CONFESS!!!!!! What are your Phobias?

[LynneSin]

If you don't know the name of it you can look it up on this extensive list of Phobias

http://www.phobialist.com/reverse.html#A-

Mine don't seem to be on the list which is crowded elevators and pickles.

But I can definately say we all have Bushophobia (A fear of Bushes).

[Punkingal]

1. Arachnophobia....

I can't abide spiders. They have ALL THOSE LEGS!

[grannylib]

8. I am with you there - and if it has less than or more than 8 legs then I

am OK with it.
I also have kind of a fear of answering the phone/checking mail...just in case it's bad news.

[Kamika]

9. same

I panic around spiders.. doesn't matter how big they are..

Whomever I marry will have to kill alot :p

About heights.. I'm not scared but I feel REALLY uncomfortable looking down

[Rainbowreflect]

15. Me too, on the spiders.

Also Claustrophobia, I freak out in small closed in spaces.

[scarlet_owl]

55. Another vote for spiders.

I go into hysterics when I see spiders. It's embarrassing when it happens in public. I'm also terrified of clowns.

[BigDaddyLove]

63. Me too.

I just can't get over my aversion to spiders.

[Cuban_Liberal]

64. Another spider vote.

:scared:

[TEXASYANKEE]

65. Yup!

Definitely my #1 phobia. Eeks!

[waterman]

2. Lightning - I'm kind of allergic to it

[kmla]

3. Well. Where should I start.

Fear of water (Technically hydrophobia, but not to be confused w/ rabies).
Claustrophobia.
Acrophobia.
Taphephobia.
Ophidiophobia.

That's all for now, I'm afraid...

[bratcatinok]

4. I can't pronounce it

Lilapsophobia - fear of tornadoes and hurricanes. I'm not all that afraid of hurricanes except they can spawn tornadoes. I hate tornadoes.

I'm much better now than I used to be since I used to be afraid every thunderstorm was going to contain a tornado.

My phobia came about when I was 5 and a tornado hit Dallas. My Mom put us under the bed and told us not to breath or move. We could hear the noise of the tornado as it passed overhead. After it was all over I asked my Mom why she turned dinner off and she told me it was because tornado's could see, smell, and hear. As an adult I knew that wasn't true but the little kid in me never got the message.

I understand why my Mom said what she did since she wanted to impress on us the importance of minding her when it was really important but it has created a life time fear.

[bearfan454]

5. My phobia is driving over very high bridges over water.

Like the ones in Lake Charles, La and the one over Lake Superior dividing Wisconsin and Minnesota. I took my son fishing 3 times in Canada back in the day. When Mrs bearfan and I went to visit my parents in Fla 3 years ago, when we got to the bridge I had to turn off the radio and really concentrate and tell her no talking for 10 minutes please honey. Weird I know, but it bothers me.

[jus_the_facts]

16. Ooooo.....that bridge in Lake Charles scared the hell outta me too...

.....the Pontchartrain Causeway is one scary motha too! :scared:

[mlawson]

69. Ther is one at Brunswick, GA, you wouldn't like.

On Hwy 17, heading from St Simon's Isalnd to Jax. I did okay, but it had my full attention. Very high, you can see it from miles away.

[MaineDem]

74. Me too! Gephyrophobia

I break out in a cold sweat just seeing a bridge.

And it doesn't even have to be high.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Pyrophobia...I incessantly check the stover burners, coffee pot,

electrical appliances et al before going to bed at night. Drives my husband batty. But I lived in a mobile home once upon a time. I happened to come home early from work one night and my husband and daughter were sleeping and a little blaze had started up caused by the heating tape. I shudder to think if I had to stay late at work that night. :scared:

[Az]

26. Thats not necissarily a phobia

Do you have to do it repeatedly or will one pass suffice.
If mutliple passes are required it sounds more like an obsessive compulsive disorder. It is lilely treatable. It is caused by the way the brain keeps track of things. It sets flags for tasks it has to do. In this particular disorder the flags are not checked and the need to redo the task becomes compulsive.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. Nope. It's a phobia..No need to recheck. Just have to make sure they

are checked every night. :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

58. Number 1 is off, Number 2 is off, ALL THE ELEMENTS ARE OFF!

Sorry. Kids in the Hall moment.

[ScreamingMeemie]

60. This is what my husband follows me around saying...funny that

you said that. :hi:

[waylon]

7. Work o phobia!

[finecraft]

10. Ornithophobia - And it's not from the movie.....

I have been attacked by numerous birds:
Mockingbird, Chicken, Goose, Gull, Pigeon, Blackbird, Blue Jay, Duck, etc. The most vicious was a blackbird that attacked me, got tangled in my hair, and pecked the crap out of my head. I needed 12 stitches to repair the damage. Birds and I just don't get along.

[Droopy]

11. Acrophobia

The fear of heights.

[xultar]

12. Lawn Furniture! n/t

[quispquake]

13. Clowns!!!

They scare the hell out of me!!!

Also, mannequins freak me out...

And, yes, I know, I'm strange...

[Westegg]

22. Who was it who said...

"There's nothing more terrifying than a clown in the moonlight"? Was it Lon Chaney? Someone groovy like that. If anyone knows, please mention it. Thanks!

[quispquake]

27. It was indeed Lon Chaney Sr.

"There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight".

Amen!

[Westegg]

29. Thank you! I've been trying to remember for years!

Man, I love DU. Yinz guys is smart, 'n 'at...

[Bertha Venation]

14. mine's not on the list

I am afraid of my boss.

[indigo32]

17. I can't find it on the list

or explain it... but I can't abide loud "bangs"
such as from fireworks or a gun shot...
Even the thought of the sound of a real gun firing around me (Never mind at me) panics me sometimes.

[GOPisEvil]

18. Tapheophobia - fear of being buried alive

:scared:

[Loonman]

19. Pickles?

O------kay.

[LynneSin]

31. I will return meals that have pickles on them

Seriously I hate them with a passion. I don't want to touch them, I don't want to smell them and I don't want their nasty juices getting all over my meal.

[populistmom]

20. I don't have any really

I don't really like things like insects I suppose, but they don't scare me either.
I guess you could say I'm cautious at times, but still reasonably adventurous. No phobias anyway.

[Anaxamander]

21. Thalassophobia...

...fear of the sea. I almost drowned in the Gulf of Mexico when I was seven years old. It fucked me up.

[Az]

23. Dentophobia and Aichmophobia

Dentists and Needles. Eesh. I can watch decapitations, open heart surgery, a Bush speech, but if that needle comes out my fiancee has to cover my eyes quick or the armrest gets ripped off. Dentists have to gas me into oblivion before they can even get near me. Toss in a complete immunity to novacane and a Dentist in prison for drugging, kidnapping, and sexually assaulting a patient and I its fair to say I am pretty wigged out about Dentists.

[GOPisEvil]

24. Oh yeah...needles! Yikes!

The one time I watched blood being drawn was when I was doped up on morphine. :D

[woofless]

25. Heights

and particularly edges. I cannot even approach a cliff or the edge of a roof on a tall building. Even gets me when I see it on TV. Sheesh.

[bif]

38. Same here except...

I don't mind being up high as in a plane or a building. I just don't like being out in the open up high--where I can jump. Anything over about 50 feet scares the crap outta me.

[terrya]

28. A fear of snakes.

I hate snakes. I loathe them.

If I was ever bitten by a poisonous snake, it wouldn't matter. Because I'd be dead of a heart attack before the poison could do its work.

I have a BAD case of Bushophobia, however.

Terry

[terrya]

Mine would be snakephobia.

That's easy to remember.

:-)

Terry

[Dulcinea]

59. I'm terrified of snakes.

And I have Cheneyophobia. He seriously creeps me out.

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[GOPisEvil]

32. GrovelBotophobia!

Fear of not donating to DU. :D

[jus_the_facts]

35. heeheehee....

....you're such a maniac! :D :loveya:

[LynneSin]

36. I thought that was a fear of...

a GrovelBot Bopping you on the head after 30 posts?

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

40. No, it's a fear of getting temporarily banned for spamming calling him out

:P

[LynneSin]

48. Spamming Calling?

You should be banned for that bad use of grammer

:eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

49. You should be banned for misspelling grammAr!

:P

[left_wing_literati]

33. cockroaches

Comes from growing up in TX -- you know, the kind of roaches that Raid doesn't kill...<shudder>

[arwalden]

34. Drowning, Burning To Death In A Car, Crashing In A Jet

[LosinIt]

37. Heights

but I love rollercoasters where you are securely fastened, not the old wooden open car kind. Does this make sense?

[VelmaD]

39. It's not heights, and not falling...

that I'm afraid of...it's that sudden stop when you hit the ground.

[Asteroid]

41. Bushaphobia

It's fear of all Bush family members. It can really be quite terrifying. Everytime I see a Bush speak, or otherwise appear in front of the camera I get cold sweats. I also for some reason begin to mispronounce simple words, and speak incoherently. Just horrible.

[VOX]

42. Claustrophobia -- closed in, tight spaces, where choices get narrow...

Not just tight physical spaces, but situations where your physical space and choices are impacted -- for example, being in a dentist's chair (I'm excluding any fear of pain here, as that doesn't bother me). You've literally got someone in your face, and your choices are narrowed -- if you get up to leave, the work isn't finished, you'll just have to come back.

A airplane is hellish since it's a cramped, crowed space, and your choices are *really* cut down -- you can just say, Hey, stop this thing, I've had enough. You sealed in for the duration of the ride, like it or not.

Damn, my palms are sweating just typing this!

[Lizz612]

62. I have a variation of that.

Planes don't scare me, we're moving, we're going somewhere. Neither do few choices. But enclosed spaces no matter their size, oy man, get me OUT! Rooms with only one door and no windows, or only windows above the reach of fire ladders. If am stuck in one location, if there is no movement, that gets me freaked OUT! I need escape route OUT of a building.
It doesn't get to me much, but I had a class in high school in a basement and the room had ONE DOOR and thats IT! I had to sit near the door, I had to!

My muscles are all tensed up!

[hyphenate]

43. A couple

The main one being entomophobia--don't think I'd ever get too close to doing the Kate Capshaw scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Haven't seen several films because of the bugs. <shiver>

I'm also not completely fond of confined spaces (claustrophobia) and drowning (don't know).

[SiobhanClancy]

45. Spheksophobia....

Fear of wasps. The mere sight of one makes my blood run cold.

[Asteroid]

46. Ablutophobia

Does anybody have this fear of constant washing or bathing. This would really suck if you had this phobia.

I sometimes have a fear of being in tall buildings, gee I wonder where that comes from. Also the fear running out of oxygen. Ok yes I know that's odd. So I am odd.

[geniph]

47. Telephoniphobia

seriously, having to talk on the phone can send me into a panic attack. I don't really know why, but it's a pain in the ass.

The only other thing I'm phobic about is the imposition of a theocratic oligarchy.

[ohiosmith]

50. Phobiathreadaphobia: The fear of threads about phobias.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

51. Acrophobia, Nyctophobia and Arachnophobia

Heights, the dark, and spiders. Heights have gotten better over the years, but they still freak me out. Spiders are just creepy. What are they here for anyway? And the dark. I'm ok in a locked room, but outside, I have to have a flashlight or someone with me or I'm totally petrified. On Edit: I forgot Clowns really creep me out.
Duckie

[corporatewhore]

52. well certain types of fish in fish tanks creep me out cause i can"feel"

them looking at me

[dawn]

53. Here's mine:

Aichmophobia - needles

Photoaugliaphobia - a fear of glaring lights. Although mine is more a fear of floursecent lights, I hate lights that are too bright. They give me headaches.

Stenophobia - Narrow things or places


Strangely, they didn't list other fears of mine: being stuck in a space with no windows (not the same as claustrophobia), narrow-minded people, and office cubicles. (ok, the last one is a joke, but I still dislike them.)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

54. Spheksophobic here...

I don't have a problem with bees; but wasps and hornets send my pulse racing. :scared:

[RebelOne]

56. Crabs. I'm terrified of live crabs.

But I'll eat the dead ones on my plate.

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. Myrmecophobia

I bleeping HATE ants!!

I got pushed into a nest of the huge fat red ones when I was a tot, and the sensation of having that sensation on me...millions of tiny little feet freaks me out to this day.

That, and I remember having my legs soaked in bleach to relieve the pain.

When I get near ants, I get chills and nausea, start sweating, and have to get away from the nest. Sometimes it rather sucks being a gardener in Texas, where fire ants are a daily hazard!

[jimbo fett]

61. BUGS! Any kind of bug. I have to ask my wife to kill a bug in our house.

[mvd]

66. Besides Bushophobia

- a fear of neo-cons

- a fear of bees and mosquitos

- a fear of the paranormal

- a fear of total darkness (I leave my satellite radio on while I sleep)

[mvd]

68. I take some of that back

I want to fight Bush and the neo-cons, so I can't really put them as phobias. It's more of a disgust, like I can't watch or listen to Bush and the neo-cons on TV or radio.

[Pithlet]

67. Spiders

There are other things that I'm afraid of, or creep me out, but with spiders it is a full blown phobia. I really need to seek help; it's that bad. I shudder to think what would happen if I was driving, and a spider jumped on me. I'm always on the look out for them, wherever I am.

[onebigbadwulf]

70. Republiphobia...

fear of republicans...

Conservatophobia...fear of conservatives

Christianophobia... fear of christians...

Kerryphobia... fear of Kerry as president.

[Mattforclark]

71. Symmetry- Symmetrophobia.

Gah!!!! Symettry!

!!!

!!!

;)

[mlawson]

72. Hieghts, and chionophobia.

Which is fear of snow. That is, being snowbound alone, with the power out. And that could happen tonight; we are to get 3-6" here, which is enough to knock out our '3rd world' power grid. Not happy, right now, but I do have a case of beer ready.

[DEM FAN]

73. Here Is Mine. Eremophobia.

;-)

[KamaAina]

75. Arbustophobia

a fancier way of saying "Bushophobia" :-)