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Hero Forero
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Pangolin Forero
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Países Bajos
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¡Me ha encantado este podcast! Casi todos tenemos alguna fobia, pero muy poca gente se atreve a decir cuál es la causa de su ansiedad. Muy bien hecho Ben, parece que has superado tu fobia de los vuelos en el avión. Conozco a una pareja que no puede viajar más lejos que Francia porque él tiene mucho miedo al volar. Creo que es una de las fobias más comunes, como la fobia a la oscuridad, a las alturas, a los ratones o a las arañas.
Yo tengo una fobia muy curiosa que no puedo explicar. ¡Tengo miedo al hablar por teléfono en una lengua extranjera! No me puedo expresar muy bien y soy muy consciente de mis errores hablando por teléfono; no sé porqué. Empiezo a sudar y no me salen las palabras. ![]() |
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NYC
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Hmmmm....I'll have to listen to this tomorrow.
I have survived a few MAJOR plane mishaps....including an emergency landing (plane had an engine fire over the Pacific Ocean - 3 hours away from everything...we were told to prepare for crash water landing) where I had to open the door for the emergency slides and slid into the arms of a bombero. It was scary to say the least. I still fly...just medicated ![]() |
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NYC
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Tengo miedo de los fuegos artificiales y del relampago
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Hero Forero
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Wow, I think that would be enough to reinstall my fear of flying pretty damn quickly!
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Hero Forero
Join Date: Mar 2006
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¡Yo creo que eso nos pasa un poco a todos!
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NFS Admin
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Madrid
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A mi tampoco me gusta hablar por teléfono en Inglés con alguien que no conozco. Sin embargo si ya conozco el acento de la persona no me resulta tan difícil
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NFS Admin
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Errant in Valencia
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Indiana, USA
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Admito que tengo miedo irracional de serpientes.
![]() También tengo acrofobia, pero a mi no me molesta volar en avión. A mi no me gusta subir en rascacielos para mirar la vista. Tiene que ser mi herencia irlandés. ![]() |
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Pangolin Forero
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Países Bajos
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Brian, cuál es la relación entre tu herencia irlandesa y tus fobias?
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NYC
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This was the worst experience, but I've had others (plane hit by lightning (probably contributing to my lightning fear)), on a cruise ship that went directly into a hurricane. Nobody wants to travel with me! I think that's silly. I know where all of the emergency exits are and how to use them ![]() ![]() ![]() When they ask on a plane if you're willing to help people if you sit near the door I tell them I've already done this so I know how! |
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Hero Forero
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Pego, Spain
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One strange phobia I have is the inability to jump off things like swimming pool sides. I'm not afraid of heights & can swim so it must be something about the "edge".
I think cattle & sheep have the same fear, which is why cattle grids work, so maybe I've a form of mad cow disease! It really caused a problem when I went for marine survival training and had to go in with lifejacket on from the 5m board. Hopefully in a real emergency with my backside on fire I'd have jumped anyway!!! |
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Jedi Forero
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Madrid
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You have nothing to fear but fear itself! As President Franklin D. Roosevelt said.
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rottenburg, Germany
Posts: 230
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Just after a minor plane mishap many years ago (a engine fire just before take off and having to exit quickly down the slide with only one of my three preschool children), I began to show signs of claustrophobia while riding in my car through a car wash!!!!. Realizing this could get worse, I rode through the car wash as often as possible, taking about two weeks to get rid of the paniky feeling (probably got rid of some of the paint on the car, too
![]() For some reason it (luckily) helped with planes also. How else could I visit my son and his family in Chile, my daughters in India, my brother and his family in Puerto Rico and other relatives in New York? Being about 90% Irish (descent), I am curious about the connection also, Brian???? |
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NFS Admin
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Madrid
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That is a very brave actitude and probably the best one to overcome a fear!!!
I'm amazed by your falmily! each one living in a different country. Can I ask what are your daughters doing in India??? I'd love to go to India soon!!! |
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rottenburg, Germany
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They drove in their home-made camper-like vehicle from Germany to India and have documented this (unfortunately for many, almost all in German) under www.lebensweisen.net - also with great pictures. On the way, they interviewed many people in each country and in India they travelled, meditated, did yoga, listened to monks and studied Eastern philosophies - searching for ways to happiness and freedom in life and a better way to help (as psychologists) others to cope. They have actually found what they were looking for - interesting enough in "Great Freedom teachings" by an American woman, who gives seminars in Rishikesh each year. (The teachings are very practical, somewhat philosophical, but basically a way to peace of mind and ease of being in daily life. Not at all a religion, useful to anyone and everyone, they say.) Now they too hold these seminars and plan to drive back to Germany in the spring and start translating them into German. Our other daughter, Annette, also a psychologist, is with them in Rishikesh preparing to become an instructor too. By the way, all three love yoga also (and so do I)! |
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Errant in Valencia
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Indiana, USA
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With the snakes, perhaps it's because there are no snakes in Ireland? Who knows? ![]() |
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Forero Senior
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 64
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I'm scared of escalators and lifts
![]() I can't explain it but I always have been. Although once I stayed in a hotel in London and the only stairs they had were the fire exit stairs and you could only use that in an emergency so I had to use the lift... for a whole week. I was terrified... You would have thought that having to use them for a week would have cured me but no.. I'm just as bad if not worse ![]() |
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Super Forero
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NYC
Posts: 106
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Forero Senior
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Nashville/St Andrews
Posts: 52
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I always take then stairs when I can, too! Combination of mild claustrophobia and a fear of being stuck in an elevator in a fire. I was terrified of fires as a kid after my grandmother told me about the time her house burned down when she was a kid. Ever since, I've been a big fan of fire safety--I just gave my flatmates an 'in case of fire' talk yesterday!
I still get a little nervous at those Japanese steak houses where they have the big flames right at the table. On a field trip with my nursery school class when I was 4, I very calmly evacuated the restaurant when the cooking started, then cried in the lobby for the next 30 mins while my parents took turns sitting with me and waiting for all the food to be cooked... |
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