Hello all, first post here, hoping to find some help with my fear of bad weather - tornadoes mainly. Does anyone here suffer from this and if so have you found help? Gotten rid of it or made it calm down any? It's really dominated my life this year after the spring outbreaks and I'm just on pins and needles 7 days a week worrying about the next time an outbreak happens. It's escalated to the point of being nervous when simple showers are forecast.
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DeadmanWalking
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Hm, this may seem like horrible advice, but just don't think about it so much. Just make sure you check your weather forecast, set up your procedures for the time when it does happen and make sure you have a plan on the occasion when the forecast is wrong. This may seem like overpreparation, but you'd rather be overprepared than underprepared, right? And remember that worrying about something before it happens won't solve anything; all you can do is prepare for the worst and make sure that your plans have a minimal chance of failure. I hope I helped some and welcome to SPW
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!Hm, this may seem like horrible advice, but just don't think about it so much. Just make sure you check your weather forecast, set up your procedures for the time when it does happen and make sure you have a plan on the occasion when the forecast is wrong. This may seem like overpreparation, but you'd rather be overprepared than underprepared, right? And remember that worrying about something before it happens won't solve anything; all you can do is prepare for the worst and make sure that your plans have a minimal chance of failure. I hope I helped some and welcome to SPW
Well I wouldn't call it "horrible" advice, because it would be great if I could just not think about it so much, but that's what the phobia is all about lol. This, to me, just seems like something impossible to get over because it's not like someone afraid of crossing bridges or fear of public speaking etc. etc. it's something that happens constantly through most of the year. Storms and severe weather/tornadoes. It's hard to get over something that's always happening. :
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DeadmanWalking
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Well I wouldn't call it "horrible" advice, because it would be great if I could just not think about it so much, but that's what the phobia is all about lol. This, to me, just seems like something impossible to get over because it's not like someone afraid of crossing bridges or fear of public speaking etc. etc. it's something that happens constantly through most of the year. Storms and severe weather/tornadoes. It's hard to get over something that's always happening. :
Okay, let's try to fight this one step at a time. First, we're going to get you used to showers. What I want you to do is to, the next time it showers, to look at it and, for an extra bonus, step out there and watch it rain. I want you to tell yourself, "It's only rain; it's water, so it can't hurt me. I use water everyday and I'm completely fine," or something to that effect because it's true. The rain can't hurt you; the worst it will do is give you a cold, which you can bounce back from. Better yet, though, you can go talk to a therapist about it and see what they think. What they say have got to say has to be better than my advice:
:.Welcome! I've never heard of this before either, so I'm probably no help at all, but I do find it interesting. I think the only thing I could possibly suggest is to try to move to a place where there is not much bad weather at all. For example, Tucson, Arizona enjoys 300 sunny days a year!
Oh trust me I've looked into it and gotten so bad a few times during the summer I started making plans to do just that...Arizona was exactly where I was researching. First I looked into Flagstaff but was informed it's a college/super-liberal type place so I said forget that lol then I looked into Prescott and it was freaking BEAUTIFUL looking...but ya, I'm married with 2 kids and live in Southwest Virginia. I get the old
when I bring up something like that.The only negative I found to living out there is monsoon season. oO
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-lonestar-
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has a tornado hit your area before? or is this phobia stemming from world wide weather forecast?
Yeah, I lived in Phoenix during my first year of college, and I was totally unprepared for the type of rain they get there! Fortunately it only happens during the wintertime, because I was pretty freaked out by it. Then again, I don't think anyone can really get out and about during the torrential downpours, so you would probably fit in there just fine.
April 27th an Ef-3 hit an hour south of my town. The supercells that were producing them came directly over my area and scared the living sh** out of me. Being in a 2nd story apartment with nowhere to go doesn't help the fear, but hopefully I'm about to rent a house with a basement if everything works out
For about 8+ years I've hated storms/rain and didn't like going out when it was coming or letting my family go anywhere when I knew it was coming, but this year has kicked into high gear and it's all tornado tornado tornado all the time. I've pretty much lived my life in this little mountain town thinking we just didn't get tornadoes here, but April 27th changed that perception and it's kinda destroyed my world.Oh, almost forget April 9th 2 Ef2s or 3s (can't remember) touched down about 2 hours east of us.
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-lonestar-
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Yeah I'd say that's a logical reason to fear it. Hope you can find a great place to move to soon. Why is the weather out of wack lately is what I wanna know, crazy everywhere.
MikeyC
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If you move to my area of Australia you're free from tornadoes and cyclones/hurricanes. There can be heavy rain, thunderstorms and the occasional hail, but natural disasters are unlikely. Flooding and heatwaves are the most common natural phenomena here.
No earthquakes, either.
Or you could move to the Atacama Desert in Chile where it hasn't rained for, what, 200 years or so? I hope you don't need water to survive, though!
In all seriousness, that does seem like a debilitating phobia, one I've never actually heard of before this thread. I hope it can be alleviated soon because extreme weather will always be around.
No earthquakes, either.
Or you could move to the Atacama Desert in Chile where it hasn't rained for, what, 200 years or so? I hope you don't need water to survive, though!
In all seriousness, that does seem like a debilitating phobia, one I've never actually heard of before this thread. I hope it can be alleviated soon because extreme weather will always be around.