Or river that I can’t see the below or swimming pool at night that don’t have light beneath it. But because I was in so much panic my hands, legs and mind couldn’t work at the same time. 2. I want to keep my fear a secret though. I cannot even walk through an aquarium. I told her to get me out and she just said to me “stop being so dramatic”. Then all of again sudden one day I was swimming WAY too far from the shore with my sister and had a sudden burst of anxiety, tried to touch bottom, couldn’t. Other effective means of overcoming intense fear of oceans is through the use of energy psychology or “needle-less Acupuncture”. Whenever i see a creepy picture of the ocean or a sea creatures in the ocean my heart stops and i have to look away. I’m now 25. I have had a huge fear of the ocean since I was 7 because that was when I heard about stone fish and lion fish. But my worst experience is when I went out to the lake on a friend’s boat. I kept thinking “my foot is dangling, there’s sea creatures down there, something is going to pull me under, this lake is so deep”. One of my friends who grew up on an island was not afraid so she swam right away despite the strong current, she even went back and forth from our boat to get bread to feed the fish. The first one was okay but i needed to hold to the boat or a part of it while looking down below because i was afraid to get swept away from the boat, God knows what creature i might encounter there, lol anyway, it’s beautiful as long as the fish are far away from me. Aquaphobia is actually the fear of all kinds of water bodies or of flooding from rains, and sometimes may even be triggered by the water in a bathtub. Like all fears some of it more of a fear of the unknown. The thought of a drop of, or deep water, or just not being able to see the bottom makes me so nervous. When I reached the shore it got worse and worse and I realized i was stung by a jellyfish. I like fishing, but I don’t like touching fish. After discussing with my friends, because it was too pricey and the waves were getting bigger, we decided to give it a try. I’m gonna leave how I feel about it here because it might help someone relate. I was in a tube that was being dragged by a boat and the tube hit a giant wave that sent me flying. Seeing rotting logs, moss, seaweed, etc puts my anxiety into overload. I grew up always going to the beach and swimming, so it’d be unusual to be afraid of the ocean, but I really can’t stand the sight of it. So, as you can imagine, my fear of water, which happens to combine my other two fears, only adds to this phobia. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. god i start tearing up thinking about that fish in finding nemo its so pathetic. I can and have handled being on a boat, but only because the driver of the boat knew my fears and didn’t act like a nutcase. I definitely have this phobia. I haven’t swam in years, not in pools, not in lakes and certainly not in oceans, even though I can handle going up to the waist. I’m not scared of being on a ship though or a secure boat. It was the worst pain i have experienced and has scared me every since. Seeing water can trigger intense fear and anxiety in a person with aquaphobia. It’s a bit weird since when I was little, I loved being in the water and I could swim without problems. Your email address will not be published. The fear is of a physical attack from an unknown object or animal. Even if I wear goggles or know what’s under me, the feeling of weightlessness terrifies me to no end, I feel absolutely paranoid. I used to live near the ocean, the 4th largest island in the world, Borneo. It creeps me out and I don’t even know why. Just thinking about the water itself and the experiences you’ve had with or in it in the past is what brings the fear. I have this phobia and I just googled it to find the exact term for it. I started having a panic attack attack and my sister had to pull me out of the water. And I can’t tell them how much sea terrifies me because they could never understand so I just don’t talk about it ever. Being in a pool is no problem at all! And yet, I’m pretty much fine with shark movies and want to go in a shark cage, and am totally fine with the entire underwater portion of Cthulhu games. The problem is out in the open ocean. Imagine my plight. Also english is not my native language, sorry for any mistakes. I noticed I started having this year 4-5 years ago. That’s how I know that I’m pretty sure I have that. Just no. I just like to be able to see what’s under the water. All these sightings and reports can instill the fear of the ocean. I’d been searching for this when I thought I really do fear the deep sea and big ocean creatures. I definitely have it. Hope everyone gets released from the evil mental and emotional bondage of fear in Jesus name Amen. I don’t mind the creatures that live there – in fact, I find them fascinating. I also have Trypophobia and claustrophobia, both of which have to do with the unknown. Just as some of you have described, it is not a general fear of water. Sharks, octopuses and ESPECIALLY whales scare the the sh** outta me! It strikes in the most irrational of places, like at the pool when I have to close my eyes while going under (if I have goggles it’s fine) I am sort of like “what if I just teleported to the middle of the ocean? Is Divorce Harder for Christians than for Everyone Else? It is defined as being "an intense and persistent fear of the sea and sea travel." And I always think “OMG there are so many things in the ocean so much bigger than me”. It seems though a fear of water that is somehow confined to a small space, such as a tank or pipes. You’ve already made a start by recognizing it. I actually love watching ocean Scifi movies, I just wish I could adventure the ocean but my phobia comes in the way. Fish don’t scare me, they are fascinating, but the vastness and the darkness of water scares me profoundly. I live in a wonderful, and slightly privileged, home and acting scared is a no-go. It makes me feel how small I am, smaller than a drop of water, and I don’t want to dissolve into the ocean (or universe) because the energies that give me my own particular individualized consciousness may never come back together again… and I just love the world and people so much I can’t bear the thought of ceasing to exist…, Wow that was deep… almost as deep as the ocean. Several types of therapies have shown positive results in overcoming the fear of the ocean. I was so pissed and scared at the same time because they didn’t tell us! Also the creatures lurking there, some are downright out of a Lovecraftian novel. I was so out this time because i just realized how small i was in this world and that these creatures could easily eat us if they wanted to. The thought of drop offs just twists my brain. Oh also when I think of what “lurks” in the sea it terrifies me and I can’t think properly and I can barely breathe. Nervousness, shaking, slight numbness, and movie reels of death and drowning are played in my mind. My family has a lake house and I cannot get in. I can not go above my waist in the ocean or I will literally have a panic attack. My sister had to carry me on her back. Others don’t like vast expanses of water or places where the water is too deep (or murky or both) to see the bottom. This helps the phobic literally “reprogram his mind” to create a different response than he normally does upon confronting the object of his fears, in this case, the Ocean. I start thrashing around when suddenly a piece of seaweed touches my foot. I don’t like to look at any large sea creatures, big boats, ships, cruise liners, pictures of the titanic, any sunken ship, whales, free willy, Sea world, the Shark from Nemo… pretty much any of that. When I finally got out, I started to cry a little and upon my reaction they only said, “stop being such a wuss, look at those little kids playing in the sea, look at your sister, who is way younger having fun”. Obviously, as the water gets deeper, it gets darker and you never know what lays on the bottom. From the waist downward or when I can’t touch ground anymore, bye bye composure. JOIN A MASTERMIND GROUP -- Surround Yourself with Support & Constructive Feedback, ***Seeds of Success: Lessons from a Daisy, ***Recognizing the Negativity in Your Life so You Can Eliminate It. I need help. It makes think of all the possibilities. I’ve been reading through the comments just to see if anyone had the same feelings that I did. I screamed and clicked off faster than you could say hello. If you'd like to know more about overcoming fear of deep water then check out this article. I have talked about this with some people but some of them made fun of me because of it. Sometimes I force myself to play GTA 5 and go far out at sea, go into first person, then dive in and when I do that I cringe HARD. But I firmly decline when I have to board a small motorboat or a kayak. You’re shaking, your skin is gray-blue gooseflesh, matching the cloudy Illinois sky, and you can’t see the bottom of the pool. I just don’t know what’s in it, it makes me feel so small and want to curl up and cry. I swam across a small lake once and it was so murky I could barely see the bottom through even three feet. How would I even tell?”; and when I take cold showers my mind drifts to the Arctic or Antarctic Ocean (the scariest ones of all in my opinion) and it’s a struggle to either sort of check back in and not let my mind drift or let it drift to some cold place on land like Siberia or the Great Plains in winter. I understand! The fear of water, or aquaphobia, can be as simple as being afraid to put your head in the water, or avoiding water altogether. After that, anything that I see underwater that is in an ocean etc or even thinking of it gives me a panic attack. The Top Ten Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make when trying to Generate New Leads And How to Avoid Them, Closing the Sale: Big Mistakes that Cause Your Customers to Buy from Someone Else, ***CONQUER YOUR INNER CRITIC & LOSE WEIGHT MORE EASILY, ***YOUR INNER CRITIC Vs. We made gigantic newspapers, watched a bunch of videos about it, and even dressed up in 20’s fashion and did interviews! We sat at the front of the boat and the waves were huge. Just the thought of swimming into an open ocean really scared me, so i went snorkeling twice. It’s too much, I can’t handle it. I hate it I have this kind of phobia, actually I really wanted to try diving but I can’t because of this phobia. The water was like black and my chest hurt so much and I was pretty sure I was going to die but I wanted to be a good sport for my husband. if the water is deep but I can see the bottom I’m fine its just the not seeing bottom part I freak out with. The waves get to me so easily. That was some major progress. I’m scared I’ll let this get in the way of my fun. I just found this article while in a parking lot after i had a panic attack walking up to the ocean line. I have this phobia, my symptoms are: Since I left my hometown and now living in a big city without an ocean, every time I come back and go to the beach I feel I become more scared to go near the shore and swim even just nearby. Small bodies and vast. But thinking back, I definitely had this as a kid, which is strange, because I’ve always loved swimming and secretly wanted to be a merman, haha. It is usually combined with a fear of getting out of breath in the deep end and not being able to swim to the poolside. Whether that is disabilitates an individual is really a judgement of the individual. I’m not scared of the ocean- I think… I love surfing, and collecting seashells and jumping over waves, etc. I had nightmares for a week! I can go into the ocean but looking at the waves causes the greatest discomfort imaginable while also not being enough to make me freak out. As A Child. Then i decided to look back down because i still had to pay for it, then i saw a lot of swordfish, a lot of BIG sea urchins, another tortoise swimming too close beside us, a lot of fish i don’t know and the vastness, darker part of the ocean floor. It helps the therapist find out the root cause of one’s ocean phobia. So do any of these pictures of swimmers who are in danger (or even perfectly safe) make you feel dread? I am a scuba diving instructor who has (after 1500 dives and hundreds of hours in the deep) developed this phobia. People who are very afraid of violent death or particularly of drowning are likelier to develop Thalassophobia aggravated by these movies and books. From then on I’ve always had a fear of the ocean it scares me to go past my thigh. I actually do remember being under the water and it scared me. It’s the water, itself, that bothers me. Serious help. I’m pretty sure this phobia affects me. I do realize good swimmers can drown. I think other factors are also the underwater shows on National Geographic and this trailer of Lady in the Water that I used to always see as a kid—that trailer would always come up before a kids movie I’d watch because that’s how it went with our CDs. I try to just swim and let it be but it scares me to death when I look straight down in some of the pools of the teams I swim against. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash. That night I had a nightmare where I was stranded in the middle of the ocean and a creature pulled me down and drowned me. *** Small Business Marketing Tips – Effective Ways to Get Success! I’m sure my fear was triggered when my babysitter left me in the bathtub and i almost drowned. I kinda have this phobia, I’m fine with swimming pools and rivers and I went snorkeling a while back and I was fine but being out in the middle of the ocean with land out of sight and not knowing what’s underneath me, just makes me terrified of the ocean. Tried to see bottom and all I could see was the tips of seaweed and even that was a good 15 feet below me. Sadly, I can’t swim in them without having a panic attack. Your email address will not be published. I ditched my girlfriend with her mother, it was so bad. “Thalassophobia” comes from the Greek words thalassa (sea) and phobos (fear), and it generally refers to a deep, irrational fear of the ocean’s vastness and what may lurk deep within it. If in real life I can’t dive or snorkelling in ocean that have really dark ground(?) There are two main ways to get rid of any fear: * Confront it head on – that works really well but most people don’t like to try it I tested myself to see if I really was scared by watching a video of a whale jumping out of water. If you’re in a tourist area like the Florida Keys, you can take a tour on a glass bottomed boat. It was fun at the start until i saw a tortoise swimming below us. Then i freaked out more when i saw the corals beside us, it was too high and big, it almost reached the surface. Like, imagine the levels of anxiety. Exactly, I got you. I’ve never had a panic attack or anything but then again I’ve never seen the ocean let alone been in it. I was so startled as it was so big and because of that, i didn’t put my head down for a while. It’s also like I get anxiety about something in the water watching me, but I can’t see it. I hope someone can relate. I remember playing GTA V once and going into the ocean, and even then I felt extremely uncomfortable in the ocean (it really didn’t help that my character started drowning either lol). In fact I can be in a pool all day! I quietly turned my head and started silently shaking. I remember being in the bath as a kid and went under the water to rinse the shampoo from my hair and as soon as I went under I thought of everything that could live under any body of water and had an anxiety attack. I have this. No one that i’ve told about this really believes me and thinks it’s a weird thing especially because i love the beach and don’t mind lakes or pools. This phobias mainly about the sea and super deep water full of varies of creatures we havent discovered yet or also ones we have. 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