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Subject: What is anyone's phobia?
I have quite a few, I am afraid of spiders, and I am also deathly afraid of snakes. I am afraid of tornadoes.
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I'm Scared of marienette puppets, man those things freak me out. I'm also scared of David Blane because I think he's Satan. >:(
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btw..we have had this topic before.....but I will answer again since mine has not changed
Thunderstorms....lightening and tornados..I am at my folks tonite (and yes I am 31 and still run to mommy's) because it was storming and where I am sitting right now is only about 20 feet from their storm shelter....and in the south...normally that is the only safe place to be in a thunderstorm!!!!!!
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I'm afraid of school. But it can't hurt me any more! Less than a week left.
Seriously, though, I'm not really afraid of anything. Life brings challenges that we face, however we face them proves our toughness of character and human spirit. I can't spend my time being afraid of things when I know pure knowledge of things add to advancement.
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Oh, there is one thing. Natural disasters. I hear about them on the news, and when people mention them on the messageboards. Thankfully, I don't come across them, although I make it my duty to remember to think about all of you suffering from these cruel phenomena wherever and whenever possible.
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I am only phobic about one thing: getting called for jury duty. >:(
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Heights, spiders, big hairy bugs and Ted Nugent (lol inside joke). :o
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Road Rage :(
And Break-ins :(
FB
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Heights, spiders, big hairy bugs and Ted Nugent (lol inside joke). :o
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Has ol' Ted been stalking you again, Rapture!?! ;) That boy's got issues! :)
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Heights, closed in spaces and drowning. It is so bad that when I watch a movie with someone in the water..I have to try to breathe for them.
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BIG spiders. I can deal with the small ones.
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None, though I used to be scared of giving speaches. A couple years of teaching English rid me of that...
Kryllith
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I'm afraid to fly in an airplane. And I fear death. :o
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Whenever I go into a room with a door alone, I'm afraid I'm going to be locked in when the door closes. That happened at a restroom at a rest stop, when I was finished using thye restroom, I walked to the door to walk out, all I saw was a piece of wood, no handle. I was frantic for 5 minutes, banging on it, when i saw a sign over the sink saying:
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Sharks and bears. I'm totally afraid to fly-but I do.
And there's my irrational fear of grasshoppers. I've been known to run screaming from the garden if I find one.
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I'm afraid of water deeper than my ankles, my brother almost drowned me (accidentally) in the wading pool when we were little. But for some reason, that did not stop me from going on my office's harbor cruise last Christmas. I guess it was because I did not actually get wet.
I'm also very leery of heights, but only under certain circumstances. I can look out the window of a tall building at the horizon with no problem, but I dare not try to look down at the street below. I've been hiking, and can look down a mountain easily too, as long as it's not a sheer cliff.
Natural disasters do not scare me at all, but I believe that is because I've never had to deal with any "real" ones. Hurricanes are pretty much wimped out by the time they get up here, and I'm always indoors when a blizzard comes along. We do get occasional "earthquakes" but they are a joke--barely strong enough to rattle dishes.
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I'm afraid of people who come on too strong (you know, people you've only known for five minutes and they're already plotting out your future together). I got stalked on college, really nasty case that involved letters smeared with blood (not human blood) and two emergency trips to the hospital. It took me ten years to stop panicking when I noticed someone looking at me, but I still run like a chicken if I think someone is too intense.
MissInformation
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my loved ones dying :'(
school ;D
small spaces :-/
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Airplanes, airplanes, airplanes! I was scarred as a child (horrifying experience on a jet), and 9-11 didn't help matters. The mere sight of an airplane makes my heart stop.
I am scared to ride on Amusement park rides. Disney World's rides are OK, but I don't trust the mechanics who work on those rinky-dink rides at fairs that periodically come to small towns. They can barely form a complete sentence much less correctly assemble the tilt-a-whirl.
Roaches (especially the ones w/ wings) freak me out. Actually, most bugs w/ wings freak me out. If they can fly faster than I can run, I'm freakin'.
There are many, many more phobias I could list, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a psycho. ;)
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Talking about what scares me. ;D
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My biggest fear is of heights! I won't ride anything that goes up too high at amusement parks (right, cricket?). I don't like glass elevators and I can't even look over the edge of high places without getting all freaked out!
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My biggest fear is of heights! I won't ride anything that goes up too high at amusement parks (right, cricket?). I don't like glass elevators and I can't even look over the edge of high places without getting all freaked out!
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while I was at goldies she did get on the monsoon which is a large roller coaster type water ride..and she did good...but she held on to me and blondie..and made us look at her so she would not look off!!!!
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Centipedes. I'm scared to death of those things (goes back to my childhood)!!!
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I don't know about anyone else, but rejection and ridicule comes to mind. Being ignored is another. And while I do not fear death, I do fear dying...
Tarzan Boy
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Being ignored is another.
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Huh? Did someone say something?
Sorry, TB... it couldn't be helped. ;D
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Huh? Did someone say something?
Sorry, TB... it couldn't be helped. ;D
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Ahhaha, Mr. Werewolfman, "you couldn't ignore me even if you tried..." ;) I love that line!
Tarzan Boy
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Ahhaha, Mr. Werewolfman, "you couldn't ignore me even if you tried..." ;) I love that line!
Tarzan Boy
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"Come on, sporto, level with me." Lots of great lines there, TB!!
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I am scared to ride on Amusement park rides. Disney World's rides are OK, but I don't trust the mechanics who work on those rinky-dink rides at fairs that periodically come to small towns. They can barely form a complete sentence much less correctly assemble the tilt-a-whirl.
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I like going to fairs, but I am with you when it comes to going on the rides. The way they just look scare me. You never know if you are going to die or not. Can't get me on em.
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I am with you on this one, Goldie. I can't even stomach the thought of being in a tall building, let alone the elevator ride up. I have nightmares that I am in the top of a building and I can feel it sway with the wind. Not my thing...funny thing is that I am ok in airplanes...even the window seat. Just keep me away from windows in buildings. Go figure. ::)
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I don't know if I have a train phobia.It seems lately,I am reading my newspaper and I sit down and I feel that people are staring at me.My Mother thinks I should go on medication.sometimes,I get heart pounds.I've been taking the train by myself going to the city to work 4 years now.Maybe,It's time to go back working in Queens cause The City has been getting too unpredictable.Why can't people just read more.too many people look like zombies. >:(
Howard
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slugs...bugs...and used to be dogs...
but nothing that normal people are afraid of, like ghosts or UFOs or anything like that...weird...
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I don't know if I have a train phobia.It seems lately,I am reading my newspaper and I sit down and I feel that people are staring at me.My Mother thinks I should go on medication.sometimes,I get heart pounds.I've been taking the train by myself going to the city to work 4 years now.Maybe,It's time to go back working in Queens cause The City has been getting too unpredictable.Why can't people just read more.too many people look like zombies. >:(
Howard
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Sounds like you're having panic attacks. See someone about it.
My phobia is driving. I don't drive and am never a happy passenger. Makes life very difficult at times :(
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Hey Jaytee - I have a driving phobia too. I am nearly 35 and have never driven. I am fine as a passenger - but I have a phobia about my own ability to do the actual driving.
I also have mouse/rat/gerbil/hamster phobia - they completely freak me out - and I am not good with frogs either.
The phobia that affects me the most in my day to day life tho is my stair/escalator phobia. I can go up - but I cannot go down. Its not a height thing as I can stand on the highest building and I also skydive. Its like a visual trust thing - hard to explain. Visually I see all the stairs rise up and become one step - so while my brain knows there is a flight of them below me - my eyes are telling me there is just one step. My legs wont trust my eyes or my brain and they turn to jelly first and then to lead.
Its a joke among my friends that I know the location of every lift in every city in Australia.
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Hi BMG
Thanx for sharing. I spent a weekend at an Anxiety Disorder Clinic and if it's one thing I learnt it's that all sorts of people suffer phobias. I was in the company of a Judge, a Doctor, a Teacher and various other interesting people.
These posts have brought to mind a story many years ago on A Current Affair of a property owner out west who had a pet chimpanzee. He had taught it how to drive! My husband thought this was hilarious (I just glared and said "if you say one bloody word...."). To top it all off the car the chimp was driving was a Mercedes Benz!!
Ya gotta laugh!!
Cheers ;D
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--Spiders
--Getting trapped in a room by a door being locked after it closes behind me
--Centipedes or other bugs like that
--Scott Stapp
--Heights (sometimes)
--Elevators (sometimes... I always hold my breath until I hear the "ding" and see the door open)
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Bees, snakes, heights, falling down stairs, and that I will lose everyone that I care about from horrible diseases.
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Im afraid the British are going to attack Pearl Harbor in retribution for Michael Bolton.......
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I'm afriad of snakes - why, I don't know, they're just scary
I'm also afraid of going underwater in swimming pools, but I can trace that fear to a bad past experience when I was a child.
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# spiders. (yet i go camping..? ::))
# death.
# heights.
# escalators.
# bees.
# people going through my files/e-mail. (this one has caused me to go on many deleting rampages...)
# the undertow. (almost drowned once.)
# entering the ocean. (partially because of the undertow and partially because i can't watch the waves. they make me feel like i am moving instead of the ocean, which causes me to feel really dizzy.)
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I'm afraid of bees and wasps. They sting.
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Ecclesiophobia- fear of church
technophobia- fear of technology, i'm always worried computers, cell phones and TV are going to take over the world and everyone's going to become stupid and brainwashed.
And I don't know the names for these, but drowning, birds, and i'm always paranoid there are cameras watching me everywhere!
Wow, do I sound totally crazy?
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I am afraid of really large spiders.
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I'm afraid of bees and wasps. They sting.
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I am scared of the same thing (since I don't know whether I am alergic to them or not - I haven't given the sods a chance to sting me). I went to Woodlands recently and the place was infested with them - wearing green was a stupid idea as well as it attracted the aphids.
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I use to be afraid of spiders, and still don't like bugs. That scene in Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom REALLLLLY freaks me. I don't watch it. But on a realistic basis, I just sqush them. Other than that, REEEEaly high places get to me, like looking down into the Black Canyon of the Gunison, about a mile straight down. Its not that I'm affraid of hights, I'm just affraid of falling off them. ;D ??? ::)
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Spiders - big or small - dead or alive.
If I see one hubby has to squish it and show me where the body is. I still can't bring myself to remove a dead body though.
Surprisingly I see less since we moved to Australia than I used to when we lived in England. (although the ones I see here are all big buggers!)
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I have so many phobias I don't even know where to begin. First and foremost is my fear of flying. The more and more I fly the more and more I hate it. If I never get on a plane again in my life, I would be very happy.
I also have a fear of driving. That could stem from my vision problems even though I could be using my vision problems to pepectuate my phobia. I do get kind of fearful as a passager but not as much as I would if I was driving.
I also hate snakes and scorpians. I don't mind spiders as long as they are not black and furry. They are the ones that bother me.
I get very nervious when the sailboat heels over a bit. DC thinks I crazy but he is very accomendating.
There are many others. I am just one of those people who basically fears EVERYTHING!!!!!
Cat
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Riding in buses is scary too, it always looks like it's going to just tip over or run into cars!!
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I use to be afraid of spiders, and still don't like bugs. That scene in Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom REALLLLLY freaks me. I don't watch it. But on a realistic basis, I just sqush them. Other than that, REEEEaly high places get to me, like looking down into the Black Canyon of the Gunison, about a mile straight down. Its not that I'm affraid of hights, I'm just affraid of falling off them. ;D ??? ::)
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I have some of the same fears. Heights is what normally does it for me. I am not scared of bugs or animals or anything lower on the food chain.
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Road Rage :(
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Another reason not to drive :(
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Im afraid the British are going to attack Pearl Harbor in retribution for Michael Bolton.......
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Ha ha! Don't worry Billy! We will go after the source (Michael Bolton) himself. ;D
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Sounds like you're having panic attacks. See someone about it.
My phobia is driving. I don't drive and am never a happy passenger. Makes life very difficult at times :(
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Maybe it's nothing to worry about.
Howard
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spiders :o
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I have so many phobias I don't even know where to begin. First and foremost is my fear of flying. The more and more I fly the more and more I hate it. If I never get on a plane again in my life, I would be very happy.
I also have a fear of driving. That could stem from my vision problems even though I could be using my vision problems to pepectuate my phobia. I do get kind of fearful as a passager but not as much as I would if I was driving.
I also hate snakes and scorpians. I don't mind spiders as long as they are not black and furry. They are the ones that bother me.
I get very nervious when the sailboat heels over a bit. DC thinks I crazy but he is very accomendating.
There are many others. I am just one of those people who basically fears EVERYTHING!!!!!
Cat
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I knew I forgot a few of them. Needles!!!! I have an acute case of "needleitis." I also fear bees and wasps. I'm sure I will think of many more before long.
Cat
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I am claustrophobic. That's about it. :)
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Heights-real high things not ladders and chairs or the roof LOL
That darn talking rabbit in the movie Donnie Darko.I had nightmares for 3 nights after I saw that.The rabbit was chasing me. ::)
Really big wide open spaces where I cant get orientation to where I am going (this is without a compass).
The ocean can do that sometimes if I am not in a boat but I get over it,I like the ocean too much ;D
Swimming pools.......I dont know why.When I was younger I thought terrible things lived at the bottom of the deep end.I guess it just stayed with me subconciously.I still go into pools.
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I fear that theres someone out there trying to make me paranoid! :o ;D
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Does a fear of small confined places count?
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Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound. Stems from a bad car accident I had 12 years ago. Used my face as an airbag on my Mazda Rx7 and suffered a head injury. Because of the nature of the injury they could not provide any anasthesia sewing my nose back on, I woke up during the operation not knowing why I was there or what was being done. All I knew was that I was strapped to a table and there were faceless people (couldn't see well because of the bright light above my head) hovering over me causing some BIG discomfort. I fought the straps hard and cursed harder then thankfully passed out.
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Does a fear of small confined places count?
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It should...
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I fear that theres someone out there trying to make me paranoid! Â :o ;D
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You probably wouldn't be so paranoid if everyone wasn't out to get you.
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Spiders (the smaller the scarier),clowns, heights, being in water and not being able to touch the bottom and cats (they just freak me out)!!
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egad Race Bannon just reminded me of another phobia I have - waking up during a general aenesthetic. I have had two surgerys done under a general and both times my last thoughts before going under was that I would wake up during the surgery and be able to feel everything but not be able to scream out to the surgeons.
I have heard of so many occurances of this happening.
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My mum works as an anaesthetist at the local hospital- when you're under anaesthetic, they monitor you and make sure nothing's going wrong. That's one of the main jobs of an anaesthetist- supervising. So try not to worry.
I have a few fears myself... Including Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears. And Gareth Gates (because my younger sister is possessed by the spirit of his hairgel. She used to découpage her room in pictures of him.)