Do you have any weird phobias?

[Lorddenning1]

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!

@CounsellorTroi

The brown bits of overripe bananas. They make me gag.

Yes. Not a phobia exactly, but I have an aversion to handling bananas (without the skins on eg if someone has eaten half of one and left the rest).

I haven't been able to read through all the posts but clusters of things like fly eggs (I still remember finding a cluster of fly eggs and just being frozen to the spot when I was a teenager, it was on a wall and I know I was insane. Lol but freaked me out!). People who put things in a line or order, makes me itchy/twitchy to see them in a neat line. My friend always used to line up my stuff in the kitchen and I would have to literally mess it up to feel ok again.

When I was 15 I had a Saturday job in Woolworths. The bottom two floors were sales floors, then there were two floors for warehouses and at the very top was a sort of "half floor" where they used to prepare the food for the deli section in the late 70s when they sold cheese and sausages etc. By the time I worked there (late 80s) they didn't do that anymore and they didn't really have a use for that part of the building so they just stored the plastic bags up there. Every so often they would run out of bags and I hated being asked to go up to the top floor to pick up more bags. It terrified me, I don't know why, maybe because it was so far from everyone else, especially at the weekend when nobody was working in the warehouses.

They also had the old style lifts with the manual "chain" doors - they scared me too, although on the plus side, I could leave it open while I got the bags, so nobody could call the lift and leave me "stranded".

Later I worked for a law firm which had a mini "tower" to one side of it with an office. The marketing team worked there and it was quite isolated from the rest of the office. That would have freaked me out too.

I'm not sure how you would describe those fears - manual lifts and being at the top of a building away from everyone else.

Not mine but my sisters fiancé. He experienced absolute terror when he came to our son’s first birthday party because we had put table confetti on the tables. I’d never heard of anyone experiencing this before and I didn’t know he had this affliction but he had a rather distressing episode right there bless him. My brother in law is terrified of balloons and my best friend is horrified by bunting ... you couldn’t make this stuff up!

Crocs-the shoes
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Touching sandwich bags with wet hands

As You'll know by my username I adore live ones but. Dead Spiders creep me out. I think its the way they bunch up. Im always scared they're only playing dead and are going to jump out at you.
Things in water that shouldn't be there. Likewise the opposite things out of water that should be in water. Eg Ships in dry dock.
Wet cellophane.

[quote BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum]@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![/quote]
@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum
Eek I think that would freak me out too, glad it's knocked down now!

I'm also glad it's not just me, never met anyone else before this thread who feels the same!

Really long/high escalators in tube stations

@LadyJaye I have the same response with trypohobia. I always want to destroy and then escape.

@Flamingo1980

I’m now utterly fascinated by the “large metal objects submerged in water” phobia. Can those with it explain a bit more? Like what you imagine or what will happen etc. That’s really interested me as it’s one of the few ones that I can’t think of a direct evolutionary human link to danger exactly. Or maybe I’m wrong!

This might interest you, @Flamingo1980. I have a phobia of anchors. They terrify me. My mother told me that as a small child I would start screaming if they took me to, for example, a pub called the Blue Anchor. I can't look at them and certainly can't touch them.

Connected to this is my absolute terror of buoys. Or those floating rafts that are tethered to the sea bed. And chains underwater. I can barely write it because I picture them.

Ugh.

The crown of a tomatoe

I'm scared of street cleaners. I get light heart palpitations when I see them.

Yes. Some days feels more like a stupid dislike and other days have panic attacks thinking about it, can't write it down and have potential to lash out so that it scares me. Sometimes I feel more in control and then suddenly I can go worse than ever and it's so horrendous. But I know it's so pathetic that I can't control this

This is gonna sound really mean but I have a bit of a phobia of people with piggy little trotters for hands. Especially when they rings jammed onto their fingers

I don't like very tall buildings, I'm fine with a cathedral or castle but a tall building with a single imposing tower creeps me out. In Worcester there's an old ruined church with the spire remaining and it freaks me out.
The fear of tall structures is called Bataphobia.

I don't like horizontal flats. They look like vertical flats that have fallen over.
I don't mean the sea life ECT as its obviously their home but can you imagine what's under all the rivers seas oceans ECT.

I've posted on MN before about this....
I've an awful phobia of men who cross dress.
I have no problem with the concept of them doing this, as long as they don't come near me, or speak to me.
Seeing photos of them, even comical ones makes me so anxious.

I have thalassophobia and have since a child. It's the fear of open water.

I get pins and needles in my legs and they go all weak like I'm about to collapse. It's specifically the thought of being in water and looking out and it looking black/not knowing what's under you etc... God it's making feel sweaty thinking about it.

I used to tell my mum and dad my legs 'hurt' whenever I was by the sea or whatever and I'd scream and cry if they ever tried to get me to go in, which obviously they didn't do again!

Fish and seafood, sea creatures. Live in the sea, in tanks or bowls. Dead, wet fish and seafood in fishmongers, supermarkets etc. I can't look at them, have to move away. Would panic if I ever were stuck somewhere with a fish. I can cook fishfingers for the kids because they don't look like fish but otherwise I can't be near them at all. I try and encourage the DC to have fish when we eat out or when they are with other people as I know they'll never try them otherwise. But the whole time I hate the thought of it.

Thalassophobia
Submechanophobia
The latter in particular.
I live in a place where sea swimming is a regular thing. I swim out to a buoy and back but I have to give the actual buoy a wide berth as being able to see the chain going down Into the depths makes me panic. Same with being able to see the hull of boats underwater as you pass by

Another one who has a crippling phobia of anything that flaps - moths, butterflies, birds. Even flightless birds (they usually still flap).

I have like some PPs had enormous panic attack inside a butterfly house (it was a whole tropical zoo and I hadn’t realised there was no way out if you didn’t go through the butterfly bit. I had thought I’d just skip that part)

• ive also run screaming and crying with heart pounding away from all sorts of birds . Peacocks yes. Someone told me it’s ok they don’t fly. It then flew up onto the fence next to me and I freaked the fuck out

• on the plus side I’m now a pigeon body language expert. I am ok if they’re walking . I mean the anxiety does start but the fight or flight reaction is only when they fly in my case. So I avoid like hell and I can spot when they’re going to fly so I can get out of the way.

• I caused panic at a pet shop once when I spotted a parrot on a perch. I had a panic attack and ran out of the shop screaming “ones got out oh my god ones got out”. They thought a snake had escaped or something

The WORST though was on a small boat doing an island day trip tour in Croatia. They provided lunch on the boat which was fish or veggie. Their little party piece it emerged was dangling a fish over the edge of the boat so the seagulls swooped and basically turned the lovely boat trip into my actual idea of hell. DH had to hold onto me cause he was scared I’d just jump off the boat. It was tiny with nowhere to go and hide and I had the biggest panic attack of my life. It was awful. They did stop when they realised but I was a right wreck and pretty embarrassed afterwards.

Yes, really weird, I hate bodies of water at night, lakes and the sea mainly, rivers it depends on his deep I think they are. The sheer black unknown of them, can’t even look it terrifies me.

Also deep water (there’s a theme) the thought of so much below you also terrifies me.

I also have typophobia? Don’t want to Google the spelling Incas I see photos. Even seeing photos of it makes me physically sick

Also have read the full thread and I do concur that some are phobias, some aversions and some are intrusive thoughts. I know because I have all of them!!!

So the birds thing mentioned above is absolutely a PHOBIA. Completely irrational but full fight or flight response, well it would always be the reaction to get away and the panic attacks happen when I can’t. That’s definitely a phobia.

I’ve also got an AVERSION to anyone squashing my nose, or turning it up, or my ears being folded. It’s not a phobia because it’s nowhere near as intense as the bird thing but I absolutely hate it and it makes me go weird if DH decideds to wiggle my nose or something.

I also get what a few PPs have said about INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS. Like you imagine a thing happening when you see a trigger and you can’t stop seeing it. Even if it’s irrational. I used to work in a close shop and would always always see visions in my head whenever I saw one of those thin prongs attached to a rail (where they’d put belts or scarves or whatever). I would see with horrible clarity me falling on one and it piercing my eyeball. How weird! Someone recently told me this kind of thing is your brain showing itself the worst thing it could imagine so that you are less likely to do thing thing / be unable to cope if it did.

BigOldMachine

You put that so well about the intrusive thoughts. I've never known how to put it into words before.

I used to own a car that had seats that tilted forward and lifted out.
When they were tilted forward, their feet were like ugly looking, torturous hooks. I could stop thinking about how someone could be impaled on them. It got so bad that I had to take them out instead of tipping them forward and store them in out outbuilding.
It wasn't long before they had to go to a friend's garage because I kept seeing them and getting these awful images each time I went out to the washing machine :(