[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
You are not alone
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..
+1
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
Yup, it's being exposed with a big drop in front. Or behind. Entirely rational, slipping and falling would result in death or serious injury.
Oh, and spiders. was alright as a kid, used to play with them, until a Garden Orb spider bit me. Put me right off, that did!
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
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Spiders all day long. My skin is crawling even writing this down. I've no idea where it comes from.
I remember once when my 3 year old found one crawling along the garden fence. He dropped whatever he had in his hand, ran in to the house and came out with one of his plastic hammers. He then proceeded to hammer the spider into a messy pulp....I've never had a prouder moment.
Oh, and wet slippy roots...I've had too many 'off's' on them 😀
As others have said maybe not phobias more aversions.
Dry foam sponges and tights, I hate them catching on the rough skin on my hands.
Unprotected edges on rooftops, not ideal as I am a telecom engineer and a large percentage of sites are located on roofs.
Deep water again not ideal as I swam the English Channel last year and spent most of the time wondering how long it would take to reach the bottom if I sank.
Probably more but I'm obviously dealing with them.