WEIRD PHOBIAS

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I want to hear them....not your run of the mill dentists, spiders, heights, clowns, etc

The weird ones...

KETCHUP...otherwise known as "Mortuusequusphobia"

Began with the crust that forms on the top of a bottle...absolutely turns my stomach. Don't particularly like crusts on anything (old hand creams, mayonnaise etc) but ketchup really tops them all. The smell, the sight. My husband kindly moves any bottles away from tables at cafes/restaurants 😂

Don't get me started on those sachets that have the potential to burst/explode if pressure were to be exerted on one!!

Earwigs, I'm fine with all other insects and spiders (so long as they aren't the size of a small mouse) but earwigs make my skin crawl.

Worms and buttons!

Sparklers. It used to be carnage if I was in a bar and some bastard had one of those ridiculous drinks stuffed full of them.

Bonfire night I can avoid, arseholes drinking stupidly big naff drinks with added “fun” are sometimes harder 😂🤦‍♀️

I blame that TV ad with the screaming child. Traumatised I was.

In all seriousness though, I am
properly phobic of them still, but I have quite good normal looking responses after some help. I am
trying to avoid my toddler knowing ☺️

Pigeons

Wooden forks or spoons. Can't stand the feeling of the wood in my mouth or against my teeth. I shudder just looking at them.

Buttons 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Anything velvet and the feeling of feet/hands rubbing over carpet 🤢🤢 and also the sound of a broom on pavement 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Crumpets. It's the holes,🤢

Oh yes. Any raw, rough wood. The feel of it on hands or in mouth is positively disgusting. I’m shuddering just thinking about it. It shouldn’t be allowed.

I'm with @LaLibellule with the wood thing, I can barely even type it! But also I cannot be near any wet wood, also paper and cardboard to a lesser extent.

Oh my goodness, the feeling of hands and feet running over carpet. Me too, and people always look at me like I’m crazy if I mention it. I couldn’t scroll past without commenting!

another vote for (or against really!) pigeons

Wet chocolate bars.

But especially holes, I have had hypnotherapy so it is manageable but honestly they are horrid (not sand holes, or potholes, the semi organised ones, like a crumpet as pp said or worse a poppy seed head.

Balloons- completely freaks me out. Sooner they are banned for environmental reasons the better.

Tin foil
i just can’t-it stems from my childhood where my parents made a guy and shoved him in the bath
i was shit scared of him and years later I asked my dad what he was made out of
’well,his face,hands and feet where tin foil…’

Balloons. I'm absolutely terrified of them popping and the anticipation can trigger an anxiety attack. I once got off a bus and waited 15 minutes for the next one because a woman got on with a toddler in a buggy, and the kid was squeezing a balloon between their hands.

Ugh velvet make me heave! My daughter has velvet bedding and I refuse to wash it!

Ghosts in films/television. Not the obviously cartoony ones, I'm fine with the TV series ghosts for example.

But actually freaked out at Derry Girls last week. I was hiding under a blanket trying to block it out.

Yellow balloons (only yellow ones). I worked with a therapist who had a client with this.

Miss Piggy,
no idea why I have no feelings about the other muppets or sesame street creatures, just Miss Piggy.
The sight of her makes me feel really sick, hot and panicky

I can’t bear listening to people brush their teeth. I doesn’t bother me to brush my own teeth but listening to anyone else (on telly, in person) makes me want to heave. I have to really concentrate when I do DD’s! I’m not bothered about anything else to do with teeth or mouths, it’s specifically brushing them that bothers me!

Koumpounophobia.

Sounds weird.

It's a button phobia. Might sound weird to most people but it's actually not that rare.

I've got it. (To illustrate, typing the B word in full in the third sentence took steel.)

Whales. Just the thought makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Can't even look at a picture of one.

The noise of people brushing teeth - I can only brush my own up and down. Side to side makes me gag.
And socks rubbing on carpet. I have to sort of tiptoe around if have socks on.

Hammers. The look of the head just gives me the creeps to the point that it makes me feel physically sick. I think it's probably to do with that horrible Pink Floyd video though....