Shower woes. . .?!
Question: I'm 28, and I don't like water at all. I actually feel icky when I get out of the shower. Is this normal?
Answers: I'm 28, and I don't like water at all. I actually feel icky when I get out of the shower. Is this normal?
no, it sounds like you have Aquaphobia.....
An abnormal and persistent fear of water. Sufferers of aquaphobia experience anxiety even though they realize the water in an ocean, a river, a lake, a creek or even a bathtub may pose no imminent threat. They generally avoid such activities as boating and swimming. Around the house, they may fear the water in a shower or tub and even desist from bathing therein.
Fear of water is termed "aquaphobia," a hybrid term with roots in two ancient tongues. It is from the Latin "aqua" (water) and the Greek "phobos" (fear).
A fear of water. A non resourceful state, negative feeling, an unwanted reaction, a pattern of behaviour experienced by an individual, which prevents the swimmer from learning a water skill or freely entering a mass-volume water environment such as a swimming pool, sea, lake, ocean, or river.
Fear of water can be acquired as a result of any of the following direct or indirect learning experiences, as well as through the medium of subconscious learning process.
**Direct Learning Experience - A kinesthetic origin and personally experienced through once body, doing it, feeling it, physically experiencing it.
**Indirect Learning Experiences - Visual modality origin, through witnessing an incident, seeing a film (Titanic, Crocs and Sharks Piranhas Wild Life Documentaries!), dreams...
**Auditory Modality Origin - through reading, talking about it, hearing (The film music-Jaws,) story telling.
**Subconscious Learning - Learning to fear water environment has manifested itself subconsciously through negative early childhood experiences, our dreams, secondary gains, positive intentions (protective)