What are your Phobias?

[AlanUK]

Ok, I was just sitting here watching the tv and the Audi advert came on where it starts off as a spider and then turns into the car. The spider in the ad always gives me the creeps as I don't particularly like spiders

I can directly relate this fear to an event in infant school when a friend of mine was bitten by a spider and started to bleed before this we used to collect them from the bushes in the playground like many young boys Afterwards though I just didn't want to be part of the gang anymore

Anyway it all got me thinking...what are your phobias and do you know why you have them???

 

[mandymouse]

My eldest DD has a fear of lifts, I don't really have any fears except that the Dis maybe down and I can't get on

 

[florida sun]

Ooh good question

I have a phobia of bees and wasps, I got stung on the thumb when I was a small child

Also as well, Its not a phobia, but I can not bear to hold or to see anybody holding wooden ice lolly sticks, ooooo it goes right through me eeeek!!!



Sue

 

[mandymouse]

I used to know someone who had a fear of peaches, she hated the feel of them (that's wierd isn't it ??)

 

[pokemon_master]

I have a slight fear of heights. I am ok on planes; but if I look down at something that is very low or very high up I get a bit scared.

I hate bugs too, but if I have to I will get rid of them.

 

[wils]

Ooh good question

Also as well, Its not a phobia, but I can not bear to hold or to see anybody holding wooden ice lolly sticks, ooooo it goes right through me eeeek!!!

Sue

Hurrah, its not just me! Mine is more wooden sticks against teeth - just the thought of it sends a shiver through me. I will eat a lolly but get rid of the stick ASAP afterwards. As for wooden tongue depressers bleugh!

 

[jen_uk]

I have a fear of worms, when I was little a horrible boy put a worm down my top!
Im also scared of the dark and when I was a child I was scared of being alone in a house. I dont know where that fear came from but I can remember that from a very very young age I refused to be left alone in a room, I would have hysterics if I was left alone upstairs or downstairs in the house!!

Oh and linked to that fear I am absolutely petrified of ghosts!!

 

[Minniespal]

I can't stand anyone vomiting around me. When I was a little girl someone at school was sick over me and ever since then it really freaks me out. I also have a fear of falling. I'm ok with heights but riding the TOT and Doctor Doom's Fearfall really freaks me out.

 

[alisonbestford]

Butterflies...............

No idea why but they frighten me to death even if they're pinned on a board!
Something about their fat, furry bodies I think

 

[FloridaSam]

Pigeons for me. I freak walking through the town centre if they flutter towards me. I'm the one ducking and screeching

 

[LeCras]

Anything with more than four legs, or wings. The combination is worse obviously. I remember going to a butterfly place in Thailand with DH - I ran through the entire place flailing my arms like mad... *shudders*

Charlotte

 

[maggs]

I hate cotton wool! I walk down the supermarket aisles avoiding the stuff. I fled from the flower market at Xmas when I discovered I was standing beside cotton wool plants. It is vile.

Maggs

 

[Queenie]

Snakes! They're horrible horrible things I also don't like flying, getting too and from WDW is a nightmare for me. I'm kinda dreading next year as we might be going to Disneyland California which means even longer flights

 

[FizzyPop]

Tea bags And if they are wet soggy ones that is even worse

 

[JohnnySharp2]

I have always had a fear of heights , not the best of fliers...recently I seem to have developed a fear of elevators/lifts, not sure why, just sometimes the doors seem to take ages to open..only really use them on holiday, mainly at the airport.

 

[disneyholic family]

I think i've always had a terrible fear of heights and edges.
I can't go near a window wall (the floor to ceiling windows) in tall buildings without breaking out in a sweat. The truth is, i don't go near them at all, and can't stand it if i'm with someone who does.

However, i've always tried to push against the fear (i used to do a lot of rock climbing and rappelling when i was younger). But it didn't get rid of it at all. In fact i think it gets worse with age. I even have trouble driving on bridges now.

And i have always had a terrible fear of elevators. Getting stuck in the elevator in the World Trade Center (the one from Windows on the World) didn't help, but i'd had the fear long before that. And more recent incidents in elevators have made it worse. I always try to take the stairs rather than the elevator if i can.

those are the two biggies.

I also have a problem with thunderstorms (making florida, the place with more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the world, highly 'entertaining' for me as you can imagine). The thunderstorm problem stems from early on in my life. I grew up in tornado alley. My nanny was deathly afraid of tornadoes and whenever a tornado watch was issued, she would take me down to the storm cellar and hold onto me....so that couldn't have been good. And since there were always nasty thunderstorms at the time of a tornado watch, the two things must have been tied together in my head.

oddly enough, i'm not afraid of tornadoes at all....whenever i've encountered a tornado, i've been very calm and level headed in my actions....really strange considering.......

i think that's really it for major phobias.....i don't particularly like bugs and snakes, but i can manage around them....where i live we have lots of huge yucky bugs and really wicked snakes, not to mention scorpions, but i'm really not bothered by them at all......it only takes about 20 hits with my sandal to wack a scorpion to death....i can say that from experience (when i executed the scorpion who'd had the audacity to show up in my basement)...

 

[gilld]

Oh yes,
Heights - not flying though - just standing on the edge of something and looking down
Confined spaces - no Mission Space for me
Mice - they move so quickly
Spiders - ditto
Birds - ditto and even worse they swoop

And lots of others to a lesser degree!

 

[disneyholic family]

Oh yes,
Heights - not flying though - just standing on the edge of something and looking down
Confined spaces - no Mission Space for me
Mice - they move so quickly
Spiders - ditto
Birds - ditto and even worse they swoop

And lots of others to a lesser degree!

i'll second that 'confined spaces' one......

 

[mrs-mac]

HHHHmmmm well spiders are my biggest fear, i hate September for that very reason!! I also fear people vomitting, comfined spaces, flying and clownes

 

[wilma-bride]

I, too, have an irrational fear of spiders. Having seen that Audi advert last night for the first time, I had a nightmare about them last night (spiders, not Audis ).

Tha only other thing I'm really scared of is fire I think because it's so unpredictable. My uncle used to be a fireman and I remember thinking of him as a real hero because I could never do it.