What is your phobia?

I’m scared of needles but specificly in my mouth, so I dread dentist…I get so scared it’s like I supress the anasthesia.

Writer’s block

I’d tell you how it makes me feel, but… AAUUUGHHHH .... there it is again!

“What are you afraid of and WHY?” Spiders, dunno.

“How does it make you feel when you encounter what it is that makes you scared?”
If it’s here it must die now! Then I hunt for it, lol.

Death. I think most phobias can be traced back to death.

Social situations, especially groups of people. My first instinctual response is “get the hell out of there”.

Puking, either by me, or being anywhere near someone who is or is about to.

@Freedom_Issues – would you please chime in on my new question?

“Slang for throwing up?”

Snakes, thankfully I’ve avoided them so far.

Fluther being blocked at work.

Needles in my veins like for blood tests or IV antibiotics.

Yeah I would definitely win the award for worst (or most inept) junkie in the world.

Unemployment. And when it happens, I’m just not right until I find another job. I know that sounds obvious, but I mean I’m REALLY not right until I find another job, ya know?

Yeah totally.

I don’t have any.

lol button I don’t really mind those don’t know why…it’s just the ones in my mouth that hurt…I guess it’s the fact that I can’t really see what goes in there, and the dentist doesn’t like me because I jump at every little sharp pain…

I did @stratman37 but it got yanked. I put: Puke, spew, cast, upchuck, worship the porcelin god…

There is another slang term for it that’s pretty funny, I can’t remember it right now but when I see it again I will tell you.

Mice, and I have no idea why. I didn’t use to have this phobia. I can’t hardly even look at a picture of one if I come across one online.

Yeah I don’t like mice either…or rats…their bodies are soo squishy…and they are just so ugly…well to me…

Big bugs. They just make me shiver.

@Freedom_Issues – thanx, the mods told me it would be better served in a chatroom…

Spiders, bugs, insects. I have no idea why, either. I used to play with bugs when I was a kid and then one day I had a completely irrational fear about them. I also think they’re alien to this world.

And, to a minor degree, lobsters, crawfish, and crabs if they’re alive. I have no problem eating them but they give me the willies when they’re still living.

Answering questions, but I’m really working on it.

Dog bites.

Anything so much as touches me on my calfs and I start screaming a dog has bitten me. Amazingly, I do like dogs but since the time I was bitten by a dog I react this way.

Walking barefoot on the beach at night, sticking my hand in places I cannot see, spiderwebs in my hair.

@stratman37 hurl, ralph, barf, yak, technicolor yawn

Tttt…..ty…..typing…..o.o.oon…th..th..this kk…kk..kk…key….keyboard. (ulp) I….nn..nn…never know….wh…wh..wh..what I’m…gonna type….nn…nn….next.

@Ansible1 “technicolor yawn” haha, what? I’m so gonna use that from now on!

@Lua_cara I was also bitten by a dog on my calf when I was very young. For a few years I was terrified of dogs, but have since overcome it and don’t even think about it anymore. I still have the scar on my leg and always will.

@Ansible1 – thanx!

With my girlfriend it’s frogs. I’ve never heard of anyone with this phobia. I have to be sure that she doesn’t see any when we’re out. Utterly charming. (Everything about her is, in contradistinction to me.)

Heights. I don’t know why but it’s heights.

I like frog plushes but I can’t stand the real deal…they are just slimmy and I like being barefoot so the idea of squishing one makes me want to throw up.. eh…

Butterflies
why I’m not sure just is.
But I have had it since I was a child. I now am at a point to where I can look at pictures of them, but when one is near me, it feels like I’m having a massive panic attack.

The dentist, intimacy, and car crashes.

awww..like my friend Fiddle…had horrible experience as a child with my dentist..still break out into a sweat when have to see the dentist!

also, having three foot putts on the 18th green for all the $$$!

Spiders.Especially poisonous ones

Boats, and most all bugs.

Barracudas. I was bitten by one while scuba diving, and I now have an ugly scar and a nice chunk of my right calf missing.

Sharks.I still go in the ocean.

Only phobo-phobia.

I have a phobia of vomiting. I have had it forever. I have a theory that people like me who have very strong gag reflexes might be more prone, but I have no data on this. (As an aside I also cannot swallow pills easily, I think it is all related).

I also am a little phobic about germs related to getting sick. So, I am not an obsessive handwasher, I don’t carry around Purell, and I will shake hands, BUT IF YOU ARE SICK, KEEP AWAY! Do not kiss me hello, or shake my hand, and please stay home the first couple days you are sick so you are not around others when you are most contagious. And, please…if you are congested and sneezing for one week, that means you were just flippin’ sick, not allergic to something. I am so tired of people saying it is allergies in December and it started with a sore throat, and winds up only lasting for a week. If someone does shake my hand and I realize they are sick, I will avoid touching my face, and try to wash my hands as soon as possible. But, it is only when it is obvious they might have given me something. If I am a situation where I have no choice but to be around someone who is sick, I just accept it and can move on mentally. I am not happy, but I don’t obsess about it, except to say I kind of wait to see if I come down with it over the next couple of days.

The reason I have become like this regarding getting sick is because I spent many years with a chronic illness and it is very upsetting to me to give any more of my life up to illness, especially if it was seemingly avoidable.

I just thought to add, I also do not walk around paranoid, like during the H1N1 scare. It is only when a sick person is face to face with me.

I am teriffied of snakes. When I see one I just freeze up. If they get close I cry : (

@Cotton101, I remember feeling like I was going to choke to death on the fucking rubber dam thing they crammed down my esophagus when I was 3 and had a few cavities. I haven’t had a cavity since but I still hate the dentist with every fiber of my being.

Hylephobia: Fear of Wood…the feel of wooden spoons, tongue depressors, popsicle sticks and wood chopsticks on my tongue, really creeps me out. The feel of un-sanded cut wood also creeps me out. Ironically I love trees and have a forestry degree.

Needles. The reason is simple… Have an injection aimed for a joint through scar tissue, hit bone instead, dig around, put the injection in cortisone so it hurts like hell in itself… and pull out a bent needle… I think I earned my needle issue.

Being buried alive would suck.

Heights and small closed spaces.

snakes! ugh..slithery and slim..man poisoning things SPIDERS!!ugh…creepy crawly hairy slow moving biting arachnids heights! ooo.just thinking about it gives me butterflies!

Claustrophobia. When I read stories and accounts of being buried in avalanches and unable to move I often have to put down the book and walk around to get my mind off what I have just read. I read a newspaper account of a spelunker who was trapped upside-down in a pinch point in a cave, unable to move backward or forward. I was in bed when I read it… I couldn’t stand to have the covers on my legs for awhile; even that little restriction to movement was too much. Sometimes I can’t even cross my legs comfortably, because… that way one of them can’t move. Weird.

Underwater. I grew up on a lake, and I’m a good swimmer and sailor. But I don’t like to see or touch what’s on the bottom of the lake, unless it’s sand or clean gravel. Weeds in the lake creep me out mightily, and part of the reason I became such a good swimmer was… “I’m not putting my foot down there!”

Otherwise, I think I’m pretty cool with stuff. Snakes don’t bother me, except that I have a healthy respect for them. I live with a few spiders and bugs in the house—that I know of—and as long as we stay out of each others’ face and they don’t ‘surprise’ me I’m okay. Heights? No problem; I’ve done rock climbing and walked naked steel construction (but I don’t like that!). I think the hollow needles used in blood drawing and the thin ones to give injections are pretty amazingly painless these days; I watch those operations (on me!) with great interest.

CyanoticWasp you’re now the second person that I know that doesn’t mind living with spiders and bugs in the house…

I too see when they are drawing blood…I just don’t like the ones in my mouth…

@wasp

Just for curiosity, how long have you been claustrophobic.

The main reason I ask is because one of the standard items required in most English Lit. classes is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe called, “The Cask of Amontillado” which I’m reasonably certain would be remembered by anyone who was claustrophobic. Or perhaps this could even bring it on.

Does this title ring a bell ? Just wondering.

@Buttonstc, oh, sure. I know Poe very well. The Pit and the Pendulum was another one that used to give me chills, even more. Cask wasn’t so much about claustrophobia, I think, as it is about enforced (and permanent) imprisonment. The horror of that story was the idea of being locked away, more, I think, than it was about the feelings that claustrophobia brings to me. Pendulum was worse for me because of the man strapped to the table and unable to move or change that. He also (I think it was him) wrote another story about a man who believes himself to have been buried alive. That’ll do it, too.

For me, the horror is in being immobile. (My absolute worst fear is about being rendered completely immobile, incommunicado… and conscious.)

I’ve been this way since I can recall.

Oh wow, your last paragraph reminds me that I have the same fear as what you describe in the last paragraph.

What you describe, completely immobile, unable to communicate and conscious is precisely what happens to people who experience something called “anesthesia awareness”.

That is everything you described above PLUS excruciating pain.

They did a news report on this a number of years ago and it was horrible.

Surgeons and Anesthesiologists don’t like to admit that this happens. They pooh-pooh this and attempt to discredit patients who claim this by insisting that the patient
was dreaming and merely imagined they were conscious.

But some people have repeated conversations between OR personnel verbatim after the were supposed to have already been sedated.

Can you imagine what it would be like to feel the scalpel slicing through you ? That’s exactly what has happened to some and they’ve Been traumatized for life.

The reason they can’t move a muscle, not even a finger or even cry is because a paralytic is administered along with the anesthesia.

Granted, the percentage of patients to whom this happens is small. But that’s little comfort if you end up being one of them. Percentages are hardly any comfort then.

There is a way to ensure adequate anesthesia with brain wave monitoring, but good luck finding a hospital that does this.

I eventually need knee replacements and I just dread the whole idea.

Untill you mentioned that, I had shoved it out of my mind. Just give me a good ol’ snake or spider any day. Anything is preferable to feeling oneself being sliced up and unable to stop it. Ugh.