Comments on: Fear of Water Phobia – Aquaphobia

By: keegan

keegan

I love this! It is helping me.

By: Sofie

Sofie

In reply to Cass. Same.

By: Cass

Cass

I ™m genuinely terrified of most water. I can shower and drink water, but any body of water, including baths and puddles, gives me panic attacks. I also can ™t watch movies involving water, or I ™ll legitimately panic.

By: Nancy

Nancy

I am a pretty good swimmer and loved water skiing as a teen. Fast forward to I am in my mid 40’s. I had a severe medical problem involving about 7-8 abdominal surgeries, my colon, to be exact. In recovery, I had to shower at least twice daily and clean my incisions with warm soapy water. These incisions were about 4″x4″ and 4″ deep. It hurt BAD! But I had to do it. This all went on for over a year, 2008 – 2009.
Now, I hate to shower. I have back problems, and I fear falling. But, mostly, it’s the water. I try, but my personal hygiene suffers. I can walk up to the shower, even turn it on and touch it, but I have A LOT of trouble stepping inside. So, I turn the water off most days and walk away. It’s embarrassing, but I’d just rather stay home. How can I be helped?

By: Jace

Jace

I ™m only scared of lakes, oceans, and rivers. Not regular drinking water.

By: Jace

Jace

In reply to Jace. I also almost drowned in a lake.

By: Jace

Jace

In reply to Kat. Same as me. My little brother shoved me in the water and sat on me until dad pulled him off.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth

I have intense galeophobia (fear of sharks), so going in water stresses me out because sometimes, I hallucinate shadows below me when I’m swimming that are shaped like sharks. Sometimes when I see waves, I imagine the shadow of a shark in the wave for a second. My fear of sharks has made me terrified of water. I’m not very scared of pools, and occasionally I can take baths, as long as there are bubbles and music to distract me. I know the fear of sharks isn’t the same as the fear of water, but my fear of sharks made me think that something would pull me under the water before I could react and drown. So I’m terrified of drowning in water because of my fear of sharks and also especially after an incident when I was eight and nearly drowned in a swimming pool. For more background on that story: my brother left me unsupervised in the swimming pool, and I couldn’t swim very well at that age, so I accidentally went to the deep end and started drowning for a minute until he came back to check on me and rescued me.

By: Kat

Kat

I have been pushed under water as a “prank”. I cried and I don’t like water. When I was little I would go to the bottom of the pool and lay on my back looking up as it feels like I am drowning. If I tell my dad he’s just gonna say you’re fine.

By: ww

In reply to Aurora. I did not, you should not give up.