I fricken hate spiders!!!!! I can tolerate them, but they freak me out initially. however, if it's a big fluffy one like a full grown wolf spider then I'll likely be too nervous to go after it (unless it's out in the open where I can see it clearly)
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What are your phobias?
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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Impulsive people with guns.
Very understandable
- Mildly claustrophobic.
- Mild fear of heights
- Mild fear of heights
I have a mild fear of crossing bridges. Actually I'm not afraid of crossing a bridge, but I'd be afraid if the bridge started collapsing beneath me.
I also have a mild fear of ships, or at least sinking ships. It would be pretty scary being on a submarine at hull crush depth.
I also have a mild fear of ships, or at least sinking ships. It would be pretty scary being on a submarine at hull crush depth.
Nimos
Well-Known Member
Well, you answered the question for me.
I really hate them as well, they are some sneaky ********
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Dead animals, especially decaying ones.
We Never Know
No Slack
Suffering when dying. I want to go peacefully in my sleep or quick and instant.
I'm the opposite... I'd prefer to go out slowly and aware.
I don't want to die at another's hands, though.
JDMS
Academic Workhorse
Terminally ill people/animals I think as an extension of a fear of loss or perhaps death (not my death though). I struggle to visit family members that are dying, and I struggle to care for my animals when they are sick. My heart pounds, I get cold sweats, etc. Fear response. I do my best to ignore the feelings though, because the moment isn't about me, and my fear is just a feeling. My family member deserves my support regardless.
It's a guilty fear for me
It's a guilty fear for me
Secret Chief
Veteran Member
That's rational; phobias are irrational - such as my fear of a pandemic of kale.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
-Snakes with feet
-Sharks with guns
-Revoltistanians with power
-Sharks with guns
-Revoltistanians with power
an anarchist
Your local loco.
I have social phobia, but working in a public place this past year and anxiety meds have been very helpful [^:
I seemed to have had social phobia for quite some time but that seems to have vanished over the last few decades. I don't think I have any other phobias as to heights, small spaces, water and such, or as to towards any creatures (the UK has little to fear in that regard), although I suppose my outdoor activities must have helped in some of these, since I'm sure I wasn't born to accept these naturally without gradually exposing myself to them - the heights and small spaces. Free-diving a cave sump has probably been the greatest fear I had to overcome - and hardly a phobia, given the numbers who die doing so.
Heights is not the problem, it's depths that instill fear, many people get this wrong.
Think about it
I don't mind the depths.
Being there is calming.
Looking up to heights is ok, being at a great height is ok if you cannot see down. Its seeing down to the depths that gets the glutamate pumping
That's the problem with heights,
ie, awareness of the height.
Or awareness of the depth below you