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Re: s/o cont. theme - Phobias
Goats - I forgot Goats. I hate them and their devil shaped pupils.
One tried to eat the shirt off my back at a petting zoo in 3rd grade and to this day, I fear to the point of tears, GOATS.
My height fear is similar. It's as if a magnet is pulling me toward the edge and I want to leap, but I know it will lead to my doom.
I also have a totally irrational fear of wet leaves and anything being stuck to the bottom of my socks. I will not walk around the house in just socks unless it is totally spotless. I wear slippers. Even bare feet is better, but the thought of something embedded into a sock makes me simultaneously gag and want to cry. I am cringing just writing about it.
Real things: Heights, raw meat, clowns
Fake thinks: Zombies, Zombie Clowns
Things that might be real: Killer Clowns from Outerspace
It is nice to hear someone else vocalize this, sometimes I feel weirder than I am...or maybe I don't feel weird enough for how sane I think I am
Open water. If I can wade in, even if I eventually can no longer touch the bottom, I'm fine. I will jump off my parents boat into the river but I have to talk myself into it. I won't go off high dives bc I'm afraid of the deep end of the pool.
The idea of snorkeling in the ocean or something freaks me out.
This is weird bc I grew up swimming in all bodies of water - pools, ocean, lake, river. But it's been getting worse as I get older, I'm convinced something is going to get me. Or I'll never find the surface if I jump in.
Heights
Flying
Driving Across big Bridges (this one is not horrible, but bad enough)
But, since I suffer from anxiety, pretty much everything lol
ETA: Flying and Heights are TRUE phobias. Like, I have to take xanax to get on a plane without having a full on panic attack. I will not stay on a floor of a hotel that is too high up. I will not go to the top of the empire state building if I ever go to NY. Ect. ect. ect.
Crickets. I was reading in bed one night in high school and I looked over and one was ON MY PILLOW NEXT TO MY HEAD!!!! :::shudders::::
Ice. I fell on the ice while carrying Ben one day (and his poor little head smacked on the the ground and I cried harder than he did.) Since then I'm really sketched out by even a little bit of ice.
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
Feet, spiders, silverfish, clowns, and driving on ice.
But the absolute WORST is demon possession. I blame my southern baptist parents. Anytime I catch a glimpse of the girl from the Exorcist, even in passing, I cannot sleep for a week, at least. In college I watched that movie, and I literally wouldn't sleep at night. I sat up all night long with my door open and would only sleep in naps between classes.
Heights, crowds, claustrophobia (which is related to my fear of crowds because I'm short -- 5 ft tall -- and in crowds I often can't see so I panic) and as I get older germs.
I hate other people's hair. If I go into a bathroom and see hair in the sink/toilet or on the floor, I gag.
Spiders, roaches -- anything that crawls and creeps. And I can't kill them either so I'm terrorized and a self-made hostage.
Snakes (on a muthaeffin' plane!)
Flying, though it hasn't gotten so bad that I refuse to fly.Yet.
I'm also afraid of falling on the ice. Anyone seeing a pattern here? lol
I'm only afraid of heights if I'm unrestrained. I'm ok on roller coasters, planes and parasailing because I'm strapped in. Getting near the rail on the 2nd floor of a mall, much less near a cliff? Nofuckingway.
Dolls, especially porcelain dolls. The soulless eyes creep me out. I had a reoccurring nightmare for a few years about this doll who tried to kill me. I destroyed all the dolls my mom gave me; much to her sadness.
Lightning.
I am also very claustrophobic.
I have a fear of my house catching on fire when I'm not home, specifically if we're away for the weekend or a vacation. I don't have a fear of us being harmed, it's more about everything being gone. I know it's just "stuff" but it seems like so much more when I think about it being gone instantly.
This isn't as much a fear, but in high school, I was the one who found a girl in the bathroom who had cut herself. I still can't watch anything where the character cuts wrists or even when a murder occurs by slitting wrists or throats.
See, I can't drug up and fly because I could fall asleep and OMG!!ELEVENTY!!!!!! what if something happens? Nope, I just sit there and cry silently. Jflute used to hold my hand and say soothing things to me during take off and tell me stories and stuff during the flight to try and get me less focused on this big metal/steel thing realizing it shouldn't be in the sky and falling to the ground with me on it.
I'm right there with you. See below for my story of housesitting in a house with a room FULL of those freaking dolls!
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
Like MrsA and 2V, I hate walking on ice. I get super anxious about falling (also why I refuse to ice skate or ski). I broke my leg running through mud, so losing my footing freaks me the eff out.
Cockroaches are my ultimate phobia. I hyperventilate and physically can't scream. Not a great thing living in the South.
Not a phobia, but I have severe anxiety about tube water slides that are enclosed. DH loves water parks and so do I, but I get so nervous in there. I'm not claustrophobic at all. When I was little, I sat up really fast in one and came out of the tube unconscious. Into a pool of water. Yeah.
If I believed in God I would pray to fall asleep. I would rather be unconscious while falling from the sky then conscious. Plus my theory is that time goes by fast while you sleep, so therefore, the flight will go fast if I sleep.
I am terrified of snakes. Even small ones. I used to have nightmares that there were snakes under my bed and pillow, so I slept with a light on for most of high school. I also used to have panic attacks if I thought I was in an area (like woods, lake, etc.) where there might be snakes. I imagine I still would have a panic attack, but it's been awhile where I've been somewhere that snakes are likely there.
It is seriously a terrifying, paralyzing fear for me. In freshman year biology, we did some unit that included snakes. I made my brother tape post it's down over every snake picture in my textbook. We watched some video about snakes and I hyperventilated and got to leave the room. THEN, our teacher passed around these giant pics of snakes and I didn't want to look at them, but this girl in my class shoved it under my face (she sat in the desk behind me, I didn't know she had the pic), and I started screaming and having a panic attack. I had nightmares for months after that. Just seeing a pic of a snake will trigger weeks of nightmares for me.
Needless to say, at the zoo, we avoid the snake areas.
I have a very serious fear of bridges & overpasses. I think it stemmed from the California earthquakes I experienced as a child. I had the sh*tty luck of being in the Bay Area for the Loma Priata quake that took part of the Bay Bridge down as well as being home in SoCal for the Northridge quake that took down a freeway overpass. To this day I get clammy hands, my heart races & I feel like I can't breathe if I have to drive over one. When we drive over a bridge I have to roll down my window since I irrationally think that will make it easier to get out of the car if the bridge collapses.
Oh and on a side note, I love the show Dexter but anytime they drive over that crazy long bridge in Miami it makes me want to hurl.
"This ribbon has been reported." - lovesnina
Those exact earthquakes are what make me hate to drive across bridges. I get totally anxious and think about the double decker freeway that collapsed and the images of the the cars all squished under there. **shudder**