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I have left the house so many times in the morning and had to turn around and go back home because I KNOW I left the coffee pot plugged in and the house will burn down and my cats will die because of my neglect. It's always unplugged, but I can't remember doing it because I did it automatically while thinking of what I have to do NEXT before I leave the house. But I have to see.
Sometimes I remember to say out loud "I AM UNPLUGGING THE COFFEE POT, I AM UNPLUGGING THE COFFEE POT" as I do it because somehow that helps me remember that I did it.
No, it has no shut-off valve (I have an electric percolator because I prefer hot coffee and it just tastes better than the drip type) but even when I had a drip coffeemaker with a shut-off valve I still unplugged it. I had a brother who was an electrician who always said so many fires start in homes because people leave small appliances like coffeemakers and toasters plugged in.
I used to have a lot more irrational fears, but I saw this nice doctor and I'm better now...they are still there in the background but I learned how not to listen to them all the time. For example, I used to have to wait at the elevator bank on my way up to the office until the "right" elevator came. If I got on the wrong elevator, it might set something terrible in motion. Sometimes I'd have to let three elevators come and go before the "right" one came.
Me too, I learned this behavior from my grandmother and father, they would recheck and recheck the stove and other plugged in appliances before leaving the house. I am not as bad as I use to be, but I still struggle with this, for me, I don't really think it is a fear, most likely more of a OCD behavior problem.
I can't say I have any irrational fears. I don't like rats but that's because one tried to bite me when I was a kid. I don't like snakes much either but I wouldn't call that irrational. I do have a deep seated fear of dying in a car accident but I can rationalise that easily, I had a very bad motorbike crash when I was 22 and broke my pelvis in half, so again, it's an entirely rational fear.
Fear is a very natural human emotion that has kept us alive for millions of years, as an evolutionary tool.
Me too, I learned this behavior from my grandmother and father, they would recheck and recheck the stove and other plugged in appliances before leaving the house. I am not as bad as I use to be, but I still struggle with this, for me, I don't really think it is a fear, most likely more of a OCD behavior problem.
That's exactly what it is, and OCD is an anxiety disorder.
*Don't like walking by edges, on bridges, or near any kind of huge ditches. Always feels I am gonna falls off, or fall in, even if there's plenty of walking room, and it's not probable.
*Dead things. Whenever I deal with fish for example. When they died, and start the floating in all different positions, it creeps me out, and I can't stand to see it. Usually I have to have someone else scoop them out and get rid of them, and they stay there until then, meanwhile I avoid eye contact until they're out. Same with dead mice or rats. Maybe it's small dead things I don't like.
*Infestation, like if you have mice/rats or small reptiles that may make their way into your home. The animals themselves don't scare me. I could have a pet mouse, lizard, snake, or rat. What does scare me, is wild in the house, and the anticipation of not knowing when they're gonna pop up. Like seeing them randomly go across the floor, or across my foot, or being in a drawer when I open it. I don't care for surprises. Unless it has something good to do with an attractive men.
*Don't like huge crawling bugs, insects, whatever of any kind. Now again, that's big stuff. Like a giant worm I saw one day that was longer than my foot. Millipedes, centipedes, and slugs. They are creepy, and I place them up there with the dead animal category.
That's all I can think of though. All my other fears seem legit.
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*Don't like walking by edges, on bridges, or near any kind of huge ditches. Always feels I am gonna falls off, or fall in, even if there's plenty of walking room, and it's not probable.
*Dead things. Whenever I deal with fish for example. When they died, and start the floating in all different positions, it creeps me out, and I can't stand to see it. Usually I have to have someone else scoop them out and get rid of them, and they stay there until then, meanwhile I avoid eye contact until they're out. Same with dead mice or rats. Maybe it's small dead things I don't like.
*Infestation, like if you have mice/rats or small reptiles that may make their way into your home. The animals themselves don't scare me. I could have a pet mouse, lizard, snake, or rat. What does scare me, is wild in the house, and the anticipation of not knowing when they're gonna pop up. Like seeing them randomly go across the floor, or across my foot, or being in a drawer when I open it. I don't care for surprises. Unless it has something good to do with an attractive men.
*Don't like huge crawling bugs, insects, whatever of any kind. Now again, that's big stuff. Like a giant worm I saw one day that was longer than my foot. Millipedes, centipedes, and slugs. They are creepy, and I place them up there with the dead animal category.
That's all I can think of though. All my other fears seem legit.
The edge thing bothers me too....don't even like walking on a skinny wooden dock....with no railings...
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