Thread: What's Your Phobia?

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I... Don't have one..??

As a teen, I used to have an idea of fearing death. It didn't last. Cemented further loss of that fear from a spontaneous spiritual awakening a decade later or so.

As a kid, I had a fear of... I may not have any..?? Fear of getting lost?? Getting caught when sneaking in?? Going too fast I'd fall?? Getting shocked by a broken appliance??
Not like it stopped me, nor affected my life in a major way.

As a basically a toddler, I had a fear of kittens. But that's only because it didn't react the way I expected at that moment.
And I practically like cats and kittens.



As an adult??
I... Really don't. Not even aging helplessly alone, abandoned, forgotten, etc.
Not gore, not inhumanity, not pain, not even existential dreadful stuff.



Closest would be watching about the idea of getting trapped in a cave and die a horrendous death??

It gave me some sort of fear response from that, and that response lasted for 3 days, before losing said response altogether by attempting to trigger myself again with it.



Any other fear responses would just be my body's sense of self preservation.
Like when a speeding truck almost on my way would make my heart flutter for few moments.

I'm not completely fearless.
... I just have a screwed sense of fear.

And if I eventually did found that I have a fear of something, I'd eventually can choose to keep it or lose it.


If I actually do have a real phobia that does stick, I'd tell the world about it.

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Realistic looking dolls, mannequins or statues. Especially garden statues, if you've got some creepy looking statue in your front garden then I'm not stopping by for a cup of tea any time soon!

I know it's daft because they're inanimate but the uncanny look of them just makes me feel uneasy.

Oh and those realistic looking dummies at museums that trigger audio when you walk in the room. "Hi there I'm a peasant living in the-"

I'm fearful of animatronics and robots, which is why I won't go to Disneyland.

It's why I hate it when people compare autism to robots. There's no way I'm anything like a robot, robots are objects. Anyway I'm too emotional and irrational to be robot-like.

Needles / spiky things, especially if they're pointing at my wrists
Going to doctor, esp. dentist
Large / open spaces (Not "phobic enough" for a phobia, but still I feel more secure in smaller / cramped spaces)

I have a fear of people acting performative and inauthentic when I'm talking to them genuinely. It also deeply upsets me when I can tell people are being inauthentic to my genuine conversations.

Edit: It's not clinically a phobia I'm gathering. Nm... [shrugs]

Yeah I know what you mean there

Anyway I have an absolute phobia of being strangled to death

If anything even so much as touches my neck I can feel myself going into fight mode

Being trapped in a situation where I can't meet my needs this leads to agoraphobia being afraid of getting out because of possibly being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

For some reason I seem to fear being homeless more than being ill, even though being ill scares me too. But I spend more time worrying and fretting about being homeless in the future than anything else. I think it's because the more reassurance I try to seek online about it, the more I just get frightened to death. People say things like "yeah Reform are going to take away our human rights" and "yeah you will probably be homeless at some point in the future" and "yeah it's mighty hard to get any financial support from the government even if you're disabled", stuff like that just fills me with fear and can even cause a meltdown. People just think I have a normal fear of being homeless, as it's probably a fear most people have, but in my case it's more extreme and I fret about it all the time. To help control this fear I really need to see a doctor or some other professional who will hopefully understand how excessive my fear of the future is and will offer me some reassurance or useful advice on what to do should the worst ever happen. I really don't need people feeding me bad information, even if they mean well.

if you're worried about being homeless then think about what you would do if that time ever came. What's your plan. Who could you go to. Think about how you could prevent it.
What's the reason why you think you might become homeless.

I worry about this all the time and that's because I was homeless for most of my life until about 15 to 20 years ago.

I don't think there's a day that goes by when I don't think about what I would do if it happened again (especially as I'm getting older). What would my daughter do. What would I do with all our stuff. I don't think I could survive another cold winter in a shop doorway (it's hell and you never ever get warm and dry)
I know I would end up dead or in prison.

And we have absolutely no family except for each other

You could end up homeless. I hope you don't but it's a possibility for anyone

And any therapist worth their salt would encourage you to find reassurance within yourself

I would end up dead from fright. I have agoraphobia and anxiety and I don't even take any illegal drugs or drink alcohol to block it all out. If Farage really wants to make the working class homeless then basically he's encouraging half the population to get into illegal drugs (as that's what many homeless do to survive living on the streets), which will just increase crime, and many people will die, either from suicide or drug overdose. Only a psychopath would want that to happen, therefore Farage is a psychopath and do we really want him to be running the country just for the sake of immigration?

I'm hoping it's not going to be as cut and dry as that, because that's a phobia of mine that haunts me every day.

Yeah it's not a nice thought is it

It used to be being around elderly and sickly people. When I was 8 years old my great grandmother died from dementia and hers was the first funeral I ever attended, that was when it first occured to me that nobody lives forever and that people die when they get very old or sick.

It bothered me for many years until we had to move in with my late grandfather to help take care of him. He had alzhiemers and eventually passed away too but having to cook for him and even clean him helped me get over my phobia.

Also I think I have a fear of big crowds of people too. Being out in public always increases my anxiety but I've learned to deal with it.

Emetophobia is the worst. It is basically the leader of many other phobias - like fear of flying, boating, any illness, being out in public, trying foods you don't know are "safe", pregnancy, alcohol, drugs, children, and roller coasters.

It also makes you a jerk. You don't want to be near people who are unwell and try to help them or cheer them up. So you treat them as if they have the plague, and you just want to run home and jump into a tub full of bleach.

My emetophobia isn't too severe now, but when I was in my teens and twenties it was so bad I couldn't even write the word vomit".

I also have a problem with cars and big dogs that bark and growl at you as you walk by. When I was younger my grandfather was knocked over by a dog and suffered a concussion while out walking because where I grew up people seem to think it's okay to let their dogs just wander around.