i dont know why i fear telephone calls...
i've read of a thing called Telephobia, i think thats what it is...
i need help, i've started cutting again :'(
Telephone phobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Telephone phobia (
telephonophobia,
telephobia,
phone phobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking
phone calls, literally, "fear of
telephone".
[1] It is considered to be a type of
social phobia or
social anxiety.
[1] It is often compared to
glossophobia, in that both require engaging with an audience to a certain extent, followed by the fear of being criticized, judged or made a fool of.
[2]
As is common with various fears and phobias, there is a wide spectrum of severity of the fear of phone conversations and the corresponding difficulties.
[1] In 1993 it was reported that about 2.5 million people in
Great Britain have telephone phobia.
[3]
The term Telephone
Apprehension refers to a lower degree of telephone phobia, where it is the anxiety derived from telephones, but less severe than that of an actual phobia.
[4]
These people may have no problem communicating face to face, but have difficulty doing so over the telephone.