If you knew me that I was growing up, then you probably would say that I was a very big wise. And honestly, you will be right. Horror movies, haunted home, scary game? Yes, thanks. And I do not start on insects. If anything happens to me with a lot of legs, let me touch alone, I flip completely. Even in my early twenty -seventh condition, I remember that I was calling my roommate out of the bathroom to get a spider cricket because I was very afraid to do myself.
As long as I can remember, the video game has been a passion for me, and as long as it may, they have done more work for me, as much as I can actually put in words. A surprising side effects of my gaming habit, however, it helped me develop with someone who cannot handle fear in someone who not only tolerates scary experiences, but really enjoys them.
I used to avoid horror at all costs
One of my early memories (not only gaming-related, but normally) was around the age of five or six, playing with a super ness. My parents left me alone with a day. I remember raising every cartridge and trying everyone for a few minutes before going to the next. Finally, I am The corpse ate my neighbors,
The game looked quite innocent from the label, but the moment it was booted – that jointly music music with the psychidelic main menu – I felt something that I did not experience earlier: real fear. I was nervous. I immediately turned off the TV and ran down to find my parents. Even now, after more than two decades, that moment has been burnt in my memory.
And that was just the beginning. My parents tried to reduce me in the idea of growing me. They used to take me to the haunted houses around Halloween, but it was always painful and usually hidden with me, hidden behind them, begging to leave. I remember my mother was trying to see me RingBut after watching the tape by the main character, we had to shut it down and got the dreaded “intake day” phone call. Scary films were not a difficult after that.
Oh, and as it was not enough, I also have serious archanophobia. You already know that I am not a big man, but especially spiders have always been a special type of trigger.
All this is to say: I was originally a scared since birth. Whether it is due to those early experiences or the way I am wired, I cannot say. Perhaps a physician can help me find this. But what I know is this: Video games, especially horror titles, have become a type of self-determined exposure therapy. And after 30 years, this “treatment” has actually helped me cope, and in some cases, have removed the apprehensions that I have carried forward my entire life.
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How did my exposure therapy become horror games
Rapid forward to 2020, and co-up horror sports were all anger. It was also the height of the Kovid -19 epidemic. Most people were living indoors, taking online courses or working from home, and just usually avoiding the outside world.
So if I wanted to socialize, gaming was the best option. And what were my friends playing? Scary game, of course. My first real dip in style FasifobiaGhost-Shikar cum-up hit that exploded in popularity during lockdown. If I wanted to hang out with friends, I had to suck it and face my fear.
Naturally, I was voluntarily a person who stopped in the truck, monitored the surveillance cameras and relay Intel on the walkie-talkie. Somebody had to do this, right? I tried to convince my friends that I am taking one for the team by doing boring jobs, while they got to play the role of common investigators in the field. But he did not fly for a long time. Thanks to a little favorable colleague pressure, I eventually had to give up the security of the truck and step inside the ghostly house.
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Fear is a mental game – and I started winning
It took me only a few minutes to feel that it was not as bad as I thought. Don’t misunderstand me, for the first time when the ghosts put me from behind, it was absolutely frightening. But then laughter came. It is difficult to fear when you hear that your friends laugh at your virtual demise.
Something satisfactory about making your friends laugh, even if it is at your own expense. It lightens the mood, breaks stress, and gives you some important reminiscent: it is just a game. When all this is said and done and the credit rolls, you are still sitting in one place – on your couch or on your desk.
It brings me to my next feeling, that the build-up is often worse than intimidating. The first time you “find” are useless. There is no doubt about that. However, the more you play, the more acquainted. Obviously, it depends on the game, but in FasifobiaGhost’s jump-career animation is the same every time. After all, catching does not send your heart race in the way it was done for the first time. You create a tolerance for fear.
Try back with that childhood moment The corpse ate my neighborsI can’t help, but wonder if I just move forward and had really played it, things would have become different? Do I have come to know what I know now, after twenty years? This is that expectation, and your imagination, is almost always scary than reality – and it is just true beyond video games.
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At that time, at that time, I had an unknown experiment in using video games as a knock-off exposure therapy, I came to know that the sports experience provides a level of control that can really do nothing else. You are on the driver’s seat. For me, it made gaming a more effective fear-making device than scary films.
Even if you cannot always stop, you can still see away, close your eyes, and if the situation becomes very intense then you can take the headset off. But when you are watching a scary film, you cannot stop the actor from checking that unstable noise coming from the basement. Something a bit like this FasifobiaHowever, I can stay in the truck as long as I want, make myself easier in my speed.
And if I decide to enter into the house, I always have a plan to escape. If it becomes very real, I can run back out, or the worst situation, can park my character in a corner, close my eyes, and let the ghost talk while waiting for me. Just knowing that I have external, the whole thing is very less scared.
Archanopobia mode of grounded.
Talking about control, thanks to some forward -minded developers, many modern games now provide accessibility features especially for phobia. If you are suffering from erchonophobia like me, you will be happy to know that filters are becoming more common for enemies such as Spider. Like title land, Star Wars JD: Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, world of Warcraft, Monster hunter wildsAnd even some horror games now include Archanophobia modes that swap eight-legged fruks for less threatening options.
From hiding under the blanket to cramps
Gradually, but of course, the session after the session, my apprehension began to fade. I still deliberately instigate the ghost or wander in a room alone, try to take out a shy soul with a spirit box – but O, baby steps, right? Over time, that fear gave way to do something else. I say courage … happiness?
Yes, this is the case. I was having fun.
I could not fully understand how successful my mekshift exposure therapy was till I did not play in these maps. DissolveAnother co-up horror title. This particular level has a home overran with huge demonic spiders, and one of the characters is converted into a half-human, half-spider nightmare. It felt like a final test. And when it was certainly not easy, I made it and defeated the level – without enabled Archanophobia safe mode, pay attention to you!
I could not believe it. I had gone to someone who could not see the picture of a spider to face Hebbi-Gibij voluntarily in an first-person horror settings against demon spiders. These days, I am assuring my friends to try the latest horror release.
It has also been taken in real life. Just the other day, a spider fell in front of my face, and I removed it without a second idea. When I go to Netflix, I go straight to the horror section. I am also planning to visit Salem, Massachusetts to examine all the haunted festivals. And all this is thanks to my favorite hobby: Video Games.
I am still not at the point where you will hold straping on a VR headset to play me alone at night or bring a pet to a pet torrentula, but I can confidently say that playing scary games made me a scared-cat.
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