What's your phobia???

I am terrified of large cockroaches/waterbugs. For those of you who live in the southern states, you know what I mean. They are so big you can hear them crawling on the walls. *shudder*

No-one else in my family has this fear. It all started when I put on my coat when I was 10 and one ran down the back of my leg. I was wearing a dress so it was on bare skin. I freaked! In camp one flew into my waist length hair as I was bent over brushing it. It landed on the back of my head by my neck. Again I was screaming and unable to articulate what was happening.

I love slow moving beetles, snakes, mice, rats, most other creepy crawlers and I'm fine. One cockroach and I'm freaked for hours. I've literally had them follow me across the room as proof that they are out to get me. Friends and family find it amusing. Just can't get over that crawling feeling down the back of my leg.

Seriously I wonder if there is a name for it? anyway, one of my parents MAY have it since they haven't had *any* FOREVER!!! again LOL!
I have always had this fear and trying it once actually caused the fear to increase! (sorry guys!) LOLOLOLOL!!!

I am am afraid of being burned or sufficated but don't have what you actually call a "phobia" though.

I thought of another fear.....

Anything moving in the water beside me!

When I was little, I remember wading in a lake and I stepped on a creature! I don't know what it was....a catfish...a water mocassin...a gator. I just know that when it squirmed out from under my foot, I SPRUNG out of that lake in an INSTANT—I probably looked like one of the MATRIX characters!! The thought still creeps me out!! LOL!

I'm pretty Ok with most things mentioned. The one exception is rats/mice. I cannot even watch them on TV.

I am afraid of heights and spiders.

I am claustrophobic. I have had it since I was little when I had a re-occuring nightmare that I was kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. No one else in my family has it.

(1) What is your fear??
(2)Do your parents (or other family members) have it too?
(3)Have you always had it???
(4)what caused it??

1. My most irrational fear is of long legged insects, especially hornets, wasps, and spiders. Bees and bugs don't bother me. I'm not scared of getting stung (after tattoo and body piercings I really don't mind pain at all), just the thought of those legs on my skin makes me want to puke. One time I slept in my car because there was a fist sized spider on my door and I was terrified. Just the other day I was cleaning out the shed and a hornet flew in and I sat there for 2 hours before I got up the nerve to walk under it to leave. And this is improvement!

I used to be terrified of water but I'm getting over that. I can now do pools and am learning to swim. I still can't go in the ocean and if I stay at a hotel with an ocean view, I always think I'm gonna wake up drowning for some reason and I can't enjoy myself. Currents do not work well with me so boating is out, and I would die before I went on a cruise. I think the fear of water came from when I was a kid I had really bad ear problems, so every time I went in water I would end up at the doctors, then I was commanded by dr not to swim, so I developed a bad association with it.

I'm also scared to death that my car will catch on fire even tho it's a 2002.. A couple years ago me and ex were trying to fix his car at 3am and I guess we didn't but he tried to start it and it caught on fire.. All the windows blew out and he fought it with a garden hose until the fire dept came because there were 3 cars within a foot of it--one he was actually getting a jump from. Ever since then when i smell smoke in my car i FREAK out--even if I just passed a bonfire lol!

I will not drive in the snow even if i lose my job (and I have before!). I just can't do it. When I was a teenager I would sneak out and drive in the snow because it was fun to me. Now I can't do it. I don't know why. I'm more scared of wrecking my car than dying. I'm terrified of raised insurance premiums.

I am a big wussy, so I am also moderately scared of snakes, bats, gas/propane lanterns, roller coaters, and those girls that work at perfume counters.

2. No one in my family is as wussy as me or even close. None of us swim tho, but I don't think they are necessarly scared.

3. & 4. I think I answered mostly above

I have a bunch of phobias, my biggest one being closed spaces but my most irrational fear is of clowns, I can't stand them. I will walk away if we are at a carnival or something and one is near me! HOw stupid is that! lol.

My biggest fear is losing a family member. I am also afraid of cockroaches and snakes.

Crowds of people! I can't stand cockroaches, too.