Fears/Phobias?
 

What are you afraid of? Public speaking, tight spaces, spiders? Here's the place to discuss your fears and phobias...if you dare. ;)

Fear
 

I do not like snakes. I dont care what anyone says im not touching that damn thing. TY

I fear one thing and one thing only....any kind of harm coming to my child. I once read having a child is like letting your heart walk around outside your body. This is so true.

If I were to list a second fear it would be to cause another harm. Especially in a vehicle accident, etc.

Katniss~~(as to snakes, heights, speed, heartbreak, etc.....bring it!)

I don't feel so alone or illogical!

*Love roller coasters, but down escalators or super steep up ones make me search for the elevator (which I also don't like, but dislike the least?). It's only been in the last few months that I can do a down escalator at all.

*Hate bridges, ladders, narrow cliffs (hard when most of your rocks are on cliffs), narrow stairs, stairs with the back of the step knocked out so it's just the step.

*Balloons. I don't like it when they pop. I can't stand next to a carnival game with balloons of any kind. I forbid anyone to bring a balloon in my house.

*I think the balloon thing is related to my fear of explosions and loud noises. Even in a movie, when there's a threat of an explosion (nearly any action movie, anything with gasoline, fire, etc.) I'm plugging my ears and whimpering in my seat like a puppy until explosion all gone. Needless to say, this limits the movies I'll watch.

*Mushrooms. I can be around mushrooms in the store, but start to get antsy around the ones with big caps. But out in the wild, forget it. I will go to any length to go around a mushroom, or to avoid sitting on a log with fungus on it.

It could be a sensory processing thing. You seem to be okay with heights when you're strapped in but not when you're in control. Believe it or not, that makes sense to me.

Mine:

• Hornets/Bees - (I can't stand the buzzing sound. Arrgh!)
• House Centipedes - (The way these things move is just unnatural!)
• Being Questioned - (I pretty much go all wide-eyed and mute when someone questions me. It's a trigger.)
• Driving on Highways - (Sensory processing thing.)

Spiders...I don't care how small YOU think it is to me it's the size of a tarantula(which I had fall on me once in my car..yes jumped out of a moving vehicle tvm)..please take it outside...

Heights but depends

Tight spaces like tunnels especially underwater ones...trust me you don't want to be a passenger as I am driving through the tunnel from Logan airport in Boston.. Passenger: Did that speed limit say 45? ME: Umm No It's 80

Clowns..No Thanks

But snakes, bugs or snarling animals bring it on...

Getting a paper cut in my eye.


It could happen, it's possible, although I worry over it way more than is necessary considering the likelihood.

The heeby jeebies
 

Living in Florida, my biggest fear is aligators and snakes. :blink:

When my son came to visit me last summer, he wanted to go to Gatorland Zoo. I had to put my big girl panties on and take him. But before I walked into the park, I took a xanax to calm me down. True story!

I'm with Daktari re. big things in the sea. When something unseen bumps my leg it freaks me the hell out. Having said that, it doesn't keep me out of the water; it just propels me quickly out should an encounter occur.

Snakes and spiders poping up out of the blue can cause a panic attack,but if I see then first I can deal with them for the most part.High places,the higher I get the worse my vertago gets...people who startle me suddenly will kick in flight or flight defence with me that can get then a telling off, I haven't punched anyone out over it...yet.real close tight places...I have an MRI comeing up Thursday so loud music and breathing exersises usely work.

I have a phobia about SPECIFIC bugs...generally speaking, anything with more than 8 legs..and I'm none too partial to those wood louse bugs... but centipedes are prolly the only thing that will send me running and squealing like a girl....

I've come to realize I am NOT afraid of heights like I thought. I'm scared of falling. Big difference. If I feel secure, heights don't bother me at all...this is great since I have always wanted to learn to rock climb :)

I'm the same way
 

I'm the same way. I will Jesus across the water.

Teeth
Worms
Dating

I am very afraid of spiders. I think they scare me the most when they are somewhere above me, like on the ceiling in my bedroom.

So you could never date a worm with teeth. :sunglass: *laughs* Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

Phobia: Cats - I've gotten better about it as I've gotten older [it used to be full on frozen fear and anxiety ridden] but I still cringe for the most part when one comes near me.

Fears: I'm afraid of the dark. I always have been and I probably always will be. And any kind of rodent. Including ferrets. I'm dying just thinking about them!

I am also deathly afraid of heights.... will start tearing up at the thought of being near the edge of something tall.

I also have a fear of bridges.... I dream of driving off bridges and have this fear that something with force me off a bridge or there will be a hole in the road and my car will fall through.

Spiders (though my reactions to spiders have great entertainment value, I'm told)

Those creepy flat slow-moving bugs- shield bugs, I think they're called. I call them stink bugs, even though they don't all stink.

Sunflowers.

i have quite a few fears, but the ones that will absolutely petrify me:


Spiders. I dont mean, i just scream and say "kill it". My heart races, i sweat, I can almost not breathe and yes- I may cry and hyper ventilate based on how close and big it is. I will kill the small ones and I'm fine. but ones that are the size of a penny or larger, and they hop? I will start crying and hurt myself to try and get away from it.-- oddly, i LOVE snakes.



Not being able to save myself. Alot of people think I have a fear of planes/flying. Its not that, essentially. Its the fact that when I'm in an aluminum can, 50 million feet in the air, if anything goes wrong I am absolutely helpless to save myself. All I can do is sit there and wait to die. I can't flap my wings etc. However, I am fine with getting in a helicopter. You can jump out of them, if need be. I avoid any situation where I think I cannot save myself.



Living a life without cause. (self explanatory)

Maggots. Yeah, no. I don't that it is truly a fear as much as it is soul crushing revulsion. Were I ever faced with a medical situation that could best be treated with maggot therapy I would have to be rendered unconscious and never told about it. Ever. Knowledge would lead to immediate institutionalization.

Gotta say my fear of bridges has abated a bit since I now cross several dozen (including the thrilling 7 mile bridge) every few weeks. The first few crossings of said uber long bridge sent me into full blown black out, hyperventilating spasms, which were a boat load of fun with my kid in the back seat.

Good good times.

Caterpillars. I am not afraid of bugs in general at ALL, just caterpillars. I had a very traumatizing childhood incident when I was about three.

My Dad decided it would be a good idea to burn down all the tent caterpillars out of the tree in the front yard. (He's not too bright sometimes.) Result being--a literal carpet of both burned and alive caterpillars all over the front lawn.

My three yeard old oblivious self ran outside to play the next day. With bare feet. Standing in inches of squishy caterpillars and alive ones that were crawling up my legs. I was fucking paralyzed and SCREAMING my head off. I will NEVER forget it.

If I so much as SEE a caterpillar. OMG. It's not pretty.