Name Your Phobia

[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.

[xo_kathy]

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.

Me too! I always wondered what it was called. It was my biggest fear about getting pregnant - would I have morning sickness?! Luckily, I didn't! I am nervous about the dealing with a puking kid thing, though...Guess I have 3 months to get over that...

Also hate roaches, they make me nauseous. However, all you Floridians with your "palmetto bugs" and the NYers who call the giant ones "water bugs" - you all know those are just pretty names for cockroach. When I moved to NYC I did a lot of research on them and found those are just names people use to feel better about have a ginormous cockraoch in their home. Really not trying to make you feel worse, just giving you the facts!

[KatieKate1244]

Ice on any surface where I have to walk. I will avoid going outside or walking in areas where there is ice. I remember going to Pittsburgh to look at a college and there was ice everywhere. I think that was the biggest reason I crossed the school off my list.

Knives also scare me, and I do have a slight fear of bees, but only because I'm allergic to them.

However, I can say with pride I am not scared of these things, and would love to have one for a pet: really big spider

[cheerfulgreek]

I'm not afraid of spiders you can buy in a pet store or see at a zoo. Those kind are very interesting, but I'm petrified of small house spiders.

I don't like June bugs or any kind of flying beetle, because they get caught in my hair. That really freaks me out.

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by 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!

Yeah, I think they're the same, because I remember being in Miami over a very clean house and there were like 2 on the floor and nobody paid attention to them but everyone paid attention to me when i hopped up on the couch