Do you have any strange fears?

I don't like calling people on the telephone. I can handle if they call me first, but I can't handle dialing the number and waiting for them to pick up and then talking to them. And I HAVE to call potential clients with my job, so the anxiety of the task makes me want to physically vomit. I usually have a scolding hot shower afterward. :<

I am the same way.

Ditto^

I used to have a full on phobia of knives. Not someone with a knife, just the knife itself. Even butter knives scared me. I couldn't touch them or wash them I would breathe heavily just looking at one. My abnormal psych professor used me as a guinea pig to teach the class how to treat phobias and it worked. I still don't like knives, but in normal use they don't bug me much and butter knives don't bug me at all.

I'm not afraid of knives, BUT I don't like sharp objects (knives, scissors, screwdrivers, pencils, etc) pointing towards me, even if it just laying on a table with no one near it. I will turn it to point elsewhere.

I dont think its a fear, I just have a phobia of pictures of people. I cant hang pictures of people in my house. I even have to cover boxes and magazines if there is a picture of a person on them. Weird I know.

A phobia is a fear by definition :flowerforyou:

I am deathly afraid of roaches.

all other creepy crawlies i am good with. I have a pet tarantula and scorpion lol

Silverfish. And pop-tarts.

Bleeding to death / veins in general. Had a dream once where a slipped and fell and tore up my wrists and instead of just bleeding my veins slithered out of the wound and long story short I choked on my own veins. Couldn't rips them off of me 'cause then I'd die of blood loss.
CRAZY DAYS.

That is horrifying.

Cotton balls (the texture bugs me so bad I can't touch them) butterflies, moths and spiders (though I hate all bugs, those are the worst) clowns, crowds of people, deep water( I've almost drowned 3 times in my life), feet, babies and small children, small spaces (like elevators or closets), fish, things touching my eyeball, the dark if I'm outside, or in a forest or something...I don't like not knowing what is around me..I think that's it? There's probably more though.

Snakes. Are so many people afraid of snakes that it is not considered strange? They terrify me. Any size, any color. I don't even want to think about them.

Crowds of people. Can't handle it so I avoid it. I've thought about it and believe the real fear is of being trapped, or unable to move.

Having my feet touched used to be a panic situation, but I've gotten over it by having a massage therapist gradually get me conditioned to allow it.

The closet door has to be closed when I go to bed at night. Normal child's fear of boogie men in the closet evolved into needing the door shut.

Pigeons - it is the way they move all jerky and spastic. I have and will cross the street/turn around and go another way if they are in the area. My old office used to have pigeons that would perch on the window sill...I requested to be moved back to a cubicle because I couldn't handle it. I'm totally find with other birds though.

I have recurring anxiety/fears that my youngest will fall to his death - window panes will shatter and he goes down, amusement rides. It makes my heart beat incredibly fast, I get short of breath and all tingly and honestly feel like I should be sedated. I do not have this fear with my oldest.

This one isn't a fear, but I can not even be in the same room as someone who bites popsicles/ice cream. It makes my teeth hurt and hair stand on end just thinking about it. Chewing/crunching ice cubes is fine, I do that too. But popsicles/freezies etc. are meant to be sucked.

I am a nervous passenger, and 100 times worse if I am the passenger and my kids are also in the car....I couldn't live with myself if something happened to them and I wasn't able to control the situation as best as I could.

I have recurring nightmares about the home I live in burning down....I feel nauseous just thinking about it.

Bottom of pools/hot tubs - I don't like to touch the bottom. It just about kills me to go to hotel pools with my kids....*shudder*

I'm afraid of the 2 rivers in our city - they are muddy red coloured and I am convinced that there are a lot of dead bodies in it.

Strange fear or not . . . Snakes I can not stand. Big, little I don't care. Even large worms scare me.