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fear of swallowing


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oh lol maybey I didnt spell it right, sorry my mind is just racing right now...the word means "more from one distance than another"
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Derium, just to let you know that our program automatically filters certain words.
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its ment to say "its worse the ****her I am from home" and when I said ride with someone, I mean when im not driving, it is eaiser when someone is riding with me while I drive sorry
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hello, I posted my whole stroy here: http://www.paniccenter.net/support/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=2&Topic=903 but il get to the root on this post. I have a fear of swallowing, when I go to swallow (anything even my own saliva) I feel as if the flap of skin is not going to fold over my windpipe and ill choke on it. I gets worse the ****her from home I am. I had panic for a long time, but thats gone, this problem has only exsisted for about 3months. It is worse when I try to ride with someone. but it all lays on how long it takes me to get home. walking 1 block from my appartment is just as bad as driving 10. now ive never choked, and I do not have anxiety with this, only an extream fear. I used ot have anxiety driving from home, but not on the ay back....well now I have less difficulty swallowing away from home (mainly caus eI know ill have to come back, and I feel "unsafe" anywhere else) but its really hard on the way home...it seems harder the closer I get to getting back home. and when im at a spot light or out of the car..when my mind has more idle time, it gets really bad, to the point of almost panic. I am unaware on how to face this head on. I look at it like this: If my fear was climbing latter I could just simply climb down and end the experience withing 15 seconds. But with mine, if im 20, 10 or even 2 in from home, I know that I can not end the experience for atleast that long! im sorry this is all jumbled, but im just so sick of not having a life. and im not sure how to handle this. my phscologist just says "do it"...but I cant just "do it". thank you for listening and your support.

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