What is your Phobia?

[Jules]

Thunder

Terrified me when i was a child, i'm not as bad now but it will still get my heart racing and my palms sweaty and i try to hide it from my daughter, so she doesnt go the same way.

I know it cant hurt me, its the lightning that would be the dangerous one but the lightning doesnt bother me, that just prepares me for the thunder.

And moths, another childhood thing that has never left me.

Not a fan of any "creepy crawlies" but dont know if thats classed as a phobia or its just something you pick up on from other people as you grow up

And birds, anything flappy really lol

[babycakes]

Heights for me. My feet tingle even if it's viewed on telly. Its hard to explain because I haven't had a bad experience and used to jump down the stairs as a kid for fun!!!

[CathyW]

now please do not laugh but i really have a strange phobia.
pomegranates the thought of them cut open makes me want to throw. i cant even touch one.
and now they are a *super food* its even worse
and snakes a friend of mine her husband keeps snakes. and he came in with one when i was there, not good thing to do with some one who has a heart complaint.

[dandysmom]

I'd never laugh at anyone's phobia; it's not funny. We have some common one here: snakes, spiders, heights; also some unusual ones like polystyrene, feathers, and now pomegranates. Who knows what triggered them: they're real to us!

[CathyW]

with me the pomegranates stems back to when i was a kid at school. think i had one thrown at me. also dont like those big melons with all them seeds

[janey83]

Boys mum, Thats like my phobia, lots of little things clustered together! Ughhhh! When I did my first pumpkin I had the shock of my life when I saw all those seeds together ewwwwwww. *SHIVERS*

I have to say I absolutely love snakes lol. My mum also hates them, I kept saying im gonna get one as a pet after I did my animal care course lol, she was scared.

I dont mind spiders either, as long as i use a glass and a piece of paper to get rid of them im fine lol.

[Tink]

being burned alive and drowning to death.
or clowns or anything dressed up in a big costume like the mickey mouse at disneyland

[yola]

Tink, I can relate to your fear of costumes. I don't fear them, but I find puppets, clowns and the types of costumes you mention (the ones with the big heads) most unnerving.

My setp-daugther has a serious horror of clowns, and again, it's one of those quite rational (in my opinion) phobias.

My fear stems from (so I've been told - and I think I have a vague recollection of it) when I was about 3 and waiting to cross a road with my Mum. A pigeon's tail was run over by a car infront of us - the bird was OK but the feathers flew all over me. I guess it has such an impact that feathers, birds and - to a lesser extent - anything fluttery like butterflies, I try to avoid.

[angieh]

I was talking to a fellow Italian student this morning as part of an exercise .... "va in piscina?" "do you go to the swimming pool?". She said that she did not, neither did she go near the sea - she has a phobia of water and tried taking swimming lessons to cure herself, but to no good. She says that she thinks that she had a frightening experience as a child, but cannot remember it.

Do you think that individual's phobias are triggered when we are very young, but because it is so scary for us, we forget what caused it?

[janey83]

Originally Posted by angieh

Do you think that individual's phobias are triggered when we are very young, but because it is so scary for us, we forget what caused it?

Hmmm maybe!

I just remembered something else (its not nesseserily a phobia... I dont think!) but I HATE any Wasps or Bees, I know Bees dont harm you but its the noise, it makes me freeze up.
When I was about 6 I had my hands up holding the washing line for some strange reason, then when I put my arms down a Wasp was under my arm and it stung me. Ive only been scared of them more in the last 5 years.
Last year I was lying on the bed with my mum n all of a sudden I jumped n just froze lying down, my mum said whats up? as she thought Id had a fit!!! I said there's a wasp in the room... A few minutes later I realised it was a lawnmower out side!!! Lol it was quite funny.