4 Responses to “A lot of phobias?”

1. By Centerfield on Mar 17, 2010 | Reply

   well there is nothing wrong with you. Those are quite rational fears. For the heights remember it isn’t the height your afraid of but the falling. When up high, just don’t look down! Sharps? Is that like sharp objects? Just be careful with them I guess. As far as afraid of being attacked remember that most people have really good intentions and stay in a place that has a lot people around.

   Good luck!

2. By Alyssa on Mar 17, 2010 | Reply

   You are just too panicked. You need to learn to deal with your fears and try to conquer them. You are afraid of heights, maybe take a friend or family member with you to the top level of a building. You have to face your fears. They will only worsen if you avoid them because eventually when you do face them, you won’t know what to do. Try looking for some things you think can help you relax. Meditation, exercising, humming your favorite song, reciting the alphabet backwards, something that will calm you down. Try finding something that calms you down and you enjoy.

3. By Malorie J on Mar 17, 2010 | Reply

   take your life day by day. i used to be very afraid of those things but then i just made little game plans in my head for what i would do if i got attacked…or had other things happen… as you get older..you learn to not stress out as much.

4. By dmaud56 on Mar 17, 2010 | Reply

   Get a gamecube, a PS2, and an Xbox 360, and then get your hands on the Resident Evil and Fatal Frame collections, and play Dead Rising. Play nothing but survival horror video games.

   That way you will do a form of self-therapy Psychologists call “flooding.” Your brain will be so overwhelmed by the fear induced by those games, it will have no other choice but to cancel them outright.

   When I was 6 years old, I was left alone in an apartment in Long Beach California once, only for a couple of hours but it was enough for a Zombie movie to come on the T.V. Actually it wasn’t a zombie movie, it was a Tales From the Darkside episode called “Tunnel.”

   Ever since I saw that episode I had had a morbid fear of zombies. It was so bad, that when I initially played Dead Rising for about a week, my hands always shook whenever I took the disc out and put the game away, amazingly enough never scratching. I’m not joking here I’m serious! My fear of zombies was so great, so morbid (no pun intended), that for the first week that I owned Dead Rising, my hands shook and trembled like crazy whenever I put down the controller, and I had to wait a few seconds before they were steady enough for me to put the game disc away.

   Dude, for someone with a morbid fear of zombies the video game “Dead Rising” can be EXTREMELY overwhelming. Nevertheless, I got over it, eventually becoming so overexposed from playing that thing for 6 hours per day on a daily basis, that after a while I did not even take zombies seriously anymore. I’ll tell you right now, I played Dead Rising so much, you can’t watch a zombie movie with me.

   In a social situation, I am the wrong guy to invite to a zombie movie, know why?

   “Did you see that guy!? He could have grabbed that metal chair and smashed the zombie with it!”

   Every time I see a zombie flick, I see a weapon in every corner now. Its annoying man; you play Dead Rising too much, and you are “back seat surviving” with the actors and sometimes blurting out or thinking in your head “god damn it! there was a car there that you could have run them over with!”

   But anyway you want to get over phobias, a good form of self-therapy accompanied with counseling is survival horror video games, but, ease yourself into them. I will list the survival horror games you must play, from most, to least scary.

   If you are strapped for cash….. Download a PS1 emulator, and then, download Resident Evils 1 through 3, and play and beat them all. Then, playe Silent Hill for the PS1. After you are done with the PS1 emulator…

   from least to most scary;

   1) Dead Rising
   2) Resident Evil 4
   3) Silent Hill 2
   4) Siren
   5) Fatal Frame 2

   Do not, I repeat, DO NOT go near Fatal Frame, ANY of them, until you have built up your fear tolerance first.

   That game is PRETTY DAMN SCARY. My friend couldn’t even finish it as he was hysterical and pissy the entire time, and because I had the misfortune of being his roommate in college, I sat there and watching him play right? Guess what?

   Fatal Frame will STILL give you nightmares just from watching someone else play. Fatal Frame 2, is even worse.

   If you have that many phobias you will need a counselor’s help to get to the root cause, and you will need to play scary video games to develop either a tolerance for fear, or to train your mind to rationalize better. A word of warning though; RE4, for me, was my introduction to survival horror gaming. The game left me with a lasting sense of fear, the ugly lump in your throat when you get really scared, the two creatures that traumatized me the most, or I should say three creatures were, from scariest to least scary;

   1) The Regenerator
   2) Verdugo (Zalazar’s “right hand”)
   3) El Garrador (the claw monster)

   The regenerator gave me nightmares though man…..

   Still; go see a therapist, and play plenty of survival horror games.

   good luck.