What's your phobia?

aimee0123 · 29-11-2012 6:46pm

snakes thank god for st patrick LOL

TommieBoy · 02-12-2012 11:01pm

Heights, freeway overpasses and snakes :eek:

pangolin · 31-12-2012 7:53pm

Spheksophobia / waspies (again).

As a very small child went to stay with a grand aunt who went crazy whenever a wasp came near her. Seems I copied her and it became a phobia. I try very hard to hide my reaction to wasps when young kids are around.

It's much better now but over the years I've have various mutual agreements with arachnophobe friends/colleagues/housemates that I'll relocate the friendly spiders if they get rid of the stripey stingy things.

byhookorbycrook · 31-12-2012 8:00pm

slightly clausterphobic.Have a fear of someone at my Achilles tendon too.

Ashleyrush · 01-01-2013 3:51pm

i get really tense and feel like my head shakes when a teacher calls my name... its so embarrassing and interferes with my school life.. and i dont know how to stop it ... sometimes i worry so much during the class that the teacher will call my name that when she calls it i feel it shakes so much, would she be able to see it ? and its not that im not able to answer the question because i can ... ? any advice?

Clareboy · 05-01-2013 10:25pm

I feel faint at the sight of blood and must leave a situation where there is blood or I will pass out. Also, I cannot watch violent or horror movies or medical operations on TV. Anyone else with such a phobia?

stop animal cruelty · 05-01-2013 10:28pm

social aniexty / phobia

SicklySweet · 07-01-2013 5:52am

Large bodies of open water such as the sea or rivers. I'm fine in swimming pools, but i don't have a good time at beaches lol. Lucky for me Ireland usually doesn't have the weather for it

SimpsonsFan · 14-01-2013 5:42pm

Flying. Wish I could be cured

lahalane · 13-02-2013 1:56pm

I have the usuals, spiders, heights, flying but an odd one I have is I don't like the feel of cotton. It sends shivers right through me. Horrible feeling.

Lyra Fangs · 08-03-2013 8:02pm

Trypophobia - fear of geometrical holes :S

Find it annoying that when I google it it brings up images that make me want to tear my skin off...

iamanengine · 11-03-2013 5:20pm

Daddy Long Legs.

Probably just arachnophobia in general, except those little money spiders, I actually like them oddly enough!

gallifreya · 16-03-2013 9:22pm

Moths.... shudder. Especially the big ones. They have faces you know. And butterflies are just moths in fancy jackets. Yack

WittyKitty1 · 25-03-2013 3:40pm

Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.

Although, i literally spent all of last week sick with the vomiting bug and I must say, I'm shocked that I spent years having panic attacks, waking up in the night worrying over thinking I might vomit, avoiding children and feeling worried after drinking a few too many.

It wasn't that bad at all in the end!

matrixa · 29-03-2013 9:39pm

I can get claustrophobic sometimes. if someone stands to close to me i sometimes have to move away. small spaces,

Im scared of spiders to

OldNotWIse · 15-04-2013 1:31pm

I have a fear of anything spotty/mottled/speckly

It's terrifying.

And also water, not that I cant swim but the idea that we dont know whats underneath. Like if I see the bottom half of a ladder submerged in the water, or something thats really not meant to be there, like a chair or something. That terrifies me and I dont know why.

Gott · 25-04-2013 6:37pm

Dogs

The worst is when people patronise it with the whole 'sure he's harmless' schtick, they don,'t seem to realise it doesn't matter if their dog is a big friendly giant, I'll still get nervous anyway

AthenaA · 29-04-2013 2:42pm

I freak out when I see toads, thankfully I barely ever see one. In zoos sometimes and then I run away quickly lol. I think it came about when I was on a school trip to the woods and there was a dead toad on the path. Everyone started poking it with a stick and flopping it over with their foot. Totally freaked me out. Not particularly fond of bats either.

I have a pretty big fear of death too. I have no problem with tv shows that show death, I'll happily watch crime shows, but dead animals by the road for example freak me out, I won't have a panic attack but I'll run away fast. Worse is thinking about my own death, which I can thankfully avoid usually as I'm still young. But when my mind does go to that morbid subject I start getting heart palpitations. The thought of just not existing anymore, not ever, is just terrifying.

Phobias do tend to change with age though. When I was a kid I was terrified by the dentist. (Having several teeth pulled and having a patronizing dentist didn't help). I still avoid going and still hate it, but when I go I'm not really terrified, it's just unpleasant. When I was very little I was really scared of thunder. I always hid behind the couch until it stopped. Thankfully I no longer hide behind the couch

buttonteaser · 16-08-2013 7:23pm

spiders heights and im a little bit claustrophobic

DublinArnie · 21-08-2013 11:01am

I have Monophobia. I get really scared for some reason when i'm alone and I can't really move around, i'm glued to one spot like there's a monster or ghost around the corner. Really weird, I think i've developed it by watching dozens of really scary films when I was younger. I tend to hear weird sounds when i'm alone too ... I don't know if it's my mind playing tricks with me or what not, but the last thing I would want to happen is me being alone in a building. Somehow I have no issues with being alone out in the open, it's weird! Anyone else on the same boat as me?

OldNotWIse · 21-08-2013 11:45am

I don't know if it's a phobia exactly. For me it's mottled patterns, something like this:

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I'm not afraid in a "bogey man" sense but I get a weird twisty feeling in my tummy, and sort of break out in a sweat and breathe fast and can't look at the image without making weird faces. I don't even know if there is a name for it? Closest I found is trypophobia, fear of small holes in things - which is close as I feel the same way about beehives etc :eek:

Edit: ok (picks self up off floor) - just did a google image search for "tryptophobia test" - oh ffs!!!!!!! I actually nearly got sick!!!

s.m · 27-08-2013 3:27pm

mottephobia - fear of moths
the creepy buggers

buubba · 27-08-2013 8:52pm

Selenophobia- moon O.o

Mar Mar Marmalade · 30-08-2013 8:55pm

I have the cliched Acrophobia

I remember when I was younger I couldn't even go on this climbing obstacle course with my friends not even for the course yet, but the steps leading up to the top where you would start off. Each step had a large gap between them so you could see all the the way down to the ground :rolleyes:.

madness98 · 05-09-2013 2:23pm

Jellyfish Phobia

The thought of them just puts me right off. I always see myself swimming in the sea and getting stung or surrounded. Eugh..

brilou23 · 15-11-2013 5:13pm

this is a weird one dunno if its a phobia i cant eat other peoples cooking except gf and mothers i can eat if they person was cooking in deli chipper or resturant but if anywhere else i cant. if any1 touchs my food or drink cant eat it or if anyone stays over at are house and eats are food i cant eat the food in the house till the next shop. hardly need to see a shrink lol

OldNotWIse · 18-11-2013 4:17pm

Trypophobia. Those patterns actually make my stomach flip... :eek:

atog · 02-05-2014 5:30pm

scared of snakes

Maria1986 · 11-05-2014 4:40pm

My phobias are Thunder and lightning, and Frogs.

atog · 23-05-2014 2:32pm

social awkwardness

jamie124 · 29-05-2014 10:50am

I am incredibly afraid of Spiders (BIGGEST FEAR) , Wasps and Bees and basically anything that can sting or harm but i dont think Spiders in Ireland can harm you or bite??? (I HOPE)

michael.dublin · 05-06-2014 4:02pm

dogs.... no matter how big or small they are

grouplout · 18-06-2014 1:36pm

Fish. Can't stand how they wiggle. Crazy I know.

AlanS181824 · 21-06-2014 11:37pm

I've severe arachnophobia....

Spiders make me so uneasy...

I see one and it's either run for the next room or send the girlfriend in with the hoover! :P

fussyonion · 21-06-2014 11:40pm

Trypophobia too, but it's only recently I've realised I have it.
Always hated things with holes in it as a kid.
If I saw a slice of cheese with holes in it, I'd cut it so the hole was gone.
Can anyone explain why fear of holes is such a horrible thing and something we find disgusting?

therealme · 21-06-2014 11:43pm

Pregnancy.

I will never go through it. I get very distressed even at the thoughts of it.

fussyonion · 21-06-2014 11:44pm

therealme wrote: »

Pregnancy.

I will never go through it. I get very distressed even at the thoughts of it.

I used to be the same but then I reminded myself that millions of women have done it; women who I'd have thought were wusses and made it out the other end fine, so I reckon it's fine and doable!

therealme · 22-06-2014 12:04am

fussyonion wrote: »

I used to be the same but then I reminded myself that millions of women have done it; women who I'd have thought were wusses and made it out the other end fine, so I reckon it's fine and doable!

I can't even think of all those - I actually hate looking at pregnant women. It REALLY freaks me out. Everything about the 40 weeks repulse me. I can't listen to ANY of my friend's birth stories - regardless of how"easy" it was.

Good luck when you go through it though :-)

LeonardNelson · 28-06-2014 10:27am

I'm afraid to rats and frogs.

Tom75 · 24-07-2014 8:17pm

I'm afraid of first pint.

discus · 28-07-2014 5:15pm

roxychix wrote: »

belly buttons they freak the hell out of me.

My own freaks me out, I can't cope if anyone even talks about mine!

daviecronin · 28-07-2014 8:40pm

I know its not weird but heights! Not just heights but what also scares me a lot is looking up at tall buildings and imaging them falling on me!! Being on top isn't the best either - And yes I was in New York twice hhaahah!

littlebuddy84 · 05-09-2014 4:33pm

Heights and crabs :-(

littlemouse22 · 11-09-2014 2:06pm

Spiders although I think the term Phobia may be underated in my case, horrible creatures!

HeathenWolf · 13-09-2014 9:37pm

I used to, and still to an extent have a fear of looking straight up into the sky. I love looking up at the sky now as long as it's not from a certain height (a hill, for example) because it makes me extremely uncomfortable and then I have to walk down from the hill with my eyes trained to the ground, blocking out all view of the sky. It was really bad when I was younger, it always felt like I was about to fall into the sky (which sounds really weird but it's the only way you could describe the feeling)

Viva La Gloria · 20-09-2014 11:39pm

Ohhhh, what a terrible time of year to suffer from arachnophobia. Would easily trade it for a gut wrenching fear of heights or snakes...at least then there's no way you can be surprised by them in your bedroom

Nekarsulm · 20-09-2014 11:48pm

I count peoples fingers. I think it relates back to a TV documentary I daw as a kid about an inbreed community somewhere in america, and a lot of the children had only 3 or 4 fingers. Even now , forty years later, i sometimes get a shiver when I get a glimpse of what looks like a person with 3 or 4 fingers. Amputees are no problem at all.

valkyriec · 28-09-2014 10:52pm

Im arsonphobic

its terrible

edber2011 · 30-09-2014 12:27am

Snakes,i absolutely loathe them.Crocidiles are a close second.These creatures are not needed on this planet as far as im concerned.

afterglow · 04-10-2014 11:27pm

Hi

I have a phobia of bees, wasps, basically anything that buzzes.
I was stung on the hand once by a wasp when i put my hand down on the grass by accident, I can't see so I didn't know it was there so as not to put my hand down.
I also got stung, well, an attempted one, while i was outside in the grounds of a hospital (was in for an op and just went to get some fresh air)
also, because he thought it was funny, when i was smaller, my a*** hole of a cousin would catch bees/wasps in a jar, and put them close to my ear, and say he would let them out. It was horrible.
These things, coupled with the fact that i can't see which buzzy thing something is when it comes into a room, has lead to a massive massive phobia. I can sit in the garden if there's people who i know can see about, and who i know will watch out for me, but could never do it on my own, unless i have headphones in so i won't hear them.
Is there any way i can get over this, and if there's any way to tell things apart by their buzzes i'd really appreciate this also.

What's your phobia?

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