Has anyone, like me, got an unusual phobia?

Mine is maps. Relief maps to be precise. The very thought of opening an atlas up gives me the creeps in case I find myelf on a page that contains a dreaded relief map.

Political maps provoke a little anxiety, but I can just about cope.

Strangely, street maps do not bother me in the slightest. I could happily flick through a Sheffield A-Z and suffer no ill-effects from the experience.

Isn't it strange?

the foam that you get inside old sofas and chairs makes my hair on my arms stand on end. i bloody hate it. the thought of someone tearing it is even worse..

I have a large relief map of the Peak District on my kitchen wall.

Wanna come round for lunch Sam?

Er, thanks for asking, but I'm not hungry just now.

Originally posted by jackthedog
I have a large relief map of the Peak District on my kitchen wall.


I have one of those - a 3D relief map of the entire North West of England, from Worksop in the bottom right to Lancaster in the top left. It contains most if not all of Yorkshire, so I can touch/feel at a glance where all the hills are! Champyin!

I was given it a a gift and it's (c) Oxford University Press 1964 so it doesn't show any motorways :rolleyes: Sorry to take this thread off topic, but I'd like to know where I can get an updated relief map.

Anyway, back to the thread, as I child I had a phobia of steel pins and sewing needles. I hated looking into a sewing box, just in case one popped out and jabbed me in the eye.

My youngest child (13 months old) is terrified of a certain plastic flower in our living room. He'll stare at it for ages, but pass the flower to him and he'll do a runner.

A friend of mine has a phobia of buttons.

Not the popper type that some cheap shirts or denim shirts have; but the real four hole button types.

Cant stand em, and it makes her feel sick.

FREAK!

I'm absolutely terrified of moths (dunno whether this is unusual or not). Sometimes it can be quite embarrasing cos I totally freak out and sometimes cry if I spot one.

I know that really they can't hurt me but when I see them my brain flips and I imagine that if it comes near my face it might actually be able to kill me. However, I am now receiving medication and psychotherapy regarding this and have found my new padded walls a great help! (That bit was a joke....I'm not really mad, well not completely anyway!).

I hate moths as well. They give me the creeps.

Do you mind butterflies?

Originally posted by DaBouncer
A friend of mine has a phobia of buttons.

Not the popper type that some cheap shirts or denim shirts have; but the real four hole button types.

Cant stand em, and it makes her feel sick.

FREAK!

I hate buttons like that too.

Well ... not so much now ... but as a child I would never wear anything with buttons on ... zippers rule !!!

No butterflies are fine, just moths. Especially those big crunchy evil-looking ones.

Originally posted by DaBouncer
A friend of mine has a phobia of buttons.

Not the popper type that some cheap shirts or denim shirts have; but the real four hole button types.

Cant stand em, and it makes her feel sick.

FREAK!

Freaky maybe, but not uncommon. A search reveals there's even a name for it: praepilaphobia.

I am also terrified of my mother-in-law. Is there a name for this?

Im absolutely terrified of wasps, the way the sting indiscriminately just because they can and bees cant!
Also quite freaked out by guinea pigs the way they just sorta vibrate in your hand eeeeeeek dont like

Moths, butterflies, low flying birds, the touch of silk (makes me just want to rub my hands for ages to get away from the feel of it) and any music recorded by any R&B or Garage artist. Yeerurrrchh.

Mine is cats,I hate it when the jump on your lap and do that stomping thing with their paws (whats that all about).
Then when they realise you dont like them,the lay down on your lap.
Just as you think you are over the worst,they begin to purr and vibrate,then comes the grand finale,you move and the claws sink right into you.

makes me shudder

Cotton wool. Especially the thought of anyone putting it in their mouth and rubbing their teeth on it...oh god, it's too horrible to contemplate...

Cosy:P

Originally posted by cosywolf
Cotton wool. Especially the thought of anyone putting it in their mouth and rubbing their teeth on it...oh god, it's too horrible to contemplate...

Cosy:P

Have you seen the film Catch 22? Is that where your phobia started?

No, I haven't seen Catch 22, but thanks for the warning. I probably never will now! And please please please don't bother to describe what happens...my sanity is precarious enough!:nono:

Cosy:D

The pedants on this forum will probably point out that it was in fact cotton in the film/book, albeit chocolate coated, but in its raw state cotton and cotton wool are very similar.

Originally posted by max
The pedants on this forum will probably point out that it was in fact cotton in the film/book, albeit chocolate coated, but in its raw state cotton and cotton wool are very similar.

Yes, they're each as bad as the other...and even the thought of chocolate coating isn't going to stop my teeth being on edge for days now.
T-shirts, sheets, anything like that, put it near your mouth and eeeeewwwww!!!!
But cotton wool is worse. I once worked in a chemists and my boss loved to torture me by making me price all the bags of cotton wool. Any bottles of tablets or vitamins with cotton wool in the top have to be dealt with by my patient partner. I literally cannot touch the stuff.
I say again: EEEEWWWWW!

Cosy:loopy:

I used to be scared of pylons when I was younger. I still don't like them much, especially when on foot.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
Moths, butterflies, the touch of silk (makes me just want to rub my hands for ages to get away from the feel of it)

Eeeeewwwwww, sends shivers down my spine!
Also slugs, can't stand the slime, it makes me cringe :D

It's a common one, but I'm terrified of spiders. Only the big ones, the smaller sort don't bother me. I can't even stay in the same room as one. I've had to sleep in the living room sometimes 'cos one of the spindly little buggers has got into my bedroom.

It completely slipped my mind at the time, but electricity pylons give me the creeps.

Weird.

Originally posted by max
[B]Freaky maybe, but not uncommon. A search reveals there's even a name for it: praepilaphobia.

If you suffer from thuis condition DON'T read 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman.

Nomme

Originally posted by Red 2
the foam that you get inside old sofas and chairs makes my hair on my arms stand on end. i bloody hate it. the thought of someone tearing it is even worse..

i think mines the worst though :rolleyes:

i dont even know where it came from really

Originally posted by Red 2
i think mines the worst though :rolleyes:


I didn't think there was a phobic scale. I should imagine if you're gibbering in a corner with blood flecked foam frothing from the rictus stretched corners of your mouth then the source of that condition should be immaterial.:loopy:

yeah ok calm down.

i just think its weird how peeps dont like certain things for no reason..

i cant think why i dont like it..

I seem to have lots of phobias, I think they all related to something that must have happened that I can't remember.

I hate lifts. absolutly hate them but the wierd thing is I live in a tower block and for the first 2 years of living here I used to walk up and down 14 flights of stairs every single day. One day I decided to brave it and get in the lift. Now I get in the lift all the time but the odd thing is I will only go in my lift, I wont go in any other :D I'm crazy.

Also I don't like small rooms, hate aeroplanes but I have to brave them if I want a good holiday.

I despise cable cars and there's no way anyone could get me in one of those.

I don't like things that fly, ie moths, butterflys etc...I especially hate Bees and wasps just looking at them makes me want to be sick, they are vile! All furry and urghhhh

That's all for now, I'm sure I'll think of more.

I hav a phobia of th lttr "". I can't bring myslf to us it, which maks communication quit difficult, spcially sinc it's th most common lttr in the nglish languag.

Ssam Strt was a nightmar to watch whn I was a kid.

Yeah Pylons Id forgotten about that too! There's one really close to Peaks College where I used to go and when it chucked it down you could hear the rain sizzle on the pylon and that really freaked me out! like when it rains and the tram wires spark!!

Maybe Im just phobic of electricity........?

Mother! bring back the oil lamps!

ok my phobias are sprouts, wasps and cliffs. if i ever end up on a cliff and see a wasp sitting on a sprout, it's the end of my life.

I Hate those disposable gloves. Ahhhhh! they smell and feel horrible and doctors always wear when when you have a smear!

Originally posted by Hodge
I hav a phobia of th lttr "". I can't bring myslf to us it, which maks communication quit difficult, spcially sinc it's th most common lttr in the nglish languag.

Ssam Strt was a nightmar to watch whn I was a kid.

I rally sympathis with you. It must mak lif difficult

Originally posted by Hodge
I hav a phobia of th lttr "". I can't bring myslf to us it, which maks communication quit difficult, spcially sinc it's th most common lttr in the nglish languag.

Ssam Strt was a nightmar to watch whn I was a kid.

Have you considered professional help? I'm sure there are doctors to deal with that kind of thing.

i wonder if there are professionals that can help me with my sprout problem....

Wet wrinkled skin, like when you get out of the bath.


Ahhhhh I hate it and can't bear to touch it. I have to grab a towel quickly and avoid touching my skin.

Anyone else hate this?? or am I alone.
:confused:

Ive gone all goose pimpled just thinking about it.

i have an odd fear of being sick, dunno why and its only a recent thing. not thrown up for over 6 years and now the whole idea of it makes me freak completely.
oddly i also have a rediculous fear of spiders and the idea of having to go near one makes me feel sick....:help:

Originally posted by em3978
i have an odd fear of being sick, dunno why and its only a recent thing. not thrown up for over 6 years and now the whole idea of it makes me freak completely.
oddly i also have a rediculous fear of spiders and the idea of having to go near one makes me feel sick....:help:

I can empathise.

I used to have a phobia of being sick. I used to panic and end up choking eveytime.

Until.......... I got hyperemisis and was sick every two minutes and went into hospital for it.

That cured me

Well, I have a fear of escalators especially down escalators. Can't get on one at all. It's now got so bad I can't go up on them either as I just start panicing.

Not such a problem, except I'm off to London on saturday so will have to fork out for a taxi, work out which bus I need or walk.

I suffer from ergophobia (especially on Monday mornings) and arachibutyrophobia which is the fear that peanut butter
will stick to the roof of one's mouth.

Nomme

my friend has a phobia of mushrooms, she is going to try hypnosis to overcome it!

Originally posted by max
I didn't think there was a phobic scale. I should imagine if you're gibbering in a corner with blood flecked foam frothing from the rictus stretched corners of your mouth then the source of that condition should be immaterial.:loopy:

not a structered scale as such but it can be measured on a personal "1 to 10" examplary scale and ten is absolute panic.

I sometimes suffer from anxiety and has been difficult to cope with over the years.

The cause of my condition is my business I am afraid.

:loopy:

I have a fear of irons!! honest and i have a family to iron for, so i am rubbish at it and the poor kids look like urchins!:)
I always think that it might blow up and electricute me, as happened to someone i knew who then died:(
Also I hate going to sleep without the tv on,going to bed drunk freaks me out and pylons as well!!
Not keen on train stations or being alone on a train or any transport.
Dont like shopping malls v much if alone, luv them if i am with someone, what s that all about?
Traffic jams are a nightmare too.

Love almost everything else in life apart from the usual things like dentists and hospitals and dark places at night.

I do'nt have ANY phobias but if i go somewhere REALLY high, i get the overwhelming urge to jump?.

Originally posted by Hodge
I hav a phobia of th lttr "". I can't bring myslf to us it, which maks communication quit difficult, spcially sinc it's th most common lttr in the nglish languag.

Ssam Strt was a nightmar to watch whn I was a kid.

Next time you go to a rave, can I have your's then? :heyhey:

i really hate clowns and dwarfs,i have panic attacks,if they are near me.

I'm shocked how many things are common to more than just me...!

I also hate cotton wool (but even worse - think biting a duffle coat - yak!),

hate wrinkly skin out of the bath,

and ALWAYS have an overwhelming urge to jump from high places!



Most of all, I hate people rubbing their bare feet on carpets.

Cauliflower... I just can't look at it when it's not cooked.

Don't like people touching my ears either and I hate cotton wool and wooly jumpers when you bite them. (Yes, because we all bite wooly jumpers!):loopy:

Fish! :suspect:

Tinned, Frozen, Fresh or alive, you name its make me feel instantly sick and turns my stomach.. Although in saying that I do like Tuna every now and then :roll:

I know what you are all thinking, I get grief about it at work too!

Oooh and I like a bit of salmon and trout, too.

And cockles and crisps. Together. Good when you're drunk (And only when you're drunk).

I have a fear of people walking on paving flags in socks, the noise goes straight through me and i can almost feel it. I first noticed this when i was little and I had a bike, if i was "fixing" it and got oil on the patio, my dad would make me rub it off with an old rag.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I am also terrified of my mother-in-law. Is there a name for this?

Oh yes.

It's called "Common Sense". ;-)

i have phobias about moths, butterflies, birds, fish, and celery. you only have to wave a stick of celery in front of me and it reduces me to tears.....

ive got a thing about the downy escalators too, i have literally burst out cryin before when hubby tried draggin me on one tellin me not to be daft, it started 13 years ago when i was preggy , i was just bout to go down some when i went all dizzy and fainted.
i hate spiders n creepy crawlys to , and if a bee or wasp comes near me ya cant see me for dust.
ohh and toe jam !!!!! i had never even heard of it till i met me hubby n moved to sheffield.. he only has to mention it and thats it im sick :gag:

Litha

My flatmate Vicki is scard of

>Spontaneous human combustion
>Slugs
>Milk-it comes from a cow is her only explanation
>Eggs but only if their boiled or fried because she doesn't like the separation of colours and consistencies!!

Any time we mention any of these she curls up in a ball and makes a hig pitched whining sound. She's not afraid to be odd.

Originally posted by pauline
i really hate clowns and dwarfs,i have panic attacks,if they are near me.

Robin Cook-ophobia. Pretty common about ten years ago!

Motorways and BIG roads in general, deep water, small spaces and figure
(numerical)

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
No butterflies are fine, just moths. Especially those big crunchy evil-looing ones.

Spiders and creepy crawleys dont bother me but a butterfly and i screem like a girly girl and run

they always seem to dive bom me!

Spoons. :( :help:

Originally posted by elf
my friend has a phobia of mushrooms, she is going to try hypnosis to overcome it!
My girlfriend has that phobia,but she can eat mushrooms,show her a picture of fungus and she bursts into tears.

i agree with pauline! i hate clowns cant stand them!i also cant stand dwarfs, small people, midgets, whatever you wanna call them! i know its sounds evil and i know its not their fault but they scare me to death!! oh and bananas! the smell colour the lot! they are horrible!

I have a list of phobias.. in order of severity..

1. Worms
2. Rubber bands ( like worms and just as un predictable )
3. Bits of string .. a bit wormy again...
4. Hose pipes....very BIG worms !
5. Balloons....' BANG ' should be banned!

...il get my coat...

Crikey, what a list I've read.
I shall add my freaking out about.... holes!
I don't think I can explain this very well but here goes....
Imagine *cringe* a lot of holes *shudder* like a natural sponge or like a real close up of your pores *Urrrghhh!*
Be it big, small, close or distant it freaks me soooo much.
The spice monster in Dune really freaks me out.
I used to have a bizarre issue with spontaneous combustion as a child but I made myself read about it and decided I'm not scared anymore. I was reminded of it by a previous thread.
I don't think there's a name for my phobia.
/me goes away to cringe and wibble for a while.

Originally posted by Zebra

I don't think there's a name for my phobia.


Trypaphobia (http://lysa.andysocial.com/archives/001469.html) is certainly a very odd one.

Tony, were you serious about the spoons?

Venger, I don't think I could thank you enough. I tried to find info about my phobia and never could. How you found it is a mystery to me.
Not only do I now have a name but I know I'm not the only one. Though I am in a minority.
Only thing to do now is find a cure other than having to be faced with it.

Time to resurrect an old thread! Yeay!

Okay, my phobias are pretty wierd I have to admit, but I'm deadly serious about them. They are all completely irrational, but I can't deal with them:


Lard and Dripping. It makes me heave, and as a younger chap, I used to be obsessed for checking the ingredients labels for the mention; even things like jam and tins of peas!
Bridges. Can't drive over them especially if they cross water. I try to hold my breath! :huh:
Dwarves and Midgets. I've been known to cross the road to avoid them. I once sat in the pub at lunchtime with my colleagues, and there was a dwarf lady sat across the room; I couldn't eat my chips. This is awful because clearly they can't help it, they just really frighten me.
Pigeons. They always fly towards me. Have you ever seen a 6ft 6 man screaming on Fargate? That was probably me!


Anyone share these?

K x

I'm not mocking peoples fears, but this thread has made me laugh out loud.

Originally posted by nick2
I'm not mocking peoples fears, but this thread has made me laugh out loud.

I must admit I had a chortle while reading through, and I can see why people could find my own fears funny. They're only serious to the people that 'own' them!

K x

My phobias are

1) babies, if people bring them to work, I;m the one leaving the office by the nearest exit asap
2) cold dirty dish water (left in the sink by my hubby, not me, why does he do that?) . I use a long wooden spoon to dislodge the plug to make it go away.
3) furry fruit - like strawberries or peaches - urgh!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Kristian
I must admit I had a chortle while reading through, and I can see why people could find my own fears funny. They're only serious to the people that 'own' them!

K x

I know, my phobias seem completely rational to me too,

1) Lollypop sticks, especially pulling them through your teeth.
2) Catapillars and anything else maggoty looking (nasty accident when fishing caused this phobia)
3) Slugs
4) Heights (though I am working on this one)

My friend has a massive phobia of hair; even her own. She puts her hairbrush in domestos overnight every week because it disolves the hair as she can't bear to pick it out!

Another friend has a morbid fear of copper coins; she won't touch them, and if asked for the odd pennies in a shop, gives her purse to the assistant to get them out! :loopy:

Oh my God...thought I was the only person scared of escalators!!! I'm a nightmare, I try to go down them but my legs just go to jelly and my palms start sweating. Like somebody else mentioned, it's got so bad I have problems going up them now. I try, but then I get all these people behind me tutting and then I just panic! I've been scared of them as long as I can remember but have a distinct memory of my mum leaving me at the top of one once when I was little and would imagine that has something to do with it!

Im scared of 'My own shadow'. It always seems to creep up on me when i turn around. I have a fear that it may strangle me at any moment.

well i am absolutley $h!t scared of mushrooms, i wont walk past them in supermarket, i wont eat them, if my boyfriend orders a meal at a restaurant, for example a mixed grill, i'll but in and say with no mushrooms lol

My brothers put some under the covers of my bed once, i was sobbin my lil heart out, i made my mum wash all the sheets

L x

Originally posted by Sheffair
Im scared of 'My own shadow'. It always seems to creep up on me when i turn around. I have a fear that it may strangle me at any moment.

You would be scared of it if you came across a camel spider in Iraq during the daytime! They don't like the sunlight, so they follow your shadow no matter how fast you run!! And they're BIG!!!

I've aways had a phobia of going down stairs. Not esculators just a normal flight of stairs. I fear I will fall and break my leg or worse still my neck or back. I always go down with caution.
Funny thing is, I fell down my attic stairs on Christmas eve and ended up on crutches. I hurt my leg badly, bruised my ribs, cut my leg open but all in all was lucky I didn't kill myself. No broken bones! It was the one time I wasn't cautious when going down the stairs.

You would think that facing my fear, literally, would help but it hasn't! Still phobic. Not scared of heights just stairs. They can be tall or just a few, doesn't matter. Is there a name for this?

Originally posted by GazB
You would be scared of it if you came across a camel spider in Iraq during the daytime! They don't like the sunlight, so they follow your shadow no matter how fast you run!! And they're BIG!!!

That whole thing was a fake, they are only tiny, and they don't attack people.

Originally posted by nick2
That whole thing was a fake, they are only tiny, and they don't attack people.

No, they don't attack people.. but the thing about the shadows is true.. and they ARE rather big (seen one with my very own eyes, and also seen one eating a rather large lizard).

I've got an irrational phobia of sticky labels.
It's the lack of control that you get when you've got one stuck to you and can't get it off.

It stems back to when I was a toddler and I got one stuck to the roof of my mouth. Makes me gippy to think about it.

I thought my phobia was unique, until I read that the ginger one out of Girls Aloud also has the same fear.

This thing is, kids at my son's school get stickers when they've been good. It's unbearable when he comes home covered in stickers.

A bloke I work with breaks out in sweat every time he passes piccalilli.

Originally posted by vidster
I do'nt have ANY phobias but if i go somewhere REALLY high, i get the overwhelming urge to jump?.

My Mum has a similar thing where her problem is edges... if she is walking by an edge of water (river/canal) or a cliff she is drawn towards the edge... quite scary i think :?

Originally posted by Foxxx
I've aways had a phobia of going down stairs. Not esculators just a normal flight of stairs. I fear I will fall and break my leg or worse still my neck or back. I always go down with caution.
Funny thing is, I fell down my attic stairs on Christmas eve and ended up on crutches. I hurt my leg badly, bruised my ribs, cut my leg open but all in all was lucky I didn't kill myself. No broken bones! It was the one time I wasn't cautious when going down the stairs.

You would think that facing my fear, literally, would help but it hasn't! Still phobic. Not scared of heights just stairs. They can be tall or just a few, doesn't matter. Is there a name for this?

I am the same i have fallen up & down stairs so many times now that it is beginning to become a phobia... if i see alot of steps in front of me i get really nervous... going up isnt so bad its the walking down... Where i am a little on edge about the stairs my eyes seem to play tricks on me and i end up mis-judging the step... hence why i fall/trip down them... seems so crazy... but true :?

Its horrible...

It is strange how other people's phobia's can sound so funny and daft... but if we're the sufferer its no Joke!

I never thought i would see the day when i had a really pathetic phobia... Yeah you will laugh dont worry... but this is serious for me...

Vibrating cuddly toys... I hate them... My friends little girl had a vibrating cuddly elmo... she kept throwing it at me i had to nudge it to the floor... I cant stand them they make me cringe...

My sister has a Mad Cow that does the same shakes etc... ewww i can feel myself cringing now (fingers going all weird on me... ) Its stupid... i even admit its a really silly phobia... i picked up a little snowman once... had a button on it 'press here' so i did... argh!!! it started shaking an vibrating... threw it down straight away... :help:

Couldnt stand my phone on vibrate at one point got used to that now tho...

Please no jokes... Remember: your phobia is serious to you so have repsect for others no mater how daft :)

Bridges, especially ones with water underneath, if i'm alone I try and get as far away from the edge as I can and refuse to look over at the water. If i'm with somebody, I do the same, but also hold onto them, as if they'll keep me safe if it collapses :loopy:

Im scared of lifts and closed spaces.I go dizzy and have a panic attack.I also dont like the dark and sleep with the landing light on.My oddest one is vampires if i see one on tv i have to move away.If anyone comes near me in fancy dress as one i freak out .I wont answer the door on halloween always send some body else or ignore it.I put it down to the old horrors we watched when we were kids i think they were called appointment with fear.:(

Originally posted by Angel05
My Mum has a similar thing where her problem is edges... if she is walking by an edge of water (river/canal) or a cliff she is drawn towards the edge... quite scary i think :?

I've always had a problem with this, Angel. When I'm above any large body of water I can feel it trying to pull me in. Now I think about it, it really only happens with slowish-moving water like the sea or a big lake - doesn't seem to happen with fast-flowing rivers. It's like the water is literally trying to hypnotise me and drag me into it. Horrible.

On one family holiday when I was a kid, we drove along the road by Loch Ness for a while, and I was transfixed by it. I couldn't tear my eyes away from it I found it so terrifying. It was so black and so deep I felt it wanted to pull me down into those depths. S**** the Loch Ness Monster, I was scared of the Loch!!

Also as a small child, I had a phobia about my bedroom curtains. They were truly hideous, sort of green/grey with huge brown flowers :gag: Late at night if I couldn't sleep I'd find myself staring at them, and then I'd get the optical illusion that the flowers were moving towards me, intent on doing me some harm. Weird, and really scary. I'd hide my face under the blankets, then I'd be ok.

I told my Dad about this quite recently, and he was horrified I'd been so scared of the curtains. Apparently Mum had spent ages choosing them for me, and she thought they were lovely!! :help:

StarSparkle

Originally posted by StarSparkle
I've always had a problem with this, Angel. When I'm above any large body of water I can feel it trying to pull me in. Now I think about it, it really only happens with slowish-moving water like the sea or a big lake - doesn't seem to happen with fast-flowing rivers. It's like the water is literally trying to hypnotise me and drag me into it. Horrible.

StarSparkle

Sounds exactly the same thing my Mum suffers from... glad it wasnt passed on as it sounds really scary...

The only thing i was scared of in my room was the underneath of my bed... i had to jump onto my bed at night as i thought something would grab hold of my ankles an drag me under... i think most kiddies suffer from this... :? not nice...

I hated going out of the living room having to go upstairs to the loo in the dim light... i used to run down stairs as fast as i could incase something came out of one of the bedrooms an started chasing me.

What wild imaginations kids have huh!

I have the worst fear of needles, but then again I have one tattoo, and 7 piercings!! How I managed to get those done, is beyond me!!

Originally posted by Lily04
I have the worst fear of needles, but then again I have one tattoo, and 7 piercings!! How I managed to get those done, is beyond me!!

When you have a tattoo you can harldy see the needle, which is fine, but when you have to have an injection and they show you the needle I feel a bit ill.

My brother's girlfriend has to put her feet up on the chair when she sees any sharks on TV. In case of those nasty carpet sharks I suppose.

Also, I have a friend who is scared of tin cans, and can't eat anything that has been in one!

Originally posted by Angel05
The only thing i was scared of in my room was the underneath of my bed... i had to jump onto my bed at night as i thought something would grab hold of my ankles an drag me under... i think most kiddies suffer from this... :? not nice...

Whatever films you see Angel, DON'T see Boogeyman! This plotline figures quite strongly!

K x

Originally posted by nick2
When you have a tattoo you can harldy see the needle, which is fine, but when you have to have an injection and they show you the needle I feel a bit ill.
I cringed when i was getting the tattoo!! I know that it is weird to have this phobia, but at the same time have a tattoo and so many piercings!!

Originally posted by Angel05
Vibrating cuddly toys... I hate them...

This might be more common than you think; I remember the lovely Lorraine Kelly puting toys that moved in any way into Room 101!

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Whatever films you see Angel, DON'T see Boogeyman! This plotline figures quite strongly!

K x

Give me nightmares by the sounds of it :? dont think i have any plans to see it :) but if i did i would see it during the day like most scary films i have watched :wink:

Originally posted by Kristian
This might be more common than you think; I remember the lovely Lorraine Kelly puting toys that moved in any way into Room 101!

K x

I thought i was just one of the odd ones lol i think its a silly phobia... being scared of a childs toy! but sadly i am a sufferer...

I have a phobia about (or more accurately an intense dislike of) chewing gum. I hate the sight and smell of it, including the masticating jaws of football managers. I can't understand why it is regarded as permissable to spit it onto the streets, turning our pavements into eyesores. I think in Singapore it is banned. they have the right idea. Perhaps I ought to emigrate to Singapore.

Various phenomena occasion alarm; greasy, lank hair, anything scatalogical, large moths, puppets [except Sooty and Sweep], various disgusting creeping, crawling creatures [including the Liberal Democrats], women with facial hair, and cats. The latter because of their horrible, knowing look.

the only one i got . and i thort i was the only one till my x bf work partner said she had the same problem and that is wood lolly sticks and wooded chopping bords,

when some one eating any kind of ice lolly or sweet lolly and see them bite the stick or suck it or see some one choppin on a wood bord that it my body goes very goose pimple and cold and feal very sick. just the thort of it now goes threw me,so this is my phobia.. i even have to go out of the room when my kids eats lollys as i hate it.

My mum and my cousin are both like that with lolly sticks! It's a great way to get on their nerves though.

It's when they pull the stick through their teeth to get the last bits off, all the hair on my body stands on end.

Just thinking about it has the same effect.

Euuuuuggghhhh !

And toothpicks are a kind of torture.

My personal phobia is being the first person to leave the pub, so I always buy two pints when they ring last orders................

Originally posted by StarSparkle
I've always had a problem with this, Angel. When I'm above any large body of water I can feel it trying to pull me in. Now I think about it, it really only happens with slowish-moving water like the sea or a big lake - doesn't seem to happen with fast-flowing rivers. It's like the water is literally trying to hypnotise me and drag me into it. Horrible.

On one family holiday when I was a kid, we drove along the road by Loch Ness for a while, and I was transfixed by it. I couldn't tear my eyes away from it I found it so terrifying. It was so black and so deep I felt it wanted to pull me down into those depths. S**** the Loch Ness Monster, I was scared of the Loch!!

I am with you on this; still water really frightens me. If I'm driving somewhere I've not been before, I can normally sense if there is a dam or lake nearby! Wierd!

K x

i like this thread :)

I too I have a fear of escalators, but i can't stand going up them - going down them isn't too bad. But up? I panic, can't breath, its horrible. The ones in huge department stores are worst - those where you can see the other escalators going down, ergh all that space between the escalator & the wall, its just horrible even thinking about it.
I used to live in London and used the tubes all the time, i had to really syke myself up before getting on the escalator! Its so bad i lean forward, until i'm practically sitting on the floor lol! Yes, i do get strange looks!

I also hate stairs with gaps between them (only going up tho) - i can't explain it, but i feel sick & dizzy when i go near them. And glass lifts have this affect too!

Originally posted by designbunny
I also hate stairs with gaps between them (only going up tho) - i can't explain it, but i feel sick & dizzy when i go near them. And glass lifts have this affect too!

Same here i hate it when i can see a long way down i think its something to do with me being scared of heights...

Pauly & me went out to Derbyshire for our weekly walk on the rocks... this week we went further than last... went climbing up this rock only for me to see through a gap an noticed how high up i was... thats was it for me... i froze there an then on the spot... Pauly went up without me... as he came back down he had to kinda prise me away from the rock behind me... It was horrible... If i hadnt have seen the distance i would have been fine... :)

Originally posted by designbunny
i like this thread :)
I also hate stairs with gaps between them (only going up tho) - i can't explain it, but i feel sick & dizzy when i go near them. And glass lifts have this affect too!

I know exactly what you mean - I too hate stairs with gaps between the steps! I thought it was just me. For some reason, I feel a bit shaky and unsteady going up them, and often miss my footing. And no, I haven't been drinking! :P

And I absolutely refuse to get into a glass lift - I'll climb hundreds of steps first! I think a sadist invented glass lifts! :suspect:

StarSparkle

Originally posted by StarSparkle
I know exactly what you mean - I too hate stairs with gaps between the steps! I thought it was just me. For some reason, I feel a bit shaky and unsteady going up them, and often miss my footing. And no, I haven't been drinking! :P

And I absolutely refuse to get into a glass lift - I'll climb hundreds of steps first! I think a sadist invented glass lifts! :suspect:

StarSparkle

Surely it's better to be able to see out than be closed in a small claustrophobic box?

K x

Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned already - Snakes uuugggghhhh can't even stand typing the word!

It's one of the reasons my parents didn't emigrate to Australia when I was little. We were going to go to Adelaide and the literature mentioned 'sn**s' and I had the screaming ab dabs! (i'm sure there were other reasons they didn't go!)

The more unusual but milder phobia is - I can't stand dinner plates being left in front of me when I've finished eating. I have to move them straight away and if I'm eating out anywhere I get really anxious if they are not moved. I usually have to leave the table and go to the loo or something out of the way until they are gone!

Deep water - hate it, like others have mentioned, I always feel it's drawing me in. Have nightmares for days after i've been near/driven past deep water.

Snakes are mine too, don't know what I'd do if I came face to face with one. I was once in the sea off Barbados when I thought I saw one in the water next to me; would've beaten Linford Christie up that beach.

Snakes, more precisely, "killer brown snakes" have been on the news here tonight, shiver. Apparently the Gold Coast is over-run with them. So looks like I’ll be spending Easter in the city. Oh hum.

Lord Chaverly, I think that they have just reprieved the chewing gum ban in Singapore, as they did with the long hair on men law a few years back. It used to be the case that if you wanted to leave the airport and had hair longer than shoulder length, that you would be given a short back and sides on the spot!

newspaper and the non-glossy paper that the old Radio Times used to be made out of.

The way it feels on my fingernails makes me shivver allover!
So much so I have to rub it on my teeth too because doing this makes me feel sick... :loopy: :suspect: :confused:

Good thread :thumbsup:

Mine is the sound of bristly brushes - gives me goosepimples, makes my blood run cold and makes me feel sick! :loopy:

I can't be in the same room as someone else brushing their teeth (although I'm fine when I brush my own) and the thought of using a nail brush just makes me go nauseous and shudder.

And I hate it when people use a broom or dustpan & brush on a rough floor. Eek!

My phobia might sound silly (No change there then ).

I am scared of the "Lesser spotted algerian, malasian bird eating cockroach" (alamalacockroickreus )

I have never seen one, but am sure i would nappy mi sen if i did.

i am petrified of thunder even though i love the lightening, i get a lot of stick for it as i am scared of the thing that cant hurt you!

my mum is petrified of moths and has on occasion collapsed due to this!

and my flatmate has a genuine fear of Zombies!!! even though they are not real its one fear that his mother caused by saying that if she became a zombie she would eat him first!!!!!

Originally posted by savbaby

my flatmate has a genuine fear of Zombies!!! even though they are not real

Who said they were not real (Sunday sport i suppose).
You ought to go out more. :thumbsup:

I have a phobia, I am terrified of my car breaking down on Shiregreens flower estate and having to leave it overnight. The thought sends shivers down my spine.

Originally posted by viking
Who said they were not real (Sunday sport i suppose).
You ought to go out more. :thumbsup:


thinking about it now i do not know how he copes, he works in meadowhell and its full of mindless zombies everyday!

Originally posted by savbaby
thinking about it now i do not know how he copes, he works in meadowhell and its full of mindless zombies everyday!

Chuff me.
He wants to spend a hour on here. :heyhey:

Originally posted by viking
My phobia might sound silly (No change there then ).
I am scared of the "Lesser spotted algerian, malasian bird eating cockroach" (alamalacockroickreus )

I have a phobia of trying to force too much mutton into the microwave & it going off before being properly cooked (ramalamlamalamlamadingdong) :hihi:

My strange phobia is that i cant look at a tv screen that is all black with white lines on it.

Do you remember those old video machines years ago where you had to get a test signal on.
The jet black screen with a white line going down the middle.
I was absolutely terrified of this.

And if my screen saver ever goes off and leaves a blank black screen or black screen with coloured writing i still couldnt use the pc. until a coloured one is put on again.


Im ok with a white screen with black on it but not the other way round.

Also if getting in a bath i have to have the deep water transparent, no dark coloured bath stuff .
pretty much ok these days as most stuff is quite colourless.

Also im afraid of the artificial voice aid (electro larynx)
I feel awful about this and know those poor people with throat cancer are suffering but i have a phobia of the microphoned voice that comes out of the aid.
not keen on automated voices either.- esp male.

My two strange phobias are
1) going down escalators. Going up Im fine with but Im absolutely terrifed of going down escalators, to the point of nausea and cold sweats.
2) My other fear is sheep. Cant walk through a field that has sheep in it, no idea why, just gets me very scared.


Ho hum, strange world :-)

I have a friend who is actually frightened of polystyrene. And another who is scared whitless of sponges....weiiirrrd...

Originally posted by Olliekitten
1) going down escalators. Going up Im fine with but Im absolutely terrifed of going down escalators, to the point of nausea and cold sweats.


I never had a problem with escalators until I moved to London, the escalators at Holborn tube station are truly terrifying.

I am afraid of baked bean cans and profile shots of prince charles (only profiles mind you)

I have no idea why!

Originally posted by Olliekitten
My two strange phobias are
1) going down escalators. Going up Im fine with but Im absolutely terrifed of going down escalators, to the point of nausea and cold sweats.
2) My other fear is sheep. Cant walk through a field that has sheep in it, no idea why, just gets me very scared.


Ho hum, strange world :-)

I also have a phobia about escalators but this stems from falling down one as a kid :o Very scarey!! I thought my hair was gonna get chewed up in the bottom of it. I avoid them at all costs but if I do have to go on one I visibly pale and grip the sides for grim death. I can feel my heart racing and I break out into a cold sweat. Actually I feel shakey even thinking about it, lol.

And I can understand your sheep phobia too. It's the eyes ... omg they just have those freaky eyes!!!! Eye's like the devil I tell ya!!!!!

Originally posted by cobaltblue
I thought my hair was gonna get chewed up in the bottom of it.

There used to be an advert that showed a childs wellington boot getting pulled into an escalator and all mangeled up then they said "imagine if a childs foot was in it". It scared me to death that ad and now I'm totally paranoid about standing inside the yellow lines.

Originally posted by nick2
There used to be an advert that showed a childs wellington boot getting pulled into an escalator and all mangeled up then they said "imagine if a childs foot was in it". It scared me to death that ad and now I'm totally paranoid about standing inside the yellow lines.

LMAO Nick2 even now I think when I'm reaching the end that its gonna eat the sole of my shoe right off so I'm barefoot with just the top of a shoe/boot flapping round my ankle :blush: Terrifying!!!

I have a real phobia of puppets....

The teletubbies, the tweenies, the muppets make my skin crawl! :help:

Monkey Puzzle Trees - they're just so precise (shudder.) I also used to be terrified of spontaneous human combustion - as a kid I would lie in bed convinced I was getting hotter and hotter until my parents had to reassure me that I wasn't going to burst into a living ball of flame. Oh, and wasps nests, honeycomb - anything with geometric patterns really makes me feel a bit sick.
Other than that usual ones like lifts and planes.

Ladders! I hate going up them. But I'm not scared of heights.:loopy:

Vomit (other people's) gives me the 'heeby jeebies'. I can't go near it, and the smell lingers in my nostrils for days. Sorry if you're eating, folks!! :gag:

I have a few phobias that my friends laugh at. they are in order from worst:
1. Pigeons (they find it funny that i once got bitten by one and now i can even go near them)
2. Barbie dolls (i dont even know why)
3. dark (i cant sleep unless i have a night light)

iv always been absolutely terrified of them portable mini roadsweeper things .... you know the little ones with the 2 spinny brushes on the front .... they always used to make me cry when i was ickle n i still make a quick exit whenever one comes near me :help:

i also have a real phobia of vomit, mine and other peoples. i have a shaking fit and have to breathe like i am giving birth when i feel sick :blush: its really bad tho, ruins my life in a way, i avoid certain things cause of it. bit sad really :sad:

Originally posted by janny
i also have a real phobia of vomit, mine and other peoples. i have a shaking fit and have to breathe like i am giving birth when i feel sick :blush: its really bad tho, ruins my life in a way, i avoid certain things cause of it. bit sad really :sad:

Im the same, its not good at all :(

Only ones I really have is spiders and dentists. About as usual as they come.

What is unusual though is why am I scared of spiders but not of any other creepy crawly type things? aren't they essentially the same sort of thing?

I guess the thing about phobias is they are not logical though.

Things like This (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/trendydave/107_0743.jpg) are scary to me

And This (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/trendydave/106_0655.jpg)

My phobias are boring: spiders, dentists and flying.

My horse has a couple of interesting ones though... He's absoultely petrified of squirrels and runs a mile if he sees one. He also hates wild rubard. Maybe it's the smell?

I have lots of phobias...

Clowns
Spiders
Moths

...and any other insects or creepy crawlies! Eeek!

I'm petrified of escalators too, and I thought this was weird but there's a least 7 others on here who feel the same! I'm not bad at going up, but I simply cannot go down an escalator apart from tiny, small ones with good lighting, because I can't see the steps properly due to my eyesight.

Nasty evil things, I hate them. There's shops I can't go in because they only have escalators and no stairs. I don't use the underground, but I tried to once, planning a route with no escalators which worled until I got to westminster and the lift was broken! It took me three goes before I could get on the thing, and I had to do it or be doomed to stay underground til the lift was fixed. I can also only stand on the left, which doesn't go down well in London!

I remember those ads, wasn't there one with a rag doll getting mangled in an escalator too? There was one about slurry pits which showed a child drowning in the muck, so as a result I'm now petrified of those too.

I also hate polystyrene packaging, other people's vomit and chicken fat. Eyuw.

Rabbits.... I am scared of Rabbits.!

so Rabbits, Spiders, earwigs, Heights... erm thats it I think!

Wow Zebra!

I had a phobia of spontaneous combustion growing up too. I tried reading everything I could get my hands on to convince myself but it didn't work.

I've always found it difficult to have such an irrational fear because of the way other people relate to it. Through my phobia I developed obsessive compulsie disorder and was hospitalized. Yet for some reason people find the idea of this phobia humorous.

By the way its called pyrothenatophobia

Rasulka
xoxox

you wouldnt catch me walking through a field of cows.
although ile stroke them and feed them when i take kids to farm but as long as theres a gate between me and the cows i dont mind

Mine are...

Feet - I REALLY REALLY cannot stand them - makes me wanna throw up! (this time of year is particularly bad!) I don't like my own either!

Dentists - Terrified!

Being Sick - always feel like I'm going to die!

Slugs/Worms - the last house I lived in was a haven for Slugs, I'm shuddering now at the thought of 'em...

Chenille - my exgirlfriend loved the stuff - sets my teeth on edge - rub it between your fingers :gag:

Spiders/Wasps - fascinating creatures (like all insects), but they reduce me to tears - strange though, when I was a nipper, I used to put all kinds of creepy crawlies in a bottle, and watch them fight!:loopy: :o

Things I'm not overly keen on Brummie accents (no offence intended!), Cauliflower, Cabbage, Coriander, Courgettes, Cucumber, Celery and Capers...

Originally posted by Booch
Slugs/Worms - the last house I lived in was a haven for Slugs, I'm shuddering now at the thought of 'em...


I got home from work last night and went to open the patio door to go into the garden and there was the biggest slug I've ever seen half way up the door, it was massive, like an eel.

I'm not squeemish usually but this was like something out of a horror film, I had to prise it off the glass with a trowel and catapult it into next doors garden.

It was was huge, with an orange frill round the bottom, I should have taken a photo.

Originally posted by Funky Dave
It's a common one, but I'm terrified of spiders. Only the big ones, the smaller sort don't bother me. I can't even stay in the same room as one. I've had to sleep in the living room sometimes 'cos one of the spindly little buggers has got into my bedroom.

Same here i go in hysterics if I see one, and wont rest until it is removed.

My mum once lied to me, syaing she had removed this massive spider (infact she had lost it), but if she hadn't i wouldn't have been able to stay in the house on me own :hihi:

hysterics?

Historics may mean that you look into their ancestory.... :hihi:

Originally posted by steelcitybab
Same here i go in historics if I see one, and wont rest until it is removed.

My mum once lied to me, syaing she had removed this massive spider (infact she had lost it), but if she hadn't i wouldn't have been able to stay in the house on me own :hihi:

Remember the lego brick that you built roofs with. You know those slanted bricks. I can't stand the texture on the top of them. Makes me screw up into a ball and want to be sick. Some book covers have the same texture too. :gag:

I'm scared of horses (which is silly because I think they're gorgeous- but from a long distance away) and flying insects! Probably other things as well but they're the biggies!

Originally posted by Classic Rock
low flying birds.

Me too, just incase they decide to unload there goods on me. How that supposed to be good luck. :huh: :gag:

Stood at bus stop in town looked up and saw this bird squatting, moved just in time.

Originally posted by Zebra
Crikey, what a list I've read.
I shall add my freaking out about.... holes!
I don't think I can explain this very well but here goes....
Imagine *cringe* a lot of holes *shudder* like a natural sponge or like a real close up of your pores *Urrrghhh!*
Be it big, small, close or distant it freaks me soooo much.
The spice monster in Dune really freaks me out.
I used to have a bizarre issue with spontaneous combustion as a child but I made myself read about it and decided I'm not scared anymore. I was reminded of it by a previous thread.
I don't think there's a name for my phobia.
/me goes away to cringe and wibble for a while.
Oh my god i have a thing about natural sponges! I thought i was the only one. ha ha
It all stems from a dream i had when my leg was made out of white plastic with loads of small holes and you could see right inside it. It really freaks me out.

My worst phobia is moths 2! It's the fluttery thing and big hairy body, freaks me out!:loopy:

Also have a fear of dark water, any one else have that? I would suppose that's quite a common one, my brother has it too.

I just hate lolly sticks and kebab skewers, well, the horrid rough type wood that they are made from. It makes me shiver to think of them and i cant touch either one. Like other posters on here it's the thought of them in my mouth (just had to pull a funny face thinking about it) Also scared to death of balloons, cant stand the squeeky sound they make when you run your fingers down them and i really freak if they burst!

I also have a severe phobia of being sick, I'll do anything to stop it, glass after glass of Alka-seltza, but more seriously, I need an operation on my nose, but won't go because of the fear.

As a child I was terrified of going up steep roads in a car incase we rolled back down. I had frequent nightmares about it and still have one every now and then. Now I drive I still avoid them at all costs!

Touching dry newspaper with wet hands.

Makes me feel physically sick.

I'm terrified of Trains lol... I don't mind one passing me, and I can sit quite comfortably while passengers get on and off, but when I'm on one I can't stand it.

I went on one when I was small and screamed all the way to Skeggy on it lol... More recently (IE last year) I went one stop and absolutely freaked out...
Can't stand them, give me my car anyday!

Originally posted by dishwasher
Touching dry newspaper with wet hands.

Makes me feel physically sick.

Lol wet paper drives me insane too! I can't stand it at all! :gag:

My phobias lookin up at tall buildings! incase I fall over and then my second phobia kicks in cos I'm scared of people laughing at me den my third phobia kicks in cos I'm scared of gettin run over, It's not good

some weird and strange phoebias you lot have lol...

I have a completely irrational fear of those little holes you get on the side of biros.

Originally posted by dishwasher
Touching dry newspaper with wet hands.

Makes me feel physically sick.

Same here, and i thought i was the only one. It only is newspaper everything else is fine.

I really ought to stop reading this thread, I'm sure I'm picking up new phobias by the minute...

Originally posted by Kristian
I really ought to stop reading this thread, I'm sure I'm picking up new phobias by the minute...

I felt the same about the 'which sock do you put on first' thread.

Should have never looked at it !

i have a fear of falling,tripping up..................im terrified of going down stairs in case i fall

My son has a fear of moths and spiders. He will empty a whole can of insect spray on a spider to make sure it's dead.
I am scared of needles ,only for the last couple of years.It's so bad that I cannot give blood.When I go into the blood bank my blood pressure goes so high that they won't takeit.

Oasis, that weird foam stuff that florists use to arrange flower displays (not Liam and Noel Gallagher!) and unglazed terracotta pots, both of them make my blood run cold if I touch them but even weirder still, if they are there, I have to touch them even though I know it will feel worse than scraping my finger nails down a blackboard - arrrrgh:o

its weird im surrounded by:

snakes
lizards
spiders
scorpions
Centipedes
millipedes
praying mantids
beetles
cockroaches
crickets
locusts
frogs
toads
salamanders
turtles
tortoises

and ill handle any of these with out much fuss, its my job.

the funny thing is im scared of cows and horses!!!!! lol

whats everyone else scared of, not just animals

I am terrified of slugs, nothing else bothers me but I wouldn't go near a slug.:o

I hate spiders, not struck on heights if i am not strapped to something, its not the height its the fear of falling, and the sound that cotton wool makes scares me, the sound it makes goes through me and the thought of hearing it makes me scared. But my biggest phobia is someone stickig their finger in my belly button can't even watch some have something in their belly button. I can stick my own finger in it though:loopy: just the thought of it puts me on edge.

I'm really scared of fish! The smaller pretty ones, I don't have a problem with.

But the big ones with the floaty bits, I'm terrified! And even the average goldfish makes me quiver lol.

Can you imagine me in the sea!

I'm phobic about just one thing: Flying.

I had a bad experience where the plane had to suddently turn back on the runway and have one of its engines serviced (by a guy with a hand-held socket wrench!!:o) When I landed on home turf, I kissed the tarmac and promptly had a real-for-true panic attack. Just thinking about flying makes my palms sweat.

Bees
Wasps
Heights
Spiders

its weird im surrounded by:

snakes
lizards
spiders
scorpions
Centipedes
millipedes
praying mantids
beetles
cockroaches
crickets
locusts
frogs
toads
salamanders
turtles
tortoises

and ill handle any of these with out much fuss, its my job.

Where do you work?

Where do you work?

Is it Guatanamo Bay, by any chance ?:)

im frightened of

mice
snakes
fish
birds....omg....they make me cringe.

I hate bird,s ugh. flapping around

I wouldn't say I'm scared of them per se, but I am a bit wary of Snakes, ever since some idiot put a big Python on my shoulders at School once.

I do remember being scared of a scene from WWF before I found out it was all fake where Jake "The Snake" Roberts set a massive King Cobra on "Macho Man" Randy Savage after their match... :gag:

I realise now that the Cobra had probably been de-venomised prior to the event otherwise it would never have been allowed to bite Randy Savage as it would've no doubt killed him there and then.

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I have a fear of :

Wasps : I once stood in a wasps nest and it was terrifying, I was only a young lad as well
Heights : but this only applies to bridges across roads, I live in a block of flats and that dont bother me, its fear of things going under me eg cars, but I can cross a bridge in the dark :suspect:

i cant stand polystyrene, the way it squeeks, makes me shiver, and gives me a head ache.

Oh and locking the back gate at night
*shudders*

I'm phobic about just one thing: Flying.

I had a bad experience where the plane had to suddently turn back on the runway and have one of its engines serviced (by a guy with a hand-held socket wrench!!:o) When I landed on home turf, I kissed the tarmac and promptly had a real-for-true panic attack. Just thinking about flying makes my palms sweat.

I always wondered why the late Pope always kissed the ground on landing :P

My phobia is tomato ketchup. does anyone else share this with me? and mayonaise freaks me out aswell

I also hate the feel and sound of polystyrene. Also have major problems with flocked wallpaper and fuzzy greetings cards.

How mad am I? OK don't answer that!

I also hate the feel and sound of polystyrene. Also have major problems with flocked wallpaper and fuzzy greetings cards.

How mad am I? OK don't answer that!


OK the polystyrene bit i can understand, but flocked wall paper!!!
YOU FREAK :hihi:

just kidding lol

5. Balloons....' BANG ' should be banned!

i hate balloons to always scared there going to explode very loudly, especially hate it when parents let small children have them because they dig there nails into them and it makes the horrible screeching noise and how they dig there teeth in them ewww. always get panicky and hold my ears closed waiting for it to bang or until there gone.:gag:

when i was little i used to be scared of car washes, had to always get out the car before it went in cant remember why thou:confused:

got a friend who is terrified of gypsies and melons, but if a gypsy is holding a melon its fine apparently they cancel each other out. strange :loopy: :confused:

my bf hates cotton wool it drives him mental also when i clean my nails by pushing my other nail under it and push up the dirt he hates the click cracking noise it makes apparently

Just found out that my colleague (Loopycool) has a Phobia of FOAM !!!! (packing foam not shaving foam)

How much fun am I going to have with him over the next few weeks?

He threatened to stab me when I showed him a piece and when I rubbed a bit on my teeth he said I was a dead man.

Does any body else have a strange Phobia.?

Not really a phobia (I don't think) but I can't stand people touching my knees, the thought makes me feel physically sick, duno why it just always has I really, really cant stand it. My mates think it's funny to try and touch them though cos I gip, there so mean!!!

He threatened to stab me when I showed him a piece

ROFLMAO! Sorry, it's just the way you said it! And it's such an unusual threat! :hihi: :hihi: I'm crying!

In my defence (if I have one) it just makes my teeth itch, my neck go all floppy and my eye's sink into my head. Ally that with the fact that Razr seems intent on making double entendre in my direction all the time and I'm sure you can understand why I'm getting violent !!!!

3 stupid things that get me, although only the first is a genuine phobia which instills irrational terror (no joke) and the urge to run away screaming:

1. daddy longlegses
2. the feel of wet or damp paper, especially newspaper - makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
3. all other insects (not spiders) - they're fine when they're alive, but when they're dead they make me feel disgusting and sick. A dead lacewing on the attic windowsill can be enough to keep me out of the attic room for weeks.

Not a proper phobia as it's not actually real but sometimes when I'm in the swimming pool I get scared there might be sharks. I'm serious! I know there are no sharks in swimming pools but for some reason when I'm halfway across I start hearing Jaws music in my head and I panic and do that crazy person shark attack swimming style to get to the edge as quickly as possible. I know I know! :loopy:

In my defence (if I have one) it just makes my teeth itch, my neck go all floppy and my eye's sink into my head. Ally that with the fact that Razr seems intent on making double entendre in my direction all the time and I'm sure you can understand why I'm getting violent !!!!

OMG, thats what it feels like wen poeple touch my knees or pretend to, my neck goes all funny and it's horribe (don't get the eye thing though:D ) I think you were well with in your rights to get a little violent!!!

I don't like drinking hot drinks out of glass mugs or metal mugs. One shatters, the other gets hot - they are just wrong.

Those machines that dispense sellotape - Mainly 'cos I did see someone catch their eye on one once and it makes me cringe now to think of it. The same lady also cut her eye on paper and got sand in it as well in the same month. Amazingly she's not blind. I'm rubbing my eyes now just thinking about it - eurgh!

OMG, thats what it feels like wen poeple touch my knees or pretend to, my neck goes all funny and it's horribe (don't get the eye thing though:D ) I think you were well with in your rights to get a little violent!!!

His eyes don't receed into his skull he made that bit up !!!


Those machines that dispense sellotape - Mainly 'cos I did see someone catch their eye on one once and it makes me cringe now to think of it. The same lady also cut her eye on paper and got sand in it as well in the same month. Amazingly she's not blind. I'm rubbing my eyes now just thinking about it - eurgh!

I think she's just a bit of a clumsy cow !!!

Balloons, I know its daft but hum ho.

Dont like overflowing toilets, and it particularly gives me an anxious tremour when the top cover is taken off :suspect:

His eyes don't receed into his skull he made that bit up !!!

Haha, u should go and tease him with some foam now for fibbing, try biting a piece!!!

i realli hate killer moths :s

Haha, u should go and tease him with some foam now for fibbing, try biting a piece!!!

Don't bl00dy encourage him, he's bad enough as it is !!!!

Don't bl00dy encourage him, he's bad enough as it is !!!!

Oky, sorry... RazerSHarp..........put down the foam and step away from LoopyCool!!!

too late I stabbed him inna knee ;)

What was your weapon of choice??

It wasn't foam... he used a pink hanled silver spoon !!!

What was your weapon of choice??

A Bic biro followed up by a head-whupping with a copy of the Metro.

not really a phobia, but cotton wool, i hate the stuff, and the thought of biting on it ....:gag: , makes me cringe just thinking about it.

and wasps, i'm the nutty woman who throws her arms in the air screaming when one comes near, don't half get funny looks:loopy:
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Packing foam? I hate it too! Ugh! :o

And escalators. I'm not fond of velvet either.

My mother has a fear of cooked pasta! She says it's all slimy.

Dont like overflowing toilets, and it particularly gives me an anxious tremour when the top cover is taken off :suspect:



i know what you mean,although ive grown out of having to open bathroom door before flushing(for fear the bog could create a tidal wave that may then suck me down it as it retreats) *shivers* :gag:

not really a phobia, but cotton wool, i hate the stuff, and the thought of biting on it ....:gag: , makes me cringe just thinking about it.

and wasps, i'm the nutty woman who throws her arms in the air screaming when one comes near, don't half get funny looks:loopy:

SNAP!

I hate the idea of tearing cotton wool apart....yeeeek!

And I hate bees and wasps with a vengeance.

If I ever encounter a swarm of bees carring cotton wool balls, I'm dead. :)

mathom-did you ever see any of those horrible 'safety' adverts showing a rag doll being ripped/torn to pieces when it got caught in the escalator? :o

tell you what,it put me off :gag:

Crabs - The sort that live in the sea mind :D

hey mum itz ur son (reece)

my phobia is my mum (pinklady) because she drives me crazy and she never gives me the laptop and all she dus is rant in my ear its :rant: :rant: :rant: all the blooming time lol not really i love ya mum :love:

Here's a weird one for you. One of my phobias I can't even bear thinking about ( but I've made an exception for this thread), let alone looking at or touching...............Brillo Pads..............:gag: Don't ask...............

here goes
1. drinking out of white mugs??! i just cant bring myself to do it
2. ice (not ice you put in the drink) ice on the floor in winter, obvious reasons
3. tat draws (the ones that mothers put all the bits and bobs such as buttons and pins in) especially white ones

mathom-did you ever see any of those horrible 'safety' adverts showing a rag doll being ripped/torn to pieces when it got caught in the escalator? :o

tell you what,it put me off :gag:

I did! :o They had me terrified! Then after a while I was OK using them, but then I got so I couldn't see the steps properly on them so I started to freak again so now I have to totally avoid going down them! :o

Then there were those scary films about slurry pits too, I still have nightmares about those!

knees, ughhhhhhhhhhh. I hate them, the way that your knee cap moves when your leg is straight. this is making me cringe just typing about it. can't stand anyone touching my knees at all.

also when I was younger I fell over and smashed my knee on the floor, the bits of cartlidge now float around on the top of my kneecap and a I can pop them back into the hole which they came from....nice!! my knee used to come out of joint (to the side) and I'd have to pop it back in.....it's no wonder I have a phobia really is it?

Here's a weird one for you. One of my phobias I can't even bear thinking about ( but I've made an exception for this thread), let alone looking at or touching...............Brillo Pads..............:gag: Don't ask...............


Me too...

aaaaaaargh... just the thought....


*shudder*

here goes
1. drinking out of white mugs??! i just cant bring myself to do it
2. ice (not ice you put in the drink) ice on the floor in winter, obvious reasons
3. tat draws (the ones that mothers put all the bits and bobs such as buttons and pins in) especially white ones
I hate drinking out of thick lipped mugs. Bone china all the way for me. Otherwise the tea tastes funny - and it makes my teeth shiver in the most unpleasant way.:nono:

a spider crawling into my mouth when I'm asleep and getting stuck in my throat and me choking on it :gag: :loopy:

Ihate those bedrooms in caravans when your wedged in the corner, also blankets or quilts pulled tight over me in bed?:help:

When I was little I had a phobia about buying new shoes!! My Mum had to drag me kicking and screaming to the shoe shop and I hated trying them on!! In fact, I think I've only actually fairly recently got over this and now make up for lost time!! haha!

Those revolving doors. They give me the heeby jeebies! I always think someone's gonna press the button that makes them go real fast and I'm gonna get whacked/trapped/have to run round and round in it!

Wet wool- couldn't hand wash the babies cardigans.

Cotton wool- it squeaks, makes my hair stand on end.

Earwigs:gag: When we were on holiday one year, I bent to kiss the little un' 'night, night' and there was the biggest earwig on his pillow beside his head:shocked:

Spiders- aint everyone??

Banana's- if they've got to be bright yellow, if they have the slightest bit of brown I cant touch em':loopy:

Wasps........I hate them...........only been stung once though when one happened to get entrapped in a pyjama jacket I was putting on many years ago.

I found out 2 weeks ago, whilst fetching a loaf of bread for an elderly neighbour, on strict instructions, via my wife, that she had a phobia about touching the waxed paper wrapping still used by some manufacturers.

How she managed to cope when sliced bread always used to come in this type of packaging I have no idea. :|

ketchup, not only can i not eat it or smell but if i touched it i think i'd die

i have a morbid fear that one day the worlds beer resources will run out and that the only drink in pubs would be them ponsy vivid coloured alcopop things that wuzzes drink . so i'm not taking any chances and drinking as much as poss now
i also have nightmares about not being able to get any pork scratchings in pubs . and the only snacks available would be walkers prawn cocktail crisps
i'd rather lick a dogs bottom

i'd rather lick a dogs bottom
Don't think that'll ever take off as a pub snack, not in England anyhow :gag:

Take a look here ---> Unusual Phobia's (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6228&highlight=phobias)

Okay two fairly weird ones for me:

1) Wrists – I don’t like looking at mine or other peoples, People can’t touch mine and I can’t wear watches/bracelets etc.
2) Snakes coming up the toilet and biting me on the bum! This may sound irrational but I know it can happen!!! Especially fear this after watching scary films – even if they have nothing to do with toilets or snakes!
:confused:

People who dress up as things - this includes mime artists (*shudders*), clowns, those HORRIBLE people who dress up as animals or characters for publicity or 'entertainment' purposes or people dressed as historical figures.
It should be made illegal. It causes me great distress and terror when i see anything like this, which leads to embarassment.

Mime artists are the worst. They go against everything that is natural and safe. There is nothing entertaining about this. It is odd - and VERY scary.

The skin that forms on hot milky drinks and puddings. It is evil.

My Phobia is doppelgangers, mainly on film, I can't bear to watch a film where someone takes on someone else's character in a physical form (ie when someone else pretends to be Spiderman etc. I don't know why but I just have to turn off. How strange is that?:loopy:

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Originally posted by RazorSHarp
My Phobia is doppelgangers, mainly on film, I can't bear to watch a film where someone takes on someone else's character in a physical form (ie when someone else pretends to be Spiderman etc. I don't know why but I just have to turn off. How strange is that?

And you took the mickey out of LoopyCool for not liking foam.... :huh:

And you took the mickey out of LoopyCool for not liking foam.... :huh:

MMmmmmm, maybe I was a little harsh on him!!............ No!....... being scared of foam rubber to a point where you can back him into a corner with a small piece of it is still weirder than mine.

Wasps
Wasps
Wasps
Earwigs :gag:

you can back him into a corner with a small piece of it

Pffft! You could go a long way with this one!

But I must agree with you.. it's very weird.

Gawd, I'm so lucky, I have no phobias, not even 'normal' ones.

As the unfortunate subject of this thread when it first started (many moons ago!!) I'm delighted to report that there is another in my office who has an odder, more disturbing phobia than my disinclination towards packing foam namely. . . . . . .

Cuppa Soup.

Now, I can understand not liking them, I can even understand hatred for them . . . but running away at the sight ???

I no longer the owner of the weirdest phobia WOOHOO ;p

You're not wrong there mate!

I'm scared of spiders, although it's common, I think it's odd that I'm not scared by any other bugs at all. Also, large spiders, like taratulas don't bother me. just the small ones in my house.

As a child I was terrified of going up steep roads in a car incase we rolled back down. I had frequent nightmares about it and still have one every now and then. Now I drive I still avoid them at all costs!
same here i had a dream last nigth about driving up a steep road woke up sweating also have a phobia of bellybuttons cant stand them they make my skin crawl

I've asked around but I don't know anyone else who shares this really strange phobia with me.
If I see a picure of the earth from space it freaks me out and I can't look at it.
This got me thinking...
I can see why our species might have developed phobias for snakes, spiders etc., but why should harmless phobias exist?

sort of phobias i have are

i hate the screeching noise of polystyrene, fingers on blackboard etc
i used to hate the feel of socks on my feet without shoes on, im not too bad now, but i still hate wooly gloves on my hands
when i walk on the grass my feet go all tingley in case i stand in dog****

and im not too tough on puke, i hate being sick, cant remember the last time i was sick, i hold it in no matter what
somebodys sick, thats me, sick

i also cant stand things in my mouth, a hair, finger, bread stuck to the roof of my mouth makes me want to chuck

Get ready for some weird ones on here.

Too much spare space in people's head is my answer to your question.

I dont have any strange ones, but today my mum was on the phone and was trying to organise balloons and banners for someones birthday at work and she was telling her friend who was at work over the phone that she'd put the balloons in a bag in a draw, then i heard "oh i didnt know you had a balloon phobia....yeah i know about (name's) balloon phobia but i didnt know about yours."

I was laughing, i'd never heard of being scared of balloons!

Also, I don't like to look at aircraft in flight but I don't have a fear of flying!
What's that all about then?

I was laughing, i'd never heard of being scared of balloons!

At last, someone with a stranger phobia than me!

i think its Jade Goody whose scared of tomato ketchup, i dont get that, probably because i 'ruin' most of my food with loadsa tomato ketchup...but why, whats scarey about red sauce?:confused:

yours dont seem too strange malcy :P is it like a vertigo/heights thing, because in films and things when people are high up or on top of building it makes my dad feel all funny because hes abit scared of heights

hmmmm has to be work!

On the subject of fear of heights, does anyone else get the feeling when you're up somehwere high, that you're not scared of simply falling, but you feel a strange force pulling you to the edge, daring you to jump? It's nothing to do with feeling suicidal, just a wierd compulsion that is in itself quite scary. Part of you has to actively stop yourself from doing it. Where on earth does that come from?

I think i kinda know what your on about. when i was about 12 I fell in a reservoir (not high i know) but i was like looking 'into' the water and i felt like i was drawn to the edge and it was strange, only way i could describe it is 'outer body experience' which is abit of a dramatic expression but it was so weird! I like saw it from a different angle and not as it was happening. :loopy: I know! And the first thing i said when i 'shot' back out the water was "that wasn't me!"

a guy at work is convinced his mother in law has a phobia of pineapples

I really don't like tidal waves.

Even if it's just a film or tv program.

An ex colleague used to scream and run off if a banana was near her.

So of course I started throwing banana skins at her as well as secreting them into her bag.