Cool, a Phobia thread!

I was just curious as to what people are irrationally afraid of. I
for one have a close to maniacal fear of cockroaches. When I see one, I
mutilate it until it doesn't resemble a roach anymore. Also have a
partial fear of gravity but heck I'm into flight so it figures.

There are so many more phobias than the ones you have listed, you should have included an "other" option. My particular phobia is of bees and wasps. It's truly uncontrollable how I react when one pays too close attention to me.

I concur with Juim. I'm afraid of death/fast spiders/big spiders/deep water/heights.

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I'm a walking wreck.

Heights make me really nervous, and if I have to go across a footbridge, I have to walk along the middle so that I can't see down below quite so much!

Like Juim, bees and wasps make me react in ways I wish I wouldn't! When I was younger, a wasp came near me and I turned round and ran - straight into a lamp-post, knocking myself out. All I remember is waking up in bed with a cracking headache.

People pointing sharp objects in my direction freaks me out too!

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you should have included an "other" option.

I got rid of the gravity phobia and added the "other".

My vote was Batophobia (wierd name). I fear that even 2m boards of wood will fall on top of me. Sucks.

I have a fear of swimming in the sea/ocean on my own, thanks to watching too many shark documentaries in my youth. Also, I recently started to develop a fear of flying (more to do with turbulence knocking the plane out of the sky at 36,000 feet than terrorism), though that seems to be slowly going away again. Strange given that I've flown about 40,000 miles a year for the last 10 years or so.

i fear things that can harm me, only if i can't defend myself/prevent it from doing evil stuff to me.

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No option for poison headcrabs...

I guess of all the options given, apart from other, I've probably got arachniphobia. Also big moth phobia, whatever youd call that.

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1. Bees/wasps/etc.

2. Bridges

3. Heights

4. Flying

5. Dentists

That's about all I think. I can't understand being afraid of
spiders, to me they're so cool! I've got a pet snake and tat
kinda freaks some people outas well.

the aliens coming back........

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A guy showed me one of those hissing cockroaches a while ago and said some people actually keep them as, well, PETS. Now what kind of man wouldn't
want a giant hissing cockroach as a pet? It was my nightmare come-true!
And what's more, I wasn't allowed to kill it but every bit of it's
aspect looked as if it was begging to be stomped-on.

By my standards, tho, lizards snakes and toads are cute. My favorites are lizards, they're cool.

I can get pretty freaked out by spiders, but I'm getting better around
them these days. Used to bloody terrify me, and my sister used that to
her advantage on too many occasions.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

dies

I used to have a problem with bees/wasps until I realized they don't
sting you if you leave them alone... but even THAT got me stung once
'cause I just let it climb up my shirt, then a few minutes later I
noticed it was in my HAIR, then like 10 minutes later I just casually
stroked my wonderful hair and STIIIIIIIIING :sad: Oh well.

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I don't like spiders, but I am no fan of cockroaches either.

Back in Taiwan, cockroaches are as big as the palm of your hand, and
they can fly! At night, when someone turns on the light, the room
would be filled with fluttering insects. Sometimes, for unknown
reasons, they seem to have predilection of flying into people's faces.

I hate that.

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I was camping and had a June bug dive bomb me like eight times before it died. Stupid bugs...

oh yeah, i am afraid of almost everything alive in a swedish forest (giant mosquitos, giant wasps, giant swedes etc.)

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Boo f**king Hoo

Back in Taiwan, cockroaches are as big as the palm of your hand, and
they can fly!

Strangely enough, that just about how they are here in Romania. But
what's the point in wondering why? After all, we have black widows on
the seaside and we've had about 6 tornados (like the ones in the US) in
2 months!

Black widows... saw some of those in my dad's workshop back in the day. Scaaaaaary. :sad:

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I was camping and had a June bug dive bomb me like eight times before it died. Stupid bugs...

Those things can be really nasty. Not because they're dangerous or anything, but because they sound like a B42 bomber.

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June Bugs...are they those big black flying bugs that grow in forests?

a phobia will send your body into a state of panic, while the spider is crawling up your arm say, but it can only exist in a state of panic for so long, usually only a minute or two. if, for some reason, the spider stays on your arm beyond that point, you will begin to relax. doing this two or three times is usually enough to greatly reduce a phobia.

get someone with a jar of crawly-bugs to strap your arm to a table (ReNo's sister sounds like the right kind of person :smile: ), and if possible, make a vid and post a link.

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No restraint system could keep this on me for more than 30 seconds:



(the giant hissing cockroach. who wouldn't want one?)

Although if you stare at this pic for more than 1 minute, you kinda
tend to see the interesting side of this creature (what am I saying
smacks self hard on the head).

I spent six years living in the Philippines and the giant flying cockroach was ubiquitous.

I remember once I pushing back the shower curtain, still dressed, and a
roach on the curtain that I didn't see managed to fall into the sleeve
of my tshirt without me noticing. A few seconds later as I was
walking out of the bathroom, it started flying around in my shirt,
trying desperately to get out.

I was in elementary school at the time and I started screaming my head
off and frantically shaking my shirt... which only made the roach more
upset.

Eventually it dropped to the floor and scurried away.

I'm surprised I'm not permanently scarred from that episode. I
loathe the sight of them, but I'm not afraid of them. Although
the idea of them eating my eyebrows or nails in my sleep does creep me
out.

Another creature worthy of my fear: earwigs



They say that they enter people's ears.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Leperous</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I have a fear of swimming in the sea/ocean on my own, thanks to watching too many shark documentaries in my youth.</DIV></DIV>

I have the same phobia, but also including swimming pools on my own- maybe its genetic. Also afraid of cockroaches because when I was around about 4 we lived in Belize, and had a roach nest with queens and over 2000 roaches in our house! Every night they used to come out of the floor and crawl everywhere- scared to death of them unless they are contained.

cockroaches are evil buggers too- invunerable to radiation and live without a head for a month!

Also, just remembered- I have a really strong concentration- it's completely selective, but when it comes to some films i.e. the Grudge, I can easily confuse these sorts of things with real life as my imagination can be really intense due to my concentration- quite annoying really, I can get freaked out really badly by some stuff. The best example is "It" which I watched at age 7 or 8, and scarred me all throughout primary school where I was terrified of being alone!

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I have a realy bad fear of Spiders, i dont mind bee's/wasps too much but i wont stay near them if i can.

i think there is a fear of everything, so ive herd. but who trusts their mates aye? :razz:

Although for some reason ive had a fear of anything like daddy long legs..... urgh

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I have a fear thats not clearly definable. I drive a lot, but fear crossing any bridges. Since I must cross them, its a fear I deal with but know not why I fear them to be honest.

I have a secondary fear of heights on anything mettle. I can climb an incredibly tall wooden ladder with no problems at all, but an aluminum ladder sends chills up my back so badly that I cannot transverse it more than a few rungs. I can climb trees, I cannot climb mettle towers, such as a water tower or an antenna tower.

Weird. To my knowledge, I have had no reasons for these fears, they just exist.

I fear no insects. I respect many, but fear none. Same with most living things I suppose. I like to think all living things have a purpose, but have yet to ascertain what good a chigger is.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I'm a little afraid of heights. Just a little. I enjoyed the view out of a flying plane the other day.
But I can't just stand on a cliff and look around or down. Especially when the wind blows....

And I'm afraid of people (especially my friends) would think .... things (I don't really know what exactly) of me and abandon me.

Is anybody afraid of dying? - I am. I'm afraid of dying unnecessarily.

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Define, Dying necessarily please.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Now you got me.

That's really tricky. Dying unnecessarily would be something like "walking just around, tripping over some stupid thing lying on the ground and falling into a junk press (with a additional: Not having done anything useful in your life of what you could be proud of)".

Edit:

Dying necessarily would be some kind of honorable death you can be proud of. Maybe even whilst doing your duty (whatever it may be).

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I'm not really afraid of dying. However, if I can't sleep
at night, and my mind wanders onto the subject and I ponder it for some
time, I do spook myself out a lot.

The thing i fear the most is heights. I get scared s**tless when i am 2
metres from the ground, i think caused by when i was a toddler i used
to climb high things in my house and fall off. I always climbed higher
and subsequently fell farther so i think my karma is biting me in the
ass again and trying to make up for all that fearlessness.

My second worst fear is moths. There is nothing to me more terrifying
than sitting on my couch and suddenly this monster size moth starts
flying around my head. I'm so afraid of them im afraid to kill them if
that makes any sense.

I'm equally afraid when Rival comes over to my house because to get
sadistic pleasure from hitting me, feeling my chest and calling me fat.
Personnaly i think its caused by a rejection from the opposite sex but
thats just me.

oh yeah, i am afraid of almost everything alive in a swedish forest (giant mosquitos, giant wasps, giant swedes etc.)

There really aren't any large insects in sweden, unless you count the swedes as insects :wink:

Those mosquitos are just plain annoying.

I dislike heights, spiders with long legs, worms, centipedes and a
little of this and that that crawl. Also, I fear that someone would
steal my computer, or anything else I value. When I'm leaving the house
and no one else is home I usually check every window and door just to
make sure that there's no easy way in.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Heh, people who have that fear would be afraid of the word that describes their condition. That would suck.

Person 1: So, what are you afraid of?

Person 2: Long words.

Person 1: What's the name for that?

Person 2: ...

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Lets see...

I'm a rock climber and a scuba diver, I like spiders and snakes (though huge spiders do make me a bit nervous), I've never seen a cockroach in the flesh, and I'm curious about death...

I think the only thing I really fear is harm to my loved ones. The fact that there are many dangers from which I cannot protect them angers and terrifies me.

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

I have a phobia of sliding on loose rock, especially on snow, next to large cliffs when I'm not tied to something solid. What do you call that?

Oh yeah I also have a phobia of large holes in rapids, recirculating eddies, and places on rivers where the current runs underneath rock overhangs.

I'm most fearfull of my mind.

I could say I have vertigo, but I only get dizzy and scared when I
imagin myself falling down/off what ever I am standing on. For
instance, I was in the 4th talles building in the world a few weeks ago
and it had an indoor aterium (sp?) that went down 600 or so feet into
the lobby (of the hotel). There was NO possible way to fall, you
had to look through glass into this place, yet, I though about free
falling down to my death and I wasn't even able to look at it...

I also can get myself scared of dark rooms. I look into the
darkness and think, what if there was some one standing there... some
one who came into my house and just stood there in the dark waiting for
me. They are just standing there, looking at me right now,
knowing that when I turn on the light they will just look at me.

Right now, I'm thinking about someone standing behind me... I can feel them there, but I know they arn't there.

But I cant really say I'm afriad, becuase I can just turn around (just
did) and beat that fear. So I'd say I'm not afraid of much of
anything.

Just a few says ago I was in an old Insane asylum, with 3
friends. They got so scared of every little sound. I just
know, there is nothing in there... I mean maybe a homeless guy or a cop
may come by, but nothing to be scared of. Even when we saw all
the fake blood that some other kids had splashed around or when we
found the words "turn back" and "welcome to hell" I wasn't scared.

anyways, blah blah blah sorry for the long winded post.

I'm afraid of heights, but only when I can clearly see the ground. I
haven't done it, but I think I could sky dive, yet I have trouble
standing on my roof.

I hate spiders, they give me the willies and dammit they all seem to
know. I had a huntsman spider stalking me for a week. Everytime I'd go
to get into my car at night, the damned thing would be waiting on or
near the door handle, scaring the s**t out of me, then running off.
Little bastard.

I also hate small spaces, though its more when I'm cramped in and can't
move too well. Hold me down and I can't stand it for more than a minute.

Swimming in the ocean also gets me, due primarily to various shark
movies. Particularly when we get great whites down the bottom of
Australia, and every now and then they take a holiday up my way.

I've considered it, and I think the worst way for me to die would be to fall off a dam, get
sucked under water into a pipe that narrows, getting wedged in the
pipe, in the dark, and drowning :sad: .

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

get
sucked under water into a pipe that narrows, getting wedged in the
pipe, in the dark, and drowning :sad: .

You just described my worst nightmare. I once had a dream in which I
drowned. Heck, i've died many times in dreams and it was kinda fun. You
should have seen me splatter those rocks at the bottom of the ravine!
:biggrin:

And yeah, short legged spiders give me the freaks. Wasps and bees are
OK, but bumblebees scare the crap out of me since I got stung by one
when I was 7.

1. Water, though I can swim. I get vertigo even standing NEAR a harbour.

2. Looking up at tall buildings, or being on them. As long as I can't see over the edge it doesnt bother me.

3. Not that I'll ever get there, but the infinate vacuum of space gives
me the s**ts. That was thanks to a bad drug experience (on ecstacy of
all things!) looking up at the sky. I'd be more afraid of being sucked
off the earth than falling down on to it...

Thankfully noone has pogonophobia here, the fear of BEARDS! Woooo!

Drowning would be the worst way to go.

I've been held underwater by people and been snagged while underwater,
not fun. Just being able to look up out of the water, so close to
the surface... yet you still know your going to die just a few feet
from air. I cant even imagin what that first breath full of water
would be like.

I have a fear of losing control. If I don't feel in control of
everything I just freeze up, which usually makes the situation worse.

Until Later...

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i have a fear of falling from a great height, not a fear of heights but falling from them. almost nothing could be worst then falling from the Space Needle in Seattle and watching the ground coming then feeling for a split second and your bones shatter and crunch and your organ split and squash.

another thing that scares me is getting caught in some water weed in dark water and not being able to free yourself.

and the worst: being forced into an oven, physically being squashed in until you fit, then the oven being turned on. you sit there for several minutes and the temperature starts to rise. oooh....

but then again i would love to skydive and i loved that 20metre waterslide at the waterpark i was at yesterday! oh and i love to swim.

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Really WIDE OPEN spaces O_o those places make me feel like im gonna get attacked from behind no matter where i am =/.

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I think my worst fear would defiantely be being buried alive, I
actually 'wouldn't mind' drowning, if it was a choice between drowning
and being buried alive, drowning wins.

I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, I think I have cancer, but I've been reassured that I don't.

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Really WIDE OPEN spaces O_o those places make me feel like im gonna get attacked from behind no matter where i am =/.

Never go to the forbidden city, its the most vast open space I've ever seen.

I can honestly say that I don't have any phobias. That doesn't mean I
don't get a little worried about somethings but there isn't anything
that you could do that would make me really really scared. I noticed
that Lep said he was afraid of deep water like swimming in far out in
the ocean. I use to be the same way when I was younger but nowadays I
enjoy swimming far out in the deeper parts (I live 20 miles from the
beach). Spiders also use to freak me out when I was younger but they
don't bother me now. Same for heights and other things. I just got use
to that kind of stuff over time. I lived New Mexico when I was younger
and we use to take drives up to the mountains. The roads sat on the
edge of cliffs and were really windy.

I'm the same way, like I said before I can get myself worked up and
scared. But no matter how scared I get I can still pear over the
edge of a building or swim into the deep end of a pool.