What phobias do you have?

[jumoo044]

I knew a guy who had a fear of feathers.
My mother has a cotton phobia. Like at the top of pill bottles.
Me...spiders!!! i HATE when there's one in the tub. I can't get close enough to it to get it out. It might jump at me! What do they do...crawl up the drain or something?

 

[AllyandJack]

Anything that stings. They chase me. I was at a beach once and this bee was buzzing around me. DH told me to just sit still and it'll go away. It landed on my arm. I got up and started running. It followed me. I was zig-zagging all over the place and it kept going right along with me. I finally ran into the water and dove in to get away from it.

 

[VSL]

Me: Spiders (specifically the thick black ones that move incredibly fast and can jump around - do these things even spin webs?!)
BF: Snakes

I also have a fear about being buried alive (like being in the coffin), and am terrified of wasps/weird flying stinging things, but these aren't phobia's like my phobia of spiders.

We (BF and I) were talking about this yesterday after coming across a letter in a magazine by a woman who claimed that she had a phobia of oranges. She claimed that she couldn't touch them or look at them but she loved to eat them. That's not a phobia.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are people out there who are phobic of the most crazy things, but if you can put it in your mouth or it's just a fear then it's not a phobia. A phobia is something that will make you cry/shiver/freeze up. It's an extreme fear. You can't 'deal' with it.

Also, I think that everyone, or at least the vast majority of people, has at least one phobia (whether they're aware of it or not).

 

[LoraJ]

Bees of any kind.
Wasps, Hornets, etc. Actually, anything with a stinger. So that would also include scorpions! Lucky for me I don't live in an area known for scorpions.

But bees are a big problem with me.

Same here

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I have a fear of open heights. I'm ok in an airplane because I'm closed in, but if I'm high and it isn't secure, I'm petrified. I was very scared when I brought my son to a water slide recently. I would have been ok, but there was a line so we had to hang out at the top for about 15 minutes--I stayed as far from the edge as I could (and I was already a little scared to go down the slide, so I was quite a sight, but he wasn't old enough to go by himself and I wasn't letting a 6yo show me up! ).

I also have a problem driving through tunnels. I don't mind riding in a car that's going through a tunnel, but I get kind of dizzy, which is fun if I'm not driving, but I'm afraid that will happen if I'm driving. So basically I have a fear of driving in a tunnel, but the fear is that I won't physically be able to do it--that I'll get dizzy.

I used to have a fear of driving over bridges after a couple bad experiences years ago. This year, though, I had to drive over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to get my DD from college. I'd forgotten that I'd have to drive over the bridge until the night before and then went into panic mode and had a hard time even sleeping. And to make matters worse, it was rainy that day. I did it, though, and was so pleased. Drove it coming home, too, and was as calm as I could be. So fears can be overcome!

 

[luckywife]

Mice!!! Just typing the word gives me the heebie jeebies!!

We had one in our house last year, I saw it when I was doing dishes. I jumped up on the kitchen chair and starting throwing knives, forks, spoons and anything else I could get my hands on. Eeeeeeek!!!

I *love* it when people tell me "Oh they're more afraid of you than you are of them." Uh huh, sure! When is the last time a MOUSE jumped on a chair and started throwing silverware at ME?!

Case closed!!!

Mice

 

[chewbacca]

Birds! Birds freak me out, the thought of birds flying into my face or hair. I shiver just thinking about it.

Oh me too! DH and I walked through AK's Nature trail thing a bird flew right behind my head. I jumped on DH's back and told him to run!
He was so embarrassed but I didn't care I just wanted out of there! I won't even try the Flights of Wonder show!

 

[Daxx]

Same fear as Tigger&Belle!!! Fear of open heights! I am afraid of falling from high, open places. I don't mind being high up as long as I'm secure and cannot fall off. For example, I can go to the top of the Empire State Bldg. and not be afraid b/c it's fenced in all around. If it were open, I couldn't stand it!

Funny thing is that we have the Rainbow Bridge which you can walk across (from US to Canada). It gives you a beautiful view of the Horseshoe Falls. I cannot walk near the wall ... I have to walk closer to the traffic. And, lately, any time Daxx suggests walking to the Canadian side using the bridge, I tell him no b/c it makes me a total nervous wreck!!!! I also get this unreasonable fear that some stranger is going to grab my child and toss him over the side.

~Daxx's Wife

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I have a fear of having to go to a movie theater bathroom in the middle of the movie. Those bathrooms are always really big, in the middle of a movie you are all alone, and no one could hear you scream. I just know there is a rapist waiting in there for someone to come in all alone and rape them.

Ok, I know the employees could hear you scream, but that doesn't help me!

 

[*Fantasia*]

I have a fear of lightning. It's not so much of the thunderstrom, but thunderstrom is usually associated with lightning. So I guess I am scared of the thunderstorm too.

I can't be outside, I can't drive. I can't be watching tv, I can't be on the phone. I can't be near the window. I would take my blanket and pillows and camp out in the hallway and ride out the storm. The kids would be right there with me.

I haven't seen a really bad thunderstorm/lightning in Orlando. But I have seen a lot of bad ones here in Detroit (area). The lightning here are so intense. I think more people get hurt from the lightning here than getting hurt from a car accident. I don't know. Maybe it's the phobia in me.

 

[VSL]

I *love* it when people tell me "Oh they're more afraid of you than you are of them." Uh huh, sure!

ITA with you there!

I always say, 'well, if spiders are so darn scared of ME, then why, OH WHY, do they run out from under my bed when I've been stomping around my room for half an hour?! They KNOW I'm there! THEY KNOW IT! They aren't AFRAID of me! They're TAUNTING me!'

 

[donny]

im afraid of spiders

 

[Tiggeroo]

Dentists is the biggest one. After that open heights and scary rides.
My mom is afraid of cotton too. She used to have us pull it out of the aspirin bottle for her when we were kids.

 

[Patty3]

Mice. I'm really one of the most practical, un-nervous people you'd ever see but when I see a mouse, I'm just like one of those cartoon women--shrieking and jumping up on a chair. They just....scurry...and it freaks me out.

I seem to be your twin, living in Virginia.

 

[Southern4sure]

Snakes of any kind and crawly creepy critters.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Same fear as Tigger&Belle!!! Fear of open heights! I am afraid of falling from high, open places. I don't mind being high up as long as I'm secure and cannot fall off. For example, I can go to the top of the Empire State Bldg. and not be afraid b/c it's fenced in all around. If it were open, I couldn't stand it!

Funny thing is that we have the Rainbow Bridge which you can walk across (from US to Canada). It gives you a beautiful view of the Horseshoe Falls. I cannot walk near the wall ... I have to walk closer to the traffic. And, lately, any time Daxx suggests walking to the Canadian side using the bridge, I tell him no b/c it makes me a total nervous wreck!!!! I also get this unreasonable fear that some stranger is going to grab my child and toss him over the side.

~Daxx's Wife

And I have a fear that I am going to jump if it's open. I am not suicidal, not have I ever been suicidal and I don't even play a suicidal woman on tv or the internet , but I have this fear that I am going to lose it and jump. I know in my head that I'm really not going to, but that thought is still there. Strangest thing!

I used to have the same thought when riding on a motorcycle when I was young and stupid. Here I would be on a winding mountain road, on the back of a motorcycle without a helmet. I wasn't afraid of crashing and having my unprotected head hit the pavement, a real fear. Instead, I had visions of bailing off the motorcycle. In my defense, that was 30 years ago and I haven't even done anything stupid like that, so I'm not worried that I'm going to, but I used to get pretty freaked out by it.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

Sleeping bags scare the crap out of me! I can lay on top of them, under them BUT DON'T EVER ZIP ME UP IN ONE!!!!!!!!! I WILL go running the other way! Does this make me a flake?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I have a fear of having to go to a movie theater bathroom in the middle of the movie. Those bathrooms are always really big, in the middle of a movie you are all alone, and no one could hear you scream. I just know there is a rapist waiting in there for someone to come in all alone and rape them.

Ok, I know the employees could hear you scream, but that doesn't help me!

OK, then quit buying so many movie snacks and you won't have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the movie! Case closed!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I have a fear of lightning. It's not so much of the thunderstrom, but thunderstrom is usually associated with lightning. So I guess I am scared of the thunderstorm too.

Then you really would have laughed at me last week. We were in the middle of the rainiest week I ever remember here and I needed to take a shower. I'd forgotten that a person shouldn't shower during a thunderstorm and went to take a shower just as the storm intensified. I remembered that I shouldn't be in there, but it was too late--I was all wet and decided to hurry. You should have seen me racing to wash my hair, which had to be done. I'd never taken that fast of a shower when washing my hair--at lightning speed, you could say! My heart was racing, but I obviously did finish without getting struck by lightning.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Well I am afraid of Windmills...not the kind that you see in Holland but the new kind that are for wind farms. I was driving with my DH near Hull Ma and suddenly out of no where and looming in the air was one of those modern windmills I do not know why but it scares the heck out of me. I gave me chills down my spine and I wanted to cry. Go figure. I am also afraid of bridges that have lots of iron work on them and I do not like to be on land with water on either side like a penninusula.

Then again I have the usual ones soffocation, bugs, fire, and the number 13! OKay guess I am a NUT!