Talk:Mycophobia/@comment-94.9.236.110-20190728213727

I have this, I remember one time as a child where I was walking through a forest with my mother. She decided at some point to take a shortcut through the woods to the path home. There were many horrifyingly creepy looking mushrooms there, eventually I slowed down because I was scared, and she went ahead of me not realising that I had slowed. I just stopped, screamed and cried as I felt surrounded by them, I was in absolute terror. Eventually she had to carry me all the way back to the path and I just gripped my eyes closed tightly.

I must have been about 7 at the time possibly younger, but now even if I see a picture of one that I don't like the look of, my heart rate increases as my body fills with anxiety and fear, and then I'll just cry for a while. I'm 20 years old, this is kind of ridiculous but I can't bare them at all, it would be impossible for me to overcome this.