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Phobias...

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  • #32
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    chalk.


  • #33
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Jumpy wrote: »
    chalk.

    Thank God for whiteboards!


  • #34
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    Thank God for whiteboards!

    squeaky markers :(


  • #35
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    cance wrote: »
    squeaky markers :(

    What? Markers squeak? I might just stay in bed from now on....


  • #36
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I have a really bad fear of tomatoes. I can't touch them or have them in anyway touch my food. I have to get my bf to remove them from my plate. Often, you get them in sandwiches in cafes when it makes no mention of the sanwich having tomatoe on it on the menu. it drives me mad, i just send it back and say I'm allergic to them. It's only raw tomatoes, I have no problem with tomato sauce/ ketcup. sun dried tomatoes etc.

    It's the little evil seeds that get everywhere that freak me out the most! /shudders


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  • #37
    _blank_
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    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Wet tea bags. I cannot be near them. The sight of them, the smell.

    How do you meake tea then?

    Anyway, I'm afraid of heights. Not being in a plane or anything, just "open" heights, that I can fall from.

    I can't climb anywhere because of this, anything higher than a street curb and I'm a jibbering mess.

    Also, Dogs. Some asshole set a fúcking Doberman on me when I was a wee lad, thing had me pinned down and I can still see it's wet slobbery mouth just over my face whenever I see a dog near me. The absolute wánker that he was.

    I hate the feeling of steel cutlery on my teeth too.


  • #38
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Scatophobia


  • #39
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Scatophobia
    No shít.


  • #40
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    DesF wrote: »
    How do you meake tea then?

    I don't drink tea.


  • #41
    Fast_Mover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭Fast_Mover


    oh another friend of mine can't stand when people flick their thumb nail off other nails on the same hand..


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  • #42
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    You're not missing anything.

    Tea is fúcking horrible anyway!


  • #43
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Not my phobia, but brilliantly named all the same:

    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words.


  • #44
    lezizi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭lezizi


    My friend is afraid of tinfoil, can't even touch it, I'm gonna wait till he is drunk one night and passed out and wrap him up in tinfoil so he will freak out when he wakes up


  • #45
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    lezizi wrote: »
    My friend is afraid of tinfoil, can't even touch it, I'm gonna wait till he is drunk one night and passed out and wrap him up in tinfoil so he will freak out when he wakes up
    And so might end another good friendship .....


  • #46
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Styrofoam


  • #47
    littlemizz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭littlemizz


    Podophobia.....by jaysus i hate the feckers!!! cant stand da sight of them they really really freak me out!


  • #48
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Pills and tablets. Even aspirin. I'd rather have an injection than take 'em.


  • #49
    Aseth
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    Myctophobia and arachnophobia :/

    really hate those eight-legged monsters...


  • #50
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    The mother of them all. Agorophobia.
    Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder which primarily consists of the fear of settings that may present unexpected challenges or demands that provoke a panic attack in the agoraphobic. The social consequences of having a panic attack or losing control in public often becomes an additional source of anxiety in its own right, as the sufferer experiences intense fear of these attacks and the subsequent embarrassment in a situation from which they cannot escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia avoid public or unfamiliar places. In severe cases, the sufferer may become confined to their homes, experiencing difficulty traveling from this "safe place."


  • #51
    Deliverance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Deliverance


    Terry wrote: »
    The mother of them all. Agorophobia.
    I have a very similar fear to this I suspect it is probably Agorophobia to a degree, Sometimes I find myself in an open space and get the almost overwhelming feeling that I am going to fall upwards or downwards like there is no gravity or substance to anything. I resist the urge to hold on to something like the grass on the ground as it would be like strengthening the fear. Can be quite scary but I face it nonetheless because I have to.
    Public speaking is a bitch as well but I have to do this at times, I think it is definately a control issue.


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  • #52
    A racy brainrot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭A racy brainrot


    Cows. I hate them, I've cried over them. I live in the country, so I have dealt with them. I really really just can't deal with them


  • #53
    Terry
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    Deliverance wrote: »
    I have a very similar fear to this I suspect it is probably Agorophobia to a degree, Sometimes I find myself in an open space and get the almost overwhelming feeling that I am going to fall upwards or downwards like there is no gravity or substance to anything. I resist the urge to hold on to something like the grass on the ground as it would be like strengthening the fear. Can be quite scary but I face it nonetheless because I have to.
    Public speaking is a bitch as well but I have to do this at times, I think it is definately a control issue.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=862

    I also hate cotton wool.
    I can't be anywhere near it.
    The texture of it freaks me out.

    I don't mind a doctor sticking a needle in my arm to draw blood, but I hate when they use a cotton swab afterwards.


  • #54
    Deliverance
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    Terry wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=862

    I also hate cotton wool.
    I can't be anywhere near it.
    The texture of it freaks me out.

    I don't mind a doctor sticking a needle in my arm to draw blood, but I hate when they use a cotton swab afterwards.
    I hate flying as a passenger in a plane, but I flew a helicopter and loved it, those birds are incredibly sensitive to the slightest touch, marvelous experience. I love tough interviews, particularly when interviewed by a panel, it is a great stimulating challenge and I always do well, but I lose the plot in a presentation of my own ideas and the fear takes over and I become a bumbling idiot.
    Fear is irrational and a hard thing to control, I guess the key is not control of the fear but something else which I haven't been able to work out yet.


  • #55
    Terry
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    Deliverance wrote: »
    I hate flying as a passenger in a plane, but I flew a helicopter and loved it, those birds are incredibly sensitive to the slightest touch, marvelous experience. I love tough interviews, particularly when interviewed by a panel, it is a great stimulating challenge and I always do well, but I lose the plot in a presentation of my own ideas and the fear takes over and I become a bumbling idiot.
    Fear is irrational and a hard thing to control, I guess the key is not control of the fear but something else which I haven't been able to work out yet.
    The key is not giving a fúck.

    It's tough to do and you have to know where to draw the line between not caring and being insulting.
    It's a tough one to figure out.


  • #56
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Slugs


  • #57
    shay_562
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    Not to be unoriginal, but arachnophobia. Evil little bastards - they're out to get me!

    Oh, and also, I'm incredibly creeped out by anything to do with eyeballs or things touching eyeballs, and I loathe people who fiddle with their contacts in public - like, sweet Jesus, TAKE YOUR FINGER OUT OF YOUR EYEBALL! Think that one's less a phobia, though, and more me being weird...


  • #58
    bronte
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    Aracnaphobia for me too..hate the little yokes!
    Also have a fear of pain...not nice.


  • #59
    coolhandc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭coolhandc


    Terry wrote: »
    The mother of them all. Agorophobia.

    remember that show "game on" about 10 years ago about a guy who couldnt leave his house all day.i think he was agoraphobic.
    it was a deadly show


  • #60
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    spiders and bats

    if a spider is sitting quietly in the far corner of the room, as long as he doesn't come near me, i wont bother him

    as for bats, even a program on tv about them wil have me shifting on the sofa unconfortably


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  • #61
    Dalfiatach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭Dalfiatach


    LOL, great thread.

    Spiders for me too. Just spiders though, I don't really mind most other bugs and creepy-crawlies.

    Oh, and jellyfish. But that's cos I was surrounded by a load of Portuguese Man-o-wars when I was about 6 and had to fight me way out to get back to shore and got stung all over...

    An old girlfriend had that moth phobia mentioned earlier. She used to go into hysterics at the mere sight of them.

    I also have an intense physical reaction to the Deefer accent. Can't breathe, face goes red, and have an overwhelming urge to cut loose with a flamethrower and a chainsaw. True.


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