Phobias

[hammerman]

After boobesque's thread on blood tests, does anyone else have any irrational fears.

I have a real nasty fear of drowning....i often have nightmares about it and it wakes me up with a start. Just thinking about it makes me go cold

[~posy-jo~]

i can't stand lifts. if one broke down with me in it i think i would die!!!!! even being pinned down freaks me out coz i can't move if i want to!! sad aren't i!!

[missjef]

i hate going on planes and not too keen on boats either.
as well as the lift fear that posy-jo said.

[lia*]

i am terrified of snakes; alive, dead, real, false.

human snakes are the worst.:-)

[wonderwoman1]

its drowning for me too hammerman, i also have nightmares about it...

lifts are a problem too....god i'm a wuss!!!

[whiffey]

Loads of people are like this, it's not freaky. I am the same with lifts. Even though I work on the 4th floor I will *not* use the lift. Especially as a friend in the same organisation got STUCK in a lift at 2.30am and was there for an hour......

Can you imagine it ? He was not happy. I think I would have been dead.

[WendyS]

I will happily get into a lift, hold a spider, stroke a snake and get into a swimming pool without fear of drowning.

But the moment I board an aircraft I immediately become a quivvering mass of jelly and my stomach doesn't unknot until I climb off at the other end.

[n00dles]

Luckily I don't have any fears as the ones mentioned...Injections, flying, lifts and boats.

But I do have a fear of being buried alive, that is to say
when I die I wish to be cremated, so there is no possibility of me waking up 6 ft under!! Of course that is totally irrational (as the question asked), because I would have suffocated anyway in such a confinement! It didn't help me, when I saw a TV film (based on true story) of a girl who was kidnapped and "buried" in a chamber, with a limited supply of food/water [air supply from tubes connected in the 'coffin' to the surface]. They did eventually find her still alive!

Spiders, wasps, bats and moths (small and large).

[Darrenlass77]

I have written down my funeral requirements - it has to be a cremation, so I don't get eaten by worms. All my friends know this and if they don't do as I request they will be seriously haunted. This all stems from my (totally irrational) fear of ***** see - I have trouble even typing that word twice in one paragraph !!! I freeze up if I see one in the garden (hence I'm a dry weather gardener). I cannot look at pictures of them in books or watch tv programmes about them. Can we change the subject now please ?

[devilwoman]

i am afraid of the dark, am also terrified of any operations that involve being put to sleep because i'm petrified i wont wake up again, i think most people are nervous of this but my fear is overwhelming and i get myself into such a state like when i had an endoscopy, its not really an op but i was so freaked out i had to have a nurse by my side holding my hand while i had it and i ran away the fist attempt at it.

[alice1]

Have slight phobia of husband running out of beer in the next hour as i will be mug going to the shop!

[loukr]

I am terrified of waves, I don't mind the little ones you used to jump over when you were a kid, but the big... huge... noisey, un-broken ones that look like they'd crush you when they broke... I hate them, ever since I was little because I was swept under by one whilst body boarding, my board got wedged in the sand and my wrist was strapped to it, I was so small I couldn't reach the surface and nearly drowned... :-(

[aka pixi]

I have a phobia of stitches. I never knew how bad it was until I had over 300 stitches in my hands after an operation(while under general anaesthetic) when i woke it made me feel really ill. I spent all week not being able to eat and felt sick all the time. There were times when I had to hold my hands at arms length cos i felt faint looking at them. I also had desperate urges to scratch them all out. When I came to have the stitches out, the nurse had only gotten to the third one when I passed out.. I think I would die if I every had to have them again.

[n00dles]

Forgot another fear.........the drill at the dentist.

It doesn't matter if I'm not in the chair, so to speak...just sitting outside in the waiting room, I hear the drill going and thats me done for...

Sweat, panic attacks, shakes, you name it - I've got it - just hearing the damn thing!!

[jump79]

I have a phobia of the creepy crawlies, especially spiders (they give me the heebie jeebies )

Also have a slight fear of being locked inside small spaces, like bathroom stalls etc. I always double check the locks on the doors.

[PinkFizz]

Im terrified of dying - I often go to bed and lay there thinking that I might go to sleep and not wake up,and then my heart starts pounding so loud I swear the whole road can hear it ,and I have to go downstairs and put all the lights on and tv etc just to convince myself how alive I am!!

[rockyracoon]

Flying & sharks. So my ultimate fear is to crash land in shark infested waters.

[rainhopper]

I have a completely crazy fear of the plugs or drains in a swimming pool! I thought I was the only one until I discovered a website for people just like me!!

[Darrenlass77]

Rainhopper - that is SO NOT CRAZY - I love swimming but there is no way I will go anywhere near the vents/drains/etc in a swimming pool. I am convinced that if they turn them on whilst I am nearby, I will get sucked up to them and drown.

[chimney]

Scarecrows

[China Doll]

Anything with more than 4 legs so just about every bug going but I think it's fairly normal to be scared of the little monsters. But I am also terrified of ventriloquist dolls, think they are the most spooky thing going and on the same note I'm not that keen on toy puppets or clowns.