What Induces Fear?

Nika said:
I was explaining "legally blind" as a reason for why it's okay to refer to legally blind people as blind, but that's all right. Anyway back to fears.

Eye drops.
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You mean the cold ones to dilate your pupils?

I dont fear them... I hate the dilating ones...
 
typeingtornado19 said:
You mean the cold ones to dilate your pupils?

I dont fear them... I hate the dilating ones...
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i hate them both. i have very small eyes that i can't open by myself. whenever my opthalmologist inserts eye drops into my eyes, she literally has to pry my eyes open to get them in.
 
Jiro said:
yes. i was specifically referring to your reasons of feeling anxiety in public place. For example - you said that you don't like being touched and there are too many noises around that confuse you.... thus you feel anxious about going to crowdy/public place.

same for deaf people feeling anxious about going to social gatherings because they are not about to hear/lip-read and you felt awkward & out of place.... thus you prefer to be alone or to be with a small group.
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I completely understand where you are coming from, but it isn't just because i or we feel out of place. Though that might be part of it.
 
Jiro said:
yes. i was specifically referring to your reasons of feeling anxiety in public place. For example - you said that you don't like being touched and there are too many noises around that confuse you.... thus you feel anxious about going to crowdy/public place.
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Those are a direct result of my PTSD. I don't like to be touched on certain parts of my body because some of my traumas involved being touched in those areas. I don't like to be in crowded places because it involves a lot of invasion of personal space, also a direct result of some of my traumas involving having my personal space violated. The reason for too many noises is because people with PTSD are more sensitive to sounds as a whole and also because I happen to have hypersensitive hearing. I can hear sounds that are higher than 20kHz and at much lower decibel levels, which is beyond what is considered "human range." (By the way my hypersensitive hearing is not related to my blindness either.)
 
Hear Again said:
i hate them both. i have very small eyes that i can't open by myself. whenever my opthalmologist inserts eye drops into my eyes, she literally has to pry my eyes open to get them in.
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lol you can call your eyes as "asian eye" :laugh2: I have small eyes too... many people thought I was sleeping LOL
 
I have small eyes too. My ophthalmologist has to have a nurse help him to pin me down to keep me from shaking while giving me eye drops because of my intense fear of them.
 
Nika said:
Those are a direct result of my PTSD. I don't like to be touched on certain parts of my body because some of my traumas involved being touched in those areas. I don't like to be in crowded places because it involves a lot of invasion of personal space, also a direct result of some of my traumas involving having my personal space violated. The reason for too many noises is because people with PTSD are more sensitive to sounds as a whole and also because I happen to have hypersensitive hearing. I can hear sounds that are higher than 20kHz and at much lower decibel levels, which is beyond what is considered "human range." (By the way my hypersensitive hearing is not related to my blindness either.)
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ditto. my ptsd seems to exacerbate my anxiety more than manic episodes do -- although it's a very close call.
 
PTSD itself is considered an anxiety disorder. People with PTSD experience a lot of anxiety in general.
 
Nika said:
I have small eyes too. My ophthalmologist has to have a nurse help him to pin me down to keep me from shaking while giving me eye drops because of my intense fear of them.
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one of my opthalmologists did the same thing to me and i fired him right on the spot. there was *no* way i was going to allow another person to physically force me to remain in a specific position so they could give me eye drops. what my current opthalmologist does is gently open my eyes as far as they will go and tries to insert the eye drops as best she can. if she misses, she tries again until she is able to get enough into my eyes as needed.
 
They have to pin me down because I shake so much out of fear. They can't get the eye drops in my eyes if I'm shaking.
 
Nika said:
PTSD itself is considered an anxiety disorder. People with PTSD experience a lot of anxiety in general.
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that's true. it's also true that anxiety is co-morbid with bipolar disorder as well. hence, the co-morbidity of people diagnosed with ocd, add and/or bipolar.
 
Hear Again said:
one of my opthalmologists did the same thing to me and i fired him right on the spot. there was *no* way i was going to allow another person to physically force me to remain in a specific position so they could give me eye drops. what my current opthalmologist does is gently open my eyes as far as they will go and tries to insert the eye drops as best she can. if she misses, she tries again until she is able to get enough into my eyes as needed.
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I'm sorry Hear Again.
 
Nika said:
They have to pin me down because I shake so much out of fear. They can't get the eye drops in my eyes if I'm shaking.
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i shake too, but my opthalmologist is gentle enough that she's able to open my eyes. i think a gentle touch really helps. then again, i've been having eye drops put into my eyes since i was an infant, so it's old hat by now.
 
Nika said:
They have to pin me down because I shake so much out of fear. They can't get the eye drops in my eyes if I'm shaking.
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If anyone is going to get near my eyes with anything it's going to be me. I dont like others near my eyes.
 
Even worse is the tonometry test (where they check for your eyeball pressure.) I hate that test, and it scares the living daylight out of me.

Yes for me too it's much better if I put the eye drops in myself.
 
Daredevel7 said:
I've handled tarantulas, gone bungee jumping, petted a cheetah, climbed up scaffolding 10 floors high, and so on.

But guess what scares me?

The darkness!!! Not so much when Im going to sleep but if it's suddenly dark because of a thunderstorm or power failure, I get really scared.... Also sometimes if Im walking in the dark for a long time, I get this strange feeling that someones behind me....
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I used to go bungee jumping too and animals don't scare me at all. I was also afraid of the dark but managed to get over it which is just as well because I have a major light sensitivity problem now.

When I was HOH I was also afraid of noise.

At the moment I'm afraid of getting beaten up. People tend to make me nervous more then anything else.
 
Nika said:
Even worse is the tonometry test (where they check for your eyeball pressure.) I hate that test, and it scares the living daylight out of me.

Yes for me too it's much better if I put the eye drops in myself.
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I HATE that test.
 
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