Do you have a phobia?, page 1

I was researching phobias the other day. And I read an interesting statistic that 5% of the population has a phobia.
some are very specific, and some are quite funny.

Phobia List

Unusual Phobias

Here are my favorites:

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes (result of a bad experience playing yankee doodle dandy in high school?)
Cometophobia- Fear of comets.(guess they don't become an astronaut then)
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.( I wonder if anyone has tried that excuse yet)
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.(I think I have this)
Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.

Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.( I definetly have this)


A phobia is described as:

A phobia (from Greek: φόβος, phobos, "fear"), is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one's control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made. [1]

wiki-phobia


In case you are wondering.



I have two phobias, fear of heights,and a more unusual phobia of concentrated groups of circles. *grins*

Great thread, it will be intersting to see what your findings are.

I have thought i have had phobias, like arachniphobia. I would see a housespider of any size and freeze. I coudn't walk underneath them - i physically coudln't move except to run away. I also had a thing about touching things that other people had used, to the point were it started to become silly. 2 of my biggest obsessions were touching public tap and doorhandles/plates. I got over the arachnaphobia. I think it was just the way they moved that creeped me out the most. I met someone who had tarantulas, and after sleeping in the same room as them for 5 years, the ohobia no longer hinders me. The same with the touching stuff after other people phobia, i realised that i was also on the verge on becoming having OCBD and was starting to check i'd locked the doors or turned the iron off upteen times before leaving - sometimes i'd go back and check again. I learned to change how i felt about things like phobia of obsessions by making myself to do the opposite. Worked for me - will power required.

One phobia i do have and i cannot cure is my blood phobia. Always had this, dont know why or when my phobia came about but as far back as i can remeber anyway. Unlike the other phobias - i cannot even think or talk about blood without my hands starting to tingle in a pain pleasure type way that it makes you laugh hysterically and act like a child, in the sense of i start fidgeting because of the tingling. I cant put my fingers and thumbs together because it like touching the place were your took just got taken out, its really hard to describe. Like the very first part of what you feel when you hit your funny bone but amplified. Well i hope someone knows what i mean. If someone doesn'st stop talking about it, them i feel like i'm going limp and need to sit down. It doesn't help that when when blood is mentioned i automatically imagine what they are describing, it makes it worse. Writing this i can feel a slight creep of that feeling, it is more when someone is talking about it when their referring to something surgical or medical - Horror movies dont make me feel funny at all - I find that odd?? As i said, i cannot overcome this one, it overcomes me.

Does anyone else have this kind of bood phobia or a phobia that makes them feel like this?

Just looked this up and it would seem my spider and touching thing phobia wear fear, that would make sense beacuse you can control your fear to some extent, the blood one is called haemaphobia is a true phobia:

What’s the difference between a fear and a phobia?

The main difference between the two is the severity of the emotional reaction. To give an example, a strong dislike of spiders is a fear that the person may feel very uncomfortable around spiders, and not want to go near one. A phobia though, is an irrational, uncontrollable, intense fear that can produce a physical reaction.

taken from the website in the link below:
www.wessexhypnotherapy.com...

[edit on 8-1-2009 by MCoG1980]

I do have a phobia, although I don't consider it particularly severe, just....intense.

Trypophobia - fear of holes.

I've always had this fear, my whole life.

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Here is a phobia on the unusualphobias site:

Fear of *Pictures* of Sharks -- This one is so good, I just have to post his/her entire description: "I remember once in 4th grade, we were reading a magazine...I got to the last page and dropped the magazine, kicked over my desk (hitting the child in front of me and injuring her) and scrambled onto the kid behind me's [sic] desk, all the while screaming bloody murder. I had been touching a shark's picture the whole friggin' time! Three teachers came running from different classrooms..."

So you are not the only one.

Peacejet:

Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.

Nyk537, that is one of mine. Fear of hole clusters. I was talking with my mom how lotus pods totally freak me out.

That, and I can't stand microwave mac, because it makes the noodles stand on end so you see all these holes.
I have to close my eyes and stir it real quick.

I also had arachnophobia. I also got over it, because I went to work for the park service, and well, you see a lot of spiders.

It I am in a small space or if they are really big I still freak.

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Crazy! Thanks for sharing that. I truly thought I was a fringe weirdo. It's comforting to know it is actually classified as a real phobia and not just something my insane self suffers. Funny about what he said regarding 'touching' the shark photo. I refuse to do the same thing. I won't put my fingers on them for the sake of some irrational fear I will be teleported to where it is.

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Simply- that is very similar to the reason I don't like fishing. It's like karma will come around and have me get eaten by a shark if I fish.

So nice to see several of us share in our insanity.

Originally posted by AshleyD
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Crazy! Thanks for sharing that. I truly thought I was a fringe weirdo. It's comforting to know it is actually classified as a real phobia and not just something my insane self suffers. Funny about what he said regarding 'touching' the shark photo. I refuse to do the same thing. I won't put my fingers on them for the sake of some irrational fear I will be teleported to where it is.

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Simply- that is very similar to the reason I don't like fishing. It's like karma will come around and have me get eaten by a shark if I fish.

So nice to see several of us share in our insanity.

LOL no your not the only freaking weirdo ...I be one too .....
Spiders are worse than the devil to me ....

When I saw Jaws I took my newborn baby with me (he was 4 days old) and when that shark jumped up into that boat I almost tossed my baby behind me into someones lap ...he was laying on my shoulder when I jumped ...and the women behind me actually saw what almost happened and already had her arms out to catch him ...it was funny but not really lol .................

And just last summer after reading online about so many shark attacks across the country ....I was at Crystal Beach and went to get into the water and thats all I could think about was those shark attacks ..I could not stay in the water or go past my ankles that whole 4 days we were there ...it completely ruined my beach weekend ..Which before that it never bothered me ...but lately it has ...maybe the older we get the more phobias we pick up ...lol

[edit on 9-1-2009 by Simplynoone]

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I am sorry Simply but that story gave me a good chuckle. Glad you didn't do a quarterback on your baby.

I was actually afraid of toilets for awhile, because I saw a movie poster for Jaws, and they showed his head coming out of the toilet. Feaked me out.

I still get a little nervous about toilets now and then. Like something is living in it. There, I have bared all, LOL.

The reason I hate driving over bridges is because of the video of Galloping Girdy. Totally blew my mind as a kid. I was horrified to think of being trapped on that bridge. I have hated going over bridges ever since.

I had to face the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Nice couple of miles over open water. The driver assistence(state troopers who driver your car over for you)was booked up, so I had to do it myself. I white knuckled and hyperventilated the whole way. When I finally got off, I pulled over and almost passed out. Took about 20 minutes before I could drive again.

I have gotten better about smaller bridges. Thanks to the park service again. My supervisor had to replace boards on a footbridge of all things. So anytime I needed to talk to him, I had to walk it. So after a couple of days I got used to it.I think he got a kick out of torturing me.

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I have phobiaphobia.

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