My astrophobia (Fear of weather I.E storms and high winds)is really starting to screw me over.When I was 6 lightning struck The or near The house and it hurt me, just this spring a tornado hit, now I have a great fear of winds.I was always a little bothered when the severe storm warnings and tornado watches were out, but not really before then, but then it started bothering me, and it's getting worse.And to top things off, it's windy like every other day now for some reasons. and it's bothering me making me think spring might bring another tornado (Even though last year was the first tornado in like 100 years or so that's ever hit)It's been messing me up because I can't sleep, it's draining my energy it's making me sick, I ain't getting over it, I'm not even going to bother with Therapy.I had some when I was suicidal and all it did was make me want to kill myself even more. I sure as hell ain't gonna pay some therapist thousands of dollars to not help my problems, I'm poor enough as it is. But I don't know what I'm going to do, I can't take this much longer. It's making me really sick, not like with colds and stuff, but it's damaging my body, badly. And because of the high winds and crap every other day I'm not being able to recover my body. I don't know what to do, what to think.It's fucking everything up for me, it's going to mess up my chances to get a job, it's going to fuck up my relationships. And I doubt I could even get disability for it.
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It's really starting to mess with me bad
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Start by confronting your fears. Dive into the books head first. Learn everything you can about how storms develop and how they work. Study it to the point that you can bring it back to the front of your thoughts when you start to get frightened.Study, study, study, be proactive in confronting your fear and understanding the dynamics of the science behind the natural phenomenon.Acquaint yourself with the actual statistics. Here's the likelihood of being struck by lightening according to NOAA. In short it's 1 in 280,000,000 on any given day. Here's the probability for getting hit by a tornado. In short, according to this link, the likelihood of your house being hit by a tornado is about 1 in 10,000,000 which the web site states is using overly high probabilities. I've lived in the heart of tornado ally all my life, almost 35 years, and have never even see a tornado let alone been hit by one... knock on wood
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The general method of curing a 'simple' phobia is to encounter it head-on. This is traditionally done in stages, starting with a very mild experience of the thing feared up to a full-on worst-case encounter, though it is now claimed that dispensing with the intermediate stages is just as effective. It still works if you are dosed up on anti-anxiety drugs. Again traditionally it is done with a therapist, but probably a friend or two would work just as well.
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yeah about faces those fears head on.I was outside in the tornado =/And it's being Windy every other night, and last summer it stormed every day. I don't think I can face them any more head on then that. And it didn't help at all.
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I'm not trying to be flippant or make light of it but it should be remembered that you survived all those situations. The wind hasn't blown you away yet.If you've been in a tornado then you've experienced far more powerful wind than 99% if population and you've lived. Ponder on it for awhile.
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You should move to the city or something. At least when you get older.
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Try and face things during the day only now. Maybe find some supportive friends that are willing to help, and won't try to push you too hard. Next storm that blows through, try to go somewhere, with a good view, and experience it. Like someone above noted, take it in stages. Try to work on getting comfortable during the day, before you worry about weather at night. Definitely try to read up about it, track things like barometric pressure in your area. You may never know, you could end up becoming a junior meteorologist and actually enjoy storms (at least I do, so I have a slight bias.)