Does anyone else find that just when one phobia or issue appears to be decreasing in intensity, another one is just on the horizon?
I can remember just in the last two months all these different fears that have come up…
Scared to try new foods
Scared of being outdoors alone
Scared to go to the toilet alone
Scared to have water on forehead
Scared to have ears cleaned out
Scared of being kidnapped…
and the list goes on.
At least I can see that school is more progressive:
Hating school.
Then not wanting to go to school.
Then wanting to go but afraid to go into the classroom.
Then wanting to into the classroom but not alone.
Then happy to go in alone but still not talking to teacher.
Then whispering to teacher and no-one else.
Now whispering to teacher and other kids.
It just feels like the other list isn’t as progressive. Instead, that something new keeps coming up. I’m sure it ends. But when?