does anyone else have a super fear of storms?

[aprilr]

i am 21 and recently have been dealing with horrible anxiety and panic and stress and when it storms i freak and dont know how to deal it could just start sprinkling and i freak and i live where it storms all the time i just wanna know if anyone else has this problem and how the heck do you deal with it?

[Mytyme77]

I believe it's the weather channel and modern technology these days that make people that have a small fear of weather become an even bigger one. I have a fear of tornadoes but who doesn't? Modern technology has made it possible for the weather service to see things better now than even 15 years ago. When I was in my 20's we never had a tornado warning in my town (south alabama) and I had never heard the tornado warning siren go off. Now in the spring or winter there's several tornado warnings with fronts moving through. The weather channel is the worse. Have you ever really noticed their language? It's all negative. Turn that mess off and listen to something positive. I think the people on the weather channel go to school to learn how to keep people tuned in. Without bad weather you wouldn't be tuned in at all. They're all about money but they're causing a lot of fear in people. Watching it constantly only makes you dwell on weather. I heard one weather channel anchor say"Watch out in south west Tennessee showers all around. Whoopy doo-a stupid little rain shower. We need to watch out for it. Lol what's it going to do to us? Nothing but clean the air and make everything pretty again. Cut the umbilical cord to that stupid weather channel and you'll see so much more positive thoughts in your mind!!!!

[Mytyme77]

I believe it's the weather channel and modern technology these days that make people that have a small fear of weather become an even bigger one. I have a fear of tornadoes but who doesn't? Modern technology has made it possible for the weather service to see things better now than even 15 years ago. When I was in my 20's we never had a tornado warning in my town (south alabama) and I had never heard the tornado warning siren go off. Now in the spring or winter there's several tornado warnings with fronts moving through. The weather channel is the worse. Have you ever really noticed their language? It's all negative. Turn that mess off and listen to something positive. I think the people on the weather channel go to school to learn how to keep people tuned in. Without bad weather you wouldn't be tuned in at all. They're all about money but they're causing a lot of fear in people. Watching it constantly only makes you dwell on weather. I heard one weather channel anchor say"Watch out in south west Tennessee showers all around. Whoopy doo-a stupid little rain shower. We need to watch out for it. Lol what's it going to do to us? Nothing but clean the air and make everything pretty again. Cut the umbilical cord to that stupid weather channel and you'll see so much more positive thoughts in your mind!!!!

[gi227]

I just read ur comment on storms and just was wondering if u were still having problems overcoming storms?? Ever since my daughter was born I've been having severe anxity abt weather...uggg it drives me crazy.  

[nae1975]

I am 37 years old and I have severe panic attacks when having to drive when it is storming, even raining I get antzy. It has got so bad that a lot of the time I can't even leave the house if I know it is going to storm. I have missed days at work because I can't leave the house. I am having a slight panic attack right now because I have seen that we are going to have severe storms tomorrow afternoon right at the time i usually pick my son up from vacation care. I wont sleep tonight thinking about it.
I have no idea when my fear actually started, it is really only driving that panics me the most, if I am at home I am usually fine (although we just had a large storm recently where my car was quite badly damaged in hail approx 8cm). I do remember being in a smallish cyclone back at primary school where I was trapped in a classroom with just my sister and a teacher, watching trees being torn out of the ground around us, but it has only been probably in the last 10 years that I have had panic attacks.
I used to drive quite a distance to work and back and being from Queensland, Australia we are prone to very severe summer storms, so on the way home I would often have to leave the freeway and find shelter in a shopping centre carpark at least 3 times a week. Even as a passenger I freak out completely.
some of the things I hate are:
- not being able to see the road when it is raining heavily
- the fear of hail hitting the car and breaking windows
- intense fear of having an accident because of the rain/wind/hail etc.

[Angel6778]

Hello, I'm 16 years old and I am Deathly afraid of Thunderstorms. Everytime one hits I hide under my covers and cover my ears. Especially at night, I freak out when the lights come out. I live in Miami, Florida and my fear has became more Deathly ever since Hurricane Isaac made landfall on Miami. If anyone has any cures, please comment back to me!

[Angel6778]

Hello, I'm 16 years old and I am Deathly afraid of Thunderstorms. Everytime one hits I hide under my covers and cover my ears. Especially at night, I freak out when the lights come out. I live in Miami, Florida and my fear has became more Deathly ever since Hurricane Isaac made landfall on Miami. If anyone has any cures, please comment back to me!