What's your bug-a-boo?

[Nighthawk]

Anyone else in here with me??
I blame my mother's ocd, but that's too easy. lol Any little change in routine, new places, new formats, new anything at all.... makes me nervous. Don't even mention crowds! eeekk. I used to have pretty bad panic attacks, but I have them under control almost always. Lots of meditation, breathing, things like that helped. I just avoid those things that send me over the edge. Like super-tight low ceilinged parking garages. bleh. Gives me shivers just typing it. I used to freak out over snakes, because my mother did. Then I got to know one as a pet and I have been fine since then. Needles also made me freak out. Thought I was going to flunk out of nursing school if I didn't get over it. Now I can deal with them ok, but I have to steel myself to it. I still don't like new things, but I make myself try them occasionally, because who is really boss in my life, me or the fear?? I can't let fear win all the time, but it is accomodated fairly often. lol So that makes me what, half crazy?? I didn't say it'd make sense, it's just how I manage.
What's your bug-a-boo and how do you deal with it?

 

[jj2]

That's what you should have named the thread-What's your bug-a-boo?:
As a mod, you can change it.
If you want....

 

[jj2]

I get a kick out of the title.
Mine is .... roaches. I can take about anything but them.
When we first got married, we moved into this apartment and they were all over the place. I left and didn't go back until the landlord sprayed.
HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM

 

[iWill]

Frogs, lizards, snakes .... when I was 14, one of the older boys ate a live tree frog for a $50 bet. I think that cinched it for me. Frogs are about the most icky thing I can think of. By extension, lizards and snakes are pretty icky too, I find.

But ... jj2, I have no love for roaches, don't get me wrong, but frogs ..... and they PEEEEEEE!!

 

[jj2]

We had a toad in our pool this year. Son got it out, I was on the stairs ready to make the great escape.

 

[Nighthawk]

My 13 yo daughter can kill and clean her own deer, no problem. What makes her scream and run in utter terror is an earthworm. Her brothers and sisters really get a big kick out of that, I can tell you. I know it's a serious phobia and all, but it's hard for me not to laugh at her about it. I know, I know BAD Mommy! NO Cookie!
I don't like the dark. at all. and it's not even something I ever even care if I work on or not. Dim light is fine, total dark is not. That relates back to a horrid childhood. I also won't fly for any reason. There is nowhere I have to be that badly. I don't go under things like houses or cars or underground. Because really, as soon as I am under there, the whole thing is going to colllaspe on me. I don't like high places because I know I am going to be the idiot to fall to her death. I like my feet on the ground, thank you very much. It occurs to me that my list is much longer than I thought it was.... interesting.

 

[Saintscruiser]

FLYING! I use to fly all over everywhere without a thought....of course I was younger. I will fly in case of an emergency. Air traffic controllers don't fly, but after this day 9 years ago.....nope.

I am becoming somewhat of a recluse and don't care since I feel bad most days.

 

[jj2]

I fly to see my daughter twice, sometimes three times a year. I can't say it's my favorite thing to do, but I'd rather do that than spend two days on the road getting there and two getting back. Since I don't get to see her, my granddaughter, and son-in-law a whole lot, the time is too precious.