What are your fears/afraid of?

I'm afraid of empty swimming pools, tents, and empty buildings

Hi!
What a coincidence; I too am scared of heights.

I am morbidly pteridophobic. scared of ferns. But just the ones without leaves that are just starting to shoot up.

i'm scared of alot of things: I'm *terrified* of elevators. i worry that the wire thingy that pulls it up might snap..or that the doors might not open..and i might get stuck in there forever..or that the walls of the elevator might start closing in...or that the doors might close on me as i get out i saw a "little old lady" walk into an elevator once..and the doors were about to close on her,but a man held the door just before the doors closed. i almost fainted. I'm also scared of death...if i get a really small pain,i automatically think i'm going to die. i'm scared of spiders,i'm scared of heights, i'm scared of flying, i'm scared of fires..or rather..there being a fire when i'm asleep..and nobody knowing about it...and me being burnt alive >_< i have a fear of hospitals and doctors..sometimes i think that if i *was* dying i'd be too scared to go to hospital..so i'd just end up dying. clowns really freak me out . i also have a fear of the ceiling breaking and falling on me ... i'm scared of everything i guess.

I'm really afraid of other driver's on the road's because I fear any second one will smash into my door or the other passenger's, that's why i get very sick any time i take a car ride - totally hates vehicle's. Also each night i close the shade's in my room and check the lock's in the house in fear someone is watching me through the window's and I'm afraid someone is going to break in and start killing us all so i keep a big knife by my pillow planning out what would happen and what i would have to do. If i'm walking under a bridge i can picture it falling on me right when i go under it or any heavy object like tree's & such, and i will see a shoe by the door and picture my mother tripping over it and getting hurt really bad so i move the shoe in fear of that it will occur because i neglected to move it.

I am phobic of people, people terrify me... its interesting many people say this is an irrational phobia... but most other more common phobias... spiders, heights, etc... are much less rational in my opinion... I mean if you see a spider.. avoid it... if you get up high, just go down.. or avoid it... but people... people are irrational, dangerous, cruel, and you cannot avoid people. People are everywhere... and when you see someone scary or someone starts talking to you that you don't want to talk to you... you cannot just turn around and walk away... or even run... because then you'll come off as insane or worse they might chase you.

But yes people, People and death are my only 2 phobias... which death... well, its funny actually ... I don't mind the idea of dying... I don't even mind the idea of dying in some natural hazard or a car crash... but the idea of someone killing me... that makes it a phobia...

I'm afraid of water that goes above up to my neck, if I'm on solid ground say a bridge or dock I don't have a problem. If I'm in the water that's when it starts coming out. If I'm on a dock though the first thing I say to my friends is not to push me in or I will die. That fear comes from nearly drowning when I was little.

also I have a horrible fear of anything relating to vomit. Sight, smell, sound, taste... luckily I haven't had to touch it yet YUCK! My nerves will twitch like crazy, I will start shaking bad, can't talk. All I can do is replay the scene over and over in my head. It puts me on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

I'll go down my list from common, to abnormal, to strange, to unnatural.

Vespaphobia/Apiphobia - fear of wasps/bees. Not as bad as my mother but she "started it". She ran in front of a truck and almost got hit running from a bee while camping. She would cry if she were forced to look at pictures of them even. I can stand still if they're too close, but I just can't move, for any reason.

I have flipped a bully who weighted twice as much as me (literally, weighted 2x my own weight) so I could run out the door to get away from a wasp. He stood in my way of the door as a joke and got knocked to the floor for it, and the students swear they saw him front-flip onto his back as I removed the obstacle in my way.



Fear of Moving Fast Up High - I can dangle over the Grand Canon, take a helicopter ride, and ride up a trolley over a mountainside... and I enjoy traveling by airline (though I don't enjoy landings or take-offs). Once I'm feeling like I'm moving fast is when things get really bad, like roller coasters. Absolutely hate them. Over anything else, it's because of this gut feeling I get in the bottom of my stomach. Some people call it thrill and my mother loves that gut feeling, but I don't. We think it's because she was tossing me to an uncle of mine in a hospital when my uncle turned around and walked off, my mom didn't know, and tossed me anyway, and there I went, flying through the hallway barely a year old until I crashed into the ground. I feel sorry for my mother who felt awfully bad about it and I'm glad nobody was watching.



Fear of Alien Abduction Dreams - not the fear of alien abduction, the fear of dreaming of such a thing. I've had my fair share of night terrors that I remember (I'm part of a less than 2% group of people who remember their night terrors), most of them about some strange creature or animal from another dimension. I don't believe in aliens at all, but when I was little there was a few weeks of time where I had watched documentaries of people who believed to have been abducted by aliens and one woman's account was a painful memory (literally, painful). So I don't sleep on my back in fear that I'll dream about being on a dissection table.




Fear of Getting My Feet Dirty - So I wear socks around the house and often with flip flops. I can walk on the bathtub (because I know that there's soap and generally a clean area down there), that is all. Haven't walked outside barefoot (exception of the pool where my flip flops are next to the pool and I can wash my feet immediately after touching the ground) in years.



Fear of Wearing Shorts Outside - ... not much I can say about this one. I absolutely positively must be wearing pants if I'm outside. I have a history with mosquito bites and chiggers, and I hate the feeling of tall grass. While I don't like the outdoors or generally getting dirty, if I'm wearing a long-sleeved shirt and pants, I can roll in the mud and do almost whatever but I can't wear shorts outside; way too uncomfortable. (And I live closer to the equator than most people, so temperature has nothing to do with it.)




Fear of Becoming Insane/Delusional - I once almost became delusional. I started to honestly believe that this sci-fi world I was reading into every day and submersing myself into was real. I stayed at home for months on end often by myself doing nothing but reading material. I went to bed one night waiting for an alien invasion I prayed would never come. It was a good thing I picked up writing again and started doing research into other things (namely a study into psychology when I was able to recognize my problem and start socializing with human beings again). I've also had a close call with multiple personality disorder by creating a split personality like a Jekyll/Hyde character. Since that second time, I've become extremely fearful of going insane or waking up one morning in a psychiatric hospital or other institution. So I try to recognize some of my mental issues and do my best to remain aware of them and keep them under control. But it's become almost an obsession to avoid it and now I can say it's a fear.




Genophobia - Fear of sex. This is apparently most prevalent in women for a number of reasons; everyone I've talked to who's had it have been women. Here's what strange about it: most cases of this come from, in order (sexual abuse aside): 1. the fear of STDs (which is a completely rational fear), 2. fear of pregnancy, 3. fear of physical pain, 4. insecurity. Well, I am none of the above. I just generally... find sex overly and putridly disgusting. I absolutely hate viewing it along with similar activities concerning intercourse, and well, just ewwu! Just me personally though. When my co-workers found out, they would tease me about it by having sexually explicit conversations and motions with each other in my presence. I'd rather be forced to run through a mud-slick room with wasp and bees than to have sex with a woman.

Somehow related, I have Gymnophobia - the fear of nudity, in the sense of a naked woman in my presence. I would probably have a panic attack in a strip bar. I hide my eyes from nudity on the television not out of moral obligation but some strange... fear of some sort coupled with disgust. Pornography has similar influences.

AND NO, I AM NOT GAY! Thank you.

Well, most obviously, I have Social Phobia. I've had for years and years. Basically my whole life. It's not just fears of interacting with them but I have fears of just.. them as well. I always perceive people as being murderers or rapists. That's just all I see when I look at them. I'm scared of their ignorance and stupidity. I'm scared of everything involving people. Period.

I also have this strange phobia of flying objects hitting me. Usually balls but whenever someone wants to toss something to me, I get full-on panic. I think it stemmed from when I was really young, my stepsisters uncle threw this huge ball at me, right at the head. I was traumatized from then on. You can't imagine all the panic when I through in gym classes and school in general, whenever someone just wanted to toss something to me. Completely irrational and completely terrifying.

And like the poster before I have a phobia of sex. I find it disgusting, brutal and animalistic. It just... repulses me. Just the idea of a man's penis going anywhere near me... Ew. Though to be fair, I did have an experience when I was younger that probably traumatized me. But as of now. I cannot even imagine anything entering me.. down there.

homersxchild wrote:Well, most obviously, I have Social Phobia. I've had for years and years. Basically my whole life. It's not just fears of interacting with them but I have fears of just.. them as well. I always perceive people as being murderers or rapists. That's just all I see when I look at them. I'm scared of their ignorance and stupidity. I'm scared of everything involving people. Period.

I also have this strange phobia of flying objects hitting me. Usually balls but whenever someone wants to toss something to me, I get full-on panic. I think it stemmed from when I was really young, my stepsisters uncle threw this huge ball at me, right at the head. I was traumatized from then on. You can't imagine all the panic when I through in gym classes and school in general, whenever someone just wanted to toss something to me. Completely irrational and completely terrifying.

And like the poster before I have a phobia of sex. I find it disgusting, brutal and animalistic. It just... repulses me. Just the idea of a man's penis going anywhere near me... Ew. Though to be fair, I did have an experience when I was younger that probably traumatized me. But as of now. I cannot even imagine anything entering me.. down there.

Well then homersxchild, we share two things in common then. Your stepsister's uncle threw a huge ball at you when you were little, and my mother tossed me onto the floor in a hospital. On the second point, I'm in the reverse since how I'm a man; can't imagine my penis going anywhere near... yeah...