What is your phobia?

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I hate slugs, I just had to clean out one of those drain nest straining devices on my gutter and there was a slug in it, one of those khaki ones with an orange frill . I'm grimacing now just writing that down. I feel tense and revolted that I know it's up there still. It's ridiculous but I'm going to be thinking of this all day and feeling a bit queasy all day.
Anyone relate to this?

I have emetophobia, which is not helped by working in a school!

I have a deathly fear of ostriches and similar birds. I can make myself feel very faint and queasy just thinking about them

Any type of bird or rodent with tails pigeons seaguls ducks geese etc

I have a massive phobia of chickens and turkey it's that bad I hyperventilate (panic that i cant breathe but its not severe it's only while i walk past) when I walk past the chickens at the end of my road

How do you cope with that?!

Do you mean holey spiders, or 🕷️ coming out of 🕳️ on the highest floor in the shard ceiling?
The former would be okay but the latter wouldn't be pleasant!

Spiders, vomit, heights, flying.

Cosmemaphobia, a fear of jewellery

Seeing people vomit or vomiting myself. Vomit in general.

I can’t even type the word but begins with F ends in G and jumps

I tried. Took many many lessons, passed the theory test with flying colors but never got past the terrified feeling driving. I'll never have a license.

@LondonQueen do you get any of the children's bugs? I've often wanted to work in a school but simply cannot because of this fear.

I don't know if it's related, but it's umbrella spikes for me. I hate being in a mass of people all wielding umbrellas. I think it started when I was a child and someone opened an umbrella too close to my face. I'd rather be rained on than have to be too close to somebody else's umbrella.

Same.

Birds. To the degree where I won't go out my front door if they're in the garden. Particularly crows. No idea why and it's something that really interferes with park trips or forest days out. I just cannot shake the panic I feel especially if they're "flapping" near me.

Same and same. I'm ashamed to say a few months ago in a crowded corridor I saw a heaving child. Rather than stay and look after him, I pretended I didn't and walked past. So ashamed I didn't help him, but I couldn't.

Loose buttons.

And (not quite a phobia) false teeth. They make me heave.

Spiders and the scratchy foil like texture of the edges of over cooked fried eggs

I have trypophobia

@clarepetal I completely understand your actions though. Don't feel bad. I run a mile from any situation like that. I even struggle when somebody coughs (just in case!)

Tin foil
I just can't stand it and won't have it in the house

I have a few. My biggest phobia is emetophobia - fear of vomiting and this also contributes to dental phobia. Not scared of pain but scared of gagging/ vomiting whilst the dentist is working on my teeth. I am also very anxious around dogs due to a couple of bad experiences

Other fears are:
rats/ mice
bats
being trapped

Another one for emetophobic (being sick) and also spiders but only the big hairy brown house / garden spider types. Smaller ones or the wispy looking ones I leave them be 😂

My mother is frogs for some reason, I love them they’re cute

@clarepetal aww don’t feel bad, I’d be outta there as well in case it’s contagious.
Sorry kiddo 😂

I’ve only just gotten over when DS took us all out with noro at 8 months old twice in a short time (grotbags nursery) and I couldn’t cope with helping the poor dab, luckily husband was a trooper.
He’s 2 now and I’ve JUST about become less horrified

Mine is strange though as I’ve gotten older it’s changed from absolute horror at vomit of any sort to now it’s mostly the fear of catching it and having the sickness myself

I don’t live in the UK. Livestock guardian dogs. Ive had several of run-ins with them (I hike), and now, the sound of sheep or cow bells (so romantic, so Heidi) sends me into blind panic at the thought of encountering very large, very aggressive dogs. A jogger was killed by them recently in my province ☹️. It probably isn’t a phobia to be scared of something that is actually dangerous, but the way I freeze and my brain refuses to work is very phobic-like.

Emetophobia. Not too bothered about being sick myself but more other people being sick especially the kids. Ironically work in a hospital