What's your phobia(s)?

[solitarymonkey]

Originally Posted by max4225

large crowds of humans mingling, eating, dancing & having fun
cell phones, aliens with bad intentions that stare at you through the window at 3am when it's dark with no moon out, black holes, the cold vacuum of space, the lower atmosphere of Venus, giant aquatic snails, viruses, random meteroites, super volcanos, solar flares, Veritaserum, sometimes ovaries, my brother-in-law at times, concentrated sodium hydroxide, misplaced plutonium, light speed travel through a dusty nebula, botched quantum teleportaion into a mountain, job interviews, spoiled food, broken glass, metal shavings, cosmic rays, deuterium ice cubes, tree frogs, leopards, Utah raptors, gigantopithecus, large mean dogs, electric eels, little biting and stinging insects with attitude, accidentally creating an artifical intelligence, self-replicating molecular machines, apples made with left-handed DNA, non-rational humans, dark age theocracies, manevolent goddesses, being someone's pet, being burried alive in a dark cave with rattle snakes, wrestling with kodiack grizzly bears, forced gene therapy and cloning, determinism, looped deep-time, accelerated expansion of the universe, spontaneous de-evolution, being interviewed on live tv, accidentially slipping into another reality & not knowing how to get back

sounds like a bit of paranoia gotta keep cautious though!!
i have a strong fear of being accused of being a paedophile. so i try to avoid young children as best i can. unless i know them. but even then it can take a while to be comfortable around them.

[citizen_erased]

- Social Phobia
- Fear of bees and wasps - this is a pretty big phobia for me, caused by being stung a couple of times in the past and having several bees/wasps nests in our garden (and one in our loft) over the years. If one comes too near me i just freak out and usually end up running off
- Fear of needles/injections
- Fear of unenclosed heights - if i'm high up but in an enclosed space then i'm fine, but with unenclosed heights i tend to get kinda freaked out
- Fear of vomiting - i don't fear other people vomiting, just myself

[TheDaffodil]

Didaskaleinophobia: fear of school.
I don't really have social phobia. I'm not afraid of leaving my house and being in social situations enough to qualify for "phobia" but I do have an intense fear of school, symptom of my social anxiety.

[SOME]

Do you guys know those werid looking troll dolls with the funky hairdo? man now those thing scared me i dont see how any child would want that as a toy or even a gift. i remember i cousin snuck in while i was takeing a shower and put one of those things hanging on the door nob, i had to climb out the window. i dont know the current term for this phobia i have of trolls

im also scared of roller coasters and heights acrophobia i think.

[AudreyHepburn]

Some of my Phobias

• Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse. (Paranoid fear of this)
• Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty (not as serious)
• Cleithrophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place
• Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers
• Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms
• Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up (kind of goes along with the paranoid fear of being kidnapped thing...)
• Taphephobia- Fear of being buried alive
• Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape (again...)

Oddly enough, I had fun making that list. Hmm. It was interesting to identify some of my phobias. After I read 120 Days of Sodom I developed paranoid fears of everything in that book. I'm talking serious fears. Everything the captives had to endure, I am now deathly afraid of.

[MavenMI6Agent009]

The fear of everything whatever that means

[mrfixit]

My main thing is driving in a car and feeling like everyone is looking at me. Especially at red lights this is horrible. I feel like I am an animal trapped in a zoo and everyone is staring at me. I dunno how this came to be but it started about 2 years ago. I used to drive around with my two 12s loud as crap and it never bothered people looking at me. Now I find I drive with my stereo totally off not trying to draw any attention. Odd huh?

I dunno what you would really call this phobia either but it really inhibits what I can do. I hate leaving the house even to get cigarettes. And they say when you expose yourself to these situations they go away, well I have been going out a lot lately but it doesnt seem to be helping me at all =(

this is me to a T. i had the whole loud system installed in my car before. i would even enjoy the stares people would give me when playing my music loud. now is like where ever i look someone is looking at me. the people in front of me always look in their rear view mirror to look back at me (i think it's me they look at). or if i'm smoking a cigarette, turn my head to the left to blow out the smoke and there will be a b!tch looking at me.

[SAgirl]

I have generalized anxiety so I pretty much fear all situations in which there are people.
I don't like when people stare at me. When people look at me they have an angry disapproved look on their face. I am not imagining this.
I don't like answering the phone.
I don't like calling people.
I don't like getting my picture taken.
I don't like looking in the mirror at myself.
I don't like writing my name in front of people.
I hate going to busy stores or being around large crowds.
I don't like security guards at stores.
Sometimes, I fear stealing money when paying for something at a store. (It's crazy!)
I don't like driving only cause I get so nervous since I feel like people are staring at me. I'm a really nervous driver. I think it has to do with the fact that I was almost in an accident once.
I'm especially more nervous or afraid of guys that I have crushes on.
I don't like lectures since I feel like other people are staring at me.
I have a fear of the dark.
I don't really like swimming. I get panicky. (I used to love swimming when I was a kid)
I don't like loud noises. My CD player can go on volume maximum 10, but the volume is on 2. I am always asking my family to turn the tv down since it's too loud for me.
Fear of dogs. I got bit by a dog once on my road.
Fear of being mauled by a bear. (I saw a bear last Summer when biking.)
http://www.howcast.com/videos/100020...-a-Bear-Attack

[TigerLilyie]

Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.

Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.

Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.


I thought this one was kinda funny. I had this when I was a kid--

Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.

[Kaine]

I have a fear of clowns I guess.

But its not your usual, "RUN AWAY" type of fear.

They make me more angry than scared. I have an almost uncontrollable urge to beat them.

Not cool...

[solitarymonkey]

Originally Posted by kaine

i have a fear of clowns i guess.

But its not your usual, "run away" type of fear.

They make me more angry than scared. I have an almost uncontrollable urge to beat them.

Not cool...

do it!! :d

[supreme.mugwump]

Originally Posted by MrNoah

It seems like I have a bunch of phobias. It would take me a while to think of them all.

When I was a kid I had pretty severe globophobia (fear of balloons). If anyone was squeezing a balloon or doing anything to them that might make them pop I would get very frightened. I don't know if I ever ran away screaming or anything like that, but it was certainly close. It's largely gone away in my adult life, but balloons do still make me uncomfortable.

HAHAHA I have that! I didn't know there was a word for it Yeah, I'm scared of many things, balloons was probably low on my list. But I get freaked out when the move around (e.g. from wind) or people are playing with them... I'm on edge cos I hate loud noises. I always tell people "don't pop it!" LOL

[PickleNose]

I'll just save myself some time and say that if there's any significant (or even small) risk to doing something at all, I probably have a phobia about it. I don't (as a rule) like to take risks. For example, a fear of heights makes perfect sense to me, as it's really senseless to even put yourself at a one in a million chance of falling to your death.

To put that another way, I wouldn't have even accidentally been a victim of 9/11 because you couldn't pay me enough to go to the top of a tall building. I would not feel safe just because I had a strong structure around me. I would feel vulnerable knowing how high up in the air I was and I would (believe it or not) have had a natural fear of a building collapse.

And yeah. Like someone else, I have a fear of going over bridges. Even if it's a bridge that's been standing for 100 years, my fear is that it'll pick the day I go over it to collapse. Such is my luck.

I have a fear of unfamiliar places. That one really cripples me at times. I can sometimes feel myself actually getting dizzy in an unfamiliar place or a situation where I'm at a significant disadvantage.

[eileenAKAmommy]

Top of my head.

Social.
Someone holding both of my wrists. INSTANT panic attack.
Wearing closed shoes/sneakers/boots.

[PickleNose]

Originally Posted by eileenAKAmommy

Wearing closed shoes/sneakers/boots.

What about socks? I hate wearing socks! I don't panic if I do but it just induces this agitated feeling in me like I need to take them off right away.

[eileenAKAmommy]

Originally Posted by PickleNose

What about socks? I hate wearing socks! I don't panic if I do but it just induces this agitated feeling in me like I need to take them off right away.

Socks aren't AS constricting. But I don't like them.

[EgoZero]

Ofcourse Social Phobia.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs (I had as a child, I kinda overcame it, but I still feel quite anxious around some potentialy dangerous dogs.)
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women (they are really scary...)

[AudreyHepburn]

Originally Posted by EgoZero

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs (I had as a child, I kinda overcame it, but I still feel quite anxious around some potentialy dangerous dogs.)

Yep. I can't stand dogs. They make me really nervous. When I was in grade eight someone brought their dog to the school yard and as everyone crowded around it I sat on the bench crying. Labradors make me the most nervous.

Being chased down the street by a raging pit bull didn't help either...

[PickleNose]

I think I would be afraid of a horse. I've not been near a horse since I was a kid but they're so big and unpredictable.

[tony0306]

I have a fun challenge for each of you/us.

Now that you've posted your phobia(s), can you quote your own message and next to your phobia(s) write down what exactly what you would think would REALLY happen if you were presented in this situation?

Example:

Emetophobia - fear of vomit
What I think will happen is...
What will really happen is...

I had/have emetophobia.

What I think will happen is I'll do it in a public place, people will watch, call 911 and the ambulance will carry me away to a hospital where I'll be stuck vomiting for a month straight. I fear it "not ending".

What really happens:
If you did vomit in a public place, you would do so, someone would clean it up (you don't have to be embarssed, the mop guy should be embrassed), no one would watch (who'd want to watch?), and after your intial "round" you'd have about an hour or two to get home before (if) you happened to have a second "round". It ends, by itself or you die of dehydration, but it ends. That being said, I don't have to fear.

(Then, if you have an experience share it) I no longer fear that because it ended on it's own after about 6 hours one night last year. After 30 years of fear, from not doing it and wondering about (fearing) it, the exposure (vomiting) was rather enjoyable! It was not at all like I imagined. In fact, I'm willing to do it again without fear if the situation arises. It's one of those things that once you do it you realize it's not that bad, or it's not nearly as bad as you think it will be. There is a lot of info on emetophobia on the web, it's rather common.


I had a fear of bees.
What I think would happen is I'd get stung, repeatedly.
What would really happen is worst case scenerio I'd get stung, it'd hurt, I'd brush the bee off me, and it would be over with.

When I did exposure, when I painted my shed surrounded on 3 sides by bushes, for 4 hours, I was not stung. Lucky? Maybe. Scared to death? Yes. Overcame my fear of bees in one afternoon by knowing the mere presence of a bee does not mean it'll hunt me down and sting me? Yes.

Who's playing along?