What phobia do you have?

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  • OfficiallySexyVal
    OfficiallySexyVal Posts: 492 Member
    Globophobia - The fear of balloons, for me it is only latex balloons! I am fine with mylar balloons but I can not be in the same room or area as a latex balloon or I freak out! It is bad, I have anxiety attacks and everything!
  • dinoskycm
    dinoskycm Posts: 267
    Scoptophobia - the fear of being stared at.

    And crickets. Omfg. Crickets. :noway:
    Ugh.

    I'm sorry, but this made me laugh because I used to be freaked out by them too! But I work at a pet store, and I have to catch crickets on a daily basis because we feed them to reptiles and we sell them as food. One less cricket in the world! YAY! LOL
  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    Mine is Arachnophobia (spiders) and Lilapsophobia (tornadoes)

    I have astraphobia which is the fear of thunderstorms. I get very panicky when I know it is going to storm. I have even left work early once because I knew a bad storm was coming and I had to get home before it hit.
  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    Coulrophobia


    :frown: :frown: help!!

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    I know SOOOO many people with this phobia. One woman I know will actually cry when she sees a clown and she is 31.
  • ycart1981
    ycart1981 Posts: 3
    Moths.......yuk!!!!! Even the thought of them gives me the heebie jeebies.

    And cotton wool...........dont know how to explain this one. The first time I told my husband this one he laughed uncontrollably and seriously thought I was joking. Then when he realised I was actually serious he laughed again :-)
  • Reecebullet
    Reecebullet Posts: 141 Member
    I've got anxiety issues mixed with horrible O.C.D, which isn't so much phobias (although the anxiety can be at times).

    I've luckily never had a phobia phobia. Everyone in my family faints even at the sight of needles, but I've always been fine with them. And my sister will scream and cry when she sees clowns.
  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    acartohygieiophobia


    (n.) The morbid fear of running out of toilet paper. From the Greek, literally "absence of paper for hygiene purposes, fear of."

    An abnormal and persistent concern about the possibility of being without toilet paper at the vital moment. Highly variable in severity, can range from merely accumulating and storing excessive supplies of toilet paper to at the most extreme end, a need to stock up "just in case" every time the person goes past a shop, even though the house is already full of the stuff.

    Milder forms of toilet paper anxiety not fulfilling criteria for the full-blown disorder include obsessions with whether the paper comes off the roll from the top or underneath, and changing rolls around when they are on the "wrong" way.


    I seriously have about 250 rolls of toilet paper in my house right now and I take rolls when travelling, lol... which came in handy while at a family reunion a couple weeks ago, cuz the bathroom there ran out of toilet paper, and guess who just so happened to have a roll in the car! saved the day!

    I did not realize that this was a fear. I am not exactly afraid to run out but anytime I go to any store I buy some. I will also turn the roll around if one of the kids puts it on "backwards". I like it to come over the top of the roll. It makes it so much easier when I have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and I don't want to turn the light on. :smile:
  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    Ughhh... Rodents yukkkkkkkkk !!!!!

    Ohhh... And a very odd one .. chewing gum !
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    My grandmother absolutely cannot look at a piece of chewed gum. She will throw up. It is the strangest thing. I am always careful to never chew gum when I am at her house.
  • dinoskycm
    dinoskycm Posts: 267
    It's interesting. I once read that public speaking was the number one fear, and death was rated as number 3 or 4. In other words, people would rather die than speak in public (we drew the conclusion that most people don't think of death immediately as a fear and therefore didn't rate it as high). I can't site the source because I read it in college a few years ago, but no one on here has listed public speaking as a fear, or at least I haven't seen anyone list it.


    I always thought it was a surprising "statistic" just because I have never really had issues with it. I actually really like it. I am a dog trainer and teach classes every day, so it's obviously not a problem, but I'm just curious.

    Is anyone afraid of speaking in public?
  • cuarrech
    cuarrech Posts: 118 Member
    I'm somewhat afraid of speaking in public. My main irrational everyday "phobia" that is likely to impact anything significant is myxophobia, though. It's pretty limited to human/animal stuff though, I don't mind okra or similar stuff at all.
  • dinoskycm
    dinoskycm Posts: 267
    Yea, slime is pretty gross!!! I can't stand algae in a swimming pool. So disgusting!
  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    I searched for trypophobia, and this picture came up. Can somebody tell me what the hell this is?1 It's the most disgusting, horrifying picture I've ever seen on the internet. BE WARNED!!!!!!!!

    http://trypophobia.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/trypophobia5.jpg

    I am not sure what it is but I am sure it is definitely photoshopped. It isn't real.
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    Spiders and childbirth/raising children. Just thinking or even looking at either subject leaves me in a cold sweat. :(
  • Lmezz11
    Lmezz11 Posts: 619 Member
    Selachophobia
  • angusmike
    angusmike Posts: 97
    Penguins stealing my underwear while I sleep. :noway:
  • KMBmutt
    KMBmutt Posts: 11 Member
    my phobia is climbing ladders. I cant climb them no matter how high they are or are not without having a panic attack.. but i DONT have a fear of heights..
  • Cespuglio
    Cespuglio Posts: 385 Member
    Necrophobia - fear of death, dead bodies, graveyards, etc.
  • binglebandit
    binglebandit Posts: 531 Member
    I'm terrified of heights & large bodies of water especially if the water is not crystal clear (oceans, lakes, rivers etc) I don't know if I'm more afraid of drowning or not being able to see WTF is down there ::shudder::. There's this clear skywalk-type thing, I think is in Chicago, anyway you're way the **** up there and you're walking and you can see everything below, like you're walking on air. I can't even look at PICTURES of that **** with out my heart slamming and my palms sweating, lol.

    ETA it blows my mind when ppl see pictures of an ocean sunset, or palm trees and lounge chairs on the beach or pics from the deck of a cruise ship and they OOOH & AHHH over it like it's the most relaxing, gorgeous thing they've ever seen...when all I see is an unpredictable beast with the power to swallow you whole at any moment lol. Even the sound of ocean waves lapping the shore makes me nervous lol.

    My husband forced me onto the skywalk in Chicago, knowing full well I'm scared of heights (heck I was freaked out going up the elevator). I told him if I was going to step on it that I didn't want to look and would just cover my eyes and pretend I wasn't on it. He was adamant I uncover my face and said "just don't look down", and of course curiosity kicked in and I did. I instantly felt like I was going to faint. :sad: I got kind of used to it (by looking back towards the building instead of out lol), but I always stayed close to where it ends so I could jump out of there at any moment. He also kept telling me I was cheating because I'd try to leave one foot on the normal floor. :laugh:
  • sunshine2212677
    sunshine2212677 Posts: 88 Member
    open water - makes me shudder thnking about it
    at least i never have to squeeze into a swimsuit! lol
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    What is your phobia or what are you scared of?

    Mine is trypophobia. (have fun with googling that once you see what it is I bet some of you will realize you have this too!)

    Yup, came here just to say this. Too scared to look through thread in case of pictures X_X
  • openairhealth
    openairhealth Posts: 10
    telephobia. i hate calling people more than words or reason can explain.
  • emmaonamission
    emmaonamission Posts: 117
    Moths... I didn't realise how bad it is until I almost ran into the path of a car when I saw one outside the other day. Lucky I had my boyfriend with me! I totally didn't see the car and it didn't register that I had gone onto the road because I was so scared!
  • blueroses_78
    blueroses_78 Posts: 85
    Spiders. I'm scared to death of them....and they ALWAYS find me...always....
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    Death, heights, flying, getting ill, spiders, cockroaches, things that fly (moths, daddy long legs, wasps, bees etc) pretty much everything :(
  • Crystaleyed
    Crystaleyed Posts: 229 Member
    Spheksophobia {Fear of Wasps}
    and
    Autophobia {Fear of Being Alone}
  • FitOna
    FitOna Posts: 3
    Bambakomallophobia - Fear of Cotton Wool!! It is the most revolting thing to touch...just thinking about it gives me the shivers!
  • pabisc
    pabisc Posts: 17
    Mine is Arthrophobia: the fear of scorpions. After a bad encounter in Arizona, I no longer want to live in the southern states.
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    Bambakomallophobia - Fear of Cotton Wool!! It is the most revolting thing to touch...just thinking about it gives me the shivers!

    Ugh, when it squeaks :/
  • pabisc
    pabisc Posts: 17
    You have Stepnophobia. I occasionally get it myself, although I'm not afraid of heights either.
  • Boppinbird
    Boppinbird Posts: 76
    The trypophobia thing doesn't bother me. It's just holes!

    I am terrified of heights - though I'm told it's actually the fear of falling that bothers me, not the height itself. I can't get up past 3 rungs on a ladder.

    I'm not a fan of creepy crawlies - though some I can handle.

    I'm terrified of dying. Can't think about it. I know that one day it will happen whether I like it or not and I think it's the fact that I can't control that is what terrifies me the most.

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