Phobias
Posted by veganhippie on Mar 01, 2010 · Member since May 2008 · 5810 posts
so, this isn't really a phobia but ever since around middle school every time i day dream about dancing (me being the one dancing, not anyone else) i always imagine sharp things getting in my way. like needles shooting up from the ground and poking me while im dancing. or that there are razors hanging from the ceiling waiting to cut me. or that when i do a jump i land on a needle or something sharp. i know it sounds super weird. i can't seem to get it out of my head! ugh it bothers me soooo much! and in the daydreams i never bleed. i just get poked by the objects. ughhh. i feel like it'll never go away.
what are some of your phobias or weird things that pop into your head?
Phobia? Birds flying at my head.....scares the hell outta me....
Weird things that pop into my head? Wow, that could get outta hand....but most recently, when I was getting my tattoo, I had this urge to tickle the tattoo guy. I kept thinking about it, and really wanted to do it....
Mine are all gonna be weird urges - like driving my car off of the road while I'm driving, or slamming into someone - god, that's weird, I should stop.
erin i have those weird urges too!! sometimes they're good like getting the totally out of character urge to hug my big sister. but some are really bad like you said, driving my car off the road, hitting people for no reason, etc. haha people are just a bunch of crazies
i'm pretty claustrophobic, i think it's mostly because my brother used to try to smother me under blankets when we were young. so it's probably not even a phobia cause it's not irrational?
I can't stand under anything. For instance, I can't stand under the aisle markers in stores (the triangular ones), or display TVs that hang in stores. My parents have a hanging TV in their room, and I can't sit under it.
i hate stairs for some reason... only hard stairs like metal or concrete... i get anxiety walking up them and feel like i'm gonna fall and clutch onto the railing
i'm far too embarrassed to post mine (and I have a lot of them).
1. Clowns....f-ing creepy bastards!
2. Grasshoppers
3. Revolving doors
4. The closet monster and the monster under my bed...yes, they are real! (more of a fear than a phobia).
suffocation. It took me years to finally swallow a whole pill. Even when I was on antibiotics for oral surgery, I opened the capsules instead of swallowing them. Amoxicillin tastes awful!
But like hespy, it's not totally irrational... I had some pretty serious tonsilitis as a toddler, and my doctor was reluctant to take 'em out (since they used to take them out all the time), so my mom had to get me to breath when I'd stop randomly while sleeping. (she got them taken out). and THEN I almost drowned when I was three. And THEN I almost choked when I was three. And then, the first time I went ice skating, I fell hard flat on my back, my lungs collapsed, and I couldn't breathe for a minute. O_O
It doesn't really make sense that I'd have an issue with pills, since it's smaller than a lot of food...
Weird thoughts:
sort of like a fear of tourette's, sometimes in a big, crowded, quiet room (like lecture or whatever), I think about what if I accidentally yelled out or something. As though my thoughts -> speaking/yelling them? I'm weird.
that's all i've got for now.
I have an insane fear of crowds and groups of people. I feel like I can't breathe when I'm in a crowd. I won't go to stores at busy times (all Christmas shopping is done online), and I've only been to a couple of concerts. I'm only 5'3", and I feel like I can't see anything and that people are towering over me and closing in on me. Thus, I'm somewhat claustrophobic, especially if I don't have plenty of personal space.
Oh, and clowns.
-Termites. They will eat me. I know they will. I don't care what anyone says. They make me cry.
-Earwigs. They will eat my brain. See last statements in above.
-Killer penguins. Due to a dream I had when I was younger.
-Glow in the dark things kind of freak me the heck out at night. I'm getting better with it. I used to cry if I saw something glowing. Now I just hide under blankets.
-I'm afraid of opening doors when some one knocks. My mom told me when I was little that if I did it could be a killer or something weird. Its really hard for me to even open it for like, a UPS guy or something.
-Showering when it rains. When I was little my mom said the lightning will come up through the shower and electrocute me. Can't do it still. Eek.
There are more. I know theres more. And I know its probably the weirder stuff that I don't really think of until it happens.
Thunderstorms. I still hide in my closet with Fox (my canine companion) and a weather radio during storms. I've gotten better about managing it, especially when I'm in public, but I still get extremely anxious if I even suspect that a storm is capable of producing a tornado. When I was little I got stranded with my summer camp group in a ditch during a Texas summer storm that produced a few twisters. We ended up finding better shelter nearby before things got too bad, but we came back to find the ditch completely mangled after the storm. I've been petrified of bad storms ever since.
oh I have 2 more: Masks and wigs... they make me cringe and i cannot touch them or put them on... The weird thing is I have extensions which are kinda wig like?!?!
i'm pretty claustrophobic, i think it's mostly because my brother used to try to smother me under blankets when we were young. so it's probably not even a phobia cause it's not irrational?
That's a conditioned response, I think.
Circular staircases, or the kind with open space between the risers. I am convinced I will slip and fall to my death. A friend of mine has an IKEA set of wooden stairs with half-risers that are open in the middle. I creep up it sweating heavily when I have to use it.
A particular staircase in a local parking garage. I keep getting "flashes" of someone being knifed in that stairwell. DH says I'm crazy. I can see the guy in my head, striped rugby shirt and all.
Spiders. I am irrational about them. I hate the way they put them in closeup on documentaries.
And, often, leaving the house. I struggle with a form of agoraphobia every day. But I go out. Usually.
Sarah, the more I hear of your mother, the less I like her. Imagine telling a little kid that thing about the shower!!
Weird thoughts: when I'm walking down our narrow streets and find my way blocked by three fat old ladies who are rocking from foot to foot more than walking, arm in arm so that no one can get past, and are in no hurry (they will sometimes slow down if they feel they're being crowded), I get the urge to lay about me with my umbrella!! I don't of course, but sometimes I really, really want to.
fb, I have the same tourette's fear - I often have the urge to yell out inappropriate things at inappropriate times....I don't think I've ever actually done it though.
Balloons.
Centipedes.
Balloons.
Centipedes.
OK, I totally understand centipedes, who combine the worst of spiders, snakes and scorpions in one horrendous little package...but why balloons? Is it the noise they make, and the fear they will burst with a bang?
im also TERRIFIED of butterflies
I'm only 5'3", and I feel like I can't see anything and that people are towering over me and closing in on me.
Oh, and clowns.
See, I'm extremely tall and have the opposite feeling.
I always feel like I'm towering over people, so I slouch.
being tall makes me feel awkward and out of place.
im also TERRIFIED of butterflies
butterflies? WTF? your silly but we all have our own quirks LOL
yeah, idk why, i just am lol
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