Do You Have Any Phobias?

Recently I've begun to think I have androphobia. But the wierd part is that I have no reason to be. I've never been abused or had a bad experience with a man; my life has been pretty fortunate that way. I just... they make me nervous. I can't look them in the eyes. My heart starts racing, my head starts pounding, and I feel sick to my stomach. And this is only like actual men, not boys or teenage guy friends (though I have to admit there are some guys at my school I find myself becoming scared of more and more). I don't know what it is and I don't like it, I don't like it at all, but I don't think it warrants like proffessional help or anything. It's just that men scare me; they make me unbelievably uncomfortable.

For example there's this one teacher at school... oh my GOD... I had him for H. US last year, and I was just about scared to death for 80 minutes every class period. God, he scared me - and I don't know why. He was so nice, extremely funny/witty, and a good teacher overall. But for some reason, whenever I see him, or have to talk to him one on one, I feel as if I'm going to vomit. Literally, I would feel sick before his class every day. And even though I don't have him anymore, seeing him in the hallways still makes me feel like that.

I feel so odd, so freakish. I want to be able to feel normal and comfortable around men, and not shaky and nauseous. God, it's terrible and I just wish someone could fix me.

Male, 17
Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors
I feel silly whenever I try to explain why I'm scared of them, but I guess it really boils down to the fact that I'm scared of looking into one and seeing something that isn't supposed to happen. My reflection not copying my actions, stuff happening behind me that isn't actually there, etc. It's been better lately, but I still cant look into mirrors while I'm alone. Makes going to the bathroom kind of harrowing sometimes.

Female

17

scotophobia - fear of the dark / darkness

It's kind of childish, I guess, but I'm none too keen on the dark. In certain circumstances, it's alright. I. e. if I'm with someone, it's fine. But, for example, if I leave something downstairs, everyone's gone to bed, and all the lights are off, then I will wonder, "Do I really need that?", decide I don't, (usually,) and hide under my covers.

Clowns and the concept of Forever also freak me out.

Female
14
Globophobia: fear of balloons.

They just make me really anxious and nervous because I'm waiting for them pop.

Female, 13

Batophobia- (fear of heights, being close to high things) I have a hard time with traveling over tall bridges but im fine on rollercoasters with I find weird.

Aichmophobia- fear of needles. I have a really time hard with this when I visit doctors. my brother takes insulin and i cant watch it when he uses them.

Demophobia- fear of crowds. i start freaking out when i go into the halls of my school and in the cafeteria because my school is overcrowded.

Anginophobia- fear of angina, fear of choking or narowness. I cant swallow pills because of this. my friends always swallow their gum when they get to class so they dont get caught and i cant do this because i have a fear of choking.

Female 18

Athazagoraphobia - Fear of Being Forgotten, I've always been terrified of being forgotten somewhere, my boyfriend was just playing with me one day and walked off, i started sobbing right there in a crowd full of people

Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs; I am terrified of frogs. just thinking about them makes me seize up in fear.

Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises. i don't like loud noises. like the sound of a baloon being popped.

Algophobia- Fear of pain.; I haven't had this one long. whenever i feel the slightest bit of pain, i can't take it. I start crying.

Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling. Im afraid of falling. I dont know why but I just am.

Equinophobia- Fear of horses; i grew up around them too.

Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.

Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.

I also have a fear of being touched or bitten by a spider. i can be around them though.

Male, 19.

Hemophobia - Fear of blood; only in a surgical situation, or an open wound.

Necrophobia - Fear of death, but mainly a fear of what comes after.

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces, I'm not sure I actually have this fear, I just get really nauscious.

Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone; loneliness.

Usually my fear of death and loneliness seem to combine to create a fear of loss. There's no real term for it. I'm terrified of losing those who I love, whether its through a breakup or death.

Lygophobia: Fear of darkness or being in a dark place.
- More specifically, being in a dark space alone. If I'm with someone else I know, I'm perfectly fine. This started when I was twelve. I was at a sleepover with a group of friends and we were playing a game in the woods behind my friend's house. It was dark, I was alone and I couldn't find my friends. I started having a panic attack and freaking out. I kept thinking that there was something hiding about to attack me. When my friend's dad finally found me I broke his rib, gave him a black eye, and fractured his jaw before I realized who he was... in my defense, I was panicing and he ran up behind me and grabbed me. I sleep with a nightlight on and even then can be kept up all night staring into the shadows of my room waiting for someone to jump out and kill me. My daughter's crib is next to my bed and not in her room because I'm afraid of something in the darkness killing her. This doesn't affect her much now as she's six months old, but will when she's ten and still sleeping in my room.

I want to point out that I'm not afraid of death. I guess I'm afraid of having someone jump out at me when I least expect it and kill me painfully. I want to be able to anticipate my death? Even if I'd only known I was going to die for 15 minutes... I don't want to be like "woah... what just happened?".

However, I do think I have a phobia of my daughter dying/being killed. However, i can't find what that would be called. I'm not an extremely over protective mother, but when my baby got the flu when she was really little (only two months old) she was in the hospital and everything. I had, in all, six panic attacks.

I also am certain I have some sort of paranoia or something that causes me to hallucinate and see things moving and hear things. If I'm up in the night for some reason, I'm walking past a dark room and I see the door open further or something. Today I was standing in my room picking up my daughter's toys while she slept and when I bent over out of my periferal vision I saw a figure standing over her crib about to kill her. I screamed and everything, but there was nothing there. This goes into the possible fear of having my daughter killed...

Well, I don't know the official names of them, but I have fears of breaking my tailbone or my eye socket (oh yeah, it can happen), pregnancy, and people cracking their joints. Neck cracking really freaks me out or when people pop there knuckles one at a time...

Female.
16.

Ornithophobia Fear of birds.

I am terrified of birds ever since I was a small child. I went on a school excursion to a farm and I was eating a jam sandwich. The jam had dripped onto my leg and I was sitting on a bench, and there were heaps of hens and ducks loitering nearby, around ankle-length, Since it had dripped onto my leg, they started pecking my leg and I remember screaming and crying and nobody doing anything about it because they all thought it was harmless.

Since then, I've been terrified of birds and I just freeze and I start sweating madly when I see a bird in the street and I'd rather cross the road than walk past the bird alone. I'm even scared of seeing dead birds and feathers freak me out already.

I've got a phobia of pictures of the earth, planets and oceans. So Google Earth is pretty much a nightmare for me... ha. But yeah, they're all related.

Female, 16.

Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.
I used to be okay with them when I was too little but something happened that made me have this phobia up til now. That something was a dream. I was watching Matrix and saw the part when an animal got into the hero's stomach and they had to cut it open. Ew. So later that night I dreamt that a cockroach was coming for me and it got bigger that I saw its freakin scary face so clearly. Later it forced itself into my mouth, down my throat and into my stomach. It was a nightmare. After, as much as I know they won't do what that cockroach in my dream did, I was scared of cockroaches and everytime I see them, my heart will beat faster and a shriek will escape my throat. I might even jump onto the person near to me or run miles away so quickly that people actually miss me. I'm not kidding. =="" Furthermore, that place where I see those cockroaches, I may not step into it for a while.

Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
I don't know why I have this phobia. Everytime I'm in a high place, I must not look down. If I do, often accidentally, my head will spin and my vision goes blurry. I will automatically picture myself falling. I'll feel nauseous, I can even cry. :s

I've recently been finding myself become more and more agoraphobic. I like it here in my room. Nothing can hurt me in here. It just sucks when I have class or run out of food or something. My Bible professor took my group out to dinner yesterday, and I was anxious about it all day. I've started looking at my feet a lot more. And I can't stand being somewhere where I don't know anyone. All of these things cause my OCD to kick into hyper-drive, and I know exactly why, but that doesn't mean I can stop it. It gives me something I can control in a control-free situation.

female, sixteen.
don't know the technical word, but i have a fear of people touching my teeth.

Female, 17

Ichthyophobia - fear of fish

I have never met anybody else who is afraid of fish, and I realise it is entirely irrational and illogical but isn't that sort of the point?

I went to a party at a friend's house recently and she had a fish tank in her front room, it caught me completely off guard and I proceeded to have a small panic attack in her kitchen, the whole feeling faint, pulse racing, hyperventilating type thing.
My parents tried to persuade me to go diving with the on holiday, I made it into the shallows before I saw one fish and promptly started crying into the dive mask, which is no mean feat I might add.
Whenever we go to zoos or anything and I accidentally end up around the fish tanks I'll freeze completely and just start shaking.
I will not go in lakes or rivers or the sea and I have issues going in public swimming pools a lot of the time.

It's actually kind of embarrassing.

Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.
It's a very common phobia, but I'm the only person I know that has it. A year or two ago, I was walking into my class and my teacher has dolls hanging all around the room. I ran out crying and he had to take them all down because of my fear. I simply cannot handle it.
Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of Failure or Defeat
Self explanatory.
Eisoptrophobia- fear of your own reflection.
I have a very mild form of this. I can look into a mirror, and it's okay. Put me in a room with two mirrors and it's a tad okay. Three-four mirrors starts to make me nervous, and anymore than that can drive me insane. Thankfully that rarely happens, but when it has happened, I have the biggest urge to break them all and run. It's like a huge influx of emotions.

Gerascophobia - is an abnormal or persistent fear of growing old or ageing.

^ that's my main fear.

I'm also afraid of death, tight spaces, open water, planes, driving, being alone...

I highly doubt there's a name for this, but please tell me if there is.

I'm afraid that I wont die. I have no idea why I have this fear, and I've had it for as long as I can remember. It's quite odd, but I am literally afraid that I wont die.

^ I tried looking for it. I even went on yahoo answers and all I got was immortaliphobia. I don't think it's a real scientific name but honestly it's sounds pretty badass and I would just use that term anyway.