What's Your Phobia?

[Jack_Dawson]

I didn't think I had one, but after last night, I may have a fear of moths. Three huge ones made their way into our place, and the low droning sound and the erratic flying gave me the willies. What about you?

[Deja Q]

1. I'm so homophobic that I can't touch myself?

:wow:

[khashka]

53. Easy solution

Find a guy who isn't homophobic to touch yourself for you.

Just call me Ann Landers :)

Khash.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Everything. That's why I almost never leave my house

[Jack_Dawson]

3. Staying inside and watching the news 24/7

is supposed to cause that. Any truth?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I kicked the newswatching habit and I still hate to leave home. Really,

though, my fear is being laughed at.. it's a socail thing. But yeah I do have times where I lay awake at night worrying that someone is tring to break into my kids' room, or that lightning might strike my house or something. Always gets worse when I am depressed.

[Jack_Dawson]

9. Have you tried exercising?

Usually when I get depressed it coincides w/ an extended period of sloth. Not a panacea I know, but it might help.

JD

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Sex.

The very idea of sex gives me palpitations. :scared:

[Jack_Dawson]

5. Unfortunate Phobia

Thoughts and prayers.

[EvolvedChimp]

47. Finally. . .

All my life I've been searching for a person with that fear. You see I have a sexual fetish so that I can only get-off if my partner suffers a massive heart attack. Call me

[khashka]

54. And so it does us all

And that's one of the good parts, you wimp!

Khash.

[smbolisnch]

7. Spiders and flying.

:scared:

[Mojambo]

8. Chickens

I'm afraid free ranging chickens are going to peck me. Ever since I was a kid.

[Jack_Dawson]

11. I can kinda get that actually

Plus I remember my aunt killing the free range chickens and it freaked me out.

Signed,

Sensitive Kid

[Fenris]

10. Venustraphobia

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. Spiders

The bigguns. Littleuns don't seem to bother me anymore.

[Jack_Dawson]

13. How big is big?

Tarantula size or daddy longlegs?

JD

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. Tarantula size

Daddy longlegs don't bother me.

[graywarrior]

15. George Bush

I grab the remote and change the channel in a panic when he shows up on tv.

[Floogeldy]

34. That is not a phobia

Phobias, by definition, must be irrational fears. Your reaction is not.

B-)

[El Fuego]

16. Going to a Wal-Mart

[Floogeldy]

37. That is not a phobia

Wal-Mart is a scary place, on many levels.

Your fear is not irrational, and therefore not a phobia.

B-)

[El Fuego]

55. Whew!

What a relief! :D

[blue neen]

17. Big bugs (the kind that crunch when you tramp on them)

like cicadas and cockroaches.

We had the 17 year cicadas 2 years ago. I would not go in my yard for 6 weeks.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

25. Here's a disgusting story for you

It doesn't say much for my school, but it's the truth! Unfortunately, our student lounge was infested with some rather huge brownish cockroaches a couple of years ago. My friend was screaming and moaning about one she saw and how awful it was. I promptly went over there and smashed it with my boot. She SCREAMED her bloody head off!

[blue neen]

38. I would have freaked!

The sound of that big ol' cockroach being smashed. ARGH!

He deserved it, though. No reason for those creatures to be alive.

[fudge stripe cookays]

76. I can deal with roaches....

believe it or not....

it's ANTS I hate. Several times in my life I've encountered nests of ants (once, fire ants, the Texas predator), and nothing freaks me out worse than having hundreds of teeny tiny things crawling all over me.

I'd rather hear a big crunch than feel things crawling on me. Especially when they bite and leave scars!

Get ready for em, honey. Everybody in Texas has em, and they bleeping hurt!

FSC

[Pithlet]

18. Spiders

I can't even enjoy many outdoor activities, anymore. Camping is out of the question. I have my house sprayed regularly for them.

[erinlough]

19. moths, big hairy crazy flying moths.

I can't stand them and I can't kill them because they are so fat and juicy I get sick thinking about the mess they will make. I can't make myself touch them either. Fortunately I have a cat who loves to catch them and eat them!

[Jack_Dawson]

27. Cool! I'm not alone

I think it's the mess they would make that really freaks me out.

[iconoclastic cat]

20. Sharp corners. Seriously.

Especially metal ones.

[shesemsmom]

21. My Phobia is being stuck

in this town with all these idiots and there getting nothing accomplished. And having No enforcement of the law!!!:hide: :scared: :nuke:

[Jack_Dawson]

28. What town? Where? n/t

[shesemsmom]

35. Madison

Indiana... where idiots reign

[Dukkha]

22. Realtors

I'm terrified of realtors!

[marions ghost]

59. I can relate

I don't trust them. Also they control everything about how a community operates and have too much political power locally.

I am even more allergic to building/remodelling contractors. Have had to fight rip-offs so many times am severely allergic to anything having to do with houses. This fear and loathing is at the level of a phobia. (They are often in bed with Realtors).

But maybe these phobias are still too "rational."
OK, If you want irrational phobias, how about claustrophobia. I'd be one of those people who'd have to have therapy to endure a full-body cat scan.

[belladonna]

23. I'm terrified of spiders

My daughter loves them and just has to rescue every last spider she finds too :scared:

[medeak]

24. fear of being homeless person

from this administration

[Jack_Dawson]

29. That's understandable

Are you working?

[medeak]

83. yep

am one of those rare wealthy dems...but still have anxiety keeping 60 employees employed.

[yvr girl]

26. I'm afraid of snakes hiding under lampshades

I know. I'm strange.

[CornField]

30. Water -- especially driving over bridges or through tunnels

[Jack_Dawson]

31. Can you swim? n/t

[CornField]

33. Yes - quite well. Here's the recurring nightmare

I'm driving across a bridge. I've got all three of my kids in the car (ages 13, 5, and 2). Something happens (varies each time) and we end up going off the bridge and into the water. As the car begins to sink, I start getting the kids out of their car seats. I tell the 5-year-old to hang onto her sister's neck and kick her feet. I tell the oldest to swim as hard as she can for shore. I strap the 2-year-old to my back with a belt (or whatever I can find in the dream) and push the two girls out the car window just as the whole thing goes under.

I hold my breath, get my bearings and then take myself and the 2-year-old out the window and to the surface. I can see the girls heading for shore and I go to follow them. I rush ahead because my son isn't breathing. I get to the shore and start CPR just as my oldest daughter begins to yell. Her sister has slipped off her back and is somewhere under the water. I'm faced with the decision to save my son or my daughter.

That's where I wake up each time.

[Jack_Dawson]

43. Good Lord - you have Sophie's Choice water dreams every night? n/t

[CornField]

61. Not every night, but at least once every week.

[hippiechick]

91. Variation: being UNDER water

.. like in the movies where the plane crash lands in the ocean and the water is filling up the cabin ...

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[usedtobesick]

32. I am afraid of clowns

I hate clowns... I read IT and in just reinforced it. My X decorated our newborns room in Clowns and I slept in the hall to protect him. 26 year old army snake eater sleeping in the hall to protect his son from toy clowns... I didn't even drink back then...

:scared:

[valis]

36. I'm scared to death of the Michelin man.

[Danmel]

88. How about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man????

Sorry...I couldn't resist.

I don't like bugs at all and I get the willies from large flocks of Birds. Thanks Mr, Hitchcock! Seriously, sometimes if I pull up t my house and there are a lot of birds around, I'll drive away. Those beady little eyes, those oh so sharp beaks....

[libnnc]

39. spiders and bats

[spacelady]

40. Being in a big crowd and spiders. nt

[tyedyeto]

41. Claustrophobia...

I would never make it thru an MRI or CAT scan.

[Jack_Dawson]

44. Me too - but MRIs are nothing

Just pop a valium, lay back and enjoy it. And know your insurance company is footing the bill...it's all good.

[Jean Louise Finch]

42. Masks

Or anything that covers the eyes and mouth of a person. Yikes. Disney world is my worst nightmare (for several reasons), because of all those giant masked characters wandering around ready to kill me. And Halloween is almost too much for me to bear.

[enigmatic]

45. Bridges

Suspension bridges especially; I HATE going across them...

[EvolvedChimp]

46. Timberwaxobia

I have a fear of being chased by timber wolves around a kitchen table, on a freshly waxed floor while in my socks. It all started from a childhood expierience where I was chased by timber wolves around a table, just after taking off my shoes to avoid messing up mom's just waxed kitchen floor. <Shudder>

[Jack_Dawson]

48. What's a Timberwolf?

I mean, I know the basketball team and everything but you know.

What was your Avatar?

[EvolvedChimp]

78. I'm talking about the basketball team

Savage bunch they are. My aviator was what it is now when I picked it. It's just my poor attempt at being clever. But the file name was bart_simpson.GIF so I'm assuming it was a picture of maggie

[AlienGirl]

49. Spiderwebs, those spiders with really skinny legs, vomiting, and

medical stuff involving my head, dental stuff, and social situations.

I caught myself developing a new phobia not long ago. I was briefly stuck between floors in an elevator, and I started getting mildly panicky every time I got into an elevator for about two weeks. It never progressed to the level of a true phobia, though, because I caught it so early.

Tucker

[Jack_Dawson]

50. Like tongue depressers?

Those freak me out big time. Those and bite wings. Gag city on both.

[AlienGirl]

52. Tongue depressors, laryngoscopes, all that sort of thing

[imenja]

51. snakes

and it's a serious one.

[Burma Jones]

56. Heights

Even if someone else is at a ledge or overlook, I feel like someone has kicked me in the balls. At movies or even TV shows, I get a real physical reaction to heights. Once, I was at the Illinois State office building in Chicago and it has an atrium, I approached the edge to look down, looked down and passed out. I don't even like being 6'2". I think if I ever went up in a hot air balloon, I would just shut down.......

[La Lioness Priyanka]

57. cockroaches

[calico1]

58. Enclosed areas, bridges and boats.

I can't swim so I always think "Titanic" if I am on one which I try very hard not to be. I always fear the bridge is going to collapse as I am crossing it and I can't stand being in elevators or other enclosed places where easy escape is not possible. Oh, and when I lived in NYC I always went around those grates that you see on the sidewalk. Was always afraid I'd fall in. :scared:

[Bonhomme Richard]

60. Bees, Wasp, Hornets....................

freak the hell out of me. I'm not allergic but when I was a little kid I was attacked by a nest of yellowjackets and ever since then I freak.

LOL, now the Orwellians know my weakness.

[Shell Beau]

62. Roaches. They are disgusting. Yuck!

[dhinojosa]

63. Ladders

I hate those things.

[Jack_Dawson]

65. Ladders?

I don't get it...is it tied to a fear of heights?

[dhinojosa]

68. no....cause I love looking down from buildings etc.

I just get on and the ladder shakes and then that's it I am ready to scream.

[unsavedtrash]

64. clowns and sewer grates

[Spirochete]

86. We all float down here...

[warrens]

66. Heights and leftover food

And doing my taxes.

[Jack_Dawson]

67. Leftover Food?

I dun get it :freak:

[Mutley]

69. Spiders

Like this one that was in my neighbor's back yard last summer. It measured about two or three inches across including the legs...
:scared:

[Jack_Dawson]

72. Yikes! Do you live in Australia?

Where was that taken?

Those face-level webs remind me of the jungles of Northern Queensland..

JD

[Mutley]

74. lol... no. Baltimore Maryland.

I did some research and I think it's a Black and Yellow Garden Spider. Not poisonous, but still very scary!

[Karenina]

81. I was running through a row in a cornfield

and ran SMACK DAB into one of those suckers. EEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!

[Mutley]

89. which is why you will NEVER see me in a corn field

[CornField]

90. Somehow I think I should be offended by that remark

:D

[Mutley]

92. omg

:rofl:

you probably wouldn't want me in you anyway....

um... this is not a sex thread

[skygazer]

70. Water

It's the only thing I'm afraid of and it pisses me off. I nearly drowned when I was 8 years old and I've never been able to shake the fear of water. I like being near it and I will swim if no one is anywhere near me. But if someone splashes water, especially in my face, it freaks me right out. I can't even watch movies in which people are struggling in the water - I hyperventilate.

I hate it - makes me feel weak and stupid. :grr:

[Dervill Crow]

71. Fire and water.

Sad, huh? When I was 17 I learned to strike a match and use a lighter and started smoking just because I felt so empowered. No kidding. Still can't go in a body of water bigger than a hot tub.

[DelawareValleyDem]

73. The General Discussion forum

[Jack_Dawson]

75. LOL

No shyte...haven't been there since Bush stole his other election.

[noonwitch]

77. Fire-I'm also fascinated by it

I like it in a controlled sense, but am terrified of it in other ways. I was in a house fire as a little kid and have never forgotten it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

79. Lightning

which we get plenty of in Florida.

[NorthernSpy]

94. awaiting a storm right now, and I dread it so much I feel kind of sick

I'm just hoping that it won't reach here.

It's kind of amazing that you can stand living in Florida. Some parts of that state have more cloud-to-ground strikes than any other place in the US!

Of course, a lot of the people who frequent Storm Phobia live in Tornado Alley. Even other phobix are a lot braver than I am, it seems.


:scared:

[mongo]

80. Medical procedures

I had a systoscope (think colonoscopy, but turn over), every year from when I was 8 until 18. I also had my blood drawn every month, and my veins haven't really recovered.

I can't stand being in hospitals, and I will start shaking uncontrolably when getting an IV - even though I know it doesn't really hurt.

The last time I had a systo - it was about 6 years ago now, a Dr tried to do it as an office procedure. I ran out of his office screaming obscenities. I found a dr who would do it in the hospital under sedation.

You would think that Dr's and Nurses would be sensative to PTSD issues, but they always minimize my feelings.

[marions ghost]

95. that's not an irrational fear --

you have been conditioned. I agree that drs and nurses need to be much more aware of medical-related PTSD. I almost died once from a misdisgnosis (I saved my own life), and also once went into cardiac distress from an allergic reaction to something I told the Doc not to give me, as I knew I would not tolerate it (so he proceeds to give me an overdose). So now I insist that they LISTEN to whatever I say--if that respect and sensitivity is NOT there, I'll walk right out of the room. So I have overcome my medical phobia somewhat by fighting back, but also by finding and advocating doctors who treat me like a partner in the process. I don't want any other kind.

[Steph13]

82. ANY kind of insect, and heights!

I have 3-4 cans of Raid in my house in case one of my 3 cats doesn't kill whatever it is first! A roach got into my house once, and I sprayed it with Raid, and had to cover it with a paper towel so I couldn't see it. Had to have a friend come over to dispose of it! Also found out I can go on rollercoasters fine since you're strapped in & the force forces you in the seat... but put me on a ferris wheel, and I FREAK OUT!!!!

[Jack_Dawson]

84. Ferris Wheels scare you,

but rollercoasters don't? You are one screwed up puppy...j/k aren't we all. :toast:

[jus_the_facts]

85. Developin' a phobia of voicin' my opinions in public......

.....got so many knives in my back I can hardly *stand up*....if I get fired AGAIN the fear and loathing will cripple me once and for all. :scared:

[Spirochete]

87. Heights and going blind

[curse10]

93. Crowds

panic attack ensues.