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  1. #71
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    And another one that doesn't understand what a phobia is. This thread sure has been a gold mine so far.
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    Secretly had a crush on Mao

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    Quote Originally Posted by AstreaLove View Post
    You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?
    That's quite literally what a "phobia" is. Despite the extensive watering down the term has been subjected to over the last forty years so that people are now convinced that anything short of enthusiasm is -phobia...an actual phobia is an intense, completely irrational fear. I would expect someone with serious arachnophobia to find pixel spiders to be scary. BECAUSE it's completely irrational to fear pixel spiders along with real ones, it's a phobia! Like...that's one of the ways you'd know you had a phobia rather than just a run of the mill fear that a lot of people have, you're intensely afraid of them in the most ridiculous manner possible, that you KNOW is irrational, such as when they're just colorful pixels on your monitor.
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  3. #73
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    Quote Originally Posted by AstreaLove View Post
    You know they're just polygons on your monitor right? They're just a bunch of 0's and 1's with a hissing sound effect, they can't physically harm you, they can't touch you, and they can't jump out of the monitor and attack you.
    You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?

    Remember, you're several thousand times larger than ANY other spider species in the world, and it's probably more scared of you, than you of it.
    I can't facepalm hard enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LilimFeatherwhite View Post
    I get having a phobia but spiders aren't "creepy evil things" they're just innocent creatures that share the world with us.
    A phobia is a phobia, doesn't matter what it is.


    Thanks for piping in with your one post, though.
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    Player Llamalass's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmiableApkallu View Post
    At some level, this is like saying, "The Lord of the Rings movies are awesome, but... why does Shelob exist?"

    Spiders are an archetypical RPG enemy. The very first installment in the FF franchise, before it was even a franchise, had spiders. Many, color-swapped spiders, in fact.

    Like, yeah, I get it, I have my partner relocate or otherwise dispose of every spider I spot in our apartment. But in the context of the Final Fantasy and FFXIV, spiders and spider-like things are nothing new.
    Neither are phobias. In fact, arachnophobia far pre-dates SquareSoft.


    You got shot, and you're bleeding out. "It's nothing new, go deal with it."



    /rolleyes
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  6. #76
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    Quote Originally Posted by AstreaLove View Post
    You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?
    Dang, I didn't know all this time.
    Arachnophobia cured, thanks love.
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  7. #77
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    Thanks everyone that has supported me. I have just finished running weeping city. Was my alliance roulette today. I was lucky I had an understanding group but I’m not always that lucky. Sadly with having a SCH in my party I was unable to die. Which did mean I saw the mech that ‘sucks’ you in towards it.

    I wish my brain would understand that it’s just pixels on a screen but it’s irrational so I can’t. To this day I’ve never seen and will never see the full movie of Return of the King, I have never and will never read for example the full book Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. When I did I skipped that whole section as kid and that’s in a book. This little bit here really does show that even in book form I freak out. The newest hunger games book mentions in passing about a web and even that sent a shudder down my spine. It’s stupid but sadly we all know how difficult it is to get mental help not matter where you are in the world. Maybe therapy that’s not exposure could help maybe it won’t but it would be a long wait. Probably the same for getting it in XIV but I wouldn’t get locked out of content if we had something that could make a common phobia less scary in game. It’s funny I see my WOL as not being scared of them but I am
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astronis View Post
    That's quite literally what a "phobia" is. Despite the extensive watering down the term has been subjected to over the last forty years so that people are now convinced that anything short of enthusiasm is -phobia...an actual phobia is an intense, completely irrational fear. I would expect someone with serious arachnophobia to find pixel spiders to be scary. BECAUSE it's completely irrational to fear pixel spiders along with real ones, it's a phobia! Like...that's one of the ways you'd know you had a phobia rather than just a run of the mill fear that a lot of people have, you're intensely afraid of them in the most ridiculous manner possible, that you KNOW is irrational, such as when they're just colorful pixels on your monitor.
    Only way to get over it is to challenge it I'm afraid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlisteringFrost View Post
    Only way to get over it is to challenge it I'm afraid.
    And how do you suggest that when I’ve already mentioned how deep this goes and not to mention how getting help is not just difficult but often expensive or an extremely long wait
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlisteringFrost View Post
    Only way to get over it is to challenge it I'm afraid.
    I don't know what the steps are to successfully treating phobias, since I don't have one. Doesn't change what a phobia is, which was what I was addressing.
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