Your phobia(s)?
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Let's see, I have:
1. A fear of being judged, not exactly uncommon
2. Arachnophobia. Just can't stand the little buggers
3. Basiphobia is probably closest, fear of falling or walking. I'm not scared of walking, just falling. I'm fine on high places but as soon as it shakes even a little I'm clinging to something stable
4. I have a mild fear of emus. DON'T JUDGE ME. I had a bad encounter with one of the evil beasts. I mean just look at it:
IT'S EVIL!
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1. A fear of being judged, not exactly uncommon
2. Arachnophobia. Just can't stand the little buggers
3. Basiphobia is probably closest, fear of falling or walking. I'm not scared of walking, just falling. I'm fine on high places but as soon as it shakes even a little I'm clinging to something stable
4. I have a mild fear of emus. DON'T JUDGE ME. I had a bad encounter with one of the evil beasts. I mean just look at it:
IT'S EVIL!
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Wasps, bees and hornets. Anything that is a stinging insect terrifies me. I also don't like heights.
Just plain trypanophobia, aka fear of injections. Just seeing a hypodermic needle makes my blood pressure plummet like a meteorite.
Arachnophobia - Fear of Spiders
Altophobia - Fear of Heights
Insectophobia - Fear of Insects
I don't see a listing for it, but I also get rather unsettled by bodies of water that I can't see the bottom of.
EDIT:
I had a roommate at university that I'm pretty sure had Ablutophobia...
Altophobia - Fear of Heights
Insectophobia - Fear of Insects
I don't see a listing for it, but I also get rather unsettled by bodies of water that I can't see the bottom of.
EDIT:
I had a roommate at university that I'm pretty sure had Ablutophobia...
I used to have a fear of heights, but through very passively and slowly "facing" it, it has grown much weaker. Feels more like a healthy respect for heights now, than a phobia. It did make the ski lift pretty scary, the first time I went skiing. So yeah, riding the open air gondolas at my local amusement park, riding rollercoasters, flying in planes and skiing eventually chipped away enough to downgrade it from a phobia. I can still be very wary though. Being at the top of the Gateway to the West in St. Louis, Missouri certainly scared me. The way a giant, metal arch swayed in the wind, with me a little speck on top. Riding up the arch in a laundry machine is pretty cool though--hehe, guess I'm not claustrophobic.
I've developed a new, weird phobia now though. Last time I was on a plane, all I could picture was mid air collisions over and over again. Scared of how quickly my life could be snuffed out, and very likely would receive no warning. Just, WHAM. Gone. It was bad enough to prevent me from relaxing too much or sleeping for longer than a few minutes. Hopefully, that will fade away with time, as I reorientate myself back into the perspective of not-caring-or-thinking-about-my-mortality.
Other things: I'm usually fairly shy unless I'm too tired to maintain my inhibitions or in an uncommonly good mood. Thunderstorms make me feel all too vulnerable and mortal.
I've developed a new, weird phobia now though. Last time I was on a plane, all I could picture was mid air collisions over and over again. Scared of how quickly my life could be snuffed out, and very likely would receive no warning. Just, WHAM. Gone. It was bad enough to prevent me from relaxing too much or sleeping for longer than a few minutes. Hopefully, that will fade away with time, as I reorientate myself back into the perspective of not-caring-or-thinking-about-my-mortality.
Other things: I'm usually fairly shy unless I'm too tired to maintain my inhibitions or in an uncommonly good mood. Thunderstorms make me feel all too vulnerable and mortal.
I don't think I have some, I find some things disturbing, sure, but not to a point when it's not manageable.
That said, I hate clowns- they are just weird.
That said, I hate clowns- they are just weird.
I can't quite qualify them as phobias, because that implies a truly crippling amount of fear.
With that out of the way:
-Spiders, the obvious. I can look at them from a distance, but close up I get an extremely unpleasant sensation in the back of my head and have to nope the fuck out of there asap.
-Failure. It's kind of funny how seriously devastated I can get over the most trivial things. Or perhaps it's kind of sad. One of those.
-Darkness. I get a horrible feeling of being... well, as stupid as it sounds, stalked by something. Emphasis on 'thing'. Probably comes from all the nightmares. Doesn't bother me all that much in a video game, but it gets to me when I'm just walking down the street after sundown. Not pleasant.
Edit: Oh and planes. Fuck 'em.
With that out of the way:
-Spiders, the obvious. I can look at them from a distance, but close up I get an extremely unpleasant sensation in the back of my head and have to nope the fuck out of there asap.
-Failure. It's kind of funny how seriously devastated I can get over the most trivial things. Or perhaps it's kind of sad. One of those.
-Darkness. I get a horrible feeling of being... well, as stupid as it sounds, stalked by something. Emphasis on 'thing'. Probably comes from all the nightmares. Doesn't bother me all that much in a video game, but it gets to me when I'm just walking down the street after sundown. Not pleasant.
Edit: Oh and planes. Fuck 'em.
I am curious can you swim after that bad experience? I have a decent amount of spiders in my place, if I looked I could probably find about 6 at this moment! Haha, I used to be really freaked out by spiders until one day I held a tarantula at a car show and my fear just kind of went away after that.Beffudled Sheep said:
I have Anxiety Disorder/Agoraphobia, which is kind of the opposite of claustrophobia in a way. I get really bad panic attacks if I am somewhere I find uncomfortable, which is usually a wide open area or up high. Like malls, highways, stadiums, museums, skyscapers, IMAX movie theatres, sometimes regular movie theatres...ect, ect.
Because of this, I have a pretty big fear of whales, cetaphobia...so I also don't really like large bodies of water either Beffudled Sheep! Also, I can't swim.
I can't swim but I am an Olympically trained drownerRose and Thorn said:
Tarantulas actually don't bother me at all. I'm more scared of the small hairless spiders.
Whales? Were you always afraid of them or did a whale think you were krill while swimming one day?
[sub]I hate open spaces too. Malls, mountains, suburbia... make me feel uncomfortable.[/sub]
I have mild trypanophobia, which is a fear of needles. I had it really bad when I was younger because of a bad experience I had my first time getting blood drawn. The woman was just kept digging around in my arm for what felt like hours, I was 3 years old. It doesn't help much that trying to find a usable vein in my body has always been like trying to get water from a stone with your bare hands.
Mild arachnophobia... I'm not terrified of spiders, but I really don't like them. I tend to not like anything that crawls.
Social Phobia aka Social Anxiety Disorder.
Atychiphobia... goes real well with the SAD.
Mild Aeroacrophobia... but that's mostly because when I'm in high places my brain is constantly saying "Jump! ...For science!"
Mild arachnophobia... I'm not terrified of spiders, but I really don't like them. I tend to not like anything that crawls.
Social Phobia aka Social Anxiety Disorder.
Atychiphobia... goes real well with the SAD.
Mild Aeroacrophobia... but that's mostly because when I'm in high places my brain is constantly saying "Jump! ...For science!"
I think it was movies that first gave me the fear. Pinocchio I think was the reason, I saw it as a very small child. Ever since than big things in the water bothers me. I am fine with sharks though...Beffudled Sheep said:I can't swim but I am an Olympically trained drownerRose and Thorn said:
Tarantulas actually don't bother me at all. I'm more scared of the small hairless spiders.
Whales? Were you always afraid of them or did a whale think you were krill while swimming one day?
[sub]I hate open spaces too. Malls, mountains, suburbia... make me feel uncomfortable.[/sub]
Finding Nemo and Night at the museum's whale scenes both terrified me SOOO much. I actually went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, which is where the movie was based on. I was terrified of running into the whale room I made everyone check the rooms before I went into them...hehe.
I have never actually seen a whale in person, other than an Orca, which has never really bothered me. I think if I ever do see one, that will be a bad day.
I think if I pictured that, I would probably have a panic attack!
We both can't swim and hate open spaces, chalk that up 2 more things we have in common! XD
That is an interesting one. I can see why that would make someone uncomfortable, I have seen images like that on human bodies, that have made me feel pretty uneasy.I am only a man said:
But it will be dark, so you can't see the mirrors. Don't know if that'll help though. It might be one of those things where you still know it's there, lol.Shanicus said:
OT: I can't think of any. If I do have any I haven't encountered anything to set it off yet. I'm fine with heights, open water, spiders, snakes, the dark, tight spaces, bees, wasps.
So to my knowledge, I don't have any phobias. I occasionally feel uneasy with certain things, but then I realize I'm being irrational and simply stop.
Heights, but it's a pretty reasonable phobia. I don't get nervous in planes, or looking out the windows of skyscrapers; heck, I jumped off of one of the tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere attached to a flywheel device with a minimum of nerves, confident that dozens of people did the same thing every day and thus the people running the service probably had a handle on what they were doing.
But ladders? Trees? Roofs? Anywhere there's a real possibility of falling that's a mis-step, a broken rung, or an over-balanced chair leg away, you won't find me.
But ladders? Trees? Roofs? Anywhere there's a real possibility of falling that's a mis-step, a broken rung, or an over-balanced chair leg away, you won't find me.
My only strange phobia is birds. I have no clue how I came to fear them (maybe I've repressed the memory), but I've been that way ever since I was a little kid. When I was twelve, my family and I spent a week visiting one of my mother's friends, and they had a cockatiel. I was eating my breakfast one morning, while the bird was sitting on top of his cage behind me. Without any warning, the bird flew over and landed on my head. Luckily I resisted the urge to swat at him, but it felt like I pulled every muscle in my neck.
I'm not sure what it is called but I have a really bad fear of losing limbs and decapitation. Seeing examples make me gag so much that I'd go bulimic if I saw that stuff on a daily basis. Hell, that Dead Island Torso made me throw up quite a bit, and I know it's just a hunk of disgustingly-shaped plastic and not the real deal. The fact that there's people that get off to that kind of stuff really freaks me the fuck out.
Other than that I sometimes feel a bit uneasy in places like stadiums and IMAX Theaters, but that's just due to the room shape and the effect it has on my sense of balance. After a bit I can usually adjust to compensate.
Other than that I sometimes feel a bit uneasy in places like stadiums and IMAX Theaters, but that's just due to the room shape and the effect it has on my sense of balance. After a bit I can usually adjust to compensate.
