Irrational fears and phobias

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QuickSilver

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Do you have any? I have three

1. Riding in a car going up a steep hill... I fear rolling backward or the front of the car flipping backward


2. The floor in a room collapsing due to too many people or too heavy furnishings


3. The plane I am riding in crashing due to too many fat people on it..

Your turn... lol!!
 

I have a friend who is deadly scared of birds, especially when they flap their wings.

I am mildly claustrophobic and like wide open spaces.
 

I have developed a fear of high bridges. Never bothered me when I was younger but now is more pronounced. I am not at the point where it debilitates me,but I think it will eventually.
 
I don't like going over bridges. I can't think of anything worse than getting trapped in a car underwater. I also hate wearing a seat belt in a car. I know all the lives they save but I still feel trapped.
 
Christmas.

When I was younger (30s and 40s, not a child) I would get suicidal. I still get the cold sweatsand the mortal dreads, and lie awake if I wake up at night.
 
Centipedes.

The really fast kind. I understand completely that with one quick and well placed foot stomp or rolled magazine swat, obliteration would be complete and swift. But...I.Just.Run
 
The MRI machine. The next time they can just let me die , but I'm NOT going in an MRI


The ocean. I can remember a neighbor asking my dad " Why doesn't she go swimming?" and my dad said " She walks out there and every time seaweed touches her she runs screaming back towards the sand." heehee


Reptiles and many amphibians
Mice & rats
heights
large crowds- I'm not sure if I'm afraid of huge crowds or just very uncomfortable
 
I have a terrible fear of heights. Love airplane travel. Get on a 10 FT step ladder and I'm scared to death. Have worked many years underground. Have been in excavations 55 and 60 FT deep. Has never bothered me. Many more people killed in trench cave-ins than falling off a ladder.

Can't swim. Never had the opportunity to learn. Have worked around deep water basins for years. Always have some fear of falling into a water basin in a water treatment plant or wastewater treatment plant. Guess drowning in sewage would be a pretty ugly way to go. I pity the mortician!!!!

Wife is claustrophobic. Sometimes she would rather take stairs than an elevator due to the elevator's close quarters. I've crawled down long lengths of pipe that were barely large enough to pull myself through and never had a claustrophobia issue.

The OP mentioned a fear of going uphill in a vehicle. I've operated construction equipment on severe slopes and driven my 4WD trucks in places some would deem unsafe. Amazing how different minds have different phobias.
 
Yeah, that's another one. It's *open* heights with me, now that it has been mentioned a few times. I prefer window seats and love to look down from an airplane; I spent a lot of my formative years nestled in the highest branches of the best climbing trees. If I had better knees I would probably still trust a tree :) But now, any platform, bridge, pathway, look-out, rooftop, railing that is open air. Fuggedaboutit.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I can't think of anything worse than getting trapped in a car underwater.
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Ugh. Odd that you would mention this. We just lost a young woman here yesterday to exactly that. Her car went off the road late Thursday night on her way home from work and landed upside down in the lake. The CHP website at first declared it a fatality but I guess after CPR they detected a pulse and transported her to the hospital. But she passed away yesterday. 31 years old and just got married in May. Wasn`t until late last night that I found out she worked at our favorite restaurant. We have the same waiter every week (a guy) and there rarely are two servers so I`m thinking she must have worked in the kitchen. So sad.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Ugh. Odd that you would mention this. We just lost a young woman here yesterday to exactly that. Her car went off the road late Thursday night on her way home from work and landed upside down in the lake. The CHP website at first declared it a fatality but I guess after CPR they detected a pulse and transported her to the hospital. But she passed away yesterday. 31 years old and just got married in May. Wasn`t until late last night that I found out she worked at our favorite restaurant. We have the same waiter every week (a guy) and there rarely are two servers so I`m thinking she must have worked in the kitchen. So sad.
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That is terrible. I got the chills reading your post. Once in awhile a movie shows a car upside down in water or being pulled out. I can't watch.
 
I have had a fear of escalators since I was a young child and one ate my boot and tried to make a meal out of me!

Since I've stopped working I have panic attacks in certain driving situations, elevated highways, steep hills, etc...
 
Aunt Bea said:
I have had a fear of escalators since I was a young child and one ate my boot and tried to make a meal out of me!

Since I've stopped working I have panic attacks in certain driving situations, elevated highways, steep hills, etc...
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Oh yes escalators! I forgot about that. They are scary.
 
I fear serial killers. Especially the "toolbox" kind. It's not likely to ever happen but I'm so scared sometimes I wake in a sweat from bad dreams over it.
 
I fear snakes, even small ones. It's irrational but I can't help it,
I dislike them with a passion.
My second phobia is needles, especially at the dentist office.
I don't like elevators but do take them if I have to.
 
Small confined places, especially elevators. When I'm in a room full of people, I have to sit on the row end (in case I need to exit fast). Some of this is because of my physical problems (3 operations on the "you know what"), so my blatter is sensitive. But its better now. But I still have to sit at end of the row. MRI's don't bother me if they play the music I like because I use my imagination to project myself to other places when it plays. Strange.
 
I am afraid of mice and all other rodents. I am also afraid of birds and bats if they are flying around in buildings. I am afraid of venomous snakes.

My other fears all have to do with an overactive imagination. When we first moved to the country after having lived in urban areas all my life, I was afraid a killer would come out of the woods and break into our house. I felt so isolated, and knew that it takes the state police an hour to get here after they are called. Now I'm used to it, and feel safe, but it took 3 years to get to this point.
 
WheatenLover said:
I am afraid of mice and all other rodents. I am also afraid of birds and bats if they are flying around in buildings. I am afraid of venomous snakes.

My other fears all have to do with an overactive imagination. When we first moved to the country after having lived in urban areas all my life, I was afraid a killer would come out of the woods and break into our house. I felt so isolated, and knew that it takes the state police an hour to get here after they are called. Now I'm used to it, and feel safe, but it took 3 years to get to this point.
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My ex is a city boy. He too seemed afraid of the country. I am a country girl. One day we were in the woods and he said " Someone could kill us out here and no one would hear us scream." My answer was " As opposed to the city where they hear you scream and don't do anything to help you?" LOL We both had different ideas :D
 
Warrigal said:
My most irrational fear is winning the lottery.
For that reason I never buy lottery tickets or Powerball or Lotto etc.
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I have NEVER not once bought a lotto ticket because I have always thought I would win if I did. Maybe you can understand my insanity hahahahaha
 
I get the serious creeps when I'm stopped under an overpass at a stoplight or in backed up traffic. I have this irrational fear that the overpass above is going to fall.
 

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