Poll: Do you have a phobia?

[AngryMongoose]

No. Used to have a pretty disabling Phobia of Wasps (and bees... and hoverflies...) for a couple of years (as in, I would occasionally break down crying if there were too many near me), but not so much anymore. Now I just walk away from them somewhat swiftly with a blank look on my face.

Living in a city helps.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

I have pogonophobia (fear of beards) and peladophobia (fear of bald people), neither of which are too bad as I can be in a room with such people it just makes me very uncomfortable speaking/looking at them, which I feel terrible about because it's such an irrational fear. However I do also have spheksophobia (the fear of wasps) pretty badly, I compulsively scream when I see them and don't go out during the summer for fear of being stung by one.

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

I have two. Needles...and enclosed spaces that I don't control when I can leave. Both have some basis in rational episodes in my past, but...are beyond rational in how severe they are. Particularly the needles, where even seeing a sharps container that I know contains them can send my heart racing. I can control such, but...it's...worrisome. The enclosed spaces bit...similarly, I have to either distract myself from the situation, or remind myself continually not to create the way to escape. Again, controllable, but...troublesome. Fortunately, it's only rather tight spaces that bug me. Things like a plane or a train or even a car aren't an issue. Though generally, it's best I be the one driving the car.

 

[neil1990]

Triskaidekaphobia, look it up. It's pretty interesting

 

[Auron225]

Hmm... I really dont like wasps or anything similar to and bigger than them, but I dont think Id call it a phobia. Ive been stung a good few times by bees/wasps, all when I was younger, but I just feel uncomfortable around them now, not scared.

So no, not now anyway.

 

[Odbarc]

I have a form of socialphobia.
Given my history on how people treat me, it's not quite irrational.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Needles... Needles and syringes!!! Definately the most horrifying scenes in bioshock is watching him stab himself in the forearms! Truely scary stuff!

 

[Soxafloppin]

Seaweed, If it touches my foot I suddenly can swim better than michael phelps to get back to shore.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Triskaidekaphobia, look it up. It's pretty interesting

Fear of the number 13? I know that without having to look it up, sadly enough. I found myself on a website boasting a list of phobias on it once, it's a word you don't forget too easily.

I hear this is quite common in some Asian countries, along with the number 4. They go so far as to re-number floors in appartment buildings so that floors 13 and 4 are missed out. In China the number "four" is pronounced similarly to their word for "death" which is where that particular superstition comes from. That's what you get for playing too much Silent Hill.

OT: I can't deal with insects, spiders, heights, needles or cutting of skin and I really don't like flying in an aeroplane. But I wouldn't call any of them phobias because I don't display the typical symptoms of a bonafide phobia. I overreact and I'll do anything to remove myself from the situation, but it's not severe enough to be classed as a phobia. I'm just a wimp!

 

[MurderousToaster]

Fucking spiders, man. All of the spiders near where I live are totally harmless, but I swear to god I refuse to go into a room with one in it without some sort of long object to smash them with. I slept with a long bread knife under my pillow for a few weeks after seeing literally two (admittedly quite large) spiders in my room. I swear I would probably go insane if I had to sit in a room with a spider on each wall.

 

[aenimau5]

Spiders, motherfucking spiders.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

I have a fear of deep water, specifically the ocean. I'm fine in swimming pools, and in shallow water, but put me in a large body of water where I can't see the bottom and I get the creeps.

On a related note, I'm utterly terrified of shipwrecks. Just looking at one gives me chills.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Needles... Needles and syringes!!! Definately the most horrifying scenes in bioshock is watching him stab himself in the forearms! Truely scary stuff!

then you will love my tattoo

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/57/e579426026f70d8be7c83ed570ba6db8/l.jpg

it's a syringe that was put there with a needle

That's pretty sweet... freaks me out a bit to look at it though!

I forgot to add before that the phobia of needles in not so much the needle itself, but the fact that it enters the body! I hate the thought of anything that shouldn't be in the body being in there! Splinters stress me out, and the thought of ant kind of transplant makes my skin crawl... I will also kill any wasp that comes near me, little bastards! The worst one though is needles... they don't just enter the body, they leave something in there too!

 

[Penguin_Factory]

I've got a pretty bad fear of heights. Even standing on a chair is uncomfortable.

 

[aba1]

I have a few ones here and there. I get really grossed out by wet paper which is my weirdest one and spiders scare me once they get a little large but that's a common fear