Just ran across this sub, and quite amazed actually. I have had a life long, tremendous fear/phobia of aquariums, sea life, oceans, pictures of underwater. I can't even look at the threads with pictures on here...I get a sudden anxiety, skin crawling, feeling. Like a scared, "there's something behind me" feeling, and that's just the picture.I've always been pretty open about this phobia, as I think it's silly, but being very real. But I never go in the water at the beach. I don't go to restaurants with aquariums. I don't go to stores where the aquariums are stored in the dark. Small aquariums, I'm fine with. Open area small tanks, I'm ok with. I don't watch movies with underwater scenes (on the big screen).I'm a pretty tough, adult male. Not much strikes fear in me. It's just so odd how panic and anxiety can be triggered by these things. I always thought it was some chid hood, repressed memory. I would have never guessed it actually had a classification.Funny example; I was reading a interesting article on a sub a couple of days ago on radiation, and was watching a vid in relation. The radiation lit underwater, and I had to stop watching because of the image of glowing underwater. Instant fear and skin crawling, nervousness sets in.
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