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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 17, 2016 3:34:06 GMT
I have to have a blanket on me when I sleep. Is that a phobia? And my neck sorta covered... always think something is going to get my neck. It was worse when I was in my 20s... not as bad anymore though.
Flossing.. I hate to floss and when I do the water MUST be running or I do this dry heave thing.... My dentist loves me...
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Post by Scrappyhappy on Apr 17, 2016 3:37:53 GMT
I'm afraid of stepping onto downward moving escalators. (I fell stepping onto one when I was young---probably 6 or younger---and it has really stuck with me.) I will use them, but I have a routine of sorts that I do and rules that I have made for the situation in order to be able to do so. I had the same thing happen to me! My fear of escalators has gotten worse the older I get. Drives my husband nuts. When we are going down I need him to stand in front of me. When we're going up I like him to stand behind me. I marvel at people that don't hold on when using an escalator. I hang on for dear life!
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Apr 17, 2016 3:45:32 GMT
Spiders. Only spiders. I know it's a pretty common phobia, though. I've had it as long as I can remember. As a child I had a recurring dream that I was in a roomful of spiders and they were either crawling on/near me or flying (!), which terrified me (even though I knew the flying thing was impossible).
Some friends/family/co-workers have some other phobias I would consider a little more uncommon: frogs, bees/wasps, heights (by a guy who didn't realize his phobia until he was assigned to a crane on his first construction job - yikes!)
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Post by paget on Apr 17, 2016 3:52:27 GMT
I have this weird thing when I have to deal with sharp things like pins or needles...I get afraid that I will uncontrollably stick them in my own eye. I have no idea where this came from. I have this but it's also with scissors and knives.... I have a true snake phobia. So much that even typing that was hard. Not a phobia, but I very, very much dislike driving on the edge or some place high like a bridge or the mountain. My palms sweat really bad and I get super anxious. Ugh. Dd1 can't look at the insides of peppers- the seeds creep her out really bad. She has to leave the room.
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Post by freebird on Apr 17, 2016 3:54:47 GMT
Seeing a surface with things sticking out of it makes me ill.... like those lotus pod things
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Apr 17, 2016 3:59:28 GMT
This is really weird but small, cluster of holes. Like say a honeycomb or those plant with holes on top. I can't look at them without getting chill bumps.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Apr 17, 2016 4:00:26 GMT
Seeing a surface with things sticking out of it makes me ill.... like those lotus pod things Lotus pod! That's the name of the plant I was thinking of for my phobia lol! They freak me out.
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Post by dulcemama on Apr 17, 2016 4:03:33 GMT
I have this weird thing when I have to deal with sharp things like pins or needles...I get afraid that I will uncontrollably stick them in my own eye. I have no idea where this came from. I have this but it's also with scissors and knives.... Once in a while scissors will do it to me but never knives. I've never heard of this before so it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
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Post by Zee on Apr 17, 2016 4:08:25 GMT
This is really weird but small, cluster of holes. Like say a honeycomb or those plant with holes on top. I can't look at them without getting chill bumps. Me too. Clumps or clusters of things gross me out so bad. Ditto the pepper seeds mentioned above. I've gotten a lot better the older I am. When I was little I remember how disgusting I thought the rubber doormats with little nubby fingers were, all those little bumps...I couldn't even step on one and would ask my mom to carry me over it or I'd jump. Took me years to get over that. I used to have to have someone cut up cantaloupe for me because the seeds were too disgusting to look at. (Now I'm allergic so it doesn't matter anymore!) The fake lotus pod boob pic on the internet nearly made me puke the first time I saw it. I still get queasy just thinking about it.
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Post by Sweet Dreamer on Apr 17, 2016 4:50:14 GMT
I have a fear of "waking up" from anesthesia while having a surgical procedure. It is such an intense fear that I have always had to discuss this with the anesthesiologist prior to being put under.
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 17, 2016 4:57:00 GMT
I have a fear of my hand somehow going down the sink drain while the garbage disposal is on. I am so super careful around the sink because of this. One time I caught my mom using her hands to push things into the top of the drain while the disposal was on and I flipped out at her.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 17, 2016 5:45:50 GMT
I don't know if it goes all the way to phobia status, but I hate going to the doctor. Especially anything remotely invasive really creeps me out. I hate it so much that I put off going for anything as long as I possibly can, and once at decide I really do need to go in, I have to force myself to even call and make the appointment. My clinic now has online appointment setting and that helps some since I don't have to actually talk to anyone. I don't know how I made it through having a kid with all of those appointments! It was horrid.
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Post by holly on Apr 17, 2016 5:55:04 GMT
My DD had to do something at school regarding phobias. They were given a list of phobias and had to see if they related to any of them. She showed me the list and we had a good laugh at some of them because they were off the wall. And the list was looooooong. I think two pages. People afraid of rectums, going poop, being afraid of Russians, any and all animals practically. Seems like there is a phobia name for just about everything.
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Post by stittsygirl on Apr 17, 2016 6:04:21 GMT
This is really weird but small, cluster of holes. Like say a honeycomb or those plant with holes on top. I can't look at them without getting chill bumps. Trypophobia (warning: there's a photo of a lotus pod at this Wiki site). I have it too. Completely irrational, but completely real to those of us with it.
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Post by wonderwoman on Apr 17, 2016 6:11:15 GMT
Biscuit cans.. freak me out... and wooden popsicle sticks are like nails on a chalk board if I have to touch them...
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Post by quinlove on Apr 17, 2016 6:34:22 GMT
I can not even talk about it still, but - snakes.
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Post by jameynz on Apr 17, 2016 6:44:00 GMT
I have had, ever since I was a young girl, a phobia about praying mantis.
HATE THEM, HATE THEM, HATE THEM.
Could not even look at a picture of them, screamed when they came on tv - a programme, an ad, a movie anything (would never watch documentaries on insects - ever!) If I saw one in real life - well, I would stand still, break out in a sweat, go hot and cold, and stand like a statue until someone 'rescued me'. My heart would start pounding and racing. I would never wear green. I would never eat beans - the shape, the colour - yuck.
When I got married, I had to go see a psychologist as my biggest fear was me holding my baby and one flying onto the baby, me screaming, dropping the baby and running. My luck, I had 3x boys who ALL loved bugs, spiders etc thanks to my hubby. But to be fair - they were taught at a very young age - never to bring them into the house, mummy did not like them. (Even hate saying the name of them)
I am getting better - I will wear certain shades of green, only at certain times of the year. I will no longer scream, but will ask whoever is home to move them outside and kill them. Not just move them. They have to kill them.
That, my dear peas is my phobia.
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Post by dulcemama on Apr 17, 2016 7:04:45 GMT
Biscuit cans.. freak me out... and wooden popsicle sticks are like nails on a chalk board if I have to touch them... OMG!! the biscuit cans!
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Post by M in Carolina on Apr 17, 2016 7:22:25 GMT
Dh will gag and feel like he's going to vomit. I do that with snot. I have lost my appetite at my MIL's. Watching other people brush their teeth makes my stomach heave too. I have to leave the room. Or change the channel if it's on TV. I totally understand! At the moment we only have one functional bathroom (the other one is going to be renovated). The kids have to brush their teeth in my en suite. I have to get far far away, but then I have to yell to remind them to make sure they rise every last bit of toothpaste spit down the drain before I come back in. Blech! Same thing when DS takes his mouthguard out after playing football - I feel like I'm going to puke at the thought of all that spit. We only have one toilet upstairs right now, and I feel your pain. Dh felt faint in the toilet and fell and broke the tank--thankfully it didn't flood. It's a strange white colour and the tank is really expensive. The carpet in this house is the cheapest builder grade (usually low cost) I've ever seen. Our landlord paid a lot extra to get all the upgrades. But the toilets are $800. I just told dh to buy a decent toilet from Home Depot and replace it--not like the landlord is going to compare toilet to toilet, but he's afraid the guy will notice. (at least we do have other bathrooms--the only having one upstairs is frustrating because sometimes I don't have the strength to go up and down the stair, and I cracked a vertebrae last time I fell--and couldn't move for over a month. Guy is super super super nit picky and exclaimed about the bamboo floors when he was here last year when the A/C leaked in the attic. WE don't do that much walking on the floors, don't wear shoes, and we take care of them with the right mop and cleaner, but he's freaking out because there were a few teensy scratches you couldn't even see. The owner's manual/binder with all the papers/warranties for all the different house items says that the floors are supposed to wear a bit--it's normal (it was in bold in the information sheet) The bamboo floor is also in the kitchen, and there are a few little dents. Normal--don't want dents, don't put in soft floors. (this is why they have tiles that look like wood)At least we have this if he freaks and takes us to court. He also freaks about our rent check--due on the first, late on the 5th. Dh usually puts it in on the 28-30, but even though we both live in town, the mail is extremely slow. Our landlord paid a lot extra to get all the upgrades.
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Post by Drew on Apr 17, 2016 7:29:02 GMT
I could tell you my intense phobia but I can't type the word. I can't link a photo, I can't give hints...I don't want it on my mind at all.
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Post by katlady on Apr 17, 2016 7:29:05 GMT
This is really weird but small, cluster of holes. Like say a honeycomb or those plant with holes on top. I can't look at them without getting chill bumps. Whenever I see this pattern, I want to make all the holes into one big hole. The pattern sucks me in for some reason. One night I was sleeping at a relative's house and the paint on the wall next to the bed had little "holes" in them. I guess more like air bubble marks. I could not sleep facing that wall! I always thought I was alone with this phobia! I can deal with pictures, but not in real life.
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Post by M in Carolina on Apr 17, 2016 7:48:51 GMT
I have to have a blanket on me when I sleep. Is that a phobia? And my neck sorta covered... always think something is going to get my neck. It was worse when I was in my 20s... not as bad anymore though. Flossing.. I hate to floss and when I do the water MUST be running or I do this dry heave thing.... My dentist loves me... I think it's a phobia--might be a mild one. I understand, I can't hang my legs off the bed. My feet get hot, so I do stick them outside the covers, but not over the edge. Got worse when I was trying to sleep on our guest bed after a surgery, and my leg slipped off because of the weird position I had to sleep in because of the big clot that was in my lower abdominal incision. My cat, who never does stuff like that, attacked my leg and wouldn't let go. Scared me so bad that I would have peed if my poor abdomen wasn't so sore--I was having retention. I'm also super afraid of spiders. HATE. HATE. HATE. Saw this "critter catcher" on Buzzfeed. I understand the vacuum one--the spider is safely contained in a sturdy plastic tube. That fluffy brush isn't enough between me and a spider. If a spider sneaks up on me, he's going down. He should be thankful that I smooch him with a shoe or box or something and not light him on fire. In college a girl in my dorm brought her stuff in a footlocker she kept in her garage in Arizona. She didn't clean it out first. We had an infestation of brown recluses--photos on the wall, men coming in spraying. One night really late we saw a huge one on our ceiling, and it was too late to call someone. My roommates elected me to kill it with my roommates back brush. I had to climb on a chair, and the spider jumped at me. The room was hot so the window was open. It was large enough for me fall out of, so when I jumped off, I was trying to land away from the window. I fell on my foot sideways. My roommates heard it crack. I was still on the chair hopping up and down trying to crush it. The chair was the plastic kind where the chrome legs go all the way across the bottom like the bottom of a rocking chair--just not curved. So I crushed the spider with the bottom of the chair, and my premed roommate helped me hobble over to the infirmary to get my foot wrapped and crutches until I could get an xray--got a walking boot to my knee. I was able to get out of it in time for prom although I had to wear flats--they were cute. When I had horses, the woman that owned the stable was cleaning out the equipment shed when a brown recluse jumped on her face and bit her. (this was NC, but the doctor confirmed it was a brown recluse) That injury was horrific. Google photos if you've never seen them. It's really, really bad. Thankfully it didn't harm her eye or mouth. She did heal without a big scar, but there were lots of debridments and all sorts of stuff. Not to mention this would be painful anywhere, but there are a lot more nerves in the face. I also think she drove herself to the ER. This woman was tough.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 8:21:31 GMT
I hate the boxes in the ground for the sprinkler system. I hate that there are electrical wires under ground going to those boxes. I am afraid to go near them when the ground is wet.
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Post by pjaye on Apr 17, 2016 8:53:25 GMT
Nope. I have things I don't like...but apart from that, I'm just normal.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 11:15:07 GMT
Seeing a surface with things sticking out of it makes me ill.... like those lotus pod things Lotus pod! That's the name of the plant I was thinking of for my phobia lol! They freak me out. EWWW! I had to Google lotus pod because I didn't know what it was. I agree! And I think the only reason they freak me out is because of that one picture that circulated before about the woman with the "breast rash?" Just looking at the photo made me sick to my stomach! Now I know it wasn't real, but I just can't
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Post by TankTop on Apr 17, 2016 11:31:53 GMT
I have an extremely long list of phobias...
I will share a new one I just discovered. I am petrified to run in a color run with some of my students and coworkers. I picture myself aspirating the color into my lungs, getting an infection, and dying.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 11:35:09 GMT
I have an extremely long list of phobias... I will share a new one I just discovered. I am petrified to run in a color run with some of my students and coworkers. I picture myself aspirating the color into my lungs, getting an infection, and dying. OMG! Me too! I saw that commercial, can't remember what it was for, but they did that, and all I could think of was how they did not get all that in their eyes, nose, mouths and lungs!
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Post by M in Carolina on Apr 17, 2016 12:16:01 GMT
I have an extremely long list of phobias... I will share a new one I just discovered. I am petrified to run in a color run with some of my students and coworkers. I picture myself aspirating the color into my lungs, getting an infection, and dying. I aspirated vomit last week, and it really, really hurt. It burned. Thankfully I didn't get pneumonia, but it is possible. Dying can happen by aspirating powders. I saw an emergency 911 show, and a toddler was playing in flour and inhaled it. The gluten in the flour covered the alveoli in the lungs and couldn't be removed. I cringe every time I see a photo on the internet of a kid playing in flour. Flour is also flammable if enough gets into the air. A flour mill blew up because they were lax with cleaning up the flour around the plant, and there was a spark or something.
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Post by woodysbetty on Apr 17, 2016 12:30:54 GMT
Snakes horrify me......and lizards are simply snakes with legs!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 12:36:06 GMT
My only one true phobia is of snakes. I have other things that I really dislike, celery skeeves me out big time, but they aren't phobias.
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