irrational fears

[indiepanda]

mightyroar Wrote:

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> I'm quite scared of the dark too. But is that

> irrational?

well, has the dark itself ever killed or harmed anyone?

(I get scared in the dark sometimes too - though it's usually imagined intruders not the dark itself... not that imagining intruders isn't also irrational)

[MadWorld74]

I think we should all pour oursleves another glass of wine. Then irrational seems distant and somewhat less silly! :))

[Guest]

Cheese. Cheese is bad and wrong. Can't put cheese in my mouth (except occasionally cooked cheese). If I'm having dinner with someone and they eat cheese, to me it's as though they ate someone else's sick - major turn-off. My irrational fear is what happens if I'm somewhere like a work-related lunch or out to dinner and I suddenly realise the thing in my mouth that looked like something else is actually cheese. Palpitations thinking about the consequences actually - would I projectile vomit instantly, or would I be able to swallow it whole while gagging and sweating profusely? Would I be able to continue the meal without having to leave to brush my teeth? Nightmare.

[SteveT]

Fear of opening brown envelopes, nothing good ever came out of a brown envelope.

[Moos]

Any parents want to be brave and share irrational fears about their children?

[SteveT]

I am concerned that I have not instilled in them sufficiently the most important lesson, how to live on what they earn without drifting into debt.

[giggirl]

Ms B Wrote:

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> Cheese. Cheese is bad and wrong. Can't put cheese

> in my mouth (except occasionally cooked cheese).

> If I'm having dinner with someone and they eat

> cheese, to me it's as though they ate someone

> else's sick - major turn-off. My irrational fear

> is what happens if I'm somewhere like a

> work-related lunch or out to dinner and I suddenly

> realise the thing in my mouth that looked like

> something else is actually cheese. Palpitations

> thinking about the consequences actually - would I

> projectile vomit instantly, or would I be able to

> swallow it whole while gagging and sweating

> profusely? Would I be able to continue the meal

> without having to leave to brush my teeth?

> Nightmare.

I'm so afraid of slugs and snails; quite irrational. Years ago I was at a business lunch once where one of my guest ordered, and ate, a plate of snails. I made an excuse to leave the table, went outside into the fresh air, and physically shook. I returned 10 minutes later (when the first course had been cleared) but, suffice it to say, it wasn't one of my best days.

[HonaloochieB]

Ms B Wrote:

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> Cheese. Cheese is bad and wrong. Can't put cheese

> in my mouth (except occasionally cooked cheese).

> If I'm having dinner with someone and they eat

> cheese, to me it's as though they ate someone

> else's sick - major turn-off. My irrational fear

> is what happens if I'm somewhere like a

> work-related lunch or out to dinner and I suddenly

> realise the thing in my mouth that looked like

> something else is actually cheese. Palpitations

> thinking about the consequences actually - would I

> projectile vomit instantly, or would I be able to

> swallow it whole while gagging and sweating

> profusely? Would I be able to continue the meal

> without having to leave to brush my teeth?

> Nightmare.

James Joyce called cheese 'corpse of milk' and unless I'm wrong didn't the narrator of Kerouac's On The Road Sal Paradise say something about intellectuals having a 'corpse in their mouths'?

Maybe Ms B you should stop reading so much. And take it nice and cheesey. Or not. You may not give Edam.

[Moos]

SteveT Wrote:

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> I am concerned that I have not instilled in them

> sufficiently the most important lesson, how to

> live on what they earn without drifting into debt.

That's hardly an irrational fear, Steve - not that I'm doubting your skills as a father, you understand! - it's a very natural and rational worry.

[will dex]

Palm Trees

[Guest]

Standing close to the edge of a cliff, roof etc. It's as though I might panic and have a sudden uncontrollable urge to take one step too far.

Talking of which, I got a taxi from work to London Bridge the other night and the driver said, is that the station or shall I stop in the middle of the bridge so you can jump off? Nice.

[mightyroar]

I have that fear too Ms B. The edges of high things make me feel very funny.

I have an irrational fear about my 5 year old child. she is really into cutting things out, and generally just cutting stuff like dolls hair, her duvet cover and anything that's nice and thin and gives a satisfying cut with her crappy kiddy scissors.

I am now convinced that she will become a self harmer as a teenager.

[Guest]

That's a scary one, Mightyroar.

[SteveT]

I see that as a positive trait with your child mightyroar, perhaps she will become an accountant and cut the rate of taxes for her clients.

She may progress to the banking fraternity and cut interest rates.

She may become a dress designer/tailors cutter.

A new Banksy cutting out collages.

Can I have her autograph before she gets famous.....

[CamberwellOz]

I'm also scared of something hiding under the toilet seat and biting my behind. I have to lift the lid and check.

This has saved me a few times. The worst one was in Thailand. We were on a river cruise and I'd been holding on for about four hours. We got to our hotel on the banks of the river and I ran to the toilet. Did my whole lifting the lid thing and a spider bigger than my hand ran up the toilet lid and out the window.

I didn't need to go to the toilet after that.

[Annasfield]

Do you mean you didn't need to use the toilet?

[CamberwellOz]

Yes, yes you read that one right.

Also reminds me of the time I got stuck in a self clean toilet in France but I'm sure I've mentioned that before on here.

[clive3300]

>:D< about the spider !

i havent heard the self cleaning toilet one - pray tell!