As a note, I see the existing thread asking about fears. However, a Phobia is an entirely different concept. It's much stronger and can be very controlling. It does trigger the fear reaction, but regular fear has nothing on these. These are anxiety driven, they drive you to a burning halt and we all have at least one.
So to begin, mine is Death. I know that it is natural to fear Death, that is the worse possible outcome of any situation. However, for me I have stayed up late at night and anxiously awaited for the morning. Often crying, terrified that the day may bring news of a close friend dying, a family member dying or even the President. It's less about me and more about those around me. It's heartbreaking to me that Death is an inevitability. That everyone I know, everyone I meet and everyone I love will some day die and I don't want that. I don't want to see my best friend in a casket, I don't want to have to read a eulogy for my sister...I just want everyone to keep living forever and ever. It breaks me, it can keep me up night and even keep me from doing what I'd like to do in life. It drags me down and beats me when it gets the chance and it never lets up. Dread doesn't do a good enough job of describing the feelings associated with this. Although I can give you a good idea how bad it has been. Until a few years ago when I finally sought relief, I'd stay awake for days on end just to be sure Death never rang. I'm not a Depressive and it doesn't effect my will. It's just draining and exhausting and it's probably going down as the most morbid phobia mentioned in this thread.
Ahhh, death. I don't think my fear of it is as strong as yours, but I can relate to a lot of what you said.
Sometimes I feel like if the person I love most dies I won't have any more reason to live,
and I wouldn't be surprised at all if I were to turn suicidal over it. I've been in that situation over much smaller dilemmas.
But I find that dreading something too strongly can keep you from living the only life you have fully and happily.
I'm sure you know that already. But I'm just saying it to tell you how I feel.
I hope I can keep getting stronger so I can cope with it when the time comes,
but it's okay to be vulnerable as long as you keep picking yourself up. Don't let the dread consume you
or you won't have a life to miss, you know?
Also, speaking of fears. I had to quit my last job because I was so afraid of the cockroaches I kept finding.
Every time I saw one I had to leave the room and breathe, and then I sat in a corner paralyzed, shaking and crying it out.
After I saw a particularly huge one, I was like NOPE. Not happening. Not every night, not anymore. TwT
It sounds silly, but it's seriously crippling to me. Even if they're dead and can't touch me, I can't move and I'm just useless.
My fear would have to be arachnophobia, though I have no idea where it all started. I remember having a wolf spider on my leg one summer when we were going to go swimming, but I was afraid of spiders long before that. I sometimes think my fear is irrational as when I lived with my parents, if there was a spider in one of the two bathrooms, I would not go in that bathroom unless I absolutely had to and even then I was on high alter trying to find it.
I won't kill them unless I have to as it means getting to close to them. I've developed a pact with any spider that decides to live in my car: as long as I don't see them or they stay far away and remain tiny, they can live. The second they venture to my side of the car, I will use something (often times my purse) to kill them.
A couple summers ago we had a couple buddies from TN visiting. They were outside working on their motorcycles while I was on my computer. The tiniest spider every appeared on my desk, crawling near my keyboard. I panicked and ran out to get them as my boyfriend had gone somewhere. The spider vanished twice before I was able to call the guys in and of course, they laughed at how little it was and how scared I was of it. One of the guys was afraid of spiders and he ended up killing it barehanded -.-
My last biggest incident with spiders happened not too long ago. I don't remember what me and my boyfriend were doing but I hid behind the bedroom door. He looked at me, then passed me to the wall behind me. He mentioned that there was a spider there and I froze. I could feel my heart drop and I got cold before quickly moving to the bed. He ended up saying it was a joke and I started crying. No idea why, but I did.
I've thought and even would like to get over this phobia, but when you can't handle looking at pictures of them online, well, that makes things difficult. I'm trying though >.<
Acrophobia and needles.
These three guys all lumped into one:
Belonephobia
Trypanophobia
Vaccinophobia
There doesn't seem to be a general one, but apparently, Trypanophobia is the general one.
//shrugs
I'm not afraid of much, especially when it comes to phobias, but on that's absolutely and ever-present is my crippling fear of mannequins.
I hate them. I hate their presence, I hate their pale plastic forms and their faceless... faces... and their being constantly around in clothing stores. I don't care of they don't have legs or arms, or even heads---it just makes them worse in my opinion. It's grouped with pediophobia, a fear of dolls/mannequins, and I'll be honest, those little painted dolls that are collectible nowadays freak me out too. A couple of my sisters had some and I just hated, hated going past their room where those dolls' creepy little eyes could stare at me while I go by.
But when it really comes down to it, I'm terrified of those damned mannequins in clothing stores. When I go in I have to hold onto the shoulder of whomever I'm with and just close my eyes until I know I'm away. I kind of operate on that five-year-old logic of 'if I can't see it, it's not there'.
Tachigami: Oooooooh, I used to be really really afraid of them!
And I think there was an abandoned city in a video game I played once
and you had to fight mannequins. I think I even had a nightmare where a whole city
of them was ganging up on me and I was trapped. >< Our art classroom in high
school had extra creepy ones because they were old and beat up, and missing random parts.
I'm not so afraid of them anymore (I think).
There is one creepy mannequin nearby, but it doesn't really scare me, I just think it's weird looking.
It has mostly normal proportions, but one reeeeeally long arm that stretches straight out
to hold like, 10 purses in a row. I won't show you the picture,
but it has a waaay stretchy arm.
Oh really? Oh I developed this terror... I have no idea when, I've just always hated it. I once saw a horror movie I think was called "Dolls" where a toymaker's dolls come to life one night and terrorize him, eventually killing him, but it really didn't scare me... And I'll be honest, I do play video games in which possessed and generally creepy mannequins exist and sometimes follow you... So that might reiterate my fear a little more. At least when I play Left 4 Dead I can beat them around a bit before running off and never thinking about them again, because in retrospect, I find those pasty faceless menaces more terrifying than hoards of zombies.
My phobia is kind of...really specific, and I might not ever have to come across it.
But my biggest fear is holes in water. Not just deep water, but giant holes.
How can there be holes in water, you might be asking?
Imagine your average beach. It's got the shallow shore, and then drops off.
Kay, well imagine after that drop off, the bottom of the ocean is relatively flat,
and about the same distance from the surface all round.
Then, out of nowhere, the flat bed just plummets into this deep hole in the bottom.
The water's surface is the same, but there is just a deep, bottomless pit in the ocean.
The best example I can come up with is a hole surrounded by some islands.
I dread Googling it for the image, but I will do it for the sake of making sense out of the example.
SPOILERX
It made my head spin just looking at it (also, how does one put spoilers around pictures? xD)
You could not pay me all the money in the world to swim over that, take a boat over that,
or even be on one of the islands near that. And some people go SCUBA DIVING IN IT.
Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. No.
I'm not sure what this phobia is called, but I definitely have it.
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My phobia is kind of...really specific, and I might not ever have to come across it.
But my biggest fear is holes in water. Not just deep water, but giant holes.
How can there be holes in water, you might be asking?
Imagine your average beach. It's got the shallow shore, and then drops off.
Kay, well imagine after that drop off, the bottom of the ocean is relatively flat,
and about the same distance from the surface all round.
Then, out of nowhere, the flat bed just plummets into this deep hole in the bottom.
The water's surface is the same, but there is just a deep, bottomless pit in the ocean.
The best example I can come up with is a hole surrounded by some islands.
I dread Googling it for the image, but I will do it for the sake of making sense out of the example.
It made my head spin just looking at it (also, how does one put spoilers around pictures? xD)
You could not pay me all the money in the world to swim over that, take a boat over that,
or even be on one of the islands near that. And some people go SCUBA DIVING IN IT.
Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. No.
I'm not sure what this phobia is called, but I definitely have it.
Booderdooder:
That looks absolutely terrifying and beautiful and I wouldn't hesitate to dive into it. Because I'm apparently reckless, don't mind me~ I looked around but couldn't find a specific phobia name that surrounds this particular fear. But I can see why you would hate it, it looks... intimidating, to say the very least of it.
Also, putting spoiler tags around images is the same as with text~
[HIDE] words [/ HIDE]
I put a space between / and HIDE around the close tags, just take that out and you'll have a spoiler tag~
Booderdooder:
That looks absolutely terrifying and beautiful and I wouldn't hesitate to dive into it. Because I'm apparently reckless, don't mind me~ I looked around but couldn't find a specific phobia name that surrounds this particular fear. But I can see why you would hate it, it looks... intimidating, to say the very least of it.
Also, putting spoiler tags around images is the same as with text~
[HIDE] words [/ HIDE]
I put a space between / and HIDE around the close tags, just take that out and you'll have a spoiler tag~
Like I have seen some pictures of the pretty coral and bright fish you would find down there,
but you still couldn't get me near it xD
(thanks, I tried /spoil /spoiler and then gave up xP)
Another phobia of mine that is kind of similar to this one,
I get really, really anxious about water in video games.
I love water in real life, and always want to go swimming.
But water in video games just makes my skin crawl. I hate
getting objectives that tell you to go underwater. I will stop
playing the game for months before I work up the courage
to just go through with it. That...phobia? Is apparently
very common with a lot of gamers, though, for some reason.
Like I have seen some pictures of the pretty coral and bright fish you would find down there,
but you still couldn't get me near it xD
(thanks, I tried /spoil /spoiler and then gave up xP)
Another phobia of mine that is kind of similar to this one,
I get really, really anxious about water in video games.
I love water in real life, and always want to go swimming.
But water in video games just makes my skin crawl. I hate
getting objectives that tell you to go underwater. I will stop
playing the game for months before I work up the courage
to just go through with it. That...phobia? Is apparently
very common with a lot of gamers, though, for some reason.
Well, consider that a lot of gamers associate themselves as the actual character while playing. When in water the character will have a limited amount of time to breath in most cases, so gamesr start to panic as if they're actually drowning too. It's definitely not uncommon. I sometimes lose breath while racing someone in a game that isn't really a racing game, it's just a mini-game for an achievement or reward.
I'm not sure if I have any phobias, the things that I'm afraid of are all rational things that it's normal to be afraid of; spiders, confined spaces, falling, yada yada. I don't think there's anything irrational that fills me with terror.
As an aside, I do wish people would stop calling a normal fear a phobia, but I think the media and movie business are largely to blame for people thinking they are one and the same thing.
I have my normal fears, and then I have my phobias.
My needle phobia makes me panic and then pass out.
My phobia of being trapped makes me panic and physically hurt people.
Yeah.
xD
A fear of needles is rational and normal though, so it's not a phobia? Unless my understanding of what a phobia actually is is totally wrong, of course. ><
I think a phobia is an irrational fear. Like being terrified of cotton candy, or something.
I'm nowhere near as scared of spiders as I used to be. Not that I'd just sit here calmly if there was one on the wall right next to me, I'd be vacating my chair, but I'd probably manage to do it without shrieking. ><
I'm nowhere near as scared of spiders as I used to be. Not that I'd just sit here calmly if there was one on the wall right next to me, I'd be vacating my chair, but I'd probably manage to do it without shrieking. ><
I can manage to do it without shrieking, mostly due to the fact that my father wasn't so please with that fear. That doesn't stop me from running away in a panic while making an even more ridiculous noise though.
Roaches.
I get extremely distressed by roaches. If I see one and it gets away before I can kill it, I will practically stand on a chair in the middle of the room until I see it and can kill it. Like, I cannot do anything until I know it's dead. If one touches me, I will freak the fuck out. Screaming, scrubbing the area with soap, having to leave the house entirely until I calm down. It's really bad.
I actually really like spiders, probably because my mom taught me not to kill them and they're good to have around (I'll take them outside, though). They really are, though. I'd rather have a spider chillin' in its web in the corner than a mosquito or fly in my face. Some cultures consider them good luck ^-^
I mean I'd rather they not touch me but I wouldn't flip out like a roach touching me.
I used to have agoraphobia since when I was little. I hated going out with friends or even family. I used to even cry in the car on our way to attend a party just so my family gets annoyed and brings me back home to stay while they attend the party. During holidays when we get to be with our relatives, I was very anxious to be around my own relatives even cousins my age. When it's time for breakfast/lunch/dinner, I'd sit on the stairs and peek below to see my family and relatives eating merrily. They'd call me and invite me but I'd get scared. I'd wait until only one or two is left on the dining room.
I actually didn't know that I had this kind of phobia. I was too young to know. My family and relatives just thought I was a really shy girl but they didn't know how anxious I get during those situations.
As years went by, I slowly got over it. I was no longer afraid of my own relatives but I still hated going out in public places and see people. Whenever my friends wanted to go out, I was thankful that my parents were so strict and protective that way I tell my friends I'm not allowed. I used to only go to school and then back home. Even while on my way to school I got anxious.
When I was in University was when I slowly got over my phobia. I still got really anxious when I don't see anyone I know. I feel like I'm in real danger if I'm not with a friend.
Now, I wouldn't call this a phobia anymore. Just anxiety attacks every now and then. I'm able to control and calm myself now (one thing that really helps is to slow down my breathing, stretch & relax my fingers, and then keep thinking no one is out to get me) although there are still rare times that my anxiety attacks is really bad. I get really down and tired the rest of that day.
But I'm just saying it to tell you how I feel. 
