phobia's that make me a coward?

[Andalusa]

ventriloquist dummies. Old fashioned, ruby lipped, monocle wearing, ventriloquist dummies.

I'm not afraid of dolls, I'm not afraid of clowns, but for some reason their bastard child freeks me out to no end. That thing is sitting on a shelf one minute, and then racing across the floor to attack you the next. And it will laugh, oh will it laugh!

It will take over your life until you become the dummy. Laugh all you want. You won't when HE'S drinking the glass of water while YOU sing.


EDIT: Now that i've shared my completely irrational fear with you, hopefully you feel better!

Everyone's got fears, just don't let them cripple you!

Those things really are creepy.

As for my claustrophobia is my big one, social phobia (more ochlophobia (scared of crowds) actually), scoptophobia (scared of being stared/looked at), chiraptophobia (scared of being touched, I really don't like physical contact).
So from those, you can prbably tell I don't do too well around people.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I have a fear of being in buildings that go for some height without any floors between them (hangers, for example), I am fearful of pain, though I'm getting over that one, and I can't stand the sight of blood. However, I am quite comfortable in large crowds, small spaces, and the dark. I am a strange one it seems.

 

[BLOONINJA 503]

Im sacred of my mothers friends....

I shit you not...

I have stay locked up in my room when they come over or else I start hyperventilating

im 17 and my parents friends are stress inducing.... sigh

 

[blindey]

i dont like blood for my own reasons which im not willing to share i hate water since i have almost drowned THRICE! and as for my medical terms adhd is all to common and i have it depression i dont believe but i do take low dose anti depressants for it and my ocd is from my adhd apperantly i have to get things that sit in my mind out or they will make me go nuts and i also have always gotta do things with my hands both ocd so im sorry mr./ms./mrs. smart i dont wish to be "showed up" if thats what you are trying to do your trying to deny me of my own opinion with your own so please drop it i am an idiot for argueing back but if i dont it will somehow come up somewhere else or i will go nuts for lack of a better term

Calm down. It just seemed fishy that you mentioned it you know, after I posted the example of specifically OCD. I didn't call you a liar or anythin' I was just slightly on the not-believing end of the spectrum. You wouldn't (or maybe you would see this I dunno) imagine the amount of people willing to say that kinda stuff basically opening the DSM-IV and self-diagnosing, which is what it seemed like you did from your brief description on the first post and whatnot. I 'pologize if anything was misconstrued.

 

[Aschenkatza]

I have Trypanophobia, which is an extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
I just recently when through the Gardasil HPV vaccines[3 different shots, 0, 2 months, 6 months] and I can't even begin to explain just how irrational I was. I would wait to be called in for the vaccines and be perfectly fine, once I laid down and they brought in the needles and started to prep, I'd freak out. I'd start crying and begging for them to just get it over with and finish[the stupid nurse decided I must have been playing her because she just wouldn't SHUT UP].
My last shot was coupled with some other vaccines that I don't remember at all and the night before I hid in my closet and cried while holding a teddy bear. I'm 18 for crying out loud, this was insane!
It's completely stupid, and I know it. Nothing bad every happened when I got a shot, I never got ill from a shot. It doesn't make me a coward, I just hate doctor visits more than a normal person.
I could get over my phobia with psychological help, but I can't bring myself to do it. I'm scared. [Funniest thing, I'm studying to become a psychologist too >.>]

 

[Sparrow]

Your fears aren't irrational. They're fairly normal.

Mine or the other hand are just wimpy. I don't like spiders or needles. Man of the Year Award plox?

 

[Valkyira]

Having phobias doesn't make you a coward, it makes you human. More or less everyone is afraid of something

 

[LeonLethality]

Calm down. It just seemed fishy that you mentioned it you know, after I posted the example of specifically OCD. I didn't call you a liar or anythin' I was just slightly on the not-believing end of the spectrum. You wouldn't (or maybe you would see this I dunno) imagine the amount of people willing to say that kinda stuff basically opening the DSM-IV and self-diagnosing, which is what it seemed like you did from your brief description on the first post and whatnot. I 'pologize if anything was misconstrued.

bah nah i DO have ocd i just didnt think it matters but when you brang it up i just had to point it out and i do hate lying so i wouldnt have lied back then and its not like meto be defensive guess i like to defend the truth (so superheroish)

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

It's not exactly a phobia (except for the last one), but I hate clowns (not helped AT ALL by The Dark Knight), heights (unless I am seated and strapped down) and mirrors in dark rooms. I'm serious about that last one being a phobia. If I need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, it involves me reaching around the doorjamb and turning on the light, then doing my business, leaving and reaching back into the bathroom to turn the light back off. The hallway lights HAVE to be on at night before I'll walk down it (have two small mirrors on the wall) and when I had to stay at my great-grandma's house and thought I needed to sleep in the master bedroom, I nearly had a panic attack because of the closet-door mirror, the mirror at the head of the bed, and the dresser mirror on three sides of me. That, my friends, is a phobia.

 

[blindey]

I have Trypanophobia, which is an extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
I just recently when through the Gardasil HPV vaccines[3 different shots, 0, 2 months, 6 months] and I can't even begin to explain just how irrational I was. I would wait to be called in for the vaccines and be perfectly fine, once I laid down and they brought in the needles and started to prep, I'd freak out. I'd start crying and begging for them to just get it over with and finish[the stupid nurse decided I must have been playing her because she just wouldn't SHUT UP].
My last shot was coupled with some other vaccines that I don't remember at all and the night before I hid in my closet and cried while holding a teddy bear. I'm 18 for crying out loud, this was insane!
It's completely stupid, and I know it. Nothing bad every happened when I got a shot, I never got ill from a shot. It doesn't make me a coward, I just hate doctor visits more than a normal person.
I could get over my phobia with psychological help, but I can't bring myself to do it. I'm scared.

:3 I could help you if it's just (not belittling or anythin' but in the scheme of disorders it's minor, as opposed to say PTSD or something) that, and whatnot. I had a fear of neeedles too, because as a baby I was born premature and they had lots of IVs, shots and other things to make me not die. I really don't know how I got over it. I remember being like 12 and 13 and stuff, going to the doctor and becoming nauseas and bursting into sobbing, etc. at a shot. I guess repeated attempts of it made me get over it. *shrug* Anyway, it's there.

 

[Aschenkatza]

:3 I could help you if it's just (not belittling or anythin' but in the scheme of disorders it's minor, as opposed to say PTSD or something) that, and whatnot. I had a fear of neeedles too, because as a baby I was born premature and they had lots of IVs, shots and other things to make me not die. I really don't know how I got over it. I remember being like 12 and 13 and stuff, going to the doctor and becoming nauseas and bursting into sobbing, etc. at a shot. I guess repeated attempts of it made me get over it. *shrug* Anyway, it's there.

Haha, I'll probably HAVE to get over it one day; but for now I'm content since I don't have to get any more shots till I'm 50..ish. Plus it makes me unique!! One day I'll probably get a Psychologist to give me therapy or something. or I'll out grown it.
Thank you for offering though ^.~

 

[Samoftherocks]

A common misconception about the fear of heights is that it is, actually, about the heights themselves. This is mostly not true. The next misconception is that of falling. One need no great height to fall and hurt themselves. The truth comes, not from the aforementioned heights and falling, but from the potential of LANDING! I fear nothing, but I am allergic to most forms of pain. Landing after falling from a great height, causes me to break out in all kinds of maladies, like, comas.....or death. Death and sneezing.

And spiders. I F**KING HATE SPIDERS!!!!

 

[Shycte]

I hate dolls, the old ones with rolling eyes. They give me the creeps.

 

[Lullabye]

I recently got my brother to swim in water in which he couldn't see the bottom.(too many jaw movies I think) He also has a fear of needles and injections. Don't know why....

Me personally, I am scared of heights. But I don't think it qualifies as a phobia as it doesn't actually hinder me. I still enjoy sky diving, it just scares the shit out of me is all. I used to be scared of a lot, but oddly enough, besides being the most argumentative, and silent, and biggest asshole in my family. I also seem to be the least discriminatory and most brave. Except when it comes to onions.

 

[fuckwit]

I am not afraid of anything normal, I pick up spiders and let them crawl in the palm of my hand. I welcome the dark and I revel in water. When I think about it, I don't have an irrational fear for anything. Criminals scare the shit out of me though. I often get a bad feeling about new things, but that's just uncertainty and carefulness.

 

[Brotherofwill]

I used to be afraid of flying until I stumbled across the stewardesses of some asian airlines like Thai and Singapour air... Awwwwhhh Yeaaaahhhhhrrrr...rrrrauurrrr,rrrarr

 

[Brotherofwill]

I have Trypanophobia, which is an extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
I just recently when through the Gardasil HPV vaccines[3 different shots, 0, 2 months, 6 months] and I can't even begin to explain just how irrational I was. I would wait to be called in for the vaccines and be perfectly fine, once I laid down and they brought in the needles and started to prep, I'd freak out. I'd start crying and begging for them to just get it over with and finish[the stupid nurse decided I must have been playing her because she just wouldn't SHUT UP].
My last shot was coupled with some other vaccines that I don't remember at all and the night before I hid in my closet and cried while holding a teddy bear. I'm 18 for crying out loud, this was insane!
It's completely stupid, and I know it. Nothing bad every happened when I got a shot, I never got ill from a shot. It doesn't make me a coward, I just hate doctor visits more than a normal person.
I could get over my phobia with psychological help, but I can't bring myself to do it. I'm scared. [Funniest thing, I'm studying to become a psychologist too >.>]

Well, I guess you should just try to face it a bit more often. I'm not really sure how you can regularly get shots, but find a way. They have these really small needles that you can barely feel... well either that or toughen up.
Well you can always see it in a positive light: You will never be tempted to do hard drugs.

 

[blindey]

:3 I could help you if it's just (not belittling or anythin' but in the scheme of disorders it's minor, as opposed to say PTSD or something) that, and whatnot. I had a fear of neeedles too, because as a baby I was born premature and they had lots of IVs, shots and other things to make me not die. I really don't know how I got over it. I remember being like 12 and 13 and stuff, going to the doctor and becoming nauseas and bursting into sobbing, etc. at a shot. I guess repeated attempts of it made me get over it. *shrug* Anyway, it's there.

Haha, I'll probably HAVE to get over it one day; but for now I'm content since I don't have to get any more shots till I'm 50..ish. Plus it makes me unique!! One day I'll probably get a Psychologist to give me therapy or something. or I'll out grown it.
Thank you for offering though ^.~

Uhh...maybe it's me and my lack of a degree of doctorness, but don't you need annusal shots? flu, and other stuff, and other stuff that may or not come up.

 

[Ago Iterum]

I hate walking up stairs. I have to run up them.

 

[Aschenkatza]

:3 I could help you if it's just (not belittling or anythin' but in the scheme of disorders it's minor, as opposed to say PTSD or something) that, and whatnot. I had a fear of neeedles too, because as a baby I was born premature and they had lots of IVs, shots and other things to make me not die. I really don't know how I got over it. I remember being like 12 and 13 and stuff, going to the doctor and becoming nauseas and bursting into sobbing, etc. at a shot. I guess repeated attempts of it made me get over it. *shrug* Anyway, it's there.

Haha, I'll probably HAVE to get over it one day; but for now I'm content since I don't have to get any more shots till I'm 50..ish. Plus it makes me unique!! One day I'll probably get a Psychologist to give me therapy or something. or I'll out grown it.
Thank you for offering though ^.~

Uhh...maybe it's me and my lack of a degree of doctorness, but don't you need annual shots? flu, and other stuff, and other stuff that may or not come up.

Flu shots aren't mandatory, those are purely for your own benefit. I've only gotten the flu a few times so I don't worry about it, besides.. Like I'M gonna get a shot. You get a tetnis[or however it's spelled] shot only if you step on a nail or something.