get over my fear of water

Learn to swim
Learn to snorkel
Get Scuba Diving Certification
Learn to Sail

I’ve been scared of swimming, water and drowning for as long as I can remember and it would be nice to go to ibiza and swim without any fear.

Really. This past weekend I was swimming in 5ft…so I did pretty good. I panicked a few times when my boyfriend started playing around with me. Actually, I’ll take that back…I got VERY PANICKY..STARTED YELLING and COULDNT BREATHE RIGHT. But then I calmed down, when I seen my lil one look at me and say…Mommy what’s wrong?? I dont know if I can ever conquer this fear I have in me. It might just be something I learn to live with…atleast I get IN the water!

Tomorrow we are having a pool party at a hotel for my daughter. I’m going to try my best to swim in the deep area..which probably isn’t so deep BUT it will seem that way to me. I’m going to remain calm and just have fun with it.

I don’t know if this can be cured. I watched the movie Turistas the other day and started having panic attacks during the under water scenes. This may be something I will just have to learn to deal with. Oh well, everyone’s afraid of “something”

I am not afraid of heights, rollercoasters, the dark, spiders, snakes, horror movies, being alone, pretty much anything But I am deathly afraid of drowning. It has always been my fear. I looove the water, but I never go past my shoulders because I start freaking out. I CAN NOT watch movies like the Abyss, Waterworld, even Titanic without hypervantilating!!! People have told me to take swimming lessons, but I can swim. I just don’t know if you can cure this.

When I was 9 just a couple months shy of ten my dad drowned when the boat he was in capsized since then I have had this fear I guess not so much of water but the fact that I might drown in the unknown of a lake river stream or the ocean. I’m not totally afraid of water, god if I was boy would I smell! I can swim like a fish in the pool but its just taking the steps into the unknown that scare me. The summer of 2004 August to be exact we went to Jergens beach, NH the ocean I made it up to my hips then turned back around and this summer we went to Lake pleasent in speculator, NY and I made it up to my waist. I guess thats a start but by next summer I want be psychologically read to take a dive into the unknown and not let my fear get the best of me and the best years with my kids.