Comments on: Fear – List https://www.ihavecancer.ca Why is there a lump in my chest? Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cat https://www.ihavecancer.ca/fear-list/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Cat Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:50:32 +0000 http://www.ihavecancer.ca/?page_id=507#comment-755 I was reading yesterday about phobias and discovered that to truly have a phobia you have to be afraid of the thing itself. So, for example, it's possible to have a phobia of amputees, and so be scared of coming into contact with someone with an amputated limb. But it's not possible to have a phobia that you might one day become an amputee--apparently, that just means you have an anxiety of some kind. Apparently, also, you can have phobias that manifest as a metaphor for what you're truly afraid of. For example: you've always lived a life of mediocrity, never really put much effort into anything, never tried to get ahead or had much ambition. So your mind manifests a phobia of ladders: symbolizing your inability to 'climb' higher in life... The mind is so fascinating! I was reading yesterday about phobias and discovered that to truly have a phobia you have to be afraid of the thing itself. So, for example, it's possible to have a phobia of amputees, and so be scared of coming into contact with someone with an amputated limb. But it's not possible to have a phobia that you might one day become an amputee–apparently, that just means you have an anxiety of some kind.

Apparently, also, you can have phobias that manifest as a metaphor for what you're truly afraid of. For example: you've always lived a life of mediocrity, never really put much effort into anything, never tried to get ahead or had much ambition. So your mind manifests a phobia of ladders: symbolizing your inability to 'climb' higher in life…

The mind is so fascinating!

]]> By: Maria https://www.ihavecancer.ca/fear-list/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Maria Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:11:06 +0000 http://www.ihavecancer.ca/?page_id=507#comment-195 Where do you find this stuff? Thanks for the laugh :) Where do you find this stuff?
Thanks for the laugh :)

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