Ah! *faints* ... or *runs away screaming* In fact, I think I'd start screaming the moment I see even one of its scary legs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
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Ah! *faints* ... or *runs away screaming* In fact, I think I'd start screaming the moment I see even one of its scary legs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
I have Arsonphobia I think. This must be the most terrible way to die. If I have any phobias, this is it.
I have always had a fear of large dogs, although it's not so pronounced as to be a phobia. Mostly 'cause for a while it seemed like every big dog was chasing me across the street. I get nervous and jumpy around them, and when I come across one I step behind someone else to avoid it and jump about three feet if it barks.
If I do have an actual phobia, it would be a fear of public speaking. My voice trembles and my hands shake uncontrollably, and I have a little trouble breathing. I just can't do it! Even when there's like only two people (strangers) that I have to present to.
Tha'd be agoraphobia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silv
I think i have 'Ergasiophobia' - Fear of work or functioning or maybe...Scoptophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at
;)....i'm joking ofcourse
OOOOOOOOH MY GOD! tarantulas kill me! I have the greatest fear ever of them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Tarantulas, scorpions, roaches - so very disgusting!!
I do, have a fear of that. In classes, at restaurents, everywhere, I just try to hide.Quote:
Originally Posted by IamMissingaLink
Moreover, I feel so embarrassed when I realize someone was looking at me..
Is there a fear of getting trapped, with no forseeable way out? Where the space doesn't matter? And an indefinite amount of time? This is such a weird fear....fear of entrapment of abandonment, maybe???
I'm lactophobic.
Phobophobia - fear of phobias
Oh god, yes: I hate elevators; and South Florida is full of little old people who live in apartments with itsy bitsy elevators: the kind that wait after the door closes on you:( then it starts to move suddenly; but stops in between floors :cold: and you look into the box that says phone; but there isn't one:eek2: or it has a button alarm that none of the hard of hearing old people would hear:confused: and maybe you'll be in there, locked for days because they have 2 elevators:bawling: and your cell phone doesn't work in most elevators:flare:and they keep their bottom stairs locked for security:crash:
Well, a long-continuing arachnophobia, thus far.
I have a severe phobia of people... Or crowds actually. All those faces, in my face... Argh! Cannot handle it.
In my 30's I developed PTSD, because I was a victim of an aggravated assault, and though it is usually curable, I never managed to get back to 100 percent, because some of my attendants over the past ten years have made me fearful, and the system takes its toll on one, so it is hard for me to partition off my general anxiety in situation X from a particular phobia, but city rodents I think count as one. I am not sure about my fear of travel. I used to be fine in relation to that, but as a quad doing field work in not safe places, my internal confidence eroded, and being alone with a driver at night tends to make me hyperventilate, even if I know the majority just want to finish their tours and clock out, though on buses I still usually manage.
So, how do you all handle your phobias. In some cases, a person can avoid them; I used to tell my work not to send me to places with elevators...until most places had elevators. I know that you, Mary, must have to get out to shop and such...What do you do?
Joz, it sounds to me as if your phobias are practical issues. Even with all extremities I do not like going on public transportation at night and particularly into dangerous areas.
Has anyone got Sapienophobophobia? The fear of people with phobias. If you have, you'd better log off quick.
I have this stupid arachnophobia, because of my mom. Everytime there was a spider in the house, she'd flip out like it was going to kill her. Now my brother and I are the same. It's really inconvenient, especially since I'm so outdoorsy. So this spring, I'm going to go outside and collect as many species of spiders as I can in glass jars, and I'll slowly try to overcome my phobia by first holding the jar of the least scary, then opening it, then letting it crawl on the floor, then letting it crawl on me, then moving on to the next spider until I'm not afraid anymore.
Any venomous ones?Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Bears (Melissophobia). Every time I go hiking or backpacking, I'm always freaked out the first couple of nights if I'm in bear country. I saw a bear in the wild this past summer though, and that helped a lot (surprisingly enough). Watching "Grizzly Man" did not help.
Oh I loved watching grizzly man....
I think my biggest fear is if people find me ignorant, that is the one thing I don't want people saying about me... but I hate public speaking, as a kid I loved being in the spotlight but when I was 11 a girl in my class told me 5 minuets before I had to speak on stage in front of 50 kids and teachers that I get red dots in my face when I talk in front of people. I knew she only said it to be mean but after that, NO public speaking for me, I even dropped out of school the week I was supposed to show my projects in 3 classes, I just couldn't handle that on top of everything else....
I'm afraid of insects but wouldn't call it a phobia...
I'm very scared of being alone. that's why I love having dogs, they protect me and keep me company.
probably a few more fears but nothing comes to mind so they can't be that bad...
I don't think I'd put spiders in glass jars; they really don't like that...they can't breath and they are going to be really pi.... when you let them out and jump on you. Why don't you just look up spiders on the web, find out which are poisonous and find out which are in your area. We have daddy long legs in ours; they are really messy, but I hate to kill them because they eat ants and really seem to love their babies...they get so traumatized when I was one down the drain:eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
I don't think the little girl was being mean; you may get hives when you're nervous, alot of people do...you just take benadryl and no hives. You are obviously very bright because you are on the forum with all of us great minds:idea:Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
Andimals are a great comfort; sometimes I've thought of trading in my cat for a good looking man with a gun or baseball bat...I wouldn't have to bath him, he would probably eat less, I wouldn't have to change his litter...I'm not sure the conversation would be any better:lol:
The only venomous ones around here are harvestmen spiders, but their fangs are too small to get through human skin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...rvestman2x.jpg
The wolf spiders are friggin' scary. They're the worst ones.
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/ga...rolinensis.jpg
When they have babies, they carry them around on their backs and oh my god, I REALLY freak out. Millions of little tiny spiders crawling around on one huge effin' furry monster spider, I feel like they're in my hair as I type this. I hate you, mom.
http://www.childcarriers.com/assets/...wolfspider.jpg
Maybe I'll keep them in little spider tanks (like the ones you get from the pet store) and name them and try to love them, then slowly get closer and closer to them physically. Yeah, that actually sounds like a better plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
OMG Juniper, why why why why?
I am scarred ****less of spiders.
Eeeek, now I'm imagining them in my bed :bawling:
That's not a phobia. That's just sense. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hurricane
I guess. I think I'd still rather be blissfully ignorant though.Quote:
That's not a phobia. That's just sense.
This particular part of the thread about the spiders kinda made me lawl. No offense, but where I live, we have REAL spiders.
http://www.vc-herzberg.de/australia/...man-spider.jpg
The very common huntsman spider, although not very venomous, can grow to be the size of a dinnerplate in the bush. They eat other spiders, and as such tend to be incredibly fast runners. I personally knew a girl who was driving her car gingerly along, when she pulled down her sun visor, flipping a full grown huntsman directly on to her face. Suffice to say, as most of us would, she drove her car directly into a tree and wrote it off. She was ok tho.
http://www.jonco48.com/blog/spiders_small.jpg
They too, like your Wolf-spider Juniper, care for their babies. Which of course just gives most people a terrible case of the whillies.
There are heaps of more poisonous ones, some of the most deadly in the world of course. But they arent nearly as creepy so.
However I digress. My personal fear is of Earwigs, which has absolutely no basis, their existence just offends me.
I am also terrified of cliffs and other giant hieghts, which is why I enjoy jumping off them so much. Preferably into water.
Urgh, why does that last one even feel the need to exist, it just shouldn't be allowed, it's too grotesque. I am never going to Australia if that's the kind beasts it harbours. *shivers*Quote:
Originally Posted by Nax
I know! No more spiders! I'm going to die!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
I didn't have a phobia of spiders before. I might now.Quote:
The very common huntsman spider, although not very venomous, can grow to be the size of a dinnerplate in the bush. They eat other spiders, and as such tend to be incredibly fast runners. I personally knew a girl who was driving her car gingerly along, when she pulled down her sun visor, flipping a full grown huntsman directly on to her face. Suffice to say, as most of us would, she drove her car directly into a tree and wrote it off. She was ok tho.
I hate you so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nax
I guess you heard that Australia was a prisoner dumping ground "in the day"; the idea was that everything remotely human was supposed to die; instead, we got a bunch of rattlesnake catching, spider touching, women chasing, hard drinking mens men...who would have thought:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
I swear this is the one of the rare times big and fluffy = scary :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nax
Normally big and fluffly should = big soft teddy bear! :p
And Nax, I agree with earwigs :sick: I used to be really scared of them when I was younger, because they loved hiding in our bath sponge things :sick:
As for me I'm petrified of ventriloquist dummies and most puppets (automatonophobia) and car washes (the drive through ones).
I am actually rather fond of spiders, which is somewhat odd, given the terror the blur of a fleeing mouse inspires.
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Originally Posted by Nax
Ok guys, we have a bird eating spider (also the size of the above pic) kept in a glass lair, in our lounge/family room... He is my son's (Snape) and he actually uses the a pic of him for his avatar. Personally I would like to introduce him to the insect spray or the broom, but he is there and I constantly fret that the ugly hairy creature will escape... :cold:
Claustrophobia
all these spider pictures are driving me crazy.... I hate them
Ahh, I didn't know they weren't supposed to survive. I hope no one would seriosuly touch that big spider:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Yes, it's the gentlemens way of getting rid of great leaders and great threats...I think the gentlemen like to put scary things in their liquor and drink them; Imagine swallowing a drunk spider;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
My biggest phobia is agoraphobia, which is the fear of large crowded areas. I never liked being closed in an elevator full of people, so I thought I had claustrophobia. I used to run cables for TV distribution, and in doing so I found myself in some very tight enclosed areas...and I was quite comfortable there. But one day I was in Walmart on a busy day...big open area, but with lots of people. It wasn't the small place that made me anxious in the elevator...it was the people.
Agoraphobia...not to be confused with Angoraphobia...the fear of wearing rabbit hair.
I think the only Phobia I have is Acrophobia- Fear of heights. I've always hated them and I can't see myself ever going on a plane again. Though I suppose I might have to someday.
You know what's weird...I have no fear of heights...but a fear of depths...like falling into a hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezakael
I can kind of get that. One thing that scares me is going down ladders, going up them doesn't bother me too much, but I shake like a leaf going down. The first step especially makes me nervous.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Water I can't see the bottom of bothers me too.