Phobias

[Something Horrifying]

Okay, this is a little personal, and I've had bad experiences with people not understanding, but here goes. There are several things I'm afraid of, but the only serious phobia I have is arachnophobia. I know a lot of people are creeped out by or afraid of spiders, but I'm talking about full-out, severely-interfere-with-your-life arachnophobia.

I spend 5-10 minutes checking my room for spiders every night before I can sleep, and I've stopped going into entire rooms of my house for over a year because I've seen a particularly large spider in it (even if someone else kills it for me, I feel like that's now a "giant spider room" and oh god what if there are more). Anyone with a serious phobia will probably know what I mean by the heart-numbing terror that I feel every time I see one, and it's even for pictures. Recently I was on a forum and accidentally stumbled across some spider gifs someone had posted, and spent the next couple nights having horrible nightmares about those spiders, and even an actual hallucination/night terror that sent me running into the other room, still asleep (I don't sleep walk and have only ever had one other night terror in my life, so that wasn't normal).

My worst recent experience was waking up and seeing a pretty large spider (not huge) on the wall across my bedroom...right above the door. I have a can of spider poison that I use (it had a picture of a spider on it, which I had to cover with ducttape just to be able to hold the can), so I gave it a spray from far away, sitting on my bed, and then immediately backed all the way up against the far wall and sat there watching it...but the poison doesn't kill on contact, so the spider twitched and flailed about on the wall, almost falling, for several minutes. I HAD to be sure it was dead so I could leave the room and actually be willing to re-enter anytime soon, so I had to sit there watching it. It was only a minute or two but it felt like hours...I was screaming and crying so hysterically (I'm usually pretty tough--spiders are really the only thing that have ever made me scream) that my grandmother and her helper across the house thought I'd just gotten horrible news over the phone or something, and I finally had to just scream for my grandmother's helper to come into my bedroom and kill it because it felt like a living nightmare. By the time she did, I was drenched with sweat, and could barely stand up from shaking so hard.

It's really embarrassing and probably sounds horribly foolish to you guys, because it's a totally irrational fear...I'm not afraid of being bitten, it's just the sight of a spider for some reason evokes this severe mental and physical reaction from me, and I have no idea why. Unfortunately a lot of people that don't have a really serious phobia and don't understand that sort of terror think it's just something you can choose to get over--I spent most of my life when I lived with my parents trying to get my father to understand that it wasn't something I could just decide not to feel anymore and that I wasn't doing it "just to be special".

[Dannflower Reguba]

Hey. I dilike being in the dark, I can STAND IT but I hate doing it.... You can't see things properly. Everybody has something, we all need to be respectful of others "phobias"

[MatthiasMan]

Yeah yeah, that's like me!! I would die if I touched a spider. If I come within 5 feet of a spider, I run away and don't go in that room for like a ,month, and never like step where it was killed ever again. My fear started when I was about 3. I woke..... and there spider bites.... ALL over my stomach.

[Dannflower Reguba]

How does that work!?

[MatthiasMan]

I've got a long tale to tell then. So, I used to live on the top floor of our house, but one day I had to move to the basement. It's walls were never ever finished so it reminds me of a dungeon. Do you know what Sprickets are? Right. Well, we used to see them ALL OVER THE PLACE! I MEAN LIKE EVERY SINGLE DAY! I, couldn't stand those things. If I saw one, I'd stand there, almost paralyzed. I could never even TRY to kill one. I got so scared of them because I thought they were spiders. I ALWAYS had to find someone to kill them for me. I'd never step again where one had been dead until like 1 year later. Then, one night I went to sleep  in the basement. Woke up next morning. I was all scratchy on my stomach. Can't remember how I found out about the bites. I had to lay down on the couch with my shirt off and put whatever stuff on the bites. I was like 3 to 5 years old.  Then later in my years of life, I was in the bathroom. And the tub, had a HUGE spricket in it. I'm talking MONSTEROUS! Like 3 inches in diameter. I stood there paralyzed. It didn't move. Still. Silent. Scary. Secure. I eventually regained my senses. I ran out of the bathroom, and got my brother Patrick. He went in there and washed the thing down the tub drain. I was too afraid to take a shower that night. And now, I never step where that spricket was. Never ever again. Not to save my life.

[Tiria Wildlough]

I know how you feel about spiders. I'm probably almost as afraid of them as SH, but I don't see as many of them.
Also, I once saw a GIANT ENORMOUS version of a cockroach. I stared at it for a few seconds, trying to think 'I'm not scared', then I screamed. It was as big as a mouse!
I probably shouldn't be reliving those scary memories.

[Dannflower Reguba]

Has anyone else seen the Hallmark movie "Firelight"? There is this one person who, the first time they saw a ladybug, thought it was a flying cockroach. It was a good movie.... As for phobias.... I know I have one but I can't remember what it was/is!..... Now I know.... It's people with an x/y chromosome instead of a double x chromosome.... I DO NOT feel right when around females! I'm like uuuuuuhhhhhhh..... (not because I'm ecstatic but because I'm  )   

[psybox]

blood.

[Redwaller]

Okay, this is a little personal, and I've had bad experiences with people not understanding, but here goes. There are several things I'm afraid of, but the only serious phobia I have is arachnophobia. I know a lot of people are creeped out by or afraid of spiders, but I'm talking about full-out, severely-interfere-with-your-life arachnophobia.

I spend 5-10 minutes checking my room for spiders every night before I can sleep, and I've stopped going into entire rooms of my house for over a year because I've seen a particularly large spider in it (even if someone else kills it for me, I feel like that's now a "giant spider room" and oh god what if there are more). Anyone with a serious phobia will probably know what I mean by the heart-numbing terror that I feel every time I see one, and it's even for pictures. Recently I was on a forum and accidentally stumbled across some spider gifs someone had posted, and spent the next couple nights having horrible nightmares about those spiders, and even an actual hallucination/night terror that sent me running into the other room, still asleep (I don't sleep walk and have only ever had one other night terror in my life, so that wasn't normal).

My worst recent experience was waking up and seeing a pretty large spider (not huge) on the wall across my bedroom...right above the door. I have a can of spider poison that I use (it had a picture of a spider on it, which I had to cover with ducttape just to be able to hold the can), so I gave it a spray from far away, sitting on my bed, and then immediately backed all the way up against the far wall and sat there watching it...but the poison doesn't kill on contact, so the spider twitched and flailed about on the wall, almost falling, for several minutes. I HAD to be sure it was dead so I could leave the room and actually be willing to re-enter anytime soon, so I had to sit there watching it. It was only a minute or two but it felt like hours...I was screaming and crying so hysterically (I'm usually pretty tough--spiders are really the only thing that have ever made me scream) that my grandmother and her helper across the house thought I'd just gotten horrible news over the phone or something, and I finally had to just scream for my grandmother's helper to come into my bedroom and kill it because it felt like a living nightmare. By the time she did, I was drenched with sweat, and could barely stand up from shaking so hard.

It's really embarrassing and probably sounds horribly foolish to you guys, because it's a totally irrational fear...I'm not afraid of being bitten, it's just the sight of a spider for some reason evokes this severe mental and physical reaction from me, and I have no idea why. Unfortunately a lot of people that don't have a really serious phobia and don't understand that sort of terror think it's just something you can choose to get over--I spent most of my life when I lived with my parents trying to get my father to understand that it wasn't something I could just decide not to feel anymore and that I wasn't doing it "just to be special".

You should not feel embarassed about it, we all have our phobias.

blood.

Me too, I can't stand to see injuries, it gives me a feeling like if it was me that has the injurie, but I'm pretty okay when it's my injuries(regarding the fact that I'm hurt).

Another phobia is... spirits, I don't like listening to real stories that really happened, like apparitions. *shudders*

[Redwallfan7]

More phobias:
Moths

Grasshoppers

[AbbotAlf0805]

SNAKES!!!

[Redwallfan7]

I love things from the retro years, but if there's one thing I hate from them, it's the cabbage patch kids. When I saw the movie when I was six, I screamed. Those dolls are the creepiest toys to have ever been made.

[Redwaller]

When i talked about the spirit thing, I'm not really scared anymore!

SNAKES!!!

I LOVE snakes!

[Flandor]

Clowns.  Clowns are the scariest thing... that and snakes.  I read about snakes a lot because it makes me feel a little less frightened of them, but if I ever saw one out of an enclosure I'd flip out.

[Dannflower Reguba]

Bad words, enough said.