Irrational Fears???

I have 3 things that scare the crap out of me....I hate rats, any kind (even pets). I am terrified of small enclosed places. But the biggie for me is heights! I have to make myself stand on a chair to get something out of the upper cabinets or to change a light bulb. I don't do ladders at all, ever. I just can't.

I'm afraid of a number of things. Most are pretty common (spiders, tornadoes, heights)

But as far as irrational fears goes, I'm more afraid of things like: Being murdered/kidnapped, having loose hairs (be it mines or any one else's) wrapped around my fingers. I guess to further explain, it'd be like when you were swimming in a pool and you occasionally stumble upon some stranger's loose hairs all over your fingers. I also don't care for anything that suddenly pops. This includes: biscuit cans and champagne corks/bottles.

I'm also reeeally scared of breaking a tooth. It doesn't matter which tooth. I've just always had this slight uneasiness with losing one.. y'know, after losing all of my baby teeth.

Oh boy, where do I start? lol My biggest fear is probably heights. I don't like to look out the windows if I am really high up and I HAAATE being on a balcony because I just imagine myself plummeting to the ground. My next fear probably goes right along with the heights thing, I hate elevators. I have a reoccuring nightmare where I am on an elevator and it stops working and just starts free falling *shudders* so scary. I also hate anything that flies because I always think it's a bee/wasp/hornet whatever other insect that stings. I also hate stepping ONTO an escalator because I am always afraid I am going to step wrong, lose my footing and get hurt. I also don't like the dark, I HAVE to turn a light on before i can walk into a room. I think I need help lol

Sharks...I am so scared of them that I HAVE to watch them on tv just to freak myself out. I am so afraid of them that I'm scared to swim in a swimming pool alone, especially in the dark. That's right - I'm scared a shark will eat me in a swimming pool! Until the age of 30, if I was bathing and couldn't see the bottom of the tub (b/c of bubble bath), or if I moved my legs in the tub, and the water swirled, I was sure a shark was under there....:noway:

The expressway. I know, I catch alot of crap for it. But I can't drive on it. I will take an hour out of my way to drive all the back roads to get where I am going to avoid it. And really I stay off of it for everyone else, because I could hurt someone. I tried to drive on it one time and became parylyzed with fear and literally stopped in the middle of the darn thing. Thankfully noone was hurt. I just can't breathe on it. So thankfully I live in a small town but the big town next to us you can take the expressway and get there in 15 minutes or take my way and get there in 30 minutes. Not too much difference. Wierd thing is, I can be a passenger on it with my husband driving. I can't look, but I can take it.

OMG this is ME!!! I can't drive on any road where there are no shoulders or turnoffs, it is the claustrophobic trapped "no immediate escape" feeling but on top of that panic trying to keep control of a moving vehicle. And of course I get so terrified my vision starts blacking around the edges and I feel I am having a heart attack and people who try to be helpful say "whats the worst that could happen?" Blacking out and losing control of a vehicle going 60mph? Yeah not helpful at all!! And even worse than expressways... PLANES... terrifying (shudder). I think biologically my body has a reaction to traveling at speeds over 40mph! :frown:

Scared to death of spiders, i have nightmares! But i loooooooove snakes...

Moths and butterflies. I hide under blankets and run out of rooms and won't go near the exhibits at zoos.

I know it's obvious etc, but spiders. Not just your average everyday phobia no.. the type where I am paralysed with fear. I wish I wasn't like this... my fiance gets really frustrated when I lose my mind over a spider, the drama is unreal. All my friends at one stage in their lives have gone travelling, Australia etc, the reason I haven't is because the spiders are bigger there...

I know they can't hurt me (no poisonous spiders in Ireland) I don't KNOW why I am so scared..

I am also really afraid of butterflies. Not as bad as spiders though lol xx

ME TOO! Rediculously afraid of them. I immediately start to sob when I see one, even if it is fake or on tv. It is so bad that one day there was a tiny one in the car that I saw (of course it looks like the size of a monster to me), but I freaked out, jumped across the seat into my husbands lap, sobbing. Now this wouldn't be so bad, but I was still buckled up, and he was driving 75 miles and hour down the highway. He had to pull the car over, I scrambled out the drivers side, and wouldn't get back in until he found it, killed it, and proved that he actually killed it. Crazy stupid fear. I think that I like cats so much because they eat spiders. I actually had a cat that would come running when I started to cry because he thought there was a spider to eat. Of course, then I wouldn't touch him for a few days in fear that it would crawl out of his stomach and get me.
I swear, they are just trying to take over the world. Ugh, now I have the creepy crawlies.

The dentist, i cant go without my mum or my boyfriend to hold my hand, just waiting in the waiting room is horrible, i sit there almost in tears waiting. I have no reason for this, no major dentist work has ever been done to me and only had 1 filling in my life (when i was 21), so to me this is a irrational fear!

I have iatrophobia - fear of the doctor.

What makes it really weird is I don't have fear of illness, death or bad diagnosis... it's literally just doctors, examinations and clinical environments.

What makes it crappier is it's just about the only phobia that can actually kill you in the long run... because sufferers just avoid going to the doctor. My wife has to drag me there for my annual checkups.

Climbing down ladders. I can climb up, sure, fine, no problem, but down? Nope. Not a chance.

Oh, and house centipedes. Creepy little guys, they are. Nice as peaches (and eat all the spiders) but all those legs!!

I thought I was the only one who had that issue with ladders! LOL :laugh: That's me and Spiders.. BLAH! I live in Michigan and I've never seen a black widow here and my 18 yr old daughter caught a live HUGE black widow spider at a local salon here. I took her and the spider to the health department, they sent it in and it was a black widow that did not belong here. That was creepy!!!! If I knew how to post pictures, I'd show you the nasty thing!:noway: