Quotes About Phobia

I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

Fear is just an illusion.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

I can't look when my blood is drawn and I hyperventilate when I see a needle. I hate it.

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I'm scared of injections and needles.

I'm scared of needles.

Well, I hate needles and stitches. I'm the biggest wimp when it comes to that stuff. Can't stand it. That little needle is the worst feeling for me. I hate it.

I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.

En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

As for the actual causation of neuroses, apart from constitutional elements, whether somatic or psychic in nature, such feedback mechanisms as anticipatory anxiety seem to be a major pathogenic factor. A given symptom is responded to by a phobia, the phobia triggers the symptom, and the symptom, in turn, reinforces the phobia.

Logotherapy bases its technique called paradoxical intention on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyperintention makes impossible what one wishes. In German I described paradoxical intention as early as 1939. In this approach the phobic patient is invited to intend, even if only for a moment, precisely that which he fears.

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes. In German I described paradoxical intention as early as 1939.10 In this approach the phobic patient is invited to intend, even if only for a moment, precisely that which he fears.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

there's one thing that's the stuff of cats' nightmares, it's sudden and total immersion in water.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they're phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the carpet, and freak out when they see snakes on TV.

What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.