the fact that the "conspiracy theory" video that terrified you turned out to be a video from the onion is the single funniest thing that could've possible come of this topic
do you think that when the onion made this they were envisioning a bunch of people laughing at it 11 years in the future because a youtuber revealed that he was scared of it 💀
Hoodwinked also terrified me, but I used to be absolutely mortified every night that the Granny was secretly hiding in my closest all tied up. I’d have my mom check my closet for “a Grandma who is tied up with a parachute” 💀
the blockbuster we used to go to was right next to a planned parenthood and my parents always told me to close my eyes when we drove up bc they had really scary movie posters outside. one time i peeked and saw this alien thing covered in blood. i was terrified of alien movies until i got older and realized it was never movie posters just insanely gory pro life propaganda…
Bro the same thing happened to me! It scared me and made me cry and a pro life lady was all moved by my tears like dude I was 5 and just scared lmao I didn’t understand what it was saying
my sister also was afraid of the thriller music video, but she wasn’t just afraid of that video, she was afraid of micheal jackson himself 😭 she literally put herself through exposure therapy and made herself watch that video and other videos with him. it’s so funny to me and the fact that it actually worked and she overcame her fear makes me laugh even more. i’ll never let her live that down
man is so random how many people is simply horrofied by michael jackson 1 in every 5 people can not even hear the name michael jackson without shaking (btw thriller also traumatized me it was my first real fear but im okay with mj in general)
when I was young as shit zombies were just incredibly scary for me regardless of context, the fucking valentine's day special of johnny test broke me. also, about thriller, I knew michael jackson was dead but for some reason I thought thriller was made after michael's death, I hope it's clear enough why it scared the shit out of me
the distinction between actual trauma and the treatment of it compared to relatively minor fears that could do to face a more simplified version of exposure therapy I feel like really set the tone of this video in a good way. not making light of anything, just being open abt the fact that these fears don't equate to trauma disorders
@@nickisnotgreen as someone who has trauma and ptsd, I didn’t feel minimized or like you were making light of a serious topic at all!! I can’t speak for everyone but it was okay in my book. Kinda wish you would have put a trigger warning just as a heads up but I don’t think you stayed on the topic of trauma long enough for me to go full panic mode 💖
I have exposure therapy for OCD (I actually have a session tomorrow) and I liked it. It’s nice to get more exposure (pun intended) for exposure therapy because it’s been shown to be really effective but lots of people haven’t heard of it. Well done and thoughtful
My mom was telling me how when she was a kid, a TON of kids were terrified of the wicked witch from the orginal Wizard of OZ. The funniest thing is that her aunt looked just like the Witch, and she grew up convinced that her aunt was the Witch.
The witch didn't scare me but the monkeys really creep me out shit looked so unnatural like why tf their faces blue. weird ass little demon shits. What's funny Is I remember when I was real little before I seen the movie I asked my mom about it and she describes some of the main parts of it, when she mentioned the flying monkeys being sent out it really creeped me out. Even before seeing the movie. I'm not scared of monkeys but some of them....
I have to say, as someone who has been through professional psychologist led exposure therapy for OCD three separate times, this is one of the most positive portrayals of it that I’ve ever seen. It is something that can be scary, just like Nick said, but it is also such a relief once you realize that those fears you had were irrational and distorted by your memory/mind. All in all awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
this is what i need to do honestly. i have really bad anxiety, i can’t even go out of my house without fearing for my life if one of my family members or friends aren’t with me, and i have anxiety attacks a lot. i think exposure therapy would greatly benefit me
I remember being genuinely scared of the THX intro before every Disney movie, I even remember the only reason I didn’t go into my living room at night was because I thought the THX logo would start blasting on the screen 💀
I used to have a fear of post credits closing logos partly because of the Stretch Films logo that follows any episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, but also because I grew up with tapes and loud static from the unused tape would usually follow. I had the tape of Scooby Doo and the Witches' Ghost and I'd run out of the room when the Courage short at the end ended. Only later did I learn that that short, because it was the What-A-Cartoon pilot, didn't have the logo at the end.
@@RubyNemesis omg another person scared of the toothy mouth logo after courage the cowardly dog!!! I would plug my ears close my eyes and hum when the episodes were over dhdhfbjfnw
as a kid, I was so scared of pink floyd's another brick in the wall music video, I remember my father telling me that kids who do bad in school end up just like those in the video (basically turned into ground meat) and that TERRIFIED me (edit: He was clearly joking but I didn't get it as a child lol don't worry he's a good father)
man i was absolutely terrified of the DyE Fantasy music video back then but also to be fair, i don't think that mv was for children in the first place akjdshf
The mountain goat was actually always my favorite thing about that movie. He is sneaky and maybe a liar and I wish I knew more about his backstory. I feel like the story about the witch was just BS he was saying and he absolutely does not need to sing anything. He was just screwing with some kid that wandered by his house because he was bored.
i was terrified of gnomes growing up. i don’t think i ever got over it, just sort of avoid them as an adult. don’t remember when it started, don’t know why, just remember being terrified. also one time as a 15 y/o i tweeted that i was afraid of gnomes and the travelosity gnome account followed me and just replied :) to all my tweets. i remember having a panic attack and whoever ran that account is an absolute demon (still upset 10 years later)
I had a fear of Tomas the tank engine for years and it began to morph into my brain as something of a scary train with teeth of in some case it would suck you up.
Did you ever watch goosebumps? One of my fears was from an episode of that and I do remember an episode about evil lawn gnomes, idk if that helps though!
The Justin Bieber conspiracy video deeply traumatized me too hahahahaha. I watched it on the day of my best friend's birthday and the whole time at her birthday party I just couldn't do anything but think about that screen grab of the mask slipping off of his face. My best friend asked me what was wrong and I didn't want to tell her cause I didn't want to ruin her birthday. Eventually she made me tell her and it ended with a bunch of 10 year olds watching that video and collectively getting traumatized. I told my sister about it afterwards and she laughed at me until she calmly explained the concept of a parody video to me hahahaha
this has inspired me to go back and look at all of the things that terrified me as a child and continue to terrify me. in the past year i have overcome my fear of flying, going on vacation without my parents, driving in chicago, and i have made progress towards my biggest fear, escalators
omg i was also so scared of escalators!!! one time my grandmother paid some random guy to hold my hand on an escalator in the mall bc she had too many shopping bags to hold my hand and i refused to go down alone. i didn’t get over that fear until i had to get up two escalators to get into my freshman dorm 😭
my dad showed me the thriller music video when i was a kid because he considered it to be a masterpiece as if i’d be able appreciate the artistry of michael jackson’s music at the ripe age of 8 instead of just being absolutely terrified of the literal werewolf of it all
oh my god when i was a kid me and my siblings watched a parody of the thriller mv except it was an animation w like sock monkeys every halloween and i was so scared everytime we watched it and i watched it for the first time in like five years like last halloween and im still scared tbh
I don't know how I wasn't afraid of it, I was a huge scaredy cat, you could make me jump by going "rah!" I watched it when I was 10 and I learnt the dance, and I was just like "yay singing and dancing haha weeee!"
I used to have a horrible fear of pregnancy and zombies as a child, to the point I’d have multiple nightmares about both and a reoccurring one Edit: I’d like to clarify I’m not scared of either of them anymore but it took me a LONG time to get over the fears
Hi Nick, psychologist here working in the research field. This comment will probably disappear into the void but I'll try anyway. I thought I'd clarify exposure therapy and how it works, if that would be helpful. You did your research really well! Exposure therapy is one of the ways that different kinds of PTSD can be treated. Exposure therapy is perhaps even more common as a treatment for other anxiety disorders, and among the anxiety disorders are phobias. Phobias are simply anxiety directed at very specific stimuli, such as fear of spiders, as fear and anxiety is the same response in the body. Phobias are typically called irrational fears, or irrational anxiety, which sets them out from PTSD as the fears treated usually come from very real and traumatic experiences. However, your phobias can still come from something real, and PTSD can come from something that hasn't happened. One part of treatment is identifying *what* the fears are. Another part is identifying your so called safety behaviors, in other words *what you do* when exposed to your fears. Safety behaviors can be everything from clenching, tightening your body, looking away, pretending you're somewhere else, distracting yourself with other things, removing yourself from the stimuli, etc, and they're what is keeping you from coming over your fear. We do them because when we're exposed to what we fear, our bodies start a flight-or-fright response. In the forest, we'd *run* from a predator, but in front of say a TV, there's nothing to actually run from and so we do other things. In psychology, we say that the body's arousal goes up (not the sexy kind, just the get ready to fight or flight-kind). The point of exposure therapy is to stay in the situation with the fear until that response - the arousal - actually goes down, i.e. we get calmer than we previously were. It usually does this within everything from 30 seconds to 20 ish minutes, and so exposure therapy trains our bodies that if we stay in the context of our fear, what we fear might happen doesn't happen. However, if you expose yourself to your fears without controlling for your safety behaviors, treatment might not be effective. In other words, if you expose yourself to your fear but for example keep distracting yourself with other things or get out of the situation because you're afraid, you're not experiencing the fear full on but keep trying to turn your attention elsewhere. Therefore, you train your body that the way to calm down is to get away from the fear. It helps if it's a predator in the forest, but not if it's a scary movie. In my own experience, if you're still just as afraid after a couple of minutes of exposure, there's a safety behavior that's not yet been identified and controlled for. Except for helping you expose yourself to the fear itself, a psychologist usually helps with identifying all the safety behaviors and helps you not to them and instead stay in the moment until your arousal goes down and you're not as afraid anymore. Hope this info helps!
That makes so much more sense than everything I've casually heard about exposure therapy. It's an actual process and not just a "snake pit" TIL! thanks!
I was 5 or 6 when the “Thriller” music video premiered. I was sick the night of the premier (I think it was Halloween) and the family friend who babysat me made me watch “Thriller” over and over again, as I think both MTV and BET basically marathon-ran the video all night. I was so terrified of the whole thing, from Michael Jackson’s maniacal smile as he watched the fake horror movie to his werewolf contact lenses to the breakdancing zombies. I was scared shitless of Thriller for years, but I think I exposure therapy’d myself sometime in middle school to get rid of the fear.
I think I was about 8 when my mom showed me the music video. the werewolf scene at the beginning scared me a bit, but the part that absolutely terrified me forever was the ending. the things that always scared me the most were those trick endings- the whole "yep everything's fine in the end- jk no it's not" fucking terrified me and lowkey still do as an adult. when the music video was coming to a close and everything was "fine", only for mj to turn around with that spooky face and the evil maniacal laughter, it scared me so fucking bad. even listening to the song the end scares me because I remember the music video. I literally haven't watched it as an adult because I'm afraid to
@@SuzER08I'm exactly the same for the same reasons regarding this video, I sneakily watched it aged 3 because I loved Michael Jackson, & genuinely only rewatched the video a few years ago when my sister mentioned she'd never seen it - I tried to stop her, I was so convinced the source of my deep-set fear would have equal affect on grown ass adults - it did not 😂
as someone who has CPTSD and has been in therapy for 7 years since i was 14, this kinda shit is lowkey hella relevant and how a lot of people actually process trauma, if not through direct exposure therapy than through visceral experiences that resurface their trauma in safe ways to process (like doing psychedelics!!) obviously as you said this is not a substitute for medical advice, but i think using these methods in safe and playful ways can help people see the benefit of actually processing and confronting things that have strong emotional memories
I’m glad you brought up psychedelics. I wish they were normalized, so we could have more available resources for people who wish to explore this path. I’ve struggled with many mental illnesses my entire life, the most prevalent being BPD. and at some point had convinced myself my parents never could have done anything wrong, since I wasn’t physically abused. I decided to do shrooms one day. While I was coming up i couldn’t stop rocking back and forth and screaming “why don’t you love me mommy”. The trip opened my eyes to how much emotional neglect I faced in my childhood, and definitely made it easier to start healing.
There was this really classic horror story trope that I was super scared of as a kid. It's the story where the man is going to sleep and he hears a dripping noise so he goes to check all the taps. Everytime he gets up to check, he puts his hand under his bed for his dog to lick or something to make sure he's still there. Eventually he checks the closet and he finds his dog hanging dead and the dripping noise was his blood. And the story always ended with THEN WHO WAS LICKING HIS HAND??!! It's very dumb looking back but I still to this day check under my bed and in my closet before going to sleep.
As a child, I had recurring nightmares about an animatronic character chasing me around while playing the banjo, so I really felt it when Nick mentioned the banjo-playing goat. Makes me wonder how many banjo-related childhood fears are out there. 😂😂
Do you know what it looked like? Cause as soon i read this i just thought of that Gravity Falls episode where the dating game girl transferred herself into an animatronic and made all the other animatronic characters try and kill everyone in the restaurant, one of the characters being an owl with a banjo (i think it was an owl, one of them definitely had a banjo though) That sounds so weird if you’ve never watched Gravity Falls before, but most of the show is based on weird and paranormal things, so it somewhat makes sense.
@@thecreatorofpc7929 I haven’t seen Gravity Falls but I think the animatronic in my dreams was definitely associated with Chuck E Cheese. Those early animatronics were terrifying.
@@melonpannyan might be a strech but have u ever been to/ seen pictures of the Country Bear Jamboree? One does play a banjo and there are a couple others with guitars and mandolins
When I was around 10 I rented Spirited Away to watch while I was staying at my grandma's house. I remember being super excited because Howl's Moving Castle was one of my favourite movies and knew that they were both made by Ghibli. I started watching it late at night and was having fun up until the scene with the parents and the pigs. For some reason that specific part scared me so much that I couldn't finish, and for years I was scared of even walking close to the dvd when I went to Blockbuster lol. Years later I did more or less what you did with this video, and decided to rewatch it to see if it was really that scary and because people had recommended it so much. I was definitely exaggerating and it's not as scary as I remembered so it doesn't scare me anymore, but I still find it gross which I suppose is the point. That being said, it really is a very good movie and deserves all the praise it gets.
Spirited Away also scared me. I think the pig scene was one of the moments that scared me. There was quite a bit more as well. I think most things with No Face scared me bc of the design. It was a few years before I realized No Face was actually chill bc the design scared me too much to focus on the actually story with the character. I think the grandma and the baby also scared me. The water scene where she pulls a bike out of the of the creature. There are a couple scenes where it was more intense than scary. When the main girl was working in the furnace place with the little puff balls with legs (best way I can describe it). I think I was concerned for everyone’s safety in that scene. Kinda the same thing with the bridge scene where she had to hold her breath. Even though it scared me I still watched it every now and then bc it’s a good story
Yeah, I feel like Studio Ghibli movies get unfairly marketed as kid's movies in the Western world simply because they're animated and the style that they're drawn in. Some of them are more kid friendly than others. But most of them are like fairy tales or fables with a dark twist that are better suited for teenagers and adults. Princess Mononoke is not the same as Ponyo. Princess Mononoke nearly traumatized me. Thankfully I was older when I saw Spirited Away so it didn't effect me in that way.
I had an abnormal fear of mirrors. I had to over come out by just staring at myself in a mirror for hours while expressing positive affirmations. Also walking through mirror mazes, my personal hell I still think mirrors are creepy but they don't feel me with dread anymore. It wasn't a I'm ugly issue, it was more a belief that my reflection would kill me issue. I watched mirrors with my husband and he thought it was lame and that movie just bombarded me with all my irrational fear I had. That movie is scary as hell. I loved, hated it, and will never rewatch it.
Oh yes mirrors are still genuinely kinda weird for me and I don’t think I’ll ever completely get over the fear. My fear stemmed from a specific video I saw as a child and I still don’t know if I’d wanna find or see it again as just even seeing the same idea done by different creators kinda freaks me out and has a tendency to spark up the fear once again Edit: grammar
When I was about 6 or 7 I ended up in an interrogation room (long story) but I could feel someone being in the other room watching me through the two way mirror and ever since I had such a hard time doing anything in front of a mirror that I wouldn't want a stranger seeing because I never knew if someone were on the other side LOL
Never had a mirror fear, but I had a dream when I was 4 that felt so vividly real that I thought it was real for years. Most of my dreams are batshit crazy, and could not be real whatsoever, but this one was way too realistic. In the dream I was getting out of bed to either get some water or to go to the bathroom. As I was walking through the loft bit of the room, the mirror on the bathroom door spoke to me in a really deep, almost demonic voice. It wasn't even saying anything REMOTELY scary, it said like "hey (my name) how you doin" or smth like that but it FREAKED ME OUT.
I think a lot of it had to do with the uncanny valley, especially the Justin Bieber mask and the child's voice coming out of a grown man (was he animated? His movements looked a little jerky), but also Michael Jackson's unsettling CGI transformation, and even the bad animation in hoodwinked with the goat's mouth. I think children have a hard time processing uncanny valley things, it's too unsettling
the gorilla scene from spongebob freaked me out so much when i was 5 that i wouldnt go anywhere alone anymore because "the gorillas would get me" LMAO it was awful. i literally had night terrors where i would scream about gorillas and i wouldnt into dark rooms because gorillas could hide in the shadows
Omg the gorilla scene gave me so many nightmares. Also the SpongeBob episode were they found a butterfly and they would show the butterfly up close freaked me out so much and still does now
i missed the return date on a book once when i was like 7 & the reminder letter made me so nervous that i never went back to that library & still have the book to this day
Ah yes exposure therapy, the thing basically everyone has been telling me to do with my phobia of insects. Nice how you showed it, in a controlled environment. So many think you just gotta suddenly expose yourself to it a bunch, which, idk about other people, but I'd probably just end up with an at least 4 hour panic attack
For me, I used to be terrified of spiders (still scared of some species) I started watching videos of the fluffy jumping spiders and kinda “gas lighted” myself into thinking they were cute. And they are!
THANK YOU i am the only person i know personally with a phobia of bugs and everyone keeps suggesting i expose myself to a bunch all at once but like. no thank you that would make it worse
some of the most scary/unsettling things i can remember seeing during my childhood were on an Ice Age dvd. the movie itself was not scary, I watched it all the time, but the other contents of the dvd were bad. first of all, the menu screens. I vividly remember a menu screen where Sid the sloth is lying on his side, face directly to the camera, and his tongue is stuck to the icy ground. something about Sid looking you in the eyes while his tongue was being tugged on was so spooky, but it’s not just that. the LOOPING of the footage scared me. this followed me for a while. the way menu screens looped endlessly freaked me out for some reason. secondly, in the “extras” on the dvd there was a short film called “Bunny”. it shows an old lady bunny who, imo, looks more like a deranged kangaroo, in her kitchen at night while she swats at a moth. the whole thing is a metaphor for dying and rejoining her dead husband, and (spoilers) she climbs into the oven at the end and flies away with a bunch of moths. I never understood the message as a child so I was just incredibly unsettled. It doesn’t help that the animation is super jittery.
omfg…….i developed thalassophobia as a child after watching an ice age movie 😭😭 I don’t know which movie it is but basically the plot involved global warming melting large portions of the ice and freeing fish monsters. So, I watched that as a kid, and then the following day went to a water filled quarry that’s like, a scuba diving/swimming/cliff jumping tourist spot/camp ground. I was standing on a slightly submerged diving platform and a fish nipped my toe. Literally made me have my first ever panic attack 💀 Now I have an unfathomable terror towards open bodies of water that I can’t see the bottom of!! Ice Age is traumatizing confirmed ‼️‼️
I used to be scared of absolutely everything as a child and now I have awful anxiety so that's great. But at least I've faced the majority of them in the last couple years.
Same, i use to have a neighbor thay would come visit me everyday to play and i would start crying and going like "why won't you leave me alone", now i have social anxiety, which actually makes it even funny
Oh mood, every time something scared me I started sobbing. I still have anxiety but now I love everything horror, especially sci-fi horror, which used to scare me the most
one of my greatest fears as a child was that while I was in my bathroom, my whole family would turn into zombies and the only thing to protect me was the 100 year old door lock (bathroom did not have any windows). I fully accepted my fate and sometimes i would silently cry until I was done pooping
I still think this as an adult woman! like what would happen if my family or my friends turned into zombies and came into my room with their eyes rolled back, how would i defend myself, etc. don't even know where the fear comes from
Coming from someone with a truama related anixety disorder and OCD, I really think you did a great job differentiating truama and normal fears!! I don't think anything in this video was distasteful at all!! ♡ Two things that I was scared of when I was little were these ballerina bears on this nutrition education movie, because they were really big 💀💀, and that one episode of higgly town heros when one of the characters got their head stuck backwards!! I used to sit in my room and constantly move my head to the side just to make sure that it couldn't turn around!!! I can't find any of these clips anywhere!! 😭😭
i had the same kind of fears of crash bandicoot when i was a kid =,) it still really unnerves me watching/playing the game all these years later haha i used to check under the bed and in my closet and out the window etc. for the doctor guy. it seems dumb now, but as a little boy who had no idea what the game was about, with no warning, being chased by the awful looking villain dude terrified me now i look back and laugh, but it still scares my inner child a Lot
@@hopeofsaya I completely understand!!! When we're younger things like that are terrifying!! QuQ I also don't blame you at all!! Doctors are very scary, I would be scared of being chased by a villain doctor too!! I wish the game would have gave warning x.x it's good now that we can look back now and laugh!! 💀💀 I especially laugh about the ballerina bears
I think it's so funny to be afraid of the dark as a kid, but growing up I had to admit it to myself that I'm STILL afraid of the dark and I hate the feeling of being alone in the dark. I live with my boyfriend for almost 4 years now and back in 2020 he went on a trip with his family and I had to sleep by myself for a week and I felt terrified every single night, it's so dumb but amazing how our brains works so hard to make us feel bad lol
i was the complete opposite watching hoodwinked as a kid, i remember me and my siblings rewinding to rewatch the goat part again and again and singing along 😭 when it came on i found myself singing the words..... ITS BEEN YEARS MAN THIS GOAT HAUNTS ME IN A DIFFERENT WAY that song SLAPS
There was a period of time when if a surveyor asked me what my greatest fear was, I would say the phantom of the opera. I really had to look behind my shower curtain every time I went to the bathroom because I thought he was gonna kidnap me and turn me into his next "angel of music" (an angel of music with 2 years of piano lessons under her belt mind you).
my childhood fear was catching the plague. we had to learn about the black death every year i guess i just really empathised lol. i was convinced if i went on the london underground i'd catch it and i still hate the underground
are you from England (don't answer if you're not comfortable) because we learned about it EVERY YEAR for several years in my childhood too. I have no idea why they were so focused on teaching us about that specifically when there's a lot of other history we could've been taught about but yeah.. It scared me too
I’m afraid of catching the Disease from the Cabin Fever movies. The idea of having my flesh slowly rot off of me while I was helpless to save myself is pretty scary to me.
I was also afraid of the plague!! My older sister told me about it because (as I recall it) she had a school project on it. It freaked me out for YEARS that something could be that deadly and essentially impossible to properly get rid of. I used to stress about how you’d get rid of a blanket infected with the Black Death. Throw it away? Burn it? Nothing seemed like enough. I was maybe like 7.
I have also had fears of the plague, malaria, smallpox, Ebola, and food poisoning. Also pretty anxious about anthrax, too, as a kid. Looking back, it’s a pretty heavy but also pretty realistic fear, y’know? The plague is so horrifying and disgusting!
Omg don't I remember learning about the black death when I was like 11 and I was convinced I was gonna catch it, every lump or spot I got on my body especially my armpits it was like well mum it was nice knowing you😂
For a while I was like what's this guy's aesthetic it's so cool !? He doesn't have one, just has his own taste and interests and good taste at that. More of us should just decorate w things we like tbh. In my Maximalism era 💅
i was scared of the skeksis in the dark crystal, especially the scene where they use that machine to drain the life force from the little podlings. similarly i was scared of the death machine in the princess bride. a big part of me really wondered how those machines would feel though and that curiosity scared me more than the machines themselves. also geese.
When I was young I rented the book Coraline from the library and got to the part where she finds the hidden door (like literally within the first 2 pages) and I hid the book until it was time to return it because I was so scared. The cover alone was creepy. That, and the Robert the Doll "documentary" on RUclips. I'm still scared to look that up even though it's probably so stupid.
this!! i read the entire coralline book when i was 9, and it was so scary that TO THIS DAY(i’m 19), i’ve not watched the movie and will never pick up the book again. that book really messed with me fr fr
i cant believe so many people had bad experiences with hoodwinked 😭personally my whole family loves it and my sister has been singing "be prepared" since the first day we watched it so many years ago. up to this day you can hear her randomly singing it around the house LOL
I have diagnosed CPTSD with two major re-traumatisations in the last 16 months, which led me to develop pretty severe agoraphobia. I can barely ride the public transport, especially the subway, and I left the house not more than 80 times in the period from April 2022 to this day (and like 40% of those have been recent). 2 months ago on top of pharmacotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy my therapist started introducing me to exposure therapy. And I'm very thankful for how you approached this video, 'cause I can say from my own experience, that exposure therapy on some occasions is frightening and not something to be treated lightly or done of your own volition (if you have severe trauma). In the beginning, even planning to do it would cause immense anxiety. I can't tell you how many times I came to the subway station, just to stand near it and see how I feel, then turn back and call an uber 'cause my heart would go crazy or my breathing would get jagged. I still can only go underground with someone trusted and when I'm in a very stable place mentally that day/hour; and I still have to cross the street when I see law enforcers, but hey, I can leave the house now to go get groceries or dry cleaning in my area. And even tho those steps might seem tiny and stupid to someone without that kind of trauma or my specific triggers - for me they are huge progress compared to a year ago. Exposure therapy works, it's just very hard, sometimes both mentally and physically. But it is 100% worth it in my opinion (in my specific case) - cause having even a fraction of your everyday functionality and autonomy back is so so worth it (for me). Thanks to this video, I figured out that I can actually use this kind of 'treatment' of small things or old fears to try and change how my brain perceives exposure therapy - to make it feel more like a chore or an experiment rather than a frightening thing that you have to go through again (on smaller scales, of course, it's not meant to traumatise you further, just as you said). Thank you for talking about this topic with the care and caution that it deserves and for the idea - I'll be discussing it in my session on Wednesday :>
congrats on your improvement! whether or not it sounds small or insignificant for most people doesn't matter. the point is that doing these things cause such an intense emotional response in you and is that's the only perspective that matters. nothing is objectively scary or difficult, the validity of those concepts is measured by the effect it has on the person (in this case, you). so yeah, what you're going through and what you've achieved so far is extremely difficult, stressful, scary, etc. and you're still kicking it in the ass. i really hope you can appreciate the strength it takes to go through that. if not right now, later on. you've got this.
As someone with DID and CPTSD I can relate to how seemingly small things can become giant obstacles. It sounds like you've worked really hard to improve things for yourself and that's the best road to recovery from my experience. People can try help but you need to want to do the work too or it's pointless. Well done you for facing your fears and improving so much from this time last year from the sound of things. As a Total stranger who cares to another - I'm proud of you.
I dont know you but I'm very happy for you!! It's always better to take small steps but make progress rather than pushing too much and making it worse. Wish you the best of luck on this journey!!!
I was TERRIFIED of the robot in the Wallace & Gromit episode where they go to the moon for cheese. The loud squeaking and rapid movement of a faceless robot unrelentingly chasing down the protagonists until they could just barely manage to escape in their rocket ship rocked me to my core. I would watch W&G repeatedly as a kid, but for that episode I had to watch it from the other room because of how bad that robot scared me.
I like to think that this one isn't completely unreasonable since I've heard lots of others say this too, but that freaky Courage the Cowardly Dog thing with Ramses was a huge fear of mine as a kid. It appeared right before this Scooby Doo movie we had, and the animation of the guy and his voice gave me nightmares. I'd see him on the wall between my closet doors and freak out, and eventually my parents got me this little cross to hang on the wall and placebo'd me out of seeing it. Had to combat it last year for a creative writing class where I had to write about my childhood fears and it still made me unsettled. My other fear was of dolls thanks to those RL Stine's Haunting Hour episodes with the creepy ripoff My Twinn doll. I was fine with dolls during the day and would play with them, but for years I was scared that they were going to kill me and thought every shadow was them moving; even had a dream once of playing with one of them laughing and then spinning its head around, and when I woke up, my closet door was open and I could see that same doll sitting in there. After that my unrational fear was placed solely on that doll. Fun times.
i'm going through exposure therapy for ptsd right now so this was a nicely timed video for me! i can only speak for myself obvs but i think you did pretty well distinguishing this for fun and the actual medical use of exposure therapy. considering i've seen people think exposure therapy involves surprising traumatized people with things that trigger them tho, the bar is pretty easy to clear. also my childhood fear was swimming pools for some reason. not drowning or anything just pools. i grew up around a bunch of lakes so i swam a lot in lakes and just. tried to avoid going to pools.
I was weirdly terrified of this one video called something like "top weirdest things people have ever eaten." They were things like hair, utensils, and other random objects and they phrased the stories in a way that made it sound like these people didn't even know they had swallowed them until a doctor told them so, so for a good while after that I was terrified that I would accidentally swallow my spoon while I was eating or something and have to have it surgically removed.
I feel like my child hood fears are very english. Top spot goes to the empty child from doctor who. I saw that episode once when i was like 11 and ive not watched it since. I still have such a huge discomfort around gas masks. In all fairness that episode has alot of very good body horror. I was also terrified of "the silence in the library" episode and the weeping angels😅
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I was incredibly afraid of a very specific art style when I was a kid. Small bodies, big heads, huge eyes. Frankenweenie terrified me to the point where I couldn’t watch the trailer. I ended up getting over this by 4th grade, but my family teased me a lot for it. I was also scared of Coraline when I was really young. When I was really young I ended up watching a screening of that movie (because my dad worked on it), and I ended up fabricating a scene that was scarier than what was actually in the film. Once I turned 6, I ended up finally watching it and then it became my favorite film for a while.
oh my god so im not the only one who was freaked out by an *art style* of all things as a kid. i cant exactly remember what it looked like, but i definitely know the style when i see it. even to this day it gives me such a weird feeling, i can't explain it
It's always funny to revisit the stuff that terrified you as a kid as an adult. Not only is it fun to laugh at yourself but it's nice to recognize how much you've grown as a person. I was tramatized by Chucky as a kid, but now, I LOVE him lmao, I find the Chucky movies hilarious and adore them as an adult. I remember watching Tales from the crypt from behind my dad on the couch lol, I'm sure if I rewatch it now I'd love the show lol.
I too was traumatized by chucky 😳. Like I was legitimately terrified to go to sleep for like 5 years because I watched the second chucky movie as a young child
Childhood fears: -the scene in chimps in space where they’re in an underground tunnel and some sort of toxic goo is slowly rising -the scene in the first episode of the tenth kingdom where the trolls threaten to turn the girl into shoes -playing the maze minigame in mr. pencil and mrs. paintbrush leapster game cause it would make a loud noise if you touched the walls of the maze -when the other mother’s hand chases coraline through the tunnel -into the woods when the stepsisters get their toes cut off. At night I would imagine that the fairy godmother from Shrek was coming to cut my toes off if they weren’t covered by a blanket -the funhouse scene in the Care Bears movie -that Garfield episode where the cartoon character reaches out of the tv to turn Garfield black and white -any video game where your character can “die” or “take damage” -the concept of five nights at freddys, seeing images of the animatronics, thinking about the game (I never played it) -hitting a wrong button while playing a peaceful video game would make the character mad at me and punish me in some way -probably a lot more
I literally had the same experience with the Thriller music video. My mom really loved Michael Jackson and wanted to show it to me, and I was so scared I couldn’t even finish it. I remember raising my voice in fear and telling her to turn it off
My dad, an avid lover of both scaring young children and collecting encyclopedias, instilled two intense bug related fears in me from a very young age. Not bees nor spiders, but Aedes mosquitoes and Tsetse flies. He used to tell me before bed that if I didn't go to sleep a Tsetse fly would sneak into my room, give me African sleeping sickness, and I would die before morning. He left out the vital part that death often occurs during sleep and not due to the lack of it. As far as Aedes mosquitos go, they carry Zika virus and he would show me pictures of babies with stunted head growth because their mother's had Zika. Thank you for allowing me to get this off my chest. Oh ya and I was also terrified of the HBO Family show Crashbox... truely horrifying. The revolting slob still haunts me.
I’m really afraid of roaches even just seeing/saying the word bothers me. If I see one I begin having a panic attack, I start hyperventilating and crying and the immense amount of fear and disgust I feel when I see one is just horrible. It’s very annoying because I see roaches in my house all the time and it’s usually at night and if it’s not dead I literally can’t sleep in fear of it coming in my room. I hate having this fear but I can’t get rid of it, it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. I can’t even kill one myself or pick one up with toilet paper. So yeah that’s one of my fears another one is getting raped/murdered which speaks for itself.
this is me too dude, it takes me ridiculously long time hyping myself up (and some tears) and a long sleeve + glasses to kill any bug but after all that, it does make me feel better and less scared but it’s a whole process lmaooo
I am the same way with caterpillars. I had an incident when I was really young with one being hidden in my shoe and I put my shoe on without knowing and freaked the fuck out and to this day about twenty years later I still will have anxiety and might start crying at any in my near vicinity. Not fun, phobias suck.
this is me with spiders, if i see one in my house i will literally check all the walls and ceilings subconsciously when i enter rooms cause of phantom sensations of them crawling over my body for weeks :(((
Me but with any type of insect ( especially spiders ) when i tell my family they just say "but u used to love them" yeah bruh i USED to when i was a wholesome little stinker, idek where this fear even came from. I usually sleep in a different room (in the living room etc) bc i deadass cannot sleep knowing there is something in my room
I was always scared of literally the dumbest things when I was little. Some examples are: Dora The Explorer, Yoda, The Grinch, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, and this weird made up purple bat that I thought stared at me through my bedroom window.
Dude, when I was a kid I was literally so terrified if the grinch. People would say the name grinch and I would start crying, in second grade some kids starting signifying the grinch song to scare me and it started bawling- also the 5th grade teacher had a ton of grinch stuff and I would just try and avoid eye-contact with the grinch. That 5th grade teacher ended up being one of my fav teachers and we’re still in contact
That reminds me, I use to avoid watching the Grinch on VHS because it had a trailer for this Christmas movie where a kid licks a light post and gets their tong stuck and it freaked me out so much.
@@jirta1439 LMAO i know what you’re talking about!! i actually did lick a metal post after seeing that & my tongue did get stuck i just yanked my tongue off tho & left a lil chunk of my tongue on the pole haha
As someone who opened up some trauma wounds last night, I needed this video. Gave me some laughs and reminded me there are sources for healing Love that it was an onion video that freaked you out so much
Omg I have too many weird childhood fears to list, but some highlights are: - Shrek for some reason (luckily I got over it way before Shrek memes were popular) - Skeletons and eyeless faces (I remember getting really anxious seeing some bonus feature on the Monsters Inc DVD where Sulley’s eyes weren’t rendered) and omg the magic mirror from Snow White scared the crap out of me - This one wooden statue of a hyperrealistic butler at a restaurant - Chuck Stoat from Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas - Designs/posters involving random simple shapes??? (One time I had a panic attack in a restaurant seeing one of those seating chart things on the computer there) - Ice cream truck music, music boxes, and clock chimes (I STILL cannot have the one clock that scared me the most running because of how much the sound panics me) - Any loud unexpected noise really (sensory sensitivities 😭) I’ve worked on/gotten over a lot of these as well as some creepypasta stuff that scared me when I was an older kid. Having moderate-severe “Pure O” OCD, I thought your video was great for talking about ERP therapy! :)
I was genuinely terrified of the movies over the hedge, flushed away and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Not sure why they scared me so much but I haven’t watched them in like 8 years.
My god I was deathly afraid of cloudy with a chance of meatballs for a long time too as a kid I thought I was the only one. Never watched it again after either.
You're fortunate to have a phobia you can easily confront through exposure. My childhood fear was tornadoes, spurred on by ridicule from family members.
i’m glad the Thriller music video was universally scary for us kids growing up. Probably because all our dads, uncles, or father figures decided to show it to us
I'm incredibly easily influenced by other peoples' fears. Hoodwinked was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I used to watch it constantly. Never had any fear surrounding it until I watched this video. I am now terrified of an old Onion video and the goat from Hoodwinked ._.
I was also afraid of the “Thriller” music video growing up. My mom thought it was hilarious to terrorize me with it every Halloween until I was like 10. Also I had a similar Blockbuster cover experience. I was terribly afraid of Chucky until I was well into middle school. So seeing the Child’s Play covers , as well as Bride of Chucky, used to scare the shit outta me. As well as the cover for “Interview with the Vampire”. Now of course I’m obsessed with both Chucky & Anne Rice so 🤷🏿♂️
You're so brave. You've inspired me to rewatch the part in the just dance 3 video for the monster mash where he puts on his head and does a deep laugh.
glad i’m not the only one who was crippled by fear of thriller in their youth. the way i was absolutely floored with terror whenever i heard that song. i vividly remember hiding underneath a desk in like maybe the 3rd grade because my teacher was playing the just dance version of it.
I've always had sensory issues around hair. So, as a small autistic child, the little gremlin thing from the movie Back at the Barnyard always made me literally cry. Another one is I was really afraid of the transformation scene in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I first saw it in The Pagemaster, and then, when I was in probably 2nd grade, the schools drama department put on a play of it. For some reason, the elementary school had to go watch it during school hours. I told my teacher how afraid of it I was and they wanted me to just quietly sit through it. I think that I ended up bawling my eyes out and my teacher had to walk me out of the auditorium and sit with me in the hall.
me too! The utter helplessness of no one believing him that the sky was falling was deeply disturbing to me as a child. I was filled with a deep existential dread because of that film.
OH MY GOD!!! DUDE I REMEMBER THAT MOVIE TOO. that one part where the girl gets replaced with her reflection scared me too, gave me a tiny fear of mirrors lmao
SAME. I have almost no memory of the plot or movie but I remember strange potato shaped people and also circus monsters and idk how bratz ties into that
I was scared of absolutely everything in childhood, I used to walk in my house with my back facing the walls, I was afraid to have nothing behind me, so something could attack me from the back, if there’s no way to be stuck in the wall I would run as fast as I could
Omg, every time I was home alone I would just sprint around the house because I had a fear of something following or attacking me. To this day I sometimes randomly start running 😂
i love reading everyone’s fears. i used to be super afraid of dogs and my parents made me go to talk to a weird fear therapist about it when i was like 5. i’m not afraid anymore but when i see a dog my heart still jumps a little.
3:13 legit had a professor that said this to the class, the biggest eyeroll of my life a childhood fear I had was dolls ofc (thanks to the scratch scratch and drip drip stories) but a few years ago I got into ball jointed dolls and painted my first one's face by myself and I'm really proud of it. It weirds my friends out cuz they knew how badly I used to be afraid lol
My one inexplicable fear as a kid was Madonna, especially in her "Hung Up" MV. I couldn't stay in the room when that MV was playing on tv, it freaked me out so much and I'm still not sure why
i always felt "bad" about having fears for some reason so whenever things started to scare me i did my best to force my way through it like with spiders and more recently needles so i can say this exposure therapy inspired method does work!! but sometimes it can definitely get too much, i remember once i had to cross a rope bridge on this zipline course while scared of heights and i was practically sobbing. the other patrons gave me weird looks as they passed but i just had my freak out for as long and slow as i needed and eventually got across. i also once had to run across a bridge out of fear in chicago because even though it was sturdy enough to hold cars and all something about the slits and the wind noise freaked me out.
i had a childhood fear of the gorillaz, like the way their characters are drawn. i had nightmares about them and stuff. i also had a pretty intense fear of the colorful bears from the grateful dead. i'm not sure why many of my fears were band-related. i also have a fear of large flying aquatic birds (storks, cranes, herons, albatrosses, egrets, etc) that started when i was a pre-teen and continues to this day.
Gorillaz creeped me out when I'd see them on MTV as a kid too. But then they became one of my fav bands later on. Also I hate to do this to you but you gotta see shoebills. They are soooo freaky. They're nice to humans though so they'd be the perfect bird to do exposure therapy with.
@@georgiapoth2514 i looked up the birds and i cant believe such a horrifying thing exists. This is the stuff of nightmares, i will not be sleeping peacefully for a while.
Bruh hoodwinked traumatized me as a kid, the goat, the little bunny thing, and the lumberjack scared the hell out of me (Thriller and the movie Shawn Of The Dead also scared the hell out of me)
My childhood traumas: An old CVS tape my mom would put on at night that played stories about a cowboy and his horse silver A scene in lord of the rings where an orcs head is on a stake The scene in nacho Libre where two corn cobs goes in his friends eyes The song pretty woman Doctor Shemp from Spiro 1 The Dark Crystal, scenes where the emperor skeksis dies and when the little villagers are getting their essence sucked out Watership down, scene where bunnies are suffocated in a hole plus any scene with that one evil bunny with the blind eye A Christmas carol: scenes with Jacob Marley. The idea of being chained in eternal purgatory still does terrify me
one of my biggest childhood fears was "the muddy hand" from diary of a wimpy kid, i vividly remember a nightmare i had where this disembodied hand systematically killed my entire family, the dream only ending after it chased me down with a lawnmower. still freaks me out to this day
omg did you ever see the animated movie Robots? there was a street sweeper in that movie that would sweep up any robots that were out on the streets even if they were still alive and that scared the shit out of me when I was younger😭
The biggest thing I remember that got me when I was younger for the longest time was the whole bloody mary thing. Mirrors gave me this persistent anxiety ever since but got less and less with time. Great video nick!
Yeah. I still can't be around mirrors in the dark (come to think if it this is probably why I still don't own a full length mirror); I got trapped in one too many situations where people wanted to summon her and wouldn't let me leave.
you brought back memories talking about those scary lazy old yt videos!! ive been on yt since 06 and when it was still new there was barely anything to watch, so my friends and i would watch those scary videos over and over lol
Well my fear of drains, which still shows up in nightmares though i can clean a toilet in real time, started when very young and perched on a potty too tall for me, i was barely done peeing when the electric flush, quite a violent one as i recall, went right off AND I FELT TRAPPED ON THE POTTY WITH NO ESCAPE. Yeah, i think that's where that started. And i get exposure therapy quite often unfortunately. Oh what a world. Loved the vid
funnily enough, i really enjoyed watching hoodwinked with my cousin as a kid, but what really scared me shitless was the movie "monster house." i used to have nightmares about my house becoming sentient and eating my family alive😭 forgot to add, it was either the heffalump movie or a song sequence from dumbo that i watched on the computer in my grandma's basement and i will always come to regret doing that...
The movie Little Monsters with that blue guy that lived underneath a kids bed freaked me out. They apparently all lived in an alternate universe which you could access only from like going underneath kids beds. Now I was never scared of monsters or things underneath my bed as a kid at all, but the main blue guy/monster in the movie was such a creep that he made me sooo uncomfy. He was kind of appalling so that’s the vibe I get from the whole movie itself it’s like a gross cringe feeling.
i’m doing ERP for my pure OCD! it’s really really hard and sometimes i feel like i’m gonna burst when i have to do exposures (i deal with relationship ocd and sexual orientation ocd, which i am working on being more open about to help break down a lot of shame and guilt i hold, also you aren’t alone if you’re in my boat w these horrible themes). this really is what exposure therapy is--showing yourself with time that you can handle the discomfort and anxiety it brings you. much love to my OCD community out there ❤️ and all my other peeps who deal with any mental health challenges ❤️
I may or may not have developed a fear of the dark as a child largely due to the ‘Vashta Nerada’ creatures from season 4, episodes 8 & 9 of Doctor Who…and that they may still scare me as a person in their mid 20s.
I remember my grandma taking me to see hoodwinked at a local theater and, being the sweet doting lady she was, she bought me a lot of candy to eat during the movie. I never even got like halfway through it because I got sick from eating too much candy. Even aside from not seeing the whole movie it always freaked me out so I think it was really a mix of being so stressed and eating that made me feel like I was going to throw up.
I had a huge fear of the scene from The Parent Trap where the girls at camp set up the prank in the other girls’ cabin. The one with all the water balloons, honey, shaving cream, etc.? Scared the shit out of me for years 😂
I finally find someone who's scared of MJ's Thriller. Is safe to say that music video scarred me for life as I'm now 24 years old and still get creeped out by it. I had several nightmares because of it as a child, and even thought that doesn't happen anymore, I cannot hear that narration (the part were the dead are coming out of the grave), or seeing a picture of zombie Michael Jackson without getting creeped out and lowkey scared. I did my best to never watch that mv again for years, but decided to challenge myself about two years ago and watch it tosee if it still affected me. It was not as bad as it was when I was a kid, ofc, but still bad enough to not consider a trauma overcomed kskskskks (And I'm actually hesitant on seeing this whole video beacuse Nick will probably have parts of the mv here and I'm not looking foward to that. I even avoided looking at the thumbnail lol)
my childhood fear, appropriately enough, was a documentary my parents were watching about the swine flu. i remember the beginning showed how the virus spread from the pigs to patient zero and how fast they ended up dying.
I did this with Alf. That show terrified me as a little kid but as I got a bit older I decided to face my fears and since then it's been one of my favorite shows EVER 😂
As someone who’s done exposure therapy that shit works it’s crazy it’s super scary to do but once you continue to do it and gradually face it more and more you can literally come out so brave and strong it’s def an amazing thing
Would you recommend it for overcoming common things like fear of spiders? I feel like I don't have a valid enough reason to do exposure therapy given I don't have PTSD, but maybe that's unfair to myself!
@@jackrabbit4384 yes I totally would! It helped my fear of car accidents also like I used fo not be able to go out in public or even walk the halls of school without someone with me etc it would totally help I would start by looking at pictures then move to videos and eventually go see one irl
as a teen/kid i was scared about the conspiracies that pop stars were apart of the devil and how there were supposedly hidden messages in music. Honestly still kinda freaky to think about because i have memories like the justin beaber one. I actually remember watching that same video
My biggest childhood fear was the movie Coraline. I watched it in the movie theater when it first came out when I was 8 and had nightmares for almost a week afterward. A few months later, when it came out on DVD, I was afraid to look at the DVD endcap at the grocery store in case it would be there. But then, in my senior year of high school, I took AP Psych, and one day we had a substitute teacher who our teacher tasked with showing us Coraline. Most of the class was just as terrified as I was to watch it again for the first time in 9 years. Turns out it wasn't that scary after all and I no longer have any fear of it.
the fact that the "conspiracy theory" video that terrified you turned out to be a video from the onion is the single funniest thing that could've possible come of this topic
i cackled when the onion popped up
I HAVENT FINISHED GHE VIDEO OMG THATS HILARIOUS
THAT PART OF THE VIDEO SENT ME
do you think that when the onion made this they were envisioning a bunch of people laughing at it 11 years in the future because a youtuber revealed that he was scared of it 💀
@@martha-hy7vq I damn well hope so
Hoodwinked also terrified me, but I used to be absolutely mortified every night that the Granny was secretly hiding in my closest all tied up. I’d have my mom check my closet for “a Grandma who is tied up with a parachute” 💀
I have no idea what is up with these bots, but that honestly sounds really funny hearing it now.
I don't get it tbh
Friendly psa that mortified means embarrassed!
For a long time I thought I was the only one terrified of that stupid goat. The way he rocked on his horns freaked me out.
@@scrug3708 sameeeee
the blockbuster we used to go to was right next to a planned parenthood and my parents always told me to close my eyes when we drove up bc they had really scary movie posters outside. one time i peeked and saw this alien thing covered in blood. i was terrified of alien movies until i got older and realized it was never movie posters just insanely gory pro life propaganda…
Good on him for having you cover your eyes honestly, kids dont need to see stupid propaganda like that.
Bro the same thing happened to me! It scared me and made me cry and a pro life lady was all moved by my tears like dude I was 5 and just scared lmao I didn’t understand what it was saying
Heartless, soulless leftists smh
How is such thing allowed in USA?
@@knitted_sweater_near_fireplace I’m not sure if it still is that was 18 years ago and I haven’t seen one since
Shoutout to your mom for helping you express your emotions to your grandpa and correcting his actions even though his intentions were jokey. Class mom
my sister also was afraid of the thriller music video, but she wasn’t just afraid of that video, she was afraid of micheal jackson himself 😭 she literally put herself through exposure therapy and made herself watch that video and other videos with him. it’s so funny to me and the fact that it actually worked and she overcame her fear makes me laugh even more. i’ll never let her live that down
man is so random how many people is simply horrofied by michael jackson 1 in every 5 people can not even hear the name michael jackson without shaking (btw thriller also traumatized me it was my first real fear but im okay with mj in general)
my dad showed me thriller when i was like 8 and i was scared shitless
i couldnt sleep alone for like an entire month
when I was young as shit zombies were just incredibly scary for me regardless of context, the fucking valentine's day special of johnny test broke me. also, about thriller, I knew michael jackson was dead but for some reason I thought thriller was made after michael's death, I hope it's clear enough why it scared the shit out of me
It's been a year have you let her live it down yet
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the distinction between actual trauma and the treatment of it compared to relatively minor fears that could do to face a more simplified version of exposure therapy I feel like really set the tone of this video in a good way. not making light of anything, just being open abt the fact that these fears don't equate to trauma disorders
aw thank you! i hope it didn’t come off as tone deaf at all, i definitely wanted to be respectful to the actual process
@wilyy nah this is crazy
@@nickisnotgreen as someone who has trauma and ptsd, I didn’t feel minimized or like you were making light of a serious topic at all!! I can’t speak for everyone but it was okay in my book. Kinda wish you would have put a trigger warning just as a heads up but I don’t think you stayed on the topic of trauma long enough for me to go full panic mode 💖
I have exposure therapy for OCD (I actually have a session tomorrow) and I liked it. It’s nice to get more exposure (pun intended) for exposure therapy because it’s been shown to be really effective but lots of people haven’t heard of it. Well done and thoughtful
@@nickisnotgreen not at all! I think it was a great opening piece to facing these fears
My mom was telling me how when she was a kid, a TON of kids were terrified of the wicked witch from the orginal Wizard of OZ. The funniest thing is that her aunt looked just like the Witch, and she grew up convinced that her aunt was the Witch.
The witch didn't scare me but the monkeys really creep me out shit looked so unnatural like why tf their faces blue. weird ass little demon shits.
What's funny Is I remember when I was real little before I seen the movie I asked my mom about it and she describes some of the main parts of it, when she mentioned the flying monkeys being sent out it really creeped me out. Even before seeing the movie. I'm not scared of monkeys but some of them....
my history teacher in middle school literally DESPISED the wizard of oz, like she would constantly to talk about how scary it was
omg my mom also feared the witch!!
I’m still scared of the scene where you can see the wicked witch in the crystal ball
my mom was TERRIFIED of the flying monkeys! she still doesn't like them but as a kid she would freak out every time someone mentioned them
I have to say, as someone who has been through professional psychologist led exposure therapy for OCD three separate times, this is one of the most positive portrayals of it that I’ve ever seen. It is something that can be scary, just like Nick said, but it is also such a relief once you realize that those fears you had were irrational and distorted by your memory/mind. All in all awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
this is what i need to do honestly. i have really bad anxiety, i can’t even go out of my house without fearing for my life if one of my family members or friends aren’t with me, and i have anxiety attacks a lot. i think exposure therapy would greatly benefit me
I remember being genuinely scared of the THX intro before every Disney movie, I even remember the only reason I didn’t go into my living room at night was because I thought the THX logo would start blasting on the screen 💀
NO BECAUSE IT IS TERRIFYING
@@eda_lamram no but fr😬
I used to have a fear of post credits closing logos partly because of the Stretch Films logo that follows any episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, but also because I grew up with tapes and loud static from the unused tape would usually follow. I had the tape of Scooby Doo and the Witches' Ghost and I'd run out of the room when the Courage short at the end ended. Only later did I learn that that short, because it was the What-A-Cartoon pilot, didn't have the logo at the end.
I would cry and sob because of the THX logo and I would also cry when I heard the MGM lion roar
@@RubyNemesis omg another person scared of the toothy mouth logo after courage the cowardly dog!!! I would plug my ears close my eyes and hum when the episodes were over dhdhfbjfnw
as a kid, I was so scared of pink floyd's another brick in the wall music video, I remember my father telling me that kids who do bad in school end up just like those in the video (basically turned into ground meat) and that TERRIFIED me (edit: He was clearly joking but I didn't get it as a child lol don't worry he's a good father)
that's so rude of your dad omg
I haven’t seen it since I was like 8, and I’m still too scared to watch it, at 23 years old.
@@BJkoolness ME TOO, I tried to watch it after I posted this comment but gave up lol I'm 22
man i was absolutely terrified of the DyE Fantasy music video back then
but also to be fair, i don't think that mv was for children in the first place akjdshf
omfg i was terrified of that too, i used to have nightmares about it lmao
The worst part about the Thriller video for me was the eyes at the end. Truly piss inducing.
_Piss inducing_
Yes, the end was the only thing i could remeber from it, freaked the shit out of me, I only remember watching it once and then never again lmfao
yeah that was the part that scared me as a kid too
And the laugh that plays at the same time, still freaks me out
Something about the way that man looks at someone just yikes
The mountain goat was actually always my favorite thing about that movie. He is sneaky and maybe a liar and I wish I knew more about his backstory. I feel like the story about the witch was just BS he was saying and he absolutely does not need to sing anything. He was just screwing with some kid that wandered by his house because he was bored.
i did not expect to open youtube.com today to see such a hot take on hoodwinked lore what a hellsite.
i did not expect to open youtube.com today to see such a hot take on hoodwinked lore what a hellsite.
same!! i loved the mountain goat lol & i agree he was just screwing with Red but the ‘prepared’ song was a banger
@@amelia3146 It so was!
literallyyy i love the goat and his song
i was terrified of gnomes growing up. i don’t think i ever got over it, just sort of avoid them as an adult. don’t remember when it started, don’t know why, just remember being terrified. also one time as a 15 y/o i tweeted that i was afraid of gnomes and the travelosity gnome account followed me and just replied :) to all my tweets. i remember having a panic attack and whoever ran that account is an absolute demon (still upset 10 years later)
That's pretty uncool that that happened to you. I don't think anyone ever should use someone's fear against them, even if it sounds silly.
I had a fear of Tomas the tank engine for years and it began to morph into my brain as something of a scary train with teeth of in some case it would suck you up.
I hated big mouth billy bass as a kid. I had a fear of fish (died down a bit, still lingers a bit).
Did you ever watch goosebumps? One of my fears was from an episode of that and I do remember an episode about evil lawn gnomes, idk if that helps though!
it was gargoyles for me
The Justin Bieber conspiracy video deeply traumatized me too hahahahaha. I watched it on the day of my best friend's birthday and the whole time at her birthday party I just couldn't do anything but think about that screen grab of the mask slipping off of his face. My best friend asked me what was wrong and I didn't want to tell her cause I didn't want to ruin her birthday. Eventually she made me tell her and it ended with a bunch of 10 year olds watching that video and collectively getting traumatized. I told my sister about it afterwards and she laughed at me until she calmly explained the concept of a parody video to me hahahaha
ME TOO LOL
I’m still scared lowkey
I almost died of laughter when the goat scene came in LMAOO I had built so much anticipation and imagined such a frightening atmosphere 😂
this has inspired me to go back and look at all of the things that terrified me as a child and continue to terrify me. in the past year i have overcome my fear of flying, going on vacation without my parents, driving in chicago, and i have made progress towards my biggest fear, escalators
driving in chicago 😭😭😭
That's awesome that you're tackling fears like that
omg i was also so scared of escalators!!! one time my grandmother paid some random guy to hold my hand on an escalator in the mall bc she had too many shopping bags to hold my hand and i refused to go down alone. i didn’t get over that fear until i had to get up two escalators to get into my freshman dorm 😭
@@taramoran7864 but why did someone have to be paid to hold your hand hahah why wouldn’t they just do it as a nice gesture
@@taramoran7864 i would simply die😭 i still haven't gotten over that fear but i have to face it often and it's always horrible lmao
my dad showed me the thriller music video when i was a kid because he considered it to be a masterpiece as if i’d be able appreciate the artistry of michael jackson’s music at the ripe age of 8 instead of just being absolutely terrified of the literal werewolf of it all
I was terrified of it cause of the monsters in general. Now I love spooky things.v
My brother showed it to me when I was like 4. Needless to say, I too couldn’t appreciate the artistry because of pure terror
oh my god when i was a kid me and my siblings watched a parody of the thriller mv except it was an animation w like sock monkeys every halloween and i was so scared everytime we watched it and i watched it for the first time in like five years like last halloween and im still scared tbh
Glad to know i wasn't the only one terrified of that music video-
I don't know how I wasn't afraid of it, I was a huge scaredy cat, you could make me jump by going "rah!" I watched it when I was 10 and I learnt the dance, and I was just like "yay singing and dancing haha weeee!"
I used to have a horrible fear of pregnancy and zombies as a child, to the point I’d have multiple nightmares about both and a reoccurring one
Edit: I’d like to clarify I’m not scared of either of them anymore but it took me a LONG time to get over the fears
you'd become a pregnant zombie?? damn
pregnancy same
I totally get the pregnancy one!! I havent ever talked to anyone whos also dealt with a serious fear of it
@@oki.k Nah, I was afraid of zombies separately but I was afraid of being pregnant AND pregnant people (more specifically the giving birth process)
@@mrvenom7151 OH so you’d be extra scared of a zombie giving birth
Hi Nick, psychologist here working in the research field. This comment will probably disappear into the void but I'll try anyway. I thought I'd clarify exposure therapy and how it works, if that would be helpful. You did your research really well! Exposure therapy is one of the ways that different kinds of PTSD can be treated. Exposure therapy is perhaps even more common as a treatment for other anxiety disorders, and among the anxiety disorders are phobias. Phobias are simply anxiety directed at very specific stimuli, such as fear of spiders, as fear and anxiety is the same response in the body. Phobias are typically called irrational fears, or irrational anxiety, which sets them out from PTSD as the fears treated usually come from very real and traumatic experiences. However, your phobias can still come from something real, and PTSD can come from something that hasn't happened.
One part of treatment is identifying *what* the fears are. Another part is identifying your so called safety behaviors, in other words *what you do* when exposed to your fears. Safety behaviors can be everything from clenching, tightening your body, looking away, pretending you're somewhere else, distracting yourself with other things, removing yourself from the stimuli, etc, and they're what is keeping you from coming over your fear. We do them because when we're exposed to what we fear, our bodies start a flight-or-fright response. In the forest, we'd *run* from a predator, but in front of say a TV, there's nothing to actually run from and so we do other things. In psychology, we say that the body's arousal goes up (not the sexy kind, just the get ready to fight or flight-kind). The point of exposure therapy is to stay in the situation with the fear until that response - the arousal - actually goes down, i.e. we get calmer than we previously were. It usually does this within everything from 30 seconds to 20 ish minutes, and so exposure therapy trains our bodies that if we stay in the context of our fear, what we fear might happen doesn't happen. However, if you expose yourself to your fears without controlling for your safety behaviors, treatment might not be effective. In other words, if you expose yourself to your fear but for example keep distracting yourself with other things or get out of the situation because you're afraid, you're not experiencing the fear full on but keep trying to turn your attention elsewhere. Therefore, you train your body that the way to calm down is to get away from the fear. It helps if it's a predator in the forest, but not if it's a scary movie. In my own experience, if you're still just as afraid after a couple of minutes of exposure, there's a safety behavior that's not yet been identified and controlled for. Except for helping you expose yourself to the fear itself, a psychologist usually helps with identifying all the safety behaviors and helps you not to them and instead stay in the moment until your arousal goes down and you're not as afraid anymore.
Hope this info helps!
That makes so much more sense than everything I've casually heard about exposure therapy. It's an actual process and not just a "snake pit" TIL! thanks!
I was 5 or 6 when the “Thriller” music video premiered. I was sick the night of the premier (I think it was Halloween) and the family friend who babysat me made me watch “Thriller” over and over again, as I think both MTV and BET basically marathon-ran the video all night. I was so terrified of the whole thing, from Michael Jackson’s maniacal smile as he watched the fake horror movie to his werewolf contact lenses to the breakdancing zombies. I was scared shitless of Thriller for years, but I think I exposure therapy’d myself sometime in middle school to get rid of the fear.
I think I was about 8 when my mom showed me the music video. the werewolf scene at the beginning scared me a bit, but the part that absolutely terrified me forever was the ending. the things that always scared me the most were those trick endings- the whole "yep everything's fine in the end- jk no it's not" fucking terrified me and lowkey still do as an adult. when the music video was coming to a close and everything was "fine", only for mj to turn around with that spooky face and the evil maniacal laughter, it scared me so fucking bad. even listening to the song the end scares me because I remember the music video. I literally haven't watched it as an adult because I'm afraid to
@@SuzER08I'm exactly the same for the same reasons regarding this video, I sneakily watched it aged 3 because I loved Michael Jackson, & genuinely only rewatched the video a few years ago when my sister mentioned she'd never seen it - I tried to stop her, I was so convinced the source of my deep-set fear would have equal affect on grown ass adults - it did not 😂
as someone who has CPTSD and has been in therapy for 7 years since i was 14, this kinda shit is lowkey hella relevant and how a lot of people actually process trauma, if not through direct exposure therapy than through visceral experiences that resurface their trauma in safe ways to process (like doing psychedelics!!) obviously as you said this is not a substitute for medical advice, but i think using these methods in safe and playful ways can help people see the benefit of actually processing and confronting things that have strong emotional memories
I’m glad you brought up psychedelics. I wish they were normalized, so we could have more available resources for people who wish to explore this path. I’ve struggled with many mental illnesses my entire life, the most prevalent being BPD. and at some point had convinced myself my parents never could have done anything wrong, since I wasn’t physically abused. I decided to do shrooms one day. While I was coming up i couldn’t stop rocking back and forth and screaming “why don’t you love me mommy”. The trip opened my eyes to how much emotional neglect I faced in my childhood, and definitely made it easier to start healing.
There was this really classic horror story trope that I was super scared of as a kid. It's the story where the man is going to sleep and he hears a dripping noise so he goes to check all the taps. Everytime he gets up to check, he puts his hand under his bed for his dog to lick or something to make sure he's still there. Eventually he checks the closet and he finds his dog hanging dead and the dripping noise was his blood. And the story always ended with THEN WHO WAS LICKING HIS HAND??!! It's very dumb looking back but I still to this day check under my bed and in my closet before going to sleep.
This story still haunts me and I LOVE horror movies but it really messed me up
I was TERRIFIED of this story, I think the combination of a dead innocent dog and a stranger under the bed is the perfect combo for disturbing achild
The way I heard it was at the end under the dog was written in blood “humans can lick too” and it scared me so bad as a kid
@@ileana2708 OH MY GOD, i totally forgot about that part ahhhhhh
As a dog owner, that story messed my nighttime up whenever there's a strange noise and my dog isn't in bed with me :').
As a child, I had recurring nightmares about an animatronic character chasing me around while playing the banjo, so I really felt it when Nick mentioned the banjo-playing goat. Makes me wonder how many banjo-related childhood fears are out there. 😂😂
Do you know what it looked like? Cause as soon i read this i just thought of that Gravity Falls episode where the dating game girl transferred herself into an animatronic and made all the other animatronic characters try and kill everyone in the restaurant, one of the characters being an owl with a banjo (i think it was an owl, one of them definitely had a banjo though)
That sounds so weird if you’ve never watched Gravity Falls before, but most of the show is based on weird and paranormal things, so it somewhat makes sense.
@@thecreatorofpc7929 I haven’t seen Gravity Falls but I think the animatronic in my dreams was definitely associated with Chuck E Cheese. Those early animatronics were terrifying.
I lived the bacon playing goat as a kid and could not stop laughing at it lmao
@@melonpannyan might be a strech but have u ever been to/ seen pictures of the Country Bear Jamboree? One does play a banjo and there are a couple others with guitars and mandolins
When I was around 10 I rented Spirited Away to watch while I was staying at my grandma's house. I remember being super excited because Howl's Moving Castle was one of my favourite movies and knew that they were both made by Ghibli. I started watching it late at night and was having fun up until the scene with the parents and the pigs. For some reason that specific part scared me so much that I couldn't finish, and for years I was scared of even walking close to the dvd when I went to Blockbuster lol. Years later I did more or less what you did with this video, and decided to rewatch it to see if it was really that scary and because people had recommended it so much. I was definitely exaggerating and it's not as scary as I remembered so it doesn't scare me anymore, but I still find it gross which I suppose is the point. That being said, it really is a very good movie and deserves all the praise it gets.
I was scared of no face as a kid. My older siblings kept telling me he’s not scary at all, but all I was thinking was THAT THING EATS PEOPLE
Spirited Away also scared me. I think the pig scene was one of the moments that scared me. There was quite a bit more as well. I think most things with No Face scared me bc of the design. It was a few years before I realized No Face was actually chill bc the design scared me too much to focus on the actually story with the character. I think the grandma and the baby also scared me. The water scene where she pulls a bike out of the of the creature. There are a couple scenes where it was more intense than scary. When the main girl was working in the furnace place with the little puff balls with legs (best way I can describe it). I think I was concerned for everyone’s safety in that scene. Kinda the same thing with the bridge scene where she had to hold her breath. Even though it scared me I still watched it every now and then bc it’s a good story
dude the pig scene is really upsetting. it freaked me out as a kid too. it still kinda freaks me out a little
The trailer for HMC terrified me as a kid personally lol
Yeah, I feel like Studio Ghibli movies get unfairly marketed as kid's movies in the Western world simply because they're animated and the style that they're drawn in. Some of them are more kid friendly than others. But most of them are like fairy tales or fables with a dark twist that are better suited for teenagers and adults. Princess Mononoke is not the same as Ponyo. Princess Mononoke nearly traumatized me. Thankfully I was older when I saw Spirited Away so it didn't effect me in that way.
I had an abnormal fear of mirrors. I had to over come out by just staring at myself in a mirror for hours while expressing positive affirmations. Also walking through mirror mazes, my personal hell I still think mirrors are creepy but they don't feel me with dread anymore. It wasn't a I'm ugly issue, it was more a belief that my reflection would kill me issue. I watched mirrors with my husband and he thought it was lame and that movie just bombarded me with all my irrational fear I had. That movie is scary as hell. I loved, hated it, and will never rewatch it.
Oh yes mirrors are still genuinely kinda weird for me and I don’t think I’ll ever completely get over the fear. My fear stemmed from a specific video I saw as a child and I still don’t know if I’d wanna find or see it again as just even seeing the same idea done by different creators kinda freaks me out and has a tendency to spark up the fear once again
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me too im lowkey still scared of mirrors i cover mine at night
When I was about 6 or 7 I ended up in an interrogation room (long story) but I could feel someone being in the other room watching me through the two way mirror and ever since I had such a hard time doing anything in front of a mirror that I wouldn't want a stranger seeing because I never knew if someone were on the other side LOL
Never had a mirror fear, but I had a dream when I was 4 that felt so vividly real that I thought it was real for years. Most of my dreams are batshit crazy, and could not be real whatsoever, but this one was way too realistic. In the dream I was getting out of bed to either get some water or to go to the bathroom. As I was walking through the loft bit of the room, the mirror on the bathroom door spoke to me in a really deep, almost demonic voice. It wasn't even saying anything REMOTELY scary, it said like "hey (my name) how you doin" or smth like that but it FREAKED ME OUT.
NO SAME i refuse to sleep facing mirrors to this day
I think a lot of it had to do with the uncanny valley, especially the Justin Bieber mask and the child's voice coming out of a grown man (was he animated? His movements looked a little jerky), but also Michael Jackson's unsettling CGI transformation, and even the bad animation in hoodwinked with the goat's mouth. I think children have a hard time processing uncanny valley things, it's too unsettling
this is definitely the case for me! my greatest fear when I was a kid was a kind of poorly crafted creature from a goosebumps episode lol
the gorilla scene from spongebob freaked me out so much when i was 5 that i wouldnt go anywhere alone anymore because "the gorillas would get me" LMAO it was awful. i literally had night terrors where i would scream about gorillas and i wouldnt into dark rooms because gorillas could hide in the shadows
Omg the gorilla scene gave me so many nightmares. Also the SpongeBob episode were they found a butterfly and they would show the butterfly up close freaked me out so much and still does now
I used to be deathly afraid of Blockbuster late fees as a little kid lol.
i missed the return date on a book once when i was like 7 & the reminder letter made me so nervous that i never went back to that library & still have the book to this day
I remember being extremely scared that I would forget a book from a library for multiple years and have a $100+ fee mailed to my door.
@@codermanjordan2770 same omg
this brought back a memory. when i was little i thought id get arrested if i missed the due date for a movie or library book
Ah yes exposure therapy, the thing basically everyone has been telling me to do with my phobia of insects.
Nice how you showed it, in a controlled environment. So many think you just gotta suddenly expose yourself to it a bunch, which, idk about other people, but I'd probably just end up with an at least 4 hour panic attack
For me, I used to be terrified of spiders (still scared of some species) I started watching videos of the fluffy jumping spiders and kinda “gas lighted” myself into thinking they were cute. And they are!
THANK YOU i am the only person i know personally with a phobia of bugs and everyone keeps suggesting i expose myself to a bunch all at once but like. no thank you that would make it worse
some of the most scary/unsettling things i can remember seeing during my childhood were on an Ice Age dvd. the movie itself was not scary, I watched it all the time, but the other contents of the dvd were bad.
first of all, the menu screens. I vividly remember a menu screen where Sid the sloth is lying on his side, face directly to the camera, and his tongue is stuck to the icy ground. something about Sid looking you in the eyes while his tongue was being tugged on was so spooky, but it’s not just that. the LOOPING of the footage scared me. this followed me for a while. the way menu screens looped endlessly freaked me out for some reason.
secondly, in the “extras” on the dvd there was a short film called “Bunny”. it shows an old lady bunny who, imo, looks more like a deranged kangaroo, in her kitchen at night while she swats at a moth. the whole thing is a metaphor for dying and rejoining her dead husband, and (spoilers) she climbs into the oven at the end and flies away with a bunch of moths. I never understood the message as a child so I was just incredibly unsettled. It doesn’t help that the animation is super jittery.
Oh god that Bunny short is crazy. I’ve been wondering for years where I ever saw that but now I know, it was an Ice Age dvd 😅
omfg…….i developed thalassophobia as a child after watching an ice age movie 😭😭
I don’t know which movie it is but basically the plot involved global warming melting large portions of the ice and freeing fish monsters. So, I watched that as a kid, and then the following day went to a water filled quarry that’s like, a scuba diving/swimming/cliff jumping tourist spot/camp ground. I was standing on a slightly submerged diving platform and a fish nipped my toe. Literally made me have my first ever panic attack 💀
Now I have an unfathomable terror towards open bodies of water that I can’t see the bottom of!!
Ice Age is traumatizing confirmed ‼️‼️
I used to be scared of absolutely everything as a child and now I have awful anxiety so that's great. But at least I've faced the majority of them in the last couple years.
Same, i use to have a neighbor thay would come visit me everyday to play and i would start crying and going like "why won't you leave me alone", now i have social anxiety, which actually makes it even funny
Oh mood, every time something scared me I started sobbing. I still have anxiety but now I love everything horror, especially sci-fi horror, which used to scare me the most
Did you ever consider that you always had anxiety?
Literally same 😭
one of my greatest fears as a child was that while I was in my bathroom, my whole family would turn into zombies and the only thing to protect me was the 100 year old door lock (bathroom did not have any windows). I fully accepted my fate and sometimes i would silently cry until I was done pooping
I still think this as an adult woman! like what would happen if my family or my friends turned into zombies and came into my room with their eyes rolled back, how would i defend myself, etc. don't even know where the fear comes from
Me except it would be me coming upstairs from the basement and I was scared my family would get Button eyes like in coraline
This made me laugh SO HARD
@@thewildflowerkatSame, the last line absolutely slayed me. Such a weird sentence to read.
i used to sneak watch the news after bed time as a kid to make sure there were no zombie outbreaks
Coming from someone with a truama related anixety disorder and OCD, I really think you did a great job differentiating truama and normal fears!! I don't think anything in this video was distasteful at all!! ♡
Two things that I was scared of when I was little were these ballerina bears on this nutrition education movie, because they were really big 💀💀, and that one episode of higgly town heros when one of the characters got their head stuck backwards!! I used to sit in my room and constantly move my head to the side just to make sure that it couldn't turn around!!! I can't find any of these clips anywhere!! 😭😭
i had the same kind of fears of crash bandicoot when i was a kid =,) it still really unnerves me watching/playing the game all these years later haha
i used to check under the bed and in my closet and out the window etc. for the doctor guy. it seems dumb now, but as a little boy who had no idea what the game was about, with no warning, being chased by the awful looking villain dude terrified me
now i look back and laugh, but it still scares my inner child a Lot
@@hopeofsaya I completely understand!!! When we're younger things like that are terrifying!! QuQ I also don't blame you at all!! Doctors are very scary, I would be scared of being chased by a villain doctor too!! I wish the game would have gave warning x.x it's good now that we can look back now and laugh!! 💀💀 I especially laugh about the ballerina bears
I think it's so funny to be afraid of the dark as a kid, but growing up I had to admit it to myself that I'm STILL afraid of the dark and I hate the feeling of being alone in the dark. I live with my boyfriend for almost 4 years now and back in 2020 he went on a trip with his family and I had to sleep by myself for a week and I felt terrified every single night, it's so dumb but amazing how our brains works so hard to make us feel bad lol
Dude, fuck my brain because I watched this video before I went to bed and had nightmares
im still scared of the dark 😭 WHAT IF SOMETHINGS THERE
@@TPNsBiggestFan there isn't, but the feeling still sucks! :(((
i was the complete opposite watching hoodwinked as a kid, i remember me and my siblings rewinding to rewatch the goat part again and again and singing along 😭 when it came on i found myself singing the words..... ITS BEEN YEARS MAN THIS GOAT HAUNTS ME IN A DIFFERENT WAY that song SLAPS
There was a period of time when if a surveyor asked me what my greatest fear was, I would say the phantom of the opera. I really had to look behind my shower curtain every time I went to the bathroom because I thought he was gonna kidnap me and turn me into his next "angel of music" (an angel of music with 2 years of piano lessons under her belt mind you).
That’s hilarious. I get scared while showering because of the movie psycho and that one scene in American horror stories
@@the_stitchy_veg omg that american horror story scene with the pig man had me fucked up
my childhood fear was catching the plague. we had to learn about the black death every year i guess i just really empathised lol. i was convinced if i went on the london underground i'd catch it and i still hate the underground
are you from England (don't answer if you're not comfortable) because we learned about it EVERY YEAR for several years in my childhood too. I have no idea why they were so focused on teaching us about that specifically when there's a lot of other history we could've been taught about but yeah.. It scared me too
I’m afraid of catching the Disease from the Cabin Fever movies. The idea of having my flesh slowly rot off of me while I was helpless to save myself is pretty scary to me.
I was also afraid of the plague!! My older sister told me about it because (as I recall it) she had a school project on it. It freaked me out for YEARS that something could be that deadly and essentially impossible to properly get rid of. I used to stress about how you’d get rid of a blanket infected with the Black Death. Throw it away? Burn it? Nothing seemed like enough. I was maybe like 7.
I have also had fears of the plague, malaria, smallpox, Ebola, and food poisoning. Also pretty anxious about anthrax, too, as a kid. Looking back, it’s a pretty heavy but also pretty realistic fear, y’know? The plague is so horrifying and disgusting!
Omg don't I remember learning about the black death when I was like 11 and I was convinced I was gonna catch it, every lump or spot I got on my body especially my armpits it was like well mum it was nice knowing you😂
Gotta say this man knows how to decorate a background chefs kiss
For a while I was like what's this guy's aesthetic it's so cool !? He doesn't have one, just has his own taste and interests and good taste at that. More of us should just decorate w things we like tbh. In my Maximalism era 💅
i was scared of the skeksis in the dark crystal, especially the scene where they use that machine to drain the life force from the little podlings. similarly i was scared of the death machine in the princess bride. a big part of me really wondered how those machines would feel though and that curiosity scared me more than the machines themselves. also geese.
Death machine in Princess Bride is an intense and kinda scary scene
God I love the dark crystals😂
LMAOOOO if i watched the dark crystal as a little kid i'd just KNOW skekSo turning to dust would haunt me
I was scared of both those things too!!!!! And the stretcher that they put golem in in lord of the rings lol
@SharkUsingaComputer it scared me so much
When I was young I rented the book Coraline from the library and got to the part where she finds the hidden door (like literally within the first 2 pages) and I hid the book until it was time to return it because I was so scared. The cover alone was creepy.
That, and the Robert the Doll "documentary" on RUclips. I'm still scared to look that up even though it's probably so stupid.
this!! i read the entire coralline book when i was 9, and it was so scary that TO THIS DAY(i’m 19), i’ve not watched the movie and will never pick up the book again. that book really messed with me fr fr
I love when you structure videos like this where they are literally an experiment from theory, to hypothesis, to testing and conclusions. Great work!
i cant believe so many people had bad experiences with hoodwinked 😭personally my whole family loves it and my sister has been singing "be prepared" since the first day we watched it so many years ago. up to this day you can hear her randomly singing it around the house LOL
I have diagnosed CPTSD with two major re-traumatisations in the last 16 months, which led me to develop pretty severe agoraphobia. I can barely ride the public transport, especially the subway, and I left the house not more than 80 times in the period from April 2022 to this day (and like 40% of those have been recent). 2 months ago on top of pharmacotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy my therapist started introducing me to exposure therapy.
And I'm very thankful for how you approached this video, 'cause I can say from my own experience, that exposure therapy on some occasions is frightening and not something to be treated lightly or done of your own volition (if you have severe trauma). In the beginning, even planning to do it would cause immense anxiety. I can't tell you how many times I came to the subway station, just to stand near it and see how I feel, then turn back and call an uber 'cause my heart would go crazy or my breathing would get jagged.
I still can only go underground with someone trusted and when I'm in a very stable place mentally that day/hour; and I still have to cross the street when I see law enforcers, but hey, I can leave the house now to go get groceries or dry cleaning in my area. And even tho those steps might seem tiny and stupid to someone without that kind of trauma or my specific triggers - for me they are huge progress compared to a year ago. Exposure therapy works, it's just very hard, sometimes both mentally and physically. But it is 100% worth it in my opinion (in my specific case) - cause having even a fraction of your everyday functionality and autonomy back is so so worth it (for me).
Thanks to this video, I figured out that I can actually use this kind of 'treatment' of small things or old fears to try and change how my brain perceives exposure therapy - to make it feel more like a chore or an experiment rather than a frightening thing that you have to go through again (on smaller scales, of course, it's not meant to traumatise you further, just as you said).
Thank you for talking about this topic with the care and caution that it deserves and for the idea - I'll be discussing it in my session on Wednesday :>
congrats on your improvement! whether or not it sounds small or insignificant for most people doesn't matter. the point is that doing these things cause such an intense emotional response in you and is that's the only perspective that matters. nothing is objectively scary or difficult, the validity of those concepts is measured by the effect it has on the person (in this case, you). so yeah, what you're going through and what you've achieved so far is extremely difficult, stressful, scary, etc. and you're still kicking it in the ass. i really hope you can appreciate the strength it takes to go through that. if not right now, later on. you've got this.
As someone with DID and CPTSD I can relate to how seemingly small things can become giant obstacles. It sounds like you've worked really hard to improve things for yourself and that's the best road to recovery from my experience. People can try help but you need to want to do the work too or it's pointless. Well done you for facing your fears and improving so much from this time last year from the sound of things. As a Total stranger who cares to another - I'm proud of you.
I dont know you but I'm very happy for you!! It's always better to take small steps but make progress rather than pushing too much and making it worse. Wish you the best of luck on this journey!!!
I was TERRIFIED of the robot in the Wallace & Gromit episode where they go to the moon for cheese. The loud squeaking and rapid movement of a faceless robot unrelentingly chasing down the protagonists until they could just barely manage to escape in their rocket ship rocked me to my core. I would watch W&G repeatedly as a kid, but for that episode I had to watch it from the other room because of how bad that robot scared me.
I like to think that this one isn't completely unreasonable since I've heard lots of others say this too, but that freaky Courage the Cowardly Dog thing with Ramses was a huge fear of mine as a kid. It appeared right before this Scooby Doo movie we had, and the animation of the guy and his voice gave me nightmares. I'd see him on the wall between my closet doors and freak out, and eventually my parents got me this little cross to hang on the wall and placebo'd me out of seeing it. Had to combat it last year for a creative writing class where I had to write about my childhood fears and it still made me unsettled. My other fear was of dolls thanks to those RL Stine's Haunting Hour episodes with the creepy ripoff My Twinn doll. I was fine with dolls during the day and would play with them, but for years I was scared that they were going to kill me and thought every shadow was them moving; even had a dream once of playing with one of them laughing and then spinning its head around, and when I woke up, my closet door was open and I could see that same doll sitting in there. After that my unrational fear was placed solely on that doll. Fun times.
RETUUURN THE SLAAAAB
For me it was the "you're not perfect" blob
Still kinda creeps me out
this is genuinely the coolest video concept, I need to see more of these from other creators, fears are so fascinating
i know yourmoviesucks had a series rewatching old movies he used to be afraid of as a kid, this video reminded me of it
There’s like a whole genre of creators bringing up their childhood fears, just look up “childhood trauma” you’ll find a lot
@@tifafan tysm for the recommendation !! I'll check that out right now:))
@@KingOfGaymes thank youuu :))
i'm going through exposure therapy for ptsd right now so this was a nicely timed video for me! i can only speak for myself obvs but i think you did pretty well distinguishing this for fun and the actual medical use of exposure therapy. considering i've seen people think exposure therapy involves surprising traumatized people with things that trigger them tho, the bar is pretty easy to clear.
also my childhood fear was swimming pools for some reason. not drowning or anything just pools. i grew up around a bunch of lakes so i swam a lot in lakes and just. tried to avoid going to pools.
I was weirdly terrified of this one video called something like "top weirdest things people have ever eaten." They were things like hair, utensils, and other random objects and they phrased the stories in a way that made it sound like these people didn't even know they had swallowed them until a doctor told them so, so for a good while after that I was terrified that I would accidentally swallow my spoon while I was eating or something and have to have it surgically removed.
SAME OH MY GOD I was so terrified as a kid that I would accidentally swallow a fork or a sewing needle or a safety pin and undergo life-saving surgery
i was scared that i was going to choke on baby carrots when i ate them when i was little.
I feel like my child hood fears are very english. Top spot goes to the empty child from doctor who. I saw that episode once when i was like 11 and ive not watched it since. I still have such a huge discomfort around gas masks. In all fairness that episode has alot of very good body horror. I was also terrified of "the silence in the library" episode and the weeping angels😅
The weeping angels TERRIFIED me for so long when I was around 10-12
so basically all the Moffat episodes during the RTD era lol
I was like a teenager or young adult when I watched the new Dr. Who a couple years ago and some of the episodes are freaky as hell lmao
all of those scared me plus that one episode in a matt smith season where they got trapped in a dollhouse... the dolls were just super scary to me
Hey Nick I recently found your stream. I am a 47-year-old construction worker. I paint houses at the beach in Nags Head North carolina. I run my own small company called finish line painting. I just wanted to say thank you for the content I listen on my headphones throughout the day. It is refreshing to see a young guy with intelligent reaction to some of the horrible things people are doing on line as well as creating your own unique sustainable content. Congratulations on your success
Are you really just Justin beiber?
I was incredibly afraid of a very specific art style when I was a kid. Small bodies, big heads, huge eyes. Frankenweenie terrified me to the point where I couldn’t watch the trailer. I ended up getting over this by 4th grade, but my family teased me a lot for it.
I was also scared of Coraline when I was really young. When I was really young I ended up watching a screening of that movie (because my dad worked on it), and I ended up fabricating a scene that was scarier than what was actually in the film. Once I turned 6, I ended up finally watching it and then it became my favorite film for a while.
Tbf Coraline has really creepy vibes. I think I was also scared of that movie as a kid
oh my god so im not the only one who was freaked out by an *art style* of all things as a kid. i cant exactly remember what it looked like, but i definitely know the style when i see it. even to this day it gives me such a weird feeling, i can't explain it
im turning 20 and am still scared of Coraline...
@@UnusAnnus3 momento mori
@@abbywinter717 memento mori sister 😌
This makes me feel so valid in still being creeped out by stuff that gave me nightmares as a kid lol
It's always funny to revisit the stuff that terrified you as a kid as an adult. Not only is it fun to laugh at yourself but it's nice to recognize how much you've grown as a person. I was tramatized by Chucky as a kid, but now, I LOVE him lmao, I find the Chucky movies hilarious and adore them as an adult. I remember watching Tales from the crypt from behind my dad on the couch lol, I'm sure if I rewatch it now I'd love the show lol.
I too was traumatized by chucky 😳. Like I was legitimately terrified to go to sleep for like 5 years because I watched the second chucky movie as a young child
Childhood fears:
-the scene in chimps in space where they’re in an underground tunnel and some sort of toxic goo is slowly rising
-the scene in the first episode of the tenth kingdom where the trolls threaten to turn the girl into shoes
-playing the maze minigame in mr. pencil and mrs. paintbrush leapster game cause it would make a loud noise if you touched the walls of the maze
-when the other mother’s hand chases coraline through the tunnel
-into the woods when the stepsisters get their toes cut off. At night I would imagine that the fairy godmother from Shrek was coming to cut my toes off if they weren’t covered by a blanket
-the funhouse scene in the Care Bears movie
-that Garfield episode where the cartoon character reaches out of the tv to turn Garfield black and white
-any video game where your character can “die” or “take damage”
-the concept of five nights at freddys, seeing images of the animatronics, thinking about the game (I never played it)
-hitting a wrong button while playing a peaceful video game would make the character mad at me and punish me in some way
-probably a lot more
I literally had the same experience with the Thriller music video. My mom really loved Michael Jackson and wanted to show it to me, and I was so scared I couldn’t even finish it. I remember raising my voice in fear and telling her to turn it off
My dad, an avid lover of both scaring young children and collecting encyclopedias, instilled two intense bug related fears in me from a very young age. Not bees nor spiders, but Aedes mosquitoes and Tsetse flies. He used to tell me before bed that if I didn't go to sleep a Tsetse fly would sneak into my room, give me African sleeping sickness, and I would die before morning. He left out the vital part that death often occurs during sleep and not due to the lack of it. As far as Aedes mosquitos go, they carry Zika virus and he would show me pictures of babies with stunted head growth because their mother's had Zika. Thank you for allowing me to get this off my chest.
Oh ya and I was also terrified of the HBO Family show Crashbox... truely horrifying. The revolting slob still haunts me.
I THOUGHT CRASHBOX WAS A FEVER DREAM
Omg no offence, but your father sounds like a terrible parent
i ADORED crashbox as a kid but i did hate the revolting slob bit bc it was so nasty 😭 what a wild show that was
@@Wika-jt1rg Yeah he’s not the greatest. Definitely not the worst parent ever, but definitely could be a LOT better.
@@c12486 For real. Behind bars
I’m really afraid of roaches even just seeing/saying the word bothers me. If I see one I begin having a panic attack, I start hyperventilating and crying and the immense amount of fear and disgust I feel when I see one is just horrible. It’s very annoying because I see roaches in my house all the time and it’s usually at night and if it’s not dead I literally can’t sleep in fear of it coming in my room. I hate having this fear but I can’t get rid of it, it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. I can’t even kill one myself or pick one up with toilet paper. So yeah that’s one of my fears another one is getting raped/murdered which speaks for itself.
I'M THE EXACT SAME WAY WHAT
this is me too dude, it takes me ridiculously long time hyping myself up (and some tears) and a long sleeve + glasses to kill any bug but after all that, it does make me feel better and less scared but it’s a whole process lmaooo
I am the same way with caterpillars. I had an incident when I was really young with one being hidden in my shoe and I put my shoe on without knowing and freaked the fuck out and to this day about twenty years later I still will have anxiety and might start crying at any in my near vicinity. Not fun, phobias suck.
this is me with spiders, if i see one in my house i will literally check all the walls and ceilings subconsciously when i enter rooms cause of phantom sensations of them crawling over my body for weeks :(((
Me but with any type of insect ( especially spiders ) when i tell my family they just say "but u used to love them" yeah bruh i USED to when i was a wholesome little stinker, idek where this fear even came from. I usually sleep in a different room (in the living room etc) bc i deadass cannot sleep knowing there is something in my room
I was always scared of literally the dumbest things when I was little. Some examples are: Dora The Explorer, Yoda, The Grinch, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, and this weird made up purple bat that I thought stared at me through my bedroom window.
Dude, when I was a kid I was literally so terrified if the grinch. People would say the name grinch and I would start crying, in second grade some kids starting signifying the grinch song to scare me and it started bawling- also the 5th grade teacher had a ton of grinch stuff and I would just try and avoid eye-contact with the grinch. That 5th grade teacher ended up being one of my fav teachers and we’re still in contact
Not ghosts in general, but the ghost of Abraham Lincoln specifically?
Mines was the Frankenstein wax figure from the wax museum
That reminds me, I use to avoid watching the Grinch on VHS because it had a trailer for this Christmas movie where a kid licks a light post and gets their tong stuck and it freaked me out so much.
@@jirta1439 LMAO i know what you’re talking about!! i actually did lick a metal post after seeing that & my tongue did get stuck
i just yanked my tongue off tho & left a lil chunk of my tongue on the pole haha
As someone who opened up some trauma wounds last night, I needed this video. Gave me some laughs and reminded me there are sources for healing
Love that it was an onion video that freaked you out so much
Omg I have too many weird childhood fears to list, but some highlights are:
- Shrek for some reason (luckily I got over it way before Shrek memes were popular)
- Skeletons and eyeless faces (I remember getting really anxious seeing some bonus feature on the Monsters Inc DVD where Sulley’s eyes weren’t rendered) and omg the magic mirror from Snow White scared the crap out of me
- This one wooden statue of a hyperrealistic butler at a restaurant
- Chuck Stoat from Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
- Designs/posters involving random simple shapes??? (One time I had a panic attack in a restaurant seeing one of those seating chart things on the computer there)
- Ice cream truck music, music boxes, and clock chimes (I STILL cannot have the one clock that scared me the most running because of how much the sound panics me)
- Any loud unexpected noise really (sensory sensitivities 😭)
I’ve worked on/gotten over a lot of these as well as some creepypasta stuff that scared me when I was an older kid. Having moderate-severe “Pure O” OCD, I thought your video was great for talking about ERP therapy! :)
I was genuinely terrified of the movies over the hedge, flushed away and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Not sure why they scared me so much but I haven’t watched them in like 8 years.
I think the idea of ordinary things turning into gigantic dangerous food items is a fairly terrifying concept and I only read the original book.
Holy crap. I thought I was the only one. This is life changing.
My god I was deathly afraid of cloudy with a chance of meatballs for a long time too as a kid I thought I was the only one. Never watched it again after either.
Same I was so scared of flushed away
You're fortunate to have a phobia you can easily confront through exposure. My childhood fear was tornadoes, spurred on by ridicule from family members.
Tornados are my most feared weather. I can handle thunderstorms and hurricanes just fine but wind should not be able to tear my house down
@@darkninjafirefox that and tsunamis my god
Growing up in Australia I was terrified of bush fires and would cry for hours worrying about our whole suburb burning down
The way I ASCENDED during the goat scene. The goat is so funny and innocent 😂 I can't imagine being traumatized by that scene
The animation though 😬 and when he pulled his really long curving horns off his head….I did NOT like that
@@abigailr.9601 It was the rocky by the neck that got me, and the real-looking old man mouth on otherwise blocky animation
i’m glad the Thriller music video was universally scary for us kids growing up. Probably because all our dads, uncles, or father figures decided to show it to us
I'm incredibly easily influenced by other peoples' fears. Hoodwinked was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I used to watch it constantly. Never had any fear surrounding it until I watched this video. I am now terrified of an old Onion video and the goat from Hoodwinked ._.
Hey Nick! This is one of the best videos you've ever made. Excellent idea and really methodical execution! Keep up the good work.
thank you!!!
@@nickisnotgreen welcome
I was also afraid of the “Thriller” music video growing up. My mom thought it was hilarious to terrorize me with it every Halloween until I was like 10. Also I had a similar Blockbuster cover experience. I was terribly afraid of Chucky until I was well into middle school. So seeing the Child’s Play covers , as well as Bride of Chucky, used to scare the shit outta me. As well as the cover for “Interview with the Vampire”. Now of course I’m obsessed with both Chucky & Anne Rice so 🤷🏿♂️
You're so brave. You've inspired me to rewatch the part in the just dance 3 video for the monster mash where he puts on his head and does a deep laugh.
glad i’m not the only one who was crippled by fear of thriller in their youth. the way i was absolutely floored with terror whenever i heard that song. i vividly remember hiding underneath a desk in like maybe the 3rd grade because my teacher was playing the just dance version of it.
I've always had sensory issues around hair. So, as a small autistic child, the little gremlin thing from the movie Back at the Barnyard always made me literally cry.
Another one is I was really afraid of the transformation scene in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I first saw it in The Pagemaster, and then, when I was in probably 2nd grade, the schools drama department put on a play of it. For some reason, the elementary school had to go watch it during school hours. I told my teacher how afraid of it I was and they wanted me to just quietly sit through it. I think that I ended up bawling my eyes out and my teacher had to walk me out of the auditorium and sit with me in the hall.
As a child I was (and still am) utterly terrified of chicken little and every character in the movie
Understandable somehow haha
this is valid. every memory i have of chix little feels like a fever dream because i remember like 4 scenes and they were all bad
holy shit same
me too! The utter helplessness of no one believing him that the sky was falling was deeply disturbing to me as a child. I was filled with a deep existential dread because of that film.
When i was a young kid I saw a Bratz halloween movie and they all turned into weird monsters at the end and it just weirded me out for so long lol
Oh my god, yes!!!! I remember that so vividly! Honestly kind of creeping me out just remembering it
OH MY GOD!!! DUDE I REMEMBER THAT MOVIE TOO. that one part where the girl gets replaced with her reflection scared me too, gave me a tiny fear of mirrors lmao
SAME. I have almost no memory of the plot or movie but I remember strange potato shaped people and also circus monsters and idk how bratz ties into that
i literally just wrote a comment about this movie i’m like still scared of it💀
I was scared of absolutely everything in childhood, I used to walk in my house with my back facing the walls, I was afraid to have nothing behind me, so something could attack me from the back, if there’s no way to be stuck in the wall I would run as fast as I could
SAME and ngl i still do that sometimes💀💀
Same except I’m 18 and still do that
Omg, every time I was home alone I would just sprint around the house because I had a fear of something following or attacking me. To this day I sometimes randomly start running 😂
i love reading everyone’s fears. i used to be super afraid of dogs and my parents made me go to talk to a weird fear therapist about it when i was like 5. i’m not afraid anymore but when i see a dog my heart still jumps a little.
3:13 legit had a professor that said this to the class, the biggest eyeroll of my life
a childhood fear I had was dolls ofc (thanks to the scratch scratch and drip drip stories) but a few years ago I got into ball jointed dolls and painted my first one's face by myself and I'm really proud of it. It weirds my friends out cuz they knew how badly I used to be afraid lol
3:13 Oh my gosh yes, and I think some millenials have started doing it too 🤦🏻♀️
My one inexplicable fear as a kid was Madonna, especially in her "Hung Up" MV. I couldn't stay in the room when that MV was playing on tv, it freaked me out so much and I'm still not sure why
im sorry but this is hilarious
this comment has me in teearssss WTF AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
i always felt "bad" about having fears for some reason so whenever things started to scare me i did my best to force my way through it like with spiders and more recently needles so i can say this exposure therapy inspired method does work!! but sometimes it can definitely get too much, i remember once i had to cross a rope bridge on this zipline course while scared of heights and i was practically sobbing. the other patrons gave me weird looks as they passed but i just had my freak out for as long and slow as i needed and eventually got across. i also once had to run across a bridge out of fear in chicago because even though it was sturdy enough to hold cars and all something about the slits and the wind noise freaked me out.
i had a childhood fear of the gorillaz, like the way their characters are drawn. i had nightmares about them and stuff. i also had a pretty intense fear of the colorful bears from the grateful dead. i'm not sure why many of my fears were band-related. i also have a fear of large flying aquatic birds (storks, cranes, herons, albatrosses, egrets, etc) that started when i was a pre-teen and continues to this day.
Gorillaz creeped me out when I'd see them on MTV as a kid too. But then they became one of my fav bands later on. Also I hate to do this to you but you gotta see shoebills. They are soooo freaky. They're nice to humans though so they'd be the perfect bird to do exposure therapy with.
@@georgiapoth2514 i looked up the birds and i cant believe such a horrifying thing exists. This is the stuff of nightmares, i will not be sleeping peacefully for a while.
Bruh hoodwinked traumatized me as a kid, the goat, the little bunny thing, and the lumberjack scared the hell out of me
(Thriller and the movie Shawn Of The Dead also scared the hell out of me)
My childhood traumas:
An old CVS tape my mom would put on at night that played stories about a cowboy and his horse silver
A scene in lord of the rings where an orcs head is on a stake
The scene in nacho Libre where two corn cobs goes in his friends eyes
The song pretty woman
Doctor Shemp from Spiro 1
The Dark Crystal, scenes where the emperor skeksis dies and when the little villagers are getting their essence sucked out
Watership down, scene where bunnies are suffocated in a hole plus any scene with that one evil bunny with the blind eye
A Christmas carol: scenes with Jacob Marley. The idea of being chained in eternal purgatory still does terrify me
THE NACHO LIBRE SCENE STILL FREAKS ME OUT
@@jaxj968 I haven't gotten the strength to watch it. I've watched the movie hundreds of times but I can't bring myself to look at that
@@clawed50java71 i literally close my eyes and cover my ears every time. it also used to scare my mother, she couldn’t watch it either
@@jaxj968 dude same here. My family isn't afraid of it so they're always trying to get me to just watch it but I cannooooot
one of my biggest childhood fears was "the muddy hand" from diary of a wimpy kid, i vividly remember a nightmare i had where this disembodied hand systematically killed my entire family, the dream only ending after it chased me down with a lawnmower. still freaks me out to this day
Me too 😰😰
I have one weird phobia: street sweeping vehicles. Idk why, but when i see one my stomach drops and i have to get as far away as possible.
omg did you ever see the animated movie Robots? there was a street sweeper in that movie that would sweep up any robots that were out on the streets even if they were still alive and that scared the shit out of me when I was younger😭
The biggest thing I remember that got me when I was younger for the longest time was the whole bloody mary thing. Mirrors gave me this persistent anxiety ever since but got less and less with time. Great video nick!
Yeah. I still can't be around mirrors in the dark (come to think if it this is probably why I still don't own a full length mirror); I got trapped in one too many situations where people wanted to summon her and wouldn't let me leave.
you brought back memories talking about those scary lazy old yt videos!! ive been on yt since 06 and when it was still new there was barely anything to watch, so my friends and i would watch those scary videos over and over lol
Well my fear of drains, which still shows up in nightmares though i can clean a toilet in real time, started when very young and perched on a potty too tall for me, i was barely done peeing when the electric flush, quite a violent one as i recall, went right off AND I FELT TRAPPED ON THE POTTY WITH NO ESCAPE. Yeah, i think that's where that started. And i get exposure therapy quite often unfortunately. Oh what a world. Loved the vid
funnily enough, i really enjoyed watching hoodwinked with my cousin as a kid, but what really scared me shitless was the movie "monster house." i used to have nightmares about my house becoming sentient and eating my family alive😭
forgot to add, it was either the heffalump movie or a song sequence from dumbo that i watched on the computer in my grandma's basement and i will always come to regret doing that...
The monster house movie absolutely terrified me as a kid
such a scary movie LOL, when the poor lady gets buried in concrete?? Fucked me upppp
the heffalump movie was TERRIFYING for me as a kid
My mother *to this day* has not finished Monster House. It freaks her out that much.
Omg same
The movie Little Monsters with that blue guy that lived underneath a kids bed freaked me out. They apparently all lived in an alternate universe which you could access only from like going underneath kids beds. Now I was never scared of monsters or things underneath my bed as a kid at all, but the main blue guy/monster in the movie was such a creep that he made me sooo uncomfy. He was kind of appalling so that’s the vibe I get from the whole movie itself it’s like a gross cringe feeling.
OMFG I HATED THAT MOVIE the monster guy was so gross and i vividly remember a scene of him pissing in some kids apple juice 😭
i’m doing ERP for my pure OCD! it’s really really hard and sometimes i feel like i’m gonna burst when i have to do exposures (i deal with relationship ocd and sexual orientation ocd, which i am working on being more open about to help break down a lot of shame and guilt i hold, also you aren’t alone if you’re in my boat w these horrible themes). this really is what exposure therapy is--showing yourself with time that you can handle the discomfort and anxiety it brings you. much love to my OCD community out there ❤️ and all my other peeps who deal with any mental health challenges ❤️
I remember I had a obsession with the 2nd hoodwink movie. I re watched it and Jesus it explains how much I love horror movies now.
the thriller music video was terrifying to me as well and the laugh at the end scared the shit out of me
being afraid of a music video hits different because the anxiety u feel when u hear the song is unmatched
I may or may not have developed a fear of the dark as a child largely due to the ‘Vashta Nerada’ creatures from season 4, episodes 8 & 9 of Doctor Who…and that they may still scare me as a person in their mid 20s.
I can definitely understand why and I'm 21
At 21 I still have nightmares about those episodes sometimes, honestly so terrifying
YES OMFG, “HEY WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS” STILL SCARES ME TO SHIT WHEN I THINK OF IT
I remember my grandma taking me to see hoodwinked at a local theater and, being the sweet doting lady she was, she bought me a lot of candy to eat during the movie. I never even got like halfway through it because I got sick from eating too much candy. Even aside from not seeing the whole movie it always freaked me out so I think it was really a mix of being so stressed and eating that made me feel like I was going to throw up.
I had a huge fear of the scene from The Parent Trap where the girls at camp set up the prank in the other girls’ cabin. The one with all the water balloons, honey, shaving cream, etc.? Scared the shit out of me for years 😂
I finally find someone who's scared of MJ's Thriller. Is safe to say that music video scarred me for life as I'm now 24 years old and still get creeped out by it. I had several nightmares because of it as a child, and even thought that doesn't happen anymore, I cannot hear that narration (the part were the dead are coming out of the grave), or seeing a picture of zombie Michael Jackson without getting creeped out and lowkey scared. I did my best to never watch that mv again for years, but decided to challenge myself about two years ago and watch it tosee if it still affected me. It was not as bad as it was when I was a kid, ofc, but still bad enough to not consider a trauma overcomed kskskskks (And I'm actually hesitant on seeing this whole video beacuse Nick will probably have parts of the mv here and I'm not looking foward to that. I even avoided looking at the thumbnail lol)
my childhood fear, appropriately enough, was a documentary my parents were watching about the swine flu. i remember the beginning showed how the virus spread from the pigs to patient zero and how fast they ended up dying.
I did this with Alf. That show terrified me as a little kid but as I got a bit older I decided to face my fears and since then it's been one of my favorite shows EVER 😂
Omg I loved Alf but thill had a reoccurring nightmare of him, it was soo weird
@@graziousgirl that was me with big Bird and it genuinely traumatized me 😭 still don't like big Bird
As someone who’s done exposure therapy that shit works it’s crazy it’s super scary to do but once you continue to do it and gradually face it more and more you can literally come out so brave and strong it’s def an amazing thing
Would you recommend it for overcoming common things like fear of spiders? I feel like I don't have a valid enough reason to do exposure therapy given I don't have PTSD, but maybe that's unfair to myself!
@@jackrabbit4384 yes I totally would! It helped my fear of car accidents also like I used fo not be able to go out in public or even walk the halls of school without someone with me etc it would totally help I would start by looking at pictures then move to videos and eventually go see one irl
@@jackrabbit4384 but yes i would totally suggest trying it it’s an amazing thing
as a teen/kid i was scared about the conspiracies that pop stars were apart of the devil and how there were supposedly hidden messages in music. Honestly still kinda freaky to think about because i have memories like the justin beaber one. I actually remember watching that same video
My biggest childhood fear was the movie Coraline. I watched it in the movie theater when it first came out when I was 8 and had nightmares for almost a week afterward. A few months later, when it came out on DVD, I was afraid to look at the DVD endcap at the grocery store in case it would be there. But then, in my senior year of high school, I took AP Psych, and one day we had a substitute teacher who our teacher tasked with showing us Coraline. Most of the class was just as terrified as I was to watch it again for the first time in 9 years. Turns out it wasn't that scary after all and I no longer have any fear of it.