[Closed] Phobias. What ya got?

Dead birds. 🙁

Electricity. It's evil and you can't see it's there.

cinnamon_girl - Member

Dead birds.

What about dead badgers ?

Alfred Hitchcock never made a film called The Badgers, although this gives Jamie and Binners an opportunity to get creative with their e-crayons.

Polystyrene, specifically the noise of it rubbing against anything or together.
I try to get the wife to unpack any new stuff wrapped in it, it does fill me full of dread.

What about dead badgers ?

😀

Seriously I've seen myself turn around on a trail when there's a dead bird lying there. 😳

Big feet on laydeez.

I'm scared of Lions and Tigers.

Heights

Heights is my only proper one - I get dizzy just watching on TV if the camera is point down from a great height.

I am really bothered by people with colds though, can't be near them, and if somoene coughs in my general direction without covering their mouth I get quite wound up.

I'm also scared of being fisted.

No phobias here.

All my fears are completely rational:-)

Heights or more specifically exposed heights.

Climbing ladders, tall buildings, flying no probs. Big drop off the side of a hill sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Probably stems from my early days in the hills when I was sitting on a ledge dangling my feet into space (as you do) and I dropped my lens cap. I can see it now falling down, down down...

I'm scared of Lions and Tigers.

That's not really irrational though is it ?

Unless you want to describe what you think lions and tigers look like ?

And no, they don't look like this :

[img] [/img]

+1 polystyrene

heights, flying, dying (me or the loved ones), and not getting thin..

Crowded rooms

Custard pies, blancmange !

Angel delights ok though

I'm also scared of being fisted.

By a lady with big feet? You need to start hanging around in different bars.

I have an aversion to making 'phone calls which verges on a phobia. Generally ok once talking, but I find initiating a conversation quite hard. It's an order of magnitude worse if anybody else can hear me - which made my employer's recent change to Open Plan a particular PITA.

I now work from home whenever possible, and try to save any phone calls for then. 😕

repeating organic patterns. It's a made up phobia called trypophobia but the following make me fall to the ground and squirm
Surinam toads
Lotus seed heads
some coral

[img] [/img]

*gags*

edit, apparently it's now a 'real' thing

[url] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-you-afraid-of-holes/ [/url]

Heights, 6ft up a ladder can see me whimpering unless I really tell myself to get a grip then I can climb to say the eaves of a house if I have to. Video footage of big drops makes my skin crawl. Been like that ever since I flipped upside down on an abseil at the top of a 120ft cliff.

Weirdly enough after that I was happy to sit in the door positions on military Lynx & Puma helicopters with no worries at all as they were thrown about the countryside, so I know it's purely psychological so I try and combat it where possible. I've done a few rock climbs but the abseil was too much. The climbing instructor says that I should try indoors or from halfway at first as he said it was probably exposure related, if I have some thing to look at then I would be ok (ish).

Would have a fear of flying but realised I don't, I have a fear of hitting the ground at extremely high speed, culminating in a fireball
edit

Don't know whether that's a phobia or an allergy though,...

Large ship propellers. My mate showed me a picture of him diving a wreck where the blades were a lot bigger than him.
The fact he was touching the blade nearly made me heave.

Steep hills 🙄

Actors

They really make me uncomfortable. Couldn't figure out why for a long time - happy to watch a musician or a comedian on stage but I get I freaked out by pretending. I think its the idea that they're lying, everyone in the room knows they're lying, they know everyone knows they're lying - but they carry on lying anyway. I just find that really awkward.

For a long time I found Dates quite repellent even though I couldn't remember having actually eaten any (I hadn't realised they were in sticky toffee pudding). Really squeamish about them - like being asked to put a beetle in your mouth. Then it dawned on me watching telly at Christmas it was because they'd killed the evil spy monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Woodlice make me physically shake. Can't explain it as no other creepy crawler has the same effect on me.

Too big a head on my ale.

Balloons and those rulers you used to get where the picture changed when you tilted it.

I have an aversion to making 'phone calls which verges on a phobia. Generally ok once talking, but I find initiating a conversation quite hard. It's an order of magnitude worse if anybody else can hear me - which made my employer's recent change to Open Plan a particular PITA.

PhilO I hear you bro... Similar issue, but opposite way around hate it at home but fine in an office work environment, ok at home once I get going though. Have the same issue receiving calls. Never though of this as a phobia till you mentioned it and the I thought yip I do that. I suspect I know the underlying reason for my reluctance too, but that's for another time. Well and bravely spoken mate

Giz a buzz when you got a mo will ya.

Actually if you can man up PhilO then so can I, I pretty sure my telephone reluctance stems from the abuse I suffered at the hands of my ex wife, she used to ring and me at work at least 3-4 times a day, if I didn't answer then she'd just ring and ring and ring, If I was working away ( which I did quite a bit) and off duty then the call frequency would increase to about once a hour. If I didn't answer then she'd ring constantly until I did, or she would start on the landlines of the hotel or site I was working at. No mobile service simply meant that by the time she got hold of me she was in an apoplectic rage... God help me if she heard a female voice in the background or the sound of glasses in a bar. If I didn't ring her at least 3 or 4 times a day then I was for it too. She basically was a total control freak. It's only now in hindsight that I'm in a normal loving relationship with a brilliant lass I realise just how manipulative and abusive a she was ( mental, physical, emotional & financial) maybe one day, I'll unburden ... Sorry for the thread hijack.

Nail files, and people filing their nails.
Action man hair.
Big sponge fingers.

Possibly all related, as they all make me cringe in the same way. Freak me the **** out.

Choking - I spend ages chewing my food and any meds I get I either need to chew them or get a liquid prep (which is often).

Heights!

picture change rulers!

makes my tongue itch thinking about them... aaahhh!

none, there's things I'd rather avoid, but nothing that turns me into a shivering wreck..

Phobias are a natural way of telling you something isn't right, so stay away, however some phobias are brought about by previous exposure scenarios are they not (i.e. learned responses)?

I worked with a bloke who had a bird phobia so bad that he couldn't eat poultry unless it was carved so if you got, say, quail at a meal, he'd either have to special order something else or have it taken off the bone before it came to the table. Even then he'd be a bit stressed by the presence of the carcass on the rest of our plates.

Even better he had a mate who had a button phobia. He couldn't have clothes with buttons on them or he'd have a panic attack. I can only assume they met at some strange phobia support group.

i have a phobia of spiders in arab countries,
i think its called iraqnophobia

Things that are larger than life.

Like big models of stuff.

See also those Washing Powder tablets that look like massive paracetamol.

Give me the creeps.

I have a strange one, I can't face a wall at close range with my eyes closed. I get like a funny feeling between my eyes if I'm close up to a wall with my eyes shut. If we go to a hotel and then bed's next to a wall I have to move it away or I can allay it a little bit by putting my hand between my face and the wall.

Commitment, apparently.

Moths.

Hate flappy birds near my head, but its not really a phobia I just don't like it. I HAVE to lay out the clothes I'm wearing on the bed before I put them on, but its probs just a habit really. Weird but not life threatening 🙂

Know a bloke who HAS to count in 3s though, or bad things will happen 😯

Spiders.
Had it quite bad at some stages - I'm talking the howling fantods, spider nightmares etc. Mellowing with age, though - if I see a spider in our house I'll just ask the missus to deal with it and it's not the crisis it used to be.

Wasp nests. Not the wasps aspect. That horrible colour / size / texture combo.

And bears.

been decorating for a while, and I've started getting that fingernails down the blackboard thing when touching sandpaper, especially if it rubs against my nails 😯

Shipwrecks.
Not being on a ship whist it sinks, but the actual ship on the seabed.

No, I've no idea why either.

[b]Bureaucrats[/b] - It is not exactly a phobia but I fear calling them zombie maggots jobworth in front of others.

[b]Heights[/b] - This must be related to age.

[b]Tapeworm[/b] - I don't like them in my body.

Deep water but only if it's completely flat and calm. You just know something is lurking beneath.

Large ship propellers

And bears.

Isn't being scared of bears completely rational?

Isn't being scared of bears completely rational?

You'd think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell

Yes... fear of big, nasty frothing at the mouth, carnivores with lots of teeth who have you on their dinner menu isn't really a phobia... its common sense

Oh FFS, I knew if I clicked in here there'd be a trypophobia pic which'd set me off. Literally sitting here shivering and scratching myself now 😆 Not really my idea of a classic phobia though, it's not really a fear, but it's in the same camp I suppose. It just short circuits my brain completely.

Classic phobia- and even more pathetic- mottephobia, fear of moths. Not the massive exotic ones that seem to freak more folks out, they're lovely. The common, everyday, inch long hairy bastards. Everything about them is awful- the way they move, that noise they make when they fly, the bumping off things... THEY FLY INTO YOUR EARS

This girl knows:
http://stop-the-silence.weebly.com/1/post/2011/02/mock-interview.html

Large bodies of water, I even hate going over bridges that cross them (heights not an issue otherwise)

Injections
Touching my body where I can feel a pulse
Touching the inside of my arm .

Having a blood test is my worst nightmare as it involves all 3 .

Other than that I'm as hard as nails of course 😀

none, there's things I'd rather avoid, but nothing that turns me into a shivering wreck..

Looking in the mirror at the barbers.
Or any mirror for that matter.
And no, I don't look like the Elephant Man.

Needles a specifically when the skin depresses as they go in. Scapels are the same.
Bodies of water where I can't see the bottom - even as small as a pond.

Le fisc.

No phobias here.

People say I've got a phobia, but i've not. Lets get something straight, this is entirely rational. Dentists.

Two weeks before I need to do this thing I'll start getting nervous. Dwelling on it. One week before I'll be lucky to sleep. Two days before, I'll cancel the apointment and it'll start all over again. This will go on for a few occasions. Eventually I'll find myself in the waiting room of SATAN and generally I'll then go through with it. Although I have left more than once before and phoned them up afterwards to pay voluntarily.

But sooner or later I'll find myself in the chair of DOOM. Now the problems really start. By this point I will be sweating profusely. Not just a little bit, copious amounts of sweat. I will be soaked. My fingers will be like rods of steel gripping the arms of the chair. My eyes will be so tightly jammed shut they look like very, very old prunes. The dentist will start prodding about and talking shit. About half way through the visit (and I'm talking about a checkup), I'll make him stop. What? WHAT? What are you talking about? He'll roll his eyes and try and coax me back to mere TERROR so we can continue.

Afterwards I experience something bordering on euphoria. Obviously i'll need to go straight home to shower but it's done util I come for any work.

I blame being immune to opiods and a series of very, very nasty dentists I had to see in my youth.

Infinity does it to me. The very big and the very small.

I used to get a recurring nightmare where everything keeps getting divided to smaller and smaller units. Took ages to snap out of that even when I'd woken up.

Heights, but not all heights. More like man-made vertical surfaces. Fine flying and on mountains, but looking down (or up) the side of a tallish building freaks me out. Can't abseil either - did a bit of climbing years back and airways had to find a walk down from the top.

Buttons freak me out a bit.

But the absolute worst is slugs. The thought of treading on one barefoot sends my brain into meltdown.

Tories

Spiders, crabs (the sea creature), swimming in ,near or over seaweed and hate answering phones!

Farts.

Ultimately it's minute particles of turd floating in your direction.

Mirrors, too. I have to turn them facing a wall after use. No eye contact can be made with oneself when using a mirror, no siree...

Big feet on laydeez.

I work with a bloke who is really hung up on this 😯 he had a really gorgeous girl chasing him and he wasnt interested because her feet were to big. Madness 😆

You know what they say about big feet. Maybe he feared it was the case with her...

Spiders. I think this comes from my brother hating them when he was younger and then more recently my first girlfriend had a huge fear of them. It's getting better as time goes on, but I still freeze and really panic inside if I see one, even a photo.

Edges. The fear of falling off the egde when I'm standing on my feet, but not the height itself.

The big ship propellers is an interesting one....

Blood tests. Which is quite annoying because I have to have one every year for my work medical certificate.

Its not the needle, I can have a jab without worrying me at all. It's something hugely unsettling that puts me into a stressy upset state for weeks before. And when she does it to me I get the cold sweat, dizzy, faint! I know it's going to happen, I'm a rational person so I try to reason it out but it's a phobia that I can't seem to control.

Berlin.... whenever i am there i can't wait to leave and the first thing i do when i get home is shower and rid myself of the Berlin dust/air. just really don't like the place despite having good friends there. just a dirty town with aggressive beggers and dog shit every 10 yards. and i lived in London before moving to Germany.

nail files. ok with sand paper (have to be being a joiner) but can't sit next to the GF when she gets the nail file out.

GF is adverse to wet cloths and sponges.

My daughter has a real problem with holes - especially repeated patterns of holes in plants etc. - never knew until today it was a recognised phobia!

Spiders, deep instinctive fear and not learned as no one else in my family is bothered.

I also have a fear of ships propellers but also the hulls, have terrifying images of being in the water next to a large ship. Went snorkelling once in Florida and freaked out upon returning to the dive boat as I could see the whole of the underside. Also don't like dams, something about all the water being held back is not right.

Don't like traversing hillsides and ruts.

Tories

An entirely rational aversion, surely, Loddrik?

I can't even see a photo of a rodent (incl. mice, but especially rats) without my testes crawling up into my body. I lived in a house in the Caribbean that had a mouse infestation, and they got into everyting. It was horrific.

And I sympathise unreservedly with whomever mentioned the telephone. I am pathalogically incapable of calling people. Especially if other people can hear me.

'shore, plank bridges and narrow trails with no run off.

Never used to bother me, but then had an off when the rear wheel fell through a bundle of branches which crossed a ditch.
Nothing I did wrong but I now have bugger all confidence when accurate line choice is necessary, which in turn creates more wobble, which in turn lowers confidence, which in turn...

As a very rational person it bugs the poo out of me! 🙁

needles going into my body - don't mind other peoples! and deep water as I swim like a Russian tank in er,,deep water!

Pierced a mate's ear once when I was about 11. Two ice cubes clamped either side of his ear straight from the freezer - when they dropped off, proceeded to push through pre boiled stud with a pair of pliers - other mate holding a piece of wood other side of ear to push against. I remember the force required and the popping sensation as it went through the layers of skin. He was well happy with the result and didn't get an infection or any issues with it!

rocketman - Member
Heights or more specifically exposed heights.

[s]Climbing ladders[/s], tall buildings, flying no probs. Big drop off the side of a hill sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

I'm also in the trypophobia camp. Am also now squirming after that pic. When I found out it had a name I googled it then nearly threw up when google search also brought up images. 🙁

And blades. Razors, scalpels freak me out.

I have the heights and drops thing, really bad. Can't walk ir ride on the side of a steep hill.

Had an ex with a really bad moth phobia. One hot summer night we were getting jiggy and I thought to myself "My word, I must be hitting the right spot tonight" as she writhed beneath me before she threw her head back and screamed "There's a ****ing moth in here you ****ing pillock!"

She was right, a big hairy one that had flown in through the open window attracted by the bedside light. Suffice to say, the moment was lost, and the relationship went not long after

Buttons, especially if not attached to a garment and have a piece of thread on them. Making me gip just writing about it. My brother is worse than me, he can't wear anything with buttons attached. Ultimate horror is a button drawer or jar of them. Off to throw up now.

I also have the deep water, Victorian waterworks/reservoir things, ekranoplans, the waterwheel at Styal mill, and other bits of massive engineering, ship's propellers included

[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]