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Poll Do You Have New, Unexpected Phobias With PTSD?

Do You Have New, Unexpected Phobias With PTSD?

  • Yes - I have developed a phobia not obviously linked to trauma

    Votes: 78 72.2%
  • No - But preexisting phobias are worsened

    Votes: 13 12.0%
  • No - I have never had any phobias/they have stayed the same

    Votes: 6 5.6%
  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 11 10.2%

  • Total voters
    108
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I have developed new phobias, but am suspishious that it might be related to the trama... and that I just can't remember how or why it is linked

I can't remember so much, I don't even know if it is related or not!
 
I have had a legitimate phobia of spiders and stinging insects for decades so I know what a real phobia is. Now I have a phobia of opening doors and of being/going outside as well as crowded places.
 
About a year ago, I developed a phobia about driving on the freeway. I had bad anxiety with the driving. Recently I have been having some success driving on the freeway without the anxiety.
 
I have developed an intense fear of driving, and other people driving after I developed PTSD. I never had an issue before, but now, I feel like Im going to die every time I get in my car. I can't stop driving, because I go to school and I work. I don't want to stop my life because of this stupid phobia, but It's just getting worse. I have never had a phobia ever before PTSD.
 
Bridges, cliffs- heights. I was never afraid of these things until about 5 years ago, which I now think are there because of the PTSD escalating anxiety.
 
I never could drive. And I always had problems using the telephone. If I have to I can do it, but it really is a challenge for me. This has always accompanied me though, but with PTSD it is worse. With PTSD I am just much more frightened of things. Scary movies? No way.

I think if we are confronted with a certain issue or problem and it is not solvable then the anxiety can take over and leave little room to maneuver. Therefore avoidance becomes a method to deal with the stress.
 
I almost chose the first one, phobias unrelated, but then I remembered a traumatic event that it likely came from.

I fear those metal gratings on sidewalks, sewer covers, metal grated bridges. The event was a walk I took with my siblings - we three younger ones (3, 5 and 7) followed our older brother when he ran away from home. I don't know how far we got, but there must have been metal grates in our path before a police car pulled up beside us.

Speaking of driving, I get intensely triggered when I am a passenger in a car. I haven't been in a car accident... I just can not handle being a passenger, not in control of the wheel. I have gigantic panic attacks like they are going out of style. Like I think that the person is going to crash and kill us at any moment.

I have this same issue, but no control issues besides this. I just detest being a passenger. It feels so completely unsafe.

Driving under those big construction cranes... never bothered me before but now all I think of is them falling.
Cranes terrify me! I don't want to even see them. I was in Toronto last year and there were constructuion cranes around every corner! Ugly, horrifying, beastly things.
 
I have a severe phobia of snakes, however, that used to not be the case. When I was 8 years old (about 5 years after I started developing symptoms) I was fascinated with snakes. One day on a school trip ,I went to a reptile exhibit, had a panic attack and developed the phobia I have now. I think this may have been caused by a nightmare (that I still have to this day) involving snakes that I started having about 3 years prior to the incident. Very strange..
 
Other...

My trauma based fears are pretty self explanatory/easily linked, but many if not most of my pre-trauma fears no longer exist.
 
I'm afraid of most people. Makes sense because my parents abused me so it generalised and I assume new people will hurt me in some way. Actually have a fear of Abandonment too, the trauma bonding runs deep. Also have fear of choking, noisy busy places and being raped.

Kmn :banghead: lol
 
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