"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> In article .com>,
> "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!

Huh! I can't even jump off the side of a swimming pool! I don't mind being
thrown in though

I just know, that if we ever have a fire and I am expected to jump out of a
window, I will die in the fire!!!

My David was a para, and even he says that anyone who jumps out of a plane
for fun is crazy!