This may sound strange, but if I walk into a room with a ceiling fan that I going, I just freeze up, my heart starts pounding, and I have to literally force myself out of the room. If I am in the room, and the fan is not on, I'm fine, but as soon as someone turns it on, I practically run out of the room and tell them to turn it off. The other day my boss asked me to change a bulb in the office ceiling fan, but for some reason, even with it off, I couldn't make myself get close enough to it to do anything. Eventually, I just told him I wasn't going to do it, and tried explaining why, he thought I was making it up and told me to get back to the bulb, and again I refused, and I was fired for "insubbordination" but the job isn't the issue, what is with the fan? I mean yeah, my head was put through one when I was about 4 years old, but does that really have an impact on me, now that I'm 21? Please let me know SOMETHING

Fear!

Yes, experiances in childhood can actully be carried over and continue with the fear right through adult hood. Some do and some do not.

I will say that people who don't share a particular fear that you do are quick to rub your nose in it.

Im not scared of fans, but I am chronicly afraid of heights, anything above 3 feet freaks me out. I can't even lay on the ground and look at the sky without feeling like Im flying away somewhere.

Many think this is foolish, and Im making it up too. But they don't understand. I feel your pain.

Yes my fear goes back to childhood as well, when I was a toddler, I almost fell out of a 3 story window. I didn't, but it was close.

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Originally Posted by helper05

This may sound strange, but if i walk into a room with a cieling fan that i going, i just freeze up, my heart starts pounding, and i have to literally force myself out of the room. If I am in the room, and the fan is not on, I'm fine, but as soon as someone turns it on, I practically run out of the room and tell them to turn it off. The other day my boss asked me to change a bulb in the office cieling fan, but for some reason, even with it off, i couldn't make myself get close enough to it to do anything. Eventually, i just told him I wasn't going to do it, and tried explaining why, he thought I was making it up and told me to get back to the bulb, and again I refused, and i was fired for "insubbordination" but the job isn't the issue, what is with the fan? I mean yeah, my head was put through one when I was about 4 years old, but does that really have an impact on me, now that im 21? Please let me know SOMETHING

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THAT HAS EVEYTHING TO DO WITH IT! You poor thing. You should go talk to someone about it. Or have a supprt system to make you touch a fan again... slowly work up to having it around you. IS It just celing fans? Or fans in general?

If it makes you feel any better, since childhood, I have always been afraid of the blades on a ceiling fan flying off and darting across the room.

To this day I still prefer not to run them on high.

If as a child, someone raised you up in a ceiling fan as a cruel joke, I can picture that, and definitely see where that can stick with you for a while. Now that I take the time to really build your scenario in my mind.