Do you have a silly irrational fear??

[Pop Daddy]

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[browneyes]

Do you have a silly irrational fear??

yes

 

[2bemarried]

I don't know how I could forget about my fear of needles the first time I posted. I've gotten a little better but I'm petrified of them. If I have to give blood for any reason I have to lay down..not sit up. If I sit up...I WILL pass out. If I have to let them prick my finger I WILL pass out....whether I'm laying down or not. Just thinking of it gives me the willies. ICK

Oh....as for the windows....add that to my list too. I won't go to sleep knowing that any of the windows are open...even on the second floor. They must be closed and locked.

 

[Patio]

I'm petrified of cats

 

[Beauty]

I'm petrified of cats

You should come visit me, my babies would help cure that fear! They are the sweetest most gentle babies ever!! Don't know what I would do without them.


I have 2 irrational fears. One is having a heart attack. I suffer from panic attacks and every single one stems from me thinking I'm having a heart attack. Its so stupid! If my big toe hurts somehow I think its a heart attack. Whats even worse is that I've had probably 10 EKGs over the past 2 years stemming from this fear and my panic attacks and there is NOTHING wrong with my heart, but do I listen to the Drs??? Of course not thats why its irrational I guess.

The next thing and the funny one is Birds! Not any birds but SeaGulls. It stems from watching The Birds when I was little. When we are at Disney I literally will squeal if a bird gets to close. They terrify me. I make DH walk with his arms around me and over my head if there are sea gulls close....ewww I shiver just thinking about them.

 

[CamColt]

Originally posted by 2bemarried
I don't know how I could forget about my fear of needles the first time I posted. I've gotten a little better but I'm petrified of them. If I have to give blood for any reason I have to lay down..not sit up. If I sit up...I WILL pass out. If I have to let them prick my finger I WILL pass out....whether I'm laying down or not. Just thinking of it gives me the willies. ICK

Im the same way with giving blood. I have no problem having shots at all, but when it comes to the needles going into the veins, whether its for blood or IVs, forget it, Im all done. Ive had to sit down even when my kids had blood drawn(they were fine), and Ive passed out a couple times. I guess the fear here in veins. Even talking about it here is making me queasy.

 

[KristiKelly]

This is not my fear, but my step-MIL, she has a huge fear of birds. Well, every year we put lights on our Christmas wreath on our front door, last year they came to visit and got to our house about 11:00 at night and it was about 20 degrees outside. When we opened the door to let them in, we saw something fly by, at first I thought it might be a big bug or something (a fear of mine) then we realized it was a bird, in my kitchen, uh oh, not one bird but 3 birds. After about 15 minutes and my Step-MIL hiding in the bathroom we finally got all 3 birds back outside, unharmed. She came out of the bathroom shaking, sat down at the kitchen table and guess what - another bird!!! This was soooo hilarious I was rolling - VROOM - back to the bathroom. Needless to say, they didn't come to our house this year over Christmas.

 

[onecoolmama]

I will not go to the bathroom in a public bathroom. To the extent that if I am in a house with more then 5 people I wont go. Private hotel bathrooms I am ok..because those get sanitized every day...but I will not go in any others. In fact..I used to not step foot in them before my 3 yr old was potty trained..now I walk in hold the door for him run wash our hands and run out.

It is soo bad that I have gotten many a kidney infections and a few while I was preganat because I would rather hold it all day then step foot in one of those. This is a big reason I won't go to Disney World pregnant. Maybe if I was to stay on property where I could get to my hotel fairly quickly. But not off property. I can only go about 7 hours with going to the bathroom while pregnent...not pregnant I can go to any amusement park and just not go!

I have really good friends that when we are out..the other moms will take three or four kids in together so I dont have to go in...and my DH will take DS when he is around. Otherwise, we just do really short trips to the mall and we go potty right before we leave the house!

 

[disney_girl27]

i'm totally petrified of injections! It's not because they hurt..i don't know i'm all calm and then i pass out..it's weird and i can't stop doing it!!
I HATE swimming in the ocean...i'd much rather scuba dive. I just have to see ALL of my surroundings i can't be half in the water just watching outside I have to see inside the water.
I also have a panic of surfing...i just think some big shark is going to come and eat me..i know that you're more likely to get struck by lightning but..it's just scary..and I still surf anyways
And i never step on the sand in the water..i always have a stick so I can poke it in as I go..my dad once got stung by a ray and I don't want that to happen 2 me
I also have a fear of being in a small room with a bunch of ppl..it's like I can't breathe and i get claustrophobic
I also fear that i'll be alone in the world and nobody is there to help me

well those r my biggest fears

 

[onecoolmama]

One day when I was about 8 or 9 my brother 11 or 12 asked me what I would do if my mom died. I have had a fear of my mom dying when I was little up until I knew financially I was ok. I still dont want her to die...but I was honsetly scared for a long time about it. I remember my brother telling me that we would have to split up..and I was going to stay with my Aunt Rosie and My brother was going to live with my Aunt Bernadette. Neither of us would have stayed with my step-father and we didnt want to stay together. My mom was and is the glue of our family!

Every time my mom didnt feel well, I would freak out and try to stay home with her...just to make sure she would stay alive!

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

No one has mentioned my top two irrational fears. The first one is about grates and storm drains. I will not step on any grates that are on the street, I guess I am afraid that they will give and I will go falling deep down into the ground. I believe I got this fear from my mom because she has the same fear and refuses to step on them also. I will take any measure possible not to step on a grate that could fall through. My dad loves to harass us about this.

My next fear is a fear of anything that is dressed up in a costume. This includes clowns, disney characters, any parade character, and many other things like that!!! I am terrified and I will literally stop in my tracks and not move until someone forces me to go. I have no idea where this fear came from, my mom thinks it was from a person dressed up in a wonder bread costume when I was like 2. One time at AK in WDW I was walking down the street and a big bird on stilts came up to me and I about passed out. I was 21 at the time!!!!

I am also terrified of needles.

 

[poohbear1029]

Escalators....especially DOWN! Spiders.....ICK! Will have MAJOR meltdown if large spider close to me! And here's a different one.....popping balloons....I hate it...I especially can not be the one to pop it.

Oh, and my biggest medical fears....anything eye related.....and incidences where pins are exposed outside of the wound.....woooh!

 

[2bemarried]

This isn't mean but I'm so happy to hear others have a fear of needles too. My mother is relentless telling me that I will never be able to handle pregnancy and giving birth.
Back in August I had to have a lump in my breast removed. I opted for surgery instead of the biopsy b/c of the needle. What they didn't tell me was that I would be stuck in a mammogram machine for 15 minutes while they put a needle and wire in my breast to determine where the lump was. I screamed to the top of my lungs that I was going to pass out **I didn't pass out thanks to a nurse with a cold rag on my neck...but I though I was going to** and still feel very sorry for anyone in that vacinity.

 

[MeanLaureen]

I used to have a fear of needles myself. You guys with this fear will be glad to know that if the time comes when you will have to have blood drawn often something just kicks in and you aren't scared of it anymore. Since I get bloodwork done once a month it doesn't bug me in the least.

Now the humpback/camelback crickets! ACK! I hate those things!

I think my worst fear is of spiders though. Especially this one night when I woke up - we fell asleep with the lights on and when I looked up I saw a spider dangling from a thread only about 18 inches from my face. I promptly scooted over towards Matthew a foot or two and then let out the loudest blood curdling scream known to man (notice I was smart enough to move over in case I scared the spider and he fell!)

I think Matt's new fear is his wife waking him up with a blood curdling scream in the middle of the night!

 

[noel]

Sheesh Jaimee, just when I though I knew you well! Now I know what to get you for your next birthday - a keychain!!

I've got a ridiculous fear of clowns. As an adult I know it's dumb, but I am just terrified of them. Once outside of a Lens Crafters at a local mall a clown tried to talk to me and I looked at him & said "You're not funny!" and ran away in tears.
My father told me clowns were bad when I was a kid, so it's just one of those things!

DH has a fear of getting his haircut. It was fine when he had a full head of hair and grew it long (shoulder length), but now he's quite bald and needs to keep it really short because it's very curly but thin. If he lets it get too long on top (over an inch) it stands straight up and looks like baby hair that won't lay flat!
So it's quite a chore to convince him to be a "big boy" and get it cut.

On a hilarious note, as a young child my older brother was petrified of spare tires. He'd scream, shake and cry. Once Grandpa took him a Sears automotive store just to see what would happen!!!

 

[arminnie]

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[FergieTCat]

Fear of heights is my big one. DH convinced me to get on the BIG ferris wheel at California Adventure while on vacation 2 weeks ago. About 10 seconds into the ride, I froze and started crying. I was so scared, I couldn't even turn my head to look at him. I just stared at the floor. He tried to move across the car to sit next to me and I freaked out. I didn't want ANY movement inside the car until we could get out. We weren't even in one of the swinging cars, but in a stationary car. It was just too much for me.

Tina --

I read your post and felt your panic. I doubt I could be convinced to even go on that ferris wheel. I hate ferris wheels and sky rides. I like roller coasters though.

I am terrified of being in a high open space. I am not afraid of flying, but am afraid of falling. I had a panic attack on the pedestal level of the Statue of Liberty. So much so that a stranger, after noticing I was frozen, pale and sweating, led me back inside. I went up the Eiffel Tower and ended up inside gripping the infrastructure, having a chat with another tourist who was doing the same thing for the same reason (his wife and my friend eventually rescued us). I did manage to take pictures at the rim of the Grand Canyon.

And, yes, ventroliquist dummies do come alive at night!

 

[chell]

Originally posted by Pooh_Friend#1
No one has mentioned my top two irrational fears. The first one is about grates and storm drains. I will not step on any grates that are on the street, I guess I am afraid that they will give and I will go falling deep down into the ground.

I have that one too! Also, I can't walk over a grave. EWWWW!!! I guess I'm afraid they'll come get me for disrespecting them or something.

I'm so scared of spiders that if I have to kill one I won't use my shoe. I have to use my hubbys shoe. That way if their family smells their dead family member on a shoe it will be his and not mine - they'll attack him, not me. See, how irrational is that?!!?

Needles, pain, etc. I'm afriad of being in a lot of pain right before I die. Just let me go quick and pain-free. Actually, I think I'm just allergic to needles and pain.

Being killed in a car accident.

Clowns, freaky mask people like you find in Italy at Epcot, mimes, etc.

I think Matt's new fear is his wife waking him up with a blood curdling scream in the middle of the night!

My husband has that fear! Occasionally, I would wake up in the middle of the night and see this HUGE, did I mention HUGE, spider with millions of legs just hanging over my bed. My hubby says that I let out the most horrifying scream he has ever heard. I think I've only done it about 5 times in 12 years, so that isn't too bad.

Guess, I've said enough and made myself look really crazy.

 

[Tina]

Thanks for your comments, Donna. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. I don't know what I was thinking when I got on that darn thing!

 

[Alice28]

I fear driving on bridges, especially with my kids in the car. I think over and over, "What if I get in a crash, and my car goes in the water, and I can't get the kids out of their carseats fast enough?!!!" Silly, I know---I white knuckle it going over bridges...and Portland OR has a ton of them as the city is cut in half by a big river!

I also HATED that Ferris Wheel at CA Adventure and I am beginning to hate those ski lift type attractions- we were just at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk this morning and they have one of those and it gave me the heebies looking at it. Perhaps because when I was 20, my friend and I were on it, and the power went out in Santa Cruz- we were stuck up there for over 30 minutes, with our feet dangling. They said that is the only attraction in the park that has a back up generator in case of power failure.