Do You Have Any Phobias?

[GhostVol]

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]

Try being a diabetic that needs insulin...and hates needles. I can inject myself, but I CANNOT look at the needle when I do it. I'm fine giving blood for the Red Cross and getting blood work done. Just don't let me see the needle. I gave blood at a blood drive in 2014 and the tech forgot to drape the needle with the gauze after she stuck me. I damn near passed out trying to avoid looking at my left arm until she got back.

Yeah, I wouldn't make a very good heroin addict...

 

[Tinker Dan]

Heights - was working on an antenna at the top of the mast on one of the ships I was stationed on. Hated heights already but my legs got away from me somehow and I thought I was headed off the platform. Had a safety harness on. But it took a long time for me to calm down enough to get myself composed enough to come down.

Snakes - no explanation needed.

Someone mentioned riding shotgun earlier.... that is getting hard for me.

 

[wildcatwelder_rivals]

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]

I am the same way, always have been. Blood doesn't bother me, hell I've cut myself a hundred times and it doesn't bother me, but when that needle goes in for blood work, it's over.

I've had many shots over the years, some of them deep inside my knee and painful, and I'm good, but I'd rather face almost anything than have blood drawn. Doesn't matter if I look away, talk to someone, etc., that feeling of that damn thing going in does something to cause exactly what you describe.

 

[bthaunert]

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.

Something similar for me. I hate being restricted in my movement. If I am lying in bed under the covers and my wife lies on top of the covers to my left and the dog on top of my covers to my right, I get really antsy and need one of them to move so I can move my body. I've gotten mush worse about it with age.

 

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

Someone mentioned riding shotgun earlier.... that is getting hard for me.

I also am having issues with that. On long road trips I never get any sleep because I don't trust anyone at the wheel. If I am not driving I have to at least be watching the road the whole time. The only time I feel like I can sleep is when I am at the wheel which is a bad thing. I usually will start off driving at night and get us at least 8 hours down the road before I feel like I am going to pass out and let the wife take over. I then become wide awake for the rest of the trip in the passenger seat.

 

[dgtatu01]

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.

I can't stand driving in the rain. Not sure if I'm afraid, it just seems so dangerous anymore especially at night. The road is like a freaking mirror with all the lights shining off of it and you can't see the lines at all. I can feel the tention I have built up when I get he after a drive like this.

 

[dgtatu01]

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.

I don't like heights either. Ledges terrify me and I get uneasy walking on metal grates. I hate the Eifel tower at Kings Island for this reason, the floor of the platform is that metal grating. Hate that. I don't even like walking over those vents for the storm drains in the sidewalk where you would only fall like a story or so. Ladders also, I hate climbing ladders. Drives me crazy if I have to get more than 2 rungs up.

 

[C_Cov]

Snakes for the most part. Freakin hate the things. And one weird one. It doesnt make sense at all. I have an irrational fear of getting sticky substances on me. Like Maple syrup or spilling a coke on me. Makes my skin crawl for some reason

 

[st-louie-blue]

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?

Yes, snakes.

 

[TriangleUKCat]

Suffocation. Should probably get checked for sleep apnea or something similar.

If I ever fall asleep on my back for longer than 2 minutes, I wake up with either a dream where I'm suffocating/having a hard time breathing (best case scenario) or those dreams along with sleep paralysis upon waking. Would not wish the latter on my worst enemy. Even though it happens somewhat frequently, I always panic at the outset like I have no idea what is happening.

In summary, it effing sucks.

 

[KopiKat]

unisex restrooms, circus clowns, large flight attendants, leaking basements, that my mom will talk about dad's prostate exam during Thanksgiving dinner again, people bold enough to drive 12 inches off my rear bumper at 80 mph but too stupid to go around on a wide open interstate, appliances failures (the deep freeze - what will happen if it starts to thaw on a two week vacation?), sudden visits from the in-laws, daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock, cab drivers in India, hotels in India, next month's colonoscopy, next month's colonoscopy results . . .

 

[funKYcat75]

After today, imma go on and add tooth extraction. That suuuuuucked.

 

[bradyjames]

buried alive

 

[C_Cov]

unisex restrooms, circus clowns, large flight attendants, leaking basements, that my mom will talk about dad's prostate exam during Thanksgiving dinner again, people bold enough to drive 12 inches off my rear bumper at 80 mph but too stupid to go around on a wide open interstate, appliances failures (the deep freeze - what will happen if it starts to thaw on a two week vacation?), sudden visits from the in-laws, daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock, cab drivers in India, hotels in India, next month's colonoscopy, next month's colonoscopy results . . .

I get sleep paralysis multiple times per week. Terrifying stuff

 

[UKserialkiller]

I get sleep paralysis multiple times per week. Terrifying stuff

I can watch you sleep?

 

[funKYcat75]

I can watch you sleep?

Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

 

[UKserialkiller]

Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Ya know Funky, hindsight is always 20/20

 

[weused2luvhim2]

Now I can probably add driving on 4 lane highways with no cables or concrete walls in the median. Coming from Bardstown yesterday I took the WK instead of 65 because of traffic and construction. I'm passing a semi in a driving rainstorm and here comes an explorer through the median. It clips the semi I'm passing I jam the brakes and cut back behind the truck. All I can say was it wasn't me or my grandson's day to go yesterday. Because it was just a matter of a couple of feet and a lucky reaction.

 

[pikespeak1]

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..

Is that you Charlie Sheen?

 

[pikespeak1]

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?

Homo and Islam.

 

[KopiKat]

Homo and Islam.

The best way to deal with these fears is to do what liberals do: promote and protect them both. Oddly, one will kill the other, making your choice of promotion and protection insanely stupid, but worthwhile entertainment to the phobic prone as eventually you will have only one thing to be afraid of. As a result of your failed experiment you may say this: it does not matter that I killed all the homos as a result of my protection of Islam because I was trying to do the right thing anyway. It works all the time.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

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.

You left off your dad not making his monthly payment for his Netflix bill. It could really scare a man if your counting on that 5 bucks

 

[wildcatadam6]

I don't like heights either. Ledges terrify me and I get uneasy walking on metal grates. I hate the Eifel tower at Kings Island for this reason, the floor of the platform is that metal grating. Hate that. I don't even like walking over those vents for the storm drains in the sidewalk where you would only fall like a story or so. Ladders also, I hate climbing ladders. Drives me crazy if I have to get more than 2 rungs up.

Suspension bridge walking to Reds' games from Covington ---> :scream:[sick]

 

[akers65]

Only thing I get paranoid about is using a weeder in the fall of the year. You can't tell that you've hit a yellow jacket nest till the first one stings you, then it's too late. With all the debris flying it's hard to see them before they attack.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Suspension bridge walking to Reds' games from Covington ---> :scream:[sick]

Same.

And my cheap *** parents always parked in Covington.

 

[RMorris33_rivals]

Trypophobia