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"Denise~*" > wrote:

> > > I don't really understand your hostility about this. The only
> > > suggestion I have made is that parents can make an effort to
> > > see that their children deal better with things that parents
> > > have a hard time with. It's normal, isn't it, for us to want and
> > > expect our kids to rise above our weaknesses? As it happens
>
> The problem with this rationale is it doesn't work with a real phobia.

Indeed...
>
>
> Example, I always knew I didn't like enclosed spaces. I don't like
> sitting in a restaurant booth where I feel cramped. When DH & I went
> camping years ago we decided we would sleep in the back of our truck.
> The bed of the truck had one of those hard covers. I made curtains to
> go over the windows & we put a mattress in the bed also. The
> campground had no lights & I woke up in the middle of the night in
> complete darkness not knowing where I was. I had a full blown panic
> attack. I actually felt like I couldn't breath. I didn't even know I
> had that in me. This was all unexpected & uncontrollable.
>
> > > I don't have any full-fledged phobias
>
> Then you wouldn't really know what it 't like then.

'zactly...... :-)

The thing I've found about Phobias is that you don't really know that
you have them until you are suddenly exposed to the proper stimulus.

Panic attacks are no fun.
I have mild claustrophobia. I can control it somewhat, but it's not easy.

And you could not get me to jump out of an airplane for several million
dollars...... unless you sedated me first!
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Peace!
Om

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