Do you have a phobia?

[ShinyYoshi]

I noticed a thread where people wanted to talk about phobias.

Do you have a phobia? Is it minor or major? Do you have many triggers? Did it have an origin in your life? How do you cope with your phobia?

Just some questions to get the ball rolling!

 

[BlooBelle]

Yuss somebody granted my wish. c:
My biggest fear is probably needles. The word itself isn't a trigger, but if I see a needle, someone getting a shot or a person talks in detail about getting a needle I start to feel queasy. Whenever I have to get vaccinated I have massive panic attacks (although that might just be because I have really bad generalized anxiety. :c)
I also have a pretty big fear of worms; not like earthworms, but parasite worms. Someone even talking about a parasitic worm freaks me out. I have no idea how I got either of them, but they both suck.

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

I have a fear of being hurt, but I guess that's pretty normal.

 

[nammie]

idk if it'd be considered a phobia but I get really really disgusted by clusters of holes... I hate bugs too and I always imagine maggots or something crawling out of the holes when I see them ugh
my friends didnt understand it at first but after googling trypophobia they now do lol

 

[tobi!]

I used to have fear of mirrors but it wore off.

 

[unintentional]

I got a lot of phobias
The major ones are being in social places (it's social anxiety, but it makes my body react the same way as my emet.) and emetopbia (fear of throwing up.)
My social anxiety came from me being in fourth grade and getting made fun of being I couldn't pronounce my Rs. This resulted in me ot wanting to talk, which made me hate talking in front of people which grew into something I'm on medication for. The triggers are obvious.
My emet came from me getting food poisoning and p* at school, it looked like blood (due it coming from me eating french fries with ketchup and a sweet tea. The sweet tea was old and well, you know.) and hurt. My triggers are general nausea, anxiety nausea, seeing something p*, hearing p*, those kinda things.

[edt] I also have that fear of holes, I forgot what it's called.

 

[Dollie]

I don't have any triggers but insects in general freak me out. I also have minor trypophobia.

 

[DoctorGallifrey]

I somewhat have a fear of heights? I mean, I'm fine being up in tall buildings and in planes as long as I don't look down. If I look down then I start freaking out a bit.

 

[hulaburger]

I hate needles too! I've tried to desensitize myself to it as I've gotten older & now I can get my blood drawn without any major problems (as long as I don't look at it)
a friend wanted me to hold her hand while she donated blood once and I passed out ugh. something about the blood + the needle is a no

 

[Maruchan]

idk if it'd be considered a phobia but I get really really disgusted by clusters of holes...
my friends didnt understand it at first but after googling trypophobia they now do lol

(╬⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾ Д ⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾) *same here, same here...*

*shudder at the word / related images of trypophobia*

Need to grab a flamethrower to kill all those hole-y things with fire.
Yes lilypods I am talking about you. You too, shower heads.

 

[BlooBelle]

It's awful. ;-; The last time I had to get a blood test my dad tried to get me on anesthesia, but they couldn't do it because of how it reacts to my anxiety meds. Even seeing someone with a patch on their arm after getting a needle is a trigger for me.

 

[Saylor]

I have minor claustrophobia. I used to really hate being in cars or planes and I could never stay in any enclosed area for too long, but it isn't quite as bad for me anymore. As long as I don't get locked in a closet or anything I'm probably fine.

 

[wintersoldier]

i have trypophobia and arachnophobia... i legit feel my skin crawling when i think of clusters of holes.

 

[Togekiss]

I have arachnophobia. Just seeing the tiniest, little spider crawl up my wall makes me screech in fear.
Then again, I am afraid of most bugs...

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I can be pretty claustrophobic sometimes. If I feel trapped my body starts to panic and I get short of breath.

I don't know if it's a phobia or not, but I get really freaked out if I'm driving and there's 2 cars on both sides of my car where they are blocking me from potentially switching lanes. I guess it adds to the fear of being trapped.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Everyone keeps mentioning Trypophobia and it's making me sick. It's making my skin feel itchy. I don't know if I have any fears. I am afraid of spiders and occasionally human beings scare me.

 

[Beleated_Media]

I have a ton...
-bugs
-Claustrophobia
-Going up on stage
-Sometimes intense injury (broken bones, parasites, etc.)
-and creepypasta (if that even counts)

 

[Vizionari]

I get really queasy at the sight of blood. A little cut is fine but seeing a lot of it makes me want to throw up. Part of why I don't want to be a nurse or doctor, sadly.

 

[Tao]

I have social anxiety. A lot of the time I'll make excuses to my friends to why I don't want to go out because of it, even though I would really like to and I'm literally doing nothing else...But they're persistent and a lot of the time end up 'forcing me into it', which I'm grateful for as it seems to be getting less of an issue the more they do it and I have to deal with these 'unbearable social situations'.
It comes from school where I was bullied pretty much from year 1 to year 11 with it continuing slightly for a short time after school with those certain 'arseholes' who lived locally to me. The bullying involved a lot of verbal abuse (as well as physical), with most/all of the things said being entirely untrue (I have never and will never be fat) that have pretty much left their mark on me for life since I'm super self conscious about things like my weight, my cleanliness, the way I pronounce things etc. etc.




Heights would also be another one, as I'm terrified of them.
This also comes from bullying as when I was a kid and playing on the park (as you do) the 'bellends' came and ended up pushing me off the top of a slide...because they're awful people.
It was a pretty big slide and not only did my head miss the corner of a brick by millimeters which would have likely killed me (what the hell was a brick doing on a childrens park?), but I also spent the night in hospital under close observation since I landed on my head.



Needles I'm absolutely terrified of.
I think this might be because of this doctor I had once as a kid who explained to me the many ways in which I'll die if I didn't have the injection, which absolutely terrified me. My Mum punched that doctor. Aside from that though, I think it's a pretty unjustified fear since I don't even remember the event, just what my Mum told me...Subconscious I guess?
I don't have a 'trigger' for it and the word or hearing about being injected doesn't bother me for the most part. Being informed that I have to have an injection though or seeing somebody on TV get injected absolutely goes through me and I'll usually close my eyes and turn the TV off till I think it's over.

It's a bit of a problem since one of my favorite films is 'Pulp Fiction'...So I have to turn the TV off half way through every time I watch it...



My only other 'fear' would be I guess knives and chainsaws.
This really is unjustified. I've never been stabbed or anything or even threatened or in danger from either object, it just scares the life out of me at the thought of being stabbed or 'chainsawed'. I'm not just scared of knives, I can still pick them up and butter toast, just the idea of being stabbed or something. I don't even think I've ever seen a chainsaw outside of TV.
"But being attacked and/or killed is totally justified!". Well, yea...But I don't feel the same about anything else at all. The thought of being shot doesn't really bother me, or even being bludgeoned to death with a dictionary doesn't phase me. But just the thought of somebody poking me with a knife makes me feel the exact same as when I'm at a high place or that scene from Pulp Fiction comes on.

 

[Pipsqueak]

Agoraphobia :/ Feels like I've had it forever but it got a lot worse when I had to start driving. I used to cope by avoiding everything, but my world has gotten so small. As stressful as it is, exposure is the only way!