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There’s nothing embarrassing about being scared. Fear is a core part of being a human being, and it protects you from potential risks. That being said, some fears are irrational and make your daily life much harder than it should be. If you’re frightened by butterflies, party balloons, flags, and cotton wool, it’s going to raise some eyebrows if you mention it aloud.
In a fascinating thread on AskReddit, netizens spilled the beans about the rarest phobias they have or that someone they know struggles with. We’ve hand-selected the most bizarre ones to share with you, and you can check them out below. Some of these might sound fake, but they are completely real!
Meanwhile, be sure not to miss Bored Panda's interview with the author of the intriguing thread, u/nitin_is_me, who shared their thoughts about phobias.
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#1
I can't deal with anything eye related. I can't use contacts or put in eye drops. I have to look away if others are doing it. Even watching my girlfriend put on make-up gets me.
I can watch gory horror scenes, but the second eyes are involved I'm a total baby.
Dawn Marie 4 months ago
I went through the whole list and didn't find mine anywhere. Androphobia--Fear of men. Both my father and my now X-husband were both mentally a*****e with my X also adding physical and sexually a*****e as well. I have not met a man yet that has not let me down and/or hurt me. Yes, I am in PTSD therapy.
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#2
Mine is arachnophobia, which isn't rare, but I believe it's much more rare that people claim.
Most people claiming arachnophobia simply don't like spiders, or worry about their bite, or slightly fear them.
I am truly phobic. There's no logic or reason. I am not scared of bites, even tho I grew up knowing multiple people who lost large amounts of tissue from brown recluses, & black widow bites are VERY common.
The only thing I fear regarding the bits is the fact they'd be TOUCHING ME.
And I actually try to avoid saying anything about it, b/c people think I don't like the creepy crawlers & so they WILL purposely put a daddy longlegs or harmless house spider on me as a joke.
But I've been trapped in a room, helpless & crying, because a spider is between me the door. I want to throw up when I see a larger one.
And the hypervigilance means I see so many more spiders than other people. I'm constantly terrorized.
I envy rare or even most others. You can easily avoid most fears like heights, clowns, drowning, etc. Other creature fears like snakes are rare. Spiders? I know exactly where 5 are in my home right now. 🥺.
HeavyMetalHeart 4 months ago
Same. I was trying to explain to someone the other day that it’s not just about being afraid when I see one, it’s being afraid all the time that I might see one. I scan rooms, I’m nervous picking something up off the floor in case there’s a spider under it, I’m hyper vigilant in garages, sheds or attics, and avoid them if I can. It’s constantly on my mind.
#3
I have a fear of buttons, as in clothing buttons. However, not a fear of buttons that are attached to clothes more like random unknown buttons. If i touch them it causes me to gag and sometimes vomit. I believe it's called Koumpounophobia.
I've had this reaction since i was a small child. In kindergarten they used to have a cookie tin full of buttons for crafts. I couldn't touch them.
PunnyPanda 4 months ago
Now that's a surprising one... even more surprising is that its common enough to have a name.
Verywell Mind points out that, as per the American Psychological Association, there are 3 main categories of phobias:
- Social phobias, which revolve around the fear of social situations that are potentially embarrassing
- Agoraphobia, the irrational fear of being in places that are difficult to escape from, like crowded places
- Specific phobias
The latter, specific phobias, can be further subcategorized. They typically fall into 1 of 4 types, including:
- Fears of the natural environment
- Animal-related fears
- Fears linked to medical treatments or issues
- Fears related to specific situations
#4
I’ve had bouts of casadastraphobia which is an irrational fear of falling into the sky especially at night. It’s worse if I’m laying on my back. Yes I know it’s impossible but it’s very similar to the fear of vertigo if you were to look down off of a tall building. It sucks.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
It's not quite the same, but looking into the night sky one time I just got this overwhelming feeling of how endless it is, kinda like looking into the surface of the ocean and realizing that if you fell in you would go down, down, down. It filled me with awe and a kind of fear.
#5
It’s not rare, but people sometimes make jokes or refuse to believe my OCD because it’s illogical / inconsistent. For example I get triggered by spiders and crickets but not by ants or moths. I don’t get why it’s so hard for people to understand that OCD is by nature illogical. My brain has categorized some insects as contaminants and some as harmless. It’s not a choice, it’s just how the disease works sometimes.
Emilu 4 months ago
Because people would choose to have OCD. Ugh. Some people are ignorant. (To elaborate, not the poster. People that think that you can pick and choose about what makes you uncomfortable.) Also, extra boo to people who “are so OCD” because they like things neat/clean etc. Be grateful you don’t have to live with actual OCD.
#6
Agoraphobia.
People think I don't have it because I'll never put myself in any situation that might induce it.
So I generally ask them who they think they are to think I'd put myself in any position to feel stuck in my phobia, just to lift their doubts. And then I avoid them like the plague.
If people don't believe it and ask you to prove it, they're a piece of s**t. If you're someone that doesn't believe someone has a phobia of something, simply because they've never been exposed to it in front of you to see their reaction, stop. You're an a*****e. Find a *healthier* hobby than making everyone else miserable.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I do not tell anyone about my phobia, because my second fear is some helpful arsëhole deciding to try to "cure" me. Not to mention people thinking it's funny.
The Anxiety & Depression Association of America notes that, based on data from the National Institute of Mental Health, specific phobias affect around 9.1% of the United States adult population.
On average, phobia symptoms generally begin in childhood, when the person is around 7 years of age. Roughly 1 in 8 (12.5%) American adults experience a specific phobia at some point in their lives.
#7
Not rare in how often it's mentioned, but needles.
Like, an actual needle phobia. Stop telling me it doesn't hurt that much, I'm well aware, that's not what a phobia is. When I was 12 I had a perfectly healthy tooth pulled without anaesthetic, and the dentist had to twist. It's not the pain. .
Rick Murray 4 months ago
This. This. This. This. This. To the point where mom had about a dozen blood samples taken during her cancer treatment and it was *me* on the floor. To the point where mom just sighed and said "leave him until you're done or it'll happen again". She said she thinks it might be because I had a lumbar puncture as a baby, but I don't know. What I know is that I have in the past asked a dentist to drill a tooth without more anaesthesia because that bothered me less than the injections. I actually fear the day I have to go to hospital for something big and I wake up to find a butterfly in my arm. Nope, nope, absolutely no with a side order of f**k that.
#8
Cynophobia. I'm afraid of dogs. People just can't understand.
bUt My DoG iS nIcE, hE tEh BeStEsT gOoD bOi, AdoRaBlE lItTlE fLuFfBaLl
No.
Just… no.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
Once there was a huge dog that licked my face when I was a kid and the tongue was so big I thought I would drown. So now I'm a cat-person.
#9
I am agoraphobic. I was severely abused 3 years ago, resulting in, not only a terribly broken mind/psyche, but also 3 broken bones.
He isolated me for a whole year. I did not know at the time, but he told my friends I didn't like them or wasn't interested in being their friends and some of them believed him.
I am healing, and I do my best to go just a little further every time I leave the house (if im capable of leaving).
People refuse to believe it because I used to be so outgoing and spontaneous. I used to travel the world and hit the road for road trips on whims. In 2021, Google maps timeline yearly review feature reported that I'd driven 1.5 times around the world, in terms of mileage.
My husband had never even heard of agoraphobia when we met, so he struggles to understand sometimes. Don't get me wrong! He really tries. Same with my best friends. I imagine its just hard to understand because I am still very much not who I was.
Therapy has done wonders for me. I recently started going in person and my therapist told me how proud she is of me.
Some of the most common symptoms of someone suffering from a phobia include increased blood pressure, sweating, and nausea, as well as chest pains, chills, hot flashes, shaking, dizziness, a dry mouth, confusion, and a choking sensation.
According to Verywell Mind, some of the most common phobias around the world are:
- Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders
- Ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes
- Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking (guilty as charged)
- Acrophobia, the fear of heights (hi!)
- And social phobia, the fear of social interactions
#10
Hair. I know it’s insane. I’m disgusted and so freaked out by hair that’s not attached to someone. I can’t touch my own hair out of the drain without some layers of paper towel. A pube or a leg hair in the bathroom from my husband makes me want to p**e. Random hair in a public sink? I’ll have nightmares about it that night.
Edit to add: what a revelation and relief to find out I’m not the only weirdo who would genuinely scream and p**e if someone touched me with a random hair off a chair or something 🥹🤣.
ynyrhydref56 4 months ago
Jerry Seinfeld did a bit about this. Attached to a head? Lovely, luxurious, beautiful. The moment it's detached? Ew ew ew!
#11
Not me but I had a friend who is afraid of inflated party balloons, which I learned about the hard way.
One time for my birthday my gf at the time had arranged for my housemate to let her in 2 friends in and they spent a few hours blowing up balloons and filling my bedroom.
The next day my neighbour (the friend in question) asked me about the surprise my friends left in my bedroom, told her to go check.
She screamed and ran back home crying which I did find odd. Wasn't until an hour later that her bf called me a c**t for making her go into a balloon filled room. Only after I looked very confused did he ask if I knew about her phobia, I did not.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
I'm not "phobic" but I'm very afraid of the sound of ballons popping to the point where my eyes legit fills with tears if someone plays with one too close to me.
#12
Goats... I know it's a weird phobia but their eyes are terrifying. Their horizontal pupils scare the living s@#t out of me. It's an irrational fear. I've scuba dived and met octopuses with similar horizontal eyes and I wasn't afraid. But somehow goats are terrifying. I can't explain it.
In fact, being scared of public speaking is so incredibly common that, by some estimations, the vast majority of people (77%) have this fear at least to some extent.
Meanwhile, some of the rarest phobias include the likes of spectrophobia (the fear of mirrors), chiclephobia (the fear of chewing gum), and the long-winded and aptly named hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (the fear of long words).
#13
Haphephobia. Intense and irrational fear of being touched. I have screamed at people at work, including a supervisor. A coworker hugged me, and I'm so stiff for hugs that she asked if I was ok and if she hurt me.
There are very few people who can touch me and not make my skin crawl.
When someone walks by and grazes your arm, I feel the sensation for about an hour exactly where I was touched. Cashier gives you change and their finger tip barely touches your hand? I feel the lingering burn of stranger on my skin. I realize it isn't real, but ugh please don't touch people.
SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago (edited)
While it's not this or as bad as having this phobia? I do not like men touching me after my ex. I kept pulling away from the eye specialist and I apologised to him, "It's not you, I'm sure you're a lovely person, it's because you're male so if I start pulling away? Please don't take it personally". He was absolutely lovely about it all and now I'm seen by female doctors, specialists..... It's? I feel irrational and know deep down that they're not going to hurt me. It's a deeper issue to having been physically attacked by my ex and now being disabled because I feel as though I can't defend myself in the same way. It might always be with me, as in I may never "get over it"... But I don't feel the need to "get over it" atm... It'll take as much time as it needs to, to recover, and that's perfectly okay.
#14
My brother is terrified of butterflies. He says it's something about the way they move. He found out when we went through a butterfly house at a theme park. They wouldn't let him go back out the entrance so he was army crawling and sobbing through the whole place. It's super irrational. He's shoved his girlfriend into the street to get away from them and he'll jerk his car out of the way.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Something about the way they move / distracts him like no other fauna / ...
#15
I don't see mine yet. I have a fear of tall staircases with spaces between the steps or winding where you can look over the rail and see straight down. It's not heights. It's stairs. Any stairs where you can see through them. So there's a tower in this state park we go to where you can see through the slats the whole way up and I can't do it. Or I'll force myself to and then can't get down.
RM 4 months ago
I'm not fully phobic with this one but it does make my stomach drop if I have to walk up stairs outside with the back missing if its over water or a step drop , same with a wooden bridge or walkway if there are gaps between the planks and you can see with water or a drop below.
The author was over the moon that their post got so popular. It was an unexpected surprise, and they said that they're "super happy" that it resonated with so many people.
"I’ve always been fascinated by weird phobias, especially the ones that sound absurd to others but are very real to the people dealing with them. I myself had the phobia of dandelion seeds in childhood, and I'm still scared of centipedes," u/nitin_is_me opened up to Bored Panda.
"One day, I just thought, 'What if I ask Reddit about the rarest, most unbelievable fears people have?' and the responses were way more intense, hilarious, and heartfelt than I expected," they said.
"I think it [the question] resonated [with the internet] because everyone’s got something irrational they’re scared of, and it feels good to know you’re not alone, even if your fear is cotton b***s or submerged pool drains," u/nitin_is_me told us.
#17
I have a phobia of clusters of holes (trypophobia) people always think I'm joking until they see me physically shudder.
#18
I knew this guy in h**h school who was absolutely jacked for the time and had some weird phobia of cotton b***s. He ended up telling a friend somehow and then he got pranked by people stuffing a bunch into his locker. When he opened it he freaked out super bad and it was a bit crazy to see. After he was done freaking out he got super pissed and wanted to fight his friends who did it. It was very unexpected to see.
"Some comments genuinely caught me off guard. Like, someone said they panic at the idea of man-made stuff underwater, like buoys or pool ladders. Another person's friend had the fear of inflated party balloons. Stuff you’d never think about, but it’s all so real for them."
According to the author of the thread, if you have a phobia, you shouldn't let anyone gaslight you into thinking that your fear isn't valid because it's uncommon or sounds silly.
"If it’s affecting your daily life, it’s real. I’d say talk to someone. Whether it’s a therapist, friend, or even just strangers online (Reddit’s great for that, honestly), a lot of people find that just putting a name to the fear and hearing 'me too' makes it a bit easier to cope."
Internet user u/nitin_is_me said that they're very grateful to everyone who shared their story. "I think posts like these show that we all have our weird wiring, and that’s okay."
#19
Police. I get very nervous around the police. I think it's because I know they're armed and have the power to arrest people. I hate getting in trouble and always do my best to follow the rules, but always paranoid I've done something to draw their attention. Also I haven't experienced trauma because of the police if anyone was wondering.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
I wonder if the person who posted is a person of colour because as a half-black I never get into public transport if the police is already there, I know it's paranoia but it's paranoia based on facts.
#20
Bellybuttons. Seeing one isn't a problem, but seeing one being touched...I'm really not confortable even writing this.
Luke Branwen 4 months ago
I have kind of an... opposite issue. (And maybe I'm sharing too much.)
#21
Anything man made in water. I can’t go to a swimming pool because of drains, ladders, those floating things that separate lanes etc. I wouldn’t go in water near a pier or bridge or a boat. Even if someone put a plastic chair in a pool I would get panicked. .
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
That's a new one, definitely never heard of anyone with this phobia before. My dad is scared of swimming, but it's somewhat rational because he never learned, mainly because the only place to learn where he lived was the irrigation channel where there were leeches he was also afraid of.
What phobias do you have, dear Pandas? How do they affect your daily life? How do people typically react when they learn about your fears? Have you ever successfully conquered one or more of your phobias?
This is a sensitive topic, we know, but if you find the courage and you’d like to open up about your experiences, feel free to do so in the comments at the bottom of this post.
#22
I'm scared of vomiting and diarrhea. If I'm feeling like I'm gonna have either of them it's full on panic attack. Having IBS does not help.
Dawn Marie 4 months ago
I totally understand Honey: I have such severe IBSD That I must take 2 probiotics and a minimum of 6 Loperamide a day just for the hopes of a somewhat normal day. Without these, I will have from 12-18 bowel movements a day and that is with watching my diet very closely. I had a right hemi-colectomy in 2021 due to cancer which left me with just 1/2 a colon. Because of this, the IBSD and my EOE I can not have whole grains, soups, sauces, gravies, several dairy products and the list only goes on from there. You are not alone, it is scary not knowing when it is going to attack.
#23
Lumps. If there's a lump in food that's not supposed to be there (eg lump in custard) I have an involuntary reaction where I spew whatever's in my mouth, with ungodly force. I don't think about it, it just happens.
It's lead to very embarrassing situations. Now I do my best just to avoid those potential landmines. Funnily enough, if the food is supposed to have lumps in it, then I'm fine. So I'm fine with sago pudding - as long as the sago hasn't clumped together into a bigger congelation.
Tucker Cahooter 4 months ago
Having been raised by parents that routinely made improperly mashed potatoes, I can fully relate to this
#24
Escalators. I had a traumatic experience on one and I still have a physical anxiety response when I get on a fast-moving downward escalator. I thought it would go away over time but 20 years later it hasn't subsided.
Laura Spring 4 months ago
I hate escalators, I always feel like I'm going to fall off them. Worst ones are in the mall. I find the elevator. Going down is much worse than going up, too.
#25
Down escalators. I’m fine going up but I just can’t go down. I think it’s because the step is moving away from me and I’m frightened I’ll fall. It stems from when I was little my parents were watching the local news and a child was wearing wellies and they got caught in the machinery when he didn’t step off quickly enough. Strangely a good friend and I were talking about this one day and he said you aren’t going to believe this but that was me!
#26
I could not drive over bridges as a teenager.
My school was quite far and across the river but there was a little car ferry you could take. I took that, even though it took longer.
It was that way for a long time until, one night, was going out with friends and I was following them (pre cell phones so you just had to follow). They must have driven me over every bridge there was. I went from absolutely freaking out to more or less being ok with it. However if traffic is bad and we’re stopped on the bridge… and you can feel it “bouncing” I still shudder.
Kim Shannon 4 months ago
Bridges scare me too, especially really big ones like the Mackinac Bridge.
#27
Tokophobia. Fear of pregnancy.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
I have that. It's just disgusting to me, the body distortion, the sight of feet pushing from inside, when I imagine something moving from inside of you it's just... Beurk. But once they're out then I love kids, and I'm always happy when one of my friends is pregnant. I will just never touch or look at her belly because it makes me slightly nauseous.
#28
Cotton wool, whenever I see it I think about the feeling between my teeth, and if I try to avoid thinking about it I think about it expanding until it is.
#29
Emails and phone calls.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Phone calls and texts. Not a phobia, exactly, but an aversion I have to will myself to overcome. Just leave me alone! (But don't because I need human contact.)
#30
Cockroaches
Not on a normal level my heart rate jumps i hyperventilate and panic i wont even go inthat room even a picture scares me.
#31
Some puppets really freak me out.
#32
I'm genuinely repulsed by long (usually fake) fingernails. And I'm not talking about "long" like most would define it, I mean basically anything that goes past the fingertips. To the point where if I'm paying for something with cash, and the cashier has those kind of nails, I will move and contort my hand in a way so when they give me my change the nails won't touch me. I could see a woman that literally checked every box on the list of features I'm attracted to, and if she has the nails, I'm immediately 100% disinterested. I know it's irrational, I know it's stupid, but it hits me on a primal level that I cannot explain.
#33
You would never catch me swimming with dolphins. Too smart, too smooth, too many teeth.
#34
Large human statues like the Statue of Liberty. It's a form of megalophobia. I can't even look at photos of them and not enjoying writing this.
#35
I don't know if it's rare, but bees/wasps/etc. My sister and I broke a hornets nest when I was a year or two old and I got covered in them. Don't have a memory of it, but my subconscious remembers. It's not as bad around bees anymore as long as they don't get too close, but wasps are still public enemy number one. Just the sound of them buzzing triggers a fight-or-flight response. I've had full-blown panic attacks when they've gotten into the house and no one else was around to k**l them for me.
And I guess it's not so much that people refuse to believe it, more than they get exasperated whenever I react to one being too close. Like, yeah, I know it's probably not going to sting me, but my brain doesn't care about facts and logics, it has identified that thing as a threat and acts according 🤷♀️
Fun fact, though: the only time I've been stung since that incident is when I stepped on a dead bee while I was walking barefoot in my kitchen in the dark.
SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago (edited)
Again, it's not really a phobia for me but I do have a very legitimate reason for not liking wasps, bees etc. Wasps mainly. I was once stung 5 times by a wasp, It had somehow gotten into my thin jumper and stung me 4 times on my upper left arm and also on my chest. My college tutor knew that I'm adopted and I don't know my families medical history or what allergies may run in my family. She immediately phoned for an ambulance and I was given Epinephrine (Good job I wasn't afraid needles at the time!) So now? So long as they stay away from me? No worries!
#36
Emetophobia (everything that has to do with throwing up).
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
I used to have this, to the point where my gag reflex is superhuman. I have to be nearly on my deathbed to puke, and even sometimes then I still do my best to avoid it. This is, ftr, Not A Good Thing(TM).
#37
Not rare per se but I absolutely hate flying, and it surprised me how dismissive and even sometimes cruel people can be about it.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
There's a hotline where experienced pilots will answer every question you have about flying in an effort to allay people's fears. US (800) FEAR-FLY
#38
I don’t like listening to heartbeats for example whenever they put it as sound effect in movies . Also for the other person eg my significant other to lie her head on my chest and thus me “feeling “ that she listens to my heart.
Weird thing is now that we listen to our baby’s heartbeat I can listen to it the whole day :).
#39
I fear that at any moment, a space disaster happens without warning. Like the sun exploding out of nowhere, earth stops spinning all of sudden, earth colliding with another planet or an asteroid k*****g me or something.
Rick Murray 4 months ago
The sun is exploding all the time, it's basically a vast fireball. It won't go kaboom because gravity is a thing. That's why it will turn into a red giant and consume the earth at the *end* of its life, because most of the mass will have been burnt, thus reducing the gravitational pull on what remains. The earth won't stop spinning unless something hits it. Let's put in into context - the earth spins at about 1,000mph. It is moving at about 67,000mph orbiting the sun. The solar system is orbiting in an arm of the milky way at about 514,000mph. And the entire milky way is moving at a sedate 1,350,000mph. We might spot and have time to panic over things on the same axis as the rest of the solar system, but if anything comes oblique, we'll all be reduced to individual atoms before anybody even sees it coming. Sweet dreams.
#40
I’m mycophobic. I will cry and scream if I have to touch a mushroom in the outdoors or clean out something with mold. Especially those pancake looking mushrooms on trees, or the weird ones that like ears, the jelly ones, ones that look like nets…. NO
The only thing I can tolerate is clean, cut mushrooms from the store. And ONLY certain kinds. I’m still not a fan of eating them though.
#42
When I was a small child, I was terrified of the moon. But only when it was a crescent moon! 🌙 Full moon was fine. I still cannot fully explain why, but I think it just seemed evil-looking to me, like a big creepy grin in the sky that followed you wherever you walked or drove - it was always there, leering down at you. I used to make my parents close all the blinds when I knew the moon was gonna be crescent. I’m pretty sure looking back I should have been assessed for autism, haha.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
That one fear isn't enough for an autism diagnosis... it sort of makes it sound like autism is only about irrational fears, which it isn't.
#43
Sleeping with objects above my head.
I just can’t help but be worried it will fall and I’ll die or be severely injured no matter the object.
I think I watched too many disaster movies as a kid with earthquakes shaking the house and things falling from the walls or ceilings lol.
#44
Chickens.
I'm absolutely terrified of chickens.
Their bawk bok bok bok fills me with intense anxiety and dread.
We had them on a farm when I was a kid. The chickens were fine until we got a red island rooster (if you know, you know). One morning I went to get their eggs while the flock was roaming about. It turned into an ambush and I was ganked by the chickens and my dog had to save me as my legs were shredded by them. Been terrified ever since.
This doesn't extend to chicken as a food, thankfully.
Penelope Orange 4 months ago
Most roosters are mean AF. Occasionally you can get a sweet one, but the majority want to k**l you.
#45
I’m afraid of ship wrecks and submarines. I don’t even know why but just thinking about it makes my heart rate rise.
Tucker Cahooter 4 months ago
At least that person is unlikely to encounter them on a day to day basis
#46
Giant flags.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
The one pictured, I can definitely understand... I don't hate America/Americans, but I don't understand their overabundance of flags everywhere. In general in Australia flags are either on official buildings, which is fine, or racist's houses (along with the Eureka flag often)
#47
Talking into phones, radios, speakers etc. Idk what it is, it seemed to just develop around the age of 18 where I would burst into tears if a phone was ringing and nobody immediately answered it. Through constant exposure I’ve managed to mostly get over it, I still feel uncomfortable and stressed but I can deal with it now. I do always keep my phone on silent though.
My uncle has a phobia of buttons. Like, he could never wear a shirt with buttons because it just repulsed him.
#48
Im not sure if it is, but my family says it's a phobia. (So kinda the opposite to this post I guess.) Here it goes....
Shortbread.
It makes me so f*****g angry. I hate everything about it, even the name. I have the strongest feeling of pure hate and disgust towards it. It makes me so f*****g angry. To me, It's the food version of ISIS. If my husband tries to add some to the trolley when shopping, I WILL raise my voice or cause a scene. (Which is completely out of my character) it can NOT come in my house. I will not touch it with my hands. It can NOT come near me. It's putrid, vile, filth and if you offered to pay off all my debts just if I would eat some, I'd tell you to f**k off. I don't know how to articulate how strong my feelings are towards it, and I don't know why I have these feelings or if they actually constitute as a 'phobia'. As long as it f***s off!
#49
Driving. Idk what it is but every time I try, I am guaranteed to have a full on fight or flight meltdown where I’m sobbing and feeling like I can’t breathe. It just feels like TOO MUCH and TOO FAST. I don’t know what to focus on but you have to focus on EVERYTHING. I can’t tell if I’m too far over in the lane and I have to focus on that while focusing on speed and if someone is trying to merge or if I’m trying to merge or when I need to slow down or if someone is driving unsafe nearby or if a person is walking in front of my car in a parking lot or crossing the street when they shouldn’t be and then I have to make sure I don’t lose focus of literally everything and space out while driving a death trap on wheels.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
Partner has this. Managed to get her permit back in the day, but never even made it to the driving test. Her current assessment is "I could drive you to the hospital if you were dying, but nothing else."
#50
Neurosurgery.
I mean, think about it. The brain is everything that you are. It's the closest thing to your soul in physical form. And people can literally carve up your soul with a knife, and most of the time, you're kept awake while they do it! It's so common that it's done on an industrial scale! And if even the tiniest thing goes wrong (or in thecase of a big resection, *even if everything goes right*) you're disabled in some of the most terrible ways possible, and there's no hope of it ever improving because the brain doesn't regenerate.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
The brain may not regenerate, but it can be rewired, so the processes of an impaired part can be taken over by another part. It doesn't always happen though. I think that is the scary but wonderful thing about the brain, you just never know for sure how it will react. There are people who don't know until late in life that they are missing large parts of the brain, because they still function normally, while there are people struck down by completely random brain afflictions.
#51
Manmade objects that are underwater. They're just f*****g eerie to look at.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Second time this has been mentioned. It's a weird one. Maybe invokes drowning?
#52
Ichthyophobia.. I'm afraid of fish.
#53
When I was a kid, I was so afraid of water that I had to be washed by force until about 7 or 8 years old. I have no clue as to why that was. Now it's all fine, swimming and everything, as if it never happened.
Lene 4 months ago
My youngest is like this. She's slowly learning to be OK with playing in the tub. But any sort of washing and she'll scream and cry and yell "no! No! No!" And "I DON'T WANT TO!". So for a long time I'd place her between my legs for extra hold and then my bf would wash her hair. And in 2 years we plan to have her take swimming lesson. 🤞
#54
Fear of getting lost I don't think it's officially recognized. Mazeophonia. Doesn't help that I have hardcore ADHD when it comes to maps so I am absolutely worthless without GPS.
#55
I get extremely uncomfortable and physical shudders from seeing and or discussing tongues. Even during writing this, the thought of them is enough to start the strongest feelings of disgust to form throughout my body and mind.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago (edited)
There was an ad for a beer in Australia (maybe Hahn?) in the early 2000s where all these tongues detached and crawled around and dragged a beer back to the people and it freaked many people out, me included, so I can totally understand the fear even though I don't think about it much myself anymore.
#56
I'm a grown man and I am terrified of butterflies/moths. Any insect really, but people don't believe me when I tell them I'm scared of butterflies. I don't even like looking at a picture of one.
#57
I'm claustrophobic and my step mother didn't believe me so much she once locked me in the back of a U-Haul trailer .... I f*****g panicked and she thought it was the funniest s**t she's ever seen.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
She's a word I can't say because it would be censored, but she is a big that.
#58
I have terrified of bacteriophages. I have nightmares of giant three foot tall ones running after me. I always wake up crying when it happens. I don't know how to explain this fear to anyone and they people info tell just think I'm crazy.
#60
I have Thalassophobia. Mine is so bad, I can't even swim in pools or venture underwater in video games. The amount of times I get "but it's just a bit of water!" Or "it's a game - how can you be afraid of pixels?".
#61
Im TERRIFIED of buttons and people eating loudly. When I tell someone this, they say that I'm "making it up for clout".
#62
Dead insects. I never k**l so much as a mosquito with my bare hands. I can k**l very small moths with a shoe or a vaccum cleaner after we had three invasions of these pests eating my clothes (2x) or my food (1x).
But if there is a dead insect of any kind on my desk, I have to leave the room. If there is a vacuum cleaner available, on a good day I can vacuum them, but without touching them with the tube and without watching the moment they are sucked into the cleaner.
A few years ago, we cohabitated with a wasps nest in our bedroom. I can live with the live ones, I dread the dead ones or the ones fighting for death and dying in front of me.
Edit:
To be exact, the nest was not in the room, it was right between the bricks next to the bedroom window. Since we have old (1915) windows we had 4 to 5 wasps coming in and out all the time from April to October, even when the window was closed. Funny thing is: they usually don't really want to be inside. They tried to get home all the time and sometimes didn't find their way back. In the evenings, we tried to show these poor things the way out, but some were too tired and sometimes they just fell asleep high above on our wardrobe.
They really do sleep all night. In the morning (with sunlight), they wake up and find their way out way better than at night.
In all the year, none of us (wasps and human beings) got hurt. Two years after, they came back, but fortunately chose a brick farther away from our window.
I am aware there are over a hundred kinds of wasps. Most are quite peaceful. The type we had are considered an aggressive species. I don't get it either.
#63
My friend had a phobia of bananas. Like used to cry if one came near her. Someone once wiped a banana on her car door handle and she couldn’t get into her car.
#64
Agrostophobia is a fear of grass in general. I'm only afraid of TALL grass but that's the closest that it can be defined that im aware of. I absolutely cannot force myself to walk thru an area where the ground cover of any kind is taller than the shoes im wearing. Freaks me out. I'll go a mile around the long way to avoid walking thru a 20 ft patch of it.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
I don't like walking through tall grass, but that's because I live in Australia where there could be snakes, so it's not irrational. If I have to walk through tall grass I always stomp my feet hoping that any snakes will notice the vibration and stay away.
#65
I have arachnophobia. Not a rare phobia, but for context, it only came about since moving to the midwest and developed a fear of ticks. Now even those harmless house spiders freak me out.
My friends keep telling me I'm being irrational, but I can't shake it.
#66
I once had a dream that I had to touch genatilia made out of pasta (specifically elbow shaped) and every so often my brain just plants that image in my head and makes me just gag and all the things. Obviously it's never going to happen (f*****g hope not) but every so often my brain goes "Imagine having to finger a v****a made out of soft pasta" and I recoil.
In more "normal" phobias, I hate the cluster of holes things.
#67
I can't touch or be super close cotton wool, it's....'squeeky' ! And makes me feel hot and I get kind of like tunnel vision.
If it ever gets mentioned, people inevitably try to find some and proceed to squash it next to my face, and then gauge my reaction.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago (edited)
The description made it really make sense (compared to the other mentions of it in this list) because I get that feeling with a lot of textures. Not cotton wool, though I don't like the feel when my hands are dry. People who purposely try to get a reaction when you've just said you hate something are cruel. I hate how some people will try and tickle me when I have just said I'm not ticklish, like they are testing me. I had to train myself not to be ticklish when I was about 12 because I was sick of my mum and brother tickling me even though I said stop, to the point I would wet myself.
#68
I have a fear of machinery that’s painted black. It doesn’t trigger me if it’s painted any other colour but if it’s black it makes me want to die!
When I was a kid they used to take us to an old mill and turn all the machines on while telling us about how many kids were scalped and killed under the machines. I’m mid 30s now and I still can’t shake it, even after working in a factory - thankfully the machines were painted green 😂.
#69
Whales and the things that sprout out of potatoes 😅.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
I hate it when I slice open a big baked potato and find Moby D**k staring back at me.
#70
Dinosaurs. When I was around 5 I had untreated anxiety. One night, while having an anxiety attack, I went crying to my parents to soothe me. When I walked into the tv room, they were watching Jurassic Park, right at the T-Rex in the rain scene. I watched in stunned, anxiety riddled silence as the T-Rex ate the guy in the toilet.
If that hadn't cemented a life long fear of dinos in me, a very similar thing happened maybe a year later but with Godzilla.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
I think my fear of small animals running across me at night comes from when I stayed at my pop's place and he had mouse problems. I was already anxious because my pop had been having bipolar episodes and we were trying to work out if we could move him down to a nursing home or something, so hearing mice at night while I was trying to sleep created more anxiety which has followed me through life. I often have dreams about things running over me while I sleep, and it's usually when I've already had a lot of anxiety during the day or I'm anticipating an event that will make me anxious.
#72
Mine is so absurdly specific but I don't think it actually exists so it's not something I ever have to deal with.
It's the concept of a cookie or other baked good that isn't cooked in an oven, but is concocted with some ingredients that cause a chemical reaction that cooks the cookie itself without any heat applied. I understand that baking is just a chemical reaction too, but when I think about my cookie thing I start to sweat and get the whole onset of a panic attack. Even more bizarrely, I eat "raw" fish cooked in lemon juice on occasion just fine, it honestly is just the baked goods thing.
As a result of this not being a real thing, I have this bizarre detached relationship with it where I can just summon a useless panic attack at will by thinking of chemical cookies. It might be good if I was an actor I suppose. I also have arachnophobia and the feeling I get seeing a huntsman indoors is identical to the cookie feeling, I think it genuinely is a fear response.
Of course no one believes me or cares, it's the most f*****g ridiculous inconsequential phobia to ever exist. If I ever even think there might be a chance that a biscuit has been cooked that way I just... Don't eat the biscuit. Being in the same room as one is fine, and I think that if I found out that companies were making them this way that would be fine too, it's just the thought that I might come across one. I am sugar free so I don't even eat biscuits at all in my daily life, just to add to the absurdity.
#73
Stickers but in particular fruit stickers. I will vomit sometimes just from having to touch one to throw one out. I usually use a folded up napkin to pick them up so I don't have to touch them. Sometimes my husband leaves them around and it makes me so anxious.
#74
So, those wooden sticks used for ice? Like those rocket ice things? I HATE it, for the sense of scraping it with my teeth (grtting goosebumps writing). One day, the younger sister of a friend would chase me through the house scraping her teeth on it. Trust, I ran.
#75
I have a doorbell phobia. Every time I hear one, I want to hide under the table or just disappear for a moment.
#76
Not really rare but wanted to give yall my one; phasmophobia (fear of the supernatural (eg SW, Wendigos, shadow figures etc).
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Raven Sheridan 4 months ago
I have a phobia of kiwi fruit! Although it's more a phobia of the texture of the fuzzy skin on their bodies. I cannot stand the feel of them! I also greatly dislike apricots and peaches for the same reason, but kiwi fruit are by far the worst.
SleepyVampire 4 months ago
I have a severe - and I mean SEVERE - phobia of teeth. Not the dentist specifically (although I do hate those psychopaths), just teeth. I can't even see toothpaste commercials where they show teeth without having A physical reaction. I don't even look at people's mouths because I can see their teeth so often. I have four daughters, and when they lose their teeth, it's awful for me. Husband has to do the Tooth Fairy bit, as I physically cannot. It's bad.
Tucker Cahooter 4 months ago
Best to avoid that Trivago advert with Jurgen Klopp then
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago
My phobia nowadays? I have a phobia about people who don't have phobias and can be extremely mean and cruel towards anyone who does. As in, you may have a fear of spiders say... And they'll put a plastic one in your bed or something. Or they'll tell you to "get over it, it's just (whatever it is)"... It's? It may seem irrational to you but for the person who has that phobia? It's very real and stop being such a (insert swear words here) person!.......Some of the phobias mentioned? They can usually be avoided, as in the trigger, but some can't and they can really have an impact your life and how you live. What's so hard about having empathy and understanding about that?
Jaya 4 months ago
I've never heard anyone describe mine, and it's so weird and I can't even put into words what I'm afraid of. It has something to do with things being way bigger/smaller than they're supposed to, especially when the size is increasing exponentially. For instance, as a kid I had jigsaw puzzles that were all the same size but all had a different amount of puzzle pieces: 2 by 2 pieces, 3 by 3, 4 by 4 and 5 by 5 pieces. So the one with 2x2 pieces had HUGE puzzle pieces compared to the one with 5x5 pieces. I get a panic attack thinking about the size of those puzzle pieces. Especially if I think about how fast they increase with each puzzle (if you go from 5x5 towards 2x2). The same if I imagine I have to walk to something that is 100 meters away from me. And if I take 1 step it would magically double the distance instead of getting closer. And with each step the distance becomes bigger. I can't handle how that would get so huge so fast. And falling asleep sometimes triggers this feeling too
Powerful Katrinka 4 months ago
You described and explained your phobia perfectly. Even though I don’t share it with you, I found myself growing distinctly uneasy just reading your comment.
Load More Replies... Spannidandoolar 4 months ago
Not seen mine mentioned but it's probably more of an extreme aversion rather than a phobia (maybe because I have to deal with it regularly having kids) I cannot stand stickers/sticky labels of any kind. I'm am fine if they are new and still firmly attached to their original paper but as soon as they are removed or stuck to anything (or worse they have come off what they were stuck to) they make me feel physically sick, my whole body cringes and recoils even writing this is making me feel ill.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I shall refrain from making the obvious quip about unsolicited pics.
Load More Replies... Lene 4 months ago
I have a fear of mirrors. As a kid it meant that I didn't want to go to the toilet alone because there is the mirror over the sink. As an adult I am mostly coping with mirrors but when I am not I just do not look in it. I am so scared of what I will see in the mirror. Not me, but a distorted me or a monster or something like that. I also get extremely panic-y if someone startles me. I will start to cry and shake and not be good at all for a bit. My bf respects this and when he startles me by accident he'll do his best to comfort me. Those junp scare videos that were popular when I was young? Yeah, I hated those and if someone sent me a link to one, I'd never speak to them again. I do not like it when people "test" my fears and phobias.
SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago
It's not mentioned in this but I can't eat certain things. It's the texture in my mouth. I like mayonnaise but I don't like cooked eggs. Or bananas. Basically it's that "squishy mouth texture" type of food. It makes me gag and even touching that type of food? I can't. It seems so silly but it's not because it's not just food, it's anything "squishy". When I was a kid I was coming home and stepped in a dead animal. As in my foot was inside it and yes, I did throw up! Then my shoe was covered in dead animal and vomit! Since then? Nope, hate squishy type textures!... And finding dead anything... Which I think is definitely legitimate!
Kim Shannon 4 months ago
I'm scared to death of those giant wind turbines. I'm convinced they're going to become self aware someday and come down and chop everyone up.
Orange Frosting 4 months ago
I was hoping to see this on the list, but I didn't. I'm absolutely terrified of high cistern toilets (common in the UK in the 80s and 90s). The black cistern looming above you on the wall and the thick black toilet seats. Just typing this made me shiver and want to duck my head.
Emilu 4 months ago
Mine is underwater stuff, because that’s how my father died. Any underwater thing in a game etc now kinda freaks me out. Eg: In the latest (I think) World of Warcraft patch there are a few underwater levels. I did them to help a friend (after a few stiff drinks) and will happily never do them again.
WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
I dont know what it's called but I have an extreme irrational fear of earwigs. I know they're harmless but the look of them... ugh. I will literally run if I see one. I've ran towards a bear that hopped a fence to grab my girl friends dog and drag it inside.... but if that bear had been an earwig I'd have been running away and abandoning the poor dog to the d**n earwig.
Mari 4 months ago
A little boy at school in my sons class was afraid of a tsunami. The problem was that every time it rained (in Belgium a lot) he panicked because he feared a tsunami. He tought there would come a flood and a tsunami. I don't know what happened to that boy, I hope he had help or therapy.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
I have a deep fear of Giraffes. Once at a zoo I was about 3 and had a green coat, The giraffe thought I was a leaf and tried to spit on me. I heard my mother warn me, looked up and saw its face, the black tongue and the spit above me... Since then, panic fear of these things.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 4 months ago
You don't really get how huge they are until you're up close, either. I can understand why you would have been terrified when you were so little.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I'm lucky to have few real fears. Part of that is the ability to stuff down feelings. I think a lot of people with phobias are sensitive in a positive way. It's sometimes hard for me to understand, but I don't make fun of people with them. I also think that if it severely makes things difficult in life that people should pursue therapy. It's highly effective for phobias.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
I don't have phobias. instead I have Fear of Everything, aka generalized anxiety disorder.
zovjraar me 4 months ago
i have tried to climb an indoor wall to get away from a cricket. i'm uncomfortable around pregnant ladies, needles, people dressed in animal costumes, and VTubers- but i can handle it if i have to. Crickets, grasshoppers, big beetles, silverfish- most insects, really- i will meltdown. i love spiders because i know they'll eat the insects. ants, houseflies, ladybugs, and pillbugs i'm ok with.
Shane S 4 months ago
Tornados. And yes I know it sounds like a rational fear but my anxiety starts when there’s any chance at all of them occuring. It consumes my thinking and I can’t relax until I know there’s no more chance. I think I also have a subconscious fear of losing my teeth. It’s a recurring event in my nightmares.
Kinetics Loves Apples 4 months ago
I have a very visceral fear of fish (icthyophobia). I know most can't hurt me but if I'm in the water with any live fish I panic. I love to swim and fish and I grew up on the lake but if I ever fell while waterskiing and I was near the shore I would have to stay in my head to keep from panicking at the very idea of one touching me. Idk if it's how they move, how they feel, or how they act but the idea of going to one of those fish spas is my absolute nightmare.
Raven Sheridan 4 months ago
I have a phobia of kiwi fruit! Although it's more a phobia of the texture of the fuzzy skin on their bodies. I cannot stand the feel of them! I also greatly dislike apricots and peaches for the same reason, but kiwi fruit are by far the worst.
SleepyVampire 4 months ago
I have a severe - and I mean SEVERE - phobia of teeth. Not the dentist specifically (although I do hate those psychopaths), just teeth. I can't even see toothpaste commercials where they show teeth without having A physical reaction. I don't even look at people's mouths because I can see their teeth so often. I have four daughters, and when they lose their teeth, it's awful for me. Husband has to do the Tooth Fairy bit, as I physically cannot. It's bad.
Tucker Cahooter 4 months ago
Best to avoid that Trivago advert with Jurgen Klopp then
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago
My phobia nowadays? I have a phobia about people who don't have phobias and can be extremely mean and cruel towards anyone who does. As in, you may have a fear of spiders say... And they'll put a plastic one in your bed or something. Or they'll tell you to "get over it, it's just (whatever it is)"... It's? It may seem irrational to you but for the person who has that phobia? It's very real and stop being such a (insert swear words here) person!.......Some of the phobias mentioned? They can usually be avoided, as in the trigger, but some can't and they can really have an impact your life and how you live. What's so hard about having empathy and understanding about that?
Jaya 4 months ago
I've never heard anyone describe mine, and it's so weird and I can't even put into words what I'm afraid of. It has something to do with things being way bigger/smaller than they're supposed to, especially when the size is increasing exponentially. For instance, as a kid I had jigsaw puzzles that were all the same size but all had a different amount of puzzle pieces: 2 by 2 pieces, 3 by 3, 4 by 4 and 5 by 5 pieces. So the one with 2x2 pieces had HUGE puzzle pieces compared to the one with 5x5 pieces. I get a panic attack thinking about the size of those puzzle pieces. Especially if I think about how fast they increase with each puzzle (if you go from 5x5 towards 2x2). The same if I imagine I have to walk to something that is 100 meters away from me. And if I take 1 step it would magically double the distance instead of getting closer. And with each step the distance becomes bigger. I can't handle how that would get so huge so fast. And falling asleep sometimes triggers this feeling too
Powerful Katrinka 4 months ago
You described and explained your phobia perfectly. Even though I don’t share it with you, I found myself growing distinctly uneasy just reading your comment.
Load More Replies... Spannidandoolar 4 months ago
Not seen mine mentioned but it's probably more of an extreme aversion rather than a phobia (maybe because I have to deal with it regularly having kids) I cannot stand stickers/sticky labels of any kind. I'm am fine if they are new and still firmly attached to their original paper but as soon as they are removed or stuck to anything (or worse they have come off what they were stuck to) they make me feel physically sick, my whole body cringes and recoils even writing this is making me feel ill.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I shall refrain from making the obvious quip about unsolicited pics.
Load More Replies... Lene 4 months ago
I have a fear of mirrors. As a kid it meant that I didn't want to go to the toilet alone because there is the mirror over the sink. As an adult I am mostly coping with mirrors but when I am not I just do not look in it. I am so scared of what I will see in the mirror. Not me, but a distorted me or a monster or something like that. I also get extremely panic-y if someone startles me. I will start to cry and shake and not be good at all for a bit. My bf respects this and when he startles me by accident he'll do his best to comfort me. Those junp scare videos that were popular when I was young? Yeah, I hated those and if someone sent me a link to one, I'd never speak to them again. I do not like it when people "test" my fears and phobias.
SkippityBoppityBoo 4 months ago
It's not mentioned in this but I can't eat certain things. It's the texture in my mouth. I like mayonnaise but I don't like cooked eggs. Or bananas. Basically it's that "squishy mouth texture" type of food. It makes me gag and even touching that type of food? I can't. It seems so silly but it's not because it's not just food, it's anything "squishy". When I was a kid I was coming home and stepped in a dead animal. As in my foot was inside it and yes, I did throw up! Then my shoe was covered in dead animal and vomit! Since then? Nope, hate squishy type textures!... And finding dead anything... Which I think is definitely legitimate!
Kim Shannon 4 months ago
I'm scared to death of those giant wind turbines. I'm convinced they're going to become self aware someday and come down and chop everyone up.
Orange Frosting 4 months ago
I was hoping to see this on the list, but I didn't. I'm absolutely terrified of high cistern toilets (common in the UK in the 80s and 90s). The black cistern looming above you on the wall and the thick black toilet seats. Just typing this made me shiver and want to duck my head.
Emilu 4 months ago
Mine is underwater stuff, because that’s how my father died. Any underwater thing in a game etc now kinda freaks me out. Eg: In the latest (I think) World of Warcraft patch there are a few underwater levels. I did them to help a friend (after a few stiff drinks) and will happily never do them again.
WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
I dont know what it's called but I have an extreme irrational fear of earwigs. I know they're harmless but the look of them... ugh. I will literally run if I see one. I've ran towards a bear that hopped a fence to grab my girl friends dog and drag it inside.... but if that bear had been an earwig I'd have been running away and abandoning the poor dog to the d**n earwig.
Mari 4 months ago
A little boy at school in my sons class was afraid of a tsunami. The problem was that every time it rained (in Belgium a lot) he panicked because he feared a tsunami. He tought there would come a flood and a tsunami. I don't know what happened to that boy, I hope he had help or therapy.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
I have a deep fear of Giraffes. Once at a zoo I was about 3 and had a green coat, The giraffe thought I was a leaf and tried to spit on me. I heard my mother warn me, looked up and saw its face, the black tongue and the spit above me... Since then, panic fear of these things.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 4 months ago
You don't really get how huge they are until you're up close, either. I can understand why you would have been terrified when you were so little.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I'm lucky to have few real fears. Part of that is the ability to stuff down feelings. I think a lot of people with phobias are sensitive in a positive way. It's sometimes hard for me to understand, but I don't make fun of people with them. I also think that if it severely makes things difficult in life that people should pursue therapy. It's highly effective for phobias.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
I don't have phobias. instead I have Fear of Everything, aka generalized anxiety disorder.
zovjraar me 4 months ago
i have tried to climb an indoor wall to get away from a cricket. i'm uncomfortable around pregnant ladies, needles, people dressed in animal costumes, and VTubers- but i can handle it if i have to. Crickets, grasshoppers, big beetles, silverfish- most insects, really- i will meltdown. i love spiders because i know they'll eat the insects. ants, houseflies, ladybugs, and pillbugs i'm ok with.
Shane S 4 months ago
Tornados. And yes I know it sounds like a rational fear but my anxiety starts when there’s any chance at all of them occuring. It consumes my thinking and I can’t relax until I know there’s no more chance. I think I also have a subconscious fear of losing my teeth. It’s a recurring event in my nightmares.
Kinetics Loves Apples 4 months ago
I have a very visceral fear of fish (icthyophobia). I know most can't hurt me but if I'm in the water with any live fish I panic. I love to swim and fish and I grew up on the lake but if I ever fell while waterskiing and I was near the shore I would have to stay in my head to keep from panicking at the very idea of one touching me. Idk if it's how they move, how they feel, or how they act but the idea of going to one of those fish spas is my absolute nightmare.
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