Ok I don't have a lot of phobias.. the only one I can think of is needles.. but ever since I was on probation and got raided by the pigs a few times I'm permanently scarred to the sound of knocking.. I've been off probation for 2-3 years.. I was on for 4 years... One time when I lived at my moms house I was even awakened to 5-6 cops at my bedroom door banging loudly (because she let them in, she didn't know better) and then they busted in and found some weed and locked me up for a violation... Now every time someone knocks on the door or even knocks on something in a completely unrelated way my stomach drops and I get crazy anxiety temporarily.. I should add it's almost exclusively when I'm at my own house not out in public It seems weird to me but has anyone else experienced this?
It's like a conditioned respose. Those knocks represent negative events. Like Pavlov and the dog/bell conditioning experiment. Your buddies need to get together and randomly send stripping female messengers to your house to help over come the earlier training.