TankTop
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Post by TankTop on Apr 17, 2016 12:57:58 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! I told my kids I would be the one running with a medical mask on. Lol! |
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Post by kelbel827 on Apr 17, 2016 13:03:44 GMT
I don't eat or touch anything white or creamy unless it is a dessert item.
I also am terrified of snakes.
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Post by KikiPea on Apr 17, 2016 14:31:21 GMT
Just thought of one... Using someone else's tooth brush. I have done this probably 2-3 times over the course of being married almost 20 years. It was a total accident. I would NEVER do it on purpose. I just grabbed the wrong one, and started brushing. Somehow, I could tell it wasn't mine,and started gagging. OR, if there is a hair on my tooth brush. GAG!!!  |
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Apr 17, 2016 15:40:55 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. there's an actual name for that phobia and I can't remember what it is. |
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stittsygirl
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Post by stittsygirl on Apr 17, 2016 16:11:23 GMT
Lotus pod! That's the name of the plant I was thinking of for my phobia lol! They freak me out. there's an actual name for that phobia and I can't remember what it is. Trypophobia  . |
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 17, 2016 16:13:13 GMT
I can't sleep with dh's arm or anything else but covers on me.
I think he may die in the might and them rigor will set in and there will be a fire or something and I won't be able to get out.
Stupid fear, I know, but it is real.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Apr 17, 2016 16:30:58 GMT
I've noticed a lot of people mentioning what they are afraid of, or hate, but would you say they are actual phobias? Drew's comments really hit home with me - not even being able to type the name of hers. The way jameynz talked about mantises is how I feel about wasps. Every time I even see the word typed, I get a jolt of fear, and a picture instantly triggers the fight or flight response. (And my response is always flight!) Every time I walk under a tree near my house, I shudder at the memory of being buzzed by a wasp there - eight years ago. There was a dead one on my living room windowsill three years ago, and I still have to check regularly that it's gone.  I got CBT for this when my kids were young, because I realised running away from my baby's pram (and my baby!) just because there was a wasp near it, was not a rational reaction. And even though it worked for 2 or 3 years, because wasps are seasonal, I couldn't practise it everyday and thus it got really bad again.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 16:43:37 GMT
I've noticed a lot of people mentioning what they are afraid of, or hate, but would you say they are actual phobias? I wouldn't call half the things on this thread genuine phobias. A phobia is an overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are more pronounced than fears. They develop when a person has an exaggerated or unrealistic sense of danger about a situation or object. If a phobia becomes very severe, a person may organise their life around avoiding the thing that's causing them anxiety. As well as restricting their day-to-day life, it can also cause a lot of distress. There is a huge difference between a dislike and a phobia. |
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luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Apr 17, 2016 16:50:18 GMT
Yes. I live in Southern CA, the land of little to no public transportation and I hate driving freeways. Ironically, my last job and one of my current jobs involves driving the freeways. There's a particular stretch that I avoid but that makes it hard to get up to Orange County to visit family. I am getting better. At first, I avoided all freeways but now I can handle most immediate local ones. I just get very nervous driving out of the area.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 17, 2016 17:13:28 GMT
I don't have any phobias but something that creeps me out is when human heads are disproportionate to their bodies. Like that commercial for something (decongestant maybe) and it showed people's heads ballooning into a very large head while their body remained normal size. Or bobble heads with huge heads. I guess it's really when human or animal heads are anything other than what they're supposed to be. Face swap pictures creep me out. The dogs with human teeth creep me out and TankTop s avatar pic creeps me out! |
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Post by ~Sherri~ on Apr 17, 2016 17:30:14 GMT
I am scared of staircases and if they are on the right side and have an open space on the left, I CAN NOTwalk on those stairs. It doesn't matter if it is two steps or a dozen, I just can't do it. I literally get sick just looking at the stairs. I can manage stairs that are on the left side of the wall and are not open. Stairs that open spaces under them terrify me but I can manage them if they are not to steep.
My youngest DD lived in an apartment with steps like I first mentioned. I could never go to her apartment because of those steps.
Styrofoam is something I can't stand to touch or hear. I have to walk out of the room when a package that has Styrofoam is is opened.
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Post by Lindarina on Apr 17, 2016 20:00:58 GMT
I have a strong fear, borderline phobia, of crabs. It mostly affects me at summer when there's a chance I'll be swimming in the ocean. There's no way in h*ll I'll be walking barefoot through seaweed without shoes on  I didn't have this fear when I was a kid though, and could spend hours in the water, even searching for crabs. |
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Apr 17, 2016 23:27:54 GMT
I have a phobia of clowns. I start to feel panic just thinking about them. My stomach twists up, I get short of breath and my heart races. I hate them. Stairs that open spaces under them terrify me I hate stairs that are open underneath. Metal ones that are like grates that you can see through the steps? I can't climb them, I get physically ill feeling on the last ones I climbed, I had a full blown panic attack on. I'm sorry OP....I hate your thread!  |
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