im afraid of clowns any help?

**GodsAngelbaby** · 01-06-2009 06:23 PM

Okay so ive posted in other area's but i would like to see if anyone can help me i am afraid of clowns i have no idea why its been like this since i can remember back when i was very young. If i see one in person i just pass out no controll but if its on tv it gives me a panic attack that takes a bout a full 30 minutes to recover from i also have dreams and if i dream of them getting me i have panic attacks that sometimes leads to hyperventalation.
ive tried to read about it and even just reading the word clown makes my heart beat realy fast and i get uncomfortble, ive asked my family and nobody understands why im afraid of them and when i was little it embarrested me as kids would tease there just ppl..ect ive seen shrinks for other things like my past drug abuse or drinking and self mutilation but never about this i guess im still a lil embaresed by it all.. anyone can help? or at least some tricks on how to get over panic attaks fast

Gabby

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 01-06-2009 07:17 PM

There is maybe something in your sub-conscious. You may have even watched a show when you were little and the Clown was mean, like a CSI style program and you remember sub-consciously...

Or, in real life, whilst your family don't remember, one scared you when you were little.

As for anxiety, "breathe" deep breathes, keep breathing and affirmations, it's only a clown it can't hurt me, and say it over and over again even in your mind whilst you breathe.

The only way to control things is with your mind, change the way you think at that moment immediately... and breathe deep and long, over and over.

CW

**GodsAngelbaby** · 01-07-2009 03:37 AM

If its like u suggest a sub conscious thing then i guess theres nothing i can do for myself? i know that they say that if its something terbly traumatic then u can 'block it from your memory or something i dunno..

yeah i have to try to get my mind to think of anything other than what is giving me the panic attack or it will just keep going on and on..

~gabby

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 01-07-2009 03:55 AM

Gabby, you state in your other post "abuse" was it an Uncle? Someone you trusted?

As a child of 6, 7, they can seem like a Clown, someone when you were even younger, made you laugh "like a clown", but then upset you, did wrong...

Please excuse me, for asking....

This is my thoughts.

CW

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 01-07-2009 03:58 AM

To add. Can you afford hypnotherapy?

Maybe it would be very good for you to remember, yet not... Hypnotherapy can make you remember but the hypnotherapist can also make you be calm and think differently...

I am not suggesting at all that there is nothing you can do for yourself, not at all.

CW

**GodsAngelbaby** · 01-08-2009 01:51 AM

no it was a neighbor not an uncle i not trusted them but i dont want to be hypnotized i dont like the thought of someone els in my head other than who's already there

Gabby

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 01-08-2009 03:45 AM

Guess you don't need it...........

You know who it was..............

Gabby, tell us more about what makes you think Clowns therefore, are frightening?

You must have a thought there.

See, "already in your head? " You have already tried to get help remember, without family knowing.

So that does not make sense.

CW

**GodsAngelbaby** · 01-08-2009 12:18 PM

im sorry that was just a sad try on my part to make a joke ( someone els in my head other than who's already there) as i stated i dont hear voices BUT, i used to i would hear someone saying my name but nobody would be around or if there was it was not them it was strange it was said but a voice sometimes nicely or sometimes it would sound very angry but it was always just i gues a thought i would have and not actualy someone saying it as i would ask who said that and nobody would know or nobody would be around to have said it .. but i dont think im like my cousins at all i dont have converstaions with voices like the one whos in an jail/instotutions for schizophrenics..

I find them scarey i dont know if i see on on tv my mind races my heart beats so fast and i get this terble feeling something bad will happen to me and most of the dreams are of them chasing me or grabbing my arm and kidnapping me its strange but i figured it was proly just the way my brain processes my past or something ?
just give me a panic attack and like i had said if i see one in person i have no control i just pass out

im not embarresed by it anymore but would like to know how to take controll and fight it

Gabby~

**bellatrix00** · 01-20-2009 05:25 PM

I totally agree with you. I find clowns really creepy as well, I can stand them and be around them, but I don't like it. So i can totally understand. For me, it's the face paint, the fact that I cant see who it is in the costume and their face. I feel the same way about mascots and any sort of costume/mask where I can't see the persons face. Do you think it could be the same thing for you? Are you ok with mascots and halloween costumes? or just clowns?

It could also be because of scary movies.. the ones where pyscho mass murderers are dressed as clowns?

I think in any case.. this may just be one of those things where you have to face your fear! Maybe get someone you KNOW and TRUST to dress up like a clown first, and be around them so you know theres nothing to worry about. Or even try dressing up as one yourself. I know it'd be incredibly hard.. But may just work.

**GodsAngelbaby** · 01-20-2009 06:05 PM

i am not sure i dont mind mascots or dummies (hand puppets..ect)
but i dont like ugly masks for halloween also. i gues mabe its the paint plus close and the unknown fact who's behind the paint what do they look like i guess.

someday maybe i will try facing it maybe myself or someone i trust dressing up like one.

someone had suggest hypnotherapy to find out if i had a supprest memory of something traumatic that happend to me involving one or one that looks like one. but im not sure if i want to do that beside's i figure that is probly costly.

Gabby

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