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Originally Posted by slipperyelm 
If I thought giant spiders were about to jump on my face, or evil spirits get me, I don't think I could just get up and walk across the room to load up my glucometer.
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Well, for me, it's a logic thing. If you read one of my earlier posts, I somehow exist using logic instead of emotion. I figure, if there are evil spirits floating around my room and they have evil intentions for me, there isn't anything I can do to stop them, so why be afraid?
While I've never experienced huge spiders about to jump on my face, I'd react the same way.
An example of this logic thing with me....many years ago I was driving to work very early one morning and about halfway there I had a panic attack. I didn't know it was a panic attack, since I had never heard of them back then. My heart started pounding and I got lightheaded and I started to perspire. I thought I was having a heart attack. It didn't scare me or concern me in the least, I just said out loud to myself, "Well come on! If you're going to kill me, then do it and get it over with!" When the panic attack passed, I said, "Is that all? Big deal, can't you do better than that?"
I have no idea who I was talking to, but talking out loud seemed like the right thing to do. I just kept driving and forgot about it. The next day it happened to me again in about the exact same place on the road. I said the same things, but it passed so I ignored it. It wasn't till many years later when my wife started having panic attacks that I thought back to those two times and I realized that those must have been panic attacks I had.
See, logically, there wasn't anything I could do so why worry? Worrying isn't logical so I don't do it. I don't think I worry about anything...I just take things in stride.
