What's your phobia?

IamMetaldave · 17-04-2008 5:16pm

Spiders

Havermeyer · 18-04-2008 8:16am

Running out of beer. :pac:

But on a serious note!? Open spaces and crowded places, i.e. pubs, clubs etc. Fairly mundane. I'd rather a fear of rational things like height, death or spiders. Man, do I need stronger meds.

arbeitsscheuer · 20-04-2008 4:27pm

watna wrote: »

Panophobia? Really? As in you have a general fear/dread about life?

Oh good god yes. I would interpret panophobia as essentially being a fear of pretty much everything - hence the "pan-" - so yup. I'd be afraid of some things more than others, but still... It's what Pratchett would call "an embuggerance".

mazr · 27-04-2008 8:42pm

I have a fear of dead things. People, animals etc. People are the worst though, I hate the colour they are especially the lips yuck!

m4cc4 · 03-05-2008 6:33pm

Anesthetical Awareness...................its A New Found Fear And I Will Never Go Under The Knife Ever Ever Again!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm Even Puttin A Note On My Donor Card "not To Be Opened Till 2 Days After Death":d

Glydeside white · 12-05-2008 1:41am

I have a huge fear of rats, once in my hen house i looked thrrough the crack on the door to see if they were ok, and just beside the feeding tray there was this huge rat, and i just froze, also i have a fear of encountering someone who has commited suicide, especially by hanging.

titan18 · 14-05-2008 11:21pm

micmclo wrote: »

Snakes!

That's it realy, can't think of anything else
I'd imagine it's a pretty common one

Ya,I absolutely freak out with snakes.If i see a picture in a book i get scared

Sea Monkey · 16-05-2008 10:07pm

I've got a totally irrational fear of having my larynx removed with a claw hammer.

titan18 · 16-05-2008 11:22pm

Sea Monkey wrote: »

I've got a totally irrational fear of having my larynx removed with a claw hammer.

Irrational?I think that is somethign to be afraid of.But when and how would that happen.

Sea Monkey · 16-05-2008 11:52pm

titan18 wrote: »

Irrational?I think that is somethign to be afraid of.But when and how would that happen.

It's irrational because it's so unlikely to actually happen. And I'm not scared of being stabbed in the kidneys with a crosshead screwdriver, which could happen any day. But it leaps to my mind every time someone walks past with a claw hammer. Especially at night. Sometimes I have bad dreams about it and its always a draper claw hammer....pretty weird eh?.

Trinity · 18-05-2008 12:24pm

I'm probably duplicating my first post in strange phobias but i think i put it in the wrong place!!

I'm Trinity, I have a list of fears as long as my arm. SOme i suppose are just mild maybe even dislikes.

My main phobia and its debilitating in everyday life is fear of heights. Not just heights but bridges, escalators, anything going up or coming down!! Shopping is a night mare, you know like blanch and omni have the glass barriers upstairs, its just dizzying for me walking around. I either take the lift or go inside a store that has normal stairs. I cant walk down ones that ar see through.

Arnotts is like my worst nightmare escalators everywhere!! Its disgusting.

The bridge thing is a nightmare as you have to cross one everyday to get just about anywhere, school, shops, mothers. There is a way to avoid it but its extremely long. On a bad day i will take the long way like if i am particuarly tired or stressed. The funny thing about my bridge fear and certain heights is i am not afraid of falling but of jumping or driving off it on purpose. I have no idea where this comes from as i am far from suicidal and love my children very much theres no way i would do that!! But it triggers severe panic attacks and its so draining just getting my son to school.

Milder phobias are spiders, wasps, wheat, cobs of corn and a bigger one is i cant stand anything or anyone near my neck. I threw such a wobbler one day in tesco screaming at other half for touching it. Cant wear polo necks and seat belts make me feel like i cant breathe. I also will go into a pool but wont get my face wet or go under.

Its so sad cos as a child i loved swimming and climbing and feared nothing. Except death, my own and anyone i loved. I still have it but not as bad. I was a very morbid child. But it makes me sad to think i am only half living now. How did i become such a nervous wreck, i was a tomboy. I wish i still was that way as i hardly go anywhere or do anything these days.

I love my car and i love driving but i cant drive on a straight road it send me into a panic. I am ok when in housing estates or somewhere that has a lot of turns andbasically where i have to concentrate and make a lot of movement but sitting still doing nothing looking at the long road ahead starts a panic. The motorway is a no no as a driver or a passenger.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived, i can vouch for that.

LadyJ · 18-05-2008 4:27pm

Trinity1, I feel your pain. It's strange how we start out feeling so fearless and then, with every new day that passes, we get more and more afraid of everything around us. I guess it's just because we've been living in a world where the most horrible and unexpected things can happen at any moment. How could we not be afraid?

Also, the wanting to fling yourself off a bridge thing; that's very common. People who are afraid of heights etc. or suffer from vertigo can sometimes feel like throwing themselves off the height. I know several people who are compelled to do that but all suffer from vertigo so I think there's a link there. Do you get dizzy on bridges?

Anyway, take it one step at a time. Don't try to conquer all your fears at once but do focus on one and work on coping with it in a new way.

I am well on my way with my fear of flying and when that's done with I will move on to facing my fear of the dark. Don't take on too much.

Trinity · 18-05-2008 10:42pm

LadyJ wrote: »

Also, the wanting to fling yourself off a bridge thing; that's very common. People who are afraid of heights etc. or suffer from vertigo can sometimes feel like throwing themselves off the height. I know several people who are compelled to do that but all suffer from vertigo so I think there's a link there. Do you get dizzy on bridges?
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I dont know if i get dizzy on bridges as i wont stand on them

But i do get dizzy, tremble and shake when up high at all, even looking out the bedroom window of the house. Sometimes even picturing heights in my head makes me dizzy like if i imagine i am looking over a cliff or something. Only way i can describe it is i feel like the ground is coming up to meet me, could i have vertigo? I do feel dizzy looking up at high builidngs. Christ i remember hanging over the balconys of the flats as a kid, even up to 18 or 19, it was second nature. WIsh i knew where that came from.

I had a panic attack coming over the bridge on the way home, its so so disheartening. That means i will have to take my son to school the long way tomorrow

I suffer from dizzy spells all the time though, even without heights involved.

Way to go on the flying thing, I'm a long way off that yet!!

LadyJ · 19-05-2008 1:38am

Definitely sounds like vertigo to me.

Trinity · 19-05-2008 8:59am

Funny enough i posted in PI about a year and a half ago. I was feeling terrible for weeks and my ears were blocked but doctors could not find anything. I have suddenly developed bad sinusitis since then too and i guess i would say i have never been the same since that bout as it had my nerves wrecked and couldnt go anywhere alone.

watna · 27-05-2008 2:03am

Funny people should be discussing vertigo. I managed to fly across the other side of the world without being too frightened (apart from when we landed in Sydney, the airport is beside the sea and we came in so low I thought we were crash landing in the sea!) but somehow developed vertigo while I was away. I've never been afraid of heights but for a few days over our holiday in Malaysia I was terrified. There's a 10 storey shoping centre in Kuala Lumpur that has a roller coaster in it. We went up to the tenth floor and looked down at the rollercoaster and I was shaking and dizzy and disorientated and had to get away. The same happened when we got this cable car thing in Singapore. A few days later I went up this huge tower in KL and I was fine. Not a bother. It was really weird. I didn't think you could get fits of a fear of heights!

gollyitsolly · 27-05-2008 10:37am

Im terrified of motorway driving. I know it sounds stupid because Ive been driving for years but Ive never driven on a motorway. If I even see the motorway sign I break out in a sweat. I go the long way round to everywhere. Also I will never get false teeth in case I choke on them.

SmokeyJo84 · 27-05-2008 6:33pm

used to be terrifed of clowns after i saw stephen kings IT as a child...but i think thats a fairly usual one....

was cured of the phobia two years ago at electric picnic when a clown chased me across the front of main stage before rugby tackling me on the request of my 'friend'...i cried, i laughed...and now im cured

however....i still have my fear of fully grown people with freakishly small hands for their size

was in an exam last xmas and noticed a classmate writing furiously away...and then i noticed his hands....ugh....

where did that come from??

sheeez · 09-06-2008 9:40pm

Sea Monkey wrote: »

It's irrational because it's so unlikely to actually happen. And I'm not scared of being stabbed in the kidneys with a crosshead screwdriver, which could happen any day. But it leaps to my mind every time someone walks past with a claw hammer. Especially at night. Sometimes I have bad dreams about it and its always a draper claw hammer....pretty weird eh?.

this is abit crazy..its like something in a horror movie!!

Lola87 · 12-06-2008 10:01pm

My main phobia is papercuts (no joke, they freak me out so much), think it sprang from that episode of Jackass with the papercuts....i can't even think about it without being freaked out......ugh. Also people licking envelopes to seal them....for the same reason as above.......:eek:

tread_softly · 13-06-2008 2:08am

i am deathly afraid of moths which i guess can be seen as somewhat "normal" but i do have a really weird, irrational fear............. of the underside of huge boats.

yep. o.0

there was an ad on tv the other night about a programme on discovery about cargo ships and the like and it showed loads of them hauled out of the water and it made me squirm!

if i can see the part of the boat that's meant to be hidden underwater i freak, like the propellors or anything.

i don't know why it is, i just can't stand the size of them. i don't mind being on big boats at all, as long as they're in the water!

Flojo · 21-06-2008 4:33am

I have a few, hmm lets see...

Spiders and other insects- Seriously freak me the feck out, managed to kill a spider tonight thats been haunting me for days. It was HUGE.

Dentists- I cant stand having to go, always have to bring my mam or my BF with me and I'm almost 21 lol. Freaked out once and the dentist almost drilled through my cheek.

Anesthetical Awareness- Never really realised it could happen until I watched that film Awake, dear god baaaaaaad idea. Its rare yeah but I have always been scared of operations now this just added the cherry on top for me :S

Thats about it thank god, have a few other small fears but wouldnt class them as being as severe as these.

50hertz · 21-06-2008 5:04am

Happily none...or none that I have encountered yet.

Groe · 24-06-2008 7:32pm

I hate thinking about growing up.
I'm 13 and the thought of getting older makes me worried.
Well thinking about it its less of a phobia more of a worry, dislike

Another one is Jellyfish.
When I love looking at pictures and seeing them in tank. I can even touch them etc when they are washed up. But as soon as im in the sea and the water is too deep for me to stand in I start to think of how many jellyfish there could be below me. The thought of them touchoing you and their tenticles rubbing off you scares me.

I first noticed it when I was doing a sailing course and we went on a day sail and it was really stormy and the boat pitchpoled and turtled. I was thrown out and the minute I started to realise where I was I startethd shivering and got really jumpy. I eventually got onto the bottom of the boat and tried to recover the boat but the mast was stuck into the group and I really freaked out then tbecause I could see them swoimming around the boat and I thought that I could just fall into them. *shudders*

watna · 25-06-2008 12:30pm

Growing us is awesome. I wouldn't worry about it. I'm far happier now at 24 then I was at 14!

LadyJ · 28-06-2008 5:06pm

watna wrote: »

Growing us is awesome. I wouldn't worry about it. I'm far happier now at 24 then I was at 14!

I hear that! 22 is way better than 13. The idea of ever being a teenager again scares me more than the horror I'd feel if I was trapped on a plane with a tarantula.

xIsabelx · 13-07-2008 3:52pm

I am deathly afraid of spiders. I can't even look at a picture of a spider, I am THAT afraid of them. Totally irrational, I know.

You couldn't pay me a million euro to watch Eight Legged Freaks or Arachnophobia, because I'm that scared.....it would traumatise me so much.

Sometimes when I go to bed, I can only think about spiders and it scares the sh*t out of me. I need to focus so hard on thinking about something else just so I can go asleep.

xXxhotstuff xXx · 13-07-2008 9:32pm

my biggest phobia has to be of birds, i really dont know why but i cant stand the little feckers.. lyk i have to walk under a few trees while going to some of my classes and i walk well around them onto the road incase there is a bird in one of the them.. also if there is a bird anywhere near me i'll wait till tis gone before i continue to where i was going.. i really dont see their purpose in the world lyk all they ever do is **** on people.. i dont understand why when a bird flies in front of a car people slow down, why not speed up and kill them lyk thats much much more satisfying!!

DenMan · 13-07-2008 9:35pm

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

But butterflies are cute!

They are very beautiful, especially The Admiral. Amazing actually. Is there a phobia of a person afraid of what the can become, i.e their full potential in life. (Someone) being withdrawn and shy and wanting something better in their life?

nkay1985 · 22-07-2008 8:29pm

I had what I'd call a deep hatred for wasps since I was young. I think it was probably from when I got stung. Makes sense, right?

That was fair enough. But in the last year or two (maybe more, not too sure actually) I've developed a phobia of things flying at or around my head and face. So this centres mainly on flies and wasps while within the house, and on pigeons while out walking in town or whatever. Because of being in a city, they're really used to people, so don't fly off until you're right on top of them. Which means they fly towards your face!

It's really starting to bother me. I can still deal with flies and such in the house. I've no problem killing them, putting them out windows etc, but it's when they're flying around my head it bothers me. Still afraid of wasps when they're around as they can sting!

Poppy78 · 23-07-2008 1:25pm

I have so many phobias.

Mostly social ones:

Speaking on the telephone, speaking to groups of people, speaking to strangers, being in a confined space with people especially strangers, that my voice is too loud or wierd sounding.

I have quite a bizarre fear of stickers. I cant bear anything sticky on my skin or clothes and even on other people it freaks me out. Everyone i know thinks it is hilarious and puts a line of cellotape accross their heads, but honestly it makes feel dizzy and nauseous.

I am afraid to touch raw chicken it makes me wretch, but fine with fish and beef for some reason.

Same for raw egg whites, i remeber watching nigella lawson one night. she was letting the egg white run through her fingers for some godforsaken reason. I only just made it to the bin to get sick.

In the last couple of years i have developed a fear of heights, even though i used to love walking accross the back walls of all my neighbours houses growing up.

I did manage though to get over my fear of dogs by getting a puppy. Now i have two dogs and am one of those annoying dog people that i used to hate.

DenMan · 23-07-2008 2:37pm

Hi Poppy

I had that same problem regarding the telephone issue. I used to nearly choke getting my words across while on the phone, it was horrendous. It was like I was having a panic attack (which looking back on it now is probably what it was) For some reason it completely disappeared over night. I can't explain that at all but when I remember what I was like before it really makes me shudder.

Poppy78 · 23-07-2008 2:56pm

DenMan wrote: »

Hi Poppy

I had that same problem regarding the telephone issue. I used to nearly choke getting my words across while on the phone, it was horrendous. It was like I was having a panic attack (which looking back on it now is probably what it was) For some reason it completely disappeared over night. I can't explain that at all but when I remember what I was like before it really makes me shudder.

Yeah it is hilarious DenMan, i actually work in a job where i have to answer the phone about twenty or thirty times a day. I am fine as long as I can decide in advance how the conversation is going to go and what my replies will be. But if the person on the other end goes off script I will have what I call a brain stutter and cannot speak, sometimes for about half a minute.

Thanks for letting me know that these things can go away and that there are others out there with similar problems because sometimes I think it is just me being ridiculous.

S.I.R · 29-07-2008 12:29am

heights, i dont mean little heights, i mean like being 27 stoerys up on a lead roof with no traction kinda fear...

condra · 14-08-2008 2:39am

What's your phobia?

Sharks with guns

Mazletov · 24-08-2008 12:19am

arbeitsscheuer wrote: »

Algophobia, Erotophobia, Coitophobia, Trypanophobia, various social phobias...

F**k it, basically I'm a panophobe. Frankly it's amazing I've managed to live this long with all of that weighing on me...:rolleyes: Sucks to be me.

I'd like to know more about these...I think I may suffer from one myself but I won't say anything until I learn more. Describe your experiences, please.

trowelled · 24-08-2008 10:35pm

I have a couple of phobias. I've always had a fear of falling whether it be from a height or not (it's actually the reason I've never been able to do a handstand, cartwheel etc

embarrassing but true. I have slight agoraphobia, can get freaked out if I get stuck in a crowd. Strangest one is my fear of shores/manholes/grates etc. Never walk over them, will always avoid them!!

Star20 · 25-08-2008 12:24am

I have the worst Phobia of all times i cannot take Tablets yes tablets the ones u swallow! Its so ennoying sometimes as when im sick i cannot get better by taking them i have to suffer on!

Sad but true...i need help!

fifth · 25-08-2008 12:29am

Blood..Haemophobia

ChewChew · 25-08-2008 10:47pm

the Dark. absolutley HATE being alone in the dark. I dont mind if there is someone else in the house and its dark. they dont necessarily have to be in the same room. but if I am alone in the house the lights will be on.

vektarman · 25-08-2008 10:50pm

I hate open spaces and enclosed spaces, in fact it's hard to find a space just right for me.

Ditavon · 25-08-2008 10:54pm

FISH ARE FREAKY :eek:

pilchard · 26-08-2008 10:27pm

erm, lets see... Heights, Manholes, the Dark, i could go on!

but by far my wierdest and worst phobia is Ants!! i even see one and i freak out!! kinda almost a daily event!!:(

xshazarx · 27-08-2008 3:32pm

I've a weird phobia of choking, probably originated last year when a sharp chip got lodged in my tonsil last year...scariest thing ever

!! Needless to say Im the slowest eater ever now. Clowns and deep water arent my favourite either.

trowelled · 28-08-2008 4:18pm

pilchard wrote: »

erm, lets see... Heights, Manholes, the Dark, i could go on!

but by far my wierdest and worst phobia is Ants!! i even see one and i freak out!! kinda almost a daily event!!:(

I'm not the only one wahooo!! I wonder how many people actually fall down manholes each year!! Actually maybe I don't wanna know the answer to that

tinz18 · 04-09-2008 3:03pm

Heights:(... it only hit me a couple of years ago for some reason, before that i could climb trees and look over cliffs no problem!:P...trying to overcome it so I'm going to join a climbing club at college hopefully and maybe that'll shake me out of it.:rolleyes: Other phobias: wasps and spiders(Evil they're evil!)

DEmeant0r · 09-09-2008 10:44pm

Aichmophobia (needles), Apiphobia (bees), Arachnophobia (spiders).

Not sure how or where or when I got Arachnophobia but I can't be near one, if I see one, I pretend it didn't exist and run far away, and if it was in my flat I get someone to kill it!

Apiphobia was gotten at an early age when I got stung by a bee.

I think I got Aichmophobia at the same time as when I got stung. I have (successfully) avoided injections and the such for the last 6-7 years.

HalloweenJack · 09-09-2008 11:17pm

I have arachnophobia. Terribly. Even the small spiders we get here scare the crap out of me.

Fresh Breeze · 12-10-2008 2:20am

"Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old"

I'm absolutely terrified. Not of old people as such, I'm kind towards them, just that I will become them.

Sarchasm · 16-10-2008 12:06am

I am afraid of injections and crabs. When I had to get an injection when I was younger I kicked the nurse and hid under the table. I had to get two a few years ago and I kept moving my arm away from the doctor and after I managed to take the injection I nearly passed out. I get really nervous if my mum is putting pins in my clothes before hemming them.

I get nervous if im in the sea that a crab will scuttle out and pinch me.

I also have a problem with cold tomatoes, I hate the slimy seeds. I've always had a problem with bananas. I tried to eat one when I was seven and gagged on it. I think its the texture.

I also hate getting lost or stuck in a crowd, especially in loud clubs or pubs. I generally end up leaving by myself on the verge of tears and texting my friends to tell them I've gone.

What's your phobia?

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