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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
The oddest phobia I've heard of was told to me a couple of years ago by one of my fifth graders, who told me that her then-16-year-old cousin, who lives in NYC, has a phobia of cheerleader pom-poms.
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That IS a peculiar one.
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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
The bad thing about phobias is that most of the people who suffer from them do not realize that this is a very real mental illness, and a potentially harmful one at that, and that phobias can be treated and even cured. The people who have them, though, make excuses for them, and do not seem to want to get rid of the phobias, for some reason. THAT is the aspect that I cannot understand.
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I wouldn't say that mine is potentially harmful because it HAS gotten better (whenever I was little it was so bad I'd worry about it so much that I'd give myself stomachaches, thus making my worrying worse!) But regardless I WOULD like to know how to get rid of it completely. I don't know why anyone want one, either!
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Originally Posted by Scribble
I often get quite paranoid about it at night to the point where I can't sleep for fear that there is mosquito in my room.
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Whenever I was little and my phobia was worse, I'd not be scared of the boogeyman, but the thought that whenever I'd go to sleep I'd somehow get sick.
Now that I think about it, I HAVE met someone with a relatively severe phobia. My friend in high school had coulrophobia (fear of clowns) pretty bad. While I know a lot of people are creeped out by clowns, he actually had a strong fear of them. I remember once while he was at a friend's house, he saw a glass clown on one of the shelves, and he ran out and wouldn't even go back in the room until his friend hid it under the sink. After that, he'd go in the room, but he still wouldn't go near the sink.