Phobias

[D-K]

 

No actually, there was a girl who got her hair stuck in there, I didn't see what happened because my mom put her hand over my eyes, but I saw what she looked like after when my mom ran over the help/comfort her.

 

That image ain't never going away. *shudders*

That shit was messed up. Seriously messed up.

Edited December 30, 2010 by D-K

[CorgiShinobi]

I have a phobia when it comes to the aforementioned dressings and pickles now.

I have the woman just for you, courtesy of Maury.

 

 

As for me, I use to be afraid of the VCR as a five-year-old because I thought the machine would blow up when it would which the end of the VHS tape. Like, the machine would try to keep playing, gears would grind and KA-BOOM!

 

That was then, and now I would say the only thing I have a phobia (of sorts) to is large crowds. Most of the time I'm just uncomfortable in large crowds. However, when everyone is crowded together, like say an underground dance party, I begin to get nervous and fear if I'm going to ever make it out. Once had two large groups of people squish me and a few others pretty hard.

 

EDIT: Oh, actually when I was a kid I also was afraid of choking. I wasn't use to pills and I thought it was insane to swallow anything you didn't chew. It wasn't until the reality I could die if I didn't take some pills that got me to swallow medication. However, I became conscious of what I would swallow.

 

Now? I practically inhale my food. A couple months ago I almost choked on the driest burger, but I got past it later that night.

Edited December 30, 2010 by Atomsk88

[Mister Jack]

This probably doesn't count as an actual phobia but I am unnerved by the whole energy crisis thing.

[staySICK]

ITT: Maurophobes

 

 

The Results Are In...!

[staySICK]

I want to travel, we're kind of hoping to move out of the country this year or in the near future.

 

But I really don't want to fly. Not out of fear, because I don't mind heights and I was in a small deathtrap plane before and really enjoyed it, but out of annoyances.

 

The TSA and the stupid rules. Getting groped or noods without my permission. Those, and the fact that my life and the lives of my fellow passengers are in the hands of someone who is probably on foodstamps and possibly exhausted from long hours and little pay.

[D-K]

Actually such a fear is not entirely unfounded. It's actually a false statistic that eliminates human error as probable cause and even entirely as a variable. Nobody also ever mentions the chances of survival v say, car crashes.

 

Lastly, there are tons of transportation methods that are statistically safer, such as bicycles, trains, scooters, or those things fat and old people ride.. I think they're called rascals or something. In short, "airplanes are the safest way to travel" is a false/manipulated statistic mixed with pr.

 

Having said that, I only dislike flying for the terminal waiting and the ear-popping. I like the shopping though.

[docsfox]

Deep water. I can swim a little bit; enough to go from end to end in a pool, but deep water man...can't even see the bottom. I'm not afraid of anything in the ocean really aside from bumping into a jellyfish it's the deep water. If the water is deeper than my height I don't want to be there!

[HotChops]

What's to discuss? I posted the video. Kittens were brought out. She screamed and ran. I don't see much room for interpretation.

 

What I'm trying to say is that it is all an act.

 

 

Well that's always a possibility, but I'm not one to underestimate the lows people sink to on daytime talk shows, especially Springer.

 

With "reality shows" you never know how much is real or bullshit, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that some phobias will send a person running -- even if it's a kitten phobia.

 

That's why I was trying to point out the difference between fears and phobias earlier. In regards to my own phobia, I know that it's irrational. There's nothing to be afraid of logically, but when I get into the situation in question it instantly triggers a fight-or-flight response in my lower brain.

 

And it's basically ruined my life. I deal with it every day and it gets worse with age.

 

That's why I don't tell people what it is, because most people just laugh. They don't get how bad it is. Imagine how hard your life would be if your sympathetic nervous system went on high alert every time you saw a cat, pickle, mailbox, or some other common, everyday item or phenomenon. Now imagine that only one in thirty doctors know of the phobia's existence. Imagine being unable to get ADA accommodation. Imagine dropping out of school and not being able to tell people why.

 

Yeah. Phobias can really suck ass.

[Zuzela]

Severed limbs/heads: As in, even a jokey fake arm (like Anchorman) makes me feel physically sick.

 

Veins: Particularly on the wrist - I hate hate hate the idea of getting a papercut on my wrist. Belugh!

 

But I'd say my truly irrational phobia is stop-motion animation. It makes me feel dizzy and sick when I watch anything stop-motion made. I can just about stomach Wallace and Gromit, but then I still don't sleep well afterwards.

Edited January 7, 2011 by Zuzela

[deanb]

Oh my sister totally freaks out with manakins, stuffed animals etc. Dead/fake things that should be 'alive'

[Toshi]

At one point I feared Chucky, the killer doll. Then I realized I could probably curb stomp him, or hold him by his hair and just watch him swing at me until I felt like smashing him into a wall.