GTKY: phobias?

babybluu · August 2015

i was on another board and it got me thinking.... Does anyone have any irrational, or perfectly rational phobias?

For me, I have emetophobia, the fear of vomiting. I avoid it at all costs, even if it makes me sicker holding it in. My heart races, my hands get sweaty, and I hyperventilate any time I think I might be sick. I wish I could just be normal and puke and get it over with, but I've always been like this. I've puked once in like the last 8-10 years. And that's with the decently sucky morning sickness I had.

laxdixdar · August 2015

ranidaphobia

I'm insanely afraid of frogs. Just the sound of one makes my blood pressure skyrocket. Not a fun phobia living in rural Florida near sugar cane. One year the cane toads were so bad my poor husband had to catch them all from our yard and take them off because i couldn't leave the house without nearly hyperventilating.

babybluu · August 2015

@laxdixdar my best friends mom is like that! She won't go in the house if there are frogs on the door or anywhere within sight of the house. I don't think she necessarily minds as much if she can't see them, but that's such a sad phobia. The little green tree frogs are so cute!!

laxdixdar · August 2015

@babybluu No. Just no :-&

babybluu · August 2015

@laxdixdar it's crazy how something that doesn't bother someone, can be someone else's biggest fear!

ashs88 · August 2015

Arachnophobia. Pretty common, but I'm totally afraid of spiders. Any spiders. We have our house professionally sprayed a couple times a year so we rarely find spiders alive in the house, but even when I see a dead one I refuse to touch it and make my husband come get rid of it. And if I go outside at night I always make sure I'm not standing under an overhang or something because I always feel like a spider will come down and land on me. It creeps me out just thinking about it!

ashs88 · August 2015

Also, DH's would be coulrophobia, fear of clowns. I think it's hilarious, but it's completely real for him. He doesn't even like looking at Ronald McDonald!

daniisaurusrex · August 2015

I hate balloons I need to get over it soon

nanamp · August 2015

Flying! And we are going from New York to Australia!! ACK!

andimegie325 · August 2015

Automatonophobia, I'm terrified of anything resembling a human form like ventriloquist dolls, or marionnets. Totally irrational, but my Nana insisted on buying me all these porcelain dolls and marionnets when she lived in Germany for a few years and they stayed shoved in the back of my closet to this day because no, they're just creepy!

nackie · August 2015

Spiders and heights. The height one showed up as an adult while hiking in the mountains of Peru. It was an extremely inconvenient time to develop that particular fear. Poor DH didn't know what to do with me. I had to crawl up some of the paths on my hands and knees.

zg49 · August 2015

babybluu said:

i was on another board and it got me thinking.... Does anyone have any irrational, or perfectly rational phobias? For me, I have emetophobia, the fear of vomiting. I avoid it at all costs, even if it makes me sicker holding it in. My heart races, my hands get sweaty, and I hyperventilate any time I think I might be sick. I wish I could just be normal and puke and get it over with, but I've always been like this. I've puked once in like the last 8-10 years. And that's with the decently sucky morning sickness I had.

ME TOO! It honestly is so bad I debated wanting kids because I didn't want to deal with morning sickness. Thankfully with DD and this pregnancy I had MS but no throwing up. I also had a mini breakdown during labor with my DD because I was getting so nauseous (I was also exhausted) and my nurses tried to be helpful but they looked at me like I was crazy for getting so worked up over something that happens naturally.

I also hate flying. It terrifies me (and it's odd because I'm a travel agent and book flights all day long...)

juneandboo · August 2015

Sharks and bears. I'm convinced it's just a matter of time before I come face to face with one of them. I have no idea why.

jezzebelhenry · August 2015

Oneday a frog got in my school shoe cause I left it outside and when I put it on I get the shock of my life I no dislike frogs.

dc072175 · August 2015

MOTHS - yes moths (by far the worst), grasshoppers, butterflies, crane flies. Anything that darts about wildly. The only thing I can remotely link it to is sitter watching Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds" when I was around 6, otherwise no idea where such a huge phobia came from. I hate all other bugs also!

bmahon0921 · August 2015

Ornithophobia is the fear of birds. I just can't. I can't describe the rush of emotions and fear that comes with seeing a bird.

mysquishy18 · August 2015

Completely and utterly terrified of clowns here.

kmcc14 · August 2015

@babybluu one of my good friends has emetophobia. Lucky for her she hasn't had any morning sickness with her pregnancies.

I'm mildly claustrophobic, and I hate heights and snakes.

shinyspade · August 2015

Arachnophobia. I used to get night terrors about them being in my bed. I can't sleep if there's one in my room and an unable to get it out myself in case it touches me.

babybluu · August 2015

kmcconnell22 said:
@babybluu one of my good friends has emetophobia. Lucky for her she hasn't had any morning sickness with her pregnancies.

I'm mildly claustrophobic, and I hate heights and snakes.

I didn't realize it was so common! Everyone I know just pukes and gets it over with and I start to panic. Right now I'm worried about labor and possibly vomiting then

Krisdee123 · August 2015

I have a fear of heights, but also a very irrational fear of throwing myself off of heights. Almost like I will just have the urge to jump, but I'm in no way suicidal.

karenelizabeth102 · August 2015

laxdixdar said:

ranidaphobia I'm insanely afraid of frogs. Just the sound of one makes my blood pressure skyrocket. Not a fun phobia living in rural Florida near sugar cane. One year the cane toads were so bad my poor husband had to catch them all from our yard and take them off because i couldn't leave the house without nearly hyperventilating.

Yes. Yes. Yes. I HATE frogs too. So slimy and gross!

ah1013 · August 2015

I cannot stand dragonflies. I will scream and run. I know they're harmless but I hate them.

mypeeps27 · August 2015

babybluu said:

i was on another board and it got me thinking.... Does anyone have any irrational, or perfectly rational phobias? For me, I have emetophobia, the fear of vomiting. I avoid it at all costs, even if it makes me sicker holding it in. My heart races, my hands get sweaty, and I hyperventilate any time I think I might be sick. I wish I could just be normal and puke and get it over with, but I've always been like this. I've puked once in like the last 8-10 years. And that's with the decently sucky morning sickness I had.

Yeah, me too. It was one thing that kept me on the fence about having kids. I finally told my husband we needed to start soon so I could get that part over with before the fear changes my mind completely. Luckily, I didn't throw up. I had some nausea for about a month, but that was it.

BabyBump2 · August 2015

Elevators and semis. It is ridiculous.

Winters12 · August 2015

babybluu said:
i was on another board and it got me thinking.... Does anyone have any irrational, or perfectly rational phobias?

For me, I have emetophobia, the fear of vomiting. I avoid it at all costs, even if it makes me sicker holding it in. My heart races, my hands get sweaty, and I hyperventilate any time I think I might be sick. I wish I could just be normal and puke and get it over with, but I've always been like this. I've puked once in like the last 8-10 years. And that's with the decently sucky morning sickness I had.

I have emetephobia too!!!! I've had it my whole life! Well, as far back as I can remember. Like you I went years without vomiting! This year it happened twice!!!!! What!?

Are you concerned about other vomiting too? It's one of my main parenting fears. My son is 17 months and it's happened once but thankfully my husband was here too! I'm so afraid my fears will rub off and I don't want that to happen!

Calebsmom0318 · August 2015

I'm so happy Im not the only frog hater! I am absolutely TERRIFIED of them! Won't look at them, walk past them, nothing. I grew up in NY so living in Florida now has made this very difficult for me! :-S

MamaGooGoo · August 2015

Here's a weird one. I have something called Trypophobia. This sounds so dumb but it's a fear of holes. Not like a hole in the ground, but like a bunch of holes together, like a beehive. Google a pic of a lotus seed pod and you'll see. It seriously gives me an instant nervous and tingly/itchy feeling and I get super uneasy looking at things like that. I'll be in a store like Target and they'll have some decorative dried plants for a vase or something and if I see a lotus seed pod in there I run the other way. My husband thinks it's funny to change my background on my phone to those pictures. Asshole!

babybluu · August 2015

@mamagoogoo that's an interesting one! Never heard of it!

@winters12 yeah I can't handle others vomiting. The second someone says they feel sick, I'm outta there. I don't wanna see it, hear it, smell it.... Nothing. I'm so scared of my kids throwing up in the future. Or even Dh. I told him he should have his 21st birthday party somewhere else because I was too scared of someone throwing up in my house.

BarrettJ89 · August 2015

dc072175 said:
MOTHS - yes moths

YES! Can I add June bugs? I totally freak out. Hate them... my biggest irrational fear though it's the dentist! They have to give me an IV and sedate be. Even while sedated, they have to tie my wrists and ankles down because it's consisted "twilight sedation" and I took a swing at the dentist while sedated. Whoops?

MssyMmmy · August 2015

I also have the fear of vommiting. For me it started when I was 10 and I choked while home alone. I panicked and threw up. Up until this pregnancy I haven't thrown up since then. 18 years! I threw up quite a bit in my first tri. I think I am over the phobia now but I still hate it.

Grace213 · August 2015

krisdee123 said:
I have a fear of heights, but also a very irrational fear of throwing myself off of heights. Almost like I will just have the urge to jump, but I'm in no way suicidal.

I have nightmares about this nonsense. Like I'll accidentally get too close to the edge of a huge cliff and fall to my death. Or falling into a vat of something that will kill me on contact.

Needless to say, no trips to the Grand Canyon or factory work for me!

Krisdee123 · August 2015

Grace213 said:

I have a fear of heights, but also a very irrational fear of throwing myself off of heights. Almost like I will just have the urge to jump, but I'm in no way suicidal.
I have nightmares about this nonsense. Like I'll accidentally get too close to the edge of a huge cliff and fall to my death. Or falling into a vat of something that will kill me on contact. Needless to say, no trips to the Grand Canyon or factory work for me!

Yes! The thought of going to the Grand Canyon is terrifying. Just looking at pictures of Hoover Dam scare the hell out of me and I back up. Its so bizarre.

juneandboo · August 2015

Oh, I should add to my shark and bear fears: snakes. Garden snakes included. I don't care if they're "harmless" according to "science", those things are terrrifying!

maddisonwallace · August 2015

I am absolutely petrified of dead things. Dead people, dead animals, dead bugs, hunting trophies, stuffed anything, you get it. I cannot be in the same vicinity as anything dead because I cannot function.

khf221979 · August 2015

Scelerophobia

Fear of crime, bad men and burglars. It's so bad I don't leave my house without my husband and I don't go unless I absolutely have to. When my husband was out of town for a couple of days for work I did not sleep and sat in my house with all the lights on with my dogs and kept checking all the doors to make sure they were locked. I used to be able to go out for walks during the day and go shopping by myself but not anymore. I always fear that someone would attack me when I'm out or try to kill me.

It also goes with Anthropophobia a form of social phobia. I have panic attacks when I'm out and around people. It's gonna be hard for me when I am in the hospital after given birth.

ChrissyD1203 · August 2015

Birds!

SamAdams2006 · August 2015

Sharks!!! I live right next to the beach so it's not totally irrational. Specifically great whites, there are so many where I live that my home town has been featured many times on shark week. But they are on the ocean side, not the bay side. It really doesn't matter to me, I can no longer go kayaking at all or swim past my waist in the bays or harbor. I don't even like to be out on boats anymore, unless they're a really good sized boat. Even watching documentaries or seeing pictures of sharks makes me get woozy and my knees start to tingle. Any picture that is even of empty dark water scares me and makes me uncomfortable. I won't swim in ponds either, because I start thinking about sharks and begin to panic. Totally insane on that one! I was already afraid of them, and then when great whites started coming to Cape Cod due to our seal poulation I just lost it. Everyday on Facebook someone else is like ahh a shark at the beach I was at loooook!! And I'm over here like no just no.

salixa4 · August 2015

Snakes! Ugh, I can't even look at a picture without freaking out a bit. Even the harmless ones are horrifying. One of the few things I like about living in the middle of a city is that I never have to worry about running into them.

TinkMonroe · August 2015

For me it is being in any store an hour before they close. I know they won't lock me in at night because I have worked closing shift in retail before becoming a teacher. I still get very nervous and will actually wait outside the store panicking if anyone I'm waiting for is in it. My husband is very good about not making me go anywhere close to closing time for stores.

alandaim · August 2015

TinkMonroe said:
For me it is being in any store an hour before they close. I know they won't lock me in at night because I have worked closing shift in retail before becoming a teacher. I still get very nervous and will actually wait outside the store panicking if anyone I'm waiting for is in it. My husband is very good about not making me go anywhere close to closing time for stores.

I have a milder version of this. I get very anxious when I know a store is going to close. The people I am with look at me like I'm nuts. I also need to leave movie theaters right when the movie is done. When I was younger I would get hysterical if the people I was with did not get up and leave for fear of being locked in. I know now that they won't do it but I still get nervous.

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