What is your strange phobia/fear?

[jonesyyy]

Following on from a thread where OP doesn't like wind turbines.

For me I can't stand walking past high buildings. I get so dizzy and frightened!

Almost passed out once as a child walking past Blackpool Tower..

I have a thing about not walking on sets of drains, specifically the ones with three, I end up walk ing into people as I navigate round them

Mushrooms. Hate the sigh of them.

That and freezers. Sounds of the ice scraping irghhh

Height and water. But the height aspect doesn't actually have to be high.
Terrified when I see people dangling their legs over a seawall.
Also no way could I cross a canal lock. But I'm happy to be somewhere high as long as water is not involved.

People dressed up when costume covers their face. Like bears and stuff - they really freak me out!

@Sussexbonfireviking what is it that gives you the heebies!?

It's nice reading these knowing that others have the same fears as me 😂

I dont really like any bugs but I have a phobia of butterflies and then I guess moths too 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Like someone else on here SLOTHS!! I cant even watch zootropilis? When the scene of the sloth is on. I saw the trailer in the cinema and 🤢 no I just cant.

Blood and sharp things. That started at 14 when my friend fell up some stairs and cut her knee open 🤢

I also dont like mirrors in the dark.
Or opening doors, although that's so bad any more.

And I wouldn't say a phobia but I hate certain duvets and pillows , as in the actual duvet inside the cover. I cant touch it.

And car washes eurgh

I know I have more, I'm terrible!

Oh yes and another one I also hate those wind turbines

And people in stilts like someone else posted 😂

I absolutely hate it when people play with their eyebrows. Ie pull on them, stroke them. Often happens in boring work meetings. I have to look away! Eyelashes fine, eyebrows, no 🤦‍♀️ I had to tell DH so he knows not to do it in front of me.

@OwlBeThere @Claricethecat45 another button hater here too 🤢🤢🤢🤢 would love to know where mine stems from. I have just always felt repulsed by them!!

Sheep. They terrify me,

Birds. To the extent I can’t even watch them on TV. Very oddly, taking anti-anxiety drugs for something else has not done anything for my phobia.

balloons esp when they burst yukky
worms horrible

Asbestos!!! Terrified of it!!

@jonesyyy, no idea why, just hate it... jenga yuck

I can’t stand long fingernails, to the point where I cut mine and my sons virtually everyday. I also check each of the guy I’m seeings fingernails when we see each other.

No idea where it came from, but long nails make me feel physically sick.

Eyes. I'd be hysterical if I had to use eye drops. I can't look at a cut in half Scotch egg without feeling queasy because to me it looks like an eyeball.

@labazsisgoingmad the sound of someone touching a balloon makes me feel a bit sick 🤢

I hate belly buttons, mine is like a crater so can get quite grubby, I actually heave if I have to clean mine or the kids

I hate stairs with only treads and no rise where you can see straight through. I used to be far worse with it where I’d have to close my eyes while my brother or mum held my hand and directed me up the flight or I’d have to crawl up sobbing. I never used to get in a lift either so stairs were my only other option.
There was a horrible staircase at college in the library and I’d made it to the top but got stuck when it was time to come back down, I was crying and dripping with sweat when a boy eventually held my hand and walked me down, bless him, a complete stranger and I was 19 for god’s sake!
I’m not as bad now but still terrified of heights although I can use lifts and most stairs happily nowadays.
If anyone on here has been to The Royal Armouries in Leeds those bridges from one side to the other are horrific and I cannot walk across those, I have to use the lifts to go up and down and use the lift for each corresponding side while dh walks the kids across the bridges like a sane person!

@Wonderstuff7 YES!!! Horrifying, like Pudsey Bear etc when it’s children in need! my dh thinks it’s hilarious, it’s awful now I have kids too as they approach you to see the kids and I’m like fuck that, throw the kids at dh and leg it!!

My phobia of those stems from a horrible Halloween experience though.

(This is very outing)

Curtain shops, the ones where they display the curtains on rails all around the inside of the shop. I have this image of each set of curtains hiding someone looking at me.

I can't even walk on the same side of the road as a curtain shop in the town near me. DH didn't believe me until I tried to go into a curtain shop when we got our first house, over 30 years ago. When I collapsed in a wreck with every hair on my body standing up straight, just trying to get in the doorway, he got it.

I tell DH the colour, width and drop when we need new curtains, and he goes and picks them. I even have trouble looking at the curtain pages in the Argos catalogue.

Eating cold dessert off a metal spoon. I use plastic picnic type ones. Weird but I just can't use metal for cold things.

@ModreB Is there anything that triggered your fear?

Phobias are learnt that's why recklessruby your DD has the same fear

@AddNameHere that's true as I have a phobia of mushrooms and so does my DM