{"id":17677,"date":"2013-01-13T05:42:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2013-01-13T05:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:42:24","slug":"whats-in-the-room-a-fear-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/13\/whats-in-the-room-a-fear-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in the room? A fear. Or two."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, you gonna hate me for this, but I just couldn’t resist and read one more question from the The Daily Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re locked in a room with your greatest fear. Describe what\u2019s in the room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wanted to do a post like that for a while now. \u00a0But thinking of my fears takes away for a long time and then I don’t know how to connect them all, \u00a0with which one to start, and how to finish. \u00a0And on top of that I get really scared thinking of all my fears. \u00a0But, if I think in terms of the room, and I’m locked in there with my greatest fear, all of a sudden I see …\u00a0just me. \u00a0And that explains at least four big fears that I have:<\/p>\n

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  1. Fear of loneliness<\/strong>. \u00a0That is probably my greatest fear. \u00a0I am not comfortable with myself for long periods of time, and I constantly need people around me. \u00a0I’d rather have the worst possible people next to me, than nobody at all.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Fear of myself.<\/strong> \u00a0This one comes and goes. \u00a0But when it comes, it’s pretty scary, and, difficult to explain. \u00a0But I do fear myself sometimes. \u00a0For most time, I can control myself pretty well. \u00a0(Feel free to disagree.) \u00a0However once in a while I get into that mode where I have an almost out of body experience, watching myself from aside, doing something crazy. \u00a0It’s almost never good or bad, just stupid. \u00a0But having no control of it is scary.<\/li>\n
  3. Fear of dentists.<\/strong> \u00a0And I hear you jump up immediately, screaming – YOU ARE NOT A DENTIST!!! And you are right, I am not. \u00a0But remember that this whole thing is hypothetical. \u00a0There’s me locked up in the room with my greatest fear. \u00a0Well, I am afraid of dentists. \u00a0I’ve had more than a fair share of bad experiences and something snapped. \u00a0I think I might be so afraid of them, that even if I become one, I’d still have the fear. \u00a0And given that fear #2, I might just once have an uncontrollable desire to fix my own teeth. \u00a0Isn’t that scary?<\/li>\n
  4. Fear of the dark.<\/strong> \u00a0Yeah, remember that room? \u00a0Someone switched off the lights and closed the shutters too, so it’s pitch black. \u00a0That alone wouldn’t throw me into a panic attack anymore – I used to be afraid of the dark a lot more when I was kid – but given all those other fears in the room, I would be pretty miserable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OK, enough, as I said before, these thoughts get me scared. \u00a0I should get of the Internet now and go hide somewhere with people and lights, and without dentists.<\/p>\n

    What are you afraid off? \u00a0What would be in that room of yours? \u00a0Answering ‘you’ is cheating. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    OK, you gonna hate me for this, but I just couldn’t resist and read one more question from the The Daily Post. You\u2019re locked in a room with your greatest fear. Describe what\u2019s in the room. I wanted to do a post like that for a while now. \u00a0But thinking of my fears takes away … Continue reading What’s in the room? A fear. Or two.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[3141,1146,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-17677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-postaday","tag-psychology","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21468,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/09\/ergophobia-a-fear-of-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":17677,"position":0},"title":"Ergophobia – a fear of work","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 9, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"Ergophobia, (derived from the\u00a0Greek\u00a0\"ergon\" (work) and \"phobos\" (fear); also called\u00a0ergasiophobia), is an abnormal and persistent\u00a0fear\u00a0(or\u00a0phobia) of\u00a0work\u00a0(manual labor,\u00a0non-manual labour, etc) or finding\u00a0employment. 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