Phobia Of Your Own Birthday

[renegadefm]

Fragapane phobia, for example, has been termed to describe a phobia of your own birthday.

Although cases are rare, it has been stated that the common symptoms of fragapane phobia are severe depression around the birthday period, as well as not wishing for anyone to acknowledge their birthday.

 

Does anyone here suffer with this? I never knew it exists until today.

 

Apparently it's why some people die suddenly on their birthday. 

Scary stuff. 

[davebro3]

//Apparently it's why some people die suddenly on their birthday. //

Statistics?

[davebro3]

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/happy-deathday-youre-more-likely-die-your-birthday-flna1c9386556

[davebro3]

I'm gonna stop having birthdays - oh wait!

[davebro3]

I have never celebrated my birthday, can't remember ever having had a birthday party. I get a handful of cards from close friends & family but the day itself largely goes unnoticed by me. 

[Vagus]

We don't celebrate our birthdays, never have, don't buy presents or send cards. We sometimes go out for a boozy lunch, and the children send cards and sometimes send vouchers for meals, etc.

I don't dislike my birthday but neither do I feel it's something to celebrate. Perhaps as I get older and am still alive, it will be something to celebrate 😉

[DTCwordfan]

Shakespeare died on the day he was born - aged 52, the same day in the calendar as my Mater and also St. George's Day, not he, the future 'roi'.

"Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; The worst is death, and death will have his day... on the same day that I was born?"

[Peter Pedant]

when you are dying in the Victorian sense

it is common to set a target to live towards and then er croak ( birthday X mas, family celebration)

This will drive the mods mad, un-mimsy n all. I went down to Brum for a lunch and one mature person complained - "you said he was dying and he looks all right to me!"

I was back a few weeks and we commemorated her words. There was a funeral. It was her own. (You cant very well say: " god you OK, you look much worse than me?")

[Barmaid]

I really doubt that people have died from this (unless by their own hand).

I'm not keen on my own birthday. It's just another day to me.

[Toorak]

I agree with barmaid. I have no interest in my birthday: it's others who seem to consider it important.

it just makes me feel old(er) 🙁

[rowanwitch]

I haven't celebrated my birthday for around 6 years, hate it if people remember, don't want cards,or gifts,    it's not a phobia, simply sad associations with the date and the few days around it.

[ToraToraTora]

I thought she was a gymnast.

[naomi24]

I don't mind other people's birthdays but I don't like my own because I don't like fuss.  For the same reason we don't do St Valentine's Days or wedding anniversaries.  Someone once organised a surprise party for me.  I hated it - but I smiled.  Anything less would have spoilt their fun.  

[renegadefm]

I think I started to stop enjoying birthdays or celebrating them from around the age of 40.

 

There is that old saying life begins at 40, but for me it's more like things start going downhill. 

 

At 50 almost like the flick of a switch from 49 to 50 my eyesight went from being able to read a newspaper without glasses, to suddenly needing them. 

 

Plus I got osteoarthritis in both knees, and the pain from that started at around the age of 50.

 

So it seems getting older is no fun. So that's why I don't like birthdays anymore. 

 

I'm 55 now but each birthday seems to creep around quicker everytime. 

[jno]

well, you had to wait a whole lifetime for your first birthday to come around.

For the next one you'll only have to wait  1/55th of your life