Somebody cut off my head?

"Caryn" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Are you still mithering on about this today ??? You need a life !

Personally, I will not killfile you, but OTOH I will say nothing to you except when you decide you will lash out at Karen. So it's perfectly simple, keep your thoughts about Karen to yourself and you won't have me to bother about.

Best laugh I've had today!

Caryn

Suggest you follow your own advice and keep your own attacks on CARYN to yourself. Your only reason for not killfiling her is so that you can wade in at every opportunity. Grow up.

PLONK (again)!!!

Pat

Interesting. I don't get panic attacks - but I get weird claustrophobia kind of pangs. Going over certain bridges - especially if the edge is too close to the water, going around in the little boat - right up underneath big ships (we did this a lot in undergrad school when going out to dive in our little powerboat - dodging around cruise ships) - and I cannot sit in a booth/table facing into a corner. I don't think it's the watch your back because you're a spy thing - just I can't face into the corner, or a wall. So, sometimes in restaurants DH will offer - do you want to face the front and I'll say no - better the rear than into the wall/divider behind our table. Weird the things that affect us.

ellice

LOL! Were you ever told to stand in the corner as a punishment when you were a small child, Ellice? (Nowadays it seems to be "go and sit on the "naughty" stair!!!).

Pat

Yes, it is weird. I'm claustrophobic too, but don't have a problem facing the wall or a corner in a restaurant. OTOH, DH absolutely HAS TO face the entrance in a restaurant. I always used to wonder if it was a male thing.

Unless you have a lot of allergies. Once I bought DH some herbal eye drops, which made it so much worse because his conjunctivitis was allergy-based. Putting herbal medicine in his eyes just aggravated it.

So just remember: herbals are pharmaceutical, too, and one still has to know what one is doing!

Sue

I only have one real phobia - those open mesh bridges.....

Cheryl

"Jere Williams" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I can't sleep if the curtains and door are closed. I can tolerate the door if absolutely necessary, but the curtains no.

I also need to sit somewhere on the aircraft that I don't see the door close or I definitely feel claustrophobic.

Lucille

If only it were that simple...

Elizabeth

When my daughters were small, I was afraid of bridges, because I had a dream one night where we somehow drove off a bridge, and I couldn't save them both in the water. It terrifed me.

I feel claustrophobic on airplanes only after we land, and everyone crushes into the aisle. Then it just feels like all the air has been sucked up, and I can't breathe.

Pat, I have an older friend who said that when she acted up, her mother would tell her, "I want you to go back upstairs and I want the GOOD Mary Helen to come down."

Pat in Illinois

Oh, I like that one! Much nicer than "Go stand in the corner". The nastiest one was being told (by the only vindictive nun in the convent) to kneel on the floor with your hands on your head. That was painful and seemed to last forever!

Pat

Not that I particularly recall. Although, we did have a dog trained for time-out - to go to a corner. In the old house we couldn't do it with Puckster - so he "goes to the hallway" . It was amazing how RhoVee knew what a corner was, and if he was ever bad, we'd often find him in the corner of his own volition.

ellice

Very true. In the current pharmacology textbooks - they actually address herbals in much more detail than in the past. For the interactions, and effects - they're so common and many people don't realize they are drugs - just not synthetic - so to speak.

ellice

About time! My great-grandmother raised her brood with nothing more than herbs and aspirin, so my grandmother was a great believer in herbal medicine. And our family doctor was a D.O., who was also more likely to prescribe something natural than a RX.

My current doctor is a D.O. and whenever he prescribes drugs, I get the lecture about "all drugs have side effects -- some won't show up for 20 years, but they're there" so he'd much rather have me taking something natural. Whatever is the lowest-impact thing that works, even if it's not the latest wonder drug.

But then it messes with Disability's head that I don't have a ton of RXs, and we have to keep explaining that I had bad reactions to the RXs, and the herbs/vitamins are all my system can handle.