Weird Phobias

[Cassidy]

knives, cabinet corners, chocolate.

 

[fluffycow333]

only 7.8% of the world population has phobic disorder.

You're like a constant downer, huh?

 

[DramaQueen]

I am exactly the same. For as long as I can remember I have had this morbid and intense fear of dinosaurs... You are braver than me as I wouldn't ever go to a dinosaur park as I know that the panic attacks that follow would be embarrassing and frightening. I too cannot bear dinosaur bones or anything remotely dinosaur. I have also suffered nightmares about them. My kids find it hilarious, I find it embarrassing and difficult xx

i'm glad i'm not the only one!
my sister tried to make me watch a video of the jurassic park ride at IOA today and i started getting really flustered. My heart starts pounding and i feel really paranoid! I'm paranoid even thinking about it! I wouldn't say it's a 'phobia' because I can live with it, but it's definitely an intense fear!!
Everyone always makes fun of me for it, and I know it's odd and sort of funny, but it's a real fear that I have! And I have NO idea where it stems from!

 

[Sparx]

You're like a constant downer, huh?

 

[cheesyf0x]

Hmm i'm afraid of fish... ULTRA SCARED! I don't want to swim in the sea as i know there are fish in there :'(

 

[PigletGurl]

Choking. That said, I only drink liquid medicine, and I don't eat hard candy or food that is hard to chew and swallow, like big sandwiches. It totally ruins my life.

Freak Accidents. I avoid sharp corners, outlets, anything and everything that can cause a freak accident. This happened ever since i saw the Final Destination Saga.

Fear of my one true love dying. Im afraid once i found it, it will be gone. I've found it, and im always paranoid he will die.

Those three are what ruin my life.

 

[PigletGurl]

those aren't really phobias

if she says they are, then they are. there are some people afraid of milk. and that is in fact a phobia.

 

[PigletGurl]

I also don't eat if there isn't any liquid in sight.

 

[Sparx]

if she says they are, then they are. there are some people afraid of milk. and that is in fact a phobia.

it really doesn't work that way. if it did, everyone would have every sort of disorder in the world and psychologists and doctors wouldn't be paid the big bucks to tell us when we're sick. i don't doubt that everyone on this thread is AFRAID of the stuff the posted, but for every member of this thread to have multiple phobias is not only statistically impossible, but it would be such an insane number that it would be all over the news.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Okay, I understand what you're talking about.

 

[imabrat]

if she says they are, then they are. there are some people afraid of milk. and that is in fact a phobia.

I don't think you're getting the point. It doesn't matter what it is, but the definition of a phobia is something that is so scary to you that it effects your daily life and inhibits your ability to act normally. If, whoever it was sorry I forgot, indeed had a phobia of needles, they would need to be sedated just to get a vaccine. If someone had a fear of needles, they would fight but end up grin and bearing the vaccine.

Phobias cause intense, debilitating anxiety attack. I have had a phobia, that was onset by anxiety disorder. I have fears of snakes and clowns, but my phobia was that of using a restroom. I will intentionally stray from clowns and snakes, but (at that point) I was so phobic of using a restroom that I would, ahem, refrain from using it as long as I could. (Which ended up being very long, and very painful. ) I was so phobic that I would cry, scream, have a total meltdown about it and I had been sedated a few times.

Do you see what I mean? They are two waaay different things.

 

[DramaQueen]

it really doesn't work that way. if it did, everyone would have every sort of disorder in the world and psychologists and doctors wouldn't be paid the big bucks to tell us when we're sick. i don't doubt that everyone on this thread is AFRAID of the stuff the posted, but for every member of this thread to have multiple phobias is not only statistically impossible, but it would be such an insane number that it would be all over the news.

yup totally agree.
just like the amount of people that are 'ocd' or have 'anxiety' , just because you are 'obsessed' with doing something or get anxious in nerve wracking situations doesn't mean you have a full blown psychological disorder.

 

[Sparx]

yup totally agree.
just like the amount of people that are 'ocd' or have 'anxiety' , just because you are 'obsessed' with doing something or get anxious in nerve wracking situations doesn't mean you have a full blown psychological disorder.

yes, ocd only affects 2.3% of our population.

 

[pigletgirl]

BIRDS!

When I was about 1.5 years, my aunt got me a parrot puppet from mexico for christmas and I literally went into a panic attack. Apparently screaming out of sheer terror and crying hysterically.

Well its pretty much still the same. Little chickadee's and hummingbirds are the only things I can semi tolerate.

I haven't been officially diagnosed.

 

[Sparx]

BIRDS!

When I was about 1.5 years, my aunt got me a parrot puppet from mexico for christmas and I literally went into a panic attack. Apparently screaming out of sheer terror and crying hysterically.

Well its pretty much still the same. Little chickadee's and hummingbirds are the only things I can semi tolerate.

I haven't been officially diagnosed.

my mom is afraid of birds too! she's afraid they'll peck her eyes out. lol

 

[aquarhapsody]

Okay, so I don't have a specific phobia, but I have a really wierd fear.

Ever since I was a baby, sci-fi movies scared me.

Movies where people transform into something, get bigger, get smaller, their face changes, etc. have scared me so bad I can't sleep sometimes.

I remember watching a certain sci-fi movie where the main character transformed repeatedly into different people, and I was DEATHLY afraid of it.
Everytime I'd pass it in the video store, I'd cry and run the other direction.

To this day, I can't watch sci-fi movies. They keep me awake at night, and who knows when I'll get over this fear.

 

[bananda]

my sisters have their dancing concert coming up and i recently found out that my older sister has to wear a mask for part of her hip-hop dance. i'm freaking out about having to watch it...

 

[I Am What I Am]

Not a true phobia, but I do go out of my way to avoid it. Although it's like second nature now.

I have a fear of human contact. Like people touching me. At all. Like even brushing against me freaks me out.

 

[marypops!]

With mention of most of our phobias are fears, I thought i'd post again...

Fear of needles (or injections. Sometimes anything sharp) - Started when I was 4 and had a blood test. I've pretty much hated needles since. I remember when I had to have a meningitus jab, the first time they tried to give it to me, I was crawling along the floor with my mum holding me by the legs, trying to get away from the needle, and I was crying throughout. They finally gave up and gave me a different time to get the jab. That time, it took 3 people to pin me down to the floor so they could give it to me. That was my last injection, and I was about 10/11. I get really uncomfortable if someone is standing near me with anything sharp, and get thoughts of people going to stab me with them. Doesn't help when during my English class, the guy sitting next to me would get out a swiss army knife from time to time...

Dinosaurs - The most realistic, the scarier. Won't go on Dinosaur, ever. TV shows about them scare me. Never watched Jurassic Park due to the dinosaurs... Things like that.

Heights - Looking down from them. Not much to write here, other then feeling uncomfortable looking down from heights.

Scary stuff - Obvious I'm kinda a wimp. Things that are meant to be scary will most likely scare me. I have a list of things that scare me at WDW. I won't watch horror movies, because they scare me. I just don't like being scared.

Spiders - Not me (sometimes...) but my sister Ellie. I'm pretty sure she has arachnophobia. She's so scared of spiders, that even the most cartoonish looking spider will make her scream. She'll freak out about the tiniest spider being in a room, and won't even enter the room again until it's certain the spider's not in there anymore. I've seen her standing on the corner of a sofa, cowering in the corner, crying, when a spider entered the room and she couldn't leave because it was blocking the doorway. Things like that. That's a phobia, right?

 

[LUCiD]

I developed germophobia after I learned about the Swine Flu spreading to where I live at a quick pace.