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Phobias - what's yours?

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Ilovesweatybollocks · 02/08/2019 14:43

Just wondered if anyone has any unusual phobias?

Mine is glitter, can't stand it anywhere near me so buying birthday cards isn't easy and I have to wear latex gloves to open my birthday and Christmas cards.

I also hate the m word (m*t) and if you don't know what I'm on about it's often used to describe a cake that isn't dry.

This is my first post so you could say I'm a virgin but only on here so be kind if I cock this up Smile

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origamiunicorn · 02/08/2019 17:22

Bell peppers*

AndMyBirdCanSing · 02/08/2019 17:32

Jellyfish

Also big moths and butterfly houses.

Greyeye · 02/08/2019 17:50

Dog poo on the ground.

I can't go into my own garden because I am so frightened that there is dog poo there. It's ridiculous.

I get extremely anxious if there is a poo on the ground and I have to walk near it.

I obsess about a poo I see on the street, especially if it is there for more than a day.

The irony of this is that I work as a professional dog walker and have no problem cleaning up after the dogs I walk.

I am a dog owner too and, again, have no problem cleaning up after my dogs.

I am anxious about the cat litter tray in my house. If there is a poo in it, I dispose of it immediately. In the night, if I visit the bathroom, I avoid looking at the cat tray in case there is a poo there.

It's old poos that terrify me.

I also hate heights.

I had, until a few years ago, a phobia of people vomiting. It started when, as a child, I heard my mother vomiting and screaming afterwards. I had a panic attack, some years later, when my brother vomited. My mother slapped my face, which made the experience worse. I think I was cured of that phobia after my then toddler had a vomiting virus.

Whoopstheregomyinsides · 02/08/2019 18:00

I’m not petrified of but dislike spiral stair cases a lot after being in a very busy one in Koln? I think. Too many people going up and down and I was terrified of slipping. I often have dreams the steps give way, I fall, then wake up
Slugs can do one too

plantwhisperer · 02/08/2019 18:01

Vomiting (emetophobia) though funnily enough I'd rather I get sick over my partner as it's scarier waiting whilst someone else is sick wondering if you'll get it next!

Crowds (hate them!)
Flying & being away from home (but still do it)

Lozz22 · 02/08/2019 18:02

Trypophobia. It's a phobia of patterns and holes.

Nonstopbuttmachine · 02/08/2019 18:03

Balloons. I'm 46 years old and still fucking hate them, especially watching people blow them up. I have really sensitive hearing though so it's the bursting of them I dread (feels like someone has fired a gun right next to my head)

Fuzzyend · 02/08/2019 18:06

Big rivers - find it very hard to go over them on bridges, especially walking.

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RedSheep73 · 02/08/2019 18:15

Heights, but they don't have to very high, it's more edges of things I suppose. Open stairs, stairs or walkways with glass railings, bridges where you can see through to the water. We were on a jetty on a lake recently and it can't gave been a foot above the water but I still went dizzy and peculiar.

BearSoFair · 02/08/2019 18:17

Crabs. I can't even watch a video of one, can just about stand seeing a photo. It's something about their legs and the way they move.

DappledThings · 02/08/2019 18:18

Spiders. Boring one and I have come along a bit with it so I can trap and release spiders if DH isn't around but it leaves shaking and sweating.

Birthdays and presents and fuss and everything associated with it. Best day of the year is the day after my birthday when I know it's a whole year away.

GrrrAaargh · 02/08/2019 18:19

Just your ordinary boring social phobia. (I know it's usually called social anxiety, but my psychiatrist back in the day used the term phobia.)

I'm also very nervous about depths, rather than heights. I get quite anxious while flying over the ocean, for example, because of the whole ocean underneath me. But it's not a phobia, really, as it doesn't stop me from doing anything I'd ordinarily do.

DecomposingComposers · 02/08/2019 18:20

Brushed metal, like handrails or deodorant cans. I cannot touch them at all.

stresseddaughter · 02/08/2019 18:23

Heights , in all forms , even fucking bunk beds . I can’t cope at all with tall buildings (my own house excepted), it’s caused huge problems before now - my university has a 15 floor tower and I struggle massively to go to class in it . Also tall or vaulted ceilings - Glasgow Royal Infirmary was a special one when I was trying to find somewhere and found a five floor atrium ...

I’m also funny with bouncy castles and inflatables but had a bad accident with one as a child , nearly suffocated .

crosser62 · 02/08/2019 18:25

Dogs.
Big or small.
Hands sweat, can’t breath, shake, get hot and panic if I see one.
I cross to the other side of the road.
Didn’t go to mils house for 7 years when she got one.
I am not scared of them, I am utterly terrified of them.

Funnily enough people tell me that I would LOVE theirs as theirs are so soft.. no. Absolutely not, I couldn’t be in the same room as one.

nomushrooms · 02/08/2019 18:28

@allymcn I’m with you on wards! Contrary to popular belief it’s not the sting, it’s the way that they fly - hovering around with intent. And don’t even get me started on dead ones 🤮

Weirdly, I can cope with hornets. We get loads around here in the summer due to the woods, and I just shoo them out of the house no issue. I guess they fly differently, and don’t try to destroy every outside activity possible.

nomushrooms · 02/08/2019 18:29

*wasps

BarrytheFatcat · 02/08/2019 18:34

I don't if there's a word for it, I hate very tall buildings, like sky scrapers just standing near one makes me feel faint.

sweetkitty · 02/08/2019 18:39

Slugs and snails even typing this makes me wretch. Can’t go outside at night, I have rabbits and they go in their hutch after the food their was on on their plate the other night and I had to throw it in the bin.

3boysandabump · 02/08/2019 21:45

Birds and salad cream

writersbeenblocked · 02/08/2019 21:50

Bats, flying, heights, busy social situations - and weirdly, hand dryers! Just the sheer amount of noise they make in an otherwise enclosed space I think.

Mipiace · 02/08/2019 21:55

Taphephobia. Fear of being buried alive:(

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 02/08/2019 22:10

The word figure.
Stairs with gaps in them.
Also like pp spiral stairs cases.
Anything in water that shouldn't be there.
Anything out of water that shouldn't be. Eg
ships in dry dock.
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mrspotatohed · 02/08/2019 22:10

@allymcn are you me?! My boyfriend is the same says I make a holy show of him in public with my screaming and runningGrin

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