Name Your Phobia

[ErinIsBadNews]

I'm alone in my townhouse tonight and there is a cockroach!!!! I am TERRIFIED of bugs, (entomophobia) especially roaches. I know it's completely irrational, but it doesn't stop be from freaking out.


So what are you afraid of and would you consider it a phobia? Have you gotten over and it if so how in the world did you do it?

[mulattogyrl]

I'm afraid of them too. Well, not as much the regular sized ones, but the HUGE ones they call waterbugs. I can't even think about it.

I also am terrified of big moths. OH. MY. GOSH. It's the time of year when they suddenly appear in your shower or something.

Obviously I haven't gotten over it.

[ErinIsBadNews]

Are waterbugs and palmetto bugs the same thing??? We have a lot of palmetto bugs in Florida. It doesn't matter how many times you get your house sprayed or how clean your house is, they will still get in!

[PrettyBoy]

I know it's strange for a guy to be afraid of bugs, but I have a big bug phobia. Small ones don't bother me, but the big ones? Oh yeah, I won't even spray them with Raid. When I do that they go nutz, and when they go nutz, I do too.

[Dionysus]

Emitophobia - fear of vomiting. I fear it as much as dying. I also fear being in the same room when someone else vomiting. That's why I don't drink excessively. I'm also rarely DD, it would not be cool if some drunkard pukes in my car! I'll help to pay for a cab, if my friends can't find another sober person to take them home.

[Rudey]

Yall need to move out of public housing and not put up with cockroaches.

-Rudey

[Sister Havana]

NEEDLES.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by Rudey

Yall need to move out of public housing and not put up with cockroaches.

And avoid those cheap motels.

[Rudey]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

And avoid those cheap motels.

My favorite motel story that I just have to share:

I am on this big deal, they fly our group out on a corporate jet because it's an emergency, they pick us up in a limo, they drop me off in a Holiday Inn and everyone else goes somewhere fancy. My faucet didn't work. The lobby looked like Serbia after the NATO bombings. And that continental breakfast left me feeling like a million pesos.

-Rudey
--So glad I don't work for that tyrant anymore

[MJo19]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Emitophobia - fear of vomiting. I fear it as much as dying. I also fear being in the same room when someone else vomiting. That's why I don't drink excessively. I'm also rarely DD, it would not be cool if some drunkard pukes in my car! I'll help to pay for a cab, if my friends can't find another sober person to take them home.

I have the exact same fear....I can't stand it when a kid pukes at school..I shudder to think about it.

[NinjaPoodle]

I've got 4:
Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights
Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
Apiphobia, Melissophobia — fear of bees.

and

Thunderstorm phobia. You will find me under a bed with a blanket over my head. If there is lighting associated with it, fa'get about'it!

To combat my fear of heights, when I went to the Big Island 2 years ago, my then boyfriend and I took a chopper flight over the island not to mention the volcano. I figured that if it was my time to go, so be it. I didnt want to miss an opportunity to view the island from up above. I don't regret it either. I still have issues but not as bad as before.

As far as the clasutrophobia, I stay away from crowded places as much as possible which is hard sometimes because I work in the financial district of San Francisco. I have my ways though. I either walk behind the pack or in front. I take my lunch early (1130 am) or late (after 1pm).

[mystikchick]

heights, unquestionably. i've had some awful and terrifying experiences, the most memorable of which was being on a ski slope, with skis on, thinking that the blue slope didn't go too much higher than the bunny slope and being VERY mistaken. when the ski village started to move back and forth in my vision (like it would come closer and then move away), i sat myself down on my butt and scooted myself all the way down the rest of the hill - it took about 45 mins.

needless to say that was also the last time i ever went skiing.

[33girl]

Bats. Just the suggestion that one may be nearby freaks me out.

I also have a somewhat irrational beyond disgust, but maybe not quite phobia of wet paper.

[Scandia]

Pyrophobia- fear of fire

Also haven't been able to find out names for:

- fear of being deformed/losing a body part
- fear of crowds. May fall under agoraphobia, but I have no problem with open spaces. In fact, it is tightly packed crowds inside buildings that set it off the worst.

[_Opi_]

Lightening and knives