Just posted on a thread about people being scared of clowns, as my dd is.
just wonderin, does anyone else have a phobia?
i do, it's birds, am absolutely and totally terrified of them, from a budgie to an eagle, they all scare the bejeesus out of me. Can't pass a pidgeon..(yuk..fearless critters), and I will go out of my way to avoid the scary chickens at the kiddos farmyard.
Is anyone else so irrationally scared of anything, or am I the only big scaredy cat here??? BTW...birds are a hard thing to avoid, they are everywhere, and I can scan an area in seconds to make sure there are none around before I know it's safe to go in or out!!
Seriously, it's a very inhibiting thing, a phobia, and it's getting worse, not better with age!
Spiders. My mind gets tired sometimes and pulls out some generic spider dream to scare the crap out of me... nowadays I know it's the same old thing but it's still scary. Particularly I'm scared that one day a spider will be sitting in the toilet and when I sit on it, I'll get bit. There are NO spider types where I live that would do this. Granddaddy longlegs are included in my spider phobia and seem to be in about the same category as tarantulas for the quality of screech they elicit from me.
My DH is a heights person, my daughter likes being scared so I don't know if she has any actual phobias, and I know someone who is terrified of anime.
I am severely needle phobic. Ad this is not a good thing as a person who is regularly a patient in the hospital. I always warn, if I need an IV or anything. There was one time that I did not warn the people who were doing an in office procedure. It was my plastic surgeon, his new nurse, and the drug rep. My surgeon knew, I had told him in my last visit with him and was on the edge of tears when discussing this procedure.
It was a thing similar to botox but much heavier duty material (don't know what it was called). I was fine for a while. Then all of a sudden I started to freak out. I was crying, hyperventilating, unable to speak, and shaking. I scared everyone in the room. They thought I was in agony, but I was totally numbed up by emla and a local anesthetic.
I then got VERY embarrassed after that, when my body relaxed and I was then alright and calmed down.
chow's~ when i was a small child i was attacked by a chow puppy (about 8 months old, he was) that my ex-step father insisted on getting. it tried to eat me alive! i had stitches everywhere. it was embarrassing, as i even had them in my rear end. i love all other dogs, just not that kind! (i still have scars and i'm 30 years old!)
bees and other things that sting~ i'm allergic to bees, though
heights~ i will get on a ladder if need be, as long as it isn't that high. but anything else, forget it!
water~ i know how to swim. i will take showers, you know. but as for the ocean or other bodies of water, forget it! when i was young, the same jerk step father i had knew i couldn't swim and swam out in a lake holding me, then threw me into the deep water. what a jerk! when i was in fourth grade we had to take swimming lessons and i cried and was so embarrassed because i was afraid to put my head in the water (because of the above incident) and the kids laughed at me and teased me. as for the ocean, i just respect it and how big it is. i fear it will swallow me up if i get too close. otherwise, it's beautiful! i did end up teaching myself how to swim well enough to save myself if i had to when i was in high school, as where we lived we had a swimming pool. i only got in there to do it if the pool was empty and nobody was around, though.
creepy, dark basements. you won't catch me in any basements, except maybe my own, and that's only if all the lights are on. half the time i won't go down there, though, especially at night. (no wonder my laundry never gets caught up!!!)
people touching my eyes~ i'm really going to be in a pickle if i ever have an accident involving my eyes. i refuse to allow anyone to come near my eyes for any reason. i had to switch eye doctors a couple times cause they got so angry at me! it's weird, cause i wear contacts. i can touch my own eyes, just nobody or nothing else better even try!
this one is going to sound awful. and it's embarrassing. i am terrified of hospitals, doctors, nurses, and medical stuff. i've been reading here for a long time. when i found this site, i started reading hoping it would help me with these fears somehow. i don't know why i have these fears. perhaps because scary things happen in hospitals. i don't like needles one bit, or having proceedures done, especially if i don't know what to expect. kind of strange, because i have three kids. i had a midwife who delivered all of them, though, and she was very good to me. this fear also makes things difficult at times, as i have a tachycardia problem. i've only had to have my heart slowed down twice, thank goodness! both times, it was very scary, though. it's also very painful. i'm sure it didn't help that i was never told what they were doing or what to expect, either. needless to say, i take my medication religiously!!! my doctors also taught me how to slow it down myself if it starts beating too fast. (they did say it only works if i do those things right away, though.) anyway, maybe some of it's just fear of the unknown, or maybe it's because most of my experiences with that stuff has been negative. i don't know. you guys have helped me with this on some level, though, so thanks for that! perhaps some day i'll get over these fears.
i think that's all. wow. that's a lot of phobias!!! :imbar
Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.
Really high heights; tried the ferris wheel recently. Couldn't do it, they had to get me off. So embarassed.
Spiders; yuck, yuck, yuck. This fear started when I was about 7 and my sister took me to see a Black Beauty double-feature at the theater. During intermission they played a preview for a spider movie where spiders take over the world. (OT, Remember all of those crazy movies about giant ants, rats, killer bees in the 70's?)
Deep water; could never do a cruise. I would just die. Funny thing is my DH is terrified of planes. So I guess no overseas trips for us, unless we travel seperately. Needless to say, I don't like looong bridges over water for this very reason. The one in Virginia/Delaware gave me fits as a child.
Spiders. My mind gets tired sometimes and pulls out some generic spider dream to scare the crap out of me... nowadays I know it's the same old thing but it's still scary. Particularly I'm scared that one day a spider will be sitting in the toilet and when I sit on it, I'll get bit. There are NO spider types where I live that would do this. Granddaddy longlegs are included in my spider phobia and seem to be in about the same category as tarantulas for the quality of screech they elicit from me.
My DH is a heights person, my daughter likes being scared so I don't know if she has any actual phobias, and I know someone who is terrified of anime.
Spider on the toilet! I don't like spiders either. Where we lived in Sarasota there are some strange critters, especially spiders. When I was living in Sarasota, we were getting remodeling done on the house and sometimes the house would be open for several hours during the day. One afternoon I came home with a handful of mail and the need to answer nature's call, so I figured I would catch up on my reading while doing my business. No sooner had my fanny hit the porcelain when I felt something run across my buns. I looked just in time to see one of those huge Sarasota wolf spiders launch out the side of the toilet and hit the tile floor in a dead run. When he got to the hall he hung a left and disappeared. Well, I just couldn't casually do a poop with one of those things loose in the house so my priorities changed to getting that spider right now. Of course I couldn't find the darn thing so I put down some Home Defense in strategic spots and he was TU by morning.
Those Sarasota wolf spiders looked ferocious. They were huge in diameter but paper thin so they could get in just about anyplace. And they were FAST. When you found one in a room and tried to stomp it it would just disappear and you just knew it had run up your pants leg and was just hiding in the middle of your back and waiting to bite you someplace. They would play possum too. When you surprised them they would play dead and when you left to get something to pick up the carcass with it was gone. Then you had the thought of that thing running loose in the house like some sort of little alien ready to strike without warning. The only thing good about them was that they were very intolerant of other spiders. If you had one in the house, you knew there was only one. You wouldn't just find dead spiders around, they were torn apart into little pieces. But the thought of even one was scary. Thing about it is I never met anyone who could say they were ever bit by one. They probably caused more heart attacks than anything.
Bugs of any kind, its like they all know I'm afraid of them.My family anmd friends laugh but will assure you iots true that if there are 50 people outside with me, and 1 bug, it will get on me, Yuck!
This makes interesting reading folks...Thanks to all who replied to this thread I posted, with both the "normal" and the Unusual phobias. Still wondering why we are all afraid of what we are afraid of??????? Some have it in a nutshell..being attacked by something you then fear is reasonable. For the rest of us...irrational fear is such a mindblower...WHY???
Thats my big question to myself YET AGAIN this morning...I just finished night shift, I want to go into my garden, where I have beautiful trees and plants, and sit awhile in the early morning sunshine...(oh, Ok ..and have a ciggie or two..,)..., BUT, ..I can't , theres far too many dang birds in the beautiful trees, and they are nesting and squalking and REALLY freakin me out!! I must look like such a freak show, sitting on my chair, then diving for cover to the door, as yet another bird swoops..not near my head, but within my sight and hearing..thats bad enough, way too much!
Guess I'm gonna look for a mesh covering for my garden...lets all the sunlight in, and keeps the winged warriors out!!!..............(if only!!)
1. Cockroaches....they can live through anything, they're fast and they are dirty.
2. NON-treated OR under-treatment of pain when I am old.
I feel that as a young(er) person, I am taken seriously and I can stand my ground. I am absolutely terrified of being old and not having anyone as my advocate and being forced to suffer through pain because some jerk is worried about the possibility of a so-called'addiction'.
Honestly, this worries me on a daily basis. I know, I know....I am probably wasting energy on this, but I really am scared of how I will be treated, medically.
I have seen and heard so many horror stories about people suffering needlessly.
Balloons set my skin to crawling and make me cry. The popping and squeaking is what really bothers me but just the sight of a balloon is enough. I don't know why everyone thinks it's so funny when I react this way!
green12, the balloon thing! My great big son, nearly 16, has the very same phobia. He freaks ..(in a wee teenage man type way, I hasten to add!!!, to save his blushes!!),
he just cant be near the things either!
Those and spiders...he's climbing on a chair,( head hitting the ceiling!) while his Mammy picks them up with her hands! See, give me a spider anyday, just no birds or flying stuff...moths REALLY freak me too!
Needless to say, I don't like looong bridges over water for this very reason. The one in Virginia/Delaware gave me fits as a child.
sitting on my chair, then diving for cover to the door, as yet another bird swoops..not near my head, but within my sight and hearing..thats bad enough, way too much!
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omg. you steped on a tralantula!! every hair on my body is sticking up!!!!please tell me you were wearing shoes.