What is your Phobia ??

[ncy54]

Forgot to add heights under certain circumstances. No problem with planes or elevated restaurants....just seat me at the window and I'll enjoy the view, but near the edge in the open and I get a severe case of "spincteritis", if you get my drift.

 

[Raven6]

The only thing in the world I'm afraid of....

Well, I married her.

 

[foolproofoak]

Aliens, geez that's sad, but give me a snake, spider, or a horde of wasps anyday. If little green men show up, though, i'm gonna have to change my pants.

 

[1911-BILL]

Spiders, heights in some situations and large crowds of people.....

 

[Milton]

Some unusual people in this world have a constantly changing fear of toads,frogs and Northern Lights!!! Hopefully there is some help out there somewhere!!

 

[reerc]

for years my bufonophobia was misdiagnsed but finally with the help of a good therapist who recognised it as ranidaphobia together with a proper course of pharmacuticals I am in remission (one is never cured)
Unfortunately... as I hit my mid 50's I have come down with auroraphobia

You gonna make us look those up, or tell us what they mean ... "Big Words Bob"?

 

[rock doc]

I fear progressive politicians.

 

[Dave from Pa]

Being buried alive.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

I notice that several people here have developed certain phobias over time. Things that never bothered them before are now starting to make them uncomfortable. I am finding that is the case with me as well.

When I was with the fire dept, I never had a problem with claustrophobia. Since I have had to have several MRIs , I have become very claustrophobic. I will not go inside one of those things ever again. I have been OK with the open MRIs, but not the tubular ones. I am a big guy at 6'2" and 275 lbs. They have to squash me into those things. Nope, never again!

Anybody else have adult onset phobias that you never had before? Maybe getting older has something to do with it.


WG840

 

[Sebago Son]

Leeeeches..... I HATE Leeeeches.....

Kind of like these....

And last but not least this slimey slug....

 

[CH47gunner]

I notice that several people here have developed certain phobias over time. Things that never bothered them before are now starting to make them uncomfortable. I am finding that is the case with me as well.

When I was with the fire dept, I never had a problem with claustrophobia. Since I have had to have several MRIs , I have become very claustrophobic. I will not go inside one of those things ever again. I have been OK with the open MRIs, but not the tubular ones. I am a big guy at 6'2" and 275 lbs. They have to squash me into those things. Nope, never again!

Anybody else have adult onset phobias that you never had before? Maybe getting older has something to do with it.

WG840

I didn't realize my height phobia until I was in my thirties.
I had climbed up into my neighbor's tree-house, which had to have been at least 50 feet up in a Redwood. I remember looking down and imagining myself falling & bouncing from limb to limb on the way down. I believe it was my imagination that affected me most, even more than any chance of falling. And it's only gotten worse over the years. Up to the point where I actually experience an almost vertigo when faced by cliff edges, crossing bridges, or over-passes.

Bruce

 

[paragon1]

The I-10 bridge going over the Mississippi River in N.O. I live in Florida, and drive over large bodies of water nearly everyday, But I get that draining, numb feeling when I see that bridge coming. When I finally get over it, I am clenched up from my teeth to my toes.

 

[7tenz]

Funny how we fear things we shouldn't while we don't fear things we should, like going somewhere in your car.

Lemme tell you about wasps. Don't have as many here in So Cal as when I was growing up in upstate NY. I think all the bees here are of the Africanized type, but they aren't nearly as cantankerous as the wasps, yellowjackets and such back east. The only deaths from bees out here I can think of were 2 bee keepers, one retired. Thought they could handle them. Suprise!

 

[deralte]

Only phobia is heights. Strange but I flew for 24 years, hanging out the door of a helicopter or off the lowered ramp of a C-123 and it never bothered me, but let the helicopter get close to a tall building and ouch.

 

[JcMack]

The I-10 bridge going over the Mississippi River in N.O. I live in Florida, and drive over large bodies of water nearly everyday, But I get that draining, numb feeling when I see that bridge coming. When I finally get over it, I am clenched up from my teeth to my toes.

What your talking of is a kind of panic attack. For years I had a morbid fear of bridges over water while traveling in an auto. As crazy as it sounds, when I finally got my high blood pressure under control, the panic feelings, have subsided to almost nil.

 

[Maddog 521]

I am terrified of people who are terrified of things that don't bother me.

 

[springfield.45]

in my job i'm under houses alot and in the past 1 co-worker was attacked by a dog(which i almost killed) and another was bitten by a Copperhead(which i laughed my A** off at, he thought he was going to DIE) just the way he acted was funny, and another fell into a old well about 25' deep into knee deep water and i always think about a house falling while i'm under it so that is my phobia i've had Rats,Snakes,Spiders and a possum crawl over me under houses which didn't bother me.

 

[David LaPell]

Lets see....

Getting fired from my job and trying to support the family.
Liberals, Kennedy's (losing more of my fear all the time), teleprompters with President's, tornadoes (been through one, don't want to see another).

 

[michael thornton]

running out of ammo!

 

[Road Rat]

Sebago Sam, said: Leeeeches..... I HATE Leeeeches.....

Man, them is Slime Balls............