Monday, April 25, 2011
The National Institute of Mental Health defines a phobia as an intense and irrational fear of something which poses little to no danger. This surely is not the way it feels to the person who has the phobia. I should know because I have several phobias which include the fear of heights, travel by airp...
I can definately relate to the glossophobia. I tired to take a public speaking class twice in college and dropped out both times. I just couldn't do it.
I also have a phobia of churches and religion. This is my #1 worst phobia. I wasn't raised with religion in my life. My Mother was raised Baptist and my Father was raised Jehovah Witness. They could not agree on religion so my brothers and I were raised without any.
When people talk about religion I panic. I have gotten better about this over the years and now I just gracefully find a way to get out of the conversation/the room. I leave to save myself from the sheer panic, flush of sweating, anxiety and etc. I avoid churches and religion like the plague.
That is really something Rena. When my mother was deep into her paranoid delusions with her schizophrenia...she would go off on religion and...it became something fearful for me as well. Yet there are aspects of spirituality which are so healing...I hope that you can find peace in some part of it. I am sorry that happened to you.
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