Poll: Do you have a phobia?

[Hatter]

Heights are a kind of for me, I can stand on top of a 4 story house with a slanted roof relatively comfortably, and if I'm 100000000 feet up in the air on a balance beam with a safety harness or a parachute than I'd probably be even more comfortable then on the roof, but put me on the empire state building and I'll be hugging the floor.

Spiders are a big nono for me. people with abnormally large limbs (the wheres the fish? monty python guy for instance) scare the living hell out of me. And I'm also am not a fan of being trapped in a small place with no way out in which I'll die if I don't get out/being buried alive.

 

[Micromyni]

I'm tocophobic. Yay for self-sterilization!

 

[Guffe]

I'm afraid of heights but not sure it would qualify as a phobia since I won't completely freeze and won't get a seizure if I'm at heights even if I find it highly unecessary to be there at that moment.

 

[Ieyke]

No phobias.

Hell, I'm almost fearless.

I have no fears involving my own personal safety that I'm aware of. I recognize danger and good idea vs bad idea and all that on a logical level, but nothing actually causes me fear.
I realized this one day after very nearly getting into an 80mph car wreck and noticing my pulse hadn't even jumped.
It had me a bit concerned for a while that I'd end up not being afraid of something that I SHOULD be afraid of and it would get me seriously messed up...but it luckily doesn't seem to work like that. All my aversion to danger is still working just fine. The fear component just up and left....

All my fears have to do with the safety/happiness/well-being of loved ones. They're not irrational fears. It's just the only time I feel fear is when something threatens the people I love. Perhaps as a consequence I've become very hard-hearted to most people. I just can't allow myself to care as much as I perhaps should about as many people as I probably should, or else it will drive me nuts. Instead, I'll give all my focus to this handful of very deserving people.

 

[DanielBrown]

Got a pretty bad case of social phobia. Also freak out when flying insects gets near my face.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I have three. Glossophobia, Keindranophobia, and Trypanophobia.

Wasn't there a thread about irrational fears just a day or two ago?

Google my fears and you get a list off all of the ones I have responded to. Please note I don't respond to all of them.

Heh, I'm so slow today. It took halfway of the morning cup of coffee to process your response, thinking you'd quoted the wrong post for someone who had same phobias or something. But I got it, finally. Actually I don't mind if the same topic comes around every few months, but when the idea for the thread comes either intentionally or subconsciously from a couple-of-days-old popular thread: I just don't see the point.

What's keindranophobia? All google listed was maybe you and a couple other people, without a definition for it.

 

[crudus]

What's keindranophobia? All google listed was maybe you and a couple other people, without a definition for it.

Yeah, I realized I didn't word that sentence the best way. Anyway, sound it out very slowly and you should be able to get it.

 

[MammothBlade]

Yup. I have severe Social Phobia.

 

[The Floating Nose]

Wasps and hornets. Cannot do them. Scare the shit out of me...

I feel what you say bro...I FUCKING HATE THOSE THINGS !!!! Im also scarred of quicksand... i think it goes back to that scene in "The Jungle Book" (the live action movie from the 90's) just the idea of the ground sucking you to the bottom makes me nervous. I know it's not true though, but it still gets to me.

 

[TheTim]

I have severe arachniphobia, i can't be anywhere near them or i flip out.

God i hate spiders.

 

[Something Amyss]

Several, actually. Probably too many to list.

...Well, that's slightly hyperbolic. I'm just too lazy to type them all out.

 

[Super Six One]

I'm quite scared of the sea, i've been swimming since i was 5 and i'm really good in the water, its just the sea creeps me out. If im wearing goggles i'm not too bad, because i can see what is underneath me, but i usually just stay away from it.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Umm...not that I'm aware of. Sure I'm afraid of quite of a few things, most severely of death, but nothing approaching a clinical issue that would cause me to break down mentally when subjected to this fear. At least not that I'm aware of.

 

[deathninja]

In order:

Goblin sharks, drowned rotted bodies, rotted bodies, basking sharks, drowning.

Considering I've been stabbed, shot, been in a potentially lethal fight and had to stop a rape,I'd call those irrational.

 

[vidirg]

I'm claustrophobic, I fucking freak out in tight spaces.

 

[NoOne852]

Heights bother me if I am too close to a ledge, doesn't matter if there is railing or not, my muscles tense up and the slightest touch of anything feels amplified ten-fold. I am also bothered by spiders and just about any bug or insect bigger then the palm of my hand.

 

[Gardenia]

Yup. I have severe Social Phobia.

I also had that, but after a few years of therapy, I don't really think it can be classified as a phobia anymore. Now I'm just shy in select situations.

OT: Apart from the social phobia mentioned above, no phobias for me.

 

[CheesyGrin1992]

I have quite a severe case of Chionophobia, a fear of snow. Makes winter hell, although after 12ish years I'm getting to the point where I can deal with it. Used to be much worse; a ground frost would cause panic attacks, hyperventilation, and fainting. Now, only snow does that, and I can control it to a degree. It just requires a lot of effort.

Beyond that, no proper phobias. I have a huge disliking of spiders and heights, but only snow makes me really freak out.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

I have a slight fear of night and the moon. So yeah.

I blame Majora's Mask.

 

[orangeban]

Doctors, specifically psychiatrists. Which has presented some problems I'll be honest.

Also, the dark.

Edit: Oh, I almost forgot. I'm also terrified of silence.

Edit Edit: Gah, I also forgot that I'm terrified of moths. Last time a moth landed next to me I broke down crying in fear.

Huh, I'm scared of quite a lot things now I write it down.