Fear

I was talking to one of my classmates yesterday before class started. We were talking about how some people are terrified of flying because they fear crashing. Really there aren’t many plane crashes but the reason people fear them is because if your plane crashes you pretty much have no chance of surviving. This brought on a conversation about our fears in general. One classmate was telling us how she is terrified of the water and how “If my plane was falling in the water I would have a heart attack before we even hit the water because I would be terrified of what would happen if I survive the crash and am forced to be in the water”. I found this to be very amusing.

Phobias part 2

In my previous post I mentioned some of the phobias a few people had. Well we continued to talk about phobias and my Professor told us a story about her daughter. When her daughter was 15 she came into her mom’s room and asked her what a blow job was. Her mother told her what it was and the daughter had a look of disgust on her face. She then asked her mom “do they really expect me to do that?” and the mom said something along the lines of “honey, once you start dating it’s all over, you have to do everything”. The poor girl began to cry. The girl is now 20 years old and she still has never even seen a man’s penis aside from in films and stuff. Her mother thinks she really does have a fear of them now and she blames herself for it.
One classmate told us how her daughter has a fear of sugar. If she sees a bag of sugar she freaks out and starts crying. As far as I know I don’t have any phobias. There are things I am afraid of but nothing really freaks me out. But I haven’t exactly been in every situation so it’s possible I have some phobias I just haven’t discovered yet.

Phobias

Yesterday I had my abnormal psych class and it was one of the best classes yet. The topic of the day was anxiety. We discussed phobias and all the other stuff associated with anxiety. My Professor is terrified of the woods. As she says “nothing good happens in the woods”. She was telling us how once when she went to Elk California they had to pass by the woods. They noticed a lot of people going in and three days later when they left the wedding they saw several cars parked at the edge of the woods and she just assumed “those people never came back”. And a classmate of mine is freaked out by Vampires. Now he can watch movies with Vampires but even costumes freak him out. He is about 6’5 and 300lbs, not someone you think would have a fear of anything. He was telling us how every time he goes to six flags on Halloween he walks through the park with a clenched fist.
I will post more about this later but right now I have to write a journal for my speech class.