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"Who here has a phobia?"

Y'know, a phobia, something your scared of.

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I'm scared of heights, when I was young(er - no old fart jokes please) I looked down a steep cliff and it suddenly felt weird. Since that day i've been scared of heights.

I alsom used to have a phobia of dogs which has now been dismissied from my brain after I realised I could kill all the damn things just by sitting on them.

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Any of you want to speak of yours? if you have one that is.

I have many a phobia

I have a fear of needles. I am so glad I'm not diabetic! If I was I would have to have someone else inject me with the stuff that diabetics need to have injected into them. I could no way stick a needle into myself. Though I suppose you have to really if that's the only treatment.

The fact is, although I'd like to, I can't give blood. My fear is so strong that even just having a small blood test makes me feint! I'm ok for about 30 seconds with the blood pouring out into those small vials, but after that, I just can't cope. No matter how hard I try to stop it, my mind starts thinking about the blood loss and triggers me off into unconciousnous..though why I have to be a low feinter I don't know, I'd rather go out quickly so I don't feel so dizzy before hand, and so that my palms don't sweat and so that all sounds go all metallic and everything looks blurry and I feel a great sinking feeling when I'm not moving, etc, etc (I've had many a feint).

What I don't understand is how I could have an oral operation whilst still awake with a local anethetic, see part of my gum go past my face on the end of a bloodied scalpel, feel the bubbling of blood coming out of a vein in that gum, and not even feel the slightest bit feint, whereas I have a small blood test and I'm out!

Ah well, such is a mystery of life...


Spiders.

Yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk!

I hate the beggars!

If I see one in the house, I've either got to see it die, or get taken outside before I can go in that same room, or sleep. The best way to sort this out is with a vacuum cleaner. Does the job nicely without having to get too close.

I know they can't help it, they're just mere life forms like ourselves, but I've got a huge fear of the lil-sods and it's their own fault for entering un-natural shelter in my opinion.

Ok, I have a very biased opinion, but I hate them! They just stand there on the ceiling, or on the wall, and the way they scuttle across the kitchen floor....yuk! I much preferred the mouse infestation that I once had in my house. Mice are much nicer creatures, despite them being considered as pests, they don't look so scary and ...yuk!

And they say confronting your fears helps? I touched a tarantular of the Bird Eating Spider variety, and ever since then, my fear has just escalated! I was even freaked out by a little plastic one the other day!


Heights.

Ofcourse it's natural instinct to be afraid of falling, as it is with spiders and bits of metal being inserted into the arm, but it's still a phobia, and many people get over phobias after a while.

But heights!

I can go in an aeroplane, I'm fine with that because there aren't any glass floors. The windows don't scare me at all because when you're really high up in the sky, all you can see is white, though I get a little nervous when landing and taking off.

It's just the fear of being too near the edge of somewhere, or the fear of falling. I'm too safety conciouse for my own good! I did once climb a really muddy side of a mountain (ruined my new jeans - should've joined the AA) even though there was a path that was dry and not so steep, and it was fun. And the fact that I was parallel with the mountainside (it was around 80° steep!) made it easier because when I looked back down, it looked like I was lying down, though I did have some near falls when it was very slippery.

But I still got the fear. I probably wouldn't feel too safe in a hot air balloon, but I'd give it a go :) But I could never operate one of those large industry cranes or something like that.

So those are my three main fears. I've got other small phobias, but none effect me as much as the above.

Very scared of spiders.

I killed a Spider with a cup of water yesterday. Just poured it on him and he died. Weakling.

The he wouldn't get out my damn bath. I was using the shower on him and he wouldn't go down. Got him down though, put the shower right up to him and blasted him down the plug hole.

It's interesting how everyone nearly has the same phobia - Spiders and Heights.

The later is ok, I understand but the first?!?

What is so scary about a spider may I ask...

I detest spiders, but with heights I'm okay. Obviously I'm always a little nervous, especially when there's no barrier like Loki said, but nothing too serious.

Spiders and heights!!

Bob wrote:
I can stand on top of really high place
> and besides rivers as long as there is a barrier, but whenever there
> is no or only a small barrier I have to get away from the edge.


Hmmm I think that is actually really common. Whenever I'm on holiday and we're on top of some high cliff thing I can't go near the side. I think it's just a natural instinct telling you not to do it and good it does too or many of us could be dead. So I don't think your alone on that one.

I have a really weird phobia. I can stand on top of really high place and besides rivers as long as there is a barrier, but whenever there is no or only a small barrier I have to get away from the edge. It's like a clever phobia that knows when I'm safe and when not.

I remember doing a topic like this before and there I told my phobia.


I'll give you some clues:

You get them down a town

People keep feeding them

Guessed it yet?


Well, my phobia is Pigeons. Yes, I do dodge them when walking down town, makes me look an idiot switching sides with the person I am with but you get through it.

I actually think I am beating my phobia at the moment, I'm not THAT scared anymore. I never use to be scared of them, it's just something that happened when I was little made me scared of them.

I was walking down the town with my Mum and Dad when I was about ten and I walked past a bin. For some reason, as I was approaching the bin I told myself I would look in it and as I did a Pigeon flew out of it. I was shocked into phobia.

Is that possible?

Oh and my worst nightmare is going to Trafalger(sp) Square :-D

Hercules! wrote:
> Moths and Butterflies - Very scary!

Hah Hah Haaaahhhh!...

> :-|

...my deepest sympathy.

:-)

Asher D wrote:
> WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Needles
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> ???


As in injections, blood tests etc.