Anyone Have Trouble Using The Phone?

[Suzan]

I absolutly hate answering the phone even when I know who it is. I have no idea why and once I'm talking, I am usually alright but when I first hear it ringing, I get instant anxiety.

Calling people is another story. It's weird, if I am calling someone for one of my kids, appts or whatever, I have no problem doing it. When its something for me though, it can take me days sometimes weeks to make that call.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am having a new problem with the phone. I have to put it on speaker phone because my hearing is getting bad. I have a easier time if people call me. I have a harder time calling people. I do not know why.

When I was a kid my dad would be beating us four kids from the oldest to the youngest. When the phone rang we all froze in terror while my dad talked pleasantly with the person on the phone. We were frozen in horror and terror because we knew the beatings would continue after he got off the phone.

What a sadistic creep. How he could make a personality switch like that I will never know. Scary stuff. For years I would freak out when the phone rang. We wore out many answering machines. I just answer the phone now. I have overcome so much. Good topic.

 

[Tootilla]

Hey Gizmo that's what it was like at our house only I was the mom. I had to take me phone to the bathroom because if I didn't I'd be walking no running through the house with poop running down my leg to get the phone cause it might be him. He didn't like it when you didn't answer.Thank god for cell phones. I was able to leave the house! Or wipe!

 

[Tootilla]

"Take ME phone".I am suffering from Pirate tramic stress disorder.

 

[Estacia]

I have the same problem. I have a home phone. I awnser it during the day because I have two kids in school. I don't have a cell phone and I do not text. Of course not. I don't have a cell phone. I like this fourm because I can communicate with others. On my terms. Unlike the phone.

 

[Traumagirl]

Gizmo, my Mom did the same thing. It was so creepy how she could turn off the rage in an instant and pretend to be so sweet. It was terrifying.