What is your phobia?

Olivia

Olivia

Well-known Member
Location
Hawaii
One of my phobias is being on a height without hand rails or a guard rail between yourself and the drop below.
 

heights, even with a handrail or Guard or even a floor to ceiling window is guaranteed to make me feel very ill ... a..yet it doesn't bother me to fly...but for a long time I used to have to climb the stairs of the plane last because I was so scared to just get to the top I would nearly faint, but no problem now with that ..


I also detest Ants, and woodlice....
 
I'm terrified of escalators!


giphy.gif
 
Deep ocean water, especially when land is not visible. I think I went down on the Titanic in a previous life. I can't watch shows like Deadliest Catch; those fishermen in those churning sea waters...creepy.
 
IKE said:
I don't like really cramped places and I will no longer fly.....maybe the two are related.

View attachment 57957
Click to expand...

I can not handle being in close proximity to other people especially in cramped quarters like elevators, airplanes, subways,buses, trains , cars, taxis etc.
All my phobias are people related. I’m not afraid of any animals or natural disasters. Just people.
 
Ever been on a cramped elevator or crowded bus with people who have bad BO?
EEEWWW :yuk:

(not that there is good BO but sometimes it gags/suffocates)
 
I lived in Central Florida most of my life and I drove over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge many times but it always gave me the creeps. Especially at the top where you're 150 feet above the water and you leave the concrete and have to drive over that metal grating. Back in 1980 a ship hit it and knocked a big chunk of it down. For a number of years after that they left the old bridge up as a fishing pier and I used to take my kids out there to fish. Just on the lower part, They had the high part fenced off. But it wasn't that hard to climb over. So one night while we were fishing I climbed over that fence and walked up the hill or grade whatever you call it towards the top. This was on the north side. At the very top there was about 50 feet of that metal grating sticking out. You can sort of see it in this picture I got off the net.

127584-M.jpg


My plan was to walk partway out on that and then crawl to rest of the way out and peer over the edge while laying in the prone position. But when I got there to the edge of the grating and looked down at the water, it was a bright moonlit night, 150 feet below, which seemed to me like 5,000 feet below I could not even bring myself to step out on the metal part. So I figured I'd just get down on my hands and knees and crawl out onto it. I made it about 5 feet out and couldn't hack it any more. There was no way I was going to make it out to the edge. I backed up and walked back to the low part.

 
Heights, crazy people with guns, things that go bump in the night.

I don't know if I'm afraid of rats, snakes and roaches or if I merely detest them, but I'd just as soon never see any of those again in this lifetime.
 
C'est Moi said:
Deep ocean water, especially when land is not visible. I think I went down on the Titanic in a previous life. I can't watch shows like Deadliest Catch; those fishermen in those churning sea waters...creepy.
Click to expand...

I also have a fear of being in the Ocean. Years ago in 1955 my Aunt and her family were going to Italy. My Dad drove them to New York to get on the ship. We all went to see them off. I was about 9yrs old.I remember looking over the railing when we were on the ship and I couldn't believe how much boat there was before it even reached the water and couldn't imagine how deep the ocean must be. A year later in 1956 the ship collided with another ship and eventually sunk. People were killed and I don't think they were ever able to raise it from the bottom of the ocean. The ship was the Andrea Doria.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top