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01/04/2006 01:04:19 PM · #1 |
| As the subect says, what is your phobia, preferrably your greatest fear? If you can, do you know how it became a fear? |
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01/04/2006 01:09:37 PM · #2 |
spiders. even photos of spiders.
i think the fear came from the fact that, when i was a child my parents would take me fishing with them and when my dad would steer the boat under tree branches, thousands (well it seems like thousands now) of small spiders would fall into the boat.
*shivers*
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01/04/2006 01:13:40 PM · #3 |
| Fear of people... Public singing and such... |
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01/04/2006 01:14:07 PM · #4 |
A few years ago I got very sick. If I so much as rolled over in bed I threw up. I ended up getting dehydrated and extremely weak with a high fever. My wife brought me into the mergency room and they were particularly busy that night. I was put in an ob/gyn room because it was the only one available at the time (I'm a guy btw, it was all they had). They then gave me IV fluids for the next 2 1/2 hours. The table was extremely uncomfortable and I was in a lot of pain. I remember feeling completely trapped in my situation, almost panicy. Thought like what if I felt like this the rest of my life. It truely was like torture.
Now when I get a bad cold or I'm in a situation where I'm feeling pretty uncomfortable I get the same feeling inside, like I'm still trapped on that table wondering if it will ever end... will I ever feel good again.
Ironically I'm chronically ill now and if I do too much I get the equivalent of the flu for a few days so it's a perpetual cycle now. |
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01/04/2006 01:19:30 PM · #5 |
Okay, that was silly of me to ask and not say it myself.
My deepest fear, well I'm uncertain, but I have fear of male strangers. Strangers mean a complete stranger that I'd probably never meet again after that day if I ever interact with them verbally.
Initiated when I was 7, but became full blown when I trully understood what sex was. So about 11. |
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01/04/2006 01:42:06 PM · #6 |
Well, there is a big difference between a phobia and just a fear. A phobia is an exaggerated and illogical fear. For example, someone can be afraid of dogs but that could potentially be harmful. On the other hands, I have a true phobia, I have a phobia of toads and frogs. I realize that they do absolutely nothing and that 99% of them are totally harmless, they don't bite, they don't cause any problems (except for the very very few poisonous ones) but I am still terrified of them. I can't see pictures of them or see them on tv withouth my heart skipping a beat or two and having to close the page of turn the tv off. I have had panic attacks from seeing them in person, even though they have been far from me. When I was younger my then 5 year old brother got talked into throwing a small dead frog over the shower curtain when I was in there. I had a panic attack and then fainted, hit my head and went unconcious. He got so scared that ever since then he makes sure there aren't any around when I'm with him. I have had a couple more panic attacks sice then so I completely avoid situations where I could potentially come close to them. I have thought about desensitisation therapy but just the thought that they will make me hold one eventualy scares me. Now, you see the difference between a fear and a phobia?
June
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01/04/2006 02:02:14 PM · #7 |
Fear of heights, specifically being close to a ledge, or exposed in open air near a large drop. I'm OK flying in airplanes, but riding in those elevators that are glass-open to huge hotel interiors, those give me the willies. Vacationing in New Mexico this past summer, my wife and daughter rode a ski-lift in Red River (?) east of Taos, to the top of the mountain. I couldn't get myself to get on the lift. Sheesh.
I did not have this fear when I was younger, it seems to have developed over the last 10 to 15 years (since having kids??). |
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01/04/2006 02:30:25 PM · #8 |
I have irrational fears of dogs, although I like nice dogs, I have a fear of suffocation and or drowning? perhaps not too irrational.
But aren't you supposed to be afraid of vicious dogs and drowning and falling from tall buildings? I guess if you have a fear of flying which keeps you from taking trips to paris, islands, etc., that could be irrational. I think the rationality of fear is a simple ratio of the chance of the "dreaded thing" occuring, or the "dreaded object" being actually dangerous.
So, if there is a black widow on your arm, thats a reason to be scared. A daddy long legs 6 feet away in a garden shed, if you run and go into bed to hide, , change your license plate to [IMNUTZ].
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01/04/2006 02:42:31 PM · #9 |
| I have a definite fear of fire...after experiencing one first-hand, I don't find it to be irrational. My latent OCD nature comes out in full force when I check sockets, plugs, lightswitches, the stove, the furnace, the coffee pot, the curling iron... so I'm not sure if it would qualify as a phobia or not. Probably just paranoia. |
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01/04/2006 02:51:29 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Fear of heights, specifically being close to a ledge, or exposed in open air near a large drop. |
That's the only that gets me shaking, standing or watching other people standing near a large drop off without any sort of safety rail between me/them and the ledge. I donât mind flying or glass elevators and I could see myself parachuting someday, but an open ledge without a rail I do not like. I wonât stand closer than my heights distance from a drop off due to the irrational thoughts of âWhat if, for some reason, I fall or someone jokingly pushes me toward the ledge and canât stop myself?!â |
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01/04/2006 02:55:34 PM · #11 |
Coming up from a dive and not finding your boat - as in Open Water.
I had arachnaphobia for a while, but I've somehow lost it as time went on...
Not much else...
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01/04/2006 03:04:36 PM · #12 |
i'm scared of locusts/the big crickets because there was one in my panties
i'm scared of jellyfish because when i was 6 i was in the ocean and i told my stepdad there was something on my legs and he said you just swam into a plastic bag and when i got out of the water i had two jellys wrapped around one leg from upper thigh to ankle and a third around the knee section of the other leg
i'm not shutdown and have a seizure scared of either - i just shudder if they touch me. |
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01/04/2006 03:05:30 PM · #13 |
Phobia: needle phobia, see my entry in Phobia challenge, and I explained it in detail in a thread a week or so ago.
Fear: losing my sight; since I'm deaf already, blindness would truly isolate me.
R. |
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01/04/2006 03:13:54 PM · #14 |
I have acrophobia and continue to try to conquer it by facing it down, but I can't ride glass elevators, get near sheer drops, stand atop skyscrapers (or even ladders/house rooves), etc. without my head spinning, my knees buckling, and me feeling sick & nearly passing out. LOL Don't know where it came from, but I used to fall out of the top bunkbed a lot as a kid? As long as I'm strapped into something I'm okay (I love rollercoasters), but if there's just a handrailing - forget it, I'm crawling! (Literally as I did for my D&L entry!)
Message edited by author 2006-01-04 15:14:25. |
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