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[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

lol wow. i count stairs sometimes but stairs are too boring to hold my OCD interests. XD

[noah]

I count everything! Everything! And I drive myself insane. I am also a thermophobe, a claustrophobe, a neophobe, an acrophobe, and a traumataphobe.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

i love heat.

I have agoraphobic claustrophobia. o.o

[noah]

I have a serious fear of social situations involving people I don't know. It freaks me out. I can't order my own coffee if my family goes to Starbucks because I don't want to go alone and give the woman my order.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

IKR!?

That's where anonymous security kicks in. I can talk to you more easily because I don't know you-and I can't see you either. My social skills are lacking. >.>

[noah]

And high heights. We have a Ferries wheel in my city, fairly tall, at an amusement park you could call it. My cousins (well, my mom's best-friend-since-kindergarden's-children, but close enough) were visiting. They wanted to go on the Ferris wheel. I knew I would be scared but I thought I'd be okay. No twenty feet off the ground I had to put my head in my hands. We kept getting higher... and higher... and they were fine, I don't know how. They were just like, "Wow! Everything look so teeny up here!" And the car kept creeeaking and we were going so slowly and if they moved in their seats the car swung back and forth and it was TERRIFYING! I couldn't open my eyes. I was like, having a panic attack almost.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

I refuse to get on Ferris Wheels and roller coasters, anything that o=moves and is also high up.

[noah]

Sephiroth wrote: "IKR!?

That's where anonymous security kicks in. I can talk to you more easily because I don't know you-and I can't see you either. My social skills are lacking. >.>"

You too? I was always just weirded out how easily people could talk to complete strangers. I hate it. Having to call Ace Hardware or Home Depot is like my personal hell, because my parents MAKE me talk to someone I don't KNOW at ALL, and who I can't SEE, and who I'm supposed to have a NORMAL CONVERSATION with.

[noah]

Sephiroth wrote: "I refuse to get on Ferris Wheels and roller coasters, anything that o=moves and is also high up."

It gives me so much anxiety, sometimes I hyperventilate,and I feel like I'm going to explode.

[Syeira-la, Goddess of this group, you, that noms over there, and TDG]

Ugh, I agree with all these sentiments, both heightwise and peoplewise.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

That's why I refuse to get on them. o.o

Also, when I'm up high, I get agoraphbia. And my senses are sensitive enough such that i can FEEL people walking. *shudder*

I can't stand to be in a wide open place with ZERO clutter, or too MUCH clutter. That's the agoraphobic claustrophobia issue. >.> If it's an open space, there needs to be at least a few people/animals/things there or I'll start getting weirded out and feeling like i'm being watched.

[noah]

You people are more like me than my actual friends. O.O

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

lol

i like my made up disorder, agoraphobic claustrophobia. i should make up more disorders. lol

[noah]

Yes. My parents keep making me order things on my own or call places. I just do what they do on the OCD show on A & E. Your OCD brain is telling you that this stranger is scary, someone you don't know and don't want to talk to. But you know you're not really in danger! So, go order something from that Starbucks woman. This is your first exposure. My own MOTHER actually told me to do this.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

O.O

[noah]

I might be able to do it with strangers. Not with heights. I don't think I'll ever be able to ride the Ferris wheel again. My mom tells me to do that desensitization thing and maybe it will help, but I think that, no matter how much I tell myself that I'm going to be fine and all that crap and I'm not really in dangers, I will still have to put my hands over my face once we're a certain amount up.
BUT I HAVE TO LEARN! OTHERWISE , MY RELATIVES WILL TURN ME IN, AND THE A & E PEOPLE WILL GIVE ME A THERAPIST WHO MAKES PEOPLE TOUCH PORTAPOTTY TOILET PAPER! I WON'T DO THAT! NOOO!

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

Wow.

Desensitization actually does work. It is a real psychological treatment for disorders like this.

Believe me, I know. >.> I took a psychology class. XD

[noah]

It's a good show but the therapists are weird.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

lol true.

[noah]

Sephiroth wrote: "Wow.

Desensitization actually does work. It is a real psychological treatment for disorders like this.

Believe me, I know. >.> I took a psychology class. XD"

I know. I know that if I kept going up higher heights and getting more and more comfortable with heights, I might be able to stand it. But not now.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

I won't be able to become used to heights due to the agoraphobia. >.>

[noah]

You probably have that worse off than I do. The problem is I'm an extremely high anxiety person, so my acrophobia isn't just: What if I fall? or: I'm too high up. It's: What is the railing breaks? What if someone pushes me? What if the door to the Ferris wheel car opens? What if the hinges are rusty? Will I die if I fall? How will I die if I fall? Will I be in excruciating pain? Will I be bleeding all over? Will crack my head open? I feel dizzy. We're so high up. I can't look at the ground. I can't It's too far down. It's a thousand miles down. The Ferris wheel is so squeaky. What if I fall?

... and then it loops. And that's only a part of the anxiety I feel. It blots out everything else and makes this weird bulging tightness in my head between my temples, in my throat, and through my chest. It'
s physically painful and I feel like I can't breath.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

i get those thoughts, but not the physical feelings. i just feel reaaaaaaaaaaaaly nervous.

[noah]

I get physical pain too.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

O.O

[noah]

I really hope I don't have panic disorder. That would suck. But I do get what seems like panic attacks when I'm really scared.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

You might, but yours is more like an anxiety disorder. You said you only feel that way when you get anxious, right? or scared.

[noah]

Panic disrder is an anxiety disorder. Yes.

[noah]

As in, in answer to your question, yes.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

O.O

[noah]

Yes. But I have to go now, because there are some strange creepy hobos at my door who are abducting me. O.O No actually, my friends want me to come to the park, and also, I need to get off the comp. Say bye to Syeira for me. I promise to be here tomorrow. Happy Independence of the Crappiest Country on the Map Day!

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

ahhhh

[Syeira-la, Goddess of this group, you, that noms over there, and TDG]

SAY BYE TO ME YASELF! D: Wahhh don't leave, I need your help to remember TDG lyrics...

See ya' tomorrow! Or...er...type ya tomorrow!

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

If I am in a new house, I count everyting.
And I organize everyone elses stuff, just not mine...

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

And I almost always walk on the third tile everywhere.

[noah]

When I was at my old school, whenever I was upset, I would take a step in every other tile on the floor. If I moved into the row next to mine I had to move diagonally, like a grid. It was calming and helped me settle down unless ran into someone.

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

I hardly ever talk on the phone, I hate it. When asked why, I talk about telephone deamons.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

You have too talked on a phone. lol

DOMUYRR!!! *glomptacklesmackhug*

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

SEPHY! What!?

*Choke* I can't breathe, you should let me go. Ah well, I am no longer sick.

[noah]

I found out what Seph has.

Aeroacrophobia--Fear of open, high spaces
Kenophobia--Fear of empty spaces
Claustrophobia-- fear of confined spaces

I also found out that I'm a dentophobe, a pyrophobe, and a neoanthropophobe. Fear of dentists, fire, and social situations with strangers. I'm also a numeromaniac and a chromomaniac, which means I'm obsessed with number and color. When my Grandma came over for dinner tonight and brought a peach-blueberry cobbler, I told her that it was fantastic that the main ingredients were orange and blue, which are directly inverted colors and therefore wonderfully paired.

... O.o

[Syeira-la, Goddess of this group, you, that noms over there, and TDG]

That's gotta be one epic cobbler, then.

I have dentophobia...especially since I got my braces and appliance yesterday. THEY FREAKING HURT OW OW OW. I just tightened my appliance (yup, it's like getting your braces tightened...only TWICE EVERY DAY) and I feel like burrowing my head into some (soft) ground and disappearing. Us dentophobes definitely have well-based fear.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

I have dentophobia and neoanthropophobia. O.O I won't talk to and I will avoid strangers and people i don't know well. Except people online, where there's anonymous security, but still..

I also have a fear of open spaces with not enough clutter...an open space has to be full of something or I start feeling like I'm being watched. O.o Some slight agoraphobia there, too, as well as a bit of clautrophobia, but the claustrophobia manifests itself mainly in small, contained, high places.

[noah]

Kenophobia. Empty spaces. I also just found out, due to a study that I'm doing, that my brother who is ten has three phobias--two of which I can name--and I, being two months from thirteen years old, have eighteen, and seventeen I can name. Yes, it's a sad, sad world.

Dystichiphobia--Fear of accidents
Dentophobia--Fear of dentists
Pyrophobia--Fear of fire
Thermophobia--Fear of heat
Acrophobia--Fear of heights
Traumatophobia--Fear of injury
Ligyrophobia--Fear of loud noises
Aeroacrophobia--Fear of open high places
Claustrophobia--Fear of confined spaces
Kenophobia--Fear of empty spaces
Tomophobia--Fear of surgery
Neophobia--Fear of new things (that I can't really control)
Neoanthropophobia--Fear of strangers
Glossophobia--Fear of speaking in public
Melissophobia--Fear of bees
Spheksophobia--Fear of Wasps
Brontophobia--Fear of thunderstorms (I know this sounds babyish. I'm not afraid of thunderstorms, but of lightning. I blame this on my father, who once took me on top of the metal-covered roof during a lightning storm, and also told me a story about a guy who was struck by lightning that came down his chimney--yes, it's true, this guy was linked to him somehow. My knew theory is: If it will go through your chimney, then can it go through your window? And I know it's irrational but still.)

My other fear is of swallowing pills. I'm fine with all other medicines, but pills? They catch in your throat and bump against your esophagus. I opened a bottle today and took one out, stared at it, and then quickly threw it back in and hid it in the closet.

[Syeira-la, Goddess of this group, you, that noms over there, and TDG]

I have a fear of wasps, too. -.- And three minutes ago, one stung the back of my knee. OW.

I can't swallow pills...or I used to not be able to. But my new appliance forces me to throw food down my throat without chewing, so I would be a pro at taking pills now.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

I have a fear of wasps, mostly because I may be allergic to them. And thunder scares me too, and I'M 17.

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

Dystichiphobia,Acrophobia,Ligyrophobia,Kenophobia,Neoanthropophobia,Glossophobia,numeromaniac and a chromomaniac, And the fear of bugs in my ear.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

lol

[Domuyrr, Freak Fanatic: Fantastic]

I am terrified of bugs being in my ear.

[Sephiroth, Poke me on forums if need me, overwhelmed by school]

that's a rational fear i think EVERYONE has/should have...

[Syeira-la, Goddess of this group, you, that noms over there, and TDG]

Bugs in nose is worse. *Shudder*