What's your irrational phobia?

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Oil rigs & wind turbines for me 😬 what's yours?

Driving.

Mushrooms in grass and on trees they give me the heebie geebies, I eat them fine, mannequins in historical buildings hate them . Urgh

Sharks. Whenever I go abroad I google to see if there are sharks in that sea. Even though I don't really swim in the sea. I get scared when my dh takes my dd snorkelling out of their depth. Even though the country we're in has had one known shark attack in 1975 for example.
Think it's from watching Jaws when I was about 10.

Moths. Not the tiny ones but the big ones.

Wow! I'm so glad I've read this. I didn't know a fear of cruise ships were a thing.

My in laws go on numerous cruises a year and are desperate for us to come along with the kids but even looking at a cruise ship makes me want to physically vomit.

I once saw a video of Disney cruise ships and they were 'tooting' their horns at one another. They both played music with the horns. If I remember right it was 'when you wish upon a star' and it was the most traumatic experience listening to it. I've never gotten over that video!

Do they give you the Free Willys...? I'll get my coat....

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Unsurprisingly, I’ve never seen that film. I wouldn’t be able to watch it at all.

@Eranzer YES! Just read through waiting for someone to say polystyrene 🤢 even just thinking about it makes my mouth full with Saliva like I want to vom, makes me hot and gives me goosebumps. Vile vile vile!

it’s actually a true phobia, styrophobia

We have a small window in the roof above our landing, and when I go upstairs at night I have this fear that someone will be there looking down at me. It's in the second floor roof, so pretty irrational, and why would anyone climb on the roof just to look in at me going up to bed? But it gives me the shivers.

Also, I can't look in a mirror in the dark, too scared I'll see someone else in there behind me!

Could I ask how you coped with pregnancy and birth please? I have the same phobia and am scared of these things making me sick.

Ah, you’ve reminded me of an other one - fog horns. The sound and sight of them.

@belimoo I know you didn't ask me, but I have the same phobia. I had anti sickness tablets throughout pregnancy with both my DDs, but still mentally coped very badly during the first trimester. I pretty much had a breakdown both times and didn't leave the house between about weeks 5 and 12. In labour with DD2 I was induced and I insisted on anti sickness injections.
So, I did not cope well. But I still had two! No more though.

Spiders and stuff with holes in - trypophobia

Balloons
Sink holes
Becoming internet famous via a meme or video

I love that last one

Death. It’s an actual phobia, I’ve had cbt and emdr with a clinical psychologist which has helped a bit but it’s still very debilitating.
I can sort of dissociate myself from the phobia on a day to day basis to cope but if I actually allow myself to think about it I will have a panic attack or even faint 😞

submechanophobia - would this include panic about lock mechanisms and dams, reservoirs etc? Terrifying

@belimoo - google fear free childbirth with Alexia Leachman- life changing!

Trucks with no trailers.

Rats. That tail, its feet - shudder.

Another one, is the sight of one of the Kardashian sister names. There is something about the spelling of it that makes me feel nauseous, and saying it also has the same effect.

I don't have any phobias, but I'm extremely risk averse. I pay attention to everything I do. You'd think I'd learned a hard lesson that taught me to be careful, but no, it's entirely neurotic.

Empty swimming pools, particularly indoor ones. No idea why.

Milk

Spiders absolutely petrified, want to do that course at London zoo but it’s expensive. I feel frightened even looking at pictures.

I also strongly dislike holes (eg crumpets) but that’s more in a grossed-out way than frightened

Dead birds. They fly into the windows in the spring and break their necks and I start sobbing and shaking at the thought of picking the body up. It's completely pathetic. They are dead, they can't hurt me.