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!!

Garlic bulbs cut across ways. I love cooking programmes, but if they show a cut open garlic bulb I get all anxious, even panicky.

Frogs. Don't know why but I get all weak and shivery if I see one

Wooden spoons and forks

Not a phobia exactly but I can’t sit in a bath tub that is not my own one at home. Even if I clean the tub first. If there’s no shower, then I kneel in the ‘strange’ bath.

Thunder And lightning

I think it stems from things making me jump, I was terrified of balloon's and party poppers and fireworks when younger, These aren't too bad now but thunder

I can’t touch any paper based products after getting my hands wet.

It sends literal shivers down my spine.

I have to wait until my hands are not just wiped dried but fully air dried too.

I also can’t stand that microfibre material. Again, spine tinglers

@SpaceJamtart I feel this way about Big Bird! I can only think I must have watched Sesame Street whilst feeling sick as a child and now I associate Big Bird with the nauseous feelings.

Anything sticky on my neck.

And this one I've only recently realised. I have always had pets, I have a cat of my own but if I find another cat in my house (like they sometimes do) one that isn't mine. I feel sick, it's not even fear, it's like dread, it feels all wrong!! So strange 🤣

That's trypophobia I expect.

Giraffes, although it's not as bad as it was, used to regularly have nightmares about them.

Yes all of these. Was absolutely terrified of the Statue of Liberty when I went to New York. And don’t get me started about underwater statues covered in barnacles and seaweed 😱

Glad the sea one is not unique. Big boats freak me right out. Don't even mention oil rigs. 😖 there are videos circulating on the Internet of oil rigs come free from their moorings and coming on towards land!! Horrific.
I also agree feet are disgusting and I really don't want them anywhere near me. But not sure it's a phobia, more like gross out.

Fractals. I once put a music video on and I didn't know it had moving fractals in it, and I got the proper cold sweats and couldn't look at the screen, shaking etc. They're horrible. Apparently it comes from trypophobia (the fear of holes).

Thalassophobia - fear of large bodies of water/things under the water. I once fell off a windsurf in the middle of a loch and I couldn't breathe I was so frightened. I can't even play under water parts in video games, it's pretty bad!

Submechanophobia - fear of large man-made objects under the water. I guess it's related to the fear of what's under the water. For example, shipwrecks. Shudder

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Trypophobia is my most unusual. It is also the worst as, as mentioned up thread, you don’t know when it will hit.

My first experience of it was pre regular internet access when I was 8. Was learning to make white sauce with my mum and the milk burnt. When I saw the honeycomb pattern in black on the bottom of the pan I freak out, screamed and ended up hysterically crying.

Ive had to have plates changed out at restaurants as they have holes in but interestingly I’m fine with crumpets.

I once worked somewhere that had holey walls as part of the sound proofing. My first few months until I got over the fear of it were horrid

I was traumatised by that advert too. The menacing look that child gave at the end where she slowly revealed her bandaged hand.

Does dead insects count? Live ones are fine.

I have pretty dreadful trypophobia and am off now in case any cruel turd slips a photo of a poopy head in.

haha sorry, poppy head

Also, I have a sort of inverse trypophobia too, there's a famous B&W picture of a crashed train engine with tons of wires sprouting out of the front. Holy mother it turns me inside out.

I am an artist who uses nature references and every time I search for images those damn honeycomb, poppy head things come up all over the place. I honestly never knew it was a recognised phobia until recently, and sadly if you google it for information ALL OF THE PICTURES come up, like a sick and dirty dirty dirty joke!

I too am fine with crumpets.

The only thing I can say about the 'feeling' is that the body wants to curl in on itself or convulse. As a child it made me run around like a headless chicken, and I could never go inside a butcher's shop in case I caught sight of the mincer.

I have to use a very, very fine sieve as a regular one would cause accidents. And does anyone remember that game from the 80's called Mr Potato Head? When the plasticine came through the holes in his head to grow 'hair' I had to run outside.
The very thought is disturbing. I wonder why we have this and what it means.
I couldn't work anywhere with little holes, it isn't possible to get used to it, surely!!!???

This is the exploded steam engine, it is the inverse of trypophobia, which I also seem to have, but in my mind they're both the same thing!

Posting pic and getting the hell out of dodge..

Same. Would you believe, as you can tell by my username I adore live spiders, but dead ones terrify me.

My sister however is the opposite and is full on arachnophobic.
However she can just scoop deads ones up with her bare hands.

Apart from toilets I have a traditional fear of Spiders, but only the huge ones. Apparently they like to go on white walls as it makes them look bigger to female spiders, maybe I should paint my home all in black.

I cant have anybody touch my feet and when im in bed i cant have my feet outside the covers incase anybody breaks in and tickles them. I dont know why anybody would but i cant do it

Dental x-rays.

I worked with a woman once who was terrified of exposed pipes inside the house.

She used to drive home from work just for a wee as the loos at work had exposed pipes in there.

When they moved house her husband had to go house viewing without her as she could risk going on in case there were pipes visible.

Mad.