Can u help me with my fear?!
Question: know this sounds weird. and i have no idea what its called... or why i have it.... but i guess you can say i have a fear of aquariums.... not like ONE fish tank ... but if you go to a pet store and there are 100's . or at the zoo the huge ceiling to floor tanks.. and i would rather have someone kill me then to walk through one of those tubes. i get all tense and nervious. then i faint. i dont know what my problem is lol i have never had a bad experence. i have been like this as far back as i can remember. and its not the water (so dont say that) I LOVE SWIMMING!!! and i have a small fish tank in my room. but its when there are huge ones. and even when i see the tubes on TV i get the shivers!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!
Answers: know this sounds weird. and i have no idea what its called... or why i have it.... but i guess you can say i have a fear of aquariums.... not like ONE fish tank ... but if you go to a pet store and there are 100's . or at the zoo the huge ceiling to floor tanks.. and i would rather have someone kill me then to walk through one of those tubes. i get all tense and nervious. then i faint. i dont know what my problem is lol i have never had a bad experence. i have been like this as far back as i can remember. and its not the water (so dont say that) I LOVE SWIMMING!!! and i have a small fish tank in my room. but its when there are huge ones. and even when i see the tubes on TV i get the shivers!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!
What you describe is classical phobia. Lots of people have generalized anxiety state - they're anxious or panicking all the time. Phobia, however, is a more economical forms of anxiety. The mind gives you just specific areas in which to feel anxious instead of all the time. And if you stay away from fish tanks you don't have to feel too anxious! Works pretty good.
There is a cause to your phobia way back in your childhood somewhere - the original anxiety is probably completely unrelated to fish tanks.
You can see some sort of psychoanalyst about this - it's very interesting. Or if it bothers you much there are various panic drugs now which I hear work pretty well.
In all my life I've only run into a few cases of true phobia although everybody seems to know the word for it.
nothing prozac can't cure
There is nothing wrong with you. Everyone is afraid of something, and a good many people are fearful of things that they know are harmless. Yours just happens to be big aquariums. They are easy enough to avoid, if you need to do so.
If you know of someone with a larger aquarium than yours, you could go visit it. It might be interesting to see how big an aquarium has to be before is is scary.