Phobias

Following on from something Emma mentioned in my Tasmania thread, and totally unsure if this has thread has been started before ...

But just wondering what do you have a phobia/fear of if anything? And can you explain why ...can you source it back to a bad experience during childhood etc? Do you ever cop slack from people for your phobia?

Is there anything you do in order to avoid whatever it is you don't like?

This shall be interesting



Edited by Mum2Lucas

LOL - BIRDS!

I won't open my windows further than a crack and have net curtains over my doors to stop birds flying in when the doors are open. I have full on anxiety attacks at the thought of them, and once made all three girls sit outside till Willie came home to get the bird out of te house after a baby one flew in. He thinks I'm insane and let the kids pat the bird once he caught it

I blame my fear on three things - a duck stole my icecream when I was 2, an ibis stole my bacon and egg pie when I was 5 and a magpie attacked my sister for her shiny hairclip when we were kids. Scarred for life (me I mean, not her, she thinks I'm insane too!)

Birds and Moths.

Birds come from being attacked by a magpie and silly me ran out on to the road to try and get away from it and was almost hit by a car. And at young age I was bitten by ducks.

Moths I don't know why but they just freak me out - Nigel thinks i'm nuts with this one.

I think I'm starting to get one of ICE!!! I just hate it with a vengenace, I hate how it sounds, how it looks, I even hate pictures of ice!!
And I can't go rummaging through the freezers at the supermarket, the noise of it just kills me!!

Edited by JadeC

I can understand the ice one, I partially have a fear of ice ...and I can't stand the sound of rummaging through frozen foods at the supermarket- much like fingernails down a blackboard.

I have A LOT of phobias, some worse than others. I'm scared if I mention them all you will think im a nutter LOL!

Firstly I'm very scared of the dark, so much so that I go to sleep with the light on and someone else has to turn it off once I'm asleep ...and I tend to wait until Lucas has woken up for a feed around 2am, then I bring him into my bed to co-sleep and have someone turn the light off on us, that way I don't have to get up in the dark during the night if he isn't settling! Argh. I totally believe in ghosts which I guess coincides with this fear ...

Spiders & creepy crawlies ...HUGE fear! Even a little money spider I jump & scream, although moths I'm absolutely fine with. I have had several wetas fall on me in my lifetime, very traumatic. They're so icky! Dad is the bug catcher around here although I'm loving my new insect zapper racket which can kill the buggers ...burn 'em to death.

Among the worst would be praying mantises, wetas, cockroaches, dandy long legs EWW, money spiders (the little ones scare the heck out of me as they are so unpredictable an jumpy) ...and CRICKETS! Anything that jumps & flies has to be BAD!

And lastly another huge phobia is polystyrene ...I refuse to unpack a box if I open it and see the stuff, gives me chills down my spine just thinking about it! The sound of it, the feel ....urgh no thanks!

Plenty more phobias I can think of but these would be my main ones LOL

Edited: terrible spelling, blame the lack of sleep.

Edited by Mum2Lucas

I hate spiders and creepy crawlies...not sure if I would call it a full on phobia though.

My big one is the ocean...fine in pools and crystal clear ocean water but if I can't see the bottom I tend to freeze up...have gotten a little better as I had to run into the ocean during boot camp but could still feel myself wanting to freeze and my chest tightening....horrible!!

Needles - ie blood tests injections etc.

I left the house in tears for the first blood test of the pregnancy, the only thing that made me want to get thru it was the fact our first scan was booked in for afterwards. I had planned on only needing 2 jabs throughtout the pregnancy, but ended up needing a lot more. (IV fluids twice, - 3 times if you count during the delivery, which they used a local for yet took 3 attempts for, and I said yes to a spinal because of required intervention)

It may have something to do with having a number of teeth removed when I was younger, (4 at 9, 4 at 9, and 4 at 13, not to mention my wisdom teeth at 20) but even before then I would shake and come over in a cold sweatand cry at the thought of needing to be jabbed

lol, ok here we go... pens and pencils and sharp things...specifically if anyone is holding them pointed towards their face or pointing towards me. ew ew ew, i can't stand it, all i can think of is "what ifr you slip, it will go in your eye" - probably comes from mum going on about it when i was a kid.

and spiders.... eeeewwww, spiders are a biggy for me. My brother keeps trying to convince me to go live in aussie, but i'm sorry, apart from having no want to actually go, i never could live there because of the creepies.

Today we went to the jet boats in wangavegas, and were sitting in the forest pretty much amongst the trees, with a big blanket over our legs, all of a sudden i saw something crawling up the blanket towards me, and OH MY GOD, it was the biggest fricken spider i have ever seen, very very very large, leg span easily as wide as the rim of a saucer.

I alerted mike to the fact without trying to freak out the kids cos they were sitting between us. And mike started flicking the blanket to try and get it off, it just kept crawling all over the blanket and by that time i was kinda of reservedly hysterical (Ie, freaking out inside, cool calm collected outside, just getting a bit more urgency in my voice - we WERE in public, and i didn't want to freak out the kids cos i'm big on them not inheriting my phobias) i finally said to him "just F...... stand on it!!" at which time he managed to flick it off the blanket finally to about a foot away from us, I made him get up and go over and stomp on it.

He told me once the kids were in bed that he was really surprised that i wasn't screaming... lol I WAS screaming on the inside.

Awww I didn't mind Anna!!

Yip birds freak me out too - but only when they are flying directly above me and I can hear their wings flapping    I was attacked by a magpie a few years ago (bloody awful things) so its only since then.

Ok this is a weird one - but when I was younger I was terrified of planes crashing into my house - to the point that when I heard one go overhead I would get the shakes literally. When I say younger I mean up until mid 20's.

I think it may have been because as a child I saw the Lockerbie disaster news coverage on T.V.