What is Phobia
A phobia (from the Greek "fear"), is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desi...
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I have a few big fears that I feel like are very similiar, Ive never heard of anyone with them and wonder if they are even real phobias. My first one is that Im so scared of getting older. I cry on every birthday and usually distance my self from everyone, but only on that day. I hate the fact of getting older and I hate even more that everyone else around me gets older too. I know it sounds so weird but I literally have anxiety attacks every birthday cause it scares me to death. Another big phobia I have is death. Im not sure what that phobias name is really but its something that recently has gotten so bad. When I was little I went to a lot of wakes and all my grandparents are gone and I was really close to them. I feel like everyone around me is going to die. I know in my head that I can take care of myself and that I know that I wont die, but Im worried about all my family members and feel like they wont be careful. I cant sleep at night because of it. I worry all the time but the most that I do it.. is at night.. My last phobia and to me the weirdest.. is that I cant sit in silent rooms. I dont even think that there is a name for it. But I had to quit college because of it. I couldnt sit in classes without getting so nervous. I have a little social anxiety so Im not sure if that is related in any way. For instance, I went for a job interview and I found out that I had to sit with a big group of people and have a meeting.. and I just didnt show up. I just cant do it. Im nervous my stomach will make a noise and everyone will hear it, or maybe Ill get put on the spot and get all nervous. I wish someone else knew what I was going through :( Its so weird and my hardest thing that I suffer from. I feel like all my fears and phobias are related in someway.. they mostly all have to deal with change.. like getting older and death. And than my other phobia is basically a social thing.. I hate it and wish I wasnt like this :(
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No, I don't have those fears. But I'm sure your not alone and ppl do. 
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No hun I dont have 2 of those fears, but the sitting in a silent room terrifys me and it used to mystify me why it affected me that way. I realized that when I am alone or in a room and it is totally silent, I have nothing to occupy my mind and thoughts...and all my fears and past start flowing back...If there is noise, it keeps my mind and thoughts occupied and i am fine. So from what I see, there is an underlying problem, you just need to figure out why the silence affects you the way it does. Hugs and well wishes your way hun. Take care and let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
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I had a fear of dying at one point which was so severe it was consumming me and I could not stay alone at home, but I was also sick so it made sense. Progressively moving out on my own helped me take care of it..for the most part. So I'm good.
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I have weird phobias too and I don't know how to get rid of them. I use to have social phobia and anxiety. I don't have social phobia anymore but I am afraid to drive and I'm scared to cross the street sometimes and I'm terrified of dogs. I took paxil for a while for my social phobia it worked I'm off of paxil now. I took kava kava for a while too. I was scared at one point to get older too. I think I'm over it. I just want to be normal and drive and walk down the street without worrying.
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Hun I am with you on the birthday thing! I'm always weird on my birthday. I used to cry when my family or anyone sang happy birthday to me. 1 because I don't like everyone staring at me and 2 because I was afraid of growing up. I hate change. I'm still working on all my anxiety, so all I can do is wish the best for you and don't give up cause we can't!
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I cried on my 20th birthday. 20 is halfway to 40 and 40 is halfway to 80 and 80 is really old!
I'm not sure if that is so much a phobia as it is anxiousness.
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I am afraid of getting old too. Right as soon as I turned 30, I started fearing getting old. On every birthday after that, I get so depressed and I don't want anyone reminding me about my age. I don't think that is a phobia, but sometimes it gets so bad that I don't want to do anything at all on my birthday. I think being afraid of getting old is very normal, but we have to get used to the idea of getting old, well do we have a choice?
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The great thing about death is that once your dead you don't know it.I don't like getting up and speaking in front of people either.
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to age is to gain wisdom, but only if you use it!
In your mind, go to your 80th birthday and look back over the years and ask yourself, what was to be gained about worring about the end of your life when you were so far fom it! Live for the moment, what are you going to do today, because when you look back from 80 you will wish you had done something with it! "life is like a sandwich, it's what you put into it that make it tasty"
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I'm also a social phobic ,so I definately understand your fear of being in a room full of people. I would've done just like you.
I can't say that I have a phobia about death. I don't think many people look forward to it though. Nor do any of us look forward to growing old. When we see ourselves and the people we love growing old it is depressing. It even depresses me to see the celebrities I've loved since childhood,getting old. It depresses me and makes me feel sad.It would be nice if time could stand still so everything could remain as we want it. But change must happen. There's no stopping it. I used to share your phobia about loved ones passing away. Es- pecially my mom. I worried about it constantly! I prayed to die before her because I didn't think I could handle it. But she's been gone 6 years now, and I'm surviving. We're sometimes stronger than we think.
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