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What is your biggest phobia? Mine is heights. Ladders, egdes of buildings and cliffs, and walking down stairs holding something that obstructs the view of my feet are things that I cannot deal with. I have no problems with Planes, or Rollercoasters though. If theres any kind of "safety device" I'm usually fine. I would rather sky dive with a parachute, then walk to the very edge of a building that had no guard rail for instance. I probably couldnt even come 4 feet from the edge without breaking into a full on panic. The funny thing is I never had this problem as a child. It developed in my early teens and now at 22 I get worked up even watching people navigate heights in a movie. |
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Eyeballs and losing loved ones. My only two. |
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Apart from the part about not having it as a kid, i feel EXACTLY the same as you. It was almost like reading what i would have written about my fear of heights. I don't have a problem with planes or rollercoasters either. I agree with the skydiving thing. I remember a photoshopped image of a foot on the edge of a skydiver, and it sent shivers down my spine. I really felt bad watching that... a fucking picture!!! |
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Skydiver!!?!? haha... ScySCRAPER I'm 22 as well BTW. Odd. |
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i have phobiazeros |
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the same for me, even including the "not having as a kid part" it has developed allot over the past 3 years, wonder why (I'm 21) |
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Yes, I expected Fear of Heights would be the most common, and most well justifiable fear. I just have this mechanism that makes me loose my center balance near a drop off. I could be standing 15 feet away and still all of a sudden feel like I'm going to fall right there on the spot. The question becomes: is this mechanism a byproduct of my fear of heighs? as in: Do I loose my balance around them so easily BECAUSE I'm afriad of heights? Or is the fear itself only my mind's natural defense because I'm prone to loosing my balance, as in the fear is safeguarding me from doing so? |
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Beeing high makes your eyes unable to calculate the distance to the floor, that's what affects your sense of equilibrium making you loose balance. |
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At the moment christmas and christmas shoppers fill me full of dread. The writhing mass of flesh, money and false dreams. It makes me feel a little sad too... |
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most people are scared of heights because they're scared they'll throw themselves off. |
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my dads friend has this place, some apartment/studio in the city, where you can easily go on the roof. and on the roof theres no railings or anything. and ive stood on the edge and you just look down and see the alley way all the way down. i wouldnt really say i have a fear of heights, but as if anywould wouldnt be shit scared?? i do somewhat have a fear of spiders. its kinda eased off, but today i spent alot of time reading wikipedia on different spiders and by the end of it i felt uncomfortable resting my feet on the ground. |
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I'm terrified of wasps. Not really a phobia, but something that disgusts me - when you get on a bus and sit down and the seat has been warmed up by someone elses fat arse. GROSS. I know it's not really a phobia, just thought I'd put it out there... |
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Thats true. |
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I used to be afraid of heights. Then, I went down south and worked on a tallship of all things, and eventually became the climbing instructor. I found that when I had something to focus on, I didn't worry about being high up. |
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i am terrified of a certain vegetable |
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Stephen Hawking? |
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D: |
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I am afraid of Women and Girls |
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IDM becoming shite. |
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and wasps and bees. |
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Thanks. This piece of information just made my day! There's actually a neurophysiologically basis for fear AND it's effects on people. Plain and simple. Nice! |
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snakes, I - FUCKING - HATE - SNAKES |
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Cardiac shit creeps me out, I have a fast resting-heartrate and all that and I always worry about dropping dead. I'm probably more scared than I need to be because I have good blood pressure and cholesterol and everything and my doctors never mention it, but I'm POSITIVE I'M GOING TO DIE SOON. |
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wasps and bees, basicly anything that flies and annoys you and can sting with great pain, not flies. I love spiders though Dooropenings, i always lower my head because i'm affraid i'll hit my head against it, however this ain't really a phobia, it's something i do all my life. Watermelons, since i ate a overripe one couple of months ago, and it tasted like them fluoride pastes they serve you at the dentist |
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and Phobiazero ofcourse |
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I worry about the same thing.. I have a high blood pressure and I keep measuring my pulse, etc etc however, I don't think anything of what people have described thus far is a phobia.. phobias are heavy debilitating things.. fear of heights is normal and the anxiety facing the abyss is more or less equally present in all of us (and that you haven't developed it until lately just means that you're more aware of yourself as able to fuck it all and throw yourself off, I think). Worrying about dying of disease or just any random event that you can't control is also quite normal. A phobia is heavier. It's also a bit irrational, I think... |
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I used to have agoraphobia, not just "ooh, isn't it awful out?" but actual, agoraphobia and panic disorder. I still do but I'm so tired of it I am able to largely ignore it now. I never speak to anyone and actively shun any needless interaction so I've got some social phobias. And of course Phobiazero, is my number one hero. |
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Yeah I don't really think I have cardiophobia or whathaveyou, I just like to list what scares me in these topics. It's exacerbated right now because I'm on meds that get my heartrate even higher and give me what feel like heart palpitations. Agoraphobia is something I may have legit and has a tangibly negative effect on my life. At one point I couldn't even bring myself to walk into my classrooms and I'd just go off to the library and read by myself for the period, ended up failing a bunch of classes. |
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Well, that sounds like anxiety disorder, especially paying morbid interest to your heartrate, says Dr dog_belch. |
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spiders are scary, there's nothing irrational about it I'm affraid of people, especially outgoing people, but that's because they're scary |
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if you worry about your heart, just make sure you walk at least half an hour each day (you can split it up, but no shorter than 3x 10 minutes). It also helps if you cut back on salt (If I'm making anything and the recipe says "one teaspoon salt" or something I just skip it; you can't taste the difference anyway), eggs and butter. Use oils when frying and eat a bit more fish.. alternatively just buy some of those omega3 pills or something. I notice I don't have any fear of people and I get in touch with people easily, but if I say something during a lecture, ask a question or something, something happens.. I'm not afraid of anyone or anything, but I feel my heartbeat rising for some weird reason.. I can speak in public and I can even sing on a stage, but asking questions in a lecture.. I think there may be something fishy going on. For that reason and the fact that I hate people who ask questions during the lecture (99% of the questions asked are completely stupid or something you know the lecturer is going to get to in a bit (why do these people not see this?)), I don't ask questions during lectures. I just ask the lecturer after (unless he answered the question in the normal course of the lecture, which he usually does). |
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I know of a girl who did that (she couldn't go to her classes because of some anxiety) but she's also a stripper...so I don't get it. She's too afraid to sit in a classroom anonymously, but getting naked in front of people that might very well rape her if she isn't careful is just fine. |
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for you to have a spider phobia, I think you'd have to fall into fetus position every night and take lots of precautions to avoid having spiders crawl into your mouth at night while you sleep or something... that's the irrational bit. Even though spiders often do crawl into your mouth while you sleep.. and lay eggs behind your eyes. |
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do you know why you don't want to go into the classroom? |
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oh yeah, speaking of fear of spiders, when i was a kid, we had this cubby house, and the older i got, the less i went in there. and after a while the whole place was just covered with red back spiders. being afraid of this is completely rational, because it was the fucken freakiest small enclosed place you could ever step foot in. |
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Like Bowie, I have a terrible fear of Americans. |
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selfaphobia |
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I think a few people here have canusburposphobia. |
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wut teh hell is that teh hte omniphobia I had a god complex but now have the opposite where i feel like everyone and everything else is a god relative to me. |
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elmomightsuddenlyslashmewhileridingongmorkaphobia *spam* |
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I think I have a phobia of having no phobias, but if I do have no phobias then I would have the phobia of having no phobias, thus making me have a phobia, which would make me not have the phobia of having no phobias anymore. |
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That would be so w M w to have that. |
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a phobia where you rapidly alternate between these two phobias: *fear of everything except self *fear of self and nothing else Smoke would start coming out of your nostrils and you'd jolt in a random direction every once in awhile and always blink your eyelids out of sync and have no ability to focus on anything. |
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my biggest phobia is of barbers and getting my hair cut. seriously. |
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maybe needles. i will have vaccinations and stuff if i need to, will put up with it, but ive never given blood or done anything non-necessary. i'm just a wimp. maybe not a phobia, just a dislike. not like all those girls in college who would cry and faint when they needed jabs. always found them really funny. |
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dogs. Big, jumpy, stinking barking dogs. They just love to let me know that they can sense my fear. Quiet and goodnatured dogs are alright but most of them are plain evil. |
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ive fainted TWICE from vaccinations. not during or before the injection, but afterwards. the second time was like 15 minutes after the injection.. i hate it. and now the thought of injections is just.. EH! |
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