Do you have any weird phobias?

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I'm a fully grown adult and I can't stomach egg Yolks, I can only eat the white part, I'm not scared of them and can be around them but he thought of eating one makes me feel sick.
Sat eating my dinner (ready meal because I'm having a lazy day) got half way through it and started to gag and then I threw up a little bit, I was sweating and breathing harder!
Just looked at what's in it and it's spaghetti Carbonara , made with egg yolks!
It can't be mind over matter as I didn't know eggs were in it
I also I can cook eggs for people, I just can't eat them.
Anyone else have weird phobia type things or is it just me!

I haven't rtft but those nodding dogs in cars. Something about the frequency of it reverberates in my head and makes me feel swimmy. I'll change my route if stuck behind one.

@Rubybluesy

Really long/high escalators in tube stations

My very first job in the 80s was designing the building foundations that fit around the escalators at Angel. I've visited since, agree it's weird not being able to see the top.

People on stilts
The weird strings down the side of bananas
The stringy bits in tinned sardines
Yuk.

Bridges with water under them. In a vehicle I have to lift my feet off the floor. If walking over them I can't go near the edge.
The time 23:23 or 11:23. No idea why but it freaks me out!

Haven't RTFT, but being 'fed'. Fuck, I fucking hate it. DP occasionally comes up to me in the kitchen if he's cooking, with some stew on a teaspoon or meat on a skewer for me to taste, and puts it right up to my mouth with an expectant look on his face. I don't want to taste it, and if I did, I'd sort myself out. It makes me feel like I need to fight myself free of a massive transgression into my personal space.

@Cocolapew

Clusters of things like fungi on tree bark or barnacles on whales 🤢 I saw a photo of a hedgehog with white ticks on it years ago and threw up Holes send me a bit loopy too.

You have trypophobia, as do I. I didn't realise it was even a thing until a year or two ago, but it it, it's a recognised phobia.

Careful if you google it. The pictures will horrify you. But you may also find them compulsive to look at. It's weird...

Has anyone here had experience of being able to cure a phobia. I am Terrified of anything touching my neck. What I'm more terrified of is if one of my kids does it I will lash out and could potentially Hurt them. As much as I try and know this it scares me that I could and don't know how to stop this reaction. I know it's unreasonable how do you stop this???
Xxx

Emails. Its a bit of a problem.

Balloons for me too, they make me feel anxious as I don't know when they're going to burst and the sound of them squeaking etc as people touch them just makes me feel nauseous with anxiety

I'm absolutely terrified of frogs/toads. I found one in the garden a few months ago and I couldn't go outside for an embarrassing amount of time

Bumpy skin rashes, or pictures of an arid cracked floor to depict dry skin.

You have trypophobia, as do I. I didn't realise it was even a thing until a year or two ago, but it it, it's a recognised phobia.

Omg just realised i have this too. Will try and google withoit seeing pics

Found a good article without picture on trypophobia

www.verywellmind.com/trypophobia-4687678

Sorry had flipped the thread, now reading it all and seeing lots of people have trypophobia!

@sanityisamyth you were locked all night in a loo? Your sister was a bitch to so that

Something about seeing big things from above or up close.

I read yesterday about an island in the Tasman sea called Balls Pyramid that is just a big sheer cliff face in the sea.

I Googled it on Google Maps on satellite view and it zoomed right in and it made me feel slightly sick and a bit shaky looking at it. I don't know how to describe the feeling. Nervous fanny maybe?

It's a fascinating thread. Lots of things here I share a dislike of or am actually scared of but not a phobia; so wonder what tips it over into a phobia in some people? I sometimes wonder if it's made worse when people aren't sympathetic, tease you or tell you to pull yourself together when you're young?

Back to op and eggs and the carbonara.it's perfectly possible to be intolerant of and phobic of a food. However, I would say it's possible that op knew there was egg in carbonara but had pushed it into their subconscious?

Red transparent liquids. Quite niche maybe! I had chemotherapy and one of the drugs was a red transparent liquid (like cherryade) called "red devil" and now, if I see anything that looks remotely like it, I immediately get really bad anxiety, feel sick, panicky, dizzy etc etc.

Ladybirds. Irrational but i am paralysed with fear, nausea, and scream if they stsrt flying near me. The sneaky little things keep getting in my flat & looking at me menacingly (The American ones with two giant dots are the most terrifying).

@GlitchStitch omg I’m not alone! Stickers make me feel sick, shaky even - always have done. People keep buying them for my child and I’m finding myself thanking them for the inevitable experience of me dry heaving my way through vacuuming them up and peeling (ugh) them off furniture etc. The absolute worst are the ones on fruit. I need to cut them off! Weird!

Dead flowers. Mostly touching them.
I used to be worse, I've got better and I can deadhead flowers with my hands now but I don't like it. Bunches of flowers are the worst.
Shudders...

Monkey puzzle trees - their horrid weird clutching fingers, euch! See also -: kelp forests

Slugs

Picket fences due to a recurring dream as a child.

Morris Dancers- i blame edward woodwood

My OH has a fear of sellotape. He's 31! Also dogs but I can understand that one