Unusual phobias?

[Lollypop4]

Anyone have any?

DD (17) has a big phobia of .......stickers!
I often hear a 'shriek' and know it is'nt a Spider for example, but a sticker ( usually stuck in random places by her young siblings or she asks for them to be removed from clothing/packaging ect )

@FiveGensOfLove

Jewellery. Especially chain necklaces. Even typing the word makes me shudder. Can’t touch any of it. If you’re wearing a lot of it, especially more than one chain, I’ll struggle to speak to you. And men wearing chains is an automatic turnoff. The whole Normal People/Connor’s chain thing was the most incomprehensible thing about the last year for me!

I think for many it was Connell and not the actual chain that was the attraction.

Along the jewellery line earlobes with the huge stretchy holes make me shudder.

I have agoraphobia.

Tin foil-just knowing it’s in the supermarket makes me feel sick
Blood-I go cold and shaky at the thought
Needles-ditto

Mine is stickers too, I feel physically sick seeing them and panicky if I have to touch one

@clipclop5

Newspapers! Anything printed sets me off to be honest. New books are my idea of hell and even magazines aren’t my best friend. Mostly because of the smell but also hate getting ink on my hands. Has been this way since I was a toddler so don’t think there’s any chance of it going away!

That's one of my favourite smells in the whole world. I love bookshops for the smell of paper and ink! Weird how we are all so different!

I hate crowds too. I never thought this was a phobia but because I'm autistic. Maybe it is a phobia though. I take huge detours to avoid them to the point where I sometimes walk three more miles than I need to to avoid the Edinburgh Festival crowds when it's on. I know this is strange and possibly disordered behaviour but I cannot not do it.

Trypophobia. Small holes. Am not going to describe it any more as it makes my skin crawl just mentioning it!

Is anyone else scared of bangs? I can hold a balloon myself because I know I'm not going to pop it so it's not really balloons, but any sudden bang like a crisp packet being popped. Not sure if there is a name for this.

@WhatsALieIn

I agree with everything you say. It's not fear, it's revulsion. I think I'm slowly getting better but at it's worst i didn't even want to say the word.

I've got button phobia too. I've learned to cope but I'd never willingly touch one. I keep it a secret because people would ask too many questions because it's so weird.

I also have a baked bean phobia. I don't mind talking about that one.

Space . I find it really weird and incomprehensible that it goes on forever and has always been there and wasn’t just put there by someone . How? The same as concepts such as God and Jesus . It makes no sense at all and frightens the hell out of me . I quite often start thinking about it at night and have to put eg Friends on Netflix to block it out !

In the late 70s early 80s when I grew up I was terrified of siphonic toilets, which were then in fashion. They mainly came with a pampas green bathroom suite. Grandfather had one, huge trauma visiting there! I'm still a bit wary of them or strange loos. I do have weird dreams of overflowing toilets. Am I alone in this madness?

When I was working as a therapist I knew one therapist who had a patient who had a fear of yellow balloons. Just yellow ones.

Also video cassettes . That’s more inexplicable . Can’t sleep with one in the same room as me . Thankfully that’s become much, much less of an issue in the last twenty years !!

80s horror movie maybe?

@Yorkshirelass04

Trypophobia. Small holes. Am not going to describe it any more as it makes my skin crawl just mentioning it!

Me too, I couldn’t bare to type out a description

I've posted about this on here before....
I'm scared to death of men cross dressers. Not as bad with the ones that are convincing, but if they look like men, it stresses me to the point I feel ill.

Also, a very random one, but years ago I owned a Ford Galaxy. When the rear seats were tilted forwards it exposed the back legs of the seat, which were big metal hooks to secure it to the floor.
I used to get panicky looking at them, imagining body parts getting trapped under them. In the end I had to take the seats out and store them in the garage.

I’ve an irrational fear of the grate in a swimming pool, won’t swim over it and try to be as far away from it as possible. Weirdly its not a fear of being sucked in but something coming out of it.

Very tall trees, buildings, cliffs, waves. Mountains are fine (more of a gradual incline) but anything very tall perpendicular to the ground makes me feel sick.

I can't take an escalator. I have tried so hard but I just can't step on to it. I saw some teens running down the escalator and made a man fall down in London when I was 4 or 5. My auntie told me I would not go on escalator and they had to take me in lift to get me back up. I don't remember it. A few years ago I was in a large store on level 3 and fire alarm went off. They would not let me use the lift. The escalator stopped but I could still not get on it. Eventually a manager allowed me to use staff stairs to escape.

Cockroaches! Ever since a lovely child at school put one in my outdoor shoe - I put it on and crunched all the way down the school drive! I just can't bear the look or smell of them.

DH has a boat which has a lifting keel. It lifts into the middle of the main cabin and it looks horrible with the water round it INSIDE the boat. Makes my legs go wobbly - I don't know why I don't like it though!

I don't think it's a phobia but this ASMR trend really distresses me
Oh Christ yes, if I accidentally hear any of it I actually feel physically sick, it’s an instantaneous and overwhelming reaction to it, does that count as a phobia?