Phobias???

I guess for me it would be heights. The other day I had to get the ladder and climb up to the top of it to get Cinnamon down from a plant shelf in the kitchen. Ok, so the ladder was around 8 feet or so, but high enough for me. And, I wouldn't say I am claustrophobic, but I really don't like to be in small, enlcosed spaces or having people (except for my husband) stand close to me.

Julie....I'll be Fabio has a phobea of birds now, too!!! :laughing:

My phobia is needles/injections!! Nooooooo!!!! I absolutley freak if I need an injection at the dentist (They have to knock me out to do this..) I REFUSE to have blood tests (risky I know but I would pass out if I saw anything that even resembled a needle!) Anything like that really makes me petrified! I was crying my eyes out when I had to have jabs for going on holiday!! (Hubby found this really amusing and just sat there laughing the skank.....) I can't even watch things like ER or Casulty cos just the image of someone with tubes in them or even a drip makes me feel soooooooooo ill!! Oh well... I just hope I never get that ill! Ewwww Im even juddering now just thinking about it all....

BodLover thanks for reminding me I also hate having my blood drawn. I should have remembered this since I have had so many blood tests with the pregnancy.

No trouble!! Glad to be of assisstance... hee hee!! (Good job I don't want any children - I couldn't get through the blood test let alone the labour!! :laughing: Hats off to all you mums/mums to be out there!!)

Bodlover,
Thank god I have no fear of needles as I give myself an intramuscular injection once a week, jeez, if I had a needle phobia I'd be in big trouble! Although if I had to go intraveinous I would be very freaked out...thats spooky.

My only really big fear is burning ...that just terrifies me, and I have nightmares about it about twice a month...I hope they aren't premonitions...ok, I won't be sleeping tonight!

It is facinating to hear others phobias, but I think it would also be interesting to hear how you think they came about? Do you have any that you have overcome? HOw did you do it?

Cleo...god I could never do that!! Id pick up the needle with a shaky hand...then....pass out!! (or cry! hee hee) You are one BRAVE lady!! :girly2:

Nite, as for reasons...I have no idea why Im so scared of needles/injections..I guess Im just a big old WIMP! :chicken: Ah well, fingers crossed I won't ever get too ill!! (or they find they are able to cure EVERYTHING with tablets! :laughing: )

I have another phobia that I don't tend to tell too many people about but since you all seem to be really understanding I'll tell - The Dark! I have never gotten over that childhood fear.

Nitecrwlr,

Both of my phobia's have rather lengthy explanations that stem from my childhood. I don't think there is anything I could do to overcome the roach phobia (I don't think I would really want to work on that either!). As for the dark, well I try to rationalize the situation when I do get scared but I also try to avoid any situation that will get me scared.

this has probably been talked about before, but I was watching fear factor last night & one of the stunts was laying in this wooden box & having 24 snakes dumped on you!

first they had the person lay down, then they curled a 12 foot boa constrictor around the person (the snakes head was at the persons foot) and then they literally dumped a basket of snakes on the persons face (the people had plastic goggles on, but that was it) and then on their mid-section.

I could hardly breathe while watching it. I was worried I would have nightmares, but (knock on wood) I didn't. That's not to say that it's not in my sub-concious and I could dream about it later.

I wouldn't say that I have a phobia of snakes, but I don't like them and I wouldn't let someone 'pour' them on me for $50,000.

They should rename that show I AM AN IDIOT!!! These kind of stunts could do lasting psychological damage to people.

I would have put their ratings thru the roof because I would have mass-murdered all the damn snakes and every moron on the set!!!

"Forget that wuss show Sopranos...lookit THIS mess Martha!!!!!":LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

I don't usually get to see FF because it's on monday nights & I'm typically still at work. For some reason they are rerunning them on sunday nights.

the first stunt they had to do was run something like 30 feet in a padded suit while they let an attack dog go. the girls all went down like they were stuffed animals & had to crawl. the guys ended up dragging the dog hanging off thier arm to finish line.

but still nothing I've ever seen compared to having the snakes dumped on them. I've heard that on other episodes they have had to get in a casket with rats, and worms.

I am afraid of ALL spiders minus the tarantula. I love tarantulas(funny,huh?) I am also afraid of heights. If I have to step on a step ladder I start shaking. I see on tv people who sky dive o bunji jump, my insides cringe. I also freak out with maggots. Snakes don't bother me. I would never own one because then I have to sacrafice a mouse or a rabbit to the snake. But I love snakes, even the venemous. I do not fear them, just respect them. But If I see spider webs or wolf spiders then I freak. I also almost panic if I am in an enclosed space(such as an elevator) with too many people in it. I used to be afraid of escalators.

I forgot to mention that one big phobia that I have
rats! Yuck, I hate those animals!!! Back in 1989, when I was a
sophomore in high school, our school was infested with rats. I remember walking to the bus stop, and I see, peering out of the bushes, two eyes. Then I see this rodent. At first I thought it was
a muskrat or a ground squirrel. Then I looked closer. It was a rat!
All year long, I saw them, dead or alive. Once, I saw the teacher holding a dead rat by the tail. I told my teachers to let the boas and pythons loose so they can attack the rodents. One thing I love about snakes, they eat rats!!!!. Oh sure, I can tolerate and even like the white and black and white rats you see at the pet store, but those living in the streets, NO!

Snakes do not bother me I had 4 as pets once.

Rats don't bother me, either, as I have had many pet ones, in the past....and still have one now, but I would not want a wild one living uninvited in my house! *shivers* That is different!!!!!

Rats and mice are fine with me too. I had many pet mice I had to feed to my snakes.

You fed your PET mice to your snakes!!! AWWWWWW

I'd have to go with the rats and mice thing, as well. When I was about 10 or 12, I was helping my mother clean out our garage. We lived in a really old house. The former owners had stored a set of shutters across some beams in the garage. My mother wanted to dig them out and hang them on the house. When we began to pull them down, many, many mice, which had built a nest in them, fell out on us.

I've had a rodent thing ever since.

Debby the mice were not pets at first. I made them my pets because we had to breed them it cost to much to feed the snakes. I no longer have snakes or mice. This was years ago.