Dementophobia

The fear of going insane. Samantha's deepest fear was being committed to a mental hospital for speaking her truth or losing her mind, and being disbelieved when she said she was fine. It made her unable to let herself feel negative emotions.

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  the realm of dreamsEp 4 · with Samantha Chung

  Listen at 33:41Read it in the transcript

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• Alchemizing fear

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• The fear of hell was creating hell. I didn't even have to go to the mental hospital, I was already there mentally.Samantha Chung · Ep 4 · 33:41

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• Facing the mental hospital in a dreamSamantha Chung · Ep 4 · 32:53

  Samantha shares, for the first time anywhere, her deepest fear: being committed to a psychiatric hospital and disbelieved. She deliberately dreamt being taken there against her will and…

• Cried for months over her fearSamantha Chung · Ep 4 · 1:31:27

  At the end Samantha recalls crying for months, afraid of being committed. Now she says 'bring it, if it happens it happens', and notes it is the fear itself that creates the dysfunctional…