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Body & Soul1 min ago
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.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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 😉
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?")
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.
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