How have you coped with your worst nightmare?

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Hi all

Posting here for traffic. I talked to a friend this morning. She has a 3 month old. Friends sister was visiting. She cannot cope with vomit. Picked her niece up for a cuddle, made the fatal mistake of holding her baby niece above her face. You can guess the rest. Baby vomit in her hair, all over her face, including her mouth, and down the inside of her top.

Friends sister was gagging and came pretty close to vomiting .

So, what's your worst nightmare, and how did it happen??

Ships' keels?? how the hell did that develop?

ExWife

Balloons for me, fucking hate them.

Don't mind them blown up and out of the way but when I see kids squeezing them and trying to burst them I just have to calmly run out of the room as fast as I can without screaming remove myself from the situation.

Seagulls, bloody seagulls - went for a leisurely stroll with my beloved dog along the seafront last week - towards the end of the walk, got repeatedly dive-bombed and squawked at by a lone gull, was really frightening and more than a bit humiliating - especially as some twat man stood there licking his ice cream as if we were the bloody caberet! Poor dog and me had to leg it back to the car!

God knows. I blame the book 'we didn't mean to go to sea' with its illustrations.

exwife sounds like a version of Saw...

it was pretty fucking horrific, that's for sure.

I honestly don't have any irrational fears (I don't say that to put anyone down). I just mean I'm not afraid of anything that can't hurt me. I really dislike wasps though, and I might get up and move if one annoyed me, but I've never been stung either so I work on the basis that I might be allergic Spiders, mice, snakes etc. meh...

In April, I flew back from Las Vegas. The FA kept me, shall we say, merry. However, I now have to get a grip on my fear of flying as clearly, self-medicating whilst having panic attacks weeks beforehand is not the way to go. It all began when I was in a turbulence incident involving internal damage to the plane, injured people, and the plane itself being checked for structural damage. I may enrol on a FOF course prior to my next long haul trip.

I used to have massive health anxiety. Then I was told my lifetime risk of developing a particular type of cancer was 90-95% (genetic mutation). Most worries have now gone, and I cannot be stressed waiting around for "when" given that I am under regular surveillance. As far as I'm concerned, my risk is 0% until it happens.

My daughter and sister-in-law (not blood related)are both afraid of buttons!
My sister-in-law copes by never ironing my brother's shirts!

exwife that sounds fucking horrific

Frogs! It's makes me squirm just to type the word. DH actually made me collapse and cry when he had a used teabag in his hand and came in from the kitchen saying 'frog!!' And went to throw it at me. I almost died.

The phobia came from when I was a kid in a friends back garden, they had a pond with loads of tadpoles in it that were cute, we used to love catching them. One day, we were playing on the grass barefoot and realised we were standing on and killing all these hundreds of tiny, baby frogs.

I ran off screaming with them stuck to me feet and that was that. Messed me up with regard to frogs!

Champagne and suchafuss me too with the moths and I have no idea how it started, l have been like that since I was little. Butterflies too but I cope, mostly, when I am outside by just pretending they are not there.

Increasingly as I get older I realize I am a bit bird phobic too. I am mostly ok so long as they are not near, and some birds I actually like if they keep their distance. Most songbirds, even birds of prey. But I hate f***g seagulls and also magpies. Today I met a friend who was buying a hat to protect her head because she is about to visit somewhere you are likely to be dive bombed by birds. Never in a hundred years. That must be nearly my worst nightmare.

Broken1girl Once in a French zoo we went in to the vulture enclosure to watch feeding time ( why did I think that was a good idea) and one of the vultures took a bite out of my map and pecked my feet. I was trying to keep a British stiff upper lip while being watched by several dozen amused French people. DH was a tower of strength - kept his distance and took photos

Snowdrop, a friend also is scared of buttons.

Hmm, mine would be cockroaches. I've never actually seen one in real life, but know that I'd go apeshit if I did.

Being pecked by vultures sounds horrible.
My aunt got poked in the eye by a monkey at a zoo.

5 it's anything with wings I think, but particularly moths for me. And butter votes are just moths in fancy outfits
When I was in hospital being induced with DD my husband came one morning with a photo of the biggest bloody moth you've seen in our spare room. He never "got rid" killedof it and I still think it's hiding somewhere 10 weeks on.

*butterflies

Pigeons here. My parents tried to cure me by taking me to Trafalgar Sq, back in the 10 million pigeons days. I didn't even make it out of the tube station. Bonkers idea. I had no idea what they planned.

Trypophobe here. Do not google it.

I'm much better now but fuck me for a while it ruined my days.

I'm really creeped out by small birds, anything duck sized or smaller. I've had two horrible experiences:

Was on the Tube when a bunch of lairy blokes produced a freshly dead mallard from a plastic bag Wtf

When I was driving to my mums, a bluetit flew into my windscreen and got impaled on the wiper. That was bad enough (it was instantly dead) but then it started to rain and I had a dead bluetit wiping the windscreen. I drove about 30 miles like that and my mum had to remove it. I am a terrible wimp.

Oh God, this will out me, but I'm afraid of used teabags.

The smell, the texture, the way they sit there all limp and menacing.

Neither DH or I drink tea, and we once had to threaten to sack a builder who kept leaving them on the kitchen counter as they were making me vomit.

I've never come across anyone else with this phobia!

Mine is spiders like most, I freeze and start to hyperventilate if I'm on my own and know I have nobody in the house to save me. I also have a feet phobia, if a person's feet even brush against me then I am screaming and jumping away from them, even when they are wearing socks. I've also become so bad that I can't even handle my own bare feet and have to have shoes, slippers or at least socks on at all times. So far I'm fine with DS's feet as he's still just a baby, but I know that I won't be able to have his too near me as they get bigger

I wasn't hugely scared of spiders until I woke up once on holiday, in a very old house, aged 8 or so, & turned over to come face to face with one of the ginormous big ones I'd seen skulking around in a corning the night before, but now on my sheets....I still remember its jerky, steady, determined, slow movements, right next to my face!! I did squash it
I won't kill them now, obviously, and I feel bad about putting them outside, but they honestly freak me out. I'll pick up bees, wasps, anything but spiders!

I've had scarier situations but the lighthearted comment is making me stick to my spider story

I've got multiple phobias and it's shit. I avoid avoid avoid and lead the best life that I can with the limitations the phobias bring. I'm agoraphobic because of them but fortunately not housebound, just limited in the distance I can travel. But I am happy and have a good life and lots of fun because I make the most of the opportunities that come my way.
DH had to go to hospital today for an angiogram and I nearly passed out. The canula was bad enough but the camera in the vein, I'm still shuddering and feeling woozy - he's fine though