What's your phobia?

I'm afraid of doing nothing and losing my time.

Is there any name for such kind of phobia?

Syringes.

I'm not so much afraid of injections, just the actual tool that's used. Just seeing someone advancing on me as they unwrap one initiates the flight or fight reflex.

Got on a bus once and was about to sit down on the back seat when I spotted a clatter of syringes sitting on it. Jebus that would be bad enough for someone who doesn't have an irrational fear of them. I yelped like a four year old and scurried backwards. Actually pretty shaken even remembering that!!

Oh, a real crazy one is a fear of my own heartbeat. Hate when I can feel my pulse like when you're getting your blood pressure taken. Makes me feel really uncomfortable. I squirm around like a mad man which usually means they've to do the test again!

Update on my tomato phobia:

On Friday I went for lunch with my OH. I asked for a corned beef sandwich. As usual, the restaurant didn't state that it came with tomatoes (it's my pet hate, not everyone likes tomatoes and I actually won't eat food that's touched tomatoes but loads of places don't tell you on the menu that the sandwich comes with tomatoes). Usually I send food back when it comes with unannounced tomatoes but the restaurant was busy so I took off the tomatoes, wiped the sandwich clean and actually managed to eat the sandwich! Tis a big step for me!

Good website for fellow tomato haters: http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/

Thanks, it probably sounds so silly to some people, but being able to enjoy my lunch and not send it back made a big difference!:)

My Oh was impressed too, I think he was expecting me to make a fuss. He's very good about it actually, he told me to look away and then ate all the tomatoes I'd taken off the sandwich so they were gone when I was eating!

I have a fear of Spiders, heights and Water, especially large steel-frame structures and water and also those large statutes of the Buddha. Plus the last three combined. It happens in dreams =/

flying, the dark, needles, vomiting, cotton wool, nails scraping on a blackboard, polystyrene foam, bees and wasps, dentists (especially the sound of the drill :eek:)........I have more but that's more than enough to be listing

I hate bridges. Most of the time, I can force myself to cross them, but the one at Sydney Parade DART station makes me go stiff with terror... I consider it to be rational, but everyone I've mentioned it to says it's not. But that bridge is a death trap. It's made of old rusty corrugated iron, welded together, and in some places rusted through. Rust and welding both weaken metal - that bridge is going to collapse.

I also hate the thought of being buried alive. Like Nick was in that episode of CSI...

I used to not be able to go up those stairs without backs - you know, the see-through ones. Now, after living in an apartment with them for over half a year (it was the only one I could find), I can go up them, but only if I can put my hands down in front of me and go up on all fours. I'm not sure what I think is going to happen, I just don't like them...

I don't like repetitive patterns in nature. Like a close up of a verruca, or the inside of a passion fruit. Or cracks in mud.

I worry about people I care about. And if I don't worry about them, and I realise that I haven't been, I worry that something will happen to them, and it'll be my fault for not having worried about them. Like when my mum used to pick me up from school, I'd worry that she'd crash her car on the way, and that it'd be my fault cos she wouldn't have done it if it weren't for me. I talked myself into not worrying over a few years, and then, about a month later, she crashed her car on the way to pick me up...

I don't like internal parasites. The thought of a worm living inside me disgusts me. So do those bugs that burrow into your skin. Even the episode of the Simpsons where Homer squeezes the penny so it goes into his hand made me gag.

I also really don't like the eyes that grow on old potatoes. Or cactuses (cacti?) and other succulent plants. I freaked out in Kew gardens when I was ten cos my dad made me hold one...

I recently partially got over my fear of phones by taking a job in a call centre to raise money for my college. Had a shaking fit after making my first call, but now I've worked there six months, and they want me to be superviser next year:) Unfortunately, we only make out going calls there, so I'm still worried about answering phones, especially if I don't know who's calling me.

I don't like not knowing where I am - unfortunate, as I'm also pretty pants at map-reading. I also dislike losing my glasses. I have nightmares where I can't find them.

I don't like tall buildings which wobble in the wind, or buildings with windows right down to the floor.

Also, anyone touching my ears scares me. I can manage it if I know it's going to happen, like my boyfriend doing it, or getting my ears pierced. But if someone does it by surprise, I freak out a little.

That is a ridiculously long list, and I've probably forgotten some stuff too... Good grief...

dunno if they classify as phobias but hate travelling on a rear facing seat in a bus/train nor do i like eating spaghetti without a knife :rolleyes:

I have a fear that I would have thought would be here already:
A fear of blades.
I know exactly what caused it, it was when I found out that several of my friends were cutting themselves and one of them actually did it in the same roomas me.
I was disgusted and I often get phantom pains on my arms just thinking about sharp objects.
I don't feel at all comfortable with people holding and/or having sharp objects near me, and I have to pretty much constantly watch them.
I have the bluntest Knives possible in my house.
My arms are itchy and painful as I'm typing this

I'm curious as to whether others have this particular phobia and If you do I would appreciate a PM
Thanks!:o

I'm terrified of waps. Absolutely petrified.
I have to get my Dad, my Mam or my sister to kill them for me!!
My Mam told me I was stung by a wasp when I was very small. I can't actually remember the incident, but subconciously I suppose it led to my fear in some way.

I'm also terrified of....wait for it....NAIL FILES!! :eek:
I can pick one up, but no way would I ever touch one with my nail (I'm a guy so thankfully I won't ever have to)
But if someone was filing their nails, I'd have to leave the room. I'm actually shuddering now just thinking about it.
I mean, why would anyone do that to innocent nails? You might aswell us industrial sandpaper..ugh!!

I know its common but im terrified of heights.

I work in a window manufacturing company in my local village. My boss was building his house at the time and i gave him a hand roofing it. I had no choice but to climb around on the top of the house,even though i said i was sacred of heights. Got through it though.

Anyone have any stories about your phobia's?