What's your phobia(s)?

[Annyka]

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
Melissophobia- Fear of bees.

i really don't have much these...

[Diya]

Other than the social one:

Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place
Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Demonophobia- Fear of demons (that they would manifest O_O wooo)

I also have a fear of canidae (dogs, wolves, etc.), and big flying insects in general.

[TheDaffodil]

Originally Posted by 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.

When I think about going to school, I think that I will get embarrassed:
I will have an anxiety attack and someone will ask me what's wrong and I won't know what to tell them. Everyone else will think I'm crazy and won't want to be my friend. I don't want to be alone.
I will do something stupid like trip over myself and people will laugh at me and even though I'd laugh at myself, I'd only do it to seem like I'm not embarrassed.
People will judge me all at once and I'll feel too different from everyone. I will feel inadequate.

What actually happens:
I do have anxiety attacks but people usually can't tell.
I do trip over myself but no one blows it out of proportion.
People probably do judge me without me knowing exactly how. I do feel too different. I do feel inadequate. But people are still nice to me.

[Diya]

Originally Posted by Diya

Other than the social one:

Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place
Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Demonophobia- Fear of demons (that they would manifest O_O wooo)

I also have a fear of canidae (dogs, wolves, etc.), and big flying insects in general.

Ok, I'll play along.

Regarding the Cleisiophobia/Claustrophobia I just find it extremely irritating that I cannot move my body, or any part of my body, freely. That's when I go into panic mode trying to free myself. It's an irrational fear because not being able to move my toes inside the shoes is not going to kill me.

As for the Demonophobia, it's more about feeling insecure, and the fear of the unknown. What really happens? I just go to bed.

I have a fear of dogs and big flying insects because I heard so many stories from friends about dogs randomly chasing them down the road and biting them, and how they had to take a shot for rabies, it's just frightening. Big badass flying insects can easily land on your body, sting fast, and then fly away in just a few seconds. So why come near them?

What really happens: They don't bite/sting most of the times, but I'd rather stay the **** away.

[tony0306]

For some of us if we continually focus on keeping it in proportion we can help ourselves avoid (not have) panic when we otherwise may have.

That's the benefit for you when you include the extra information. Some of us only think of the fear, and never consider anything other than that. By providing the extra information you will be helping yourself because when a sitaution occurs you can think back to something you wrote easier, and you may believe it more because you wrote it. Also, other readers may see a new point of view from your additional information and you could be helping someone else with that information when they didn't know how to help themselves prior to seeing your post.

When I started to consider the facts about my fears, each one of them as they pertained to me, at the instant the fear started (even when it was anticipatory for something a week in the future) it helped me feel better and helped me to avoid panic at that week earlier moment and at the time the event actually happened too.

[tony0306]

Originally Posted by Diya

Ok, I'll play along.

Regarding the Cleisiophobia/Claustrophobia I just find it extremely irritating that I cannot move my body, or any part of my body, freely. That's when I go into panic mode trying to free myself. It's an irrational fear because not being able to move my toes inside the shoes is not going to kill me.

As for the Demonophobia, it's more about feeling insecure, and the fear of the unknown. What really happens? I just go to bed.

I have a fear of dogs and big flying insects because I heard so many stories from friends about dogs randomly chasing them down the road and biting them, and how they had to take a shot for rabies, it's just frightening. Big badass flying insects can easily land on your body, sting fast, and then fly away in just a few seconds. So why come near them?

What really happens: They don't bite/sting most of the times, but I'd rather stay the **** away.

Thank you for adding the extra info. I agree, you should respect flying insects that are big and can bite/sting by avoiding them. But, there is a difference between respecting and fearing and I hope you have a new understanding to help yourself.

[Sunshine009]

What is called Fear of being stuck upside down in a roller coaster for a half hour

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2908687.shtml
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/...oller-coaster/

[Sunshine009]

I could do 5 or 10 minutes tops I think. I fear the half hour mark.

[Sunshine009]

Originally Posted by tony0306

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

Who's playing along?

I guess what would really happen with the roller coaster is that I would scream and wait and end up in the hospital. I would go with other people together and we will all comfort each other. We might go out to eat later, and exchange numbers, and visit each other every year or at least send Christmas cards. I could network with them, and exchange recipes, and visit other local attractions together.

[tony0306]

Originally Posted by Sunshine009

I guess what would really happen with the roller coaster is that I would scream and wait and end up in the hospital. I would go with other people together and we will all comfort each other. We might go out to eat later, and exchange numbers, and visit each other every year or at least send Christmas cards. I could network with them, and exchange recipes, and visit other local attractions together.

I think you'd all just have a bad headache, and settle out of court for a reasonable sum. : )

[deeds14]

Iatrophobia - going to the doctor

Glossophobia - speaking in public

[Sunshine009]

Originally Posted by tony0306

I think you'd all just have a bad headache, and settle out of court for a reasonable sum. : )

Or that too I suppose.

[tony0306]

Originally Posted by Sunshine009

Or that too I suppose.

[quietgal]

Fear of most social situations (parties, socials, meet 'n greets).

Any kind of insect or spider with long legs and/or long bodies (with the exception of dragonflies and grasshoppers).

Flying.

Those are the major ones that affect me on a regular basis. I'm also a bit of a hypochondriac and cannot watch horror movies.

[AudreyHepburn]

Originally Posted by 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...)

Alright, what I think will happen, and what probably would happen;

Agraphobia:
I will be kidnapped and sexually abused? By a stranger?

- I will probably not be because I am pretty cautious (if not overly cautious) and I don't trust strangers.

Automysophobia:
I will be kidnapped, and left to fester in my own filth for years and years without ever being able to bathe. Because of that, I will die of dysentery.

- I will probably not be kidnapped.

Ephebiphobia:
I am afraid of teenagers because of their reputation for wanton violence and ridicule of others.

- I will probably not be gang-beaten by a group of teenagers out of the blue.

Taphephobia:
I will die, but I will actually be alive. No one will discover this and they will bury (barry? Goddamn it) me alive.

- The doctors will do a concise autopsy and they will find that I am actually dead.

[Meli24R]

Other than the fear of most social situations, I have
Arachnophobia-fear of spiders

Hypochondria-fear of illness
Nosocomephobia-fear of hospitals
Iatrophobia -fear going to the doctor
^These three combined really suck. If I have to go to the doctor I'm a nervous wreck.

I'm also a bit claustrophobic.

[SK7]

Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations
Apiphobia- Fear of bees
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders
Cnidophobia- Fear of stings
Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps
Acrophobia- Fear of heights
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule

[SourD]

Footphobia. I don't know the proper word for it, but oh man. Don't put your feet anywhere near me. I'm ok if you have shoes on, but if you don't.... ew.

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Originally Posted by SourD

Footphobia. I don't know the proper word for it, but oh man. Don't put your feet anywhere near me. I'm ok if you have shoes on, but if you don't.... ew.

OMG yes!!

Don't ever ask me for a foot massage either. Ugh.

Social Phobia.

Agoraphobia.

Germs. Though I've gotten much better with that.

Big, thick dusty moths. The way they flutter is very threatening to me and the same with mosquitoes.

[Jayne311]

Sorry, I know no technical or scientific names.

The idea of being pregnant scares the hell out of me. I don't mean to insult anyone with kids or anyone who is pregnant, but I imagine it feeling like a little alien slowly taking over my body.

I don't like signing credit card reciepts while cashiers watch me.

I am scared of bugs, all shapes and sizes, although oddly enough, I am not afraid of spiders.

I don't like restaurants because I have to talk to the waiters, and the way they hover around you, even if they have to for their job, makes me nervous.

I hate to answer the phone, and I abhor calling someone. I also always hang up before I have to leave a message, unless I pre-wrote what I was going to say and have it in front of me to read off of.

I hate filling out job applications.

Being in the ocean makes me terrified. I either frantically run out of it when I venture in a little, or freeze and just stand there terrified until I get myself to move.

Solutions: I don't plan on getting pregnant, I don't have to go in the ocean anymore to try to prove I'm not scared. Eventually, if I fill out enough appplications and sign enough things, my hands will stop shaking when I do so. I will use lots and lots of bug spray. I can deal with waiters if I think about how many times I've gone to a restaurant before and not been embarrassed by the awkward talk. And the phone just sucks, but nearly everyone gives out their email now, so I'll just gladly use that.