Today I just wanted to create a thread of unusual fears. I know that there have been threads of phobias before, but generally it was filled with things like spiders, heights, etc. Pretty normal stuff, right?
I want this thread to be a little bit more a-typical. Fears that are not shared by many of your friends, or most people you meet.
For instance, occasionally, when I am running on the side walk late at night, I am overwhelmed by this haunting unease that I am about to trip over a wire. It feels like the next step I take will catch on a string I will fall. Makes me look weird as hell when I run at night, too.
Another rather unusual one, I am pretty scared around bodies of water (I mean, it even sounds creepy, bodies of water). I can deal with smaller amounts of water, like rain and tap water, but can't deal with large bodies of it. Lakes, ponds, pools, even baths sometimes, and the ocean. Especially the ocean (which probably ties into the fact that I am TERRIFIED of jellyfish). Although I can usually deal with pools, sometimes when I am swimming I get a very nagging sense of foreboding and I have to run out of the pool looking like an idiot.
Lastly, for some reason I am uncomfortable with the number 292. It just... freaks me out. I have absolutely no explanation why, it just does.
What about you guys? And please, to keep it interesting, make sure they are unusual. Not cockroaches, darkness, or death, but something unique.
Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
On February 23 2012 06:24 Iyerbeth wrote: Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
Wow that is really interesting. I can't imagine living with something like that lol. At least it isn't TOO common, it is most likely avoidable in most cases.
I am terrified of pool cleaners I will not swim in a pool with one. I fear it will come alive and pull my foot under water or something and drown me. I always have to take it completely out of a pool before I will go swimming.
I have a fear of breaking my ring finger. I keep it bent at all times because then it is less likely to get broken. That is a general tip I've learned from karate, but I still need to break my habit of having them slightly separated when I do shuto blocks.
Woah, I think I have that. When I am walking down the street sometimes I get the sense there is something on my face or in my hair, or that my clothes are wrong and everyone is watching me and laughing inside. Scares the shit outta me, but I thought it was just normal self-consciousness.
On February 23 2012 06:18 CyDe wrote: Although I can usually deal with pools, sometimes when I am swimming I get a very nagging sense of foreboding and I have to run out of the pool looking like an idiot.
Sometimes I do that too. The thought of the pool just begins to freak me out and I imagine things in it and such and then have the urge to get out of the pool suddenly. It's not a fear of drowning though, because it's happened in pools that aren't deeper than 5ft.
Woah, I think I have that. When I am walking down the street sometimes I get the sense there is something on my face or in my hair, or that my clothes are wrong and everyone is watching me and laughing inside. Scares the shit outta me, but I thought it was just normal self-consciousness.
I think it could also be considered a mild form of paranoia. I have heard from several people it can be caused by drug use. Not sure how to get rid of it though (if even possible)...
I dunno if this is considered phobia(more like insanity) but sometimes when I'm alone at home, I imagine a korean ghost(the one like the one in the move Ring(long hair, white dress, pale face) looking at me outside my window or when taking a shower shes waiting just outside the bathroom door. I freak myself out like that so often.
Sometimes when I drive by and see a Mcdonalds with a 'outdoor' playhouse. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelleys/272478979/ I imagine getting stuck in the tube while on my way down and no one will hear me and will starve/overheat to death.
Not a phobia but when I sleep before seeing the clock is before 12:00 AM, I always end up waking up mid morning 2-4 AM. I always go to sleep after 12 because of that.
When i was a little kid i was afraid that a wild animal like a lion or tiger will attack me when entering or leaving a dark room.
Now i have a similar phobia.When i walk on the road or even on the pavement and there is nobody around my mind thinks that the car coming from behind is going to hit me.
Every fucking time i have to look back and check to be sure.It's annoying but i can't do anything about it. If others are around it doesn't happen,i can't explain why.
hmm, i'm not sure about phobias. I have this weird thing sometimes, where i get itchy ALL over my body, and it lasts for a minute or two. Usually happens if i'm put in the spotlight (but not always), the weird thing is, i'm quite social and an extrovert.
Phobias? hmmm...centipedes. I know most of them aren't poisonous, but the creepy crawley feeling i get when i see them scuttle around, it makes me uncomfortable.
I'm also slightly afraid of heights, but only in certain circumstances. Anyways, nothing too serious
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
Yeah I fear hospital. When I was a child, I ran whenever I need to pass the surgery room in the hospital. Today I still fear to go to hospital. I feel very very bad when I see very sick people. In fact, when I read descriptions of diseases, I feel very uncomfortable.
I have phobia against lakes and oceans too. I can swim fine in pools but I just can't do it in lakes. I live in Europe and where I live the water is very turbid so you see really bad under the water and you can't the see bottom at all and that freaks me out for some reason. T_T
Oh, and snakes. WAK%OkeO%$KkHKD uuuuuuh I just hate snakes.
On February 23 2012 06:53 clementdudu wrote: salad.
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
As for me, when I'm in the shower and washing my hair with shampoo. I don't want to keep my eyes closed for too long because I'm anxious about some creep suddenly appearing right next to me or something. Basically the lack of vision scares me. But I think alot more people have this, not that I know of though.
i am claustrophobic like i pretty much have a spaz attack if i am in somewhere small or tied up, my brothers used to be assholes, and tie me with a rope wrap me up in blankets and like tie me to a tree or side of a shed. lol i was never really scared though because i was so skinny i could just wiggle out in minutes and run inside, because it was mostly dark and winter when they did this shit. rofl my brothers are assholes...
On February 23 2012 06:53 clementdudu wrote: salad.
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
That exactly happens to me, but just with olives. It's just a terrible loath feeling crossing the spine as they're near. I even accidentally ate some (mixed with other stuff) and I don't even like the taste.
On February 23 2012 06:53 clementdudu wrote: salad.
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
As for me, when I'm in the shower and washing my hair with shampoo. I don't want to keep my eyes closed for too long because I'm anxious about some creep suddenly appearing right next to me or something. Basically the lack of vision scares me. But I think alot more people have this, not that I know of though.
I guess this isn't really a fear, but you reminded me of a weird thing I think of sometimes when I'm in the shower:
I think that the water shooting out of the shower head will turn into razer blades and then they'll just fly right through my face. =/
I don't duck or anything while I'm showering (lol), it's just something that pops into my head from time to time.
If any of you have seen the show Supernatural, I suspect I may have gotten this idea from there.
I dont know if its unusual but when I sleep / rest my hands / legs cant be outside of bed / sofa because I fear that something would cut them off And I hate pregnant animals. I cant even pet them in this stage.
On February 23 2012 06:53 clementdudu wrote: salad.
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
As for me, when I'm in the shower and washing my hair with shampoo. I don't want to keep my eyes closed for too long because I'm anxious about some creep suddenly appearing right next to me or something. Basically the lack of vision scares me. But I think alot more people have this, not that I know of though.
I have this when I am sleeping, I always have to face the door with my face otherwise I get the exact same thing as you do haha.
I'm not sure if this is considered as phobia or just being paranoid but I feel uncomfortable when I blast music when someone is around. I have been shouted at and diciplined by my dad when I don't answer him from like 10 miles away in the house. He would shout my name all the way in his room and expect me to hear it in my room when I am litsening to music. So he would sometimes get mad at me and shout at me.
I can hear loud music on my headphones when im travelling since I know nobody will talk to me, but when I am in an environment where I know some people "could" possibly talk to me, I get uncomfortable and always have to lower the volume incase someone etries to talk to me.
I dunno if its unusual but eating food at other peoples places or food that someone bought, like if someone were to bring in a cake to school, I wont eat it ;(
On February 23 2012 06:24 Iyerbeth wrote: Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
Oh I had a little chat with you before! Also I found a picture depicting your phobia.. so well and it slightly bothered me a little bit because I can understand why you have this fear hahaha~I really want to show you this picture because I'd know it'd freak you out lol. Also at OP your thing with bodies of water~ I have some sort of weird thing with big puddles of water when it rains.
Something about looking at the reflection of the sky from the puddle makes me think I'll either fall into the puddle and I'd be in the mindset of falling into the reflection and it'll play on my fears of heights. It's REALLY weird right? XD
I have a fear of biting down on aluminum, i don't know why but if i imagine myself biting down on aluminum it sends shivers down my spine, like right now.
At least i can control this fear by not biting down on aluminum
"For instance, occasionally, when I am running on the side walk late at night, I am overwhelmed by this haunting unease that I am about to trip over a wire. It feels like the next step I take will catch on a string I will fall. Makes me look weird as hell when I run at night, too."
Wow, I thought I was alone with this. Thanks for letting me know, now I don't feel as stupid!
Oh and I've been diagnosed with social phobia I didn't realize I had it until I was diagnosed, I just thought everyone felt like I did
On February 23 2012 07:15 altfornorge wrote: I dunno if its unusual but eating food at other peoples places or food that someone bought, like if someone were to bring in a cake to school, I wont eat it ;(
Strangely I don't mind eating at restaurants...
He, not too unusual i think.. i don't eat food of "unkown source" either. Restaurants are different though. You'd assume there's nothing wrong with their food since it's the whole point of their business.
I know a guy who has a phobia "biting" on forks. Thats kinda strange.. :D
itsdaniel is totally disgusted and afraid of polystyrene. it gets to a point where I need others to open boxes for me or get rid of that crap. The sound of it gives me the creeps & I can't stand the feeling of it on my skin.
On February 23 2012 06:24 Iyerbeth wrote: Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
You seem extremely self conscious of this phobia despite it not appearing to be damaging your ability function.
Have you considered talking to a Psychologist about it? Really any fear/issue/stressor/w-e that causes a patient distress is worth seeing a PhD over.
But you really shouldn't be beating yourself up over it, if anything that amplifies the phobia. People have been phobic of way stranger things I promise you my friend. Just talk to someone to get to the root of it and work on resolving it; there are plenty of phobia treatments out there, it really shouldn't be too difficult to resolve your phobia.
I myself don't have any phobic tendencies, but I do get shy kidneys from time to time. Usually what happens is I think for a split second- is my dick gonna get shy- and then boom, gotta use a stall like a lady. Strangely if I mentally curse out all the other people in the bathroom it seems to diminish my shyness. I consider myself lucky that it only effects my maybe 10-15% of my public urination attempts in crowded bathrooms; there are some people who can only relieve themselves in their house hold.
Clowns. Or basically anything dressed up as a character. Not sure if its a phobia, but I am just not comfortable around them. I could be laughing one second, and then standing awkwardly the next.
I'm terrified of whales, the ocean, deep space, and colossal space whales. I also can't stand to touch clothes after my hands have been wet. It's like scratching my nails on a chalk bored. If I do I have to bite my fingers to counter act the feeling of unease. Despite my fear of space, I want to live on the moon.
I ve phobia of clown, mice, rat, insect animal like ant and spider. Also I fear bats and I wake up at nights screaming. Also I sweat a lot at nights, so I sometimes put towels in my bed to prevent everything from getting soak.
On February 23 2012 06:24 Iyerbeth wrote: Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
Can't you just put a filter into your water tap so it sprinkles? :D lol
I keep thinking people know what I am thinking, like for example.. em... if there was a girl a like, and she was near me or something, if i was thinking about her i would stop because i think she can hear what i am thinking... dunno if i explained that well enough, also i always have to have my back to the wall when im sleeping, freaks me out if i dont. I don't like having my hands like, out, like my sleeve kinda always have to cover my hands, dunno why. I always think I'm walking weird, but then when i notice im walking, i start walking even weirder, and i think everyone is looking at me lolol. Also i don't really like people touching me like with there hands and stuff, feels weird. When I am waiting at the lights to cross the road I think everyone in there car is looking at me... and when i feel i'm happy, i think im not thinking properly.
Although I've gotten so much better from this and have been trying to get over it but.. it's difficult to even get motivation. My anxiety just skyrockets -_-. I've been suffering this for quite a while now and it's really been affecting my life. Fucking grr man!
On February 23 2012 07:40 itsdaniel wrote: itsdaniel is totally disgusted and afraid of polystyrene. it gets to a point where I need others to open boxes for me or get rid of that crap. The sound of it gives me the creeps & I can't stand the feeling of it on my skin.
Forgive me but I love that shit lol. It makes me feel so good that I don't have any weird phobias.. at least not that I can think of right now. I'll come back later XD
Wouldn't call it a phobia, but when getting rice, soup or anything from a pot I always grab the scoop at the very end, even if it makes it very hard to get anything into the scoop, because I'm afraid I might touch the pot and possibly get burnt. Also everytime I'm getting gas for my car I have to make sure I brought my credit card / money. I never check my money when shopping for groceries, eating at a restaurant or anything else, because I usually know, how much I have in my wallet, but for some reason I can't fuel up before I check my money.
On February 23 2012 07:50 Alvin853 wrote: Wouldn't call it a phobia, but when getting rice, soup or anything from a pot I always grab the scoop at the very end, even if it makes it very hard to get anything into the scoop, because I'm afraid I might touch the pot and possibly get burnt. Also everytime I'm getting gas for my car I have to make sure I brought my credit card / money. I never check my money when shopping for groceries, eating at a restaurant or anything else, because I usually know, how much I have in my wallet, but for some reason I can't fuel up before I check my money.
you have stronk phobia of running dry of fuel and not being able to pay the gas station. (that's) Very reasonable actually. Perhaps in your first life some bad happened to you, and passed you this certain phobia to save you one time.
On February 23 2012 07:50 Alvin853 wrote: Wouldn't call it a phobia, but when getting rice, soup or anything from a pot I always grab the scoop at the very end, even if it makes it very hard to get anything into the scoop, because I'm afraid I might touch the pot and possibly get burnt. Also everytime I'm getting gas for my car I have to make sure I brought my credit card / money. I never check my money when shopping for groceries, eating at a restaurant or anything else, because I usually know, how much I have in my wallet, but for some reason I can't fuel up before I check my money.
you have stronk phobia of running dry of fuel and not being able to pay the gas station. (that's) Very reasonable actually. Perhaps in your first life some bad happened to you, and passed you this certain phobia to save you one time.
Is this becoming a reincarnation debate? :D
I have that excact same phobia by the way. Have to check wallet every five minutes to check if everythings there.
In addition im afraid of pipes, open doors and are obsessed with double checking things (door locks, alarm clocks etc). Irrational fear sucks :D
I don't even have phobias, let alone unusual ones. I'm just moderately afraid of a bunch of stuff and overly nervous about a bunch more stuff. I too check my pockets all the time when I'm in Montreal to see if I lost something or had it stolen. I do it even more since I lost my wallet at the Chicago airport.
I have recently started having a phobia about a mouse scurrying in my room/under my bed during nights. The first time I heard/felt it walk I freaked out. After that happened I literally didn't sleep that night, I then proceeded to rationalise with myself that it probably wasn't real etc. Then the next couple of days I spend barricading the only possible way a mouse could enter my room heavier and heavier and even though I'm pretty sure it couldn't have entered through it in the first place and 100% sure it couldn't have entered a second time, I still think I saw it multiple times but never clear, always in the corner of my eyes.
What I think is most telling about this irrational "fear" is that I always heard it walking right as I'm trying to sleep or when I wake up in the middle of the night. Another weird part is that I have no aversion to mice at all, I used to own hamsters and I know someone who owns mice and I think they're cute. Lately I've mostly rationalised the fear away but still every now and then I lie awake listening for that mouse and only if i'm really tired or drunk I can fall asleep without listening to some kind of music or audiobook while I'm trying to sleep, which I consciously do as avoidance, if I can't hear the mouse, the mouse isn't there.
I've always been twitchy in the dark but I think it's curious that I as a 21 year old that considers himself fairly fearless am now afraid of the "monster" under my bed even though I know it's completely irrational. I haven't told anyone this before, even writing it down here makes me feel ridiculous which I realise is probably part of the problem (hence me writing this here).
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On February 23 2012 08:07 Djzapz wrote: I too check my pockets all the time when I'm in Montreal to see if I lost something or had it stolen. I do it even more since I lost my wallet at the Chicago airport.
While I understand this urge, it's a pretty bad habit. You show pickpockets exactly where you have your valuables thus making it easier for them to do it again.
On February 23 2012 06:28 TheWorldToCome wrote: I am terrified of pool cleaners I will not swim in a pool with one. I fear it will come alive and pull my foot under water or something and drown me. I always have to take it completely out of a pool before I will go swimming.
I have the same fear. It's normal man. That's what your uncle told you would happen when you were little and the fear stuck with you. I know that feel bro.
Ants. Not just one or two or a dozen. But when they're swarming and it just looks like a black mass moving around. I can't stand it. I presume it originated from a dream I had as a child where I was playing on a playground. I went to climb up the ladder for the slide, but when I got to the base, there was just a pile of ants. They started climbing up my legs and soon I was covered completely. It was the most terrifying feeling ever. Now I just avoid any large pile of bugs I see.
On February 23 2012 06:24 Iyerbeth wrote: Made a blog a little while ago which contained a bit of a rant on my unusual phobia, so I'll only quote it here instead of re-writing it.
On November 08 2011 08:38 Iyerbeth wrote: First and literally something that I get angry about I have a phobia which so far as I'm aware is so pathetic that no one else on the planet seems to share it. There doesn't seem to be a name for it and I can't seem to get over it regardless of how utterly stupid I know it to be. So to describe what it is, it's basically perfect lines of slow moving water from taps. Yeah...
For those who may be (rightfully) confused I'm referring to when you turn a tap on and then turn it down and you end up with a perfect line of water that any lower would be drips but it's not quite and it's this perfect thing line that doesn't change shape or move at all except for to fall down. I can't stand it, I do everything in my power to avoid it happening because once it's started I get physically sick trying to reach to turn it off and I literally can't stand it touching me.
As a phobia, I literally can't imagine anything more stupid, and I'm not even afraid of water more generally in any way! I used to be an avid swimmer even, but these perfect lines of water just make me rediculously uneasy and the fact I can't seem to get over it is so annoying.
I'm really scared of deep water, such as lakes or oceans. I love the beach and any kind of shallow water, but once it goes over my head I start freaking out.
Maybe not a phobia, but the material that is in low-quality mattreses(sorry, I don't know the english word^^) really freak me out, my neck hair rises and I think it's just plain disgusting. Other than that, you know instead of shoelaces on kids shoes they have something google translate calls "velcro", but I don't trust that being correct. Anyway, whenever I open one of these things I feel really disgusted, much like the other one, and want to go take a shower.
Again, I don't think these are phobias, but not all that normal maybe^^
On February 23 2012 09:30 achristes wrote: Maybe not a phobia, but the material that is in low-quality mattreses(sorry, I don't know the english word^^) really freak me out, my neck hair rises and I think it's just plain disgusting. Other than that, you know instead of shoelaces on kids shoes they have something google translate calls "velcro", but I don't trust that being correct. Anyway, whenever I open one of these things I feel really disgusted, much like the other one, and want to go take a shower.
Again, I don't think these are phobias, but not all that normal maybe^^
I have a fear of crushing living things. Stuff like cockroaches, I'm not scared of them but if someone asks me to kill one I can't do it. Same applies to most bugs that squirt juice when you crush them. I tend to just pick up fat spiders around the house and throw them outside because I can't stand killing them.
I also have a fear of touching metal handrails since It seems like every time I do I get a static shock.
Mosquito eaters or as some call them mosquito hawks, the dangling legs and what not just NO, fuck that. Mom always used to say ahhh blah blah they are attracted to light BULLSHIT in my old house they used to fly into my face while i was sleeping, i cannot sleep with one in the room anymore i have to kill it. Also i develop random fears in the dark i work myself up thinking up outrageous situations that would probably never happen.
Now that I think of it I do have one.. I watch horror movies, read horror stories, and even playing horror games doesn't scare me really. I'm pretty much never scared. Except for when this damn eel from the Super Mario 64 course, Jolly Roger Bay, shows its face.
In general I'm not very fond of deep sea creatures lol, pretty sure it originates from this. When I as a kid was on vacation in France once I felt uneasy swimming in the indoor pool, because it was dark, and I was worried a shark or something would come get me. x)
On February 23 2012 06:53 clementdudu wrote: salad.
not kidding,salad.i cannot look at it,touch it,i usually leave the table when salad is brought in,order every meal without salad in the restaurant.i used to cover my glass with my napkin before leaving the table when salad was about to be stirred up,as to not get some salad sauce in my drink. For the past three four years im able to eat next to salad,but trust me i wont enjoy it. when i was a kid,i had to punch two of my friends for running after me with a leaf of salad.i was just scared shitless,stopped and punched them. working on it,its less and less an issue as time goes by.ill probably end up not eating/touching it,but hopefully no problems anymore when im around it.
As for me, when I'm in the shower and washing my hair with shampoo. I don't want to keep my eyes closed for too long because I'm anxious about some creep suddenly appearing right next to me or something. Basically the lack of vision scares me. But I think alot more people have this, not that I know of though.
that immage was so brutal =p im afraid.. like scared shitless of little dogs... not big dogs. bot pit bulls or anything like that.. little tiny yorkies and other pintsized dogs
I had (and still have a bit) the phobia, that I am somehow gonna cut the artery at my wrist and then will bleed to death. I basically can not be touched by anyone on my wrists, and I never ever sit with my palms facing upward, so that my wrists are exposed. Also, the word "Pulsader" ("artery" in german) would freak me out, and made me instinctively pull my head closer to my body (to not expose my throat) and curl my wrists inward to protect them. My freinds found out about it and tease me to this day by using the word in front of me.
It has gotten a lot better and is mostly a fun thing nowadays, but I still feel incredibly vulnerable and protective of my wrists. Interestingly enough, I have no problem at the doctors when they take my bloodsample.
On February 23 2012 09:41 Rockztar wrote: Now that I think of it I do have one.. I watch horror movies, read horror stories, and even playing horror games doesn't scare me really. I'm pretty much never scared. Except for when this damn eel from the Super Mario 64 course, Jolly Roger Bay, shows its face.
In general I'm not very fond of deep sea creatures lol, pretty sure it originates from this. When I as a kid was on vacation in France once I felt uneasy swimming in the indoor pool, because it was dark, and I was worried a shark or something would come get me. x)
I use to be scared of the toilet. Like when I flushed I always thought something was going to grab me and pull me down with it. So I'd do piss and then step as far away as I could, lean to flush it and then run like hell.
Similar to the OP, I have a serious case of Jellyfish Phobia. I remember one time I was in the ocean, and one of my asshole friends put a plastic bag about 5ft from me...well let's just say I've never screamed, ran, and splashed like such an idiot before. But my worst nightmare was about 3-4 years ago, some hurricane was hitting gulfshore and washed up HUNDREDS of jellyfish. I didn't realize they were there because I was enjoying the huge ass waves so much...then all of the sudden I saw one, and once I saw one I swear I saw 30 of them all around me. The most terrrifying experience of my life. Still, I've never been stung by one, so that's a plus!
On February 23 2012 09:56 ruffstyle89 wrote: I use to be scared of the toilet. Like when I flushed I always thought something was going to grab me and pull me down with it. So I'd do piss and then step as far away as I could, lean to flush it and then run like hell.
Dude, airplane toilets man, airplane toilets >.<
One of my less common phobias is walking/running on gravel without someone watching my back. The movement of the gravel always makes it sound like there's a person (or snakes, depends on the type of stone) behind you, and then it only gets louder when you run so you need to run faster. I dislocated my shoulder once running down a steep gravel garden path because I wasn't familiar with the layout and went over a hidden step full pelt. That was hard to explain xD
On February 23 2012 10:03 krzych113 wrote: I think thats why they're called phobias, because they're unusual, don't you think ? ...
no.....
Phobia =irrational fear
you can be phobic of any thing (known as a simple phobia) or a person or type of social situation (a social phobia)
You can have a phobia of the most mundane things. The usual-ness of a fear has nothing to do with it being classified as a phobia
The same fear experienced by 2 people can be a phobia for one and not for another. If a fear is rational it cannot be classified as a phobia, aka, being in Africa 5000 years ago afraid of a lion eating you and preventing you from passing on your genes is not a phobia. But being afraid to leave your NYC high rise because a lion might eat you, would be a phobia.
Ok... here's a bit of a story (since i'm sure it's better that way)
Going downstairs into the basement to look for some item I'm in need of (eg, VGA cable for my extra monitor or whatever). I'm home alone and it's dark outside, so the only lights on are the ones I have on. As I go down the stairs, I turn on all the lights to give maximum visibility for whatever I'm in need of. Once I find the item (or some cases, can't locate the object), I return my trip up the stairs. As I return, I turn the lights off behind me, but instead of just casually walking up the stairs, I sprint! Almost as if something's behind me and I want to close the door on it's face, thus keeping it trapped in the basement.
Other than the above, I have to have either pandora playing (I like it because of the timeout) or some other noise on when I fall asleep, because I can't fall asleep in pure darkness with dead silence. Because when ANY noise occurs, my body's hearing focuses on that, then starts wondering "what was that?". Then I start getting a little concerned since I can't see shit (cuz it's night, dur), and it takes about 5-10x longer to fall asleep. Where as when I'm so tired I literally pass out without realizing, or have some music/background noise playing, I fall asleep within 5 minutes.
Wow reading this makes me feel really unspecial. I have no fear at all. Is that normal?I mean of course When I was little I was scared of the dark etc. like alot of people describe in here but kinda worked it out. Also my fear of spiders disappeard when I got my room in the cellar. I learned to live with them xD. So yeah I can´t think of anything strange I am afraid of. Except gingers, gingers just freak me out!
Im afraid of needles. Its not the most uncommon phobia but even seeing a needle or knowing someone will sting me with something sharp is just awfull.
-My biggest fear is if someone would start to take a blood sample from me, but remove the container and leave the needle so I would just slowly bleed to death. For this reason I always must be restrained while someone takes blood sample from me because I flip out and pull the needle out of my arm.
When I'm lying down, usually in bed. I always have to cover my wrists with something, usually covers, because I'm scared of getting them cut.. why? No idea always done it.
Also, same kind of thing but fear of my ribs being pulled out. I think I watch too much SAW.. not much I can do about that one but it really freaks me out. I'm weird.
Edit: and trains, not violently but I avoid them whenever possible
Reading thru this I realize that I've overcome just about everyone of these things that used to scare me. Several of the above mentioned thing scared me when I was a little kid but don't really scare me that much anymore. For example, I never run out of a room because of spiders/other bugs. But I will share a story of me getting super scared.
A little while ago I tried playing Dead Space and the first few times anything happened I would scream almost toss the mouse across the room and pause a second later. That was a fun 30 minutes for me...
If I can't see the bottom of a body of water then fuck all getting me to swim without touching the bottom. Good thing I'm 6'7'' and not being able to touch the bottom rarely comes.
I have an awful phobia of being terrified of sudden loud noises. So anything from thunder to balloons popping. It's not bad if I know when exactly the noises are going to occur but if they happen randomly without me knowing it's far too stressful for me. I actually had to quit my last job because of it(oil and gas company that makes pipe for a pipeline). Sucks because I really liked the job and it paid good too
I have tryptophobia, fear of small clustered circles together. It may have sprung from just photoshopped images, but I have an unsettling fear of it. If you google tryptophobia you'll see some pictures of it. To me I get just get chills and become mentally unsettled for the next hour, sometimes if I stare at them long enough I start to itch as well.
On February 23 2012 10:57 Zooper31 wrote: If I can't see the bottom of a body of water then fuck all getting me to swim without touching the bottom. Good thing I'm 6'7'' and not being able to touch the bottom rarely comes.
few years ago i went fishing near a stream and stepped on a bunch of muddy, floating leaves which i though was solid ground. fell as deep as almost to my neck and still dont recall touching the bottom. luckily there was solid ground to grab around me cuz even though i'm 6'2 it freaked me out thinking i could've just been completely swallowed there. when i pulled myself out i still couldn't tell how deep it was cuz of the mud.
I am afraid of "Ben" or the story in general from the creepypasta Zelda series for like 6 months I couldn't sleep with the lights off!!!!!! Fucking hell it was awful. Also the happy mask man.. when he has his angry eyes (((((
At night when im walking around the house doing whatever I try really hard not to look at the windows. I get the feeling that if I do I will see a face there or there will be some terrible monster looking in at me. Its especially bad with the windows looking out over the backyard because there is only one little light to illuminate the entire backyard and except for the small area that is lit up theres nothing but pitch black. This makes for an ideal monster/sociopath setting. I've had this fear for a long time but I think I developed it when I was three years old and saw jurassic park with my family in theater. The scene were Sam Neils character is checking out the door to the control room and finds out that it locks. The camera looks down at the door lock while Sam states to his woman "Elly the door locks!" the camera then pans upward to the small window in the upper door to reveal a velociraptor looking in. In addition to my window phobia I used to struggle alot with the very thought of velociraptors (e.g. being chased by them through the school or house or whatever, being hunted by them when I was by myself) It plagued me everywhere I went. This died down alot but every once in a while I'll still have a nightmare involving velociraptors.
This might be off topic, beware, but... I once heard of a phobia called phobophobia, the fear of fears, pretty messed up definition I find. But I would argue that it is the most common phobia people have.
Edit: after searching Trypophobia, I'm afraid I might have that phobia too... Those were the most unsettling images I had ever seen in my entire life.
On February 23 2012 11:06 Sephy90 wrote: I am afraid of "Ben" or the story in general from the creepypasta Zelda series for like 6 months I couldn't sleep with the lights off!!!!!! Fucking hell it was awful. Also the happy mask man.. when he has his angry eyes (((((
kay then, I just google imaged that and that's enough for me. Similair to the tails doll thing.
I have an intense fear of being late. I always leave early for things and worry the whole way. I sit around and sweat if I have to wait for my family to get ready to leave.
Fuzzy paper or cardboard, like when you are opening a pack of batteries or something and you have to rip the back of the cardboard case from the plastic. Peeling the paper away or thinking about chewing on it makes me feel uneasy.
I have that one that was discussed in the thread about swarm guardians needing a texture change because the holes on the back of the unit was triggering the phobia. I forgot the name buts its basically whenever you see lots of holes or cracks or wriggling holes your skin literally starts to crawl, oh god i hate that feeling.
On February 23 2012 11:45 Beorning wrote: Stairs, I'm that guy in front you at the stairs on the mall, walking like an old man, gripping the handrail for dear life. Escalators are even worse.
When I was younger I was afraid of stairs where you could see through between the steps, because I could trip and fall through (when I was really young) or get stuck between the steps. Funny enough we had stairs like that at home, and I never had any problems there, only when I was away I cared about the stairs.
Mostly my phobias are supernatural based, I don't really believe these things until it happened to closest people I know. I only recently developed phobia of people walking past my bathroom door at night when I'm inside. The door has this frosted glass where you can see the silhoulette when someone walks by. If you are interested..
It happened cause 1 night I was peeing and I saw a white silhoutte walked but so I thought it was my sister but the thing is I waited... No door opened but when I went outside, there was no one. My younger sister was in the living room watching tv but she was wearing red. I thought meh and went back into my room. 20 minutes later I used the bathroom again and the same damn thing walked by again the moment I turned my head to the door. THE EXACT SAME THING. So I went out and asked my younger sis if anyone walked by the door but she said neh. I gave her that "HOLY F" face and told her something walked by the hall and she said," Don't scare me! I keep seeing something white stand at th corner of my eye" I slept with lights open that night and been having this phobia ever since.
I also have this chill in my spine anytime I have to drive alone at night. I keep looking at the rear mirror to check if there's no ghost behind. Another is there's a staircase beside the entrance of my house and every since my sister told us she saw a lady in white sitting there with her long hair covering her face, I've always try to avoid looking when passing by at night.
Ropeways. I'm not even afraid of heights, or anything like that. When skiing, I'm even fine with the chair versions. It's just the closed up, gondola types. I'm not claustrophobic and it's also not because of other people in it. I'm not afraid of them falling, or anything that would even make remote sense. I just hate them, am scared of entering them and get infinetly uncomfortable in them. It just feels so idiotic.
I don't know why, but for whatever reason whenever I'm home alone or I'm the only one awake and it's dark outside, whenever I look out a window I expect there to be some disturbing face just watching me. I don't know if it's really a fear, but I guess I just prepare myself so that when Hitler or Kerrigan are at my window, I'm ready to react.
Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
On February 23 2012 12:05 FinestHour wrote: I have that one that was discussed in the thread about swarm guardians needing a texture change because the holes on the back of the unit was triggering the phobia. I forgot the name buts its basically whenever you see lots of holes or cracks or wriggling holes your skin literally starts to crawl, oh god i hate that feeling.
On February 23 2012 07:40 itsdaniel wrote: itsdaniel is totally disgusted and afraid of polystyrene. it gets to a point where I need others to open boxes for me or get rid of that crap. The sound of it gives me the creeps & I can't stand the feeling of it on my skin.
What happens if Stork offers you a gift made of polystyrene ?
On February 23 2012 10:24 Keitzer wrote: Ok... here's a bit of a story (since i'm sure it's better that way)
Going downstairs into the basement to look for some item I'm in need of (eg, VGA cable for my extra monitor or whatever). I'm home alone and it's dark outside, so the only lights on are the ones I have on. As I go down the stairs, I turn on all the lights to give maximum visibility for whatever I'm in need of. Once I find the item (or some cases, can't locate the object), I return my trip up the stairs. As I return, I turn the lights off behind me, but instead of just casually walking up the stairs, I sprint! Almost as if something's behind me and I want to close the door on it's face, thus keeping it trapped in the basement.
I came in here to post exactly this. I hate the feeling of turning your back on a dark room, and especially going up stairs with darkness behind me. I will always sprint up the stairs when the lights are off at the bottom.
On February 23 2012 12:29 -vVvTitan- wrote: Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
So hard to break this...
This. A thousand times over.
Ever since I was a kid, I had to do things in patterns. Teachers and friends looked at me funny, but if I saw a pattern on the ground made by tiles, I HAD TO follow it. If there was a rhythm in my head, I HAD TO walk along with it. And gah, "completing sets" of actions: If I hummed a note, I had to do it three more fricken times to bring the total up to four. I considered the number three really, REALLY taboo and kept noticing how so many of my math homework answers were multiples of three, and I HATED IT.
Back a little more on topic about phobias: I just discovered that I have trypophobia. Dangit.
I really don't think about my fears and phobias too much. I guess my biggest fear would be public speaking (pretty common I assume). The stupid part, to me at least, is that I'm not really scared as much as I am worried that I'll start laughing, and won't be able to stop.
Another of my fears, and probably the only other serious one, would be going in for serious surgeries and stuff like that. I just hate when the inside of the Human body is messed with or altered, because it can never be the same again. Not to mention surgical equipment like scalpels just scare me on top of that.
I don't see how phobia relates to anxiety, but I have some pretty bad anxiety. If I am home alone, and someone knocks on the door, sometimes I will get an insane amount of fear for no reason at all (even if I know who is knocking) and will actually hide in my house avoiding all windows so they think I'm not there until they leave.
I don't see how phobia relates to anxiety, but I have some pretty bad anxiety. If I am home alone, and someone knocks on the door, sometimes I will get an insane amount of fear for no reason at all (even if I know who is knocking) and will actually hide in my house avoiding all windows so they think I'm not there until they leave.
Phobias cause anxiety or panic attacks. An anxiety attack is essentially a random "Fight-or-Flight response" triggered by a phobia or something (which sounds like what you're describing).
I have a fear of small cluster circle type things and like...little holes in things like skin. I don't even know how to explain it lol >.< here is an example:
On February 23 2012 13:12 Ruffian wrote: I have a fear of small cluster circle type things and like...little holes in things like skin. I don't even know how to explain it lol >.< here is an example:
The barnacles in Half-Life scare the shit out of me. Just the thought of getting pulled up by your neck and then having your head bitten off by a creature on the roof is just fucking scary. I've had a lot of nightmares involving them :/
I have a fear of tall buildings. I don't mean heights; I can look down from an extremely tall building and be perfectly fine, but if I'm on the ground and look up at the top of the building, I start to fee sick, like I will be sucked up to the top of the building and then dropped
On February 23 2012 13:39 Kaladin wrote: I have a fear of tall buildings. I don't mean heights; I can look down from an extremely tall building and be perfectly fine, but if I'm on the ground and look up at the top of the building, I start to fee sick, like I will be sucked up to the top of the building and then dropped
You've got acrophobia... more commonly referred to as vertigo (though it's not used in the right definition).
Being around anyone with emphysima or any breathing difficulty just makes me want to punch them in the face or just get away from them. Generally makes me fucking angry and anxious
On February 23 2012 11:06 Sephy90 wrote: I am afraid of "Ben" or the story in general from the creepypasta Zelda series for like 6 months I couldn't sleep with the lights off!!!!!! Fucking hell it was awful. Also the happy mask man.. when he has his angry eyes (((((
I had never finished that story and this just made me go back and read it. Now it is off to sleep for me... I hope.
I am not afraid of anything, but the closest thing would be that I don't like touching animals that much. If I can help it, I would never do so, but I am not afraid of it at all.
On February 23 2012 12:29 -vVvTitan- wrote: Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
So hard to break this...
This. A thousand times over.
Ever since I was a kid, I had to do things in patterns. Teachers and friends looked at me funny, but if I saw a pattern on the ground made by tiles, I HAD TO follow it. If there was a rhythm in my head, I HAD TO walk along with it. And gah, "completing sets" of actions: If I hummed a note, I had to do it three more fricken times to bring the total up to four. I considered the number three really, REALLY taboo and kept noticing how so many of my math homework answers were multiples of three, and I HATED IT.
Back a little more on topic about phobias: I just discovered that I have trypophobia. Dangit.
haha, oh man. Threes are an abomination. It is nice to know there is someone else out there who is just a crazy as I am.
I don't give a crap about shots/needles in general, but I really get uncomfortable about IV needles or needles when you get your blood drawn. The distinction for me is that it enters my vein and just sits there, instead of poking me and leaving. I feel like if I move an inch, it'll slice open my veins and I'll bleed internally.
JESUS. I just wanted to check out what trypophobia is and that image jumped out at me. FFFF Google. Not sure whether it is because of holes or their disgusting nature though.
never thought of it as a phobia, but all of those points are true for me.
im also terrified of bodies of water too! i have a fear of getting stranded in the ocean by myself and actaully now that i think of it, i cant swim in games. i have a terrible fear of a sea creature coming and killing MY CHARACTER not even me. but i just cant swim, even in games that dont have anything in the water i still feel really uneasy about swimming
For me it has always been being on a ship. My family likes going on cruises and every time I'm on one I can't fall asleep because I'm convinced the ship will sink and I'll die because we are too far away from land or anybody that can help us. I may have seen Titanic too many times? It doesn't matter how large the ship is either, I just feel trapped and vulnerable on it and I have to constantly remind myself that everything is okay when I'm on one. Also just looked up trypophobia because the last few people were so interested - thanks, I'm not getting any sleep tonight after seeing the Goggle image results :D
I know someone that is petrified of the sound that cotton balls make when you rip them apart. It is really weird she will go cry in a corner if you rip them in front of her.
I have it. It's paralyzing because I don't even want to try to do anything... being my own harshest critic and all. The greater the failure, the more likely it is that I will try to kill myself.
I have an odd phobia of stickers. Yeah, it's stupid I know, but totally true. I get freaked out when people try to put them on me or use them around me. I always hated stickers on tests in school. I don't know if I'm only afraid of that, but I also get queasy when people write on themselves or try to write on me.
I live in the constant fear that somehow someway somewhere at sometime someone will find a way to clone me and force my clone to fight against me.
I think at the creation of this most bad-ass of beings he and I would sense the others power. We would immediately fly towards the other and once together we would then truly understand the magnitude of the situation. "This cannot be! He is equally as awesome as I?" We would then brofist in a sign that we each recognize the other as an equally handsome bad-ass that he is, yet we would understand what we each had to do. There is not enough room in this world for so much greatness. A battle that would rage on for centuries would unfold in-which worlds would crumble. In this onslaught due to the equivalent perfection we would both eventually fall. The world would lose one of the most mediocre Zerg's to walk on the face of this world. That gentlemen, is my phobia.
Before going to sleep I always check my closet. When I go to the bathroom I always check behind the shower curtains. I guess I have a fear of dying to a surprise attack.
On February 23 2012 15:05 EGMachine wrote: I live in the constant fear that somehow someway somewhere at sometime someone will find a way to clone me and force my clone to fight against me.
I think at the creation of this most bad-ass of beings he and I would sense the others power. We would immediately fly towards the other and once together we would then truly understand the magnitude of the situation. "This cannot be! He is equally as awesome as I?" We would then brofist in a sign that we each recognize the other as an equally handsome bad-ass that he is, yet we would understand what we each had to do. Their is not enough room in this world for so much greatness. A battle that would rage on for centuries would unfold in-which worlds would crumble. In this onslaught due to the equivalent perfection we would both eventually fall. The world would lose one of the most mediocre Zerg's to walk on the face of this world. That gentlemen, is my phobia.
On February 23 2012 15:05 EGMachine wrote: I live in the constant fear that somehow someway somewhere at sometime someone will find a way to clone me and force my clone to fight against me.
I think at the creation of this most bad-ass of beings he and I would sense the others power. We would immediately fly towards the other and once together we would then truly understand the magnitude of the situation. "This cannot be! He is equally as awesome as I?" We would then brofist in a sign that we each recognize the other as an equally handsome bad-ass that he is, yet we would understand what we each had to do. Their is not enough room in this world for so much greatness. A battle that would rage on for centuries would unfold in-which worlds would crumble. In this onslaught due to the equivalent perfection we would both eventually fall. The world would lose one of the most mediocre Zerg's to walk on the face of this world. That gentlemen, is my phobia.
I love to eat. I don't care about my weight but am skinny. I get scared to eat when I'm really hungry because I might get nausious and sick for the rest of the day, and if I don't that the same thing happens.
Then again that happened for a whole year. Irrational but learned.
I have a slight phobia of things in-front on my left. More importantly, cluttered things on my left.
It makes me so angry inside that sometimes I have to walk away and if necessary punch something (inanimate) or do some press-ups or something to release this anger/energy.
My desk is odd; all my shit is on the right whilst he left side is so nice and clean. I sleep on the left side of my bed on my back. I hate driving a car with an untidy passenger, when I walk with my wife, I try to walk on her left side so mine is free. Even thinking about it gives me this feeling of like I am about to explode into a fine red mist.
Oh. And being eaten by a shark or sharks. There have been quite a few shark attacks here in Western Australia recently, so people have become more vigilant about keeping an eye out for sharks - which results in seeing what seems to be more sharks, but is in fact the same amount, just more are reported. So thanks to the media, I am now afraid to go for a swim too far out
I don't really have any special phobias. I do have severe anxiety and depression though. I'm currently dropped out of high school because of my anxiety, which in turn causes depression coupled with other things that cause it (Having no irl friends, no purpose, fear of being a failure and hobo the rest of my life). It has been a really hard time in my life and I'm struggling a lot day to day. I go to a therapist once a week and take the anti depression/anxiety medication Prozac. I'm a very smart person and I didn't drop out just because I don't want to go to high school or cant do the work or maybe just don't care. I just cant go to school and my parents don't have the money to pay for home school. It has been really hard and I hope I make it through this faze in my life soon.
I have a fear of people scratching Denim, like jeans if they have any form of fingernails, the noise that it makes nearly makes me throw it up everytime i hear it.
I also can not have my feet on tiles or carpet if i'm eating anything cold, the sensation i get is fairly similar to denim.
I am severely afraid of being in a hospital, like my skin gets very clammy and the color drains from my face, I am able to enter and move around but I feel extremely uneasy and I often think about dashing to the nearest exit and after I leave I am perfectly fine.
On February 23 2012 12:29 -vVvTitan- wrote: Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
So hard to break this...
This. A thousand times over.
Ever since I was a kid, I had to do things in patterns. Teachers and friends looked at me funny, but if I saw a pattern on the ground made by tiles, I HAD TO follow it. If there was a rhythm in my head, I HAD TO walk along with it. And gah, "completing sets" of actions: If I hummed a note, I had to do it three more fricken times to bring the total up to four. I considered the number three really, REALLY taboo and kept noticing how so many of my math homework answers were multiples of three, and I HATED IT.
Back a little more on topic about phobias: I just discovered that I have trypophobia. Dangit.
haha, oh man. Threes are an abomination. It is nice to know there is someone else out there who is just a crazy as I am.
On February 23 2012 12:29 -vVvTitan- wrote: Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
So hard to break this...
I have the same except with my mouse cursor on the screen. If I move the cursor over the top right corner for instance, I get this need to move it through the top left corner aswell, somehow it bothers me if it isn't balanced. Usually I do it wrong though and I just end up making circles over the screen with my mouse the whole time TT.
On February 23 2012 06:42 I_like_hydras wrote: When i was a little kid i was afraid that a wild animal like a lion or tiger will attack me when entering or leaving a dark room.
Now i have a similar phobia.When i walk on the road or even on the pavement and there is nobody around my mind thinks that the car coming from behind is going to hit me.
Every fucking time i have to look back and check to be sure.It's annoying but i can't do anything about it. If others are around it doesn't happen,i can't explain why.
Shit I have that car thing as well. On late night runs, every time I hear a car coming up behind me I'd be thinking "Don't turn around, nobody wants to hit you with their car" but then I'd turn around just to check anyway
On February 23 2012 06:42 I_like_hydras wrote: ...Now i have a similar phobia.When i walk on the road or even on the pavement and there is nobody around my mind thinks that the car coming from behind is going to hit me.
Every fucking time i have to look back and check to be sure.It's annoying but i can't do anything about it. If others are around it doesn't happen,i can't explain why.
I do exactly the same thing. Man, I must be messed up in my head!!
No lie, I have a fear of furniture stores. I've had this ever since I was a little girl. There's something about seeing multiple tables, beds, cabinets, sofas, all cramped up in a single space that's very disturbing to me. To see a room set up with an overabundance of things that is beyond 'normal'... that's as best as I can explain.
I get freaked out if someone with wet hands touches my shirt or something. It's hard to explain, I guess. Like if someone tries to dry their hands on me or wipe their hands (even after they washed them, it's not about germs), it really freaks me out. Especially if their hands are still soapy.
I also hate the possibility of soap not being washed off something. I make sure to rinse dishes really well when I do dishes and rinse my self thoroughly in the shower. (goes with the above)
I used to hate the sound of people brushing their teeth, especially if they talk while brushing. Made me want to throw up, but I'm much better about it now.
I realize now, I have a pretty bad fear of horses, as well. Only in real life though. I can deal with them in video games, but I hate horses in real life, they just freak me out. I feel like they aren't trustworthy and are very unpredictable, and not only that, but are very powerful as well.
I think this stemmed from when I was a child, a long time ago, while living in Africa; we went to ride horses, and my dad started galloping. My horse, who I was "acquainted" with and had ridden before, decided to try and race him and began galloping as fast as he could. I remember my helmet flying off, and the horse not stopping even though I was screaming the French word for stop ("ah-ret" iirc, the horses were trained by a French man). It didn't stop, and only stopped when we reached a really steep hill. I was still scared as shit by then, and I've always hated/ feared horses since that incident.
I have a huge fear of veins, syringes, injections, and anything that subtly messes with the inside of your body on a macroscopic level. I don't know why, but it makes me uneasy and sometimes gives me the urge to take my t-shirt off (I know, it's weird). It's as if I had a very strong survival instinct and always felt the need to keep anything away from my blood and heart.
I really fear if someone is talking to me, while swinging a knife (like coop-cooking in kitchen). When i see someone doing that i instantly have thought of punching him(her) in the face (even if it is my friend, relative or girlfriend), but usually i just take away knife.
The only thing other than that social phobia thing the weird one would be is closing my eyes in the shower. Honestly I can figure it out every time I close my eyes in the shower I have a horrible feeling that something is about to pounce on me through the curtain and grab me or something.
On February 23 2012 07:15 tylervoss4 wrote: I'm not sure if this is considered as phobia or just being paranoid but I feel uncomfortable when I blast music when someone is around. I have been shouted at and diciplined by my dad when I don't answer him from like 10 miles away in the house. He would shout my name all the way in his room and expect me to hear it in my room when I am litsening to music. So he would sometimes get mad at me and shout at me.
I can hear loud music on my headphones when im travelling since I know nobody will talk to me, but when I am in an environment where I know some people "could" possibly talk to me, I get uncomfortable and always have to lower the volume incase someone etries to talk to me.
EXACTLY the same for me, even if you know for 99 % the persons wont talk to you, the possibility is enough lol
I don't know if this counts as unusual per say, but I have terrible trypanophobia - that is, terror of hypodermic needles. Not like a little kid not wanting to get a shot; I mean my blood pressure drops and I am liable to faint I'm so terrified.
And this isn't a phobia, but more of a revulsion - chocolate cake. It's very unfortunate. When I was teeny tiny, my mom made a rather terrible tasting bitter chocolate cake with nuts in it that I choked down two pieces of before coming down with stomach flu that night, whereby I became unable to hold down anything, even water. It took me years to just be able to eat brownies again, and to this day...-counts-...wow, thirteen years later I STILL cannot eat chocolate cake or my body will reflexively reject it. It's called the Garcia effect...
On February 23 2012 14:33 Hesmyrr wrote: JESUS. I just wanted to check out what trypophobia is and that image jumped out at me. FFFF Google. Not sure whether it is because of holes or their disgusting nature though.
yea, god damn scary stuff. I almost felt sick when I see those images. And then I showed my GF, she was like "is that it?" @@
I also got this one which is whenever I am with a group of people and I can't quite understand what they are talking about, every time I laugh, I get worried if I am laughing at the right time lolol
On February 23 2012 14:33 Hesmyrr wrote: JESUS. I just wanted to check out what trypophobia is and that image jumped out at me. FFFF Google. Not sure whether it is because of holes or their disgusting nature though.
yea, god damn scary stuff. I almost felt sick when I see those images. And then I showed my GF, she was like "is that it?" @@
I also got this one which is whenever I am with a group of people and I can't quite understand what they are talking about, every time I laugh, I get worried if I am laughing at the right time lolol
AUGH!! I thought that was misspelled trypanophobia and I went to look...cannot unsee...need mind bleach...
I bite my fingernails and toenails to keep them short. If I get scissors / clippers anywhere near my nails I freak out, completely irrational but there you have it.
On February 23 2012 12:29 -vVvTitan- wrote: Not sure if this is a phobia, but everything I do has to be matched in patterns of 4. If I press something lightly, I have to do it 3 more times. If at any point in doing this I press too hard, I have to press hard 3 times, BUT in the same sequence. SSSH -> HHHS in order to keep my mind balanced. This not only affects my press things, but also how I walk, breathe, grab things, etc.
So hard to break this...
This. A thousand times over.
Ever since I was a kid, I had to do things in patterns. Teachers and friends looked at me funny, but if I saw a pattern on the ground made by tiles, I HAD TO follow it. If there was a rhythm in my head, I HAD TO walk along with it. And gah, "completing sets" of actions: If I hummed a note, I had to do it three more fricken times to bring the total up to four. I considered the number three really, REALLY taboo and kept noticing how so many of my math homework answers were multiples of three, and I HATED IT.
This isn't really a phobia. You many very well have a mild form of OCD. But I probably do too.
On February 23 2012 09:40 Hikko wrote: I can't poop in public bathrooms. I've done it like twice in my life, both were when I had diarrhea.
This is just good hygene.
On February 23 2012 07:15 altfornorge wrote: I dunno if its unusual but eating food at other peoples places or food that someone bought, like if someone were to bring in a cake to school, I wont eat it ;(
Strangely I don't mind eating at restaurants...
I can relate. If it's someone I don't know very well, I often end up thinking about whether people washed their hands before they made the food or what they put in it. It makes no sense, I know. Years ago I worked in the bakery department and later meat department of a grocery store and learned first hand that a lot of food that we buy is probably processed in conditions that would make a lot of people cringe. Wasn't breaking any health department regulations or anything, but it certainly wasn't the sterile clean enviroment that we all love to think of. Plus it's usually prepared by a smelly weird guy, but that's another story entirely.
I have a friend who is scared of cheese. He cannot touch it or even be near it. His sister would torment him by placing cheese on door handles and my friend wouldn't be able to leave the room. He refuses to talk about it. Very unusual.
Seeing lots and lots of dots/spots and immersing my vision and the dots envelop me, such as spots of water on the window when it rains........ Glancing at it is fine but not starting too long.
Edit: googled this trypophobia FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
I don't mind the squeak of clean floors though the sound is similar, but the sound produced by a rubbing a blown balloon @$!#$@Q2##%$ Shit I hate that. Gives me serious chills.
Not sure if this is a phobia or not.. but I am actually terrified of rabbits, hamsters, mice etc. A hamster bit me on the nose when I was like 5 after I tried to give it an eskimo kiss (<_<; ), and ever since I get really freaked out when anyone brings an animal close to me that has those giant front teeth.
Damn i cannot believe some of the phobias in here. Myself i dont like it when someone else goes near my bellybutton. Then again how often does that happen. Gf wouldnt dare!
Probably not a phobia, but I HAVE to check if my stuff isn't too close to the edge of my desk before I can sleep. I also have to go to the bathroom at least once even though I don't really need to go. I just won't fall asleep.
Also I can't stand chocolate or cream cake, just thinking about it makes me want to throw up.
Lastly, for some reason I am uncomfortable with the number 292. It just... freaks me out. I have absolutely no explanation why, it just does.
Dude how on earth did you find that out and actuly remember it. Interestingly that number also went into my eyes really quick so I guess I have a very tiny fear of it.
As for what I know aboute me I have a tiny fear of looking at lots of holes. I discoverd it when I watched the video linked from the thread talking aboute the swarm host on the same issue.
Flying rabid ghost foxes when I was very young. There was lots of talk about rabies on radio as it has virtually disappeared in France, but once in a while there is one case and all the media freaks out. Little I understood what it was about, but I though there should be a reason people making such a big deal out of it.
The trip wire phobia when walking in the dark reminded me of one of my own fears. When my dad would drive me to school when I was between age 11-14, we would use a small forest road. There was this spot where I imagined someone could setup a very thin strong sharp wired that would cut the cars roof at height of our head... decapitation... yay. Always made me uncomfortable at that spot, yet it wasn't a phobia as the reaction was mild but still real.
On February 23 2012 09:33 Dobes wrote: Veins freak me out. I'm fine with blood. Just not the thing that carries it.
OMG i thought i was the only one. I also cant stand needles when they puncture a (not only my) vein. Getting a vaccine or anything is fine with me, as long as the needle doesn't puncture a vein (like the inside of your elbow if they need to tap some of your blood).
On a funny side note: when i was a kid i used to be scared of vampires, so at night i'd pull my bedsheets well over my neck so my neck arteries weren't exposed. Not afraid anymore (lol), but i still pull my bedsheets way up to my face xD
I freak out when the blankets are tucked in on me, every night I get under them then flutter kick my legs until they are all untucked, do this at all hotels too. Don't know why seems like a claustrophobic fear, or fear of being trapped.
EDIT* On top of this its a more general fear of not being able to move my limbs, espeically neck. In high school my friends used to all dog pile me and I would flip out. Its not really claustrophobia cause I can sit in a closet and such, but if its get small enough and I notice I cant lift my head or stretch my legs I get paranoid.
I used to have a very big fear or murderers too when I was a kid, and used to sleep with my dog to protect me, musta been some fucked up horror movies or something. Lasted probably 3-4 years.
Guys, we are talking about phobias, not "little fears" that lot of people have. A phobia is a non-sense extreme fear of something. For example, i have phobia of losing my points of reference. I can't stand taking an elevator, going up in a tower or a building or going in the underdroung garage. It's not like I feel a bit uncomfortable, it's much much worse : I feel incredibly panicked, i sweat A LOT and i feel im going to faint.
I want you guys that have phobias to know that they can be cured. I got myself better with my phobia even if it's not completely gone. You have to confront your fears regularly and accept the emotions you feel in your body.
it's not my own but one of my friends has a phobia of cheese graters. she can't even have one in the house. I guess the idea of how they work just fucks with her head.
another one is my mom can't stand to see someone walk on their knees. like if you get on your knees and start walking towards her she will scream and go hide in her room. lol
I have a huge fear of crabs ( the animal ) i dono if there is a name for it, i saw 1 on urban dictionary. Like even if there is a painting of 1 or a stuffed animal, i can't get close to it.
I don't have it, but this is a pretty common unusual phobia people have: Trypophobia (fear of pores?). Note: the image is not real, it is a picture of a girl with lotus pod pores superimposed on her skin.
Don't know if anyone has something similar to this, but when I'm inside a car, I ALWAYS have a fear that stuff will fall out of the window or something....for example, when I in the seat next to the driver, I can't get out my phone out of my pocket, as I worry it will fall out of the window.....dunno makes 0 zero but I think it was because of my fear of heights, every time I went skiing I was worrying that something would fall down from the lift and so very hard to retrieve (like gloves and stuff like that).
Fear of sharks in pools (!!!)... I STILL have that at 30 years old in my grandpa's indoor pool. By now I can control it by telling myself I'm being an idiot, but years ago I couldn't really be alone in the pool when it was dark out. Always imagined some trap door opening and sharks swimming in (James Bond like).
And a phobia of my brother that drives me INSANE: My brother HATES mushrooms. To the point that WHERE EVER, WHEN EVER there is a single mushroom about, the conversation will ALWAYS end up on my brother hating mushrooms. That's a problem since I love mushrooms so whenever we're at a restaurant I end up wanting to strangle him because he can't have a dinner without mentioning his fucking hate of mushrooms. So now, essentially, I have a phobia about him having a phobia. ;-D
I can´t talk to people with higher social status than me (for example a teacher, police officer). That´s a really big deal as it makes participation in school almost impossible. I can present results to other students just fine but I can´t talk to the teacher, so I can´t say anything, if a teacher asks a question. That affects my grades in a pretty bad way There´s no problem talking to random people on the street or to people I know personally but it´s more than just annoying: I´m starting to deal with this better already but talking to my teachers still gives me a really bad feeling.
Wearing rings, having them on fingers. I just don't like pulling it off, but at the same time I don't like them being on there for a long time and having them get kind of stuck.
This is a real issue atm, getting married in a few months ;/
I have a pretty odd case of blood/injection phobia. I can stand seeing someone get a surgery or seeing someones guts fall out on some action movie or something. But when I'm sitting in; say, a biology class for example, and the teacher starts explaining stuff about stuff in the blood and how it works such as certain diseases and stuff, I start to cringe and at one point my vision started to fade and I began to get light headed and see colors. I even get a little queasy just writing about it, we had a chemistry test about converting units and stuff, and one of the questions was measuring the units of something in the blood, I had to viciously mark through every instance of the word blood in the question.
Every shot I've ever had, I've either passed out, or gotten close to it. When we had hepatitis shots in middle school, I fainted in front of my entire class that was lined up after I got it. Never gotten my blood drawn before; and have no idea how I will deal with it if I ever have to.
I have a phobia of high speed dental hand pieces. Fine with injections, blood, gore all that shit is np. but the drills...
The burs (the actual drill bit) are diamond coated, are water cooled to stop the inside of your tooth boiling, spin at 300k rpm and can cut through bone and enamel like it was a hot knife through butter, this makes visiting the dentist a fucking nightmare, white knuckles sweat panic attacks the lot.
after reading the link i feel like im semi sociophobic. When someone stares at me i think something's wrong on me and try to fix my hair or my cloths, and i rarely watch ppl at eyes only friends
haven't read most of the replies but the weirdest phobia I've heard of (I don't have it) would probably be motion phobia, like, the fear of anything that can give you motion sickness like riding in a car, spinning in a circle, taking the bus and so on.
On February 24 2012 03:10 Fishes wrote: [SFW, but you might be scared ] + Show Spoiler +
I don't have it, but this is a pretty common unusual phobia people have: Trypophobia (fear of pores?). Note: the image is not real, it is a picture of a girl with lotus pod pores superimposed on her skin.
As soon as i saw that picture, my skin just felt like it was tingling... O_O
I feel a lot better after reading that, I have the constant belief that everyone around doesn't like me, people I've never met, friends I've known for a very long time, even my family.
On February 24 2012 04:59 Tiegrr wrote: I'm scared of dark bodies of water. I can't imagine swimming in a lake or the ocean at night if there's no underwater lighting.
I have that, I'm always afraid something I can't see is going to pull me under.
On February 24 2012 04:24 zazone wrote: fear of vomiting :\
Emetophobia. I had this for years before I realized that it was an irrational fear. Once I realized that, I was (slowly) able to control it. Only much later did I come to know that it is in fact a common phobia (as in: I'm not the only one).
Even though it never causes me trouble nowadays, it's not completely gone (yet).
On February 24 2012 03:10 Fishes wrote: [SFW, but you might be scared ] + Show Spoiler +
I don't have it, but this is a pretty common unusual phobia people have: Trypophobia (fear of pores?). Note: the image is not real, it is a picture of a girl with lotus pod pores superimposed on her skin.
I don't even have that phobia but that pic still scares the shit out of me :S
On February 24 2012 03:10 Fishes wrote: [SFW, but you might be scared ] + Show Spoiler +
I don't have it, but this is a pretty common unusual phobia people have: Trypophobia (fear of pores?). Note: the image is not real, it is a picture of a girl with lotus pod pores superimposed on her skin.
As soon as i saw that picture, my skin just felt like it was tingling... O_O
Mine too, shouldn't have looked in the spoiler tag.
I don't know why, but I'm terrified of part of my house. It got renovated several years ago and since then I just never feel safe over there. My shower was broken last night so i had to shower over there and it was one of the scariest things I've ever had to do. I'm fine if I'm alone in the dark anywhere else in my house, but I can't even stand to be alone in the light over there. I always imagine there are ghosts over there or some shit. Again, I have no idea why.
On February 24 2012 04:08 Detri wrote: I have a phobia of high speed dental hand pieces. Fine with injections, blood, gore all that shit is np. but the drills...
The burs (the actual drill bit) are diamond coated, are water cooled to stop the inside of your tooth boiling, spin at 300k rpm and can cut through bone and enamel like it was a hot knife through butter, this makes visiting the dentist a fucking nightmare, white knuckles sweat panic attacks the lot.
How much do you trust your dentist?
Holy shit I was just at the dentist too >_>
As for unusual phobias on my end. Hmm.. I'm actually really creeped out when I touch food. I mean touching bread is reasonably ok, but anything that has sauce or is reasonably wet, I can't actually bring myself to touch it.
Oh, another thing related to food. At Chinese restaurants a lot of time they have a paper placemat thing where you can put bones and other stuff that is essentially garbage. I hate putting bones (and spoons) there. I have no idea why. It just. Bothers me. I can't do it.
I just want to throw in that most phobias are quite easy to get rid off. Of course it depends on the type and how serious it is, but there is a high success rate with short-term CBT-therapy (a couple of sessions, few hours) for many phobias.
The more specific thing and limited to specific situations it is the better, but other phobias can be treated as well of course.
I have a a fear about my feet hanging off the end of my bed for any reason . I feel like something is about to grab them and it scares the shit outta me. I actually had to put my mattress on the floor so i could have my feet touch the ground so i know for sure nothing will grab them. Also I have a fear of furnace rooms with concrete floors its fucking weird man i feel like ill never be warm again when i touch the concrete floor.
On February 24 2012 07:35 Zealotdriver wrote: I'm scared of cute women. Whenever I'm in the presence of an attractive female, my face turns bright red and I am overwhelmed by awkwardness.
I have this but I just think that it is nerves more than anything but I'm not sure to the degree that your fear goes to so I cant know If its the same sort of fear that I have.
I have a phobia of my photo being taken. I just go itchy all over and my eyes become bloodshot and teary so I burnt all the photos of me that I own so I didn't have to think about it.
I was wondering for AGES what fear my GF had and i read trypophobia here and i knew right away that was it. Shes delighted now cause she always thought she was weird (didnt help me laughing and calling her weird all the time too :D ). She also has the sequence thing where she has to do something 4 times and she also reacts differently to different words. Example: If i say saturday sunday shes fine, but if i say taturday, tunday she freaks out and has to move her body in a certain way. I have no idea what this is but she says certain words freak her out and she has to move that certain way. Also some words make her nauseous.
She also sees colours around people and sees colours for different words. In fact now that i think about it colours have a huge impact on her as well. She cannot look at a building if it is a certain colour of blue or red for example as it scares her.
She is easily the weirdest person i ever met. Probably why I love her
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention shes scared of sequences and also the space in between peoples fingers. So if you put your hand up with your fingers separated she cant look at it and it will make her sick. If your hand is closed shes fine. You would not believe the amount of times this happens without realizing it lol.
after reading the link i feel like im semi sociophobic. When someone stares at me i think something's wrong on me and try to fix my hair or my cloths, and i rarely watch ppl at eyes only friends
Fear not - that's normal.
A colleague's mum is afraid of bananas - smell, taste, appearance.
On February 24 2012 07:58 Moloc wrote: I was wondering for AGES what fear my GF had and i read trypophobia here and i knew right away that was it. Shes delighted now cause she always thought she was weird (didnt help me laughing and calling her weird all the time too :D ). She also has the sequence thing where she has to do something 4 times and she also reacts differently to different words. Example: If i say saturday sunday shes fine, but if i say taturday, tunday she freaks out and has to move her body in a certain way. I have no idea what this is but she says certain words freak her out and she has to move that certain way. Also some words make her nauseous.
She also sees colours around people and sees colours for different words. In fact now that i think about it colours have a huge impact on her as well. She cannot look at a building if it is a certain colour of blue or red for example as it scares her.
She is easily the weirdest person i ever met. Probably why I love her
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention shes scared of sequences and also the space in between peoples fingers. So if you put your hand up with your fingers separated she cant look at it and it will make her sick. If your hand is closed shes fine. You would not believe the amount of times this happens without realizing it lol.
Sounds like she, like a lot of people on here, has OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can get worse, and can be a truly crippling condition. Anyone who thinks they might have it should seek professional help asap. Same with any phobia that is so strong or common that it inhibits you.
On February 24 2012 07:58 Moloc wrote: I was wondering for AGES what fear my GF had and i read trypophobia here and i knew right away that was it. Shes delighted now cause she always thought she was weird (didnt help me laughing and calling her weird all the time too :D ). She also has the sequence thing where she has to do something 4 times and she also reacts differently to different words. Example: If i say saturday sunday shes fine, but if i say taturday, tunday she freaks out and has to move her body in a certain way. I have no idea what this is but she says certain words freak her out and she has to move that certain way. Also some words make her nauseous.
She also sees colours around people and sees colours for different words. In fact now that i think about it colours have a huge impact on her as well. She cannot look at a building if it is a certain colour of blue or red for example as it scares her.
She is easily the weirdest person i ever met. Probably why I love her
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention shes scared of sequences and also the space in between peoples fingers. So if you put your hand up with your fingers separated she cant look at it and it will make her sick. If your hand is closed shes fine. You would not believe the amount of times this happens without realizing it lol.
As long as her obsessive compulsive behavior isn't interfering in her ability to function she's fine... but if it is, yea def talk to a Doctor about it.
More interestingly it sounds like she has synesthesia. Its when one sensory input- hearing a word- causes stimulation of another sense - seeing a color- i think its pretty neat. eddie van halen has it too! ^^
On February 23 2012 09:41 Rockztar wrote: Now that I think of it I do have one.. I watch horror movies, read horror stories, and even playing horror games doesn't scare me really. I'm pretty much never scared. Except for when this damn eel from the Super Mario 64 course, Jolly Roger Bay, shows its face.
In general I'm not very fond of deep sea creatures lol, pretty sure it originates from this. When I as a kid was on vacation in France once I felt uneasy swimming in the indoor pool, because it was dark, and I was worried a shark or something would come get me. x)
rofl wtf
Lmao I used to be terrified of this damn thing. Dude I was so little back in the day playing the 64 at my grandparent's house (they had a 64 and I did not). I used to suck at that game, so I couldn't get past the first Bowser lol I didn't know how to grab his tale, or even read very well to see the instructions. So I was stuck in the first room with the few easy levels, and the water one was so terrifying. That door over on the right side of the room... OMG it was so terrifying to try to do the level to get the star when the ship was sunken. I can remember mustering courage to get the eel out of the window and when it reached out and roared I remember running away and crying ;;
I did not go into that level until years later when I just recently bought a 64 and the game ahhaha.
On February 24 2012 03:57 BradwMD wrote: I have a pretty odd case of blood/injection phobia. I can stand seeing someone get a surgery or seeing someones guts fall out on some action movie or something. But when I'm sitting in; say, a biology class for example, and the teacher starts explaining stuff about stuff in the blood and how it works such as certain diseases and stuff, I start to cringe and at one point my vision started to fade and I began to get light headed and see colors. I even get a little queasy just writing about it, we had a chemistry test about converting units and stuff, and one of the questions was measuring the units of something in the blood, I had to viciously mark through every instance of the word blood in the question.
Every shot I've ever had, I've either passed out, or gotten close to it. When we had hepatitis shots in middle school, I fainted in front of my entire class that was lined up after I got it. Never gotten my blood drawn before; and have no idea how I will deal with it if I ever have to.
Oh man I'm exactly the same on both accounts. I'm fine with gore but I can't stand lectures on brain aneurysms... I'm trying to catch myself doing it to practice feeling relaxed or detached and get rid of this malaise. I passed out from shots and blood tests even if never felt disgusted, fear or any signicant pain during the procedure. I now have a have a slight aversion to shots because of these experiences.
I have a rather strange phobia of polyurethane foam. I cannot stand to touch it and even being near it/looking at it makes my skin crawl. I also have what is probably some minor form of OCD in that I absolutely have to know what time it is constantly. I can't stand to not be around a clock of some form, and have no less than 4 at all times in my room.
I am scared of peas, if I see them in a dish I will literally not touch nor eat that dish. Weird considering I eat almost anything else including century eggs, durians, and many many types of offal.
Well, I guess disliking dark is pretty common. Not as far as fearing them, but I feel uncomfortable when I can't see whats in front of me (Although my room is almost always lights off...). 2nd pretty common is hating needless. When I was younger one day I had to give like 10 blood tests the same day. No idea why they couldn't take them all at once... Some sort of allergy test, didn't hurt at all, but somehow I started to disliking needless after it. 3rd, probably much more rare is that I always feel that I often feel that I'm gonna knock a glass/some other down from table even though my hands aren't even near it and I'm not moving them. Somehow I just can't help but think that it's magically going to fall.
On February 24 2012 17:52 GoShox wrote: Hahaha I'll never know why but I have a fear of hotel showers for some reason. Or just any shower that I'm not used to using in general.
Well, a malfunctioning shower can kill you. Literally. A few years ago, two Swedish young adults died in Thailand when there was a malfunction at the hotel and the water from the shower became electrified.
Since around 9/11 2011 (i think it began this date), i have not really a phobia, but generalized anxiety, which i feel as phobias.
Although it began in septembre 2011, in my conscious mind, it isn't related to 9/11 attacks, i wasn't ultra-shocked or whatever, i didn't cry, feel afraid or so when it happened. But it might not be a coincidence !
SO it began by the fear of loud jet sounds. Many planes were passing above my high school everyday, and every time i heard the sound of plane reactors, i had a panic attack, thinking it was a nuclear bomb, or the earth exploding, or whatever cataclysmic. It lasted for years and was very hard to endure (i always had the need to flee, to hide, and i was always putting my hands on my ears in order to not hear the sounds anymore, which made me look stupid in class or in the street...)
I actually still have panic attacks (around 4-5 a week) thinking a cataclysm may be happening....
The phobia since then has changed a little and now i'm not only afraid of loud reactor sounds, but also of vibrations and sounds caused by other engines (train, trucks, etc when they are loud and unexpected). Also, every time i have a vertigo i panic... and panic -> adrenaline -> vertigo .........
A few laters (and a few years from now on) added to that phobia other phobias :
When the CERN LHC began experimenting, i began to be afraid of black holes, strangelets, etc, even if, being a scientist, i know it's safe. So i was always checking the horizon, to the south (i live just north to the LHC) if "something wasn't coming".
Finally, i'm often afraid that the sun would explode or disappear, or our planet would be swallowed by an errant black hole, etc...
All in all, my phobias all concern cataclysmic events i couldn't control nor prevent, and i think i know what any psychanalyst would deduce from that...
It's been about 10 years now that i endure those phobias, making half a dozen panic attacks a week. I deal with it, hoping it will disappear one day (i heard this kind of problems can disappear around the age of 30).
On February 24 2012 17:01 stokes17 wrote: More interestingly it sounds like she has synesthesia. Its when one sensory input- hearing a word- causes stimulation of another sense - seeing a color- i think its pretty neat. eddie van halen has it too! ^^
Cheers for this. I looked up synesthesia with her this morning and that seems very likely that's what she has. There is a college here studying it so will send them an email and see what comes out of it. I very much doubt that she has OCD. Or at least if she does its so mild its not even noticeable. Thanks for the comments guys. Now if only I can figure out why shes scared of the spaces in between peoples fingers...
Lastly, for some reason I am uncomfortable with the number 292. It just... freaks me out. I have absolutely no explanation why, it just does.
Dude how on earth did you find that out and actuly remember it. Interestingly that number also went into my eyes really quick so I guess I have a very tiny fear of it.
As for what I know aboute me I have a tiny fear of looking at lots of holes. I discoverd it when I watched the video linked from the thread talking aboute the swarm host on the same issue.
Haha, yeah it isn't that surprising considering I was born on February 29th. I lived overseas most of my life, so the date was always written as 29/2, so it always bothered me. I still prefer DD/MM/YYYY though .
Huh... actually that could be why I dislike/ fear it so much. I was always quite insecure as a kid because people were always talking about how I was only one or two, and I wanted to be grown-up. So I guess I grew to dislike leapyear, and that particular number combination. Just a theory though, I don't know.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the reason that it went into your eyes quickly is probably because humans see things in threes first; as in, if you see four chairs, it will take you two "intakes" to fully understand there are four chairs. If there were three, you could glance and instantly be like, "Oh, there are three chairs."
On February 23 2012 15:05 EGMachine wrote: I live in the constant fear that somehow someway somewhere at sometime someone will find a way to clone me and force my clone to fight against me.
I think at the creation of this most bad-ass of beings he and I would sense the others power. We would immediately fly towards the other and once together we would then truly understand the magnitude of the situation. "This cannot be! He is equally as awesome as I?" We would then brofist in a sign that we each recognize the other as an equally handsome bad-ass that he is, yet we would understand what we each had to do. There is not enough room in this world for so much greatness. A battle that would rage on for centuries would unfold in-which worlds would crumble. In this onslaught due to the equivalent perfection we would both eventually fall. The world would lose one of the most mediocre Zerg's to walk on the face of this world. That gentlemen, is my phobia.
On February 24 2012 22:13 Yggdrazil wrote:When the CERN LHC began experimenting, i began to be afraid of black holes, strangelets, etc, even if, being a scientist, i know it's safe. So i was always checking the horizon, to the south (i live just north to the LHC) if "something wasn't coming".
I visited CERN over the holidays this year and a lady on the tour asked about this, I thought it was pretty hilarious but after looking around a bit online I found that this was actually pretty common. A teenager in Japan commited suicide the day they started the LHC too. Crazy stuff!
I dont really have a phobia but I cant stand something getting in my eye or seeing someone do something to their eye like putting in a contact or eye drops. Even thinking about it makes my eyes water up, I have no fucking clue how people can get lasik eye surgery.
Not sure why but I can't stand masks which just show someone's eyes and lips...
like this
I think it all has to do with this film The man in the iron mask, I don't know why but it was like the only film which scared the shit out of me... I could watch any horror movie, people dying in a painful way, lots of blood etc. but I can't stand watching this guy with a mask sitting in a dark cell... I remember 1 day after I watched the film I couldn't sleep for like 4 hours and I saw an image of this man on my cupboard lol. I couldn't close my eyes for a single second... and nowadays even when I see a simple mask made by a kid I get reminded of those images... Really can't desribe the feeling. Also thinking about putting a mask on my own face sounds like the most horrible thing I can think of.
I'm now fairly scared of canned objects with pull tabs. Ever since I got 5 stitches from opening one, I've opened like 3 cans since, all with significant preparation and perspiration.
I'm not sure what the cutoff for phobia is, so I'll list off some irrational things I'm afraid of and how afraid of them I am (0 being indifferent, 10 being the most terrifying thing I can imagine).
Clowns - 2 (when I was a kid I was genuinely afraid of them, I just find them mildly unsettling now)
Centipedes/Millipedes - 7 (maybe my only legitimate phobia- anything with more than 8 legs scares the shit out of me)
Deep Water - 4 (I can swim in lakes, but I need to psych myself up to initially get in, and I'm never completely comfortable- if i feel seaweed or fish it gets worse and I usually GTFO of there)
Cotton Balls - 4 (weirdest one, I guess- when I was a kid, I think I must have put one in my mouth- now my mouth gets dry and uncomfortable whenever I look at one, it's pretty unsettling)
I'm also afraid of heights, but I refuse to call it a phobia because I don't think it's irrational. If I'm in a plane or strapped in securely to something there's no issue. I think a healthy fear of heights is just a logical survival instinct.
spiders. not real spiders. i am haunted by spiders in my dreams though i am not really too afraid of them irl. but i'll have a dream about them every now and again and i wake up and if anything touches me, be it wind, water earth fire i respond as though i had just been shot in arm with a firearm
2 fears: Fear that I'll be late to everything. Fear of throwing up. I am just terrified of stuff on the inside coming out my mouth. This leads to germaphobia as I avoid anyone who I think might give me the flu. And I can't ride roller coasters.
Trypophobia. Last time I talked about it on here, people laughed. One person insisted I was trolling. It's not just holes in flesh I fear (mostly infections or necrosis)... it's other holes. When you cook pop tarts too long and the filling oozes out of the little holes on the surface, I can't look at it. I have to throw it away immediately. You know when you're rowing a boat in a body of water, if you look down at your oar, you can see little "whirlpools" caused by your stroke. These freak me the fuck out. I actually can't stop staring at it, but I start swallowing and I don't know it's fucking weird. The pore all over my nose? I can't look at them for more than 3 seconds. Before you get curious, no part of human anatomy scares me, or even causes me to give pause, thank god for that. Sponges don't scare me either. But those fucked up frogs that carry eggs on their back and then the tadpoles BURST out of the frogs skin? I. CAN'T. FUCKING. TAKE IT. The bumps on the back, then the holes, the bursting... I can't deal. In addition, you know how you some sauce in a pot and soak it overnight, sometimes you get this scum skin on top overnight, but sometimes it's really white and really porous... I actually gag when I see this.
It's a really weird phobia. It's only certain holes on certain things... It's like only certain things remind me of rotting flesh. Sponges remind me of sponges. I guess I can see the pop tarts relation... red goo oozing from a pale surface caved in... But the little whirlpools in water? Who the fuck knows. It just bothers me how deep the hole is for how tiny and short lived it is...
Well maybe the Mrs. is right about therapy being a good idea
On February 24 2012 22:13 Yggdrazil wrote: Since around 9/11 2011 (i think it began this date), i have not really a phobia, but generalized anxiety, which i feel as phobias.
Although it began in septembre 2011, in my conscious mind, it isn't related to 9/11 attacks, i wasn't ultra-shocked or whatever, i didn't cry, feel afraid or so when it happened. But it might not be a coincidence !
SO it began by the fear of loud jet sounds. Many planes were passing above my high school everyday, and every time i heard the sound of plane reactors, i had a panic attack, thinking it was a nuclear bomb, or the earth exploding, or whatever cataclysmic. It lasted for years and was very hard to endure (i always had the need to flee, to hide, and i was always putting my hands on my ears in order to not hear the sounds anymore, which made me look stupid in class or in the street...)
I actually still have panic attacks (around 4-5 a week) thinking a cataclysm may be happening....
The phobia since then has changed a little and now i'm not only afraid of loud reactor sounds, but also of vibrations and sounds caused by other engines (train, trucks, etc when they are loud and unexpected). Also, every time i have a vertigo i panic... and panic -> adrenaline -> vertigo .........
A few laters (and a few years from now on) added to that phobia other phobias :
When the CERN LHC began experimenting, i began to be afraid of black holes, strangelets, etc, even if, being a scientist, i know it's safe. So i was always checking the horizon, to the south (i live just north to the LHC) if "something wasn't coming".
Finally, i'm often afraid that the sun would explode or disappear, or our planet would be swallowed by an errant black hole, etc...
All in all, my phobias all concern cataclysmic events i couldn't control nor prevent, and i think i know what any psychanalyst would deduce from that...
It's been about 10 years now that i endure those phobias, making half a dozen panic attacks a week. I deal with it, hoping it will disappear one day (i heard this kind of problems can disappear around the age of 30).
This is called paranoia, and is documented extensively
I am afraid of black ice. Just the thought of it glistening and shining like inviting you to walk onto it and slip...uah. No damn way.
Edit: And ohmygod cockroaches. I can't even watch them in a movie, I have to switch channels or gtfo of the room to another one where i can't see and hear the TV.
I'm scared of Wheaties. when i was a kid i was visiting my aunt and she had all her cereal's were invested with ants and i didn't notice until i was half way done with with my bowl and i looked down and i swear it was crawling with ants (i was pretty little so now i doubt if that was 100% accurate now). but ever since then i will not buy Wheaties or be in the room with someone eating them. i'm not even that afraid of ants but i cannot stand Wheaties.
Whenever I open a bottle of Champagne, I'm scared to death that the cap will come shooting out and either go straight into my eye or even break my wrist through the sudden pressure. Personally, I think this is beyond ridiculous.
One of my friends I recently discovered has a pretty serious fear of small children and babies. Not like having a baby, but she is scared of being around them. If there is a kid with his parent walking towards her on the sidewalk, she will cross over to the other side of the street. She doesn't really like to talk about it, but I think it has to do with the proportions of their bodies.
I have a strong fear of suffocating. I am not afraid to go underwater or to hold my breath. I am just really afraid of not being able to breath anymore. Sometimes, I just feel the urge to breath deeply just to verify I am still able to do it and that my lungs works properly...It also causes me some side effects...I can't stand anything to touch my neck at all...At my prom, my date asked me to wear a tie and I swear to god I removed it after 5 seconds because I could not breath anymore because of the anxiety and misconfort...
Sometimes, my girlfriend finds it funny to touch my neck suddenly and everytime I become naturally aggressive. On time, my friend while fighting, faked strangling me (and he is a lot stronger than me) and the amount of adrenaline that came in made me throw away my friend like he was a feather.
I believe I have this fear for two reasons...First of all, at birth, I had the umbilical cord around my neck. Also, I can clearly remember a scene I saw in a movie when I was young where a man in white shirt during the wild west time behing hanged beside a lot more people (all hanged too) who managed to climb over the pole to crawl on it with his hands tied in the back). I remember this scene got me freaked out so baddly...
God I wish I could get rid of this fear...
You guys should see my T-shirts collar...they are all stretched. I need to change my shirts almost every couple months.
i have a weird fear of being in a bathroom looking in the mirror and if i take my eyes off the mirror then look at the mirror again someone will be standing behind me. its odd but gets me everytime
When I was a kid I used to really hate going in lifts (elevators), it wasn't a fear that the cable would break and I'd be sent plummeting to the floor, I was just really scared of getting stuck in one, I would walk up stupid numbers of stairs to avoid using one. I have no problem using them now however.
Can't think of any other phobias I have, I don't mind spiders or heights, I guess my hatred of wasps would be the closest thing but even they don't bother me so much anymore.
On March 17 2012 02:31 Outsited wrote: i have a weird fear of being in a bathroom looking in the mirror and if i take my eyes off the mirror then look at the mirror again someone will be standing behind me. its odd but gets me everytime
On March 17 2012 02:24 pure_protoss wrote: I have a strong fear of suffocating. I am not afraid to go underwater or to hold my breath. I am just really afraid of not being able to breath anymore. Sometimes, I just feel the urge to breath deeply just to verify I am still able to do it and that my lungs works properly...It also causes me some side effects...I can't stand anything to touch my neck at all...At my prom, my date asked me to wear a tie and I swear to god I removed it after 5 seconds because I could not breath anymore because of the anxiety and misconfort...
Sometimes, my girlfriend finds it funny to touch my neck suddenly and everytime I become naturally aggressive. On time, my friend while fighting, faked strangling me (and he is a lot stronger than me) and the amount of adrenaline that came in made me throw away my friend like he was a feather.
I believe I have this fear for two reasons...First of all, at birth, I had the umbilical cord around my neck. Also, I can clearly remember a scene I saw in a movie when I was young where a man in white shirt during the wild west time behing hanged beside a lot more people (all hanged too) who managed to climb over the pole to crawl on it with his hands tied in the back). I remember this scene got me freaked out so baddly...
God I wish I could get rid of this fear...
You guys should see my T-shirts collar...they are all stretched. I need to change my shirts almost every couple months.
You and me... Are the same. Our brotherhood will grow and when the time is right, we will make pre-stretched sleeved shirts be in the front of every cloth store. Our necks will know the fresh air instead of solid mass on them, and we will always be certain that air is circling through our lungs. Ride on brother.
On March 17 2012 02:31 Outsited wrote: i have a weird fear of being in a bathroom looking in the mirror and if i take my eyes off the mirror then look at the mirror again someone will be standing behind me. its odd but gets me everytime
Yeah! Another one of my friends (yeah I'm obviously popular as balls) has this very thing. Watching him brush his teeth is very odd as he keeps his eyes transfixed on the mirror, and when he spits it looks quite odd.
He also has the problem with taking off his shirt when he's alone, he's told me. Which I think I have, albeit less than him. I am scared that in the time that my shirt will be covering my vision someone will appear and attack me.
On March 17 2012 02:31 Outsited wrote: i have a weird fear of being in a bathroom looking in the mirror and if i take my eyes off the mirror then look at the mirror again someone will be standing behind me. its odd but gets me everytime
Yeah! Another one of my friends (yeah I'm obviously popular as balls) has this very thing. Watching him brush his teeth is very odd as he keeps his eyes transfixed on the mirror, and when he spits it looks quite odd.
He also has the problem with taking off his shirt when he's alone, he's told me. Which I think I have, albeit less than him. I am scared that in the time that my shirt will be covering my vision someone will appear and attack me.
I think all those fears are based on watching to many horror movies when you were young. I have all of those and i did at least:D
I am also afraid of closing my eyes when i am alone, so it kinda sucks when showering to balance out not closing your eyes in fear of being jumped and getting water in your eyes:D
On March 17 2012 02:44 Teoman wrote: I am also afraid of closing my eyes when i am alone, so it kinda sucks when showering to balance out not closing your eyes in fear of being jumped and getting water in your eyes:D
I do have that while showering early in the morning, when I know I'm alone at home. Otherwise I don't feel any fear to close my eyes.
On March 17 2012 02:24 pure_protoss wrote: I have a strong fear of suffocating. I am not afraid to go underwater or to hold my breath. I am just really afraid of not being able to breath anymore. Sometimes, I just feel the urge to breath deeply just to verify I am still able to do it and that my lungs works properly...It also causes me some side effects...I can't stand anything to touch my neck at all...At my prom, my date asked me to wear a tie and I swear to god I removed it after 5 seconds because I could not breath anymore because of the anxiety and misconfort...
Sometimes, my girlfriend finds it funny to touch my neck suddenly and everytime I become naturally aggressive. On time, my friend while fighting, faked strangling me (and he is a lot stronger than me) and the amount of adrenaline that came in made me throw away my friend like he was a feather.
I believe I have this fear for two reasons...First of all, at birth, I had the umbilical cord around my neck. Also, I can clearly remember a scene I saw in a movie when I was young where a man in white shirt during the wild west time behing hanged beside a lot more people (all hanged too) who managed to climb over the pole to crawl on it with his hands tied in the back). I remember this scene got me freaked out so baddly...
God I wish I could get rid of this fear...
You guys should see my T-shirts collar...they are all stretched. I need to change my shirts almost every couple months.
You and me... Are the same. Our brotherhood will grow and when the time is right, we will make pre-stretched sleeved shirts be in the front of every cloth store. Our necks will know the fresh air instead of solid mass on them, and we will always be certain that air is circling through our lungs. Ride on brother.
someone like me! Brother I love you! Where have u been my whole life?!
Also, a lot of people are telling me to wear some V Neck but since I like to work out, I dont want to look like a Douchebag like Jersey Shore so I prefer just wearing a shirt instead lol
I absolutely agree about centipedes. I mean when I saw that scene in Indiana Jones where they walk through the tunnels full of bugs and ... whatever. I still can't take it in any way. I seriously would run away from a centipede or kill it as fast and as mercilessly as I could.
But generally I'm not sure if those are true phobias, paranoia, high self-consciousness or just usual human brain bullshit because I could relate to more things mentioned here. Definitely social phobia to some degree, I guess. I often feel like there's too much attention on me when I'm outside, but I try to keep it in check by trying not to think about it. One thing which helps me is to imagine some stupidly funny situation, lightens the feeling and removes your thoughts about it to some degree. And I have no f.. idea why I didn't talk about this with my psychologist when I was attending her.
Totally afraid of heights. I mean I would crawl to the side of some high ledge or never go there at all.
I was very afraid of spiders my whole life (arachnophobia, I think). But now it has gone away basically. Unless I would see something out of those australian spiders.
Fear of oceans with no visible bottom. It's not that i fear swimming or so because i swim almost weekly yet i have nightmares about them. Darkness normally isn't issue aswell but when i see it in ocean and you look down seeing only darkness makes me very uneasy.
i have this phobia that is not rly " ladder phobia " but whenever im in like a 4-5 win streak or more , im scarry to find match to not ruin the winning streak .
I have a fear of needles. I always disliked the thought of something foreign being put inside my body like a flu shot or a part of me being taken out like getting blood work done. So the feeling the needle going inside my skin just makes my skin crawl.
On February 23 2012 06:28 TheWorldToCome wrote: I am terrified of pool cleaners I will not swim in a pool with one. I fear it will come alive and pull my foot under water or something and drown me. I always have to take it completely out of a pool before I will go swimming.
You're not the only one
I guess this isn't really a fear, but you reminded me of a weird thing I think of sometimes when I'm in the shower:
I think that the water shooting out of the shower head will turn into razer blades and then they'll just fly right through my face. =/
I don't duck or anything while I'm showering (lol), it's just something that pops into my head from time to time.
If any of you have seen the show Supernatural, I suspect I may have gotten this idea from there.
For me it was a fear that It would turn into Lava. I think I got that from dante's peak in 97
I dont know if its unusual but when I sleep / rest my hands / legs cant be outside of bed / sofa because I fear that something would cut them off
For me its me nothing can be out of the covers! For those who seen Fear of the Dark It explained it perfectly
Lastly that I can think of I cant go into a room full of Dolls. I dont know why but i feel like they are all starring at me and going to steal my soul or something.
Grasshoppers and Locusts. The only types of insects I can't handle. I don't have any other fear though. e: dunno if you would call it a phobia but I feel very uneasy being near anyone of those :<
POOLS!!!!! pools are fucking nasty! D:. I cannot stand pools if i go in a pool i start crying because they're filled with chlorine and piss. also chlorine burns my skin. also i'm completely terrified of zombies
On March 22 2012 07:40 Xenocryst wrote: POOLS!!!!! pools are fucking nasty! D:. I cannot stand pools if i go in a pool i start crying because they're filled with chlorine and piss. also chlorine burns my skin. also i'm completely terrified of zombies
You don't have a phobia of pools you are just a baby.
On February 23 2012 06:28 TheWorldToCome wrote: I am terrified of pool cleaners I will not swim in a pool with one. I fear it will come alive and pull my foot under water or something and drown me. I always have to take it completely out of a pool before I will go swimming.
I dont know if its unusual but when I sleep / rest my hands / legs cant be outside of bed / sofa because I fear that something would cut them off
For me its me nothing can be out of the covers! For those who seen Fear of the Dark It explained it perfectly
Lastly that I can think of I cant go into a room full of Dolls. I dont know why but i feel like they are all starring at me and going to steal my soul or something.
In regards to the shower one, mines would be the purple ooze that was shown in a movie of Power Rangers, that was used to take over all the parents and shit.
I still think about it now... it's not scary just a stupid thought I have. Once I've done the shower, I just laugh at my awkwardness.
Anything to do with insects or reptiles I will not go near, and I flip out when I find an insect on me.
I've also developed a super-paranoid fear of the dark somehow in that I can't sleep without my wife in the room with me unless I stay up for a period of time that I'm completely exhausted, but I can't have any doors open, be in a large space or have any part of me (except my head) not under a blanket in the dark.
Terrified of people who have animal heads or by extension, animal masks, specifically of the farm animal variety. The fear varies from very uncomfortable (the people with horse heads in one Ke$ha music video) to absolutely consuming (killer with pig mask on from Saw).
Someone also mentioned having their eyes closed while showering and being anxious of something/someone being there when you open them again.
I have the swimming in water I cant see the bottom of thing...that seems pretty common.
Also zombies...its really weird...for something that I know doesn't exist (...yet), I will often wake up having had some nightmare that is basically just remembering a scene from some zombie movie.
o_O I won't take public transportation or walk often because I always think someone might want to attack me. I'm constantly looking over my shoulder and browsing my surroundings like a paranoid idiot. Music can usually keep my calm, but I'll still constantly be on guard. O_o
3 months ago, i lost like 10 games to dts in 3 days, and when i went to school i started imagining ripples on the ground. I dont know if this counts for a phobia, but them dts are scary:s
For some reason I have a huge phobia for dead shrimp and rice. I don't know why but they make me want to vomit. Hell just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
Same here about the deep water. It's always been like this but i managed to overcome it one holiday 10 years ago (girls around) and swam 200m off the coast in the ocean. Got the worst cramp in my left leg ever and nearly drowned. Didn't really help with the phobia... Also claustrophobia: I really freak out when trapped somewhere or someone pinning me down.
Worst thing i'm afraid of is a sound though i cannot even describe. Had a terrible nightmare as a kid when i had a real heavy fever. My family was burning alive in the living room and i screamed at them to get out and they just stared at me. While this was happening there was this vibrating sound in my head all the time even after i woke up. When i ran down to the living room my family was sitting on the couch just like in the nightmare, me still hearing that sound. I lost consciouness, though of course everything was ok... It came back over the years a couple of times in completely normal situations without any reason. I haven't heard it though for years and i really hope it will never come back.
When I was a young, for a long time I used to have nightmares about patterns. I don't know what its called, but it was like a mix of the honey comb pbobia + weird patterns. I wish I could explain what type of patterns they were, it was SO WEIRD, it would make me so uncomfortable looking at 'weird' patterns solely because it reminded me of the nightmares.
That's gone now though, thankfully. Now my biggest (laughable) concern is walking at night and seeing a movie-type serial killer in the distance, that or swimming in the Ocean... All because one time I was swimming at the beach, felt something weird under my foot and picked up the craziest looking creature I've ever seen in my Life, fucking freaked me out, now I can only really swim in water that I can see through.
Reading all of these make me glad I have basically no phobias that I can think of ^^ The closest ones I have (I imagine they're fairly common and they're hardly bothersome at all) are running upstairs from a dark basement. I know there's nothing behind me and I try to walk calmly up the stairs but after a few steps, I can't help but run haha.. The other is just sometimes if I get the slightest itch, I may think "what if that itch is a spider?" and I'll slap wherever it was and then I shiver really hard for a sec lol.. Maybe I have some phobias that I just haven't discovered yet ^^
I don't like wrists I guess. The bottom of the wrist. I hate touching that part of my wrist, and I hate seeing anyone excessively touching theirs. Just kind of grosses me out. I don't have a problem wearing a watch though.
Damn, some of these phobias sound pretty...unconfortable to live with :/
Fortunately, I don't have any phobia to speak of. The only fear (not sure if it classifies as phobia) that I can think of are elevators. Like, I use them alright, but you'll never see me dwindling around them, I tend to get in and out of them really quick. I have this fear that it'll close on my arm or something and both the pressure and laser sensor won't work and...yeah.
And it wasn't even because of Final Destination, if you were thinking about that xD (although I've read it happened in real life?). I first got fraked out once when I was at my ex-gf's and I was talking and playing around with her from inside the elevator and the door closed on my arm and didn't open. I freaked out and tried to look for the open button, fortunately she pressed it pretty fast.
On February 23 2012 11:01 Digitalis wrote: I have tryptophobia, fear of small clustered circles together. It may have sprung from just photoshopped images, but I have an unsettling fear of it. If you google tryptophobia you'll see some pictures of it. To me I get just get chills and become mentally unsettled for the next hour, sometimes if I stare at them long enough I start to itch as well.
On February 23 2012 11:01 Digitalis wrote: I have tryptophobia, fear of small clustered circles together. It may have sprung from just photoshopped images, but I have an unsettling fear of it. If you google tryptophobia you'll see some pictures of it. To me I get just get chills and become mentally unsettled for the next hour, sometimes if I stare at them long enough I start to itch as well.
I googled it. I felt unsettled looking at pictures of it, but not unreasonably so. It seems like a pretty normal thing to be freaked out about though. The photo-shopped pictures are so well-done they are like some sort of plague.
On March 22 2012 11:57 Chaz2700K wrote: Really feel so sorry for all of you folks....a lot of insecurity issues here!
I'm not so sure it is insecurities, I think it has to do with unpleasant experiences in the past. Regardless of that, it is still interesting to explore and to find other people who share your fears. (For instance I swear I NEVER thought ANYONE would have my phobia tripping over a wire while running at night. Anyone.)
Speaking of which, I was running along the sidewalk last night, and I discovered another phobia (wonderful, right?). Whenever I pass by a telephone pole, I am always frightened that a nail will be sticking out and it will catch in my eye and rip half my face off. I tense up whenever I pass by one. Maybe I shouldn't run at night.
i have an overwhelming fear of having sharp objects pierce the flesh under my finger or toe nails or somehow having then ripped of my fingers or toes. I honestly have on clue why since i have never seen it happen and I've never had it happen to me.
its so bad that i resort to biting my finger nails when they are even slightly long and there's a possibility of them getting hooked on something. Even just thinking about it makes of nauseous and uneasy and if my nail gets hooked on something i have to sit down and breathe deeply for a few minutes because I feel extreme vertigo and nearly faint and puke at the same time.
even just typing this was hard work and i feel woozy
On March 22 2012 23:43 eu.exodus wrote: i have an overwhelming fear of having sharp objects pierce the flesh under my finger or toe nails or somehow having then ripped of my fingers or toes. I honestly have on clue why since i have never seen it happen and I've never had it happen to me.
its so bad that i resort to biting my finger nails when they are even slightly long and there's a possibility of them getting hooked on something. Even just thinking about it makes of nauseous and uneasy and if my nail gets hooked on something i have to sit down and breathe deeply for a few minutes because I feel extreme vertigo and nearly faint and puke at the same time.
even just typing this was hard work and i feel woozy
I guess I could tell you about that time when I was young and got a thorn from the a south african thorntree lodged right under my big toenail. To this date that has to be the most painful experience I've ever had. To help you visualize here's a picture of them:
Have you fainted yet? >:D
Oh and people, phobia's are a great deal more intense than fears, the latter being the thing most of you are listing here. Easy way to determine what a phobia is, is asking yourself if you would be willing to jump off a building to get away from it.
On March 22 2012 23:43 eu.exodus wrote: i have an overwhelming fear of having sharp objects pierce the flesh under my finger or toe nails or somehow having then ripped of my fingers or toes. I honestly have on clue why since i have never seen it happen and I've never had it happen to me.
its so bad that i resort to biting my finger nails when they are even slightly long and there's a possibility of them getting hooked on something. Even just thinking about it makes of nauseous and uneasy and if my nail gets hooked on something i have to sit down and breathe deeply for a few minutes because I feel extreme vertigo and nearly faint and puke at the same time.
even just typing this was hard work and i feel woozy
I guess I could tell you about that time when I was young and got a thorn from the a south african thorntree lodged right under my big toenail. To this date that has to be the most painful experience I've ever had. To help you visualize here's a picture of them:+ Show Spoiler +
Have you fainted yet? >:D
Oh and people, phobia's are a great deal more intense than fears, the latter being the thing most of you are listing here. Easy way to determine what a phobia is, is asking yourself if you would be willing to jump off a building to get away from it.
dude thats not cool. My toes hurt now.
btw those thorns are called "duiwel dorings" in afrikaans, and since youre from holland you could probably make out that it means "devil thorns" that shit is evil. A friend of mine had that shit go right through his shoe, through his foot and out the other side. That however doesnt come anywhere close to having that shit go under a toenail. I dont feel so good.
On March 22 2012 07:40 Xenocryst wrote: POOLS!!!!! pools are fucking nasty! D:. I cannot stand pools if i go in a pool i start crying because they're filled with chlorine and piss. also chlorine burns my skin. also i'm completely terrified of zombies
You don't have a phobia of pools you are just a baby.
And your just an ass It's nice how you just come into a thread and insult me for no reason so to you I give a big Hasa Diga
On March 17 2012 02:31 Outsited wrote: i have a weird fear of being in a bathroom looking in the mirror and if i take my eyes off the mirror then look at the mirror again someone will be standing behind me. its odd but gets me everytime
Ya I have an issue like this, but my friend thought that I was joking so he decided to do exactly that wearing one of those white blank expression mask. We ended that night with me getting an apology and him with a concussion and 3 stitches where I bashed his head with a hair dryer.
I just recently discovered this one in school. Sometimes, when a clock in the school is off, they have to recalibrate the entire system since they are connected to each other, and if one is off, fixing it requires changing the whole system. So what they do is they cause all the clocks to move really quickly, like the minute hand moves two and half minutes every second.
OH MY GOD. The first moment that I look at to see the time and instead see time going haywire just totally terrifies me. And the hands make this clicking sound, click click click click click click oh my GOD I hate it. My stomach drops and my hands get cold. I don't know what it is, maybe a feeling of disorientation, but it really scares me. Only for a few moments though, if I force myself to stare at the clock for a few more moments then I generally overcome the fear, but still have a sense of ominousness. Very unpleasant.
I'm scared like crap of being touched by velvet. Even just looking at it makes my skin crawl and I absolutely cannot stand near to someone wearing velvet.
I am really afraid of the thought of not being able to use a keyboard and mouse. It's not that I can't live without a computer for an extended period of time because I have when I went on camping trips, but rather it's the thought that I won't ever be able to type and spam click that scares the crap out of me making me hugely uncomfortable and even sweaty sometimes.
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on this, but insect eyes freak the living shit out of me. If I see a fly and I think about its closeup eyes, I'll scream, cry, and then run away.
I'm not entirely sure if it's unusual or not, but I have a hemopobia (my guess at fear of blood?) that nobody I know shares. I can see it in movie if it's fake enough, but like ER and even the intro to Dexter make them both unwatchable. If I get cut myself and start to bleed I freak out way more due to the blood than the pain or whatever. Anyone else severely skiddish of blood?
My biggest phobia would probably be corpses. It just scares me to think about body decaying and rotting. It makes me very uncomfortable whenever I walk near cemetery. I'm not sure if this is a phobia though.
I have a rather extreme fear of pressing find match. Even thought I keep winning when I play. Do I hate success? Never had a problem loosing in other games, but in sc2 and dota I win when I play, I just can't hit find match.
On March 22 2012 23:43 eu.exodus wrote: i have an overwhelming fear of having sharp objects pierce the flesh under my finger or toe nails or somehow having then ripped of my fingers or toes. I honestly have on clue why since i have never seen it happen and I've never had it happen to me.
its so bad that i resort to biting my finger nails when they are even slightly long and there's a possibility of them getting hooked on something. Even just thinking about it makes of nauseous and uneasy and if my nail gets hooked on something i have to sit down and breathe deeply for a few minutes because I feel extreme vertigo and nearly faint and puke at the same time.
even just typing this was hard work and i feel woozy
I guess I could tell you about that time when I was young and got a thorn from the a south african thorntree lodged right under my big toenail. To this date that has to be the most painful experience I've ever had. To help you visualize here's a picture of them:+ Show Spoiler +
Have you fainted yet? >:D
Oh and people, phobia's are a great deal more intense than fears, the latter being the thing most of you are listing here. Easy way to determine what a phobia is, is asking yourself if you would be willing to jump off a building to get away from it.
dude thats not cool. My toes hurt now.
btw those thorns are called "duiwel dorings" in afrikaans, and since youre from holland you could probably make out that it means "devil thorns" that shit is evil. A friend of mine had that shit go right through his shoe, through his foot and out the other side. That however doesnt come anywhere close to having that shit go under a toenail. I dont feel so good.
That's nothing. When I was like 13 I was carving my name with a small flat rock on a tree. I'm not sure what kind it was exactly, but it's the sort of tree where the bark is sort of a soft skin with a little gritty texture that is grey (and about .05-1mm below is a green to white flesh inside). Well I was carving it in fast and I did a good 2-3 inch curve in a letter and all the bark and green material jammed up under my nail. It was painful as fuck and it stayed in there for at least 3 weeks.
When I'm in a high place I'm afraid someone will run up behind me and push me off. This could be on a cliff or at a mall. Even if there is a railing to keep people from falling off I get worried that someone will run up behind me and grab me by my ankles and flip me off.
I get nervous with heights anyway so it's not too unusual since that is a common fear.
On April 25 2012 22:05 CyDe wrote: I just recently discovered this one in school. Sometimes, when a clock in the school is off, they have to recalibrate the entire system since they are connected to each other, and if one is off, fixing it requires changing the whole system. So what they do is they cause all the clocks to move really quickly, like the minute hand moves two and half minutes every second.
OH MY GOD. The first moment that I look at to see the time and instead see time going haywire just totally terrifies me. And the hands make this clicking sound, click click click click click click oh my GOD I hate it. My stomach drops and my hands get cold. I don't know what it is, maybe a feeling of disorientation, but it really scares me. Only for a few moments though, if I force myself to stare at the clock for a few more moments then I generally overcome the fear, but still have a sense of ominousness. Very unpleasant.
Hey man, I know how that clock thing is. Growing up as a little kid I was in an accident that made my neck slightly crooked and caused me to be a temporary epileptic from some nerve being pinched or something. . . Anyway, one of the triggers that would set me off into a seizure was the sound clocks make. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, BAM i'm in a seizure.
I eventually grew out of the seizure part as my neck straightened back out after a few years but damn, that sound makes me cringe and freak out. My mind starts focusing in on the sound and everything goes a little vertigo and what not. ...
On February 23 2012 14:55 RaspberrySC2 wrote: Atelophobia -
I have it. It's paralyzing because I don't even want to try to do anything... being my own harshest critic and all. The greater the failure, the more likely it is that I will try to kill myself.
Reading through the thread I realize I have this too. This is also why I very rarely ever try my best, if I have the option (it's not a live or die situation that is)
On August 12 2013 09:58 Larkin wrote: My girlfriend has a fear of confrontation. If there is any kind of argument she just starts crying.
I had this when I was young. God I was such a pussy. Even now I try to avoid any confrontation as much as possible.
I get super nervous and stressed out when I have to wait on something I can't measure or control (like other people). Also when I was a kid whenever I was in a driving car with an opened window, I was completely terrified that I was going to throw my toys out of the window. The idea of biting a woolen sweater makes me itchy as well.
On August 12 2013 10:28 Saechiis wrote: Also when I was a kid whenever I was in a driving car with an opened window, I was completely terrified that I was going to throw my toys out of the window.
Omg...I actually have this... I'm 14 now and am constantly feeling like i'm going to throw my iPhone out the window... its annoying and weird as hell o_o
On August 12 2013 10:28 Saechiis wrote: Also when I was a kid whenever I was in a driving car with an opened window, I was completely terrified that I was going to throw my toys out of the window.
Omg...I actually have this... I'm 14 now and am constantly feeling like i'm going to throw my iPhone out the window... its annoying and weird as hell o_o
Yea I used to have those urges as well. It seems like it sort of common among a couple people in this thread.
Well I just read/watch about death caused by sinkholes. and I've realized that it can happen anytime, anywhere. I also dreamed about falling into a deep hole to hell when I was a kid. I think that it'll happen to me. The thing is the sink hole might happen when i fell asleep. It really taunts me and afraid to sleep.
On August 12 2013 11:21 Luepert wrote: I'm really afraid of puking.
I wouldn't say I'm afraid of puking, but I really hate it. I get a serious blood rush to my head which makes my headache even worse, and tiny little blood vessels pop around my eyes, so I end up with a bunch of small red dots on my eyelids, especially under my eyes.
I have a phobia that my Squirtle will only have 8 or 9 speed. Two minutes wasted!
Whenever a person is sleeping in my vicinity I fear that the tiniest amount of sound I make will wake them up. Seriously when I'm at my brothers and he's passed out on his bed next to my computer (I bring my tower because his computers are shit) when I'm surfing the internet I try my hardest to use the minimal amount of clicks to get the job done. I have to try doubly hard now because I recently bought a mechanical keyboard with blues.
On August 12 2013 11:21 Luepert wrote: I'm really afraid of puking.
I wouldn't say I'm afraid of puking, but I really hate it. I get a serious blood rush to my head which makes my headache even worse, and tiny little blood vessels pop under my eyes, so I end up with a bunch of small red dots on my eyelids, especially under my eyes.
Can't imagine it constitutes a phobia tho
Yours nope, but the phobia of puking does exist. Emetophobia. It's awful. I remember having panic attacks because my phobia of puking in public was so enormous.
On August 12 2013 11:21 Luepert wrote: I'm really afraid of puking.
I wouldn't say I'm afraid of puking, but I really hate it. I get a serious blood rush to my head which makes my headache even worse, and tiny little blood vessels pop under my eyes, so I end up with a bunch of small red dots on my eyelids, especially under my eyes.
Can't imagine it constitutes a phobia tho
Yours nope, but the phobia of puking does exist. Emetophobia. It's awful. I remember having panic attacks because my phobia of puking in public was so enormous.
I personally cannot stand touching chalk and thinking about people writing with chalk on a chalkboard.. I'm not really bothered in lectures and such unless I actually start thinking about it though.
On August 12 2013 13:55 dae wrote: I personally cannot stand touching chalk and thinking about people writing with chalk on a chalkboard.. I'm not really bothered in lectures and such unless I actually start thinking about it though.
Chalk is the worst! Ughh. Chalk and the boards that go with them. Can't stand them.
I really hate the bottom sides of wrists. I don't touch mine, and when I see others touch theirs I cringe a lot.
I have a slight fear of dolls and dummies. Not to the level of phobia, but I definitely feel incredibly uncomfortable around em, especially when alone.
On August 12 2013 14:21 Discarder wrote: when 2 styrofoam pieces scratch against each other... the horror
I have a good friend that has an issue with styrofoam. He also absolutely hates popcorn and can't stand listening to people eat it. Also avoids anything involving tinfoil and he will unconsciously strike anyone who touches his ears :/
I've always been a bit neophobic with regards to food, ever since I was young. While I can tell you that there's a particular food that I want to try, when it's right in front of me, I suddenly become super anxious. It's led to a lot of embarrassing social situations; dinner parties can be particularly stressful. It's totally irrational on my end and not always the easiest thing to deal with. But I always find solace knowing that we all have our faults, some more visible than others.
I'm definitely working at it and getting better about trying new food, and I've tried enough food so that I manage to live a fairly healthy lifestyle (it could be a lot worse), but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Watching someone bend fingers at the joints backwards even the slightest makes me freak out out big time, It was always like that for me, pretty annoying, only thing worst is if I see my own fingers bend backwards...
When I say freak out I mean feel horrible in body and head to point of vomiting .
After having this in my garden yesterday and having to call a specialist to remove something endangered and as big as my face. Its safe to say i have a usual phobia.
Known to live in northern lanka jungles, nobody knows how it got into the rice paddies / coconut farm behind my house in southern lanka. (Was on a tree overhanging my garden wall)
On August 12 2013 15:16 Capped wrote: After having this in my garden yesterday and having to call a specialist to remove something endangered and as big as my face. Its safe to say i have a usual phobia.
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Known to live in northern lanka jungles, nobody knows how it got into the rice paddies / coconut farm behind my house in southern lanka. (Was on a tree overhanging my garden wall)
You should really spoiler images like that. However, it's safe to say you do not have arachnophobia, because if you did, there is no way you could look up that image and post it here.
I have a reverse fear of heights. I cannot look up at tall buildings/roofs, I will always think that somehow gravity will reverse and I'll fall to it...
I have no problems looking down from tall buildings though.
I have got one, have no idea how normal it is though, haven't done any research.
Whenever I touch my own penis (I think it is called masterbaiting?) for longer periods of time I get this weird sensation and I get spasms all over my body. Then I pee myself, but it's normal pee its like this weird sticky pee.
I think this might be some kind of human contact phobia because I am not that good around other people and my brain for some reason thinks me touching my penis is someone else.
On August 12 2013 21:20 HaruRH wrote: I have a reverse fear of heights. I cannot look up at tall buildings/roofs, I will always think that somehow gravity will reverse and I'll fall to it...
I have no problems looking down from tall buildings though.
Interesting, since I've the "classic" fear of heights xd
On August 12 2013 21:36 Roflhaxx wrote: I have got one, have no idea how normal it is though, haven't done any research.
Whenever I touch my own penis (I think it is called masterbaiting?) for longer periods of time I get this weird sensation and I get spasms all over my body. Then I pee myself, but it's normal pee its like this weird sticky pee.
I think this might be some kind of human contact phobia because I am not that good around other people and my brain for some reason thinks me touching my penis is someone else.
On August 12 2013 21:20 HaruRH wrote: I have a reverse fear of heights. I cannot look up at tall buildings/roofs, I will always think that somehow gravity will reverse and I'll fall to it...
I have no problems looking down from tall buildings though.
Interesting, since I've the "classic" fear of heights xd
Trust me, this phobia sucks so bad, when I look up at tall buildings, i need to squat down and look down for a few moments. Also, I cannot enter a stadium due to this fear =.=
Anything above 6 floors will trigger this phobia of mine. Imagine living with this in today's world =.=
On August 12 2013 15:16 Capped wrote: After having this in my garden yesterday and having to call a specialist to remove something endangered and as big as my face. Its safe to say i have a usual phobia.
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Known to live in northern lanka jungles, nobody knows how it got into the rice paddies / coconut farm behind my house in southern lanka. (Was on a tree overhanging my garden wall)
You should really spoiler images like that. However, it's safe to say you do not have arachnophobia, because if you did, there is no way you could look up that image and post it here.
Done, i cant look or be anywhere near a real life spider although i am 100% fine with images cartoons games etc. Anything in the flesh and i will roll you over to get away. I am somewhat improving in i can kill the tiny whispy buggers now, but they have to be really whispy, like the "dot" with 8 hairs coming out of it, if it resembles a proper spider i'll run no matter the size.
i cant swim in water that i cant see trough to the ground. Which is a bit funny because i am a club swimmer for 20 years and swam competitively.
I am also terrified of needles used to drain blood and i get sick just thinking about it. 2 weeks ago i had to get blood tested in a lab and i was sick like 2 days before they drained it just thinking about it. But when they actually did it, i was totally fine by just looking the very opposite direction so i cant see anything.
Didnt ease my phobia in the slightest, though. Still getting sick just walking by a blood donation bus.
I think I have trypophobia but it isn't really fear, more like disgust.
Every time I see small holes clustered together, I have to look away or I get so irritated that I wanna just rip it apart. I wanna just mash the tiny holes together. It makes my skin crawl and I get so annoyed.
Atelophobia was metionned before. I was under the impression it was pretty common at least to some degree. Nothing ever seems worth it. I start doing something, realize I'll never become perfect or do as good as I want to, and rather than being constantly dissatisfied I stop doing that thing. It's not too bad you just have to not care about what you spend most of your time doing. Doesn't make it easy picking a masters though, since there's no topic I'll enjoy enough or be good enough at. Just got to keep working I guess~
1) Bottles' caps. I mean the ones for the sparkling wines, which come out with a bang and fly across the room. Everytime that someone's opening one ( New Year's Eve is a nightmare) I have to find cover until I hear the 'bop'. Also, last year I almost got hit in the eye by a cap and it increased this phobia even more!
2) Ballons. When they are around, I'm super nervous that they are going to burst and if they do I just jump in fear. Brr. Children's parties are a nightmare.
lol i have no idea why i'm writing this, but I have a couple fears, although one might not be considered bizarre or abnormal. The first is that I'm horribly afraid of talking to girls, I'm so afraid of saying something stupid or looking at their chest or do something really bad. I'm honestly getting a faster heart rate and beginning to sweat just typing it lol. For this reason I don't ever talk to girls and well being in high school that kinda fucking sucks. The second one kind of goes with that but not really. Like most guys my age I have as many strange sex fantasies as the next guy, nothing unusual or super frequent, but I'm actually horribly afraid of actually having sex with people. Instead of getting horny I actually get kind of anxious thinking about sex lol. It's like I'm afraid that I would get her pregnant or just be really bad at it or get an STD or get caught or something like that but all mixed in one. Should I talk to someone about this? lol
Birds. I am deathly afraid of any kind of bird. Walking downtown is the absolute worst. Those damn pigeons just stroll around darting in between everyone's feet. As soon as I see any kind of bird, my eyes are glued to it. I have to know what they are doing at all times around me.
I know it's irrational, I know that they will do nothing to me. I mean if I accidentally come too close to a pigeon it just shuffles out of the way. But man alive, they still petrify me.
I think I have a fear of deformities (Dysmorphophobia). Basically it occurs when I know something is supposed to be human or resemble a human, but the shape of their limbs or their figure are off. Zombies, Xenomorphs, Star Trek aliens and all sorts of monsters are totally fine with me - but the Elephant man, the guy with the underdeveloped hand in Scary Movie 2, E.T., the deformed guy in 300, and worst of all, the test tube subjects in Alien Resurrection all completely freak me out. The same goes for stumps, and human babies / animals with birth defects.
I'm not sure if these are phobias, but... When I was younger, I always had to fulfill this random urge to do something like touch that piece of wood, or lift someting and then drop it, and I didn't feel comfortable until I did it. It eventually went away, but I still wonder about that. Also, when my teachers in school talk about anything involving the brain I feel a bit light-headed and my hands feel weak.
that's kind of a poor domain name since anxiety disorders aren't phobias (they can be, but phobia nomally means specific circumstances moreso than broader anxiety) but I'm also like 80% sure I got this as well. I got countless examples of anxious things I do because for no logical reason I think people would look at me funny + Show Spoiler +
eg. when walking around I have an ipod to listen to but didn't want people to see me take it out of my pocket and have to fiddle with the earbuds so I waited for a small stretch of my walk where 0 people typically are (cutting between buildings) to take out my ipod and actually listen to it.
on a 15-20 minute walking path it was typically 5-8 minutes into the walk before I reached that spot. Though walking the other direction I could start at my room!
edit: same thing with phone calls, I used that walk to call my parents sometimes but would wait until I was away from people to try to make a phone call and talk quieter whenever nearer to people
actually I dunno what I "have" but I sure fucking hope for the sake of other people that other people don't suffer through these stupid things
While fear of heights is not exactly unusual, mine i a little more specific. I keep having a recurring dream/thought where I get on an elevator, presses a button for the floor and waits for it to start moving. Suddenly it lurches upwards and this uneasy feeling fills my body. The elevator picks up speed and passes the floor I pressed for. I panic a little as I watch the floor display ticks higher. 18, 19, 20, 21...I thought the building only had 20 floors...45, 46, 47...panic more...107, 108, 109... Yeah, it just doesn't stop and keeps going. Quite frightening.
Also, I'm scared walking on the outer side of sidewalks, especially when someone is beside me. I feel like he might push me, even if its a friend. However walking off the sidewalk is ok, though. I guess that little step is the problem. Weird.
This is likely an anxiety disorder (social anxiety disorder is sometimes referred to as social phobia), while some of you sound like you may have something such as obessesive compulsive disorder. That being said, you shouldn't self-diagnose, and if you think you may have a mood or anxiety disorder, it's best to talk to a doctor. There are many effective treatments available for a lot of these disorders, and sometimes the best remedy may be as simple as talking to someone about it (though I understand that this too may seem difficult). Keeping these feelings internalized is oftentimes the worst thing that you can do, and while it's good that you're discussing it here, none of us are truly qualified to evaluate your situations.
As for specific phobias, they tend to be less problematic (depending on the extent to which the phobia interferes with your daily life/activities) and can generally be treated much easier. Still, consult a doctor if you're concerned.
Personally, I have a mild blood/needle/injury phobia -- I get very lightheaded and sometimes pass out when I see relatively large amounts of my own blood or a big needle -- but since I'm rarely exposed to these things, it doesn't affect my daily life, and as a result, I haven't sought treatment. However, if I suspected that I had OCD or a social/generalized anxiety disorder, I would seek help, as these disoders not only can interfere with day-to-day living, but also worsen if left untreated.
On August 14 2013 09:52 AwfuL_ wrote: I think I have a fear of deformities (Dysmorphophobia). Basically it occurs when I know something is supposed to be human or resemble a human, but the shape of their limbs or their figure are off. Zombies, Xenomorphs, Star Trek aliens and all sorts of monsters are totally fine with me - but the Elephant man, the guy with the underdeveloped hand in Scary Movie 2, E.T., the deformed guy in 300, and worst of all, the test tube subjects in Alien Resurrection all completely freak me out. The same goes for stumps, and human babies / animals with birth defects.
No, you are just fearful of and mean to those who were unfortunate enough to be born different.
Dysmorphophobia is a psychiatric disorder where you are preoccupied with a perceived defect in your appearance. Others cannot see the defect you think is there, but you are more or less convinced that it is, and that they are lying to spare your feelings.
I think that some phobias are hard wired in our brains:
- arachnophobia (fear of spiders) - trypophobia (fear of many tiny asymmetrical holes, such as beehives or the swarm host's back because they usually indicate an infestation which you don't want to mess with :p) - trypanophobia (needle phobia) - acrophobia (fear of heights)
Thousands of years of avoiding these things in nature without having prior bad experiences with them have saved the lives of our ancestors. I know that most animals won't attack without warning but spider bites, snake bites and bee stings all hurt, so why wouldn't you want to avoid them.
On August 14 2013 23:22 peacenl wrote: I think that some phobias are hard wired in our brains:
- arachnophobia (fear of spiders) - trypophobia (fear or many tiny asymmetrical holes, such as beehives or the swarm host's back because the usually indicate an infestation which you don't want to mess with :p) - trypanophobia (needle phobia) - acrophobia (fear of heights)
Thousands of years of avoiding these things in nature without having prior bad experiences with them have saved the lives of our ancestors. I know that most animals won't attack without warning but spider bites, snake bites and bee stings all hurt, so why wouldn't you want to avoid them.
These seem very tree focused.
Don't touch bugs on trees, don't fall from tree, fuck trees I'm just walking.
On August 14 2013 23:22 peacenl wrote: I think that some phobias are hard wired in our brains:
- arachnophobia (fear of spiders) - trypophobia (fear of many tiny asymmetrical holes, such as beehives or the swarm host's back because they usually indicate an infestation which you don't want to mess with :p) - trypanophobia (needle phobia) - acrophobia (fear of heights)
Thousands of years of avoiding these things in nature without having prior bad experiences with them have saved the lives of our ancestors. I know that most animals won't attack without warning but spider bites, snake bites and bee stings all hurt, so why wouldn't you want to avoid them.
You are right insofar as a lot of the more common phobias originate from a normal fear response, but they usually develop after a traumatic experience with the stimulus (ie classical conditioning). The only other and far less common ways to develop a fear response to a stimulus other than conditioning are vicarious and instructional fear acquisition, both of which are learned responses, and therefore cannot be hard-wired.
Secondly, phobias are an excessive or unreasonable response to a stimulus by definition, so the normally conditioned fear response to height of being slightly anxious does not qualify.
It's only once you start having panic attacks or changing your daily lifestyle to avoid something irrational that it becomes a phobia. Normal fear responses are not phobias.
Im afraid of big noobs. they scare the shit outta me, when my dota2 pub team sucks im so scared I leave game instantly. Can't help it.
im claustrophobic or w/e the appelation is in english - basicaly i feel like im suffocating/anxious in tiny closed spaces (mostly elevators or even sometimes in overcrowded placed)
when i asked her why she said because all the lines make it look like a brain, which didn't really make any more sense to me than before she said that.
On August 14 2013 10:13 WonDeRSC wrote: I'm not sure if these are phobias, but... When I was younger, I always had to fulfill this random urge to do something like touch that piece of wood, or lift someting and then drop it, and I didn't feel comfortable until I did it. It eventually went away, but I still wonder about that. Also, when my teachers in school talk about anything involving the brain I feel a bit light-headed and my hands feel weak.
its just some of the weird stuff u do as a kid, i had a weird fetish about 7 and multiplications of 7
On August 15 2013 03:18 farvacola wrote: I'm not scared of much in this life, but bees/wasps/hornets drive me absolutely insane. I cannot abide their presence under any circumstances.
Those things are pretty fucking annoying. Its really hard for me to sit still/relax whenever I have seen a wasp around.
On August 14 2013 10:13 WonDeRSC wrote: I'm not sure if these are phobias, but... When I was younger, I always had to fulfill this random urge to do something like touch that piece of wood, or lift someting and then drop it, and I didn't feel comfortable until I did it. It eventually went away, but I still wonder about that. Also, when my teachers in school talk about anything involving the brain I feel a bit light-headed and my hands feel weak.
its just some of the weird stuff u do as a kid, i had a weird fetish about 7 and multiplications of 7
maybe u have brainphobia tho (what race u play)
I have a weird obsession with words and phrases having multiples of 3s as their number of characters. I've never mentioned it to anyone before because I never thought anyone else had something like this.
Reading this thread makes me feel courageous (even though I really am not). I'm not really unreasonably afraid of anything. Spiders creep me out as much as the next guy, I'm often the guy who kills them reluctantly, but I guess that's pretty normal.
The thing I'm afraid of is pain, from torture, illness or injury, or something like that. What if I was in some sort of coma, seemed unconscious but I was feeling intense pain and the doctors had no way of knowing it, and they kept me awake for years, and for years, every day, I'd feel intense pain until my conscience "passed out", only to wake up later in the same pain.
I kind of winged that here and I guess it doesn't constitute a phobia because I've never been actively worried about it, and haven't obsessed about it, but it's just one of those hypothetical scenarios that sound horrible.
whenever somebody asks me if I have gone out or to partys lately I always blush, even if I have gone out. its probably some fear about being jugded in terms of popularity, but many more intimate questions dont make me blush. I do blush in other occations too though
i never even knew there were so many phobias and i really can't judge about whether people really have them or just put it on (like most of the guys say if a weirder phobia is mentioned). By reading through all of this the Atelophobia struck me a bit. i made some research and i can notice most of the "characteristics", physical and emotional symptoms being similar to mine. Every day i feel this shit, i am always nervous and don't even notice that i hold my breath for no reason over a longer time, always tensed. Afraid of talking to others... Maybe it's just some basic crap. I am not sure if i have this phobia, maybe it's just something else, i don't want to make 2 quick conclusions. Still it's interesting and a bit worrying. Guess reading more itno it won't help.
Also quite interesting to read all the other stories :D I never were arrogant enough to judge about peoples feelings (how could i know) and i am really surprised by the amount of people who have certain phobias. i guess half of em are created through our pressure in society nowadays xoxo. And yeah some are just "natural" like xenophobia or arachnophobia etc... maybe
edit: biggest fear lol: when i start a new drawing, i am always nervous as fuck messing something up. tho noone else is putting pressure on me but myself. still wondering how phobias are triggered.
I'm scared of Terrans on ladder, and I play random.
Also scared of drains. I'm a lifeguard and I do a lot of free diving, and I've no problem with large bodies of water. But it's the thought of getting sucked down this drain carried away by water in total darkness, powerless to fight the current/gravity, that makes me really uneasy.
The part where she has nightmares about pickles. I freaking love people.
this has to be a fake O_o
since i knew someone who was a decent swimmer and got drown in a lake i always have a weird feeling when im swimming in an open water. it is bearable though
No phobias but my biggest fear is developing Alzheimer's, to the extent I try to keep my mind active pretty much constantly to try and ward it off. The idea of gradually losing who I am, of not being able to recognise friends and family, of losing my life. Of becoming helpless, forced to depend and drain those around me... *shudder* I visited an aunt a number of times while she was slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's and I always felt terrible for her husband, but they were the nicest people on earth and she was lucky he was with her through her life.
I anxiously await news reports of potential cures for Alzheimer's. Also a recent fear is getting ill, since I moved to the US. Don't like the idea that a random illness can wipe out my bank account.
Stairs. I hate stairs. When I was a kid, I wouldn't walk one down - I would sit down and bottom-hop from step to step. Strangely, going up never was and still is no problem. Turns out I have a slight defect in 3D-vision and simply cannot see the steps on the stairs when going down. The angle they're at makes them invisible to me, it pretty much looks like a striped surface. I always need a handrail or another person to hold onto in order to get down a flight of stairs. Biggest NOPE-moment: the escalator at my workplace stopped working. Escalators are striped already. It looked like a water slide to me, I took the normal stairs instead, but if need had been, I would have preferred bungee-jumping from the first floor to that immobile escalator.