Writer's Block: Phobias
Jul. 24th, 2008 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethgray[Error: unknown template qotd]I saw this today and I couldn't resist.
Although I wouldn't go so far as to deem it "remarkable" I am claustrophobic. Tight spaces just don't go well with me. The funny thing about that is it affects me more on the top bunk of a bunk bed rather than the bottom. I don't know why that is. At my dad's I sleep on the bottom of a bunk bed and it's never once tingled my phobia. However, last summer we took a trip back east and I attempted to sleep on the top bunk of one.
It proved to be far too close to the ceiling and it triggered an attack. I stood out in the hallway and then sat on the top of the stairs as I waited for the attack to pass. It's the first real bout of the phobia I've had since I was a child. I'd forgotten what it was like.
While I don't have attacks often, and thus cannot say their impact is large, when they do happen they are quite debilitating. I was a shaky, shivery mess for a good ten to fifteen minutes or so.
I have a few other things I don't like, such as heights and spiders and stuff, but I feel these to be fairly normal human reactions to situations. Not full blown phobias, exactly.
Although I wouldn't go so far as to deem it "remarkable" I am claustrophobic. Tight spaces just don't go well with me. The funny thing about that is it affects me more on the top bunk of a bunk bed rather than the bottom. I don't know why that is. At my dad's I sleep on the bottom of a bunk bed and it's never once tingled my phobia. However, last summer we took a trip back east and I attempted to sleep on the top bunk of one.
It proved to be far too close to the ceiling and it triggered an attack. I stood out in the hallway and then sat on the top of the stairs as I waited for the attack to pass. It's the first real bout of the phobia I've had since I was a child. I'd forgotten what it was like.
While I don't have attacks often, and thus cannot say their impact is large, when they do happen they are quite debilitating. I was a shaky, shivery mess for a good ten to fifteen minutes or so.
I have a few other things I don't like, such as heights and spiders and stuff, but I feel these to be fairly normal human reactions to situations. Not full blown phobias, exactly.