Banana Phobia, Unusual Phobias, Phobia Cures

Banana Phobia, Unusual Phobias, Phobia Cures

Up to date on August 17, 2016
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Nice bunch of banana phobia!
You possibly can't idiot me, those bananas had been out to get me! Photo by Poussin jean on Wikimedia Commons
The strange case of my banana phobia
Even earlier than I knew what a phobia was, I knew I had an intense dislike for bananas. They made me really feel very uncomfortable. Bananas gave me the shivers. I saw them as pearl dealt with revolvers pointing at me. Walking right into a room with a banana in it was inconceivable.
I deliberate my complete day round avoiding bananas. I couldn't walk into the fruit and vegetable part of a market unless I knew ahead of time exactly the place the bananas had been. I panicked if I encountered a shopping cart with bananas in it unexpectedly. I needed to go away the shop.
I dropped my art class in school as a result of I walked into the room sooner or later and the professor needed us to attract a bowl of fruit. You guessed it, there were a number of bananas in the bowl. I walked straight to the admissions workplace and eliminated that class immediately. It was coronary heart breaking as a result of I really cherished the thought of being an artist in the future.
The final straw got here at work at some point. I was minding my very own enterprise, feeding a specimen right into a machine when a co-employee got here and put her hand on my shoulder. I turned my head in direction of her and he or she had a banana in her hand! And it was right there in my face! I went screaming down the hallway trying to get away from the banana and the girl was chasing me - with the damn banana!!!
I could not catch my breath long enough to inform her to get away from me with that banana! I used to be dying and about to go out. Another friend got here along and finally got the banana away from me and I calmed down sufficient to return to work. I had to make sure all of the bananas had been out of the lab though.
I finally determined that I would have to hunt down remedy for this stupid phobia. The faculty I was going to had a psychology division and I went there in search of help. Luckily for me, one of many professors was doing a examine on phobias and curing them.
I enrolled in the examine and realized the artwork of self leisure. The psychologist used hypnosis in our sessions to have me follow stress-free and visualizing bananas in a non-threatening way. I felt embarrassed to be an enormous sissy around such a wonderful fruit that I appreciated the style of, but could not be in the identical room with. It was weird and I feel he could have snickered a time or two whereas trying to cure me.
The good news is that phobias are simple to treatment! The therapy is wonderful. Studying to keep yourself calm within the face of your irrational fears is so empowering. Self leisure is helpful in so many different methods too.
The one trick to curing a phobia is to study to relax whereas visualizing your phobia. At first in non-threatening methods. Visualize the thing distant, to this point which you can barely see it. After you learn to remain calm at that point, you may progress to bringing your phobia nearer in your thoughts's eye. Every time a panic assault begins, cease and calm your self with leisure strategies. Then begin over. Finally, it is possible for you to to confront your phobia with out having a panic attack.
Phobias can actually be cured in less than an hour! However it will likely be the toughest thing you have ever performed or will ever do in your life. The approach known as dumping and I do not advocate it, however in case you encompass your self together with your phobia and forestall escape from it, you should have a extreme panic assault, however that will not kill you and you may't maintain the panic reaction. Eventually, (within and hour or so) you'll calm down despite the fact that your phobic set off is surrounding you. Your body and thoughts will accept that the phobia is not going to hurt you after which you can get on along with your life!
Think about being deathly afraid of snakes after which locking yourself in a room with 1000's of non-deadly snakes! The phobic thinks they are going to die, but in reality, they won't. Like I said, I like to recommend the slower therapy as a substitute. It took less than a month to rid myself of the banana phobia through the use of the self-leisure and visualization remedy. The hardest part of the therapy was to lastly re-enter the fruit and vegetable section of a supermarket once more! But I did it!
Other strange phobias
So that you assume being fearful of bananas is funny? strange? unusual? Properly, there isn't any rationalization for any kind of phobia. The very definition means it is an irrational worry. Folks have phobias to every kind of things apart from the traditional phobias like heights, elevators, snakes or driving over bridges.
Some recorded strange and strange phobias embody:
The number thirteen - Triskadekaphobia
The quantity 666 - Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
The number 8 - Octophobia
Rectal disease - Rectophobia
There are hundreds, maybe hundreds of documented phobias. Some are acknowledged as real medical issues, most aren't. Most are only a merciless trick your mind is enjoying on you.
It doesn't matter what triggers a phobia in an individual, rest nicely. Phobias are curable! Sadly, folks which might be prone to at least one phobia usually have recurrences of the identical or completely different phobias. So be careful for the moon, you would possibly get selenophobia!
Oh sure, and now, bananas are my favourite fruit!
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Feedback - What are you afraid of? 17 comments
drbj 6 years ago from south Florida
Hi, Lela - right here is another phobia so as to add to your record - phobophobia. The concern of phobias.
Cherished your banana story and completely satisfied you resolved the problem. I am curious - as a toddler, did anyone ever menace or threaten you with a banana? Did a yellow gun/pistol determine prominently at any time when you had been small? Did a banana ever try to overpower you? Simply kidding.
Om Paramapoonya 6 years in the past
OMG that's so unusual. Have been you petrified of only unpeeled bananas? Or have been you afraid of chopped up bananas in salads and crepes as well? Just curious. I'm so glad you are over it and capable of take pleasure in bananas now. :)
Austinstar 6 years ago from Somewhere within the universe
Creator
drbj - So far as I do know no one ever threatened me with a banana or a gun. I do remember thinking bananas had been out to get me for some purpose! Does not make sense, I know.
Om - yea, solely the unpeeled bananas made me loopy. I may eat bananas even then if someone would peel them earlier than hand. Loved banana pudding and banana nut bread. But I simply could not stand them with their peels on! Weird, huh?
theherbivorehippi 6 years in the past from Holly, MI
That is so interesting! Wow...I by no means heard of such a factor. I couldn't stay with out bananas..lol I eat at least one or two a day. I do not suppose I've any phobias...how boring! I have to develop one! haha
Om Paramapoonya 6 years ago
LOL I'm so sorry; I know it's kind of mean to be laughing at your suffering (although you may have overcome it now). But the fact that you have been only fearful of unpeeled bananas makes it even funnier.
Austinstar 6 years in the past from Someplace in the universe
Writer
I snort about it too now. I advised this story to a pal one day and we were each laughing so arduous that tears have been flowing down our cheeks! I swear it is the funniest phobia I've ever heard of, however when I had it, it was no laughing matter. Fortunately, I have never succumbed to every other phobia and I'm comfortable about that too! Perhaps it had one thing to do with uncircumcised guys! Do not know. Do not want to know.
akirchner 6 years in the past from Central Oregon
How interesting and humorous! They make my ears itch of all the silly issues however I still love them and eat them....I ponder if they are out to get me. Now I've visions of looking over my shoulder for wayward bananas!
Austinstar 6 years ago from Someplace within the universe
Writer
Bananas DO have an agenda you understand. That's why they grow the other way up or something. Maybe as a toddler I played cops and robbers with bananas and one shot me. Or maybe I slipped and fell on a banana peel.
Do you might have any plantain recipes? I like those things.
ralwus 6 years ago
Hmmm, possibly you had a neighbor boy like I used to be in a treehouse? You compressed it into that pudding mind you had then. LOL So glad you were delivered from the horror of all of it. Uncircumcised? hahaha
Austinstar 6 years ago from Somewhere within the universe
Author
You realize ralwus, I did have a neighbor boy that I performed with lots. I've a scar on the inside of my thigh the place I hit a nail on the best way down from mentioned treehouse. I even thought about it when I learn your poem about it. If it wasn't you, it could have been your twin. I ponder if we had bananas in that treehouse?
Panic 6 years ago
I am one of the many people who don't love seafood. There's various grades of fish haters, from not likely enjoying it that much via to being physically repelled by it. I am in the latter class and till earlier this 12 months, I hadn't touched it for years. I'm the form of person who feels repulsed even when someone at the same desk is eating seafood - particularly when it arrives on the plate trying the same as it did when it was alive! I don't learn about anybody else, however the considered tearing the meat out of the shell or eating a fish, head and all, just seems repugnant. Give me a slab of beef any day - no less than it would not resemble the cow from whence it came!
Allison 5 years in the past
I believe I could have a banana phobia... The pictue at the top of the page made me shiver. I cannot stand the considered others consuming bananas, or peeling them?! EWW... bananas are scary, ugly, nasty fruits... I cannot keep in mind ever tasting one although...
Austinstar 5 years ago from Somewhere within the universe
Creator
Effectively, in case your phobia interferes with your every day life as mine did, then search the services of a nearby phobia treatment middle. They work miracles and you will never must get the willies over a banana once more!
Tammy four years in the past
I've bananaphobia...I can;'t stand them can't even take into consideration them, or take a look at pictures of them. I don't care if it is weird I'm by no means getting over this phobia.
Austinstar four years in the past from Someplace within the universe
Writer
It's a troublesome factor to get over a phobia. However it can be done. I know. I did it.
LOL 4 years ago
oooh myyyyy god!! I regarded up phobia of bananas for a joke! and you got here up?! OMFG?!?! you prevented bananas? ?? ?? ?? did you suppose they was going to come alive and eat you? they're inanimate objects!!! Just a yellow pointy fruit!! WTF???!!!
Austinstar 4 years ago from Someplace in the universe
Author
The definition of a phobia is "irrational" fear. It would not make sense to have a panic assault over bananas any more than having a worry of the number thirteen.
Now it is best to ask yourself, why had been you trying to find banana phobia?
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