I have a fear of rocks (and sometimes other things like logs or pipes, but it's mostly rocks) that are underwater. Not small rocks, but big, boulder-like rocks. Why is this? I can't go swimming in a lake or ocean where I know there are rocks, or where I can;t see the bottom, because I'll be afraid my foot will touch a rock. Is anyone else afraid of rocks that are underwater?
Even when I go kayaking, I hate looking over the edge of the kayak and seeing boulders that are underwater. It freaks me out to the point of having a panic attack. Is it normal?
Even when I go kayaking, I hate looking over the edge of the kayak and seeing boulders that are underwater. It freaks me out to the point of having a panic attack. Is it normal?
Those stagnant murky lakes full of submerged logs... omg.
I can be ON a log that's sticking out of the water and I'll be just fine, but I won't even want to touch the water with my finger because then it will be IN THE WATER WITH THE LOG.
when i was a child around 10 we were in the river by my parents weekend house in the rubber boat we went in most if not all the weekend. This weekend
we were in the boat as usual when water got low i got out and pushed boat and cut my foot along the big toe
was rushed to hospital where i had at least 6 stiches in my toe.
thei now yeas and years and years and years later , left me with a phobia of
a, not swimming if i cant see the bottom
b, weary of rocks in water and have to wear jelly shoes or fins if i stand on a rock in the sea..
scuba diving left me in a panic ripped snorkel off etc.
then i grabed her anchor rope of the boat then fear subsided and i edged my way down the 80 feet of clear barbados sea, still keeping away from the rocks would love to know the phobia name for this .
I will jump of a ship into water off ropes etc cos sub consciously i know if its deep enough for boat my feet are fine
one day i was kayaking in a slow moving river, and bottom was coming up, i could just make out the thick grass, when i passed a rock or log or something in the water, it took almost everything i had to not paddle away as fast as i could, i had a huge adrenaline rush and it took a long time to calm down and have that rush go away
if i was out in the ocean and the boat sank, i would be parlyzed by fear to approach a buoy that would save me from drowning for fear of the anchor chain that goes all the way to the bottom, the moss and things hanging off of the chain i could not see well, if at all, would scare me too much for me to swim over and hang on
I don't like the thought of things lying on the sea bed, especially things that shouldn't be there, like shipwrecks.
It's not nice when your foot touches something in the sea, maybe it's because we think it might be an animal or something!
Or could it be that you're afraid of cutting your foot on the rock?
Maybe you had a bad experience in the sea when you were younger?
Not afraid of cutting myself on the rock.
Not afraid of weird sea monsters.
It's the rocks. I don't get it. It's completely irrational. I know I don't have anything to fear from the rocks, but the fear is still there.
TMB
I have never had an accident with a boat hitting a rock thats under water. I just got this fear some years ago, and i can't stand seeing rocks underwater. I just freak out when im in a boat and I see a rock. I would love to overcome this fear since I spend a lot of time at the sea side, and sailing, but I have no idea how.