Mottephobia - anyone successfully conquered it?

Monserrat said:
Wow, another Syn on OcUK?! That's awesome. Shall we start our own thread on here so not to hijack the discussion on moths? I would really love to compare notes as I haven't written to many of our kind yet and I haven't met one for real yet either. I have the coloured-hearing version which is the most common version. I see colour when I hear musical notes and my memory is stored as colour (colours for each letter and number). With the above fear of the darkness, when there is no sound or light stimulus, my synaesthesia isn't as controlled so I start seeing shapes and colours and that induces fear.
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You know what, I must get that darkness synaesthesia too but I find it soothing, it helps me to sleep as I've managed to be able to manipulate the colours and shapes into things like cool blue spirals that help my brain switch off :D Never actually realised that until now it's such a common thing to do every time I go to bed.

I have coloured hearing too, classical music, chill out stuff and floaty dream house/trance really set it off strongly. But to save getting into too much detail, yeah I think a Syn thread would be a good thing - who knows there may be more of us!?
 
Dimple said:
There is help out there and it starts with your GP.

My eldest is now 26 but when she was 16 her fear of frogs got diagnosed into a proper clinical phobia and something had to be done because it affected her day to day life.

She also used to have a fear of flying and would cry uncontrollably until the plane took off. She would then cry when it was landing but she would go through with it.
She put all the lessons into place she had with the frogs and now when a plane drops because of turbulence she doesn't even wince.
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Fear of flying=rational...planes crash.

Fear of frogs and moths=gtfo and mtfu

How does a fear of frogs affect your day to day life?! Unless you're living in a pond or something which I guess you don't.
 
Monserrat said:
I'm nearly 35 and I'm still afraid of the dark. No I don't believe that monsters or ghosts will come out and get me when it's dark. I'm afraid of the dark because I get images / trips related to a condition called Synaesthesia. I have to have a little bit of light e.g. having the landing light on.
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This isn't an irrational thing though. You fear the dark because for you it causes negative experiences. It's not harmless.
 
AHarvey said:
google your local hypnotherapist, explain the phobia, make sure they do cash back if its unsuccessful.

Lad at work had a bad moth phobia, to the point we'd say moth and he'd be gone screaming down the other end of the office. 3 sessions under hypnosis and he's fine now.
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I was going to suggest this, It really can work. I went to one to cure a habit of mine when I was little.

The fear is only in your mind, after all.
 
Dis86 said:
How does a fear of frogs affect your day to day life?! Unless you're living in a pond or something which I guess you don't.
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It usually starts with the simple things.
For my daughter it was probably seeing a frog in her Wendy House when she was young and then seeing a frog after that just made it worse until it becomes a serious problem.
The actual trigger that made us go and get help for her was when we were watching Shrek 2 (I think) and near the end the King turns into a frog and my daughter became uncontrollable and started spewing up and then it took a day for her to come down.
I find it funny how people can be scared of spiders or wasps or any small creature.
My youngest daughter (24) has a massive fear of spiders but it isn't as bad as her sisters ex phobia.

It's an irrational fear and the human mind is wonderful at making mountains out of molehills.

I'd also like to add that at 16 my daughter was handling snakes & tarantulas but frogs were way off the scale.
 
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I think i have a mild case of this. Any other bugs and i am fine but big furry moths with faces......NO!
 
I had a proper paralysing fear of spiders. I now own two tarantulas. Just gradually read more and more about them then started looking at pictures and videos until the initial adrenaline reaction subsided. Still have a healthy awareness of them, but not fearful.

Fear of flying on the other hand :(
 
I had a moth phobia. Forced myself to hold one though, and now they don't bother me as much. If one is in the same room as me, I still have to get rid of it but I'm no longer "scared" as such.

grudas said:
i don't get phobias :( - as in i don't actually "GET" them.. i just can't understand how someone can be SO scared of something.. unless it literally ripped their legs off..
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I have Trypophobia - a fear of patterns or clusters of holes. Go figure... :confused:
 
The big **** off one really freak me out:p. My missus gets into absolute stitches when she sees me run like a big pansy when one gets into the house. The small ones dont bother me as much though:p.

Fri morning, had a guy come round to fit my fibre connection in my house and on my door, there was a huge black moth sat on the door...asked the guy to flick it off which he did...told him i couldnt do it lol.
 
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