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Now I can't go to bed. xD;
I would if I didn't have to get outside to get to my room but the way my house is set up I have to actually leave it to get back inside to my room.
I'm waiting for dawn to go in and sleep.
Once the sun starts coming out I'm alright.

Anyone else scare themselves?
Get paranoid?
What scares you?
etc.


(I'm really trying to pass time right now)



EDIT:
Salvation!
The sun has risen and now I shall sleep.

Not really a seperate building.
It's hard to explain so here's a quick layout of my house.
(At least the parts germane to what I'm trying to explain)


So the office, originally a second garage but convered to a 'guest house' of sorts that we now use for the office, is attached to the house.
But there's no way to get into it from inside the house.

Classwork sucks.
It can freak me out too but only when a big assignment is due.

Well, Dornkus, I don't mind sharing the more superficial things that scare me.
Such as darkness.
I probably have Achluophobia.
When I look into a dark hallway, out a window into darkness, and things like that, I see things.
Then I get all scared because in the middle of the night when I'm feeling cut off from the world, reality and imagination mix.
Like last night/early this morning, when I made this thread I was afraid to look out the window because in my mind there was something outside waiting for me to come out or to even look out.

But when people want to know the deeper issues, such as my fear of being alone(Autophobia), I get uncomfortable.
If someone really wants to know then I'll tell them but if someone asks me what I'm scared of I usually pick one of those dumb things I'm scared of.
Like costume characters in Disneyland.

The sun does always rise again, that is true.

Wow, that is tough though.
I think everyone is afraid of being judged to an extent but that is extreme.
It's good that you're trying to help yourself by refusing to give in to your fear.
Good luck with that, definitely.

Maybe one day I'll man up enough to confront my fear of the dark.

I used to have this crippling fear of insects but around the time I first met my step-father my mom was like "She's scared of bugs. Can you help her?" because he's a therapist.
I actually worked, I'm still uncomfortable with them but it's not bad anymore.
Wasps are scary though, even now I stay far away from them.

@klikkhaus:
I know that feeling. I feel like no matter what I do, I'm making some sort of mistake, and when I make even the tiniest of mistakes, it absolutely eats me up... And for a long time, I thought everyone was making fun of me behind my back...

As for other Phobias, I kinda sorta have issues with a lot of stuff:

Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. (Goes along with my Panic Disorder and Depression. It's my main issue, and it probably caused most of my other issues...)
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
These ain't there, but also fear of balloons and ducks.

I've been working on a pair of them:
Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.

Mhm.
Most everyone has these worries too a certain degree.
It's not unless it's strong enough to disrupting your life that it can really be called Social Anxiety Disorder (...S.A.D...hehe)
My sympathies if you are suffering from the actual disorder.
It sucks.

I for example have strong enough anxietys about people
that I often become sick and throw up when I know I have to face social situations.
I also get minor panic attacks more often then I care for.

And sometimes when in situations, such as a friends birthday party that was held in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and had alot of people I did not know I became panicked enough that without noticing it I scratched my arms deep enough for it too scar.
I've done that a few times, scratching my self enough for it too bleed when I get panicked in social situations but those are the only ones too actualy leave scars.

Soo yah.
That's pretty much the difference.


This disorder is actualy the reason why I don't drink.
Since when I get drunk, I actualy become quite social, and a whole lot more touchy and less akward
(people tell me I'm a fun drunk.)
and since that's a feeling I never get otherwise alcohol is pretty much too tempting.
People with S.A.D (lol) often become alcoholics. I'm rather trying too avoid that.

Blah.
I must be getting tired.
I'm starting too spout personal facts that no one is in anyway interested in.

This reminds me, though it may not help your fear of mirrors.
When I was into lucid dreaming, I never tried it but I did some research on it, I read about ways to test whether or not you're dreaming
(Other than the standard, pinch yourself.)
But one of the things is dreams are really inconsistent and don't really know what they're doing a lot.
So if you look into a mirror in a dream your reflection is typically distorted, frightening, or just plain wrong.
For a while I was frightened of looking into mirrors because of that.
I don't know why it scared me, because that would just mean I was dreaming, but for the idea that my reflection would be different made me extremely uneasy.

I can understand that.
I've had those moments where I think I see something in a mirror from the corner of my eye.
But when I actually look it's just me.
Sometimes I'll just stare into a mirror and zone out, so I obviously don't have a fear of them, haha.