Do you have any phobias?

[WillParkinson]

I'm afraid of heights.

[Neoma]

1. Agoraphobia.

*sigh*

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Been there.

I lost six weeks of work to it. Over it now. It is awful. Just awful.

[Left_Winger]

2. Elevators

[TimeChaser]

3. Elavators and Centipedes

[stellanoir]

4. I have a phobia

about threads about phobias. I'm outta here.

[Random_Australian]

5. That I will randomly start blurting unsocialble stuff in public, or

randomly try to break the nearest persons neck.

How's THAT for a phobia?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. People.

[Deja Q]

7. People. Did you really need to ask?

[WillParkinson]

10. Yes. I wanted you to fear me.

<smile>

[Lumily]

8. Heights and small enclosed spaces.

[scarlet_owl]

9. Spiders. I am terrified of them.

[LeftyMom]

11. Heights nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Feeling trapped in any way

All phobias except simple phobias (those of a specific thing, i.e. spiders) are based in feeling trapped or out of control. I have literal agoraphobia — being in the middle of a desert or other wide-open space — as well as claustrophobia — being stuck in the middle of a large group of people or otherwise physically crowded.

These would seem to contradict each other, but they're really based in the same thing, and they can extend to a whole bunch of other situations, like being stuck in traffic.

But the bottom line is, a phobia, in practice, isn't really the fear of an object or situation, but of how we react to it. We fear how we'll feel when confronted with it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. Bats

and very loud sirens.

[flaminbats]

15. proofreading my writing...

strange that I never find any mistakes in my work, but I can always see mistakes in another person's :banghead:

[kiraboo]

16. Nope, but I had a friend who was phobic about buttons.

The bigger the button, the worse the reaction. He had no idea why.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Spiders...and bugs in general, but mostly spiders.

I'm the sort of person that would jump into the nastiest brawl to help a friend but I will squeal for the nearest boy to come kill a spider for me.

LionessPrianyka got to witness me having a mini-spaz attack when a butterfly flew into me at the march (I didn't realize it was a butterfly at first).

Oddly enough, I'm fine handling with crickets and worms. Probably because my mind just associates them with feeding my lizards.

[1gobluedem]

18. Bridges

I hate driving over them -- scares me silly. I don't like to walk over them either.

[SacredCow]

19. Clowns

"Mustn't sleep- clowns will eat me...." :scared: