Got a new phobia.......Please Help.

[bkkjames]

eat more chillies Costas - pre-emptive strike.

[fritzzz25]

Apparently they are easily dealt with by just a good slap on the back of the head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-znKiVwyk

[arrowsdawdle]

Beer, if consumed in the right quantities, helps with all phobias.

What, at 7 in the morning?

I do like beer......but not to that extend

Then, Costas, you must do the next obvious thing, come out of the closet, get a dress and heels, and pay the doc to ladyboy your Johnson to the anals of history. No package, no fear. Problem solved, and you might even fall in love with the snake if it ever shows up. Where do you want the invoice sent?

[Gandtee]

Yeah, snakes are nasty things. One bit my wife. I administered injections but sadly the snake died.

[Suradit69]

Don't use the toilet, man! Crap in a snake-free bucket.

How gauche. Costas is a man of style and refinement. There are more civilized options.

[micmichd]

Enjoy a blow job or drown them

[northernphil]

Move to a penthouse in a Pattaya condo, no snake will get up that far only the ones on the ground floor that have a Pink Python as best friend you should be aware of.

[redandyellow]

The only snake is between your legs Costas, and I presume from your good nature that your wife takes good care of you.

[redandyellow]

I used to have a going to work phobia. Cured that

[bigguy]

I'm not a shrink but I'll give it a go: Try "flushing down" any possible snakes with loads of toilet paper before pooping.

Sorry, no good advice.......i'm not going to block the drains with paper......after all what is the bum gun for?

Don't know if snakes are afraid of the bum gun but as it looks like a snake may be they fall in love with it

Costas, a few years ago I was living in Saudi Arabia, one morning the housekeeper was in the guest toilet and let out a blood curdling scream , and came running from the toilet. I open the toilet door slowly and there was a rat the size of GARFIELD!!!! When I got it cornered it jumped in the toilet bowl and down it went. Landlord said it happens sometimes if the septic tank lid is open a crack, rats, snakes other critters follow the line upwards.

So, now when your worrying about a snake, just think as your sitting there, if a big ass rat pops his head up for a quick snack whilst doing the back stroke in the toilet bowl.....

[TheKnave]

The concern should be for the snake. How will it ever get the taste out of its mouth.

Plus it will have to retreat still hungry (or so it is written on the wall of the hongnam in Obsessions).

[schietkop]

Maybe finally a BIG snake hangin in Costas toilet

[callaway]

Are you that bored Costa that you need to waste time for bullshit like this. You need to get out from behind the computer for a while and venture outside and see the world still exists. Maybe even get a phobia of TV for a few days and enjoy life (after 5000+ posts) for once. Get down to Pattaya and go for a walk on the beach. Maybe even spend some time with the missus outside of the computer room 55555

[ToddinChonburi]

This is awesome, I just discovered I have the same phobia. After reading this.

[Bangkok Psychology]

I can help you with all of those phobias... except for the Immigration officer one

[soalbundy]

Just think, snakes are just cuddly lizards without feet

[sunshine51]

I read somewhere that the best way to deal with any phobia is

to face that fear...stare it down...immediately get back up if you

fall off etc...etc...

Here ya go Costas...some anti fear propaganda!...

Do you like the beach too? Well....deal with it!...

Have a great phobia free weekend!

[dotpoom]

All I can say is....................................

" It is better to have a permanent income............. than the joy of having a fearless crap............................... (if you know what I mean?)

[cruisemonkey]

I was hiking in Arizona with my buddy when he was bitten on the penis by a rattle snake. I looked in my Wilderness Survival Guide under Treatment for Snake Bite - it gave instructions to suck out the venom. When my buddy asked what the book 'said', I replied "It says you're going to die."

[KhnomKhnom]

Built a tight snake fence around a space about 4 meters square in the open, outside with soil as floor.

Squat inside the fence and do your job.

Throw soil over the soil. Add soil from outside as needed.

Use garden hose with high pressure nozzle for cleaning.

Walk away carefully.

This works best the way one would paint a floor... start in the corner most far from the gate and work your way toward the gate morning after morning.

Snake no more.

[transam]

Don't worry, as soon as a snake sees your ass and plums dangling there he will be long gone..........

[humqdpf]

In a properly constructed toilet and sewage system, it should be impossible for a snake to be able to enter into the sewage system and make its way up the pipework (hard for a snake to move up against gravity as there is no grip as the inside of the pipe is smooth and often wet). If you take a look at your sewage system and ensure that there are no ways for a snake to get in, that should alleviate your fears. Much more likely is for a snake to get into your house and fall into the toilet bowl.

I would have thought that a snake in the pipe would be washed down the pipe whenever the toilet was flushed. Give it a flush before you use.

As regards treatment, you clearly need to address both the phobia and the reason why you get phobias - psychotherapy would be the way to go for that. You can also try some phobia treatments - these involve reducing your fear through familiarisation with the stimulus in a very careful and controlled manner.

Remember that phobias are real fears but irrational ones. I knew someone who has a terrible phobia for butterflies - no amount of explanation that a butterfly would never harm him could rid him of the fear. He eventually had some phobia abatement treatment and it worked - he could now go outside his house during butterfly season!

But all the treatments require a specialist and face-to-face time. This is not going to be possible on a forum like this.

[transam]

My toilet water exit was blocked up once..........It was a huuuuuuuuuuge snake that got in the drainage pipe, could not turn round so croaked there....Took me ages to pull the decaying thing out.....

[CapeThai]

Don't worry Costas I don't think you will have a problem should a snake come to investigate as I think it will run or sail for its life and warning others after coming head to head with that Greek package...???

[gandalf12]

If you are that worried I suggest you leave South East Asia because you will always have snakes, scorpions and the like

[pkspeaker]

Move into a condo, im on the 25th flr, prtty sure a snake will not sllither from the septic tank that high.. Also i think in instances where snakes have gotten into the toilet they actually came in thru the house and decided the hole in the toilet will make a nice snake house

[micmichd]

Call a snake charmer.

[Brit_Doggie]

.Bbut Costas snakes can't see things that small their forte is smell so nothing to fear if you wash it well,

[Daniel Ingalls]

I'm starting to get that phobia of the toilet myself. If you live in a two story house, just use the upstairs bathroom. They cannot crawl up CVC pipes straight up

15-20 feet. Another option is to flush the toilet before you us it. and the third option, go where the flow of water out of your septic is. cover the pipe with fine screen wire. Do you have little Nats flying out of the sinks and toilets? If you do, then most defiantly put wire mesh at the end of pipes. If not, I would not be alarmed with the possibility of a snake. Most snakes go after live insects. Take the lid off of the septic tank and look inside. Bugs? get a good household spray, and kill them bugs. look for an in and out water flow. Cover the out flow with wire mesh. Do you spend any great length of the morning on the Throne? Reading morning paper, magazine, book? Don't go there, sitting down waiting for some action to take place. Do some normal every day chores around the house and outside. Do you notice any snake activities taking place outside? Do you have junk piled up here and there, where they might hide ? if so clean it up, and move it away from the house.......No sign of snake presence?.........I would no longer worry about the snake toilet syndrome. In my next opinion page, we will discuss the Thai-turd Snake, and how to rid them from two story bathrooms. And phycological problems with the aged, and make believe friends

(childhood friends) and why they never talk back!............Dan

Edited March 14, 2015 by Daniel Ingalls

[sirineou]

If you penis is bitten by a toilet residing snake it is best to have some one,

preferable but not necessary your wife

Suck the poison out. And since snake bites are difficult to detect, I suggest you have some one perform the above recommendation, periodically through the day ,

just to be on the safe side.

Personal, I have no Phobias, I am terrified of getting one

Edited March 14, 2015 by sirineou