Do I have myrmecophobia?!


Question: So myrmecophobia is the fear of ants ; well i just need to know..if I have the symptoms..or if you know? So if there is an ant near me..i scream and or cry. If I see an ant hill, i walk as far away from it as possible. When I'm outside i'm constnatly looking in the grass to see if there are any ant hills. I cant watch Ants the movie, or any episodes of arthur that have to do with ants without getting the creepy crawlys. There was a picture of one in our science book, and I immediatly closed it and refused to read the page. Our teacher made us do an assignment on them and when we had to look up pictures i completely freaked and made my mom come close the internet tab. Sometime sin the summer I dont wanna leave the house. And i dont recall ever having any weird expeireces with ants. I told my parents i may need physciatric help, but they think its just a werid phase. I just need to know if I have a problem or not.


Answers: So myrmecophobia is the fear of ants ; well i just need to know..if I have the symptoms..or if you know? So if there is an ant near me..i scream and or cry. If I see an ant hill, i walk as far away from it as possible. When I'm outside i'm constnatly looking in the grass to see if there are any ant hills. I cant watch Ants the movie, or any episodes of arthur that have to do with ants without getting the creepy crawlys. There was a picture of one in our science book, and I immediatly closed it and refused to read the page. Our teacher made us do an assignment on them and when we had to look up pictures i completely freaked and made my mom come close the internet tab. Sometime sin the summer I dont wanna leave the house. And i dont recall ever having any weird expeireces with ants. I told my parents i may need physciatric help, but they think its just a werid phase. I just need to know if I have a problem or not.

Yes, you definately have myrmecophobia.

The good news is that phobias are highly treatable, but it sounds like your parents aren't willing to spring for that yet. I would recommend that you tell them that your fear is interfering with your life and causing you significant distress, and that you think you could benifit from physciatric counsling.

i'm pretty sure most phobias aren't diagnosed problems. but if your'e so freaked out my ants... then yeah you have myrmecophobia. really hard.





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