Poll: Do you have a phobia?
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I've been diagnosed with agoraphobia and a related social phobia. 'Cause, you know, one or the other wouldn't be a good enough way for my brain to torture itself.
Arachnophobia, though I'm slowly getting better.
I still get the urge to shit my pants when I see one, but I no longer want to kill it out of fear.
I still get the urge to shit my pants when I see one, but I no longer want to kill it out of fear.
I have a phobia of moths and butterflies. They're faces are horrifying as are those disgusting dusty wings (or non dusty in the case of butterflies). If I see a caterpillar, I will destroy it because I know of the demon it will one day become O_O
I don't believe for a second that 84 people have phobias as opposed to 31 who say they do not. Phobias are extreme irrational fears, and most people in here will not have phobias. I doubt even 10% of those who said yes in the poll actually have anything close to a phobia. I don't have a phobia, although I may have an irrational fear about something.
And also, a fear of heights isn't an irrational fear, so it's not a phobia.
It's called vertigo.
And also, a fear of heights isn't an irrational fear, so it's not a phobia.
It's called vertigo.
I have a severe irrational fear of threads about irrational fears.
Thanks, by the way.
Okay, on a more serious note? I do have a hard time convincing myself people in authority will not ridicule me to a ludicrous degree if I ask them ...well anything really, but I dont think its quite on a phobia level. Still, makes uni a bit more difficult than it needs to be.
Thanks, by the way.
Okay, on a more serious note? I do have a hard time convincing myself people in authority will not ridicule me to a ludicrous degree if I ask them ...well anything really, but I dont think its quite on a phobia level. Still, makes uni a bit more difficult than it needs to be.
I have a phobia of slow, painful death.
Examples include burning to death, drowning, being buried alive, and so on.
Examples include burning to death, drowning, being buried alive, and so on.
Yes Big Sharks, (mostly great whites) I also do not like the murky depths of the sea they swim in.
No. Used to have a pretty disabling Phobia of Wasps (and bees... and hoverflies...) for a couple of years (as in, I would occasionally break down crying if there were too many near me), but not so much anymore. Now I just walk away from them somewhat swiftly with a blank look on my face.
Living in a city helps.
Living in a city helps.
I have pogonophobia (fear of beards) and peladophobia (fear of bald people), neither of which are too bad as I can be in a room with such people it just makes me very uncomfortable speaking/looking at them, which I feel terrible about because it's such an irrational fear. However I do also have spheksophobia (the fear of wasps) pretty badly, I compulsively scream when I see them and don't go out during the summer for fear of being stung by one.
I have two. Needles...and enclosed spaces that I don't control when I can leave. Both have some basis in rational episodes in my past, but...are beyond rational in how severe they are. Particularly the needles, where even seeing a sharps container that I know contains them can send my heart racing. I can control such, but...it's...worrisome. The enclosed spaces bit...similarly, I have to either distract myself from the situation, or remind myself continually not to create the way to escape. Again, controllable, but...troublesome. Fortunately, it's only rather tight spaces that bug me. Things like a plane or a train or even a car aren't an issue. Though generally, it's best I be the one driving the car.
Hmm... I really dont like wasps or anything similar to and bigger than them, but I dont think Id call it a phobia. Ive been stung a good few times by bees/wasps, all when I was younger, but I just feel uncomfortable around them now, not scared.
So no, not now anyway.
So no, not now anyway.
