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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Hi everyone. I just wanted to see if anyone else here has somniphobia? You know, fear of sleeping. I am terrified to go to sleep. I keep envisioning myself in a nice restful sleep and someone coming in with an axe to cut my head open or standing over me with a bat to kill me or will take my kids while I am sleeping and kill them. It gets so bad sometimes I have a panic attack and find myself with my back against the wall covering my entire body with a blanket hoping no one can see me to kill me. It is so hard to go to bed for me. I don't want to go to sleep especially at night because the dark covers up things and it is easier to break and enter if it is dark. It gets better sometimes but right now it is bad because I live on a settlement in Israel and some of our not so friendly neighbors have tried to come over the fences. They were shot and killed but it scares me. I keep thinking I will wake up and they will be standing over me with a hatchet or axe. Keep in mind, it is not because of where I live, it just so happens that there are actual people here who fit into the phobia.
Posted on 11/02/09, 03:11 pm |
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you poor thing that must be awfull...i've had similar fears in the past so i had a strong taste of what your going thru..sure hope it gets better for you..wish i had some solutions 
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well youve said it all! its not the actual threat of it happening but what you imagine happening thats the issue! This is probably a well worn movie you run in your mind every night? well, be the director and change the movie, give this a go now....even though it will be frightening, run the movie the old way one last time and rate the fear out of 10...10=absolute terror...1=no feeling, i'll wait!
I bet its 10 right? now change any people in the movie to cartoon characters eg simpsons characters...Homer, Mo, principal skinner etc! and add some silly music too, now with these changes play the movie again NOW! does it seem a bit silly now? is the rating number lower? Now go to the end of the movie and freeze frame at the very end, ok? now rewind that silly film at high speed, take only 10 seconds, GO! Now repeat the rewind only taking 5 seconds, GO! Now repeat the rewind only taking 2 seconds, GO! repeat this until you simply cannot take it at all seriously!! contact me if you wish, id like to hear how well you get on. Have a good night's sleep! H.
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Just noticed you suffer with PTSD, if this was brought on by an incident/s then use this technique (if appropriate) on any imagery you have, you know where i am if you want some help with it!
H.
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