Don Honchkrorleone
Happy Qwilfish the nightmare
Mood-killing time!
It happened today as I was walking my way back home after a tiresome exam. I saw two dogs near the entrance of the street that is in my new usual way to go home. One of them was a shabby thing that looked like a poodle (I don't know about dog races, all are the same terrifying crap for me), while the other was big and barking loudly. I thought to myself not if I should go through that street, but rather which path should I take. There are two other than that, an even closer one that I used to go through, and one that I need to take a detour of about 15 minutes. I chose the latter because last month on the former a pack of six or seven of those demonic creatures approached me, and one of them hurt me while I nearly fainted and spent the rest of the night panicked. I just can't pass through that street anymore without the fear that dogs are there, not even by car or with someone else.
For those unaware of me, I'm cynophobic. That is, I have an irrational fear of dogs. Be them big or small, whatever the race or color, puppies or old mutts, I have panic attacks whenever one comes close, and I nearly faint (or do sometimes) or cry a lot when one touches me. It affects me in a really heavy way, and no matter how much I get treated, it seems to never go away. Which is worse since either everyone has a dog on the shithole I live in or the insane amount of stray dogs in my town suddenly appear. So I had the idea to make this thread. Tell about your phobias and fears and come to celebrate and embrace your cowardice!
They can be anything from death to the opposite sex to clowns to loneliness to spiders to communist takeover to loss to Matrix being real to betrayal to spiders to ghosts to rapture to terrorism to acceptance to impotence to even stupid shit like stairs. I promise I won't judge. Doesn't even need to be clinical phobias, just shit you fear in your everyday life and how that affects you if that even happens. Some of my others fears but in a scale way lower than dogs are violence (I live behind a favela and often wake up with gun sounds in the middle of the night) and pointy things, especially needles.
It happened today as I was walking my way back home after a tiresome exam. I saw two dogs near the entrance of the street that is in my new usual way to go home. One of them was a shabby thing that looked like a poodle (I don't know about dog races, all are the same terrifying crap for me), while the other was big and barking loudly. I thought to myself not if I should go through that street, but rather which path should I take. There are two other than that, an even closer one that I used to go through, and one that I need to take a detour of about 15 minutes. I chose the latter because last month on the former a pack of six or seven of those demonic creatures approached me, and one of them hurt me while I nearly fainted and spent the rest of the night panicked. I just can't pass through that street anymore without the fear that dogs are there, not even by car or with someone else.
For those unaware of me, I'm cynophobic. That is, I have an irrational fear of dogs. Be them big or small, whatever the race or color, puppies or old mutts, I have panic attacks whenever one comes close, and I nearly faint (or do sometimes) or cry a lot when one touches me. It affects me in a really heavy way, and no matter how much I get treated, it seems to never go away. Which is worse since either everyone has a dog on the shithole I live in or the insane amount of stray dogs in my town suddenly appear. So I had the idea to make this thread. Tell about your phobias and fears and come to celebrate and embrace your cowardice!
They can be anything from death to the opposite sex to clowns to loneliness to spiders to communist takeover to loss to Matrix being real to betrayal to spiders to ghosts to rapture to terrorism to acceptance to impotence to even stupid shit like stairs. I promise I won't judge. Doesn't even need to be clinical phobias, just shit you fear in your everyday life and how that affects you if that even happens. Some of my others fears but in a scale way lower than dogs are violence (I live behind a favela and often wake up with gun sounds in the middle of the night) and pointy things, especially needles.