Quotes About Phobia

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

Sean) "The therapist calls it cleithrophobia." "That sounds like a fear of something else," Krista snorted before she could stop herself. She bit her lip, as shame washed through her. Sean turned, his startled laughter sounding rusty as it erupted from his chest. "No, I'm definitely not scared of that.

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

La condición psicológica del miedo está divorciada de cualquier peligro inmediato concreto y verdadero. Se presenta de muchas formas: incomodidad, preocupación, ansiedad, nerviosismo, tensión, temor, fobia, etcétera. Este tipo de miedo psicológico se refiere siempre a algo que podría pasar, no a algo que está ocurriendo ahora. Usted está en el aquí y ahora mientras que su mente está en el futuro. Esto crea una brecha de ansiedad.

I nearly drowned in a park pond when I was six years old and I've been terrified of water ever since.

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

I avoid subways like the plague because I'm claustrophobic.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

I hate planes.

I can't remember a dish my mother made that to me was pleasant. To this day I have a phobia of instant noodles.

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

I'm scared of clowns.

I hate clowns.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.

I can't swim. I've got better, but I can't go out of my depth. As soon as I smell chlorine my heart starts racing.

I am not a swimmer so a bit of phobia is always there with water stunts.

If doing something once makes you have fear, doing it over and over and over again is only going to reinforce that fear.

All of these people, as they told me their stories, shared certain things in common. One example was that they reached a point where they got so fed up they stopped thinking about what scared them. They started to look at themselves being afraid and started thinking, This is really silly. Elements like these, which they all shared in common, allowed me to develop the first "phobia cure." It wasn't really a "cure" so much as a "lesson.

What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?