Destroy the phone - fun for phone phobics

[Gs172003]

So many times I’ve been tempted to throw it. So I have to set it down. I love my phone because...

My husband calls me for everything. He can't leave the house without calling. It drives me crazy

 

[Muttly]

@EveHarrington Errr...well... I've broken a few phones by throwing them in my day

It's not so much the phone, I just have a super hard time making phone calls or answering the phone. If I could never talk on the phone again, that would be ok. And now that I made this post I have an automated message on my voice mail to call a number regarding a nurse who helped with my knee injury. It's probably just some survey thing I can ignore... right? Right?

<borrows @Zoogal's hammer and pounds phone to bits>

 

[8888]

I'm also a phone phobic. I'd like to go high up in an airplane and just throw it down.

 

[shatter eyes]

I would respectfully disassemble it and clip the chips and desolder the connections. Like organ harvesting then recycle.

Not to hijack post but I am curious of the below quotes because i feel exactly the same. What are these symptoms known as so i can work with my T on them.

The idea of calling someone sends me into rabbit/freeze mode

Ringer is off. Alerts are off. Vibe is off. I only answer if I SEE the call pop up.

Thats what I do most the time. I only pickup when i see the call.

 

[Muttly]

@shatter eyes I don't know if there is a name for it. I do know that my T and I agreed, that for me, there is an element of PTSD to it.

 

[Mee]

I would like to not have a landline. I would just be happy to give my phones to someone who wanted them tbh .

The mobile. Sigh. I begin to wonder if we shouldn’t need licences.

I also noted recently there us an app that is like a passport / id card. I wonder if internet crime and general behaviour would improve if this were a requirement for social media sign up?

 

[eirecolleen]

I hate the phone and hate the idea that I have no control over who rings me. Ring tone makes me anxious. I like to put it somewhere where I can not hear it, or switch it off,which annoys close family. Can not help it, but I dread it ringing. I know that I need it, only way I control it is by putting it in the bottom of my bag, so that it is muffled..

 

[Mee]

Oh yes, that feeling of dread when it rings : (

 

[Tim_Holgate]

drop it over the side of a boat at 11°18'60.00" N 142°14'60.00" E (also known as the challenger deep, the deepest point in the ocean). This way the immense pressure that is around the weight of 80 well fed rhinos would crush it into a singular point where it cannot be compressed anymore then it can be slowly transported to a subduction zone and melted a few hundred thousand years later in the mantle.

 

[TruthSeeker]

I envision beating it to death on a very hard surface (I know I'm personifying the phone). But really, it seems like it might be satisfying-just to let loose all my frustration and irritation out on the phone....and then sensibility sets in ...... then I think it is a cost prohibitive idea, and so I put that notion in the waste can for another few days until it pisses me off again.

 

[EveHarrington]

I would respectfully disassemble it and clip the chips and desolder the connections. Like organ ha...

It’s weird.

People act like I’m somehow being....elitist (I think that’s the right word)....when I don’t pick up my phone when they call. Like ohhhhh, you’re a screener and I get filtered out when I call you. Uhm, sort of, but I have bad physical reactions when I can hear my phone. I don’t think people understand that hearing my phone ring can ruin an entire day. No, not exaggerating or being dramatic. I think only people with PTSD can truly understand this!

Other peoples phones don’t bother me in the least. Hmm, this adding to people not understanding....like, why don’t all phones startle me the same?

 

[Mee]

Eve, I think it’s because we aren’t the target.

I get less stressed when my husband’s phone rings ( though I admit I still get a bit of reaction) but nothing when other peoples’ phones go.

Same reaction about people coming to the door; at home I can freak out, at someone else’s house I am a little curious maybe? I don’t feel .,.. vulnerable in the same way .