I'm 20 and in New Zealand we have an underwater world called Kelly Tarltons. There's a fake orca whale there that pops out of the water during the snow cat ride. I have been scared of it my whole life. The thought of being stuck in the room, or falling in the water with it makes me want to throw up. I can't explain it but everytime we got to Kelly Tarltons I try to look at it, and I'm left petrified. Irrational? Yes. But we're only human!
phobia's are terrible but the treatment for them are very successful. if you are damned to a life of a mental illness hope it is a phobia for the prognosis for recovery is very high compaired to any other mental illness.
2:48 Well, that's a pretty crappy doctor then. Of all people in the world, doctors should know there are such things as irrational fear.
Still, if she's afraid of birds. I can understand that. I know someone who's afraid of them as well. But being afraid of a feather is......well...pretty weird.
Oh man I completely feel for all these people. I suffer from Acrophobia really badly - I can be halfway up a stepladder and feel dizzy.
As others have said, it's completey irrational, but no less terrifying. Generally I have a normal life but there are times when I wish it could be more so.
I used to be terrified of ants, and since I live in a part of the world where being distant from them is impossible, I overcame that fear by eating them on a dish my uncle made for me. Ants on a banana. Live ants. Let's just say, my brain now associates ants with salty delicious foods instead of fear now.
You know, the opening changed my view on a certain event. I was holding a friend's Royal Python while inside a net cafe when the owner saw me and freaked out. He instructed me to keep the animal away from him at all times and asked for at least 10 ft space between us. I told him that at some point I was right behind him and he said if he'd seen me he'd probably have had a panic attack and that it wasn't funny. Well, I was trying hard not to laugh but...
...according to this vid if we were in the past I might have died of a snake bite (not from a small, non poisonous Royal Python but you get the idea) while this guy would have survived! It's as if fear is a power >.>
You guys are condemning a phobia as though it were a rational thing. It's not. There no thought there, there is only instinct, there is no world outside the fear, there is nothing but the fear.
You should take that into account before laughing or pointing the finger. I'm sure that none of you are saints.
@Boaal This is just youTube, don't take them too seriously. I was watching this video in hopes of some info on how fear works, but alas they left anything useful out, probably because they thought it'd bore us to death? I wanted to see if our brain can be rewired. If there's hope for this woman and others like her.
I'm scared of tuning up guitar strings just after I put them on.
ZeppelinFloydRoses 1 month ago
I'm 20 and in New Zealand we have an underwater world called Kelly Tarltons. There's a fake orca whale there that pops out of the water during the snow cat ride. I have been scared of it my whole life. The thought of being stuck in the room, or falling in the water with it makes me want to throw up. I can't explain it but everytime we got to Kelly Tarltons I try to look at it, and I'm left petrified. Irrational? Yes. But we're only human!
MyBurntPancakes 2 months ago
Vegeta: "Does a Android ever experience fear?"
hotwhire 3 months ago
I hope we never find eternal youth or celebrities wont die...
hotwhire 3 months ago
phobia's are terrible but the treatment for them are very successful. if you are damned to a life of a mental illness hope it is a phobia for the prognosis for recovery is very high compaired to any other mental illness.
Mystro1989 8 months ago
2:48 Well, that's a pretty crappy doctor then. Of all people in the world, doctors should know there are such things as irrational fear.
Still, if she's afraid of birds. I can understand that. I know someone who's afraid of them as well. But being afraid of a feather is......well...pretty weird.
Cinedragon 8 months ago
A FUCKING FEATHER?! SERIOUSLY?!A FUCKING FEATHER?!
MrPinaka 9 months ago
CHICKEN SHITS!
MrPinaka 9 months ago
Oh man I completely feel for all these people. I suffer from Acrophobia really badly - I can be halfway up a stepladder and feel dizzy.
As others have said, it's completey irrational, but no less terrifying. Generally I have a normal life but there are times when I wish it could be more so.
DRichW 11 months ago
I used to be terrified of ants, and since I live in a part of the world where being distant from them is impossible, I overcame that fear by eating them on a dish my uncle made for me. Ants on a banana. Live ants. Let's just say, my brain now associates ants with salty delicious foods instead of fear now.
spartacandream 1 year ago
You know, the opening changed my view on a certain event. I was holding a friend's Royal Python while inside a net cafe when the owner saw me and freaked out. He instructed me to keep the animal away from him at all times and asked for at least 10 ft space between us. I told him that at some point I was right behind him and he said if he'd seen me he'd probably have had a panic attack and that it wasn't funny. Well, I was trying hard not to laugh but...
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NaxNax96 1 year ago
...according to this vid if we were in the past I might have died of a snake bite (not from a small, non poisonous Royal Python but you get the idea) while this guy would have survived! It's as if fear is a power >.>
NaxNax96 1 year ago
You guys are condemning a phobia as though it were a rational thing. It's not. There no thought there, there is only instinct, there is no world outside the fear, there is nothing but the fear.
You should take that into account before laughing or pointing the finger. I'm sure that none of you are saints.
Boaal 1 year ago 18
@Boaal This is just youTube, don't take them too seriously. I was watching this video in hopes of some info on how fear works, but alas they left anything useful out, probably because they thought it'd bore us to death? I wanted to see if our brain can be rewired. If there's hope for this woman and others like her.
NaxNax96 1 year ago
2:35, thats _NOT_ a woman
bloodbrush 1 year ago
what a patheitc person. she left her own child bc of a bird.
WeThePeopleRleaders 1 year ago
shit, fuck you !
DasDeformierteWesen 1 year ago
cool
jhuff2333 2 years ago
BAAAAaaahahaha
IdarkphoenixI 2 years ago 2
I lol'd a little, too.
obglobgablob 2 years ago 10