I hate my phobia. Every year it only gets stronger. Simply p..
Added 2022-08-20 14:51:11 +0000 UTCI hate my phobia. Every year it only gets stronger.
Simply put: “Hi, my name is Valeria and I am terribly afraid of insects and heights”
Insects 🦟
I remember the day my phobia started. Before I was not afraid of anything, I was an inquisitive сhild. I caught butterflies, collected bugs, worms and other representatives of my phobia.
Once in the village, when I was about 10 yeаrs old, I was running along a sandy road, somewhere behind my grandmother was walking with her friend, they were talking loudly about something. For some reason, I ran with my mouth open, maybe I sang something, I don’t remember. At this moment, a cockchafer flies into my mouth. I still remember that feeling of his paws on my tongue. I fall to the ground. I am shocked. I'm shaking. My grandmother runs up, she and her friend try to pick me up and carry me home. I'm still shaking.
They call to 🚑 from home, the doctor arrives. A dose of sedatives and sleeping pills and now I wake up in a day and try to realize what happened.
Since then, I have been terribly afraid of anything that even somehow looks like insects. I'm afraid of insects in movies, pictures, videos. I just can't watch it. Sometimes in the summer I suffer and catch panic from a passing butterfly or dragonfly.
Sometimes people think I'm joking and tell me “well, she doesn't bite”, they don't understand that it doesn't work for me at all. In general, I think they have little understanding of what a phobia is.
Do you have phobias?
