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!

The bath overflow and plug hole, especially the ones that aren't fully covered. Any pipe work too, just freaks me out!

Seaweed

The thought of going in the sea and having seaweed touching me is utterly terrifying. It goes back to a bad experience as a child.

I also have trypophobia - holes/clusters make me very uncomfortable and my skin crawls.

Heights. I get dizzy and panic. I had to be helped down from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it was so embarrassing but I physically couldn't stand up

Eyelash curlers shudder

Feet! Particularly men’s feet 🤮

Also anything with more than 4 legs ...or things with no legs. The dark

Bubble wrap, I can't even open parcels, and those envelopes with bubble wrap BUILT INTO THEM. I can't even describe it, I'm getting twitchy just typing this. Shop online they say, but then everything comes with bubble wrap or those air bag things!

Oh and bunk beds/hammocks. So unnatural, I hate them so much they make me feel really sick looking at them

My friend has an actual phobia of cucumber. If you even dare cut one up around her she's dry heaving and running to the next room. Stems from being fed warm cucumber sandwiches in a hot car in the 80s, and proceeding to vomit all over herself.

@YouDidWHATNow Cucurbitacin poisoning can cause vomiting, hair loss and even death.

They are found in cucumber, pumpkins, squash, courgettes, melons etc. They have a very bitter taste.

Cultivated varieties are usually fine, the curcubactin levels have been taken down to safe levels but sometimes they cross-pollinate with wild ones (or ornamental varieties) and then that can be a problem.

I'm properly phobic of empty swimming pools! Have nightmares about them regularly.

I've read through all these to see if anyone has the same phobia as me because anyone I've ever told thinks it's hilarious. One is belly buttons, I see someone else has that and I have heard of others having it. The one I've never found anyone to have is magnets repelling. That feeling of trying to join 2 magnets together and the resistance just makes me shiver. Seeing someone else try is just as bad.

Vomiting, I’m a diagnosed emetophobe. If anyone near me feels sick I feel shaky and panicky and full of anxiety.

Wind turbines. I had a near panic attack when I came across some on a trip - had no idea they were there and suddenly they were just looming ominously above me. So close I could hear the hum.

Cleithrophobia........I have a phobia about being trapped.

@TaraR2020

Yes! I was reading through these and wondering how to explain it but you and pp who described it a looming structure got it.

Where I live, there used to be a Vauxhall garage and at the end/side of the building they had these massive tall garage doors that went right to the top of the building, and the building was massive. Freaked me right out until they finally knocked it down.

My friend is absolutely terrified of tomatoes. Used to throw them in the bath beside her as a teenager. Funny at the time, not so much thinking back!

My other half has a phobia of buttons. He is OK with metal ones on jeans, just not plastic ones. He starts feeling sick and dizzy just mentioning the word.

The drink squash. Especially orange.
I struggle to write and say it.
It's mainly the smell - I don't like fruity smells. I don't give it to DS and DH has to drink it in a different room. The thought of it getting on me sends me mad.

Milk.
Anything it touches I have to bleach. Seeing someone drink milk, or god forbid smelling milk somewhere, makes me retch or vomit.

We have it in the house for the kids & DP. But the container has to stay covered in the fridge and the kids know to brush their teeth after drinking it, or they’ll come for a hug, I’ll smell it, then retch or vomit.

A few weeks ago I opened the fridge to find one of the containers had leaked. It got on my skin and on the floor. I just froze. Couldn’t move a damn muscle. Then started squeaking and my kids came in. They managed to wipe it off enough that I could walk to the sink to bleach the shit out of my hands and arm. Then DP bleached the entire fridge and floor underneath.

I have zero idea why I’m like this.

Loads. Tomatoes in any form, from round to ketchup. Any red food actually. Big spoons. Any insect or creepy crawly except for bees and wasps. Yoghurt.

Oh forgot to add I also have blood-injection-injury phobia. Even knowing I have to have blood taken makes me panic and then faint. Which ties in horribly with my fainting phobia.

Passed out before they put the needle in once and when I woke up I was so frightened of the faint that I fainted again and got in this weird trip switch situation where I just kept blacking out.

Five times in a row and my blood pressure dipped to 70/40. They had to emergency ping the doctors.

I have another blood test soon and I'm feeling clammy thinking about it.

My boy is petrified of bananas.. we can have them in the house as long as he can't smell, see or physically come into contact with them. He's nearly 21 and can be reduced to tears by his 'lovely' younger sister teasing him with a banana 1🙄🙄🙄 he then torments her with spiders.... I love being referee in our house.... NOT!

I'm not wild on birds in general, but my phobia is peacocks. I'm absolutely terrified of them. Even in pictures. It's more the cocks with the tail feathers but peahens frighten me too- because they mean the boys will be along in a minute. If I hear them scream from further away I freeze and can't go any further towards the noise. If I see one, despite the urge to run away I can't actually flee. I freeze, panic, sometimes hyperventilate and cry and I can't move without an escort to keep me "safe".

It's a bit of a blight because we like visiting county houses - we have to check that there aren't any peacocks before we go anywhere. And that zoos or parks or similar don't have them loose. Those stories about them terrorising villages really worry me- I wouldn't be able to leave the house, and people like and defend their presence so I would be trapped.

It's possibly more the eyes on the feathers than the birds, since moths etc with eyes on wings freak me out, too. But not to the extent of peacocks. I can't even cope with just the feathers. Won't enter houses with them in unless they are hidden and ran out of house of fraser a few years ago when I came up an escalator to be greeted by a huge, tall vase of them, moving gently with the store air con. When I volunteered in a charity shop and served on the till, someone came towards me to put a pair of peacock feather earrings in the display case under the till. The cash desk curved round to join the wall and was only open on one end, so I was trapped by a colleague walking towards me with feathers. I screamed and screamed and screamed until she backed right off up the shop. My boss put them under on a day I wasn't there instead and they sold before I was back in! I need to sort it because it's currently stopping me going on a tour of India. But the thought of having to go near one in aversion therapy is just horrific.

Also get very uncomfortable with ship wrecks or seeing the fronts of ships or big boats. I also can't bear anyone touching my neck or having hands around it or even near it- shoulder massages make me hyperventilate and feel frightened. Previous death b strangulation, I reckon. I also have an extremely physical reaction to loud noises making me jump- heart palpitations, the works. Have had this from being a tiny baby apparently.

Touching dry cotton wool
It isn't exactly a phobia but I can't bear it. I always have to wet it quickly before using it

Not a phobia but touching sandpaper makes me retch. If I see a slug I will dry heave, much to the amusement of my DS when I'm walking him to school on a rainy day!

ventriloquist dummies or waxworks that are trying to look like people.... weirdly I don't mind the ones that are celebrities like at madam tussauds. but I HATE the ones that you get in museums that could be anyone, they make me sweaty and lightheaded and sick. as a child I would cry and cry when faced with them. I feel deeply terrified and anxious just being in the same room. ventriloquist dummies and waxworks come up surprisingly often in child entertainment!

bit late to the thread but the mushrooms growing in the wild phobia is probably a really good human survival instinct, same with the fear of things with repeating patterns - it's your body thinking it's poison and telling you to get away!