I am waiting for the injection. I just want to face my fears in the fear landscape as soon as possible and be done with it. In my entire life, I have never really thought about my fears. Now I have that chance, I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. I can’t think of any fears. I have never been scared of fierce animals like snakes and lions, nor have I been scared of spiders and such. The one and only thing that I’m sure that I fear of is falling. I have always had nightmares of falling from really high places. Once I even had a nightmare of falling from an airplane. I always woke up right when I was about to hit the ground. So, that’s one fear. I hear the door. Someone walks in with a needle in their hand. That person injects the needle and whispers in my ear: “Be strong”.
Next thing I see is that I’m climbing this huge tower. I look around myself. I see nothing but the sun. The weather is nice and cool, however, my body contracts as the sun’s rays are overwhelming me. I don’t really smell anything. Then I look down and I see that I’m above puffy white clouds. It is an astonishing view. The golden rays of the shining sun, reflecting of the mirror like windows of the building, giving the clouds a golden colour. I get goosebumps. I feel the cool wind blowing in my face. This is the liveliest that I have ever felt. Then, I hear the loud hissing of the wind, which alerts my mind and makes me vigilant that I’m hanging onto a giant tower above the clouds, and the wind is bombarding the tower as if it’s an all out war against the tower. Suddenly, the sense of liveliness turns into fear and panic. I just have my bare hands and sandals to hold on to the building with. I start to slip and fall. I get shivers running down my s...
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...eel drips of water on my face and palms. It feels really misty. I am in the clouds. I get chills. It smells like the ocean breeze on a rainy day. This feeling is like swimming in a river in the winter. A couple of minutes ago, I was dehydrated and I was thirsty, however, now I feel refreshed. Now that I think about it, this is actually not all that bad. I’m not as frightened anymore. I close my eyes. I think of lying down in the pool in the cool water in the summer, and this is exactly what I’m feeling right now. I open my eyes, and smile. That smile turns into a laugh. Now I’m laughing as loud as I can. I’m actually enjoying this. Time is not going slow anymore. I open my hands and yell “WOAH!” from the top of my lungs as loud as I can. Right when I’m about to hit the ground, I see myself in the room again with that person. That person is Four. He says “Great job”.
According to Klasco (2011), psychological disorders "are abnormalities of the mind that result in persistent behavior patterns" that can have an impact on daily tasks and life in general. There are many different groups of psychological disorders, one of those being anxiety disorders, which King (2013) states features "motor tension, hyperactivity, and apprehensive expectations and thoughts" (p. 448). There are also many subgroups of anxiety disorders, including phobic disorders, in which agoraphobia is included in. Agoraphobia is considered a panic disorder because its’ ability to limit people from doing their daily activities.
I stand at the base of the tower, shivering in its shadow as I contemplate the task ahead of me. I look at my watch, it reads 3:00pm. All I have to do is climb up and jump. Then it should all be over. Easy enough, right? Damn it's cold. I remember my jacket, folded neatly on the passenger seat of my new car. I shouldn't have taken it off.
I wasn’t even outside but I could feel the warm glow the sun was projecting all across the campsite. It seemed as if the first three days were gloomy and dreary, but when the sun on the fourth day arose, it washed away the heartache I had felt. I headed out of the trailer and went straight to the river. I walked to the edge, where my feet barely touched the icy water, and I felt a sense of tranquility emanate from the river. I felt as if the whole place had transformed and was back to being the place I loved the most. That day, when we went out on the boat, I went wakeboarding for the first time without my grandma. While I was up on the board and cutting through the wake of the boat, it didn’t feel like the boat was the one pulling and guiding me, it felt like the river was pushing and leading me. It was always nice to receive the reassurance from my grandma after wakeboarding, but this time I received it from my surroundings. The trees that were already three times the size of me, seemed to stand even taller as I glided past them on the river. The sun encouraged me with its brightness and warmth, and the River revitalized me with its powerful currents. The next three days passed by with ease, I no longer needed to reminisce of what my trips used to be like. Instead, I could be present in the moment, surrounded by the beautiful natural
As I inched my way toward the cliff, my legs were shaking uncontrollably. I could feel the coldness of the rock beneath my feet when my toes curled around the edge in one last futile attempt at survival. My heart was racing like a trapped bird, desperate to escape. Gazing down the sheer drop, I nearly fainted; my entire life flashed before my eyes. I could hear stones breaking free and fiercely tumbling down the hillside, plummeting into the dark abyss of the forbidding black water. The trees began to rapidly close in around me in a suffocating clench, and the piercing screams from my friends did little to ease the pain. The cool breeze felt like needles upon my bare skin, leaving a trail of goose bumps. The threatening mountains surrounding me seemed to grow more sinister with each passing moment, I felt myself fighting for air. The hot summer sun began to blacken while misty clouds loomed overhead. Trembling with anxiety, I shut my eyes, murmuring one last pathetic prayer. I gathered my last breath, hoping it would last a lifetime, took a step back and plun...
I awoke in the forest. It was evening, the sun had long set. The smell of the woods surrounded me, almost suffocating me with the musk. I gazed before me as I stood, no lights, no way to see the path. I was lost, the thick trees blocking any light that might guide me. I began to walk slowly, watching each step carefully. The silence pressed against my ears, it was deafening. My eyes began to adjust to the pressing darkness with each step, and I noticed I was in a large clearing. Fear gripped me, how I gotten here or, why, I did not know.
My sweat soaked shirt was clinging to my throbbing sunburn, and the salty droplets scalded my tender skin. “I need this water,” I reminded myself when my head started to fill with terrifying thoughts of me passing out on this ledge. I had never been so relieved to see this glistening, blissful water. As inviting as the water looked, the heat wasn't the only thing making my head spin anymore. Not only was the drop a horrifying thought, but I could see the rocks through the surface of the water and couldn't push aside the repeating notion of my body bouncing off them when I hit the bottom. I needed to make the decision to jump, and fast. Standing at the top of the cliff, it was as if I could reach out and poke the searing sun. Sweat dripped from my forehead, down my nose, and on its way to my dry, cracked lips which I licked to find a salty droplet. My shirt, soaked with perspiration, was now on the ground as I debated my
A large percentage of the general population suffer from specific phobia, or the possibility of obtaining a specific phobia during their lifetime (Williams 1987). A specific phobia, termed so because of the excessive or unreasonable fear it exerts in an individual (Van Houtem 2013), has the capacity to seriously inhibit or impact an individual’s daily living. The blood-injury-injection type and the other type are the most dominant phobias effecting the general population. Specific phobias can be developed in a number of ways, including the pairing of a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus automatically evoking a fear response, and genetic susceptibility (Van Houtem 2013). Specific Phobias often resemble previous distressing experiences (Van Houtem 2013).
On those high towers, the view is marvelous. Seeing the vast kingdom from up above, from the lake all the way to the edge of town, and the sky almost at your fingertips. The wind blowing against your
There is an actual psychological diagnosis for it, Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns is a real phobia for both children and adults alike. Sigmund Freud explained this type of phobia in a 1919 publication “The Uncanny” In this work Sigmund Freud states “that we can be frightened by something that is familiar and yet unfamiliar at the same time. “
Acrophobia comes from the Greek words acron that means (height) and phobos that means (fear). About one in 23, or 4.23% of the population of adults suffer from a phobia in the United States. People with this fear sometimes can't go past the 12th or 13th floor of buildings because it can be evident like, getting dizzy and disoriented. Acrophobia is one of the most common fears that there is. Acrophobia can prevent you from bad situations that could happen. Most people suffer from a phobia like acrophobia and people with acrophobia can feel discomfort.
Surrounded by a foggy white film, I tried to adjust my vision to see. Anything familiar would appease me at this point. Nonetheless, I did not see a thing. Am I dead?" I thought to myself. Can this possibly be what the afterlife is like? I began to feel very anxious. The dense mist totally consumed my body and mind. This was not what I planned for myself. My life was supposed to be filled with an array of happiness, love, wonderful sights, and the joy of watching my children grow. Where is my sanctuary? Last thing I remember was looking out of my window and seeing the serene sky. At the time, I assumed I would be joining those that I love so deeply. My assumption was dismissed by a glimmer of reflection on my life up to this point.
According to Dictionary.com, Mental Disorders are psychological disorders in which a persons thoughts, emotions, or behaviour are abnormal. This causes them to act in a certain abnormal way which results in suffering to the person himself and to others. There are different causes of Mental Disorders and these causes differ among different disorders. The main causes of Mental Disorders are life experiences such as stress or being abused, biological factors, or an abnormal brain structure. There are various types of Mental Disorders such as Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Depression, Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders and Phobias. Phobias are a fear of something which in reality do no harm or oppose no danger to the person. According to Fredd Culbertson the creator of the Phobia List, there are hundreds of phobias and there is almost a phobia of everything. One of these phobias is Anthrophobia. Anthrophobia is also one of the most common phobias especially among students (panic attack dr). According to the national insitute of mental health 8.7% of people suffer from one or more specific phobias. The top 10 most common phobias in the world as of 21st october 2009 are: Acrophobia is the fear of heights, Claustrophobia fear of enclosed spaces, Nyctophobia fear of the dark, Ophidiophobia fear of snakes, Arachnophobia fear of spiders, Trypanophobia fear of injections and medical needs, Astraphobia fear of thunder or lightning, Nosophobia fear of having a diease, Germophobia fear of germs and laslty triskaidekaphobia fear of the number 13 (Fritscher).
The ocean is the most amazing as well as the most mysterious place in the world, with hundreds of new species being discovered every year, in a place that takes about 70% of the earth's surface. This always makes people think, “What else is out there?”. Thalassophobia is the fear of the ocean, a fear that countless people in the world suffer from. There is no clear number of people who suffer from thalassophobia, but there are multiple online groups dedicated to the phobia, with one of those having about 80,000 members.
Specific phobia, described in DSM-V, is a certain kind of anxiety disorder, in which a patient experiences an amount of unreasonable intense fear for certain objects or situations. Stimulators include animals, natural environment, situations and blood injection injury (APA, 2013). Intense fear and extreme anxiety generally result in patients with social impairment. In the United States, the lifetime prevalence for specific phobia is 12.5% (Kessler & Chiu, 2005). As one of the most common mental disorders in the United States, specific phobia attracts both academia and the general population’s attention. General treatments for specific phobia include exposure
I stopped walking and looked up at the faint stars. The seagulls were flying overhead. They were screeching and swooping at the water. I started to wish I were one of them, flying free without any restrictions or limits. I listened to their voice, the screech. Deep down in I could understand what they were saying. I can't explain it, but I was so in love with the moment I thought I saw things as they did. I was in company of animals that had no concept of time, and no worries, and I was contempt with that. I closed my eyes and the faint sun warmed my face, as if shining only for me. The warmth made ...