What is your phobia?

twinkles said:
going up a mountain dont bother me too much but coming back down i am scared to death
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That makes sense. It's more dangerous to go down. That goes for climbing and driving.
 

Trade said:
I haven't seen one of those for a while, but I know what you mean.

They remind me of that crop duster scene in North by Northwest.

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That crop duster thing was the dumbest thing I have ever seen for a long time.

So dumb. As if the crop duster was going to go low enough to hit him. All he had to do was lie down on the other side of that fence behind him when it was approaching instead of running.
 
Does this one work better for you, Camper6?

WARNING: The squeamish should not watch this.

 

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Trade said:
We got a rat in our house one time. I think it got in through the dryer vent because the dryer hose had come loose from it and that floppy door on the outside had broken off. I chased it all over the house. That thing was amazingly fast and even more amazing in its jumping ability. It cleared an entire couch in a single bound. I finally cornered it in the kitchen. It was trying to squeeze into this tiny crack in the woodwork but it couldn't make it. I had picked up a wooden canoe paddle to chase it with and I just kept jabbing it with that until it was dead. When I had finished killing it I looked down and saw that I had peed my pants. Pretty embarrassing.

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So....that's where that saying came from: "Scared the piss outta me."
 
Easy one

Snakes

Any

I don’t know whether it’s a phobia, or hate, or just out and out fear

They don’t appear to have feelings, or maybe emotion
They’re prolly great poker players

But, yeah, it’s snakes

My friends, that have huge pet snakes, get a kick outa bringing them outa their cages and showing them to me…..’here, Agnes likes you’
I don’t scream or anything
I’ve learned to be quite stoic

But, inside, the willies is having its way with my innards

Thinking about it, maybe all scaly critters
Except maybe the gecko
They seem rather personable

But maybe that’s due to all those Geico commercials
(no, that ain’t a plug)
 
Gary O' said:
Easy one

Snakes

Any

I don’t know whether it’s a phobia, or hate, or just out and out fear

They don’t appear to have feelings, or maybe emotion
They’re prolly great poker players

But, yeah, it’s snakes

My friends, that have huge pet snakes, get a kick outa bringing them outa their cages and showing them to me…..’here, Agnes likes you’
I don’t scream or anything
I’ve learned to be quite stoic

But, inside, the willies is having its way with my innards

Thinking about it, maybe all scaly critters
Except maybe the gecko
They seem rather personable

But maybe that’s due to all those Geico commercials
(no, that ain’t a plug)
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My wife says a good snake is a dead snake!!
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I don't fancy being attacked by a shark but I wouldn't call it a phobia. Nevertheless, when I am in the ocean it takes me a while to settle down, relax and enjoy the swim.
 
I am afflicted with entomophobia.
Entomophobia is a specific phobia characterized by an excessive or unrealistic fear of one or more classes of insect, and classified as a phobia by the DSM-5.
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DSM-5 = DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, 5th edition.

It is debilitating at times. I've gotten somewhat better as I've gotten older, but a chance encounter with a creepy crawly can throw me into a crying panic.....and I am NOT an hysterical person under any other circumstances. I'm OK with moths, ladybugs and butterflies. I react negatively to everything else, sometimes severely.

It sounds funny, and it's OK to laugh because I laugh at it now, but I was once held captive, naked, in my bathroom for over an hour by a palmetto beetle (those extremely large bugs that look like cockroaches on steroids.) It was between me and the door and at one point I was curled up in the bottom of the shower, shivering and crying hysterically, but with my eyes glued to the thing in case it came towards me.

If I am surprised by a bug up close...I feel one crawling on me, or I open a cupboard or one gets into the car....my reaction is extreme. I will shake, cry, just freak out completely. I'm a bit better when I know one is there, like if I'm warned that there's a bug or I'm expecting one because of the circumstances. Even then though, sometimes it's difficult. When the kids were younger I took them to a local Science center. Part of one of the displays were cases filled with live bugs of different kinds, ranged on one side of a long walkway. It took everything I had not to become hysterical and to be able to walk past them, hugging the wall as close as I could get to it, so that I could leave the building.

My kids are all very understanding. It's happened more than once that one of them has noticed a bug behind me, or even on me, and just taken control of the situation in a way that gets me out of the way quickly. It's a testament to my unconditional trust in them that when they get THAT tone in their voice, when they say "Mom? Mom ok so I just want you to stand very still now OK..." Or "Mom I need you to just look at me, don't look anywhere else just right at me OK?" Or "Hey Mom, walk very quickly towards me/out the door/away from there please." Anything like that...I'm sure you get the idea. I'll always freeze for just an instant, and then get very compliant and do exactly what they say. My gratitude for their understanding knows no bounds. They've all seen their strong, capable and no-nonsense mother reduced to a shuddering pile of grief and shaking from a chance encounter with a bug, so they get it.

On the other hand, I have zero problems with snakes, rats, rodents etc. Have had them all as pets at one time or another. Owned a 6 foot boa for a few years, he'd hang around my neck when I did dishes and swish in and out of the soap suds for fun :)

Go figure, right?
 
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