Your Phobias

[Pensive]

Here is an interesting article concerning the fears of teenagers from Singapore. Maybe some of us fears the similar things too.

By the look, they look carefree and it seems that they have nothing to fear about but when you talk to them, you will find that most of them feel that they are bound by Asian traditions.

You better do well or else ...

First on the list of fears seems to be the pressure of having to perform, sometimes to unrealistic standards set by parents.

At school, friends are also competitors and students pity those who do not do well in their exams.

One boy said that when he sat down to read the newspapers, his father said that he had to read his school books. The boy was complaining and was saying that he was unable to take it anymore and he would leave school and he would start working somewhere.

Another student says: "My parents have promissed me to give me a large sum of money if I would get A's in all subjects in mu O-Levels and even one B would disappoint them"

Forced to do, what they don't want to do

Some students want to take part in something and their parents force them to do something else or otherwise they will not support their son/daughter.

The guilt from control

Some students or children feel guilty when they go against their parents or relatives or friends wishes so they become crazy and blame themselves.

No say in life

Parents make rules in most families and teenagers complain that they have no say in life. Many of them believe by watching American shows that American children have adventurous lives as they face challanges and face them by their own.

Rely in strangers

Teenagers have fears that they will not share with their parents and will go to strangers and in this way they will have to face problems by being black-mailed by those people

~ It is not the original article, it is the short version created by me.I think that the fears look like more of children fears than teenagers. What are your thoughts about it and what are you scared of? I will love to hear your thoughts about it.

Thanks for reading.

[Stanislaw]

I think these fears are present in all societies.

my fears: none really, I mean I can get startled or disgusted by something but I have no deep phobia or fear that I can not handle, I suppose I fear God.

fear really is irelevant, and is a hindrance.

[Pensive]

We can over-take our fears. I mean that we can control them but many of us have fears and it does not hurt to tell about them.

Personally, I fear lizards. Whenever, I see a lizard, I start running. I also fear "not meeting expectations"

[Scheherazade]

Since I am twice a teenager's age, I think I am entitled to have twice as many fears!

I am not however scared of creepy crawlies and such. I can (and have) pick up worms, lizzards etc. I wouldn't get out of my way to do so but if faced with the inevitable, a gal's gotta do what she's gotta do!

My biggest fear is stupidity... I don't want to be one myself or face others who suffer from this. I had a very old Prof at university, who was well known for failing students the first time they took his course. He used to say 'Laziness is curable but there is no cure for stupidity.'

[emily655321]

I feel fortunate that I never had the fears mentioned in the article. My parents were very supportive of me, and still are, even when I fail... and fail again... and again... I never felt like they had specific expectations I had to fulfill. But they were both artists who gave up art for mainstream jobs, and only recently my father told me he hopes I don't give it up like he did.

My fear is of humiliation. I'm very talented at saying things that bring the conversation to a stand-still, or that make people laugh at me, or at least make me feel like they are. I can be stammeringly inarticulate in person. When I'm looking at the words I write, they come very easily; but when someone is looking at me, my mind goes blank and I forget what I want to say. I'm always worried that people sometimes laugh at me behind my back. And, like Scher, I'm afraid of being thought stupid.

[Basil]

Flying wererats with laser cannons strapped to their heads.

[papayahed]

Flying wererats with laser cannons strapped to their heads.

I thought I was the only one!!!

hmmmm...besides the wererats there isn't much I'm frightened of, like Scher said a girl has to do what a girl has to do.

In grade school I do remember not wanting to go home one day because I got a B on my report card, I think I was around 11. My grandma caught wind of that and gave my mom hell ever since then I haven't done much that my Mom wanted or expected of me. Not that she's not proud, I was just never how she thought I should be.

oh, I'm not that good on planes either.

[Anon22]

We can over-take our fears. I mean that we can control them but many of us have fears and it does not hurt to tell about them.

Personally, I fear lizards. Whenever, I see a lizard, I start running. I also fear "not meeting expectations"


:O me too! lol... I have a phobia of lizards... but apparently I can handle snakes (once when I was younger, my family and I went to this party and someone had a boa constrictor)

[Ryduce]

I feared escalators until I was 16.Seriously though, moving stairs must be the devil's innovation.
I also fear failure,blood,all people,and sex.




Man I have alot of problems.

[Anon22]

yes dude... you fail at life... hehe... just kidding... man... first poetic now funny... what an odd day... :D

even though blood... hmm... you really should get over that fear... as well as people.

[Ryduce]

Blood seriously makes me pass out if I see it.

[Scheherazade]

like Scher, I'm afraid of being thought stupid.Just a clarification... I am not worried about people thinking of me 'stupid'. I simply don't want to be stupid; don't want to consider my own actions stupid.

[emily655321]

Oh, sorry to put words in your mouth, Scher. :blush: I fear that, too, but to a lesser degree. I think I could handle being stupid if it was a universally agreed upon fact. I'm just afraid that there is a discrepency between mine and the world's perception of my intelligence. Either that a) I really am stupid, and everyone realizes it but me, or b) I'm not stupid, but everyone thinks I am.

[Koa]

I'm scared of insects, silly as it is, I can't handle them.

And I'm scared of people in a way, especially male people :oops: At least at the beginning, before I get comfortable with someone.

But my biggest fear is just "the future" - I get totally paranoid if I think about it. :blush:

[kilted exile]

I am scared of exposed heights.......I hate climbing the external ladders on the elevated water storage tanks at work, however for some reason I have no problem climbing 200 foot down a ladder into a sewer.

[Ryduce]

Oh, sorry to put words in your mouth, Scher. :blush: I fear that, too, but to a lesser degree. I think I could handle being stupid if it was a universally agreed upon fact. I'm just afraid that there is a discrepency between mine and the world's perception of my intelligence. Either that a) I really am stupid, and everyone realizes it but me, or b) I'm not stupid, but everyone thinks I am.



I could never fear stupidity because along time ago I realized I'll never have all the answers,and neither will anybody else.Which makes me dumb,and everyone else is just as dumb as me :D .

[Anon22]

besides having a little herpetophobia, another fear I have is that of letting people down. Since people think I'm smart and intelligent... I guess I just don't want to let them down by doing something stupid...

[Ryduce]

If that were the case I'd let someone down everyday.

[Scheherazade]

I could never fear stupidity because along time ago I realized I'll never have all the answers,and neither will anybody else.I beg to differ. Not having answers does not make one stupid; s/he simply does not have the knowledge, which is quite natural. Like you said, no one can have all the answers. However, if one fails to put things together when they are out in the open; if one fails to question things around them and reach the apparent conclusions, then, I believe, stupidity kicks in.

[Ryduce]

I was merely suggesting that we are all stupid.

And I was only being half serious.

[Nightshade]

My fera? well At the moment Im too comfortable to think of a real fear .
Strangers wide open spaces with lots of people make me feel almost physically ill. I can handle wide open places on my own or with just my family but and I can deal with lotsof people if I know them all in a small place. But the combination *shudder*
Oh and having my handwriting/ out loud reading made fun of or being called stupid ( not by someone who isnt in a psoition to know more like by teachers. (and its happend enough times to me)) but thats all been better since I was diagnosed as a dyslexic.

[higley]

I'm terrified of large dogs. And I've got awful stage fright.

[Scheherazade]

I was merely suggesting that we are all stupid.Not all people are stupid. I would like to give more credit to people... Of course, some of them use up all their credit and go down to red before you can say 'How do you do?' :p
And I was only being half serious.And I replied to the serious half of your post! ;)

[Stanislaw]

There is no such thing as stupid questions...only stupid people. :D

heh, I love that quote!

[RobinHood3000]

I don't know how much I fear them, but tight spaces (the kind so tight that you can't move your limbs around) REALLY send me into a panic attack. Anything I can sort of move around in, I think of it as cozy, but once movement gets constricted, I start getting short of breath and sweaty. Once, as a child, I somehow locked myself into a plastic storage bin while everyone else in the house was either sleeping or occupied in a different room. It took me maybe 30 seconds to pry the lid open (in retrospect), but it felt like an eternity...

[Anon22]

I don't know how much I fear them, but tight spaces (the kind so tight that you can't move your limbs around) REALLY send me into a panic attack. Anything I can sort of move around in, I think of it as cozy, but once movements gets constricted, I start getting short of breath and sweaty. Once, as a child, I somehow locked myself into a plastic storage bin while everyone else in the house was either sleeping or occupied in a different room. It took me maybe 30 seconds to pry the lid open (in retrospect), but it felt like an eternity...


wow, that sucks, yeah I'm sort of afraid of that too. I mean I look at movies and see people moving around inside those air conditioner thingamjigger roads. :lol: Anyhow, I just imagine myself inside that... and well... O.o I'd freak out.

[rachel]

me too.When I worked at a hospital I was overtired and that itself can bring on phobias. I got afraid of elevators and small spaces. One day I was in the elevator(had to I had to get to another floor in a hurry( and the power went off in the elevator and we were stuck there with a patient for about twenty minutes only but....sweat, pouring sweat. I think I made squeaky mouse noise whenever anyone spoke to me.
I was attacked and rightly so once by a German shepherd off duty police dog. a kid had stolen my new jacket at a ball game and I chased him and finally I jumped over a fence to cut him off and there was the dog. and the rest is a blur. The off duty officer was kind and understanding.still to this day.....

[Pensive]

Ooops, I forgot to mention another thing which I fear a lot and it is "injection"

[Nightshade]

really small spaces? I probably feel most comfortable in them ( I used to when I was younger climb into my cupboard when I was upset :goof: BUt I dont like elevatours Im constantly worried theyll fall.
I rembered what I am very afraid of though last night.
Dogs. I tend to forget about until IM face to face with one and then I react like the steryotipical reaction to a mouse I scream annd freeze in my place. (rather embarissing in the street)

[RobinHood3000]

I wonder why people are so afraid of elevators. There has been exactly ONE occurrence in all of history of an elevator plunging to the bottom of its shaft (not including intentional drops), which happened in 1945 when a training B-2 bomber crashed into the 75th floor of the Empire State Building (not an everyday occurrence). Even then, the sole occupant (elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver) survived a fall from the 75th floor to the subbasement. The vast majority of elevator-injuries occur when the door malfunctions, such as opening when the building floor isn't quite aligned with the elevator floor. You'd be surprised at the huge number of elevator safeties that go into most elevators.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

My uncle used to repair elevators (or 'lifts', as they are properly termed ;)). He said that in all buildings, the only way a lift could fall to the floor would be if the liftshaft was completely removed from around it. If the cable snaps, and the back-up cable, a system of ratchets stops the lift from falling. There is very little in the world that's as safe as a lift. The only time it's scary is if you get stuck in one for 3 hours with a man that wants to tell you how the Church of Scientology can transform your life! :eek2:

[RobinHood3000]

Yeeesh. Perhaps the only thing worse: having Pauly Shore, Richard Simmons, and Michael Jackson ask if you want to play strip poker.

[Ryduce]

Pauly Shore was the greatest comedic actor in the history of cinema.

[rachel]

what do mean was, is he dead? I don't watch the teli or go to movies much so I don't know.
Well now a days Ryduce is the best comedic person I know.

[Ryduce]

what do mean was, is he dead? I don't watch the teli or go to movies much so I don't know.
Well now a days Ryduce is the best comedic person I know.



Even after death he still lives on in the hearts of men.

[bluevictim]

When I was a kid, I used to get freaked out at furniture stores. I didn't mind it when there were a bunch of bookshelves along an aisle, or a bunch of coffee tables and desks, but when the furniture was arranged so that it looked like a real room, I always got the creeps. Actually, I still think it's kind of spooky.

[rachel]

you know what I think that is creepy too and you can almost feel a sort of presence, can't really explain it. noone but you has ever said that, I almost feel normal!

[Virgil]

I'm terrified of large dogs. And I've got awful stage fright.
I've overcome both fears that higley states above. When i was around (I don't remember exactly) eight years old my family and i were out for an afternoon stroll and we came upon a house with three (I think) enormous German Shepherds who had come out of an open gate and jumped on top of me, bringing me to the ground. One of the dogs even had my forearm in his mouth. Now I don't know if the dogs were playing but I was not harmed or biten in the least. My arm was just in his mouth but he didn't bite down. The dog owner quickly called in his dogs, helped me up, gave me water, and comforted my parents who must have been hysterical. From that episode to my early twenties, when I got my own dog, I was somewhat afraid of going near large dogs. But then I got my own dog and learned to understand them. I think I understand dogs better than people. That fear is long gone.

As to stage fright, I was always terrified growing up in being in front of an audience. I'm not sure why. I've mostly been an extravert, and have always been comfortable clowning around within a group. But something changes when I get in front of an audience, or used to anyway. I become overly self-conscious and i have this fear of forgetting what i'm supposed to say. I remember high school class projects that I always stumbled over myself when I was called up front. I once fainted from fear for like 30 seconds in my College freshman year presenting something, very embarressing. When I started work, I was absolutely terrible in presenting oral briefs. I took a training class where I was filmed and we reviewed my presentation. God, that was awful. The teacher had complimentary comments for all the students, but the best he could do for me was that I have a lot of energy. Over the years I've been able to bring out that extraverted self that exists when i now present. Somehow I orient my mental state so that my normal self is presenting, not that stage fright self - if that makes sense. I still get scared a little, but with successful presentations I've put that fear mostly to rest.

[emily655321]

Rachel and bluevictim, I know what you mean. There is something weird about walking through such life-sized doll houses. I used to get an odd thrill out of it, myself.

When I was a kid, I was petrified of apes, especially gorillas. I'm not as afraid of them now, because I've come to think of them more as people than animals. Now small monkeys and baboons inhabit that creepy half-way point between human and animal that makes me so uneasy. But other than that, I'm also afraid of bugs (especially squelchy ones); heights; corpses (I was seven when they discovered the Ice Man in the Alps, and watched the Nova episode on him, and after that I had nightmares for almost five years straight); bodily mutilation; small, enclosed spaces; high speeds (I practically have a fit when my friends drive too fast, and I'll never go on a rollercoaster); driving; deep water (I can't swim); fan blades; barking dogs; being upside-down (I can't do a somersault, or hang by my legs—I freak out)...

My most severe fear, though, is of what the Romantics might call the "sublimely terrible." Big Things; mountains, tall buildings, large expanses of water, ocean waves, whales; big pine trees after a winter storm, when the branches are all drooping with ice and snow; even large cloud formations. It's probably my weirdest fear, or an arguable second to being upside-down.

Aren't we a funny bunch? Sometimes I wish I could sit down with someone and dissect their entire history just to see where all their present attitudes, biases, and fears originated. I wonder if other species have as wide a range of odd fears, or if it comes from living in a civilized society where we over-think and repress so much? Perhaps other highly-evolved brains, like dolphins and elephants and other great apes—perhaps they have phobias, too. I wonder what a dolphin's phobias are like?

[rachel]

I relate to all that you have said Em, at one time or another I had all of those. many have faded away but some remain and I am weary of others telling me to just grow up and get over it. Oh like I sat down one day and said"now what can I think up to be terrified of so my life can be even more upsetting and sad.'
When I saw each of my parents dead in their coffins I was so traumatized, not even because it was them, I understood the life force was gone, but because they were cadavers and looked so unreal and hideous really. I practically fainted.
A couple of years ago a good friend asked if I could be with her at her father's funeral. I never met him in my life. Well I got there a little early it seems and a man smiled at me and then took me by the hand and ushered me into a small room then closed the door. There in front of me was the deceased gentleman laid out in his finery.Dead dead dead. I gasped , turned white and stood there for some moments in a panic.Realizing they thought I was family and were happy for another person to go and be with him I knew I had to stay a respectable amount of time.
"So" I said after a while " how are you then?" I think I was losing it. I stood there talking to him a bit and then politely excused myself, sweat pouring down my face. Outside that room of dread and death I was grabbed by a couple of elderly ladies who beamed at me and asked if I thought he looked very nice."Oh lovely, just fine" I murmurred, the room turning black around me.theysat me down and I had to go thru like six albums of his life.
I was so tired when I got home I couldn't either laugh or cry. And I was freaked out by even mannequins after that. I never laugh at anyone's fears. ever. we need to just help one another and be a buffer for each other in these matters.

[emily655321]

Oh, Rachel, you poor thing. I have among my relatives a large Irish family, and a large French family, full of lots of old people who keep dying, so I've had the experience of attending wakes. The family stands around drinking and talking, playing with the grandchildren, and meanwhile there's an open coffin at the end of the room. It's extremely creepy, and as a child I was always sure that if I didn't hide they would force me to kiss the body, because that's what a lot of people were doing. So I spent most of my time hiding in the hallway, trembling with fear.

I remember, when I was six and my great-aunt Bobby died, it was the first time I'd been to a funeral, and I made the firm decision to put in my will that no children should be forced to see or approach my body.

[rachel]

Amen, it is something that can haunt a kid all their growing years. And yes the Irish side of the people that raised me were always having wakes to. some how I suspect the drinkin and eatin was more popular than the viewin'!

[bluevictim]

noone but you has ever said that, I almost feel normal! I feel obligated to warn you that, according to many people, I am "weird". Fortunately, you have Emily's corroborating experience, as well.

Emily, it's funny you should bring up Big Things. When I think about Big Things, I can induce a really weird fear-like sensation, which is accompanied by a feeling in my throat, as if I was trying to swallow the Big Thing, but I feel more like I'm being swallowed by the Big Thing. But I usually have to do this on purpose.

[emily655321]

Yeah, I think I get the same feeling. Glad I'm not alone on that. Of course, I already have lots of corroborating testimony to my weirdness, so company in the Weird is all I ask for. ;)

I tested that feeling right now, by imagining myself in the ocean and a blue whale surfacing right next to me, and I had to abort the experiment tout d'suite before I had a panic attack. I'd call it a success.

[AimusSage]

I have a slight fear of hights, nothing serious, just when I climb a steep rock or cliffside I tend to feel a little freaked out.

And the usual fears like approaching people, asking questions, now that is a big fear for me, I hate asking questions, or more accurately, people asking me question, and I don't mean normal questions, but 'testing my knowledge' questions. The kind teachers ask. I never give them the answer they want even though I usually know exactly what they want to hear. I'll just say I don't know. It's a combination of fear and dislike I think. As for asking questions, the underlying fear is it puts me at a disadvantage, the other person has something I need. I tend to think about things like that.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I hate filing in forms so much that I actually dread the process.

I have lived an awkward, non-standard life; almost nothing about me fits into the neat little boxes that pepper these things. You would think that it's impossible to get the wrong answer on a job-application or a contents insurance form, but in my case, almost every box is ambiguous. I go into a stupid, illogical panic that I might misconstrue the question and somehow invalidate the whole thing; leading to my getting the job but being sacked a week later for falsifying the application, or having a valid insurance claim disallowed on some silly technicality. :eek2:

This might sound like a daft thing to be scared of, and it is, but I can't help it. Fears tend to be an overreaction that makes the thought of the thing feared grow far worse than it's reality - this case is no exception.

So now you know how to terrify me, bombard me with small, white boxes that are far too small to contain my education or employment history and multiple choice (tick one only) boxes where 3 or 4 could apply but none of them are completely accurate. :confused:

[rachel]

I think forms are quite frightening as well it is to me sort of like giving your soul or yourself into the hands of someone who won't let you go free again. Hate it. At income tax time I read the manual word for word then go back and read it again and I trust no one. In Canada I think the government behaves very strangely.On the one hand the tax package they send you in the mail invariably means you will pay something, sometimes quite a lot. But if you just go to the post office and get the slightly different package in the office you will generally get something back, often quite a bit. And yet one time I got a letter from them which said they had forgot to give me an extra twenty five cents. They SENT A CHEQUE for that amount and yet I think it cost them 40 cents to send it.

When I had terribly low blood after Clayton was born I had this frightening urge to throw myself off the sundeck, totally irrational and it worried me so much I would not take him out there(we were in a rural subdivision,no one around much)to nurse and take in some sunshine. I thought I was truly flipped out until the doctor phoned our house and ordered me to come in. He said I had only so many white cells and they were only half the size they should be and once that was fixed the problem went away.So sometimes fears really can be health based.

[emily655321]

Wow, Rachel. That certainly is scary. :eek2: I'm always amazed by the way physiological things affect the mind. I mean, it makes sense, the brain being reliant on blood and all, but it's still so funny the way these things work.

[rachel]

yes but when I tried to tell anyone they thought....well and it hurt so much.When I told my doctor he said it was amazing I was even alive and could function.So I watch my blood now and when anyone else says anything wierd like that and they are super tired I encourage them to see a doctor, sure enough it is usually something blood related.

[samercury]

Oh dear!

Let's see- I'm scared to death of crossing large streets by myself and I'm afraid of disappointing everyone around me.
The end.

[Mililalil XXIV]

I have often feared losing the precious moment for the most important thing to act upon at hand.

[Lote-Tree]

I have this irrational fear of snakes. Even when I see them on TV screens it makes skin crawl and my hair stand! So you can imagine my fear watching this film called Snakes on a Plane. Apart from that I have no fear of anything else. I am a rational person. But snakes they just freak me. It is George Orwell's Room 101 torture room for me! I will admit to anything when snakes are around. I hate snakes as Indiana Jones says. I hate snakes!!

[AimusSage]

I hate snakes on a plane, does that count, It's so terrible unfunny, even if it wasn't meant to be funny, it just fails all over, and only got popular due to internet hype, which is always a bad indication, given the tendency of average internet geeks to ridicule everything they can, in often funny ways, too bad the movie itself was not funny... at all.

[kratsayra]

I seem to have a lot of phobias.

top of the list is flying - I do it a lot, and I hate it every time (to continue the snakes on a plane theme)

actually, that's really my primary phobia. I'm also a bit of a hypochondriac. :sick:

[Nossa]

Bugs!! I just HATE them. If I found one in ANY room in the house, I won't go in there for two or maybe three days in a row. I once slept in the hall, cuz I found a little spider in my room.
I hate snakes too, I don't know anyone who doesn't to tell you the truth, but I don't think I'll be jumping up and down when I see one, the way I do with bugs..lol

[Pensive]

The topic reminds me of this thread. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16217)

Of course, new fears/phobias have been added into my life but I fear mentioning them here. :p

[Sweets America]

Bugs!! I just HATE them. If I found one in ANY room in the house, I won't go in there for two or maybe three days in a row. I once slept in the hall, cuz I found a little spider in my room.
I hate snakes too, I don't know anyone who doesn't to tell you the truth, but I don't think I'll be jumping up and down when I see one, the way I do with bugs..lol

I too have a fear of bugs!! I can see them on TV though. As long as I am not next to them, it's ok. I have a big fear of spiders, but in the meantime I like looking at them, especially the big tarentulas that can be fascinating. I am afraid of moths, too. More than I am of spiders, because moths can suddenly fly and surprise you when you don't expect it. I cannot kill bugs, because I am afraid of doing so, and also because a part of me tells me that after all, it is not their fault if I am afraid of them, and it is not nice to kill them just out of fear.

Other than that, I am quite afraid of talking in front of people, I am shy. Today it is getting better but I've had real anxiety in the past, with a paralysis everytime I had to speak in front of the class.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Spiders. Creep me out, can't stand them. I used to have night-terrors when I was a kid...it was always spiders.

Do creepy dead people with blue skin and a grudge for everyone count??

[Nightshade]

insects and peoples ears.

[Bakiryu]

I don't hate big planes with hundreds of people in 'em. They're alright but this summer I boarded a tiny, tiny plane with only about 30 chairs and bam! My aviatophobia was so bad I was praying in 3 different languages.

People often make fun of me for this but I have Coulrophobia. It's not funny! I can't be near clowns, they just terrify me.

I have a bit of Acrophobia, Autophobia, Tokophobia, Glossophobia, Genophobia, Gymnophobia, Nyctophobia, Trypanophobia and mild aphephobia and Pediophobia.

:blush: :blush: :blush: (I'm a bit phobic. I fear. But nothing to bad except for the first two.)

[Shalot]

I am afraid of fire, insanity, death of my loved ones.

Also, riding in the car with my husband and mother drives me crazy. I am the passenger putting on her imaginary brakes. For some reason I am so afraid that they are just going to go plowing into the cars in front of us, or merge into someone in our blind spot on the interstate. I need a blind fold or Valium to ride in the car anymore. And this just started recently. I used to not be the this way

[Virgil]

The topic reminds me of this thread. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16217)

Of course, new fears/phobias have been added into my life but I fear mentioning them here. :p

Great memory Pensy. I had forgotten that thread. I guess I have a fear of forgetting. :p

[higley]

Spiders. Creep me out, can't stand them. I used to have night-terrors when I was a kid...it was always spiders.


Oh I hear you there. I'm fine with beetles, cockroaches, snakes and lizards and all those slithery things, but I just totally hate spiders!

Used to have rather a bad fear of dogs, but not so much anymore. :) Reduced to a mere wariness. Still prefer cats though!

[Bakiryu]

Oh I hear you there. I'm fine with beetles, cockroaches, snakes and lizards and all those slithery things, but I just totally hate spiders!



But they're cute!

How come most people are afraid of either bugs or mice?

[Virgil]

Oh I hear you there. I'm fine with beetles, cockroaches, snakes and lizards and all those slithery things, but I just totally hate spiders!

Used to have rather a bad fear of dogs, but not so much anymore. :) Reduced to a mere wariness. Still prefer cats though!

Hi Higley. In that old thread i saw your post about being afraid of large dogs, and I had responded with some advice. Glad to know you're over that. Dogs are basically genial.

[higley]

Hi Higley. In that old thread i saw your post about being afraid of large dogs, and I had responded with some advice. Glad to know you're over that. Dogs are basically genial.

You're right--and funnily, some of the larger dogs are much easier to get along with than little ones! Thanks for the advice Virg.

Bakiryu: bugs and mice don't bother me at all. But Ohio's got rather a heavy dose of spiders with nasty bites! I've learned to be wary. :P

[kratsayra]

Used to have rather a bad fear of dogs, but not so much anymore. :) Reduced to a mere wariness. Still prefer cats though!

I was just terrified of dogs when I was a little kid. But like you, it's mostly just wariness now. Or even less than that - I just don't know how to act around them (I used to feel the same way about small children, until my stepmom had a baby! :D )

[Nossa]

But they're cute!

How come most people are afraid of either bugs or mice?

And that's a good question..lol
I have NO idea why I'm scared of bugs..I mean seriously, I'm like what...hundred times thier size, yet I never, and I mean NEVER, stand up against a bug..I can't kill them..cuz I'm too scared of course.

[manolia]

. I have a big fear of spiders, but in the meantime I like looking at them, especially the big tarentulas that can be fascinating.

Now that's weird...i have Arachnophobia and i too like watching spiders from a safe distance..(preferably when they are locked in a glass cage :D ).

I am also afraid of heights (they make me feel dizzy and i have this strange feeling that the void is a nice place to be and i have this sudden urge to let myself go)

I also have a slight case of claustrophobia (i really hate elevators :sick: ) and i have experienced -a few times- agoraphobia (dizziness, nausea and perspiration when i am in a large group of people but this was during periods when i was really stressed or sad so i don't count it as one of my regular phobias)

[Lote-Tree]

Now that's weird...i have Arachnophobia and i too like watching spiders from a safe distance..(preferably when they are locked in a glass cage :D ).

I am also afraid of heights (they make me feel dizzy and i have this strange feeling that the void is a nice place to be and i have this sudden urge to let myself go)

I also have a slight case of claustrophobia (i really hate elevators :sick: ) and i have experienced -a few times- agoraphobia (dizziness, nausea and perspiration when i am in a large group of people but this was during periods when i was really stressed or sad so i don't count it as one of my regular phobias)

Spiders - they are so nice!!! they are harmless :D

But I hate SNAKES, THEY ARE CRUEL - CRUELTY OF CREATION!

[manolia]

Spiders - they are so nice!!! they are harmless :D

But I hate SNAKES, THEY ARE CRUEL - CRUELTY OF CREATION!

Not all spiders are harmless!! There are some pretty dangerous spiders out there..But i am not partial, i am afraid of each one of them :D
I like snakes ;) They feast on spiders :thumbs_up (they do, don't they?)

[Lote-Tree]

Not all spiders are harmless!! There are some pretty dangerous spiders out there..But i am not partial, i am afraid of each one of them :D
I like snakes ;) They feast on spiders :thumbs_up (they do, don't they?)

No way! Snakes are symbol of EVIL. I tell ya EVIL, EVIL EVIL!!!!

[manolia]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Look isn't it cute?? :p

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/rosy.jpg

[Nossa]

:lol: :lol:
I hope Lote didn't just run away from the computer screen :p

[Lote-Tree]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Look isn't it cute?? :p


You cruel manolia!!!! Gorgons on you!!! :D

[Madhuri]

I am afraid of cockroaches only when I see them flying, otheriwse not. Talking about snakes, I remember touching one, I didn't hold it, just felt it with my fingers. The snake charmer had this ajgar (I think it's called a python) around his neck, and was showing it around, I remember we were little then, and all of us were so happy and jumping with joy that we touched a snake :rolleyes:

[Bakiryu]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Look isn't it cute?? :p

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/rosy.jpg


oOOOOOOO, pretty! I want one!

I love snakes!

[Hyacinth42]

There are a lot of what seem like silly and rather unuseful phobias that exist:
http://www.phobialist.com/

Some of my personal favorites are:
Arachibutyrophobia - Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Metrophobia - Poetry
Kathisophobia - Sitting down
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - long words

Anyways, I'm afraid of being outside alone at night. It's really horrible when I have to take the trash out. Our trash cans are at the side of our house, and it's very dark and creepy looking :P I'm not afraid of bugs and spiders and whatnot... But I'd rather they not touch me ;) And, scary movies do tend to bother me more than they should. Erm, I think that's all of my phobias.

[Bakiryu]

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.

How can you be afraid of this? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Granny5]

I'm trying to figure out which one of these is Poppy's
worse fears when I fix dinner:

Cooking- Mageirocophobia
Dining or dinner conversations- Deipnophobia
Vomiting- Emetophobia.
Constipation- Coprastasophobia

[BlueSkyGB]

Closed spaces........

Years ago when my daughter was little, she wanted to go through Mammoth Cave National Park.....I thought well, I'll hide my fear and go through with the short tour...30 minutes....I can last that without too much bother and I'll not show how it affects me so my daughter will enjoy it...
so in we go..I don't say a word during the tour, I try my best to show that it doesn't bother me....finish the tour...out in the car and after about 5 minutes my daughter pipes up from the back seat..."Dad really doesn't like caves does he?".....just picked up on body language ....:lol:

[Bakiryu]

I'm telling you. Clowns = EVILLLL!!!!!

[Demian]

The social phobias described in this article are common because every society forces people to conform either by intellectual seduction or coercion. I don't fear this outside pressure nearly as much as I fear the hell of my inner being. I am deeply fearful of my own dread.

[stephofthenight]

im afraid of roaches...and water beetles, and well anything that resembles a roach...:blush:

[LadyWentworth]

I detest rats and mice. They are the absolute worst!! I am also not crazy about being too high, but especially not on a bridge that is over water. I hate it when I have to drive across one. Just imagine how I feel if I need to WALK across one! I freeze up.

[Lozenge121]

I don't like hairdressers, have you seen how close they have sharp and hot objects to your head!

[thelastmelon]

My phobia is feet. :sick:

[Virgil]

The social phobias described in this article are common because every society forces people to conform either by intellectual seduction or coercion. I don't fear this outside pressure nearly as much as I fear the hell of my inner being. I am deeply fearful of my own dread.

:confused: What????? :confused:

[Granny5]

I have a fear that if someone wants a thread to die, they hope I'll post on it.

[motherhubbard]

Here is my short list of fears

men in dresses
big dogs
high places
water
bridges
small places
leaving bills unpaid
pedophiles
loosingmy children
crowds
public restrooms
conflict
really being just like those people I think are so stupid

[papayahed]

I have a fear that if someone wants a thread to die, they hope I'll post on it.

:lol: :lol: I have that same feeling sometimes also.

[Pensive]

Some unwanted thoughts. I am quite fearful of them I would have to say. And the second thing is that I think I am following 'forget and forgive' a lot these days which is quite alarming...gives birth to indifference towards people which is a catalyst to dullness.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Being poked.

It has left me crying in the fetal position more than once. :bawling: :blush:

[Dori]

I'm scared of the dark. Well, actually, I'm more scared of what may be concealed by the darkness than the darkness itself. I'm not a big fan of heights either.

[Granny5]

Here is my short list of fears

men in dresses
big dogs
high places
water
bridges
small places
leaving bills unpaid
pedophiles
loosingmy children
crowds
public restrooms
conflict
really being just like those people I think are so stupid

this really is your short list! I don't think you could post your long list...not enough room.:lol:

walking over bridges...it combines both my fear of heights and water.

[Mortis Anarchy]

I have a fear of spiders and germs...and of getting hit by an ambulance. This may seem irrational, but I have a fear of being posessed, ever since I saw the Exorcist...I have a problem with that kind of stuff.

[packersfan]

James and the Giant Peach!!!!

Oh my!!!

[applepie]

Spiders :blush: They're fine outside, but once one came down right in front of my face while I was cooking. I did the whole jump and squeal like a girl thing, and then I yelled for my husband to come and kill it. I'm still embarassed over that incident. On a happier note, the hubby does the same thing over bees so I don't get teased too unmercifully about it:D

[Lily Adams]

I'm scared of the world. That's the big one. People are hard to trust. I'm incredibly paranoid. To quote Bradbury, "When you're 16, you're paranoid." Well, I'll be sixteen in May.

I'm scared of driving. I don wanna! :bawling:

I actually not too long ago used to be terrified of men and boys, namely them "liking" me, but I got over that. :D

[Mortis Anarchy]

Spiders :blush: They're fine outside, but once one came down right in front of my face while I was cooking. I did the whole jump and squeal like a girl thing, and then I yelled for my husband to come and kill it. I'm still embarassed over that incident. On a happier note, the hubby does the same thing over bees so I don't get teased too unmercifully about it:D

Ugh...when I was in Mexico, this huge, hairy beast of a spider fell from the staircase which I just happened to be reading under and landed right on my book!!! I almost passed out. Then, 2 hours later another one, smaller and less hairy, crawled out from a bowl of fruit that was like 3 inches away from my hand...it was not my day. Wolf spiders freak me out the most. You smash them and then there is BILLIONS of them just freaking out on the floor...I just got the shivers.

You're scared of driving? Don't be!! I love it!!

[Poetess]

After reading the list, which was a long time ago, I became aware of the names of my phobias. Here`s a Phobia List, give it attention and share with us. I will not post it, but here`s the link (http://phobialist.com/). After being done, post YOUR list, if you have more than one phobia. I`ll be glad if I have stories shared.




My list is: I am:
Acrophobic - I fear heights
Aeroacrophobic - I fear open high places
Agrizoophobic - I fear wild animals

My favorite wild animal is the Lion/Lioness. A neighbor of mine wanted to make my wish of seeing one, come true. He took me to a small area, barely a zoo, where some animals were in cages. I was excited to reach the Lioness. Just when I stood in front of her she went crazy. The sounds she made and the craziness she went through made my legs quiver and I cried in my place. I started begging that neighbor to take me outside back, while the kids laughed at me. I didn`t know why whenever she saw me she acted the way she did, but all I remember is I couldn`t look at her even from a distance. So if I see her or any other wild animal in any other place than on TV, i`m sure I would faint this time.

P.S. My stories of crying in front of kids because of animals are a lot :p wait until you see the next one

Arachnephobic- I fear arachnids.. a great fear

Oh! This is the next one. I can`t stand the way they look, and I don`t open my mouth when I see one. Plus, I don`t know the reason why I keep my mouth shut when there`s one around. One of the twin boys I tutor had a robber arachnid. He knew I fear it, so all he did is throw it on me while studying. After my panic, his mom hid it for like two years. One day after finishing our studies, their place was full of visitors and their children. As I got out of the room, all of the kids were playing in the corridor, the same evil boy I tutored threw the same arachnid on me. I had to run to reach the door but as the corridor was long and full of kids (yes about 10), that boy knew how to reach the door before me. I had to run back to his sister`s bedroom, with tears all over my face and screams. The women heard my screams and ran to the room when I had my hands on my face, crying like a baby.The boy was punished and kids never forgot me until the moment :(

Bathmophobic/Climacophobic- I fear stairs

DO NOT use the stairs behind or in front of me. As I do not use them if there was water or anything else on them. If I need to use the stairs, I usually ask for a company until I reach where I`m heading to.

Demonophobic and Phasmophobia -I fear Demons and Ghosts.. Kill me, but don`t let me see a ghost with my own eyes! (also Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.)

Sciophobic- I fear shadows, and this is related to the stairs phobia. Do not walk behind or in front of me on stairs, so that I do not see your shadow.

Oh my God! I guess i`m a retard :s so many phobias so far.


Selachophobic- I fear sharks (related to the fear of wild animals)

Thalassophobic- I fear the sea, I guess I have mentioned this before in the forum. Well you by now know the reason, It`s the sharks. I know they`re not everywhere, but who knows where might they be under water?

Thanatophobic - I fear death, to an extent I get neurotic breakdowns when I think of it, or hear someone talking about it.




So, a lot of phobias are related. And to be honest, these are serious ones to me, like when I lose control or freeze in my place, lose the ability of talking, being disable to move my tongue, and not even calling for help.

[ntropyincarnate]

arachnophobia (fear of spiders). anthropophobia (fear of people). insectophobia (duh). acuphobia (fear of needles). agoraphobia (fear of open places or crowds). atelophobia (fear of failure). atychiphobia (fear of failure).

and there are too many to look through the rest of the list so any others i have i will forget about for now ;)

[*Classic*Charm*]

I fear being poked- I've ended up crying in the fetal position after having been poked repeatedly...I'm told that's unusual...lol

[Phauszzie]

lol quite unusual.
for me well idk what i'm afraid of.

[Janine]

Yes, I have always had this strange phobia of bridges. I have had dreams, about really high bridges, since I was a child. Does anyone know what that is called - does it have a name? I would dream about the bridge and either I could not budge from fear or I could not go over it for some strange dreamlike reason. It might just stop in midair or something equally odd. I don't have terrific phobias about real bridges but if they are really high and steep and don't have high siderails then I do get freaked out. I had to drive to North Carolina once and came upon this bridge that went nearly straight up in the air and was so steep looking and it was only two lanes. I took one look at it and though - I can't go over that! but I had to and it was so scary. I came home a different route because of that bridge.

I wonder if it is a combination of these two phobias:

Acrophobic - I fear heights
Aeroacrophobic - I fear open high places

[LadyWentworth]

I have more than I care to have :( :

*Acrophobia/Altophobia (I am not too sure what the difference is as they both are the same fear) - Fear of heights (to a certain degree - once I start to experience vertigo then it is horrible!)

*Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places (this is when vertigo kicks in!)

*Antlophobia - Fear of floods (does it count when I am afraid that I might be driving along in the rain, and I am afraid that the street will be flooded more than it looked like it was and my car will get stuck??)

*Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness (I never knew there was a name for it! - I have my reasons for this one)

*Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being (oh, Lord, there is a name for this, too! I detest dummies!!)

*Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes (if I have to walk down steep stairs or slopes, I will do it, but I dread it!)

*Cancerophobia/Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer (Again, I have my reasons)

*Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors (ONLY if they are facing each other and they give off that inifinity affect)

*Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns (yes, I have issues with them!)

*Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools (dizziness is an unpleasant experience)

*Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized (I don't fear sleep but I am not at all crazy about the thought of being hypnotized)

*Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. (I guess this goes with some of the above)

My two biggest fears (the sort that completely paralyzes me) are:

*Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes (I am very, very paranoid when it comes to tornadoes)

*Musophobia/Muriphobia/Suriphobia - Fear of mice (this is really a torturous fear that I have - it isn't funny how bad it is for me)

By the way, Janine, I have a fear of bridges. My thing is that I absolutely HATE driving across them when they are really high and over water. That freaks me out. I didn't see anything about water (I probably missed it), but I can't stand driving on bridges over water.

[eyemaker]

Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.

Acrophobia- Fear of heights.

Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.

Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.

Bathophobia- Fear of depth.

Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.

Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.

Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.

Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.

Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.

Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)

Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.

Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.

Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.

Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.

[Joreads]

Achluophobia- Fear of darkness is mine and I didn'r realise there was a name for it until today so you do learn something everyday. I have no idea where it came from but I have had it for as long as I can remember.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.

Really???

A friend of mine has a fear of things falling through floors. She doesn't like buildings with multiple floors because she's afraid the weight of the furniture will make the floors come crashing down.

[sprinks]

Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
I'm petrified of ventriloquist dummies. Even cartoon ones. I once hid behind a glass of water waiting for one to go off the screen during a cartoon. I will scream if I see one.

I'm also incredibly scared of car washes - the ones where you drive the car through... but I never have found a name for that one.

[Poetess]

Yes, I have always had this strange phobia of bridges. I have had dreams, about really high bridges, since I was a child. Does anyone know what that is called - does it have a name?

Bridges Phobias is known by these: Gephydrophobia, Gephyrophobia, and Gephysrophobia





I'm also incredibly scared of car washes - the ones where you drive the car through... but I never have found a name for that one.
If it`s because it`s enclosed, then it`s said to be related to Claustraphobia, which is the fear of enclosed places, like the elevator.

[wilbur lim]

I have this heinous phobias-
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.

Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.

Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.

Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.

Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
I do not know precisely what are my phobias yet,thereby this is a speculation.

[WhimsySA]

Oh my word! This was so interesting! There are some really strange phobias out there, some I never thought could exist!

These are mine:
Fear of heights - Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiophobia
Fear of high open spaces - Aeroacrophobia
Fear of confined spaces - Claustrophobia
Fear of moths - Mottephobia (Not sure if this one applies, but I hate it when moths fly in my hair!)
Fear of choking or being smothered - Pnigophobia or pnigerophobia

[Bakiryu]

Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.

Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns

Achluophobia/Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.

Lockiophobia/Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth or pregnancy.

Atychiphobia- Fear of failure

Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed

Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.

Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.

Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old. Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles. Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.

Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Pocrescophobia)

Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at. Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.

Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.

I also have a fear of half open doors leading into dark rooms or closets, the space under my bed and men with really deep voices.

I'm also a hypochondriac, but i don't know if that really is a phobia, extreme fear of being sick?

[Tournesol]

I have some fears, though I don't know the official names. And the fears aren't phobias yet though:
I'm afraid of:

- a plane taking off & landing
- heights
- roller coasters...basically any of those 'fun' rides...you see, with my paranoia, if I'm on one of those things then that's when the cables will snap, or it'll malfunction or something, so I prefer not to try them.
- fear of crowds
- fear of the eyes of dead animals & sea creatures
- fear of germs. I wash my hands a lot. And I'm a teacher, so after every class I teach, or every batch of papers I mark, I wash my hands, or use hand sanitizer, or sanitizing towelettes etc.

[Emil Miller]

Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
I'm petrified of ventriloquist dummies. Even cartoon ones. I once hid behind a glass of water waiting for one to go off the screen during a cartoon. I will scream if I see one.

I'm also incredibly scared of car washes - the ones where you drive the car through... but I never have found a name for that one.

May I warn you in advance never to watch the Film Dead of Night; a compendium of five horror stories (not, I would add, like those silly American horror flicks with mass-killers slashing and burning their victims in garish colours; they only make sensible people laugh at their absurdity.) but a British 1940's black and white film in which one of the stories concerns a ventriloquist who is being taken over by his dummy. There is a scene at the end when the central character linking the five stories finds himself locked in a cell with the dummy that suddenly gets up, walks jerkily towards him and strangles him. Even without a fear of ventriloquist dummies, the effect is truly frightening.
So if it should come up on television, as many old films do, and you think it might be worth watching (which it is), in your case you would be well advised to give it a miss.

[AdoreroDio]

Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.

[Virgil]

I have a fear of people with phobias. :D I'm scared of you guys.:alien: Now is there a name for that?

[princesspoppi]

Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) - This is my most serious fear, the worst thing that happened to me was when I got caught in a massive electrical storm with my eight month old baby in an unfamiliar area (ie I was lost in the suburbs near our new house). I had to shelter in someones garage on a hill and lightning struck just overhead at the house next door. I have never been so scared :( I was still terrified hours later at home inside.

Apiphobia- Fear of bees

Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.

[Mr Hyde]

Thalassophobia- Fear of the ocean or sea.

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.

[Scheherazade]

I am not however scared of creepy crawlies and such. I can (and have) pick up worms, lizzards etc. I wouldn't get out of my way to do so but if faced with the inevitable, a gal's gotta do what she's gotta do!

My biggest fear is stupidity... I don't want to be one myself or face others who suffer from this. I had a very old Prof at university, who was well known for failing students the first time they took his course. He used to say 'Laziness is curable but there is no cure for stupidity.'Glad to see that there hasn't been much change since the above post! :D

[Janine]

I have more than I care to have :( :
*Acrophobia/Altophobia (I am not too sure what the difference is as they both are the same fear) - Fear of heights (to a certain degree - once I start to experience vertigo then it is horrible!)
*Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places (this is when vertigo kicks in!)
*Antlophobia - Fear of floods (does it count when I am afraid that I might be driving along in the rain, and I am afraid that the street will be flooded more than it looked like it was and my car will get stuck??)
*Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness (I never knew there was a name for it! - I have my reasons for this one)
*Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being (oh, Lord, there is a name for this, too! I detest dummies!!)
*Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes (if I have to walk down steep stairs or slopes, I will do it, but I dread it!)
*Cancerophobia/Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer (Again, I have my reasons)
*Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors (ONLY if they are facing each other and they give off that inifinity affect)
*Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns (yes, I have issues with them!)
*Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools (dizziness is an unpleasant experience)
*Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized (I don't fear sleep but I am not at all crazy about the thought of being hypnotized)
*Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. (I guess this goes with some of the above)

My two biggest fears (the sort that completely paralyzes me) are:
*Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes (I am very, very paranoid when it comes to tornadoes)
*Musophobia/Muriphobia/Suriphobia - Fear of mice (this is really a torturous fear that I have - it isn't funny how bad it is for me)

By the way, Janine, I have a fear of bridges. My thing is that I absolutely HATE driving across them when they are really high and over water. That freaks me out. I didn't see anything about water (I probably missed it), but I can't stand driving on bridges over water.

Woo!...Yikes, LadyWentworth, you have a lot of fears - you didn't miss anything did you(?); I think we need to work on these;). Thanks for pointing out the technical names of those. I really did not know them.

I have the fear of the bridges; yes over water, but that does not mean in 'conscious' time in most cases or that I truly fear them now; in fact, now sometimes I actually like driving over a bridge and enjoy looking at the view. I have probably overcome most of my fears on that score by just doing it. When I was younger, I think I truly did have that fear and they are the ones that was over sizable/spans bodies of water. I also used to have these strange dreams, where in, one was given an option of taking the scary forbodding bridge (and I recall the feeling of just freezing up when I saw it) or trying to ford the water on my own. It seemed that I had to get to the other side; it was impossible to turn back. I would actually pick the 'water' route and it would seem taht I did all kind of unusual and impossible feats to cross that body of water. Of course, it was only a 'dream', but it was truly odd, and even now some of those vivid dreams come back to me in remembrance. I guess I did not have the one fear you have of the flood or of water sweeping me away. I had this challenge in front of me, to get to the other side of land without drowning. In fact, I don't even recall fearing the drowning part (not realistically, which is odd). I seemed to travel along on tiny stripes of land, like a causeway, that narrows to hardly anything to stand on. Sometimes I was slightly below water - such as my legs...but always I was walking; I don't recall swimming, but maybe I did swim some distance between these pieces of land. Odd dream isn't it? I think that precariously I did always make it to the other side. I guess that part was encouraging. I do know the bridge dreams were very persistent for a long time - I think during my adolescence and then into my 20's. I wonder now why I had such dreams. What exactly was behind this fear?


I have a fear of people with phobias. :D I'm scared of you guys.:alien: Now is there a name for that?

:lol: yeah really...:lol:


;)I do have another fear....fear of people who are Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know sometimes!


Seriously, I have a sort of phobia about knives and being stabbed to death. I actually think that is a legitmate fear these days.

[jhonerliz]

I have phobia in balls. i don't want to come closer to the men playing basketball and even ladies playing volleyball. I'm afraid hitting that ball on my face...