Do you have a crazy....

comogirl
comogirl Posts: 154 Member
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Do you have a crazy phobia, or irrational fear? I am so afraid of worms. It is a full phobia. They scare me to death. I hate it when it rains and they all seem to come up out of the ground to torment me. My husband and family think that my phobia is nuts, and it is, but I think there are lots of people with them. Mine stems from a childhood "trauma" in which another little girl dumped a whole bucket of worms on me in my new dress.
So now that I have exposed mine, what is yours?
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  • kzivic
    kzivic Posts: 326 Member
    I have a phobia of anticipated noise. I can't really explain it, it's like a noise you know is coming, but not sure when? Some examples are a Jack-In-The-box toy, popping a balloon, popping the cork on a champagne bottle. You know there's going to be a noise, but when...? They all freak me out.

    The funny thing is I work part time at a wine bar and annoy the heck out of my co-workers when I have to ask them to open champagne for me.
  • lilmzzgreeneyez
    lilmzzgreeneyez Posts: 133 Member
    kinda. i have a phobia of being dying slowly by being cut up while still alive. idk the best way to explain it but i cant watch movies like hostel and saw without looking away most of the movie. (yet i love horror movies)
  • montana_girl
    montana_girl Posts: 1,403 Member
    When I was a teenager, I was convinced I would die in a car crash... I had a really hard time riding in car with my friends and I was not thrilled about learning how to drive.

    I don't have that fear anymore, but it was really bad through my teens and early twenties...
  • ChanniVincent
    ChanniVincent Posts: 188
    I am terrified of tornadoes. When there are warnings I move everything & everyone to the basement just in case.
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Thunderstorms. Comes of living in areas where they are very common and one of the reasons I want to move is to live somewhere they aren't common!
  • cubizzle
    cubizzle Posts: 900 Member
    Bridges! I've always known this about myself, but this past summer we took a family vacation driving an RV from Wisconsin to California. I was driving through Minnesota in the wee hours of the morning when we started crossing a pretty decent sized bridge. My wife was sitting in the passenger seat and was startled by my shaking and lack of breathing. We had to pull over afterward so I could calm down and continue driving. Rather scary moment.
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    Mine is fairly common. I'm claustrophobic. I just avoid tight spaces or really, really crowded areas. I went to a haunted house in Wildwood, NJ when I was around 12 and the walls closed it. I full-on freaked out but everyone was screaming anyway so nobody heard me. I haven't gone in a haunted house since and, every so often, I STILL have nightmares about that place. *shudders*
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    I am a relatively new driver (got my license at 45 yrs old.)

    I still have an intense dislike (I wouldn't call it a phobia, per se) of driving into parking ramps...............that dark, tunnel effect, the twists and turns, the low ceiling. I will park quite a ways away, on the street, if I have to, to avoid a ramp.
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    I am terrified of tornadoes. When there are warnings I move everything & everyone to the basement just in case.
    Are you living in the mid-west?
  • schume89
    schume89 Posts: 118 Member
    Bridges and stairwells. I start shaking..not fun
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    Bridges seems to be a common one that I wouldn't have expected. Is it the height? Or just the drop off? Or the fact that they are usually over water? Not that there has to be a reason just wondering (there certainly isnt a reason behind mine, or at least not a good one).
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    I have a phobia of anticipated noise. I can't really explain it, it's like a noise you know is coming, but not sure when? Some examples are a Jack-In-The-box toy, popping a balloon, popping the cork on a champagne bottle. You know there's going to be a noise, but when...? They all freak me out.

    The funny thing is I work part time at a wine bar and annoy the heck out of my co-workers when I have to ask them to open champagne for me.
    This one would be hard to avoid. Sorry!:frown:
  • cubizzle
    cubizzle Posts: 900 Member
    Bridges seems to be a common one that I wouldn't have expected. Is it the height? Or just the drop off? Or the fact that they are usually over water? Not that there has to be a reason just wondering (there certainly isnt a reason behind mine, or at least not a good one).


    Speaking for myself....I think there are just so many variables when it comes to bridges: Width, height, structural integrity, and general lack of immediate ground beneath you. I'm sure it's more base than that though, and that's just my over analysis of my personal neurosis.
  • boldtsmith
    boldtsmith Posts: 120 Member
    I fear nothing :smokin:
    But I do have a favorite phobia:
    hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

    Fear of long words.
  • SpydrMnky27
    SpydrMnky27 Posts: 381 Member
    I have many but my most irrational is my fear of masks, mascots, scary halloween costumes and people dressed up as characters at theme parks. I'm getting a little better about it.
  • Brazilll
    Brazilll Posts: 503
    My hubby gets all paranoid around balloons. Apparently he's been terrified of them since childhood.
  • YaBoiMUGS
    YaBoiMUGS Posts: 237
    I've taken a bullet when I was in the military, but nothing scares me more than a friggin spider! I'm helpless in their presence.
  • tweakz20
    tweakz20 Posts: 152 Member
    I don't have irrational fears. I do like bringing the subject up so I know how to scare someone later.
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    Heights... to the point of passing out
  • runnerjenn0708
    runnerjenn0708 Posts: 400 Member
    sharks .... I hate'em!!! Nature will find a way to eat me!!!
  • coachblt
    coachblt Posts: 1,090
    Absolutely: I have a fear of stunningly beautiful women. I love looking at them, I just can't bring myself to talk and flirt with them. I know, I should, but I can't.
  • monipie
    monipie Posts: 280 Member
    i have a stupid phobia of static shock. i can't stand it. i look like a crazy person because i always have to touch something with my elbow, knuckle, or foot (i will kick car doors etc) before i touch them with my fingers. i don't like getting shocked anywhere but i can deal with it just not on my hands or fingers. i was so scared to get shocked when i lived in Rhode Island that i hardly left the house. okay, now i am embarrassed.
  • coachblt
    coachblt Posts: 1,090
    i have a stupid phobia of static shock. i can't stand it. i look like a crazy person because i always have to touch something with my elbow, knuckle, or foot (i will kick car doors etc) before i touch them with my fingers. i don't like getting shocked anywhere but i can deal with it just not on my hands or fingers. i was so scared to get shocked when i lived in Rhode Island that i hardly left the house. okay, now i am embarrassed.

    That's SHOCKING! :laugh:
  • dragonbait0126
    dragonbait0126 Posts: 568 Member
    Bridges seems to be a common one that I wouldn't have expected. Is it the height? Or just the drop off? Or the fact that they are usually over water? Not that there has to be a reason just wondering (there certainly isnt a reason behind mine, or at least not a good one).

    I hate them because I'm afraid they will collapse. I can't stand being on them or under them. I'm the same way with highway tunnels. If I have to drive across or under one I start driving like I'm in Nascar. My husband always tried to convince me that the bridge wasn't going to collapse until the one that did a few years ago and made national news (I can't remember which state it was). I called my husband and told him to turn on the news and then screamed in the phone "NOW do you understand?!" LOL.

    I'm also afraid of closet monsters (yes, you read that correctly). I can't sleep with my closet door open. I'm convinced that if the door is open and something is hiding in there I can't see or hear them come out. But if the door is closed then I will hear it open and be able to defend myself. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. My husband thinks I'm bonkers.

    My only other irrational fear is that of darkness behind me but it really depends on where I am. In my old house, I couldn't stand turning out all the lights and then walking to the back of the house to go to bed. I would practically run to the bedroom where the light was on because it felt like something was going to jump out of the darkness behind me. When we moved from that house though, I no longer had that feeling and I don't get that feeling in my current place either.
  • Britt2Fitjrny
    Britt2Fitjrny Posts: 558 Member
    I have a friend who is afraid of spiders being under the toilet seat so every time she goes to the bathroom she always has to check it out before she sits down. That same friend is also afraid of someone hiding behind the shower curtain so she always has to looks behind that before she uses the bathroom. She's a mess.... hahaha
  • ABetterBalance
    ABetterBalance Posts: 298
    Feet- although it's not really that I am afraid of them. I just hate them. To the point that I have avoided ER trips because I didn't want a doctor to touch mine.

    I guess my biggest one is self harm. People talking about it, seeing it in movies, hearing about it in songs (the Johnny Cash cover of hurt?? Literally makes me nauseous!) It's an irrational one that I have to confront almost daily, since I work with an admissions team at a psychiatric hospital- so the topic comes up a lot. It sends me into a state of near panic though, I have a hard time breathing, I feel clammy, and I have to start singing to myself (in my head) to try and block out what is being said.
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    Absolutely: I have a fear of stunningly beautiful women. I love looking at them, I just can't bring myself to talk and flirt with them. I know, I should, but I can't.
    Aw. You totally should though! Nothing ventured nothing gained!
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    Feet- although it's not really that I am afraid of them. I just hate them. To the point that I have avoided ER trips because I didn't want a doctor to touch mine.

    I guess my biggest one is self harm. People talking about it, seeing it in movies, hearing about it in songs (the Johnny Cash cover of hurt?? Literally makes me nauseous!) It's an irrational one that I have to confront almost daily, since I work with an admissions team at a psychiatric hospital- so the topic comes up a lot. It sends me into a state of near panic though, I have a hard time breathing, I feel clammy, and I have to start singing to myself (in my head) to try and block out what is being said.
    I cant say I am fond of either one of these either. Feet in particular gross me out!
  • PicNic00
    PicNic00 Posts: 269 Member
    i have a stupid phobia of static shock. i can't stand it. i look like a crazy person because i always have to touch something with my elbow, knuckle, or foot (i will kick car doors etc) before i touch them with my fingers. i don't like getting shocked anywhere but i can deal with it just not on my hands or fingers. i was so scared to get shocked when i lived in Rhode Island that i hardly left the house. okay, now i am embarrassed.

    me too!!!!
  • ImKindOfABigDeal40
    ImKindOfABigDeal40 Posts: 807 Member
    I detest any and all spiders. I don't run from them like a little girl or anything but I will kill them as soon as I see them. I guess its a phobia.

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