Phobias.

PhantomX0990 said:
One word.

Trypophobia.

Your life will never be the same again.
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I was hoping someone would say this, because trypophobia seems like one of those 'fashionable internet phobias' that everyone seems to have because they don't understand the difference between fear and revulsion/discomfort. Or, they jump in on the bandwagon of having this because everyone else seems to have it too.

As for me? I used to be deathly scared of flamingos a couple of years back, but I got over that! Thank god!
Nowadays, I can't handle being in the same vicinity as a wasp or any insect that than fly (except flies/mosquitos), because everyone knows that flying insects are just carriers of the Devil's soul and that they're pure evil.
 
I have had several phobias that I've gotten over... I used to be arachnophobia (at least a little scared of spiders anyway) and I had a huge fear of needles.

Right now the only real phobias I have now are acrophobia (heights as has been said) and I'm terrified of vomit - simply because the thought itself makes me feel queasy. I don't know if you could call it a phobia but I sometimes feel a fairly intense fear when contemplating things impossible to comprehend.
 
Spiders, dead bugs and deep waters.

The first because they look weuroiwueosiujdosijdflksjdkfs and might be dangerous. Okay not in Sweden but still. Justlsj dfksjdf

The second because when they are dead they get all dry and might break and ajdkhfaö oiwerjlaskjflskdfn kejd uuuugh my worst nightmare would be to get a lone little fly leg or something in my moutha sjdaksdj skd

Whoa, writing this post isn't good for my nerves, I'm shuddering.

Deep waters because it's so darn creepy and you don't know what's down there and it might be miles and miles down and that kind of height... depth... Is just so weird to think about, I kind of feel nauseous. I had a nightmare once where I swam with a friend through a transparent sea and we saw the bottom and then suddenly it got deeper and there was a whole city down there, so far away that I could hardly see it even though it covered the whole bottom of the ocean and... iuuusdfhushdjf

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Um...kelp. I think that's what terrifies me about swimming in the sea in shallow water anyways. And also reptiles (especially snakes), some amphibians, most fish, Octopi and Squid. OH MY GOD THE SQUID. Seriously, ever since I saw some old film with a guy in one of those diving suits with the big metal helmets getting attack by a giant octopus I've been terrified of octopi. And seeing as squid are basically more aggressive than them (Humboldt Squid especially, apparently) and have more tentacley things, they terrify me even more. Jellyfish too, possibly blame Anthony Horowitz's Stormbreaker for that. It was bad enough reading it but then the book...ugh. And what they did to Martin in Finding Nemo too.
Actually I wouldn't say it's a full on phobia of fish, they just disgust me to the point that no matter how much I love penguins I wouldn't feed one because it involved touching a fish. Despite the fact that I've been fishing a couple of times and caught fish and had to hold them. And the smell is repulsive, to the point I feel sick when eating Salmon (cooked, but still).

Moths are another phobia. And the dark. Bad combination as in order to overcome the dark I use a torch...which summons the moths. It's like a horrid vicious cycle if I go camping or whatever.

I think I'll leave it at that...most of my other fears are probably just me being a wimp rather than actual phobias.
 
Ah, well.

Atychiphobia, I've very rarely taken a risk because of this, at least until I can be assured of perfection.

Autophobia, I'm not sure how to describe this. A good example of how much this has affected me would be that my sister shares an apartment with me, and her room is approximately 7 seconds away from mine xD
 
Harlequin said:
I was hoping someone would say this, because trypophobia seems like one of those 'fashionable internet phobias' that everyone seems to have because they don't understand the difference between fear and revulsion/discomfort. Or, they jump in on the bandwagon of having this because everyone else seems to have it too.
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You were hoping someone would say that so you can prove a point?
 
I forgot about needles :( It's WWII struggles all over again trying to stick that in my arm for blood tests!
 
Sharp things, flying, and heat. Also denim, I literally hate wearing jeans. And vegetables, especially the dreaded tear-inducing common ingredient known as the onion. I would literally never eat anything with onions in it, meaning I tend to miss out on a lot of great food.

But the ones that impact me the most are the sharp things and the heat, I have trouble handling knives, hairdryers and such because I'm worried I might get cut or burned. I also often have difficulties when it comes to cooking my own food. I have since learned how to get food out of an oven but only if I wear one of those gloves. My fear of flying is the reason why I never like to travel out of my country (or even to other parts of Australia for that matter) and oh god I saw plane crashes on TV and everything!

I also have a slight fear of heights (acrophobia) and spiders (arachnophobia) but they don't freak me out a lot as what I said above.
 
Spiders...I just want to burn all of them.
They just look like they're thinking "ey sexeh. imma eet u while u sleep". So, they totally spook me, and I can't even stand the simple daddy longlegs. That's how bad it is to me.

I used to be afraid of planes due to continuously watching Air Crash Investigation, which totally turned me off air travel, but since my mum and I went to the UK, I got used to flight. It's quite fun, actually.

Explosions. Sure, they don't phase me when I'm on my PS3 blowing stuff up with my tanks and stuff, but in real life, even a blown up plastic bag has me freaking out. I just think "TERRORIST ATTACK" when I think explosions :(
 
I suffer from emetophobia, a fear of vomiting. It's quite common, but I go to extraordinary lengths to avoid vomit or vomiting; if anybody near me complains of nausea I'll move as far away from the as possible, and I'll wash my hands compulsively after touching especially public surfaces, such as mall toilet sinks.

Sadly, I suffer from chronic abdominal pain. One of the consequences of this is that, every so often, I'll suffer bouts of nausea, which in turn incite panic attacks as I fear the worst...
 
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