I am afraid of getting wet all the time and i have often wondered if it has something to do with being dead-dunked in the religion. I actually think it is the cause. It takes a lot of courage to take showers sometimes. Does anyone deal with this kind of thing. Not sure how to totally overcome this phobia. Talked to my counselor about it and her advice kind of helped.

Afraid of water here.

I can get wet, like showers, etc. But no boating, swimming, no pond wading. Near drowning once.

There is “Thought Field Therapy” that was developed for Viet Nam vets (I believe) who suffer from PTSD. You can go through the steps of that online.



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Never heard of thought field therapy before. I went to take a shower today and i am still apprehensive before i do it quite a lot so i need to figure out something to try and overcome this.

I suggest showering with a (female) friend.
It'll take your mind off being wet...:)

ificouldhietokolob Wrote:
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> I suggest showering with a (female) friend.
> It'll take your mind off being wet...:)

I actually thought about this believe it or not. I don't think i am close to anyone of the opposite sex to try this with though at least not yet.

You havent been assigned a water therapist?? Oh, Adam with your heath situation, you should have started water walking to provide light exercise for your back. She can also help you with fear if water. And alot of them have jacuzzi or whirlpool tub. Which can be nice. Is there a ymca by you? They can also help you calm your fears and provide you water therapy.

Anon 3 Wrote:
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> You havent been assigned a water therapist?? Oh,
> Adam with your heath situation, you should have
> started water walking to provide light exercise
> for your back. She can also help you with fear if
> water. And alot of them have jacuzzi or whirlpool
> tub. Which can be nice. Is there a ymca by you?
> They can also help you calm your fears and provide
> you water therapy.

I didn't even know there was such a thing as a water therapist. No YMCA here that i know of.

I don't like taking showers, much, either.

Mainly, I think of it as part of being a commitment-phobe. Stepping into a shower commits me for the next 20 minutes, including drying and styling the hair. I can't leave in the middle of it and move on to something else.

Think about how good you feel afterwards. Take Hie's advice!

Maybe not liking getting wet is natural, for humans. We can drown, naturally, unless we are taught the techniques of swimming. I love swimming (I was once a lifeguard), surfing, diving, snorkeling, water skiing, boating, river-rafting, and all that--but It is still unpleasant getting wet, especially in cold water.

I went to a Mormon baptism a few years ago, and it triggered a bad PTSD attack--yet being in water under normal circumstances never does that to me. The fun outweighs the baptism-phobia.

I think there is something to that baptism phobia. I got dunked a lot for dead people and those memories stick like no other.

Yep. Nothing to do with Baptism, though in my case.

Are you afraid of falling in the tub/shower maybe? What about getting rained on?? I love a hot shower, it relaxes me, but sometimes I worry about falling/slipping in the shower stall.

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> Are you afraid of falling in the tub/shower maybe?
> What about getting rained on?? I love a hot
> shower, it relaxes me, but sometimes I worry about
> falling/slipping in the shower stall.

Sometimes i am afraid of slipping or falling. Maybe i should buy some feet grip or something. The rain usually doesn't bother me as bad as a shower or a bath.

A have a deep, irrational, fear of snakes. Unlike a fear of water, I can generally avoid my fear. However, if I wanted to decondition myself, I would find a counselor specializing in phobias. From what I’ve heard, after a few de-conditioning sessions, I’d probably be okay with holding a snake, ewwwwww!

Wow, oh hard pal, you'll have to do the de-conditioning before you come visit me. Just yesterday I had to chase two rattlers out of the yard (it's big-time snake season down here!), and my daughter ran over (accidentally) a kingsnake on her way down the hill on Friday...:)

You mentioned before that you just took a rake and moved the rattlers. Yes, I know about about those sneaky, but ecologically beneficial, slitherers that habit the California chaparral. I also know never to go on a hike, this time of the year, without a sharpened straight hoe or rake.

Somewhere off Route 76 there is a big sycamore with the words, “I cilled a rattler.” I’ll have to tell you about it over a cold beer. Daniel Boone’s Boner.



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BYU Boner Wrote:
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> Somewhere off Route 76 there is a big sycamore
> with the words, “I cilled a rattler.” I’ll
> have to tell you about it over a cold beer. Daniel
> Boone’s Boner.

I'd love to hear it. And go find the tree! :)

BYU Boner Wrote:
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> A have a deep, irrational, fear of snakes. Unlike
> a fear of water, I can generally avoid my fear.
> However, if I wanted to decondition myself, I
> would find a counselor specializing in phobias.
> From what I’ve heard, after a few
> de-conditioning sessions, I’d probably be okay
> with holding a snake, ewwwwww!

Didn't you hold the boner snake everyday? Haha. I might need to look into this phobia specialist thing.

Its a serpant with one BIG eye. I love you Badass.

BYU Boner Wrote:
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> Its a serpant with one BIG eye. I love you Badass.

Hahaha not a snake i got it. One-eyed purple people eater haha.

I grew up swimming in irrigation canals....so no hydrophobia here but I'm with Boner and a snake phobia...not crazy about spiders either.



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Ya, I did canals on inner tubes, and Ridge Reservoir too. Wouldn't go in it now, but it's still probably cleaner than a public swimming pool. Raymond has a big, fancy pool that's supposed to be the ENVY OF THE WORLD, but it usually has to shut down every couple of weeks due to a fuckin' 'fecal' incident. They didn't have to spend all that money on that pool when there's a perfectly good sewer lagoon out east of Factory Lake.

Good one....yeah factory lake is pretty funky too.

Lethbridge Reprobate Wrote:
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> I grew up swimming in irrigation canals....so no
> hydrophobia here but I'm with Boner and a snake
> phobia...not crazy about spiders either.

Not a spider guy either and there are quite a few here.

Since nobody's posted it yet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaphobia

ificouldhietokolob Wrote:
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> Since nobody's posted it yet...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaphobia

Thanks i am remembering a couple times when i struggled to get a swimming merit badge almost drowning it seemed like, i wonder if that is when it began. F#ck the scouting program is all i gotta say.

Use some new age/ visualization techniques.Imagine yourself under a cleansing waterfall , charged with positive, healing energy, washing away all negativity and having it go down the drain, at the same time, infusing you with the positive energy.’
You tube has a lot of cleansing videos that you can listen to that has good visualizations on it, relaxing you, using different sounds , affecting your brain waves in a positive way.
Theta and delta waves

BYU Boner, a snake phobia is a very good idea.

Kathleen, my dog agrees. She was bit a few years ago when we were hiking in the Utah foothills. No rattle, just a snap sound, a yelp, and a larthargic dog (I thought she had been stung by a wasp.)

The next day, her neck was swollen, i took her to the vet, he gave her an antibiotic and a steroid. She recuped fully. According to the vet, he sees several dogs a year with snake bites. Yikes! Ive never been on that trail again!

I posted this fear on Badasses’ other post—

Turophobia

My ex and his new gf bought a Christmas tree, took it home, and their dog wouldn’t stop barking at it. Yep, there was a snake in the tree.

I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since I heard that story, and even threw away my fake one.



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I’m so glad to see other people afraid of snakes also. Is there any deterrent that works to keep them out of your yard, by the way? We want to move in an area that is heavily wooded, which we didn’t know until we stayed there last year and explored.
It’s surrounded by mountains too, but in the NE area.
I know , no trees on the property, at least a big radius around the house.
No standing water, piles of woods, weeds,no house on stilts.
Is there a certain thing that keeps them away, like hard for them to crawl through, or poke their eyes.
I know pine straw works good here, but they don’t have it there. Are their any trees they don’t like, because of the wood/ bark, hard to grip, etc
See, I’m the biggest fearer of all.

My journalism advisor told us about a TV commercial for a radio station with music “so calming it would soothe snakes.”

It showed a guy in a snake pit with a boom box on his shoulder. Snakes all around behaving with the soft music. Then he dropped the boombox, it broke, and now he’s in trouble.

The TV station had to kibosh the ad because it was causing viewers to have heart attacks.

I haven't found anything reliable in our area.

I'd rather have the California kingsnakes around, though -- they eat both the gophers AND the rattlesnakes! Win-win!

I only kill the rattlers if I have to. If they let me, I pick 'em up with a rake, and toss 'em down the hill. Usually they don't come back. Other than the occasional gopher, we have nothing for them to eat around the house (lots of rabbits after dusk/before dawn, when the snakes aren't out). Only if they insist on coming back do I take the shovel to them. I've got a 2 year-old after all...

Yeah, they like mice, too! And, as no one has bothered to look up the phobia I mentioned earlier, I’ll just have to define it for all you wankers—

Turophobia—a fear of .... cheese .... (no shit!)



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Mormon missionaries have sometimes told me that they are not allowed to go swimming while on their missions because "Satan rules the waters." I've wondered why Mormons go swimming when not on their missions. I guess I should ask them, but the only thing I can come up with is that since they are serving God full time on their missions, Satan would be more likely to attack them in various ways. Thus, they need to stay out of the water, which is one of his domains.

commongentile Wrote:
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> Mormon missionaries have sometimes told me that
> they are not allowed to go swimming while on their
> missions because "Satan rules the waters." I've
> wondered why Mormons go swimming when not on their
> missions. I guess I should ask them, but the only
> thing I can come up with is that since they are
> serving God full time on their missions, Satan
> would be more likely to attack them in various
> ways. Thus, they need to stay out of the water,
> which is one of his domains.

Yes this teaching got put in my head that satan rules the waters when i was younger. This fear has to be religion related i swear.

Satan get blamed a lot for shit! This is a good example. Lets be honest here, if there is a devil and Satan is his name, his job is to steal your soul, not drown you. Lucifer’s Boner.

BYU Boner Wrote:
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> Satan get blamed a lot for shit! This is a good
> example. Lets be honest here, if there is a devil
> and Satan is his name, his job is to steal your
> soul, not drown you. Lucifer’s Boner.

The satan and controlling the water was pretty strange but they completely believe it and they definitely drilled that nonsense into my head.

My dog can jump into a dirty pond of water, walk in the rain and snow, roll around on the wet grass and never bat an eye.

But when you try giving him a bath, you'd think you were torturing him with a cattle prod.

Once he's done and all dried off, he's so full of piss and vinegar and just can't wait to go out and roll in a pile of cat poop.

Not afraid of water, but had a strange thing happen several years ago on a church "ward" outing. There were a few people in the ward who owned boats (both big and small) and one weekend, the ward activity was to go to Deer Creek Reservoir for some fun in the water. We were in a smaller boat and seated towards the back. The engine had been turned off so that we could just sit and look around for a little bit. I was looking behind the boat and I saw a movement in the water. Something was swimming towards our boat. As it got closer, I saw that it was a snake! It was actually pretty because of it's unusual coloring: emerald green and with gold colored diamond patterns running down it's back. We shouted to everyone that there was a snake, and then the darn thing tried slithering up the back of the boat! Needless to say, we got out of there in a hurry. I've never wanted to even wet my toes in that water again!