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Offline Lostcause

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Why am I so inhibited?
« on: April 19, 2005, 02:04:09 PM »
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So I seem to have become more and more inhibited as the years have gone by. I don't know if this has anything to do with my OCD but I suspect it might. As an example, our neighbor has a horse and thier fenceline runs along the service road where I take my morning walks. A few times the horse has come up to the fence like it wanted to make friends with me and I kind of thought about going over and petting it or giving it a treat.

Now a "normal" person (which I USED to be) would probably just go over and pet the darn thing and that would be the end of it. No big deal, right?. Well, with me, I suddenly get all these paranoid and fearful thoughts going through my mind like "what if I get arested for trespassing?" or "what if the horse got sick and someone blamed me?" or "what if a nosey neighbor called the cops on me and said there was a suspicous person prowling around?" or what if...the thoughts of EVERYTHING that *could* happen just overwhelm me to the point where I just get too afraid to go over and pet it and then I start to get really agitated because I think a person should be able to pet a horse for crying out loud!!.

I told my friend about this and he suggested that I knock on the owner's door and ask them if it would be ok if I petted thier horse. I told him that it's seemed kind of silly to go over there and knock on thier door just for that and it might make them suspicious that I was going to all that trouble and making such a big deal out of just petting a horse. I mean, I'm 42 years old so just try to imagine a grown man knocking on your door and saying something like "um, hi..you don't know me but I came over to ask if I could pet your horse". Silly to say the least.

Anyway, my inhibitions go far beyond my simple horse example. In fact, I am inhibited from drinking because I fear becoming an alcoholic and I rarely have sex because it is supposed to be "evil" and "sinful". I obscess over my health and the health of my animals constantly and I am afraid to lgo out in my own yard (especially after dark) because my neighbor's dogs will start barking and then he might call the police (thinking I'm a prowler) and then I have to get the third degree from the cop, etc.

Does this sound like OCD or some other condition?. Does any of this even sound remotely familiar?. I hope I'm not alone but at the same time, I would'nt wish this on anyone. I'm sure I'm being robbed of a lot of things I ciould be doing in life because of my fears, inhibitions and paranoia.

Well, I guess that's about it for now.
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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2005, 02:11:03 PM »
Sounds to me like you are very inhibited by some of your fears. I really don't see what the harm would be if you were to just walk over and pet the horse. Have you met or seen the people who own it?. Perhaps you could walk over there with a carrot one day when they are out with the horse, strike up a conversation and then sort of casually ask if it was ok to give the horse a treat. I'm sure they would'nt mind (at least I would'nt if it were my horse).

Hope this help some.
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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2005, 09:21:19 AM »
Hi Lostcause ...

I don't think my caution has anything to do with my fears or anxiety.   I love animals but I will not approach or touch anothers animal (dog, cat or horse) without the owners permission.   And most certainly I would never feed it anything with the owners prior knowledge.

I think most owners would appreciate being asked for permission to approach their animal.   I would just approach the owner of the horse ... introduce yourself and explain you pass by often on your morning walks and that their horse comes up to fence when you walk by ... and would they mind if you petted their horse ... and if thats okay ask if it might be okay to give it a carrot or apple once in a while.

They could say no to one or both of your requests for any number of reasons ... but I doubt if any of them would have anything to do with you personally.   The horse might have a bad temperment ... seems friendly until you go to pet it and then it snaps at you or something.   Maybe it cannot eat carrots or apples or is sensitive to some foods and the owner doesn't want anything fed to it that they do not control.   Like I said ... personally ... I always feel its better to ask permission.

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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2005, 09:43:20 AM »
I think you're childhood or inner child awkwardness is speaking in you're fears:
for instance if everybody were to go pet the horse would you do it?
How about if it was just you there?
What would happen if your were to go and pet the horse and your weren't supposed to, what would you say to an embarrassed school child?
What would you think of a schoolmate that accidentally did that when you were a child or even now?

As you can see i don't think this is about fear of horses, dogs, alcohol or intimacy i mean you listed many phobias and i think it is more likely that the fear lies within yourself wether it is indecisiveness, unworthiness, awkwardness, lost or whatever word that specifies you're feelings.

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Anyway, my inhibitions go far beyond my simple horse example. In fact, I am inhibited from drinking because I fear becoming an alcoholic and I rarely have sex because it is supposed to be "evil" and "sinful". I obsess over my health and the health of my animals constantly and I am afraid to go out in my own yard (especially after dark) because my neighbor's dogs will start barking and then he might call the police (thinking I'm a prowler) and then I have to get the third degree from the cop, etc.

I think you are afraid of you're neighbor`s dogs barking at you, since you specifically mentioned the "prowler" thing and scared of you're own and you're animal's health because you feel as if you are doing something wrong. You obsessively patronize you're self as a "prowler" to relieve you're anxiety, awkwardness and the same thing goes for also "the neighbors calling the police" fear. An expressionist patronizing portrayal of you're self. Maybe you should ask you're self if you truly believe that.

Do you believe that you're neighbors are going to call the police so fast if they hear their dogs barking in the dark and do you truly believe they wont be able to recognize you that they would they call the police anyway? 
The alcoholic fear might be because you already have a neurosis and as for as the sex thing i don't think you are being totally honest about it. I think you actually portray some sort of "unconventional"l images that might not be interpreted right if everyone were to know them. Of course i am only speculating and you don't have to answer anybody but you're self. Do you?
Because in that case i think that an obsession like that would also have to do with the same thing i have been writing about above, i don't think that this would be wrong.

I don't get the impresson of the obsessiveness of OCD but rather social phobia, agora phobia or something else. Please don't take this the wrong way, i could of course be wrong but from what you have written i sense a state of ease accept the rationalizing of the second message. However that was to eliminate a phobia and substitute an obsession for you're external objects in question. Do these anxieties go away almost to a forgetful state until the become relevant?

Rara. Please excuse my miss spellings i am not a native english speaker. On that note i would like to say that in swedish there is a very good for the otherwise sound of childish sounding word "awkward", "penibel". It would have shortend this hole message towards that one word...should i not have said that? :P

peace, love and understanding./Rara.
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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2005, 01:19:56 PM »
Thank's to all of you from the bottom of my heart and sorry for the belated answer back :bigsmile:. I never did work up the courage to go over and pet that horse but I have more or less gotten over it now. Maybe it was never meant to be. The horse was only one example.

I guess you just have to learn to live with this and try different medications until you find one that does the job for you. Boards like this one and others help me a LOT because it's nice when you have other people you can talk to. I have found a great deal of help and met a lot of interesting people this way.

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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2005, 06:44:06 AM »
i just want to sincerly apologize for my brazen and intrusive writing about your love life, that is completely none of my business. I must have categorized you with a profile, hope you will accept my apology and answer me in one question: is my message logical in the end?
I know it is a morbid question and you dont have to reply, i understand if your busy it's just that i've gotten so many comments on my somewhat incoherent writings from time to time...And thats in my native language, Swedish and English. All you would have to say, or anybody else who has read the endings of my message, is if it is coherent in the end.  ::)   
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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2005, 10:58:06 PM »
Hi Rara, no I was'nt offended at all :). I don't understand why you thought that your were "writing about my love life" (I did'nt get that impression), I just took it that you were trying to be helpful which I appreciate!. As far as your being coherent is concerned, you said that you were Swedish so naturally, if that is your native language and you are posting in an English forum, some things might be a little hard to understand because of the "language barrier" but for the most part I was able to read between the lines and get the gist of what you were saying pretty well. No worries, your fine :bigsmile:
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Re: Why am I so inhibited?
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2005, 08:12:06 AM »
thanx.
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