Do You Have Any Phobias?

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

I've always had a thing with heights, but in recent years it has gotten progressively worse. Now just watching movies where they show views up high from buildings, planes, or even from orbiting spacecraft looking down at the Earth makes me feel dizzy, hot, and hands start to sweat. I went to the observation deck of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) and felt horrible. I was dizzy, hot, heart was elevated, and felt like I was going to get sick. I think I was about to have a panic attack. I don't know what caused it to get so bad.

I think I also might have a slight case of claustrophobia. We went to the lights under Louisville earlier in the week. They bunched the cars up bumper to bumper in 3 rows before it opened. Just being blocked in the middle where we couldn't move was bugging me. It wasn't nothing as bad as the heights though.

Anyone else have any Phobias?

 

[JamesIII]

I'm not a big fan of driving past bush hogs mowing on the sides of roads. I always cover the side of my head just in case one spits out a huge rock toward me.

Also afraid of opening cans of biscuits. I have an irrational fear that my hands are going to somehow get blown off when it "pops."

However, I'm fine when it comes to most common fears like snakes, heights, spiders, and clowns.

 

[BlueThruAndThru_rivals115784]

hydrophobia... grrrr

 

[Elbridge]

Op I get you exactly. It's not rational but I can't get over it.

 

[UK_ Alum_02]

Snakes, man. It is either snakes or spiders for most people and I'm a snake man.

 

[55wildcat]

This...nothing good about it...

 

[WayneDougan_rivals170043]

Homo

 

[funKYcat75]

Each year I get a little more scared of driving in bad weather. I hydroplaned on some bad tires a few years ago and I have whatever the car equivalent of the yips is. If you're behind me on the road going 10-15 mph slower than you, I apologize.

 

[55wildcat]

Each year I get a little more scared of driving in bad weather. I hydroplaned on some bad tires a few years ago and I have whatever the car equivalent of the yips is. If you're behind me on the road going 10-15 mph slower than you, I apologize.

Driving to Florida a few years back and hydroplaned totally sideways on 65. Very lucky nothing was around. I agree 100% that's a feeling I never want anymore..

 

[KingOfBBN]

It's not like an issue but for like 15 years I always get uncomfortable around bridges over water. Just kind of freaks me out a bit.

 

[Get Buckets]

Anytime I enter or leave a room in a home I have to flick the light switch three times or something bad will
happen to my mom.

 

[We-Todd-Did]

I really don't have any irrational fears. Plenty of things I don't like but they're mild. I look at most of my fears as survival mechanisms. An example would be that I don't like heights, simply because I have the coordination of a hog on ice.

 

[JonathanW_rivals]

Wouldn't call it a phobia, but don't like driving under a bridge with a train on it, or driving over a dead animal.

 

[420grover]

Needles. I got a double acting penicillin shot in the 6th grade. It was one of those huge syringes with the metal finger loops, about as sharp as my finger. I couldn't walk for 3 days after that.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Anxiety to fear of being in something I can't control or get out of. That could be a long plane ride, riding shotgun, or even sitting in a large auditorium for a big presentation or meeting.

I've even had slight anxiety being stuck in traffic or on a long chairlift.

It's the thought of knowing I can't stop something or get out to safety.

 

[P.PattersonISwalkingthruthatdoor]

Heights. And it's getting worse with age.

Deep water, as well. Even though I know there's nothing big enough to hurt me in a lake that's only a couple acres big, it doesn't matter. Open ocean, though? I can't even get in the water many times haha.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

Needles, dark, heights

Needles - I never physically react well when having blood drawn.

Dark - I am just straight terrified of it. I have to have a light or a night light on in every room of my house that I normally enter at night

Heights - I once visited a very high elevation swinging bridge with a massive drop underneath of it on a day in which it was very windy and so foggy I could barely see past five feet. I was terrified crossing that thing, been scared of heights ever since.

 

[DaBossIsBack]

Heights. It's a recent phenomenon though. I've dangled off cliffs, climbed some gnarly mountains, been in some crazy high places over the course of my adulthood, but now I can't do it. I had a friend fall off his roof a few months ago. He was adjusting his satellite, slipped, and broke his neck. Since then I haven't been the same. I was visiting family in EKY back in the fall and we went to natural bridge and I couldn't do it. I just kept thinking about how easy it would be to make a mistake and fall. Sucks.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Used to be afraid of needles.. More so as a boy. What DID suck was having 15+ viles drawn to test for Leukemia, Hemophilia, Lymphoma, etc. Later in life. Long time to have a needle in your arm!

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

Used to be afraid of needles.. More so as a boy. What DID suck was having 15+ viles drawn to test for Leukemia, Hemophilia, Lymphoma, etc. Later in life. Long time to have a needle in your arm!

15+ vials? Was this all at one time? I would have died if they had tried that the last time I got my blood drawn!

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Yeah.. Kind of a weird blood-drawer guy (forget the name of those workers).. Not sure he was doing everything right. But had an incident where they wanted to check for every big blood disease and did it all in one shot.

I guess what got me over that fear.. Is that in my head.. I can pull that needle out in a split second, and I'm safe and sound. So I rationalize that I can't be scared of something I can quickly remedy. It's the things I can't change that get me panicky..

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Wasn't there a thread about that weird feeling of wanting to jump? Not suicidal.. But like.. Touching a hot stove.. There's a weird psychological draw..

Crazy. Definitely feel that same feeling when I'm high up.

 

[UKserialkiller]

Ebola. Definitely afraid of Ebola

 

[UKserialkiller]

Spiders, any size, shape, or species.

Heights. Big time. Here's a weird little twist: Dunno quite how to describe this, but there have been times while standing on, say, a building's/hotel's roof or near a ledge, that I've thought what it would feel like to jump. Not that I'm suicidal, or trying to get an adrenaline rush, but there's something inside me, however faint, that almost "wants" to jump. It's a really strange feeling.

All the time man.


My apt is 3 stories up. I always want to jump off my balcony.

Heights kill me. In Manhattan, I got a panic attack just looking up. I can't even look up at a tall building

 

[Deeeefense]

Elevators, especially if they are loaded with fat women.

 

[P.PattersonISwalkingthruthatdoor]

leaving a daughter alone with willy

 

[DaBossIsBack]

Wasn't there a thread about that weird feeling of wanting to jump? Not suicidal.. But like.. Touching a hot stove.. There's a weird psychological draw..

Crazy. Definitely feel that same feeling when I'm high up.

Or like a hot naked chick in your bed that you know has the herp and you ain't got any rubbers. Yet you're still drawn to it..

 

[Bodvar Bjarki]

Each year I get a little more scared of driving in bad weather. I hydroplaned on some bad tires a few years ago and I have whatever the car equivalent of the yips is. If you're behind me on the road going 10-15 mph slower than you, I apologize.

Take the truck nuts off the back of your truck and put them on along with your big boy pants.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

So this is where my fear comes in. Roller Coaster? Strapped into something for 2 minutes that I can't control? Going real fast and flipping, which I'm not too big of a fan of to begin with?

Ugh.. Palms sweaty already.

Honest to god, I'd probably freak half way into it and try and climb out.

 

[UKserialkiller]

leaving a daughter alone with willy

Ha ha nice Jamo

 

[WettCat]

I can handle getting a shot, doesn't really bother me. But....I don't like looking at the needle going into my skin. Always look away...do the same when I see it on TV.

The dark doesn't bother me at all, but I have this uneasiness/phobia about looking into a mirror in a completely dark room....and then seeing two glowing bright red eyes staring back at me. Animal or devil eyes. I feel for that light switch or a door to open as fast as I can.

And flying. Just because.

 

[WayneDougan_rivals170043]

And flying. Just because.

I fly every week and really don't like it. It's odd, my morning flight on Monday I usually feel very uneasy about it. The flight home is no problem. Same plane, same route. Not sure why the time of day matters.

 

[IdaCat]

I can't think of any phobias that I have. Maybe snakes, but only when they surprise me. After I identify them it's ok.

I am a little paranoid sometimes. Probably because I'm a cynical bastard, but often there's a valid reason.

 

[BlueKel_rivals210266]

Needles. I have the worst time when they want to take blood for lab work. I have deep veins. The anxiety really hits when they are tap tap tapping, putting on a tourniquet, doing the rubbing alcohol. I get light-headed, clammy, cold sweat. I never quite pass out, but close. The thing is I try to talk to the tech or nurse the whole time,, sometimes they are almost done, and I get a delayed reaction. It's awful.

The thing is, blood doesn't bother me. If they could use a knife and cut me, that would be cool. Something about needles and veins. :scream::thumbsdown::chairshot:[sick]

 

[Chuckinden]

Killing anything. I used to hunt when I was younger, but now, for some reason, I can't kill anything. I will catch a spider or a wasp in the house and take it outside.

I swear, I could kill a useless POS human, before I could kill anything else.

 

[jwheat]

I avoid all cracks on a sidewalk

 

[Boydcat]

I hate to drive in the rain especially at night the glare kills me. As someone above said I am the guy going slower than the rest,even after getting glasses so I could see I still get nervous.

 

[weused2luvhim2]

Tight spaces and anyone trying to hold me down. You want to see a man get out of control just try to pin me down. I love to watch ufc but I think there is know way I could keep my cool in the guard. If I did I wouldn't be able to pass the drug test afterwards.

 

[elwood_blue]

I have very lucid, terrifying nightmares every couple of months about these. Unfortunately in my dreams they are about the size of the ones you could see in the old Heavy Metal comics.

 

[wildcatadam6]

Heights, but only if I'm looking over a ledge or open staircase/stairwell like you might see in a hospital. If I'm enclosed (top of Eiffel Tower or that observation deck at Sears Tower), I'm fine.