Topic : 04/11 What Are You Afraid Of?

What I am deathly afraid of is throwing up...If it's me, it's not so bad...but when my children start throwing up I have an anxiety attack and need to take my medication for it. If I don't do that I can't function and help my children. The funny thing is that I am a pro at throwing up...I had morning sickness with both of my children and did it every morning for five months. Now...it's just way to frightening!

Hi Donna  

   

      Your trip to New York sounded really cool.  Do you know when Scary Movie 5 comes out?????  

   

    Did you find that appearing on the Dr. Phil show, and the trip to the scary movie 4 premier help you get over that fear you had of scary movies??????????    

I am afraid to be anywhere where a toilet is not readily available.  When that happens, my fear will have my body shaking and I nearly pass out and for sure, I need to go...really really go and really really fast.  

   

For this reason, I hate being in airports, airplanes, grocery stores, anywhere where you may need to wait your turn or where you may need to walk awhile to get there.  

   

Any one else have this fear?  

I'm 39 years old and for as long as I can remember, I've had this extreme fear of snakes. I can't look at a picture, TV, or anything without my heart pounding, hyper-ventilating and feeling faint...once I almost blacked out! I have 4 kids and this totally interferes with life. I can't even go out in my back yard because one of the kids saw a snake there! I just wish I could overcome this phobia because it affects me in so many ways. I get migraines from stress of seeing them. When we go on vacation we can only do certain things and activities due to this! I can't even look at friends vacation pictures on facebook because there's always a snake around someone's neck!! PLEASE HELP ME DR. PHIL. PLEASE...PLEASE

I sure hope I'm not the only one that feels this way...I'm coming up on my 54th birthday this September 11th and for as long as I can remember, I'd had a fear of success...I have no idea why...As an artist, I've done a number of different things in my life to be creative, share that creativity with others, and it's been good...To a point...As soon as I start to get extremely good at, validated on, or make money at anything I do well, I shrink away from it...I either withdraw completely from it or push it to a back burner and try to avoid it...I've even caught myself trying to sabotage whatever I'm doing well when other people start taking serious notice of it...Is it just me or do other people feel this too??? I've been a musician for many years, in bands that got well known but I quit when it looked like the band was gonna make it big...I designed Dream Catchers for people, one of a kinds and made great money doing it, but when some influential people noticed my talents, I stopped doing it completely...I painted watercolors that everyone wanted to buy right up, same thing, I completely stopped painting...Presently, I am a Professional Comedienne and getting very well know...I started to notice a few months ago that I have shyed away from good paying gigs and used the excuse of the high prices of gas to say NO to the shows offered...Not that the gas prices haven't been a problem for me travleing but some of the shows I've been offered would have paid well enough to more than cover the price of gas...I also make one of a kind Silver "Wire Wrapped" Jewelry and lately I'm selling pieces to men and women faster than I can make them...I am starting to shy awat from that too as more well known people in the entertainment industry have started asking for my jewlery pendants...I have NO idea why I do this, I'm not doing as well financially as I would like, bills do pile up, yet I always seem to withdraw for making any substantial amount of money doing what I do...PLEASE, is there anyone else who has these same problems??? It's extrememly frustrating...And confusing...