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To have such a weird phobia?!

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WinterSnow · 23/06/2011 20:17

I am terrified of nautical things, old style diving suits and ship figureheads being top of my list, I actually feel sick and dizzy if I know one is nearby, do you have any weird ones?

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BogChicken · 23/06/2011 22:03

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archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:04

vintageteacups
You could, you could. Also what fun you could have chewing people's wooden garden furniture and living in walls (oh no that's hornets) well living under eaves and so on. For free! No more taxes!

razzlebathbone · 23/06/2011 22:06

A recurring sickening thought I have goes back to a dream about waking up and finding lots of sliced tomatoes baked into my legs like you get on the tops of quiches. I can't bear seeing them now.

Also the word 'crockpot' on the slow cookers. It makes me think of really evil paranormal activity. I had to get my DH to get rid of ours.

Seahorses.

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:07

Psammead
"It's worst if it goes onto my foot. Argh".
I probably shouldn't admit this, but I did laugh at that.

Psammead · 23/06/2011 22:08

Archie,you are a bad, bad person.

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:09

razzlebathbone
My God, that's brilliant, I mean terrible.
Truth really is stranger than fiction. I wonder what this says about ourselves? Is it just making an inappropriate emotional link or something else?

izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 23/06/2011 22:09

I have an irrational fear of anchors, but only when they're being pulled up.

I had a similar aversion to cotton wool MrsSheeran, just the thought of it set my teeth on edge and I hated touching it too. When my dd was tiny she called it 'pockalawaller' and suddenly I was cured!

Fear of dying is a common phobia vintage. CBT might help persuade you that when your number's up, it up, and there really isn't a lot you can do to stop that even if you wrap yourself and your dc in 'pockalawaller' and live in a bunker. Life's short anyway - might as well make the most of it and try to cram it full of positive thinking and positive experiences.

tigerchilli · 23/06/2011 22:09

Holes...lots of holes! It's even got a name - Trypophobia. Seriously, just sends me into a mega shudder.

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:10

razzlebathbone

You're not afraid of the phrase, "the game's afoot" and persian slippers containing tobacco are you?

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:11

Psammead
I know I know, but (squeaks) at least I'm honest

Awomancalledhorse · 23/06/2011 22:11

I have a phobia of Zombies, I love zombie films/games/books but if someone makes a zombie noise/pictures of people dressed as zombies sends me into a panic attack!!
I know 2 other people with this phobia, so at least I'm not THAT crazy!

Psammead · 23/06/2011 22:12
Grin
kirsty12321 · 23/06/2011 22:13

I absolutely hate my fingers or toes touching one another, learnt to write holding the pen in a really strange way just so they don't touch! Sometimes it gets so bad that I start to hate any part of my body touching another bit - my arm touching my side, my forearm touching my upper arm or my legs touching one another ect, Have very often ended up sleeping like a starfish with pen lids sellotaped between my toes! It's awful, making me feel sick just thinkin of it!

superjobeespecs · 23/06/2011 22:13

winter that may well be it!! my first dentist was an awful man he was old and had a big beard and was the first brown man i'd ever seen and because he was foreign and evil he scared the shit out of me!! luckily my screaming led to my mums embarassment of her 'racist' baby and took me to a little little man i always thought was a leprachaun Blush and he had fireman sam posters on the roof :) still go to him and still think he's an 'eepacon'' as DD calls him Grin

everlong · 23/06/2011 22:14

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archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:14

Awomancalledhorse
Have you ever considered that those other 2 might ACTUALLY BE zombies and are cunningly luring you into their trap with gently smiling jaws?
False sense of security and all that. Not trying to give you nightmares or anything, just might be worth considering.

superjobeespecs · 23/06/2011 22:16

kirsty your sticky taped toes made me shake there my god we're all nuts!!!!

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:16

kirsty12321
Are you into S&M?

Awomancalledhorse · 23/06/2011 22:16

Nah, if they were zombies archie they wouldn't be able to say more than 'braaaiiiins'. Grin

osd · 23/06/2011 22:17

This is good as only dh knows mine and its time i aired them.

Daddylonglegs - the noise in paper lampshades they always get stuck in, judder
Dead Flys - This one is bad
Falling Snow
The noise flushing toilets make - silly child fear that has remained somehow

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:18

everlong
I knew someone who's ex rolled fags with his toes. Yuk

archieleach · 23/06/2011 22:19

Ahh, your expert knowledge helps you out I see.

osd · 23/06/2011 22:21

phobialist.com weird to give them all names Shock

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razzlebathbone · 23/06/2011 22:22

I know someone who is terrified of Chinese takeaways. She is adamant that she had one once and whatever was in it almost immediately caused her to sink into a two year depression.