Social Anxiety Support

Estelle · 08-04-2009, 09:45 PM

Mine doesn't have anything to do with social anxiety. I think. I have a really stupid paranoia of being stalked by bears or running into one; no other wild animals ever on my mind even though I know there are coyotes where I live and have seen them. I'm pretty sure

Cape Breton has only black bears, which are usually pretty harmless, and sightings are rare. I live in the stix but I don't think there are any in the area. I'm not really afraid of bears so much, I think they're cute(when they're in cages anyways). I don't know how this developed but I even have dreams about being chased by them, which is apparently common with canadians. I always walk alone on the beach or near the woods and sometimes I get really anxious(might even grab a "weapon" to feel more secure). It doesn't stop me from going out alone but it stops me from walking as far as I used to. There's not much information I can find on it, but I think it's ridiculous and I don't understand why I have it. You guys have any funny, weird or unexplainable paranoia's?

Thomas Paine · 08-04-2009, 10:24 PM

I used to have a phobia of rattle snakes. Probably still do, just not in rattle snake country anymore.

ElectricLettuce · 08-04-2009, 10:27 PM

back in high school I was so worried that I would get kidnapped and be buried alive and would be stuck in a casket conscious, screaming at the top of my lungs but no one would be able to hear me..then I got over that...sometimes I worry that somehow I will go cross eyed, that's bout it

Zeddicus · 08-04-2009, 11:05 PM

A weird paranoia like being afraid that whenever you're outside with nobody else around you'll be zapped by a satellite laser weapon in orbital space if you don't find cover quick? Weird much?

Estelle · 08-04-2009, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeddicus

A weird paranoia like being afraid that whenever you're outside with niobody else around you'll be zapped by a satellite laser weapon in orbital space if you don't find cover quick? Weird much?

and bears will chase you:P

Zeddicus · 08-04-2009, 11:14 PM

Estelle · 08-04-2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeddicus

that has nothing to do with my paranoia besides the fact that it's a bear. there is one video of a guy walking and a grizzly bear openly stalking him but waiting to make an attack. Now THAT's scary

max4225 · 08-05-2009, 03:03 AM

One time I was looking up at the stars on the deck in the middle of the night. All of the sudden I heard this hissing sound. Right above me up on the edge of the roof, reared up on it's hind legs ready to pounce, was this huge raccoon. Ever since I don't like to hang out too close under the edge of roofs.

eitherway · 08-05-2009, 07:13 AM

as a child i allways imagined hills i saw through the windows, turning into volcanos. that's why i never felt asleep facing windows

Happ2beme · 08-05-2009, 10:37 AM

Mine is Rattlesnakes. I live on the edge of open fields. Their are snakes that come along and find shade on my front porch or along the house. Awhile back I hired a guy to weed the slope in the backyard. He killed to baby rattlesnakes. AGH!!!!!!!

My slope now has high weeds. hehehe

epril · 09-01-2009, 10:08 PM

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08-04-2009, 09:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
Estelle Status: Up at odd hours Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Oshawa, Ontario Gender: Female Age: 16 Posts: 67	Any weird paranoia's? Mine doesn't have anything to do with social anxiety. I think. I have a really stupid paranoia of being stalked by bears or running into one; no other wild animals ever on my mind even though I know there are coyotes where I live and have seen them. I'm pretty sure Cape Breton has only black bears, which are usually pretty harmless, and sightings are rare. I live in the stix but I don't think there are any in the area. I'm not really afraid of bears so much, I think they're cute(when they're in cages anyways). I don't know how this developed but I even have dreams about being chased by them, which is apparently common with canadians. I always walk alone on the beach or near the woods and sometimes I get really anxious(might even grab a "weapon" to feel more secure). It doesn't stop me from going out alone but it stops me from walking as far as I used to. There's not much information I can find on it, but I think it's ridiculous and I don't understand why I have it. You guys have any funny, weird or unexplainable paranoia's?

08-04-2009, 10:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Thomas Paine Status: Fail Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: USA Gender: Male Age: 28 Posts: 1,700	I used to have a phobia of rattle snakes. Probably still do, just not in rattle snake country anymore. __________________ I thought that when you said so long You wouldn't stay to hear your song

08-04-2009, 10:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
ElectricLettuce Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 26	back in high school I was so worried that I would get kidnapped and be buried alive and would be stuck in a casket conscious, screaming at the top of my lungs but no one would be able to hear me..then I got over that...sometimes I worry that somehow I will go cross eyed, that's bout it

08-04-2009, 11:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
Zeddicus Status: ۩ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Miami, FL Gender: Male Age: 19 Posts: 641	A weird paranoia like being afraid that whenever you're outside with nobody else around you'll be zapped by a satellite laser weapon in orbital space if you don't find cover quick? Weird much?

08-04-2009, 11:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
Zeddicus Status: ۩ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Miami, FL Gender: Male Age: 19 Posts: 641

08-05-2009, 03:03 AM	#8 (permalink)
max4225 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Great Basin Desert by lilac bushes Gender: Male Posts: 695	One time I was looking up at the stars on the deck in the middle of the night. All of the sudden I heard this hissing sound. Right above me up on the edge of the roof, reared up on it's hind legs ready to pounce, was this huge raccoon. Ever since I don't like to hang out too close under the edge of roofs.

08-05-2009, 07:13 AM	#9 (permalink)
eitherway Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: somewhere in Eu Gender: Female Age: 20 Posts: 42	as a child i allways imagined hills i saw through the windows, turning into volcanos. that's why i never felt asleep facing windows

08-05-2009, 10:37 AM	#10 (permalink)
Happ2beme Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Yucaipa, California Gender: Male Age: 45 Posts: 241	Mine is Rattlesnakes. I live on the edge of open fields. Their are snakes that come along and find shade on my front porch or along the house. Awhile back I hired a guy to weed the slope in the backyard. He killed to baby rattlesnakes. AGH!!!!!!! My slope now has high weeds. hehehe

09-01-2009, 10:08 PM	#11 (permalink)
epril Status: sa challenger Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: arizona Gender: Female Age: 45 Posts: 2,654	I am paranoid of finishing this sentence so I will only