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Old 30-12-2016, 21:54
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Along with the achievement of becoming Strictly Champion, Ore did very well to overcome his fear of birds while on This Morning. He did seem stressed though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it-HuzYeBGc

Funny comment from Holly about the parrot being in hold .
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Old 30-12-2016, 23:27
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Along with the achievement of becoming Strictly Champion, Ore did very well to overcome his fear of birds while on This Morning. He did seem stressed though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it-HuzYeBGc

Funny comment from Holly about the parrot being in hold .
The Speakmans do amazing stuff in phobias and trauma. They obviously hadn't had time to do the full therapy that time but I imagine they'll have followed up with Ore subsequently.
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Old 31-12-2016, 09:31
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Yeah, the Speakmans actually did amazingly well to get Ore to have that huge parrot with a menacing beak and beady eyes to sit on his arm. Ore's bird phobia has been so bad that he and his wife could never eat outside at restaurants in summer.
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Old 31-12-2016, 11:02
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I am the same! Birds should be in the sky not round our feet on the ground!
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Old 31-12-2016, 11:21
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I am the same! Birds should be in the sky not round our feet on the ground!
You'd be constantly bombarded by little feathery corpses plummeting earthwards, dead from fatigue.

Poor little birdies.
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Old 31-12-2016, 11:37
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I can understand Ornithophobia. I cant watch films about birds or even walk past stuffed birds in English Hertage and National Trust properties. Flock of birds flying over me in the sky always makes me nervous.
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Old 31-12-2016, 15:32
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My grandmother was also bird-phobic. She was also your typical old cat lady. If one of her many cats ever caught a bird - which wasn't a rare event - we'd get an hysterical phone call and someone would have to go round there to rescue her. Rescuing the poor bird from the clutches of the kitty was very much the secondary endeavour!
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Old 31-12-2016, 15:37
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Birds throughout history have been seen as messengers receptive to an underlying reality. Jung famously thought so. I seem to remember the Mycenean religion had a thing about birds too. Maybe budgie-phobics are attuned to the hidden processes of the quantum underconsciousness of creation

I like 'em. Saw a pretty grey wagtail (why do they call it grey? It's the yellowest of yellows) flirting around my garden today. I particularly like crows though. They're such good people
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Old 31-12-2016, 16:31
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Got one of those free DVD The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock from Daily Mail two/three years ago. My OH was watching and I walked in. Scary. Don't think I could have watched it on my own. Very nerve racking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PhmYfBK13M
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Old 31-12-2016, 20:24
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did the parrot read the forum and go "Pieces of hate! Pieces of hate!"
and does Ore dance well with a wooden leg.
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Old 31-12-2016, 20:55
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did the parrot read the forum and go "Pieces of hate! Pieces of hate!"
and does Ore dance well with a wooden leg.
I feel weird. I actually love you
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Old 31-12-2016, 21:20
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For someone with a bird phobia like Ore, the Speakmans could have gradually built, up, starting small (with a sparrow or blue tit) then something medium like a crow or blackbird. They don't do things by halves going straight in there with a big, (potentially aggressive) parrot.
Could have been even worse though. They might have used an eagle or a vulture!
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:50
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Birds throughout history have been seen as messengers receptive to an underlying reality. Jung famously thought so. I seem to remember the Mycenean religion had a thing about birds too. Maybe budgie-phobics are attuned to the hidden processes of the quantum underconsciousness of creation

I like 'em. Saw a pretty grey wagtail (why do they call it grey? It's the yellowest of yellows) flirting around my garden today. I particularly like crows though. They're such good people
Because it's not as yellow as a yellow wagtail.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:55
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For someone with a bird phobia like Ore, the Speakmans could have gradually built, up, starting small (with a sparrow or blue tit) then something medium like a crow or blackbird. They don't do things by halves going straight in there with a big, (potentially aggressive) parrot.
Could have been even worse though. They might have used an eagle or a vulture!
The interesting thing for me was when they said that Ore had lots of stories about what was wrong with birds, but no trigger for having a phobia about them.
Joanne had a phobia about water and has recently overcome that, so she may have been a strong example for Ore that phobia's can be overcome, instead of you being overcome by the phobia.

The parrot was a substantial test, as they can be very aggressive (though that one was very well behaved). Ore with an ostrich would be interesting!
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Old 02-01-2017, 17:44
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Ore with an ostrich would be interesting!
Except that being afraid of an ostrich is not irrational, them things can kill you with a single kick, so it's not really a test of a phobia so much as common sense!
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Old 02-01-2017, 19:41
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Except that being afraid of an ostrich is not irrational, them things can kill you with a single kick, so it's not really a test of a phobia so much as common sense!
Yes!

It could have been another way to tackle his phobia? Start with something risky (so not a phobia) and gradually work down the scale?
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:35
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Could have been even worse though. They might have used an eagle or a vulture!
Ore with an ostrich would be interesting!
Sorry if I'm out of order but these two comments did make me laugh!

I'm sure Declan Donnelly also has a fear of birds...
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Old 03-01-2017, 22:15
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Sorry if I'm out of order but these two comments did make me laugh!

I'm sure Declan Donnelly also has a fear of birds...
Just pigeons!
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