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August 2014 Moms
shaylagirl
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Proud Mother to 16 year old Austin (MCJROTC Sgt., Trumpet playing "Band Nerd" and hopeful Air Force Pilot!)
Proud Stepmother to 12 year old Josh (Baseball playing, Saxophone playing "Band Nerd" and hopeful Doctor!)
Proud Mother to baby Kaylee (Stuffed toy playing, Adorable smiling baby and hopeful Rodeo Princess!)
NBR: Irrational Fears/Phobias/Quirks
shaylagirl
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In an attempt (okay, not really) to encourage lurkers who say that they contribute, to actually CONTRIBUTE, here's your chance!
What are your completely irrational fears? Things that you KNOW won't cause something bad to happen to you, but it still freaks you out? Doesn't have to be pregnancy related (because we all know there's like 50 frajillion things to stress about and freak out about while being pregnant!).
Some of mine:
I am irrationally terrified of those large grates in parking lots. Like scared witless. I REFUSE to walk on them because I think my foot will somehow slip through the grate and I'll get trapped. Or, I'll drop my car keys down there and never get them back. I walk around them.
Escalators, both getting on and getting off cause a mild anxiety moment. I worry about tripping or falling getting on/getting off. I worry about a shoelace getting caught and getting dragged through or something else.
Stairs where the back is open make me worry. I worry that my foot will slip, go through, and somehow my entire body will go whizzing through and I'll get hurt or killed.
Changing lanes while driving. I check my mirrors. I turn my head to check my blind spot. I always use my turn signal. My fear is that someone else will choose that exact same moment in time to change in to the same lane I'm attempting to move in to, and we'll have an accident. This scares me so much that I probably take more time than is necessary to check the cars in front of and behind the opening one lane over from the one I want to move in to so I can check their turn signals or attempt to 'read' their driving language.
Your turn!!!
PS-If someone doesn't mention their fear of clowns along with a gawddamn scary gif included, I shall be mildly disappointed.
What are your completely irrational fears? Things that you KNOW won't cause something bad to happen to you, but it still freaks you out? Doesn't have to be pregnancy related (because we all know there's like 50 frajillion things to stress about and freak out about while being pregnant!).
Some of mine:
I am irrationally terrified of those large grates in parking lots. Like scared witless. I REFUSE to walk on them because I think my foot will somehow slip through the grate and I'll get trapped. Or, I'll drop my car keys down there and never get them back. I walk around them.
Escalators, both getting on and getting off cause a mild anxiety moment. I worry about tripping or falling getting on/getting off. I worry about a shoelace getting caught and getting dragged through or something else.
Stairs where the back is open make me worry. I worry that my foot will slip, go through, and somehow my entire body will go whizzing through and I'll get hurt or killed.
Changing lanes while driving. I check my mirrors. I turn my head to check my blind spot. I always use my turn signal. My fear is that someone else will choose that exact same moment in time to change in to the same lane I'm attempting to move in to, and we'll have an accident. This scares me so much that I probably take more time than is necessary to check the cars in front of and behind the opening one lane over from the one I want to move in to so I can check their turn signals or attempt to 'read' their driving language.
Your turn!!!
PS-If someone doesn't mention their fear of clowns along with a gawddamn scary gif included, I shall be mildly disappointed.
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Proud Mother to 16 year old Austin (MCJROTC Sgt., Trumpet playing "Band Nerd" and hopeful Air Force Pilot!)
Proud Stepmother to 12 year old Josh (Baseball playing, Saxophone playing "Band Nerd" and hopeful Doctor!)
Proud Mother to baby Kaylee (Stuffed toy playing, Adorable smiling baby and hopeful Rodeo Princess!)
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Re: NBR: Irrational Fears/Phobias/Quirks
Just looking up a spider GIF gave me fucking anxiety.
I don't want to say clowns because I don't want to look for .gifs.
Especially when I was little - things coming up thru the toilet, bathtub, etc.
Basements with crawl spaces that start halfway up the wall. When DH and I were looking at houses I walked straight out of a couple houses with a resounding "HELL NO". My childhood home's basement has this - and so did the restaurant I used to work at. The restaurant was a funeral home in the 1800s/early 1900s and those crawlspaces stored the bodies..
So... The basement of my parents house - I won't look into certain corners - or the creepy halfway-up-the-wall-crawlspace room.
I very carefully scrolled to see what the pic was and caught the very bottom of it, and immediately was "nope nope nope nope" scroll away! Scroll away!
Thanks a lot
There was a lady who was thrown from a roller coaster I think last year at Six Flags, and ever since then, I'm scared to get on one. I mean, I was scared before, but I'm REALLY scared now.
And dolls. I had a bad Child's Play experience as a small child and I've never recovered. Some of them aren't bad, but 90% of them terrify me.
Irrational: tornadoes. Never mind that I've never been near one, seen one, and live in New York City. I'm petrified of them.
I'm also afraid of *parking* on a bridge. I have no problem driving or walking on them, but if I have to stop... Shutter.
I also have a fear of our house burning down or being broken into. Serial killers and/or rapist coming in during the night is also a fear.
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Clowns
Social situations where I don't know many people
Being touched by anyone other than close friends or family
Driving on roads with no shoulders
I am sure there are lots more as I am mess of anxiety and nerves.
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Uncovered foam (like the stuff used in furniture) freaks me the eff out.
Can't touch it, can't look at it can barely think about it without getting nauseous.
even if it's covered I have to make myself not think about what's underneath.
jumping into one of those foam filled pits is basically my worst nightmare.
now here is the most terrifying thing in this thread
Mom to S-07/22/10 & Q-12/14/11 L-8/23/14
Also, ceiling fans. I am afraid they will come off the ceiling at night and decapitate me.
you are right to be afraid of centipiedes. They are terrifying they don't technically bite but their feet in thier first segment are not even feet, they are fangs. and if they sense food above their little hole in the ground they will burst out like the sandworms in Dune.
Mom to S-07/22/10 & Q-12/14/11 L-8/23/14
My siblings give me a terrible time about it....they did a small clown prank for my wedding. In this picture I didn't know the bus driver was dressed as a clown. Kinda funny...but now they joke about a clown themed shower....and I will KILL them!
Driving/riding next to a big drop off without the rail.
Someone hiding in the shower waiting to attack me.
Someone sneaking in the garage in the time it takes me to shut the door.
The other one is the ocean! I cant swim very well, and Im terrified of everything that lives in there. Last year in puerto rico DH talked me into snorkeling. This ended in a panic attack where I was hyperventilating in the middle of the ocean because this purple fish wouldnt leave me alone and it freaked me out. Then while trying to get out of the ocean I got stung by a jellyfish, then knocked into the rocks and gashed my leg open because of a big wave. Its safe to say Im never going past my ankles again!
I have a "vaso vagel" ( sp) response and if I'm not laying down while getting blood drawn I will pass out. Every time. I almost couldn't get an epi bc I was sweating so badly my IV needle wouldn't stay in
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BFP#2 11/25/13 EDD 8/4/14
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also: heights, being upside down (for example, I can't do s flip under water), falling.
1. As of recently, elevators. Never, ever had this fear before until my last doctors appointment. I was leaving my appointment, got in, hit the button, doors closed ...aaaand nothing. For a good minute (which felt like an eternity). This has never happened to me before. Naturally, in a panic, I hit the buttons repeatedly which caused me to freak out more because I thought I for sure broke it. My mind started racing... Pregnant+stuck in elevator= panic attack= I'm never getting out of here= what if I have to pee? = I'm going to go into labor and have my baby alone in an elevator. I know, I'm ridiculous.
2. Bugs. Pretty much any and all bugs. Specifically though, spiders and centipedes. They have SO.MANY.FREAKING.LEGS it's just not right! If my SO is not home and I find a bug in the house, I put a cup over it and wait (paranoid) for him to come home and kill it. When this doesn't work, I break out any and all cleaning supplies, hair spray etc and drown the sucker. Then I put a cup over the dead bug and wait for him to clean it up. Or I just close the door and run!
3. I'm always petrified I am going to find someone hiding in the backseat of my car one day/night. More so at night. Definitely when in parking garages. I probably just watch too much TV.
4. I hate hate hate driving on the highway at night, in the rain. This is also something new. My uncle was killed in a car accident on the highway (many years ago) but this never bothered me... Or should I say affected me, as far as having anxiety about driving.
I also am terrified of open water.