Do you have any fears or phobias?
Have you always had it, or are you aware that there was an event or catalyst that lead you to have that fear / conditioned you to respond in a certain manner?
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For as long as I can remember I have been quite terrified of piers / jetties / marinas. But it's not really those in themselves so much as they are suspended in water. The same can be said for the hull of boats, propellers and buoys. Heightened anxiety around ships and ferried too. I've been known to freak out in diving pools (I think because you can't see the bottom) and sometimes even now the step ladders in swimming pools set me off as well. I'm not sure if it's a matter of not being able to see, or the mossy/algae growth that's often hanging around on stuff like that but I just cannot deal. I parked briefly near a boat ramp the other night for a few minutes and only had to flick my highbeams on and see the two marinas and next minutes I'm hightailing it out of there ? . Sometime visual representations trigger it, movies, stills, even details discussions, but not always.
I'm not sure when it started for me or if there was a catalyst as I grew up around various water crafts and fishing a lot but it seems to worsen now the older I get, perhaps due to lesser exposure over time. Anyhow I finally looked it up tonight and the closest "label" is submechanophobia - the fear of fully or partially submerged manmade objects. Found a whole sub-reddit dedicated to it too ? ? . Anyone else?
Anyway I have babbled on a bit, but was interested after reading a lot tonight and thought I would post here to see what other fears / phobias people experience.
In the last while I've become obsessed with keeping my hands clean. Constant washing mostly after handling money. More of a OCD thing than a phobia?
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I have a fear of flying. I hit some "white turbulence" many years back. Drinks went flying and one of the flight attendants was hurt. I've been white-knuckled on a plane ever since. I fly at least twice a year on business and sometimes more often so it's a real pain. Also, if you see someone gripping their armrests, don't tell them that it won't hold up the plane. It's really irritating.
I'm claustrophobic but only really in caves. I learned this at Tom Sawyer Island at Disney World. Fun, that.
I do have a fear of crowds, especially when I'm not sure how to get out of one. Movies are an issue if the exit is behind me. I think it's been ten months since my last movie in a theater. Before that, I think it was a year.
I'm good with clowns, spiders, bees, heights, and water, though. (I'll probably die from drowning while in anaphylactic shock after being pushed off of a building into a swimming pool by a clown.)
I have what I call, Letterbox Paranoia, comes with having too many Postal Nasties from Debt Collectors ect.
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Wasp. I am highly allergic
Dogs (Cynophobia), Blood (Hemophobia), Bridges (Gephyrophobia). I am trying to get over the first and second is just that blood makes me really queasy
Clowns and puppets. Fuck that.
Going blind, going deaf, losing my memory. - To not see beauty is bad, to never hear her voice is worse, to not remember is unfathomable.
However, my smartass, southern boy side says "Women and the police"
I'm not the superstitious type but never again will I rearrange my Friends list. Two number ones left the site within days of one another. The list will remain chronological.
I was shocked badly as a kid and actually passed out from it, waking up many seconds later. Its what I get for trying to wire an outlet with no adult supervision or guidance. As such, I've been terrified of being electrocuted ever since. Wires and lightning trigger some serious stress within me.
I believe that the following things are bad luck:
-running a red light
-killing a spider
-cleaning your hardhat
-eating cherry-flavored anything while on the job site
I have a black cat as a pet but I read somewhere that black cats are GOOD luck in Japan so I pretend that her ancestors hail from Okinawa.
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I don't have many, but I do fear being cornered in an alley by rednecks who aren't there to fuck me.
I believe my only phobia is Claustrophobia. You won't find me crawling through caves.
My only fear is spiders. I've been bit with reactions enough times to actually warrant that phobia now.
A cave cricket is pretty close though.
We have a camp that is very secluded, on a river, with heavy wooded area all around it. We only cut about 5 acres of it. The land around ours is also wooded with some swampy areas. We have seen more Cotton Mouth snakes than I'm comfortable with. For me 1 was too many. Hubbie killed about 5 or 6 last year. Two of them were mating. Cuming and going at the same time for them two.
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Bugs of all kinds, clowns (Thanks a lot, Stephen King), driving on the highway, thanks to anxiety.
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