tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post8968615617769236828..comments2023-09-09T13:29:46.393-05:00Comments on The Shadow Farm: PhobiasDave the Deadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14757973225252795039noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-73304382446471915942010-08-07T13:33:54.196-05:002010-08-07T13:33:54.196-05:00The two best therapies for specific phobias are sy...The two best therapies for specific phobias are systematic desensitization and flooding. With systematic esensitization you slowly get yourself used to the feared object. Start by putting tweezers far away from you and slowly bring them closer until the fear diminishes. With flooding, you just overwhelm yourself with the fear and don't let yourself escape the feared object until the fear is gone. Go into a room filled with tweezers on the floor and sit with them on the floor touching them until all the fear is gone. I did this with my fear of heights. I rock climbed until the fear faded.<br /><br />Good luck.Jessica Penothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04151171434078139270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-70348646837734087342010-08-06T13:38:37.242-05:002010-08-06T13:38:37.242-05:00Pattee, I know how easy it would be to pick them u...Pattee, I know how easy it would be to pick them up, but there is a problem with that suggestion...as soon as I bend down to pick them up, I might hit my head on the sharp corner of the countertop and knock myself out cold. It is much easier to avoid the little metal beastie than to deal with the awful altenative.<br /><br />GF, my wife does chase me with an emery board every now and then...you might be onto something here.Dave the Deadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14757973225252795039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-36272021757518262162010-08-06T12:55:34.076-05:002010-08-06T12:55:34.076-05:00David you need to imagine just the opposite of pai...David you need to imagine just the opposite of pain, blood, metal thing sticking out of your foot. Imagine instead the you pick the tweezers up and lay them in a drawer... that your feet are clean and protected. Imagine that what ever it is that is going to "get you" cannot penetrate your space...<br /><br />trust me I have irrational fears myself, moths, sharks in swimming pools (yes I just know someone put a great white in the pool for a joke!) lakes (for the same reason) heights, fear of falling.... <br /><br />We all have them huh? <br />Take care and pick up those tweezers! : )<br />PatteeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-24139264784503388212010-08-06T12:38:40.214-05:002010-08-06T12:38:40.214-05:00Tweezers always on the floor? Is someone in the ho...Tweezers always on the floor? Is someone in the house mad at you? If hints of your other phobias start materializing in the next few weeks in other rooms in the house, I think you should buy your wife flowers.Might help make it all magically go away ;)Ghoul Fridayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783865823490404290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-20231131166525076422010-08-06T10:58:36.070-05:002010-08-06T10:58:36.070-05:00Thanks Dio, for that lovely image that is now burn...Thanks Dio, for that lovely image that is now burned into my brain. Thank goodness I have a curtain on my shower and not the sliding door with the metal track.Dave the Deadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14757973225252795039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-68428706089015582912010-08-06T10:54:41.758-05:002010-08-06T10:54:41.758-05:00I hear ya....even with all the spider talk going o...I hear ya....even with all the spider talk going on at my end of the world. Still hate those little (and sometimes big) buggers. <br /><br />I remind my friends that it is a phobia is a "irrational fear" - yes, yes it is. So don't try to talk me out of it with that "that would never happen" logic :) <br /><br />Cheers!Chris 'Frog Queen' Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15080568376145572154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822669425399567779.post-41009754948932002462010-08-06T10:34:04.647-05:002010-08-06T10:34:04.647-05:00Love your work!
And your vigilance is, without dou...Love your work!<br />And your vigilance is, without doubt, the only thing that has kept those tweezers out of your toe bone, so never let your guard down!<br /><br />I am mostly phobia-free, except for a bathroom/toe phobia, as well - stepping over that ledge into and out of the shower, I'm sure that one day I will catch my big toenail on that metal strip and flip it up like a car's hood.<br />Saw that once when I accompanied a friend to the emergency room for non-toe related matters, and a woman there hobbled in with her toenail bed exposed like a car's engine.<br /> It was the stuff of nightmares!<br /><br />Bathrooms must be the scariest rooms in the house...Diohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15863574926934177961noreply@blogger.com