Anyone else have a phobia so strong that you can't bear to look at pics

[progmom]

...of the object of your phobia?

I just almost started hyperventilating over a picture someone posted. :scared:

[chickenscratching]

1. definitely-spiders get me

whats your phobia?

[progmom]

2. same.

:scared:

[chickenscratching]

3. oh! it's not a picture around here is it?

if its in a thread, I must be sure to stray far far away!

:scared:

[progmom]

9. well i should have known better than to click on a thread with the word

spider in the title.

it's miss millie's thread. :scared:

[xmas74]

32. I'm not afraid of them but I am allergic to spider bites.

So I do prefer not to see them around.

[Shoeempress]

7. Seconded, Never saw arachnophobia for the reason.

[chickenscratching]

14. good move!

seeing it at age 7 is what did it to me, i think :scared:

[progmom]

15. it's really hard to avoid

it seems like it is always on cable. x(

[chickenscratching]

18. horrendous!

can you kill a spider, progmom?
:scared:

[progmom]

21. i can do it for progspawn

gotta put on the brave face for the kid. :scared:

[chickenscratching]

26. oh, wow, that's brave progmom!

if i have to, I go for a bottle of cleaner, and then
*spray *spray *spray

until he's dead and soggy.

:cry: i'm scared of spiders, but I don't like having bad spider karma!

[ghostsofgiants]

30. My old roommate used to always get me to kill spiders for her

Every couple of days she'd knock on my door and whimper, "Jonathan, there's a spider in the kitchen" or wherever the spider happened to be. It was hilarious, because it would always be little tiny harmless looking spiders.

[El Fuego]

38. Spiders terrify me.

[JimmyJazz]

4. The famous photograph of the steelworkers eating their lunches

on the beam of the rca building FREAKS ME OUT :scared:

Hold me, please. :(

[chickenscratching]

28. ugh!

i agree, my feet and toes are tingling just thinking about it! :scared:

[progmom]

29. yours do that too?

i have never met anyone else who describes it that way! :pals:

[chickenscratching]

34. mine always do that!

:pals:
:toast:

[Lavender Brown]

5. It was my pic thread, wasn't it

:(

For me, it's bridges and insects. Yep... I don't even like to look at pictures of bridges. :shrug:

[progmom]

11. no, silly girl, not your picture thread.

:hi:

[Goblinmonger]

24. My wife

hates bridges that don't have visible means of support from the car. She HATES the Marquette interchange in Milwaukee. Don't go there if you hate bridges...trust me.

I won't post the picture, but here is the url (with a space before the last backslash) so it doesn't post for those phobic) if you want to see what it will look like after construction. Doesn't give it justice until you are on it.

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/04may/images /ber23.jpg

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Beware!

:o

[BlueIris]

8. Arachnophobe of the Century, here: DON'T MAKE ME LOOK

at pictures of spiders. DON'T. Do not. Yuck.

[Double T]

10. I thought you were looking at a bush photo..

that is my phobia.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. Oh, poor dear, I think I know what you mean.

Imagine having to live with such a thing all your life- it can be downright dreadful...

[terrya]

13. self delete

Nevermind. Sorry.

[asthmaticeog]

16. Oh god, me too.

Once some *motherfucker* posted a HUGE spider pic in a thread of mine. I couldn't go back and reply to people in my own friggin' thread.

[progmom]

19. oh - that does suck

x(

[Aristus]

17. I could lay down and let spiders crawl all over me.

Spiders are our friends.

Show me a picture of a cockroach and there'll be a hole shaped like me in the ceiling! :scared:

[progmom]

22. thanks for the image

x(

[asthmaticeog]

27. I agree that spiders are our friends

and that they have enormous utility given where they are on the food chain and all that. It's just that the sight of one completely fucks me up.

[Misunderestimator]

20. I'm sorry.... I didn't know that my pics did that to you...

:bounce:

[progmom]

23. your pics do *something* to me

;)

[Misunderestimator]

25. ...

:blush:

[NYYFan]

31. Rats and Mice- OMG ! Just typing that freaks me out.

It's so bad, I can't listen to the noises they make on TV/movies either without getting the heebie-jeebies.

[Jessica]

33. In ...

Science class, when I was a kid .. I couldn't touch the pages in my text book that had pictures of snakes on them. When it was time to flip the page, I was just screwed. :scared:

[Democrat 4 Ever]

35. Yep, I can't even stand to hear the word, type it, and a photo

would just send me around the bend. I'm not scared of too many things but there is one member of the animal kingdom I refuse to even pretend exists.

When I was in high school Biology I told my teacher that if he would make me deal with this particular chapter in the book I promised not to freak out in his classroom (projectile vomiting was certainly a possibility, screams, fainting definitely - and I have never fainted). Why he didn't try to help me "get over" (ain't gonna happen) I will never know. To his credit I became his gofer anytime we had anything to do with the "too scary to name" things he would send me on errands, photocopying, etc. It helped he was the basketball coach and always had a hundred things to do and that I was a really good student for the rest of the class.

My kids and family know not to say the word in front of me even though the kids and grandkids are not afraid of them. Took me a long time to hug one of the grandkids when I found out she had actually held one about six months before. And I LOVE that kid.

Stupid? Incredibly so. Am I going to change? Nope. Everybody has something, I'm just really wacky about my phobia.

[grace0418]

36. I almost throw up every time I see a picture of Dumbya

Does that count?

[skygazer]

37. I can't deal with movies and images relating to water

Like Jaws or Open Water or anything that features people in a watery situation. When they show people struggling around underwater, I just curl up in a fetal position and twitch. :scared: Just thinking about it right now makes my toes curl.

[sundog]

39. snakes... i fucking hate snakes

[truthbetold]

40. Bees!

:shudder: Enough said.