself from the fates that I most feared, but these were things like never achieving some of my important goals and such; They weren't fears of snakes or anything like that. Oddly enough, I just noticed this connection last week!
Just before I had my first episode, I had been having the same dream every night for about a month or so: I was in immediate danger and running from something or someone - and that's what my earliest obsessions were about.
:rofl: You're half right- I know that I'm punishing myself. I aim to be the best possible and perform perfectly, but that's not always unrealistic; There are some things that I should be able to do perfectly or very near perfectly. But I don't think that explains my symptoms. It seems more likely that I have a biological predisposition or sensitivity and my deep sense of personal responsibility and perfectionism just triggered and feeds it. Of course, I could be wrong... anywho, I don't want to bore everyone with my problems, as fascinating as they are to me.wolram said:Your running from the possibility of failure, and you have set your goals so
high that you may?
It seems to me that you are unknowingly punishing yourself, but i am no
authority.
You *are* a rational, stable person, you are just dealing with a chemical imbalance. Did you mention before if you are taking any medication to correct it?honestrosewater said:If anyone around here thinks I'm a pretty rational, stable person
honestrosewater said::rofl: You're half right- I know that I'm punishing myself. I aim to be the best possible and perform perfectly, but that's not always unrealistic; There are some things that I should be able to do perfectly or very near perfectly. But I don't think that explains my symptoms. It seems more likely that I have a biological predisposition or sensitivity and my deep sense of personal responsibility and perfectionism just triggered and feeds it. Of course, I could be wrong... anywho, I don't want to bore everyone with my problems, as fascinating as they are to me.
If you want to explain may be it would help me understand why i am afraid ofmatthyaouw said:Honestrosewater, quite a few things on that list remind me of when I was a child, and a couple still effect me now. At least I know I'm not the only one:D
I would be afraid of anything that was a cross between a sheep and a plant!wolram said:If you want to explain may be it would help me understand why i am afraid of
cotton wool.
Evo said:cottonballs! Why don't you silly english just say so. :tongue:
edit: now that you deleted your post, it looks like I'm talking to myself. :grumpy:
Well what ever you natives of the Americas have transmogrified cotton woolEvo said:cottonballs! Why don't you silly english just say so. :tongue:
edit: now that you deleted your post, it looks like I'm talking to myself. :grumpy:
edit to edit: now it looks like I saw into the future.
100% cotton is ok, it's that nasty polyester they make FAKE cotton balls out of that feels nasty.wolram said:Well what ever you natives of the Americas have transmogrified cotton wool
into :rofl: It is the one thing i dread, the thought of touching that stuff,
sugar, i can not write any more about it.
Evo said:100% cotton is ok, it's that nasty polyester they make FAKE cotton balls out of that feels nasty.