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Everyone knows that, per "television", one has to mix languages with wild abandon for a word to catch on.

So … what is an appropriate Punjabi word?

And of course it has a name - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submechanophobia

This is a fascinating read about #phobias. I’ve heard of people fearing clowns but had no idea that some fear quite common objects.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/21/does-this-banana-scare-you-the-harsh-reality-of-life-with-an-unusual-phobia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

On National Face your fears day, 10 unusual phobias:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/10/13-october-national-face-your-fears-day.html

#Phobias #Fears #Words

Meat Cavities

Flip's life spirals 🌀 into madness as his world becomes filled with clusters 🕳🕳🕳 of disgusting, skin-crawling holes.

https://youtu.be/nm1O46agJIg

https://www.wattpad.com/1479685085-meat-cavities

#horrorwriter #phobias #trypophobia #cluster #insanity #mentalbreakdown #anxietydisorders #anxietyattacks #panicattacks #panicdisorder #weird #wattpad #shortstory

The things which frighten us may exist only in our heads, or may be all too real. They may be completely irrational, or coldly logical.

#ThePhobiaFiles - a new series of essays about fear - is coming in 2025. Run. Hide. It’ll make no difference.

What are you afraid of?

#horror #newwriting #fears #phobias

Initial concept art for The Phobia Files, an upcoming series of essays about fear. Black text on a red background reads ‘#ThePhobiaFiles coming 2025. What are you afraid of?’

Initial notes/thoughts on heights for #ThePhobiaFiles

What are you afraid of?

#horror #amwriting #fears #phobias

Not to boost my own toots or anything, but please have a look at my last one about #ThePhobiaFiles - this idea has been brewing for a while and I’m finally starting to put it together.

What are you afraid of?

#horror #phobias #fears #amwriting

Staircases that don't have risers, so you can see through them. #phobias #thephobiafiles
https://mastodon.scot/@davidbamford/113160152845123797

Spiders. Heights. Tight spaces. Statues. Violence. R*pe.

I’m beginning to curate a list of my own phobias/triggers for #ThePhobiaFiles - something I’m cooking up for the new year. A series of essays/monologues about the things which frighten us, as often ridiculous as outright scary, but which have, at some point, probed their greasy fingers into the folds of our collective amygdala and whispered ‘Here I am. What are you going to do about it?’

What are you afraid of?

#amwriting #phobias

No ride with my son in his Corvette today. He's not sleeping well, even though the bat is gone. 🦇 #Phobias are real.

Had an anxiety dream last night involving my fear of heights. I've been getting flashbacks all day. If I look down from a great height or even think about heights too much or too vividly, I get a twinge in my feet and my legs go weak. So that's been happening all day.

#dreams #dreamjournal #fear #fears #heights #fearofheights #phobias #phobia

In a hazing act when he was 13, this writer was stuffed into a small steel trunk. “As the lid closed, and I heard the latch snap shut, the darkness descended upon me.” That led to severe #claustrophobia, which he is still trying to write his way out of. Now he has investigated of the root causes of #fear and it’s different types: primal, rational and irrational, and what #science says about how to face fears and shake #phobias.

https://medium.com/wise-well/i-was-locked-in-a-steel-trunk-at-age-13-363d920e0834?sk=15230a6f10c3e52a519a510b4b3d8b85

In a hazing act when he was 13, this writer was stuffed into a small steel trunk. “As the lid closed, and I heard the latch snap shut, the darkness descended upon me.” That led to severe #claustrophobia, which he is still trying to write his way out of. Now he has investigated of the root causes of #fear and it’s different types: primal, rational and irrational, and what #science says about how to face fears and shake #phobias. https://medium.com/wise-well/i-was-locked-in-a-steel-trunk-at-age-13-363d920e0834 ?sk=15230a6f10c3e52a519a510b4b3d8b85

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Scouting trip to scary back yard woods. You can hear my breath is not relaxed. I'm not good in the woods alone. For real. But I am determined to make progress with it this summer.
This recent post of mine explains why I have a fear of the woods.
https://mstdn.social/@LikeItOrLumpIt/112389947021597198
#Phobias

VIDEO showing my progress today.

https://youtu.be/-B3TbIkH6bM?feature=shared