I have a problem with learning to cook and it is embarrassing because everybody is using this against me whenever they want to make fun of me.
  Well, I am just afraid of ovens, and for this reason, being 26 year old I cannot cook even the simplest of foods. Mom took me to a psychiatrist who said that I needed medicines while an other one says that it is not needed.
  The hardest part is that even thinking about it makes me anxious, and disappointed. I wonder if I have a PTSD for ovens or not, but I can't remember any trauma related to a damage by ovens (like burning myself or seeing an other person burning himself).
  (Note: I can cook everything if another person is in the kitchen watching and guiding me, but when alone, I don't dare touch the oven).
 Do you know of any similar cases? How can it be overcome?

Question: are you more scared of the oven itself as in its potential to burn you, etc., or are you more scared of using the oven to make things?

Are you worried that your food won't turn out right so you avoid using it altogether in order to not dissapoint yourself?

Justed wanted to ask a few questions before I throw out my ideas.

I find it interesting that you are fine with it when others are around. Maybe this is a confidence issue. In other areas of your life, do new things intimidate you?

Er, this is Jen51 speaking. I'm missing the button that makes me not post anonymously... I don't see it.

Yeah, you have an irrational fear, so you need more faith in your reason.  Assuming, you know the oven isn't going to actually hurt you.  If you have some kind of supernatural fear of ovens (for example, possessed ovens, with razor sharp oven doors, which breath life extinguishing fire, when approached alone) then you need more faith in God and his protection.  I thought i read somewhere that for every demon there's like ten angels.  

Ps:  at first i thought this thread was a joke, like you were pretending to be Jєωιѕн and that you had a phobia of ovens  

Perhaps the fear comes from a person knowinling steeped in mortal sin and that
he knows that if he remains in that state that he will fall into the everlasting
oven known as HELL for all eternity.

Quote from: Marcelino

 

Ps:  at first i thought this thread was a joke, like you were pretending to be Jєωιѕн and that you had a phobia of ovens  

Me, too!

Me too.   I had a thing about lampshades for a while.

Quote from: Guest

Quote from: Marcelino

 

Ps:  at first i thought this thread was a joke, like you were pretending to be Jєωιѕн and that you had a phobia of ovens  

Me, too!

All disproven lies.

Please dont tell me that you believe 6 million people died in a 2 car garage sized, Vented room by use of bug spray, in 18 months.....

hi saintbasil!