face your fear

I was watching a talk show on TV about Phobias the other day. They brought all sorts of people totally crippled by fear and by the end of the show they had Arachnophobics touching spiders, Ornithophobics stroking birds, Ophidiophobics petting snakes and on and on.... It was amazing. The Psycologist-come-TV-guru faced the camera and said, 'In order to overcome your Phobia you must face it like our guests did today', so I decided to do just that. If it worked for those people it might also work for me. I won't lie, it wasn't easy. I had to force myself, to push hard all the way, but once I had broken the barrier my Parthenophobia was gone.