Phobias

[Deidara Iwahara]

pointy objects



seeping into my neck

Lately i've started to have mental images involving that and i can't get rid of them so this is quickly turning into a phobia for me.

[Sturg]

Well, it did happen once, never again...


If I had to list another phobia, it'd probably be claustrophobia, but only in extremely tight spaces.

[Paralars]

I thought claustrophobia just meant being afraid of being inside a locked/sealed room, I suppose very little people actually enjoy being shoved into a crate or car trunk, so that's hardly something special.

[Ashan]

Has anyone seen Buried? If you're not claustrophobic as it is that movie will make you if any movie will.

[GlitchedGhost]

When I was around 3-4, I got those mandatory shots. As a typical child, I was already quite scared of the needles since I never experienced it before. Got the shots, and however long after it happened my arm doubled in size from an allergic reaction to the tetanus shot. It was bad enough that the health board came and looked at it.

And that's where my phobia of needles started. Now I get full blown panic attacks if I need a blood test. It wasn't fun when I needed one last year. Doctor gave me some Atavan to calm down, pulled an all nighter, realized it wasn't that bad, but you know, phobias can blow stuff out of proportion. Even being in places where needles are make me quite uncomfortable.

I love heights and being up high, but the idea of accidentally being pushed or just falling from a huge distance and hitting the ground is a bit of a phobia too. I tend to stay away from any ledges unless I'm feeling particularly brave.

[Redsy]

Heights or falling don't really scare me at all.

I realized today I'm really freaked out by teeth. Like have you ever seen a picture of a bunch of teeth? It's creepy. It's kinda like the trypophobia thing.

[Ashan]

Yeah, I think teeth are kinda weird. They're basically just bones protruding from your body and they're primarily used for gnashing animals apart so I don't know. That's kinda odd.

I recall raocow saying he hated teeth or bones or something at one point, too. Not sure if it's related to the bicycle accident he witnessed or however that story went, but he also said his favourite Pokémon is Marowack so I don't get it.

[Deidara Iwahara]

Heights or falling don't really scare me at all.

I realized today I'm really freaked out by teeth. Like have you ever seen a picture of a bunch of teeth? It's creepy. It's kinda like the trypophobia thing.

I'm not freaked out by teeth themselves but the idea of people going near them or doing things to them make me panic. I almost had to skip some chapters of a manga i was reading because the antagonist of the moment took people's teeth when they couldn't pay her their gambling debts and i couldn't handle it.

[limepie20]

The only teeth that scare me are Tate from Ken Park.

[Redsy]

I have a phobia of people who think anything mildly unpleasant and uncommon is a phobia.

Seriously you guys are terrifying

Boohoo

[BlueWizrobe]

I have a phobia of people who think anything mildly unpleasant and uncommon is a phobia.

Seriously you guys are terrifying

I don't think it's fair to discount some of the things people are claiming as phobias without actually seeing, first hand, how they react when faced with their alleged phobias.
For example; just because one person sees insects as "mildly unpleasant" doesn't mean that another isn't doing everything humanly possible to avoid them (and flipping the fuck out when they inevitably see an ant within close proximity of them).

[AUS]

Yeah..It doesn't matter how small the trigger to a phobia is. The very essence of a phobia is that it's an irrational fear. It makes no sense to react the way one does. That's a phobia.

[Petzi]

I have a phobia of people who think anything mildly unpleasant and uncommon is a phobia.

Seriously you guys are terrifying

+1 internets

Yeah..It doesn't matter how small the trigger to a phobia is. The very essence of a phobia is that it's an irrational fear. It makes no sense to react the way one does. That's a phobia.

I love heights and being up high, but the idea of accidentally being pushed or just falling from a huge distance and hitting the ground is a bit of a phobia too. I tend to stay away from any ledges unless I'm feeling particularly brave.

Mostly avoiding something easily deadly isn't a phobia.

[AUS]

I see what you mean. However, I don't think you're arguing the same thing that Bartle was--or what I was arguing against.

[Ashan]

I have a phobia of people who think anything mildly unpleasant and uncommon is a phobia.

A phobia by definition is:

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

It says nothing about it being a clinically recognized condition or anything. I suppose the only criteria a lot of the posts here don't fit is the "extreme" part, but measuring level of fear is completely subjective, so I don't see the problem. It's irrational fears.

[darkychao]

The fear of not knowing wether something that looks like a statue is a statue or a person covered in bronze paint.
Not that I dislike the people what look as if they're statues, it's just the not knowing; especially when I'm with someone who is telling me that it's not a person even though I'm pretty sure it is.

[Paralars]

actual statues are usually way more worn than those actors.

[AUS]

especially when I'm with someone who is telling me that it's not a person even though I'm pretty sure it is.

Just make sure you're never on the opposite end of the conversation. Think of it this way: Insisting that something is human while it isn't won't make you look like an idiot, because there are no stakes. Insisting that something isn't human while it is will make you look like an idiot--on the off chance the statue moves or something. It's safer to assume the statue is human. It's not like it's going to be offended and tell you that it isn't. Maybe.

[Ashan]

I think I mentioned this a while back in the thread but I was reminded of it today when my class went to the university for one of those 'prepare for the future' type things and I saw some of the huge buildings.

Tall buildings make me feel sick when I look up at them because I suddenly feel like gravity will reverse and I'll start falling up. No idea why I do, but it freaks me out. Releasing helium balloons into the air triggers this as well. There were a bunch of helium balloons people were playing around with and I kept silently freaking out in my head because I was thinking people were going to release them. I think these 2 things freaks me out because it makes me realize how high the sky really is. When you look up at clouds or something, you don't really have any depth perception so you don't really understand how far you're looking. When I see a building stretching up and you realize that's it's not even CLOSE to the stratosphere I realize how terrifying it would be to fall up and I don't know if I want to be near the building to grab onto it if it were to happen or stay away from it in case it got uprooted and fell up with everything else.

This seems so weird typing this out.

[Paralars]

I've had thoughts like these too, but it's not a phobia for me because I know gravity won't just stop.

[darkychao]

feel like gravity will reverse and I'll start falling up

If earth's gravity reversed you wouldn't have to worry about falling up, all of the atmosphere would be gone almost instantly and you'd be dead in several seconds; death would come quick, and painless. I hope this makes you feel better.

[Paralars]

how do you know being launched forward through a no-pressure environment while suffocating would be painless?

[Ashan]

feel like gravity will reverse and I'll start falling up

If earth's gravity reversed you wouldn't have to worry about falling up, all of the atmosphere would be gone almost instantly and you'd be dead in several seconds; death would come quick, and painless. I hope this makes you feel better.

Reasoning doesn't exactly help you get over phobias. I don't actually think gravity will reverse; I just think about it and it freaks me out and I feel like falling over.

[AUS]

I doubt it.
I mean, wouldn't it also be sucked out your ears, eyes, open wounds... etc?

[BobisOnlyBob]

Tall buildings make me feel sick when I look up at them because I suddenly feel like gravity will reverse and I'll start falling up. No idea why I do, but it freaks me out.

I do something this deliberately. I've been known to lie down at the foot of a tall building or wall, place my feet squarely against it, and refocus so the building is a path in front of me, if only I could walk "forward" into the sky. Oh, uh... that might make you feel a bit nauseous, sorry... But it's genuinely a thing I've done. I think I first tried it after reading Ender's Game, for fairly obvious reasons if you've read it. I accidentally refocused that way while on the "Oblivion" rollercoaster at Alton Towers, and it totally ruined the vertical drop for me. Suffice to say I'm not bothered by heights.

I am bothered by large birds of prey, though, particularly owls. They just spook me out. Not really a genuine phobia, but enough to make me uncomfortable and want to get away. I think it's the eyes and talons in combination that freak me out.

I am also paralyzed with fear by Ramiel and its Rebuild version especially. I feel that fear of singing, screaming spatial anomalies is a healthy fear, but that deer-in-headlights paralysis is not. I had to pause both of those videos immediately to copy the links and I still feel super uncomfortable. This is most ridiculously specific phobia I know of.