Phobias

Halcyon · 15-07-2007, 00:25

After reading a post on here about a fear of spiders, it got me thinking about what people are scared about.
Do you have a phobia at all ?

As with a lot of people, I can't stand spiders.
If I see one in the room before I go to bed, I have to get someone to take it outside otherwise I will not be able to sleep.
I don't want them to be killed, but I like someone to get it out of my house for me as quickly as possible.
I also have the same fear with snakes. I don't know what I'd do if a snake came near me.
It's the fact that they can just move so quickly and in any direction that scares me and to think of a snake slithering next to me is just awful.

I know things like spiders can do no harm to us humans and it is strange that people can become so scared of them, but I just couldnt even imagine touching one.

Anyone else got any stories of what they can't stand or that they are scared of.
Whats your phobia ?

lauzjp · 15-07-2007, 07:53

even just thinking about spiders gives me the creeps - shivers down my spine, and I'm looking round everywhere for them!

I think the only other thing I'm remotely as bad with is jellyfish. But only if I'm in the water and I suddenly am inches away from touching one - then it's like a scene from Jaws, cue much flapping about, looking like I'm drowning when really I'm trying to swim away from this blob of potential stingyness!

Tinky · 15-07-2007, 09:22

I suffer very badly from claustrophobia (fear of small places). I am not able to go on an aeroplane, in lifts, sit in the backseat of a two door car, go on the tube trains etc, or anywhere that I am locked in. The idea of being in prison.......... well don't even go there!

Halcyon · 15-07-2007, 10:43

I take it you wouldn't stay at one of these Capsule hotel rooms in Tokyo then Tinky ?

That is NOT me by the way, just a random photo found on google.

Callumpy · 15-07-2007, 10:52

Im not scared of spiders but when i think of them it makes me feel like there are loads of them around me!!

absthechatter · 15-07-2007, 10:53

I've got a strange one. Wooden lolly sticks!! If there is one on the pavement ahead of me, I will cross the road. I cannot be in the same room as someone eating a lolly. It makes me go all tense and my jaw opens and goes all stiff and I have to shut my eyes and turn away. Once when I was having a medical, the doctor told me to put my tongue out and then produced what looked like a lollt stick to put on my tongue. I raced from the surgery out to the reception and refused to return until he hid it. It was all the more embarassing as I was just in my pants

Do not have a clue why I cannot be near them, but it's been like that as long as I remember. I would much rather someone put a giant spider, jelly fish or snake in my mouth rather than bring a lolly stick within 20 foot of me....

Abs

Callumpy · 15-07-2007, 10:56

Did people attack you with lolly sticks or somthing.

Tinky · 15-07-2007, 11:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I take it you wouldn't stay at one of these Capsule hotel rooms in Tokyo then Tinky ?

That is NOT me by the way, just a random photo found on google.

You got to be kidding Halcyon, no way would I even consider it! I'd think I was burried alive?

Quote:

Originally Posted by absthechatter

I've got a strange one. Wooden lolly sticks!! If there is one on the pavement ahead of me, I will cross the road. I cannot be in the same room as someone eating a lolly. It makes me go all tense and my jaw opens and goes all stiff and I have to shut my eyes and turn away. Once when I was having a medical, the doctor told me to put my tongue out and then produced what looked like a lollt stick to put on my tongue. I raced from the surgery out to the reception and refused to return until he hid it. It was all the more embarassing as I was just in my pants

Do not have a clue why I cannot be near them, but it's been like that as long as I remember. I would much rather someone put a giant spider, jelly fish or snake in my mouth rather than bring a lolly stick within 20 foot of me....

Abs

That really is a strange one, must be hell when you go to the cinema, all these ice lollies, or even passing the sweet counter in Woolies must be a nightmare!

**Graham M** · 15-07-2007, 12:19

Heights & Water here

Cobbydaler · 15-07-2007, 13:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I know things like spiders can do no harm to us humans and it is strange that people can become so scared of them, but I just couldnt even imagine touching one.

Oh yes they can, & they're here...

Halcyon · 15-07-2007, 13:06

Last year Autumn was so warm there were loads more spiders. I think that article is probably right.
Climate is changing and we are going to be invaded by killer spiders!

AntiSilence · 15-07-2007, 13:52

Heights.

Not scared of spiders at all. I don't mind picking them up to put them outside (if they stay still that is lol). Might be a different story if I lived somewhere with plenty of poisonous spiders though!

joglynne · 15-07-2007, 13:55

For those of you with arachnophobia you could give yourselves peace of mind by using one of these.

I don't know if I can claim to have any phobias as such but I do have a reaction to certain places and it can catch me unaware. It last happened when I tried to go into a local historic house called Ordsall Hall. I just could not go in. The hairs on the back of my neck went up and I just froze in the door way, most embarrassing. I am now wondering if I should post this as even I think it sounds weird.

budwieser · 15-07-2007, 14:15

Heights and flying for me.

The two must be related somehow.
A guy i work with is 27 and is scared ****less of Clowns.

Not knocking his fear of course.

15-07-2007, 14:45

I seem to have developed a fear of not heights, as such, but edges, there was a scene in the Dr Who Xmas special where he & Catherine Tate were sat on the edge of a tall building - they didn't show the drop, but the sheer thought of it was making my stomach do flip-flops.