First let me introduce myself, My name is Julio, 25 of age, Married with two kids and proudly served our United States in the USAR. Second let me thank this community for allowing me to register and join your online message board discussion. But I’m here for a purpose, And that purpose is to track down and talk with a member of your site named “Mamboman”. Why you may ask? Simple because of this thread
If you decided not to click on link to the thread I will give a quick back story and then the significance it holds to me. nearly 13 years ago Mamboman began the thread by asking if anyone knows the scientific phobia name for “Fear of lightbulbs”. After coming to the conculsion that there was no such name coined for this phobia, he quickly began getting other members to give what they felt the phobia should be named. Then he goes onto exclaim that he indeed is the holder of this phobia an how all forms of lightbulbs effected him other then lights that are already in place “Doing there job”. Now why is this important, well because I to am struck with this same exact phobia.
As long as I can remember I have been scared of lightbulbs. The mere sight of them will cause my heartbeat to accelerate, I find it hard to catch my breath when I’m around them, I get rushed with feelings of anxiety and irrational fear… Now I’ve always been able to comprehend that I should not be scared of lightbulbs and they are harmless, I really don’t even understand why I am scared of them. There no logic or reasoning behind the madness.
This never really seemed to be to big of an issue for me. I knew I was scared of lightbulbs so I avoided them as much as possible. And on some rare cases I have handled lightbulbs and even have changed them! But all that changed after returning home from my first deployment. I came home with a new set of fears like loud sudden noises, popping of balloons and fireworks. But all of this I understand why i was scared and I learned how to manage. But my fear of lightbulbs evolved into a full blown phobia. Being around a lightbulb that is not secured into a fixture sets me off in a deep deep anxiety attack, I sweat to the point of needing to change my clothes, and I find it troubling to walk inside grocery stores because I imagine all the lights bursting at once and it nearly causes me to faint, frankly it’s embarrassing
I recently decided to activity search for help, I have been searching for lightbulb phobias on google and youtube but coming up empty, I have been trying to research anything I could to help me deal with this but it seems this is a 1 and a 100million phobia. Finally I searched on google for " Fear of lightbulbs" and that’s when Mamboman’s thread came up as one of the top results!. He is the only other person I know in this world who shares this same Phobia as mine. I feel like if I could get in contact with him and ask him about it, I could possibly get some answers! Maybe see if he overcame his fear. or maybe if he can point me in the direction of a specialist that helped him out. I know it’s a long shot and the odds are stacked against me. But if anyone has anyway of contacting him I would greatly and eternally be grateful! Thank you guys so much!!!
P.S… Sorry about double posting this in the question board, I’m new and didn’t mean to post the thread there