Phobias and their beginnings.

[Dreamydre]

The point of the thread is to post your phobia(s) and when they first occurred.

I have an extreme fear of BUGS, chase me with a butterfly or any other bug and I'll run like a little betch. My fear of bugs began when I was five, I was staying with my uncle for the day and he took me to the creek near his house. I was making ripples in the water with my hand and I saw what I thought was a small rock. I tried to pick it up and it bit me, that was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my entire life. I had to swish my hand around a few times to get the thing off. Turns out the rock was a Giant Water Bug (backswimmer), my palm was really red and itchy for two weeks tops. Lets say I've never been fond of buggies since that experience. :blink:

[Rabid]

You guys will probably laugh at this, but I have a phobia of pencils. Not that I run screaming every time I come in contact with one, but I just don't like the way they scratch on paper when you use them. I do everything in ink (even algebra) unless it's a standardized test or an assignment that points are docked on if you don't use pencil. I will avoid them like the plague. I've just always been this way... my middle school art teacher threatened to fail me if I didn't start sketching in pencil.

I'm kind of claustrophobic, too. Not extremely so, but the thing I can't do is be sandwiched between two people who are trying to talk around me. Even if I know them well, it really freaks me out- I have to sit somewhere else or I'll go crazy. I always take the window seat on airplanes or the end seat when I go to the movies with family or friends because I can't tolerate it. This phobia started when I was ten and flying to California. I was sitting between my dad and my sister, who were trying to have an intellectual conversation, and I got so stressed out I had to make a quick getaway to the bathroom.

[Dreamydre]

I also have a fear of tanning beds :lol: since I saw Final Destination 3 I could never think the same about them.

[PuX- 80's]

I'm not understanding about the pencil phobia, Rabid....:wtf2:
I do completely understand being in the middle of two people talking and you are in the middle.
If I know the two people or not I will scrunch down (if I'm sitting).
For me it freaks me out because, they seem like they are starring at you, but they aren't.

Ok, one of my big phobias......
People sitting next to me.
If it's at the movies or school or any where there is a little divder is cool.
If there is no sectional/ divider and some comes and sits next to me, I scoot away.
If there is someone sitting on both sides of me and there is no place to scoot...then I get up and walk away.
Same with standing.

[charlie-chan_SC]

I have a thing about people sitting next to me too. It's mainly in lectures though where I need the room to write stuff down and with a person on either side it's pretty difficult to do. I need my own personal space.

Another phobia of mine is flying bugs. I hate them soo much, especially as recently two or three have flew into my ear! Argh.

I have too many phobias to list so I'll mention two :D

[omgshsarah]

This is weird, but I've had a phobia of throwing up ever since the Thanksgiving I was in the 7th grade. My cousin came to my Grandma's house just getting over a stomach flu. She then gave it to my other cousin, my uncle, my grandpa, my other uncle, and then me. I threw up all night and then we had to drive home the next day. And of course, in the car my sister started throwing up everywhere. Then, a couple hours later, my dad. That wasn't a pleasant car ride. Luckily my mom avoided the bug and drove all the way home.

Yeah, I hate throwing up and I haven't since then. Mostly because I've forced myself not to.

[Styledx_SC]

I have a huge fear of escalators, and I think it's down to a story that I read about one collapsing in and a woman died in it. I was only young when I read it, and while I know I nothing will happen, I just can't get over it. i cry when I see one, and it's got to the point people start laughing at me when I can't go on one, and it gets me seriously infuriated, because how would THEY like to be laughed at for their fear? ;\

Also, moths. I hate them. Just the other night one got into my room and flew near me and I panicked and cried and ran out the room, I never went back in until the morning when my dad killed it. I had to sleep in the living room. I think I got that fear from my brother. When I was 5 I remember him going into the bathroom and running out shouting "IT'S A MOTH, IT'S A MOTH!!!" which probably made me start to associate them with bad things, even though I know they won't hurt me. I make my mum and dad shut all the windows and block off any openings they can get in during the summer - which is hell because it gets hot in our house easily. Yay for fans! Which then makes me feel bad in case a moth does go in and goes splat in the fan XD
(Also, I can't kill moths myself. I can't kill ANY insect myself. I feel terrible if I do)

[Dreamydre]

(Also, I can't kill moths myself. I can't kill ANY insect myself. I feel terrible if I do)

I can't kill insects because of the crunchy sound they make when you squish them. Since my sister is gone I get my parents to kill any bugs I see (usually spiders).

[ashleybrooke]

I have a blood phobia. So severe that I cannot get blood drawn at the doctor's. I freak out. When people around me talk about blood my fingers and feet ache. I used to have to leave health class when we would talk about blood or blood diseases.

When my little sister was a toddler she became severely dehydrated and she had to go to the hospital for a couple days. They had IVs into her feet. After seeing her there I think that is when my phobia came about (I was probably 4 at the time).

[Ranta]

I'm terrified of poison- I think it has to do with the fact that in the fourth grade, I borrowed a book on poisonous animals from the school library because I had a project on poison arrow dart frogs, and I made the mistake of reading the whole book. There were a lot of really, really freaky stories in that thing!

[kailay_SC]

I can't stand spiders! when ever one lands on me i panick! xD
it probs started when i was younger and we lived in a big house in germany that was full of them and i was jumping on my bed and felt something big under my foot. when i looked there was a huge spider with only one leg left (OOPS!) lol... that house had BIG spiders! lol


edit: and once i woke up with a spider bite on my neck *same house* and it looked like a vampire had bit me !!!! xD LOL!

[thothep]

I can only think of two things that could hit around the phobia level, other things may bother me but aren't too hard to get past.

First, bees, and wasps and hornets and all those bugs of a stinging type. And I always feel pathetic about it because I know lots of people who are allergic to them and are less bothered than I am, while for me, by about an hour after I'm stung it's less bothersome than a mosquito bite (and by the next day I can't even figure out where I was stung). I also have an issue with needles for getting shots, etc, but I honestly think these two are connected.

And I have problems with people too, but this one's really bad, if I'm in a position where anybody but somebody who registers 'safe' to me seems to be blocking me from easy escape from my location I will go into a full blown panic attack, and that's not fun at all. Rather surprised my psychobiology professor when I suddenly flung myself out of my seat during an exam... he let me finish the exam at the table up front. I've also taken several exams on the floor for this same reason. And really, only a fraction of my friends (and an even smaller portion of strangers I encounter) actually register as 'safe' so I always have to make sure I have clear access to a door/etc.

[Raye89]

It's not a phobia, more like something that would really REALLY suck.

Going into a coma. I think it would really suck to go to sleep July 31, 2008 and wake up December 16, 2012. You'd miss so much, you'd feel so... left behind.

[craptastic]

I'm afraid of clowns. Terribly, terribly afraid. Pictures of clowns, movies about clowns, toys of clowns, circuses..anything. The only clown-related that I own is a little wind-up clown doll that plays "Its a Small World" and twirls its head when you wind it up. I've had it since I was little, and its the only clown-related thing I'm not afraid of. I've never been to a circus, simply because I refuse to go.
The reason (or I think so, anyways). I still remember it pretty clearly, I was about..3 or 4 years old, and I was at a restaurant with my parents and some relatives. A pretty big, fancy restaurant. It had a giaaantttt mural on one of the walls, taking up the whole wall, and it basically was a giant bar scene. I'm not sure what was particularly scary about it..but I do remember there was a man (who resembled Abraham Lincoln) dancing in the middle of the room with a woman, and his knee was bent in a very strange way. In a way that a human's knee wouldn't normally bend. Nowadays that wouldn't mean a whole lot to me, but as a small child it frightened me pretty bad..I'm not sure how I associate clowns with that fear that I felt, other than I know there was a clown (in uniform and makeup) sitting at the bar having a drink. Had nothing to do with the man or anything, just minding his own business having a drink.
I'm not sure why that made me afraid of clowns, but I'm almost certain that's where it started. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I can't really explain it much better than that.

[Rabid]

I'm not understanding about the pencil phobia, Rabid....:wtf2:

Ehh, no one does ;). I just really don't like the way it scratches against paper and the sound that it makes is like nails on a chalkboard, for me. I can always recognize my papers from across the room because I write in green ink and have very narrow, slanted handwriting. In most of my classes, I'm the only person who writes in pen. Finals are even more stressful for me because they have to be done in pencil or it's an automatic zero- just using one makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

kailay, I know what you mean about spiders! I've been paranoid about them since I was in the basement with my sister a few years ago and a giant, tarantula-esque spider crawled out from behind the PS2. I really don't like to kill bugs... there's something about crushing a life into a tissue that creeps me out. Nice avvie, by the way. Totally bad ass :D.

[Izzy]

I share Craptastic's fear of clowns i hate those sad clown velvet paintings, the clowns at the circus, i hate that Stephen King movie. My fear of clowns started when my parents took me and my twin brother to see Bozo the clown (do any of you remember him?). My parents basically forced us to go say hi to him, talk to him and listen to his evil laugh. Then our parents thought it would be a good idea to get us a Bozo doll. That THING at on shelf in our bedroom and one night i shit you not it actually turned its head and looked at us...We hid it in the attic and when we found it years later we burned it in the backyard.

[PuX- 80's]

I just really don't like the way it scratches against paper
I'm understanding alittle more.
I'm probably not understanding because, I use mechanical pencils and they make the 'nails on the chalkboard' noise if you use one side too much.

[Mai]

I have the fear of being left behind or being left out. Terrible childhood events, haha.

And ants, too. The foundation of my home cracked, and about a thousand colonies of ants invaded the kitchen.

The only thing that will really make me scream is large bodies of water. Oceans, lakes, you name it, I'm afraid of it. Again, terrible childhood events. I nearly drowned in a really deep pool, and my idiot brother wouldn't save me. He sat there laughing while I had to have his friend get me out. Sounds pathetic, I know, but now I won't go into anything taller than 5 feet.

[Dimension_E310]

I found a cool site
Phobialist (http://www.Phobialist.com)

It is awesome it has most all the Fears are there...

[Pantamailon]

I know it sounds odd but I have a major fear of disney films, I have done ever since I was 5 and a teacher held my head up towards a tv screen and forced me to watch a scary (To a 5 year old) part of the movie when I really didn't want to.

I still can't watch Bambi...

[xJOFLx]

Hmm.. Well, the only thing I can think of is ants..
Just the thought of them crawling up your skin and in your food without you really noticing makes me shudder! :(

My fear of heights is.. um, weird to some people.
I couldn't even do the Low Ropes at camp last year, and they were only about half a metre off the ground.

Rabid - Wow, that's a pretty awesome fear! I see what you mean; it must be so shivery and irritating! I'd just use a mechanical pencil.

[charlie-chan_SC]

Another one of my phobias are squishy things.

I feel so sick doing it. I had to clean up some salsa at work and I felt horrible doing it. I wanted to run away so badly >.<

[PandaGuin]

I have an endless list of phobias.
-Blood
-New or icky textures
-Heights (i get vertigo on my office stool)
-Being abandoned
-New places/people

the list goes on...

[kustirider2]

I have a massive phobia of crowds, No matter how big. Its so bad that whenever i go out nobody can walk behind me or i will walk towards a wall to put my back against. Also when im out for a meal i have to sit in the corner seat and my little sister (being a jelous 9 year old) usually gets there first and wont swap with me and then to top it all off my father shouts at me for being stupid and claims he has no phobias.... :(

[longears15]

I'm another who's afraid of clowns and most other performance artists. As a little kid, I was walking past one of those guys who paint themselves all over and pretend to be statues, coming 'alive' when somebody gives them money. He crept up on me, moving whenever I had my back to him and going back to 'statue' when I looked at him, until he was right behind me. It scared me really badly.

Don't like crowds either. Part of it is a physical thing - having my leg bumped is excruciatingly painful - but I don't like being hemmed in. If I can't see open space and an escape route in front of me, I get very stressed.

My other big one is hospitals. They freak me out like nothing else can. Even walking into a hospital to visit somebody else sends my heart rate sky high...bit of a problem when you have to spend as much time in them as I have. I've been in hospital ten times in the last two years or so and have only got through one stay without having a panic attack :(

[chester1988]

my fears are either stupid or exaggerated to some extent

Sharks: All started with a book at the library in Elementary, then a trip to Six Flags (*shudder* the shark tunnel *shudder*) and finished with a preview of some Shark movie that I can't remember (and it wasn't Jaws). Now I get frightened by just a picture of a shark, which is sad, but true.

Spiders: Just limited to tarantulas. those things scare the crap out of me.

Snakes: My numero uno fear, the one thing that can send me running for safety and make me scream just at the thought of being close to one. Even Garden (sp?) snakes scare me. To me every one has a potential to morph into a rattle snake and attack me. Didn't help that I saw the first Harry Potter film (including the disappearing glass and the snake *shudder*) and my family took me once to a camp where the ranger had a box for catching them (I spent the rest of the time at the camp either holed up in the tent or locked in my aunt's minivan).

Taxidermy Animals and Mounted Animal heads: this one gets me laughed at. But you'd be scared to if you were dragged to Country Bear Jamboree as a kid (before it was demolished) and what looked like harmless bear heads on the wall come to life and start singing. Scared me so bad I was secretly rejoicing when it was removed. The taxidermy Animals part, I have no idea where it started, all I know is that museums that have reenactments via wax and taxidermy figures are a no go for me. And I was scared even more when I went to Oregon to visit my grandparents and the museum they took me to had a taxidermy cougar that looked like it was going to pounce at any minute. I saw that thing and ran out the front door, nearly knocking over my 300lb grandmother (she's slightly overweight) in the process. Needless to say, if theres any taxidermy animals or mounted animal heads of any sort, I just avert my eyes and quickly find the nearest exit.

[Charley-x]

I'm sorta like chester with my fears.

Snakes and slugs and snails, i mean wtf how do they move? but snakes are the worst! they're skin makes me feel like something crawl up my bakc i don't know why but it does i hate hate hate them.

also...

I know this sound proper stupid but i don't like the ocean. It all started when i was little and went to disney land in florida. They have/had( i don't know if it's still their) a jaws ride, and as you went through this tunnel you saw the people on the boat before you ride past then you heard like screams and splashes and went you come out there was a half eaten boat. And my borther told me there the people we saw before we went through the tunnel, And as i was only 5 i though we were next and i thought the shark was hovering around i screamed so loud everyone was starring at me. My dad recorded it and i'm like 2its guna kill me mummy," it make me laugh but at the time i was so scared, and anyway them when we got home my family insisted on watching the movie jaws and i got so scared and about 2/3 years ago there was a reported killer shark or some shark thing down by cornwall and thats near me( i live outside london) i was so scared and about a week alter i went to spain and i could'nt go deep into the ocean. i can only go into waist height now becuase of sharks. i was fine after about 3months after the ride thing and went i went to dominican republic i even swam with sharks, but when they said about the shark in cornwall i can't go right into the ocean. It freaks me out - i can't do sharks they scare me soo much! - sorry for long paragraph and i think its a phobia i just don't know whats its called :P

[icecube]

I HATE stinging things, zombies, and I dont like the dark. i know im dumb.

[leenetje]

RABID: perhaps late too respond but hey.. around here we aren't even allowed to write in pencils in school. everybody works with pen, pencils are only used for sketching.

anyway my two cents:

-sharks and dark deep water 'cause sharks can be hiding there.:
well a backstory to it. i was 5 and just moved to my new room the attic. i had a children's paradise and a barely used tv that was from my sister i am playing with dolls and she comes watch a movie with her BF and that movie was... JAWS. well why not, it's let's-traumatize-my-little-sister-day i didn't dare to go into the swimming pool till i was 12 and i still freak out when i'm alone in the pool and i see a shadow. (not to mention there aren't any dangerous sharks around here, if there even are any)

-elevators:
same fault. my sister watching a horror movie when i was 6 about some elevator that turns mutant and killing people after a power failure with lighting or something.

-being attacked from behind:
same story: some horrormovie about some traumatizing murder where he attacked the person from behind or something, that's from about when i was 5

well the last one is pretty embarasing and i can't explain what i'm actually affraid of. it's really on the phobia level, when i was little (around 8) my sister was 14, and had a 21 boyfriend who was quite bad. (my parents did not know about it or something like ti, it's kind of blurry) and i was playing in front of her bedroom door with barbie dolls (my dolls were stacked at her room) and suddenly the door goes open and her BF falls over me. i start crying and he turns mad affraid (i guess cause i was making to much noise and my brother (15 yrs.)might come check it out) i didn't stop crying and he smashed, no litterally trew, me into the wall. my sister didn't care and left with the guy, my brother found me and called my parents and the doctor, turned out i almost broke my back.

ever since then i'm paranoid of guys who seem stressed or annoyed and might turn mad soon, because he then might hurt me again. strangers or people i know, as soon as i see a guy around me starting to get mad i freak out and run away as quick as possible and i start shaking once i'm away from them. and i also have a fear to be abandoned by the ones i love.



....WOW a novel, sorry.

[Charley-x]

leenetje - snap! i seriously so scared of sharks! it's really upset me thought because i used to LOVE to swim and love to dive in water- (btw i can swim in pools and deep water, but not in the sea ;) )- and sorry to hear about your sis's bf- he's sounds really horrible.

[twigglebby_SC]

ha... i am certain i have one of the longest lists....


butterflies/moths.. they have always freaked me out ... idk why

BIRDS... long story made shore... i went canoeing with camp... we didnt hae a councler in our boat ... the river started going against us.. we slamed in to the side of the riber and got attacked by geese.

big dogs.. i was attacked when i was little ish

other peoples feet... yea i cant be around other peoples feet... i freak out..

rail road crossing thing....ever since we saw a video of someone like getting hit buy a train

amounting to nothing... i have anxiety attacks every time i think about it

being alone fro the rest of my life... look up^^^

raw meat.. i cry when ever i see it..

horses... super man enough said..

the thought of becoming obese.. yea.. i have issues id rather not get in to

spiders..

scarecrows

the dark

99 cents stores... wow reading that makes me sound really vain.. but im not i love the stuff from the 99 cents stores i just wont go in them

dolls that talk/there eyes open shut

ferbes

trailorparks... have you seen jerry springer?

walking places alone

people who are like too nice..

CLOWNS i saw steven kings it when i was 3... then went to my first cricue two days later.

forests

plus i have socical anxitey..

and a few others i wont mention even to my therapist.

[Charley-x]

lol twiggle- i thought i had it hard. :)

[twigglebby_SC]

lol twiggle- i thought i had it hard. :)


haha
well i just added more..

yeah... im a little necrotic

[Charley-x]

OMG.. haha :)

[leenetje]

oh yeah i forgot one.

same story as above:

great flocks of birds, when like there are a bunch of birds flying above you. 9 and my sister watched birds. i now suddenly want to know why the hell my parents allowed my sister do watch those movies on my room...

[littlesunshine123xx]

Well I dont think anyone cant beat my phobia because it is listed at one of the most uncommon phobias.
I am terrified of Balloons, not the balloons themselves but the bang they make when they pop. Its called ligyrophobia apparently which is a phobia of loud noises. Which is true cause i dont really like fireworks they scare me when they make a bang or guns. Im just scared of anything that goes bang loudly lol.

But I hate having this Phobia of balloons because I remember every party when i was little I would end up in a corner crying in fear because some kid looked like they were going to burst a balloon. Even now I have to leave the room if someone has a balloon because I feel like im going to have a panic attack.

Where it started I dunno ive always had it. Apparently the only two fears that are developed in the womb before birth are a fear of loud noise and falling.

[Blast the Stereo_SC]

I have diagnosed etmetophobia, which is the fear of throwing up.

It's a pretty common fear, and not nearly as cool as ligyrophobia, but I still have it - and it sucks.

It pretty much started as the result of a stomach parasite, in which I threw up constantly for about a week.

After that, any time I started to feel sick, I would go into a severe panic attack, which made me feel like I was going to throw up even more, so it just escalated. It ended up developing into something even worse, where if I would get full from eating, then I'd mistake it for being sick, and have one of those attacks.

But I've gotten a heck of a lot better. The latter part of the phobia doesn't happen anymore, and I've gained a lot more weight since. Although, if I do start to feel sick, I still have trouble calming down.

[suave22_SC]

I have a fear for lizards.

A long time ago back when i was like 9 i think, i went to my grandmother's house, she lives in the islands and she has these house lizards on her ceiling and i use to sit, just watching how they move, how they catch and ate flies and mosquitoes. I remember one day i was dressed for church and i was wearing this pretty poofy dress with lots of puffs and frills and i was waiting for everyone to be ready, when one fell on me.
My cousins saw it happens but i guess it looked funny to them but i was screaming my head off. I swear i was beating myself all over my body trying to get it off, i even rolled on the ground like i was on fire. One of my cousins said i look like a chicken that got it's head cut off. Traumatic for me funny to others. To this day i'm terrified of lizards and i've worn only two dresses in my entire life after that, none had frills of puffs.

[Cat_SC]

uhm
escalators xD
i know it sounds extremely stupid, but im scared when i go down i'll fall or something

[Rabid]

RABID: perhaps late too respond but hey.. around here we aren't even allowed to write in pencils in school. everybody works with pen, pencils are only used for sketching.

Wow, I want to come to your school! My teachers always laugh at me because I use colored ink (usually green, but sometimes purple) whereas everyone else uses pencil. I will only use pencil when there's a point deduction if I don't, and it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up for the entire duration of the exam or assignment. My pencil phobia puzzles everyone who knows about it, so not many people know :lol:.

[Simply_Sims]

I don't have phobias anymore, although I used to have an extreme phobia of flying in airplanes. It's funny, it sort of came out of nowhere. I was never afraid of planes, but then one day I found them terrifying. It lasted with me for years, but eventually faded away. Weird, huh?

[duderocks]

uhm
escalators xD
i know it sounds extremely stupid, but im scared when i go down i'll fall or something

No, it's not. I also get scared of going down the escalator, for the same reason.

[1306]

I have an extreme fear of being alone, especially when I'm in the dark. Started maybe when I was 6, the first time I slept without a nightlight. I panicked a lot when I was that age.

Right now, it's no longer in the bedroom. It's outside the house--whenever there are alleys and the street lights are busted (Especially here in our country--danger lurks in the dark parts of the street). It gets so bad, I don't go out when at night--even if I have a few people with me.

Silly, I know. But that's just me.

[duderocks]

I have a really intense fear of big dogs. Started when a dog almost bit me when I was 4 or 5. Had a big phobia since.

[leenetje]

Wow, I want to come to your school! My teachers always laugh at me because I use colored ink (usually green, but sometimes purple) whereas everyone else uses pencil. I will only use pencil when there's a point deduction if I don't, and it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up for the entire duration of the exam or assignment. My pencil phobia puzzles everyone who knows about it, so not many people know :lol:.


well good news. not only my school has it that way but the whole country. it's just one of those unwritten school rules things that's jsut normal. altough the basic colour to write is blue.

[Styledx_SC]

uhm
escalators xD
i know it sounds extremely stupid, but im scared when i go down i'll fall or something
YAY!
I'M NOT ALONE!
*Runs and tackles with hugs!*
My fear of them has grown to the extreme. I cry whenever I see them, which makes for some people laughing, which I terribly hate and wish I could find their fear to put that in front of them and laugh at them.

[Charley-x]

Cat: omg you would of hated it where i went on holiday last year - i went to sweden and had to use the underground and the escalators were SOOO steep! i was scared too. :|

[starried]

I have quite a fear of getting myself hurt and/or feeling pain... I get so paranoiac about it that whenever I step out of a car, I actually avoid touching the car so I won't get that little static shock :P

Problem is, with that phobia I just get over conscious about almost everything, even stupid ones: things that just might fall from shelves and hit me, me falling the stairs, random animals, getting burned when cooking something... Also, I'm a total pessimist so it makes everything worse. :P

I also absolutely hate when someone is walking closely behind me... GAH! I feel like I'm going to get attacked or something.

@littlesunshine123xx: I have a phobia of balloons too! But I developed that after my childhood; when I was little I didn't mind them. But now, whenever I see someone holding (especially irresponsible children!! XD) the damned thing I just start shaking and walk away fast. >_>

[Dreamydre]

I HATE stinging things, zombies, and I dont like the dark. i know im dumb.
uhh you are not dumb! :umm: I always have to sleep with a night light :lol:

[PuX- 80's]

I'm not scared by the dark, but I still have a night light.
I bring a flashlight to the bathroom. :D

[chester1988]

I just remembered another phobia: the dark...yeah its been mentioned before. But mine comes from seeing a play at school and one was on people turning the lights off in their bathroom/bedroom (wherever they were) and chanting Bloody Mary three times and a horrifying face of a woman showing up. That scared the literal crap out of me, I had to check a couple times to make sure I hadn't really crapped my pants. Then there's the time I watched a tv show on Disney (I think) and it was....um...the thing under the bed...or maybe it was Boogie Man...I cant remember. But all I know is that every time I turn off the lights in my room, I quickly jump onto my bed (to avoid anything that could possibly reach out and snag me by the ankles) and throw the covers over my head. My family has gotten a laugh at my expense because of it. And I cant stay in a room for very long by myself if the lights are off. My paranoia starts working and I'll start overreacting, thinking theres ghosts everywhere.

Edit: Now that I think about it, its not really a phobia, just a fear that I could control...but I decide not to :p

[lauren777]

Interesting thread! One phobia is birds. I don't mind just one or two on their own, but when there are a few flying over my head, I freak out and duck or move or something lol, cause I get so scared they will swoop down at me or poop on me. :blink: lol

A more uncommon one I have is a fear of headlice. It started when I was in high school. I had been at a friends house and they were all playing with my hair (I have extremely curly hair so people always feel a need to play with it lol) and they used my friends hairbrush and hair ties. Then a week later she was conveniently away from school for a week because she was "sick" and then the next week, I was "sick" but I actually had headlice. And I swear it was a massive infestation. My hair is thick so there is a lot of places for them to hide (omg my hair is itchy just writing this LOL). Anyway, so it lasted about a week or two. We spent about $200 just on headlice removers!

I think it was the thought of having living things crawling through my hair - like I was some dirty person whos hygiene was next to none lol. I think when my phobia actually formed was when I was at home one day, my mum had gone to work. I had a shower, brushed my hair, then I put on my USA jumper (those jumpers were so 'in' at the time here in Australia) then I just did my own thing for about 5 minutes. Went back to the bathroom and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I took my jumper off and o.m.gosh. I swear, there was HUNDREDS of headlice crawling in the hood of my jumper. I took my jumper off, chucked it in the laundry and called my mum telling her I needed her home and needed more headlice remover (I think it was all gone by then). I was so traumatised by it, I felt like I couldn't move anywhere because I didn't want to get the headlice on the couch or on my pillow. I ended up sleeping with a new towel over my pillow every night for a couple months after that. And for nearly two years, every day I wore my hair up in a pony tail so it couldn't make contact with other peoples hair LOL.

It still effects me today, I am so scared about getting it again. I think because with curly hair its even harder because getting that headlice comb through hair like mine is, well, near-impossible! So even now, I'm funny with my little cousins. If I see them itching their head a couple times i'll think they have headlice and so ill have to put the headlice conditioner through my hair. And, I always seem to inspect peoples hair, like if im sitting next to them ill glance over and look for eggs (cause I know what the eggs looks like because they took about two years for all the dead ones to get out of mine lol). And I had also thought about going into child care but because of this phobia I don't think I could actually handle it LOL.

So there you go, thats my main phobia.. I wonder what term they'd call that haha..

sorry for the long post :howdy:

ps. my head is now incredibly itchy just thinking about this lol!

[jessiblob]

hahaha your headlice fear... I have a slight headlice fear, but not as bad as yours!

i also get the bird fear. im irrationally fearsome of emus. they seem to like me... and chase me... and it hurts like a sucka when they peck! (not that im surrounded by emus often, but you know...)

[jooxis84]

I don't have phobias anymore, although I used to have an extreme phobia of flying in airplanes. It's funny, it sort of came out of nowhere. I was never afraid of planes, but then one day I found them terrifying. It lasted with me for years, but eventually faded away. Weird, huh?

Yeah same here. Except it didn't "fade away" yet, hopefully will.

I've had a huge bird phobia for most of my life (ever since I was attacked by a chicken when I was little) but have been slowly overcoming it lately. I even pet a pigeon some weeks ago.

I also have somewhat of a phobia of paintbrushes. It's hard to explain.

[SlickC33]

Wow, I want to come to your school! My teachers always laugh at me because I use colored ink (usually green, but sometimes purple) whereas everyone else uses pencil. I will only use pencil when there's a point deduction if I don't, and it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up for the entire duration of the exam or assignment. My pencil phobia puzzles everyone who knows about it, so not many people know :lol:.

That's like my school too. If you write in pencil on any test you get an automatic zero, espcailly Math.

Anyways, I have a extreme phobia of blood. Whenever I see blood I get these horrible, horrible feelings. I either feel like fainting, my muscles tense up, or I feel as if I am about to vomit.

I remember once I had to get a blood test and just seeing my blood go up through the tube made be terribly sick. After I had to go into the waiting room and sit down, I felt really bad.

I wouldn't call it a phobia, but I do fear calling places to order food. Espacially places where its hard to understand the people (i.e. Chinese restaurant). Every time I need to place an order I beg my mother to do it.

I fear planes. Final Destination and 9/11, case closed.

I also fear moving up. Every time it nears the end of summer I get this sick feeling just thinking about the next grade.
I don't know where any of these phobias came from. They were just there.

Gee, I sure am weird. :anime:

[himawara106]

I don't have so many fears I think. I don't mind spiders or other insects.

But - one was already mentioned. I also have a phobia against throwing up. When I was a child my cousin and I had french fries during a festival. And the oil from which they were made of, was bad but which we hadn't recognized.

So it started in the night and my cousin was with her mom as she felt sick and I was lying in bed and throwed up. And I was so weak after a few times that I almost choked on it. Yeah - disgusting I know. But it was enough for a phobia.

I had a terrible stomach flu last year and my circulation got very bad so that I thought about calling a medical doctor. And there was this phobia of course. I didn't call the doctor, but I had promised to myself - if I would have thrown up, I definitely would have called one. Sounds stupid, but I think that's my worst phobia.

[PaintedRain]

sleeping in a house alone. my parents went away from wednesday to saturday, so it was just me and my older brother. needless to say we were staying up until 2am, and sleeping in until noon. i was fine when my brother was around, but on the last night we both went out with seperate friends to see movies at different times. i left first, and got back later because i had been walking about the mall with my friend, and had to walk home. around 11pm, almost midnight i had not seen my brother since i left for the movies. so i called him, and he decides to tell me then that he is spending the night at his friend's house, leaving me all alone. i staid up late, then decided to go to bed around 2am. but couldn't get to sleep. every little creak (in my fairly old townhouse) brought my eyes open, and i had to leave my bedroom door open in case the cats decided to tear up my carpet. from my bed, i can look down the hallway to the stairs, which then turn 90 degrees, and end up just about right in front of our front door. so about ever few seconds i'd look down the hallway to make sure no one was there. i was absoloutly freaked, and barely got any sleep that night. i kept telling myself if someone got in the house, my dog would most likely bark. i had the phone near my bed, and could easily lock myself in my bedroom. however i have a very dark and active imagination that will NOT turn off. so i was thinking up horrible scenarios all night. i was about to go to my neighbors house and ask if i could crash on their couch, but it was just too late, and i didn't want to bother them. i assume that phobia comes from watching too many crime shows, and scary movies. my brother got in big trouble because he left me alone, and didn't really tell anyone where he would be. ;)

[PunkyBreester]

I have a lot of silly fears, but the only thing I could honestly call a phobia would be needles! I cry if my doctor even mentions blood tests (one time she said I should get some blood taken, so I never went back and switched doctors :S), I scream and kick the nurse off when they come at me with a needle. It's not just syringes, but IVs too... I think its pretty much anything that goes in your veins that shouldn't. :lol: Even now, typing this, I'm getting nervous!

I think it started when I was in kindergarten and had appendicitis. I had to have my appendix taken out, and when I woke up in the hospital I saw a tube going under some tape on my wrist and not coming out the other side. I forced myself NOT to realize where it went, and ever since then I've just been extremely uneasy about stuff like that. Plus, I have TINY veins (they have to use pediatric needles on me) and I'm always really dehydrated when I get my blood drawn, so that makes it more painful and longer than it should be.

[chester1988]

Same here, hate needles, kicked a nurse in the shins once as a kid because she was going to give me a shot and since my dad wasn't there to hold me tight while the nurse gave me it (my mom was there, but she's a little on the cold side) I was left to defend for myself. Needless to say, I'm glad I've never had to take another shot to the arm again. Well, there was last year, but I just closed my eyes shut and told the vaccine nurse to just get it over with. Yeah, blood tests are another arena for me, as long as I don't see it, it doesn't affect me. I guess I have Rescuers Down Under to thank for this fear. :P

[RussaNodrey_SC]

Okay, I have a long list of phobias.
1. Eyes
2. Being poked in the eye
3. Heights
4. Spiders
5. Drinking alcholic substances
6. Peoples eyes being sucked out of their head
7 (finally) Getting lost.

[Psychic Hobo]

Shots. You even so much as show me one and I will break down on the floor and have a fit. I don't know where I even got it from, in kindergarten, I had to get my shots and I'd never seen one in my life, and as soon as they brought it in, I squeezed under the counter and started screaming, the nurses had to pin me down to get the shot in, sadly now in high school, I still act that way, only I can't fit under the counter anymore.

[PaintedRain]

RussaNodrey: I hate eyes too! i can't stand to look a person in the eyes for too long, it just makes me uncomfortable. a lot of people think i'm a bad person because i don't look people in the eye, but it's not true.
i think this stems from a movie where this stalker guy was obsessed with eyes, and had tons of pictures, and even (fake) eyes in jars and what not. i saw it when i was very young, and ever since...they just freak me out.

[RussaNodrey_SC]

RussaNodrey: I hate eyes too! i can't stand to look a person in the eyes for too long, it just makes me uncomfortable.

Finally someone else scared of eyes! *Random happy dance*. My phobia came from a dream, odd enough. I was tortured with pictures of eyes and being poked in the eye (though, at the time, I wasn't scared of 'em). Then, I just started freaking out whenever I saw eyes or when cameras zoom in on peoples eyes in movies...igg..

[Kusama]

I think that the 'eyes phobia' you're talking about is some old old instinct thing... Because this eye staring probably means a battle alarm for wild animals. That's why you hate it so...
When strangers stares right into my eyes, I just get furious, and I can't look at that person and start to hate him or her. Otherwise, when acquaintance looks in the eyes, it amuses me!

Now about the other phobias: spiders.
I like them (except those who are in my house) and I'm scared of them simultaneously. There are a few species which I can hold in hand gladly.
Well, can't call it real phobia, even if I have it since birth.
Another not real phobia is drunken people.
They just look dangerous for me. I don't drink alcohol and hate what results it gives... This problem is very actual in my country :(
When I was younger, had fear of clowns, too.

Actually, I don't have any real phobia which have some beginning...

[BrokenSnow]

I have a fear of the Grim Reaper also known as Death also known as Ol' Grimmy :skull: <3. In the morning I am not afraid but in the nighttime I freak out, get paranoid, forget things, and slow down in my speech. So I do not play The Sims alot. :| Anyone have a solution to this?

How it started.... being five-years-old and seeing Ol' Grimmy is not a good mixture.

[Pockkt]

How it started.... being five-years-old and seeing Ol' Grimmy is not a good mixture.

A little more explanation would do us all some good.

[RussaNodrey_SC]

I think that the 'eyes phobia' you're talking about is some old old instinct thing... Because this eye staring probably means a battle alarm for wild animals. That's why you hate it so...


We never where wild animals, thank you. I don't like eyes because it reminds me of blood.

[desimonkey442]

We never where wild animals, thank you. I don't like eyes because it reminds me of blood.

I don't think they meant that humans were wild animals. I think they were referring to when humans were more primitive.

[RussaNodrey_SC]

I don't think they meant that humans were wild animals. I think they were referring to when humans were more primitive.

Well if that is what they ment, I apologize.

[moldova49]

One phobia I have is an iron. Why you may ask? Well a couple reasons. One time I was using the iron on a table cloth and my brother came and scared me from behind and I dropped it on my feet. I was wearing flip-flops.

THe other time I was turning off a lamp and I felt somthing hot on my forearm. I didn't think anything of it, being my stupid self, I thought it was the lightbulb sincw the lamp I was turning off was always hot after being on for awhile. So I moved my arm to turn it off and I burned my arm on the hot iron that my mom put next ot the lamp. I have a permant scar. So that is why I am scared of irons.

[Catherine_SC]

My biggest phobia is of spiders. I've always been scared of them, ever since I was little, but when I was about 16 I woke up one morning and there was this massive spider crawling up my arm. :( I've been even more paranoid ever since, and whenever I go and stay with my parents in that same bedroom I have to make sure every little gap around the bed is closed up so I think spiders won't get to me lol. My boyfriend tells me I actively seek out spiders because I just look for them everywhere I go haha.

I'm also wary of elevators - just because I imagine the cable snapping and crashing to my death. :/ I'll go in them, but get nervous if the doors don't open straight away or if it's particularly bumpy. Planes, too - I used to go on holiday every year and never had a problem, but I think I must have watched films that scared me because I hate hate hate it and can't relax for the entire journey. And then when we land I just think "oh god I've got to go through that all again on the way home." :P

I wouldn't say the last two are phobias but they scare me quite a lot. :P

[sayyadina_SC]

I can stand snakes and spiders, blood, the dark and most people, even drunk, but I cant stand earwigs!
Just the sight of one makes me loose control and I'm thrown into a state of near-death panic.

I cant even think about it. I always felt like that. Earwigs can do horrible things to you, I'm convinced. But I cant give any reason to my reaction.

I used to have all sorts of phobias when I was a kid. Some of the fears I had to face and work on, like being scared to death by escalators.

I also think fear is there for a reason and not everything should be cured. Some things can actually harm you (if not earwigs), and being afraid of a spider is quite sensible considering some spiders or snakes can kill you. But having a phobia is difficult when its making you loose all perspective.

[Kusama]

I don't think they meant that humans were wild animals. I think they were referring to when humans were more primitive.
Yeah, exactly. Don't know how about you, but I say that humans are animals,
too.

[DancingSimmer]

I hate Elevators and Escalators. They freak me out. I rather walk down steps.