Do You Have Any Phobias?

  • The Doctor

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    Too many if these are just fears. Not phobias. Anyway, I have a phobia of blood tests. I can't even say the words without bending my arms in protection. I'm working on it because I'm technically supposed to get one every year, but as I've grown older, my fear has gotten worse, and I was unable to get one last year. The year before, I had a panic attack during my checkup at the thought of getting one and had to go home and return to get it the next day. I didn't freak out the next day; I worked all evening on trying to keep calm, but when it was done I freaked out and they spent about ten minutes reviving me. I didn't pass out, but I did finally vomit. I'm going to visit a therapist to get help because it's a terrible phobia that really affects my health.
    October 25th, 2012 at 06:56pm
  • The.Secret.Keeper

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    Neilasparophobia: Fear of aliens.

    Yeah, it sounds ridiculous. Ever since I can remember, I've just been scared to death of the thought of something abducting me and doing tests on me. I literally can not watch the movie Signs without wanting to cry.
    My parents had the same type of baby monitor for my little brother, and it freaked me out so bad I got rid of them all and bought them a new set.

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    reading through these, I really don't think people understand what a phobia is.
    A phobia is an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people.

    To the people that list ten+ things, I would reconsider claiming to have a phobia of all of those. You would most certainly not be able to function in the every day world, having an intense fear of men, crowds, heights, cars, and bees all in one. You'd be having panic attacks left and right Facepalm
    I have a fear of them too. >..< My friends like to tease me about it. And when I start to think about them I get really clammy and it's like a pit of despair enters my stomach. Sometimes I feel like I may cry and others I just feel really..nervous. I can't go outside at night by myself unless it's a must, like coming home from work, and even on my way home that's all I think about...and I panic and run until I'm inside. Also, my windows must stay covered at night. My fear of them began when I walked into my living room as a child and seeing a documentary on it. It was horrifying. Sad
    I don't know if you would actually consider mine a phobia. I just wanted to let you know you're definitely not alone on that one.
    November 9th, 2012 at 04:32am
  • The Real Mitt Romney

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    Bellybuttons....
    December 25th, 2012 at 06:18am
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    I don't know how this happened, but I get really scared and nervous about going up stairs and stuff. I'm not sure of my degree of acrophobia is an actual mental disorder, but I've had nervous break downs of climbing up stairs, going up to carnival/fair/amusement park rides that are really high. >.> I tend to stay away from high places.
    January 14th, 2013 at 11:45pm
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    I'm afraid of many things like, spider webs, meat, falling and being alone. I only have one true phobia...and it's weird.

    Globophobia

    It's the fear of balloons. I literally shake and feel ill just seeing one of those wretched things. It's come to point my parents set up balloons for my cousin for his birthday, I refused to go downstairs and hid in my room. I was eighteen. It's just balloons too, I hate the sound, smell (yes those things have smells) and their roundness. Ugly.

    It makes me cry every time they pop too, even though makes me happy because they are gone.
    January 15th, 2013 at 03:58am
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    Well let's see. I don't really know any names but here goes:
    Needles-I'm freakishly scared of them. I don't know why but I can't see one with out getting really scared. I fainted when we had to get a shot and school and I get so nervous around blood tests
    Rape and kidnap- I have this really wierd fear that one day I'll get raped/kidnaped and it really creeps me out.
    Doctors and Dentists- I really really hate going to them and I almost always get so scared. Like I shake and every thing.
    That's all I can think of right now :)
    January 15th, 2013 at 09:08pm
  • SparklesAndGlitter

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    I have both
    Athazagoraphobia - Fear of Forgetting/Being Forgotten

    Atychiphobia - Fear of Failure;

    While they aren't VERY strong, they're still there. The Athazagoraphobia can sometimes make me cry, while the Atychiphobia makes me shake/have a really fast heart beat.
    January 26th, 2013 at 05:15pm
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    I was mauled by a pit bull when I was like, ten, so I have an intense fear of pits. Not dogs in general, I have a dog that I adore, but pit bulls. I feel like it's understandable considering the circumstances, but people are constantly in my face trying to convince me that I'm stupid for fearing them Rolling Eyes My aunt and my brother both have them, and no matter how nice they claim their dogs are, I can't be around them. I'll flip shit.

    Things that have to do with death, like funerals, hospitals, and visitations, send me into full-scale panic attacks, which makes me incredibly guilty because my mom is always pushing me to go to these things, and every time I cave in and go, I have a panic attack, embarrass myself, and have to leave.
    January 26th, 2013 at 06:09pm
  • ShannenLouise

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    arachnophobia its just ugh even thinking of spiders makes me want to cry I have night terrors about them.

    pyrophobia - fear of fire just dont like anything that could hurt including needles heights and water

    Necrophobia - Fear of Death or Dead Things zombies freak me out big time!

    Coulrophobia - Fear of Clowns

    and lastly trynophobia its hard to describe people often call it a fear of holes not sure why cause I find textures affect me more seriously google that shit!

    Shocked
    January 26th, 2013 at 08:52pm
  • Sansa Stark

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    I have a severe case of claustrophobia.
    February 11th, 2013 at 08:09pm
  • Daisy.Rae

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    Claustrophobia (from Latin claustrum "a shut in place" and Greek φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is the fear of having no escape and being closed in small spaces or rooms (opposite: claustrophilia). It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in panic attack, and can be the result of many situations or stimuli, including elevators crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and even tight-necked clothing.[1] The onset of claustrophobia has been attributed to many factors, including a reduction in the size of the amygdala, classical conditioning, or a genetic predisposition to fear small spaces.

    I have particular problems with this when in Elevators and Airplanes. I cannot watch movies about people becoming trapped in mines or caves, show or movies about avalanches. I cannot wear turtle neck shirts. I actually find myself having trouble breathing even when reading about a situation where a person may become trapped. I unwittingly watched an episode of CSI where Nick was buried alive in a coffin and that was almost the end of me. I love to see beautiful caves on the tellyor in a magazine but you WILL NEVER catch me in a cave far enough to NOT see the opening. I will never go spelunking, will NEVER scuba dive OR snorkle.
    An elevator with just me in it is ok, one time I was stuck in a small elevator that was filled to capacity and I was on the verge of panic. I actually felt like climbing the walls, I couldn't breathe properly and I was beginning to tear up when finally It was our floor. I nearly knocked down some old folks that didn't get the hell outta my way fast enough when I RAN to exit the wretched box of death!

    There are other problems but mostly the hardest part is swallowing my panic and regulating my breathing. I also have a terrible fear of being upside down...weird huh.
    I take medications that are supposed to combat anxiety but there are NO PILLS in this world that can sure my above problems.
    April 8th, 2013 at 05:29pm
  • Daisy.Rae

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    @ Alpaca McLlama
    I understand your fear of yelling. My biological father was a BIG yeller and it had an effect on my whole life. When people are angry and yelling at me or near me it makes me cry. I actually dropped a class in high school because the teacher could not keep his cool and yelled loud and often. i couldn't handle, I knew I was being irrational but that knowledge didn't change the way i was feeling.
    April 8th, 2013 at 05:35pm
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    @ Answering.Alexandra.
    Philophobia: the fear of falling in love.
    It makes me sad that this exists, while it is awful to have your heart broken, it is wonderful to fall in love. I take every opportunity to fall in love, it is amazing.
    Hugs
    April 8th, 2013 at 05:38pm
  • fen'harel

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    I have a irrational, persistent, and excessive fear of... I don't want to say needles because it is not the needles that I fear, it's the fear of having something inside of me. Like, feeling the needles inside my skin induce anxiety on me, thinking about anything sharp going underneath my skin makes me incredibly anxious and I start to feel panic.

    It's not just needles, but bees and other insects alike stings, sharp objects, IVs, syringes, and anything that can get underneath the skin. It just... oh god, no.

    The psychologist I work with has told me time and time again to get it diagnosed because she's sure it is a specific phobia and that I need treatment.

    This has prevented me from getting vaccinations, blood samples for important analysis, anesthesia, heck, even thinking of going for a pap smear and having a speculum inside of my uterus makes me anxious.

    It took me 6 months to get enough courage to get the blood analysis that I kept postponing because of my fear. I finally got them and of course the entire time I was having a panic attack and trying to stifle my need to scream was very fucking hard.

    I had to get a vaccination two years ago and I haven't gotten it because I am afraid of the feeling of the needle underneath my skin.

    If a bee or anything remotely similar to a bee is near an entrance to the building I take classes on, I avoid the door and walk to whatever other entrance there is. I change routes if a bee is near. I don't go near trashcans on parks or college because I fear coming across with a bee. If a bee passes me or follows me or is in the same room as me, I freeze. I don't move, I start hyperventilating, my head feels fuzzy, and I just stand there. It doesn't matter if I'm on the classroom, crossing the street, walking, even driving.

    It's just pervasive and it doesn't let me function properly.
    April 8th, 2013 at 07:32pm
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    Heights. I start hyperventilating. I learned this on a school trip to Chicago back in December of 2011. My class went to Skydeck (Sears Tower), and we went all the way up to the top. I forget how many floors it was but it was still scary as hell. My friend wanted to take me to the glass where you stand on a 3-inch piece of glass and the whole city of Chicago is beneath your feet. I went over by there and glanced at it. Before I knew it, my friend pushed me onto it and I felt like I was falling. I was literally screaming and crying, and I'm pretty sure I peed my pants a little. :l
    April 12th, 2013 at 07:50am
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    Arachnophobia:
    Extreme or irrational fear of spiders.
    More extreme than anything else, I'm pretty sure it stems from when I was little and my dad thought it was funny to push me into spider webs with the spiders still in them. He didn't really push me into them but he acted like he was going to. I was pretty young I'm going to say about 5 or 6, probably 6. I never kill my own spiders I always call for someone to do it for me and I can not look away from it in case it might escape and be lost forever alive. There have been occasions where there is no one to call or no one can hear me so I end up being paralyzed with fear staring at it and most times sobbing and backing as far away as possible.
    Aichmophobia:
    A morbid fear of sharp or pointed objects.
    Mainly just needles. I get extremely anxious when needles are or going to be involved. My hands get shaky and my voice quivers. I have no idea where this fear stems from, however I can pinpoint when it started. I was 15 and at the doctors waiting for my finger prick and I just got incredibly anxious and started crying. I had never been scared or cried because of needles or finger pricks before.
    April 13th, 2013 at 09:14pm
  • the blissfully dead

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    Um, I have a phobia of long fingernails but apparently that doesn't have a name. They're seriously disgusting. As soon as the white part of my nail grows, I clip it off. I don't know, but since I was little I've had a thing about fingernails. They're just ugh. Like, when dirt gets underneath them and they go all ragged and just. God, I wanna throw up.

    My second main fear is ranidaphobia. That's a fear of frogs. Frogs freak me out because of the way they move so fast towards you and nothing should be able to expand its limbs like that, it's scary. When I was about three this frog jumped out of a flower pot at me and I've been traumatised ever since.
    April 15th, 2013 at 12:29am
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    I have a horrible fear of centipedes/millipedes.
    Just thinking about them makes me break out in like a rash because it freaks me out so much.
    My mom told me a story about how she found a millipede in her house when they first moved in and I almost cried.
    April 15th, 2013 at 06:04am
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    I have this weird fear, if fear is what you call it, with water towers. It is not like I am frighten of them, I just don't trust the things :>
    May 9th, 2013 at 01:34am
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    Podophobia
    Irrational fear of feet

    I hate feet.
    I hyperventilate if someone's feet are in my face or they want me to look at them and their feet are disgusting.
    I had a panic attack when I focused too much on this lady's feet because she had toes that curved in different directions.
    Whenever I have to look at my mother's feet because of her pedicure, I reaaaaally don't want to look.
    And if someone's leg hooks around mine without me knowing first, it's not cool at all because their feet touched me.
    Plus, my dad asks for foot massages and his are crusty and just NO.
    May 9th, 2013 at 02:22am