Poll: What's your phobia/fear?

[Harry Hasselhoff]

Arachnophobia hate spiders dont know why. im not afraid of anything else that i know of so weird im scared of harmless spiders.

 

[Queen Michael]

Fear of OCD.

How does that affect your average day?

Dang, sorry about not answering earlier. But you're the thread creator, so you'll probably get this reply. I hope.

Anyway; it usually makes me go around constantly worried that I'll develop a new OCD. And I mean constantly as in every second; I always feel pretty scared that I'll come up with something new I have to do. I had this OCD about looking for plot holes in all my favorite books, and then one about reading stickers on signs and walls out in the street and subsequently checking out whatever site they were advertising; my latest one (which I'm almost completely free of at the moment) is wondering "Did that site say Hemingway writes better men than women characters in A Farewell to Arms or in his works in general? Damn, I'd better go there again and check or I'll keep thinking about it every time I read his books."

Sounds like a nightmare to be honest. A normal person would (for example) just look at the adress once and then forget it before they could reach a computer. And then forget they saw the sticker in the first place. I think I can understand your fear of OCDs now. Well played.

Yeah, that sticker thing was horrible. Especially the white supremacist sites. I'm really glad I'm done with that.

 

[The Hairminator]

Arachnophobia hate spiders dont know why. im not afraid of anything else that i know of so weird im scared of harmless spiders.

Your instincts tell you spiders are dangerous, even if it's a harmless one it will sound the alarm. That is the most common cause of Arachnophobia, so unless you've had any traumatic experiences involving spiders, that's probably the reason.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Phobiaphobia

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

DID YOU KNOW: The most common phobia in the world is the fear of vomiting!

Actually I believe it's fear of public speaking.

 

[Nam Yensa]

I'm Pyrophobic due to a childhood accident... It also gave me PTSD.

 

[The Hairminator]

Yeah, that sticker thing was horrible. Especially the white supremacist sites. I'm really glad I'm done with that.

Oh man.. You have to go to every site you see?
Do you write the adresses down or do you have like photographic or extreme memory?

 

[Queen Michael]

DID YOU KNOW: The most common phobia in the world is the fear of vomiting!

Actually I believe it's fear of public speaking.

How could it not be clowns? Pennywise from IT, people! All those other clowns, people!

 

[Ekonk]

Heights don't really scare me, but nauseate me. Drowning scares me. Drowning as in "your car falls in the water and slowly the water level rises and you try to take some last gasps of air but the water touches the ceiling now and you can't get out and you breathe in and you breathe water and you die'.

Blehh.

 

[Queen Michael]

Yeah, that sticker thing was horrible. Especially the white supremacist sites. I'm really glad I'm done with that.

Oh man.. You have to go to every site you see?
Do you write the adresses down or do you have like photographic or extreme memory?

No, there weren't a lot of variation, so there were only around three or four addresses. Except for those that obviously were bands, which I didn't have to check out for some reason. And three or four, I could keep in my head. It's not like it was all adresses everywhere, only the ones on stickers and onlt those on stickers that weren't obviously bands.

 

[The Hairminator]

Heights don't really scare me, but nauseate me. Drowning scares me. Drowning as in "your car falls in the water and slowly the water level rises and you try to take some last gasps of air but the water touches the ceiling now and you can't get out and you breathe in and you breathe water and you die'.

Blehh.

Typhical nightmare material, but nothing I fear constantly.

 

[Deadpewl]

I think all of my fears are rational.

Im afraid of heights if there isnt a handrail or something. rational because if you slip, you could fall and die and I'm clumsy.
Im afraid of poisionus animals (I made it a point to study up on which ones are poisionus and which arent) because, well, they can kill you.
Im afraid of small places only if I cant get out myself (like if a closet opens from the outside or something).

Im not really sure if they count as phobias though...

 

[The Hairminator]

Yeah, that sticker thing was horrible. Especially the white supremacist sites. I'm really glad I'm done with that.

Oh man.. You have to go to every site you see?
Do you write the adresses down or do you have like photographic or extreme memory?

No, there weren't a lot of variation, so there were only around three or four addresses. Except for those that obviously were bands, which I didn't have to check out for some reason. And three or four, I could keep in my head. It's not like it was alladresses everywhere, only the ones on stickers and that weren't obviously bands.

But instead obviously white supremacy?

I think all of my fears are rational.

Im afraid of heights if there isnt a handrail or something. rational because if you slip, you could fall and die and I'm clumsy.
Im afraid of poisionus animals (I made it a point to study up on which ones are poisionus and which arent) because, well, they can kill you.
Im afraid of small places only if I cant get out myself (like if a closet opens from the outside or something).

Im not really sure if they count as phobias though...

Nope, those are just common sense and defense mecanisms.
Congratulations! You are a rational person. One of few, I might add.

 

[Queen Michael]

Yeah, that sticker thing was horrible. Especially the white supremacist sites. I'm really glad I'm done with that.

Oh man.. You have to go to every site you see?
Do you write the adresses down or do you have like photographic or extreme memory?

No, there weren't a lot of variation, so there were only around three or four addresses. Except for those that obviously were bands, which I didn't have to check out for some reason. And three or four, I could keep in my head. It's not like it was alladresses everywhere, only the ones on stickers and that weren't obviously bands.

But instead obviously white supremacy?

Well, white supremacists aren't that obvious, really. There's not so much of the "hating-black-people", and more of the "We are the voice of reason." (Which of course they're not.)

 

[Zaksav91]

I don't know why but I'm terrified of the deep ocean. I'm fine on the beach, but when it comes to traversing out in the deep on a boat I will not do it.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

I put confined spaces.

 

[Simply Simon]

Mycophobia - Mushrooms scare the crap out of me.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

I'm shitscared of needles.

For example, a while ago I needed some surgery on my left foot. When they were about to poke me with needles for my local anesthesia I got so nervous I almost threw up. Then, when the actual cutting started I had no problem sitting up and and watching them go at it, I didn't mind it at all. It's just the needles that freak me out for no particular reason at all.