Snakes. Hate 'em with a serious passion. They should ALL be doused with gasoline and lit on fire after chopping their heads off. Can't stand 'em. Hate 'em. Loathe 'em. DESPISE 'em.

And a phobia of not achieving my goals. Which is more anxiety inducing than snakes (for the most part I can avoid snakes).

Supernova said:

u couldn't be over at my grandma's house...either in the backyard or down in the basement. durin the warmer months there's always gardener snakes all over.

they're harmless and don't bite, but still...you'd probably flip out.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Morning, daughter!

AprilMichelle said:

That would make anybody terrified of spiders!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

sag10 said:

mawnin, mama!!!

IstenSzek said:

DITTO. That's a perfect example!

Okay, y'all are going to laugh at me, but I have a fear of escalators. I think the reason why I developed this fear is because my mom tells me that when I was first learning to walk, I fell down the steps and hit my head (ouch)!

There was a time when I would not even go on an escalator, but that changed when I was in an office building once that had escalators, no elevators, so I was forced to go on it.

What's funny is that I'm okay going up on the escalator, it's going down where I seem to have a problem. I am better about getting on a down escalator now, but it still takes me a few minutes to step on one, because I am afraid of stepping on the crack of a step, having it open up on me, and tumbling down the steps.

My other fear is losing my job, which just happened to me recently. I have lost my job several times already due to downsizing, etc. etc., and now every time I get a new job, that fear is in the back of my mind.

INSATIABLE said:

I knew I wasn't the only one!

I have a phobia that we will never get Xenophobia (studio version) on CD.

Flying, Heights, Spiders, Bad Punani.

Wasps, or bees of any kind!

Spiders. They are just creepy!

luv4thepurple1 said:

same here, i can't stand wasps...

newpowersoul said:

Damn straight. How I'd love to hear it.

psychodelicide said:

Oh goodness... My friend also has a fear of escalators.. She fell on an escalator, and her hair, which was long got caught in the stairs.. It pulled so much of it out..

Now she will go up the escaltor, but not down...

Swimming, I never learned how to swim and when I do go in the water "and not the deep end of the pool" I will not go under the water.

newpowersoulaphobia

fear of listening to that album

scary!

When I was a kid, the Dark. Always thought there were creepy crawlies just outside my bedroom door!

heights
closed spaces (lifts...)
people sometimes to a certain extent...
insects (but i'd never squash them!!! even a big spider: i take her out but i won't kill her...)
drugs (that's a good phobia!)
[This message was edited Mon May 5 12:19:07 PDT 2003 by klaatu]

I'm not clinically phobic to anything, but I do experience some probably more-than-reasonable anxiety with:

Spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc. I can handle six legs, but that's it.
Outdoor exposure at great heights. I can fly comfortably, for example, but I cannot approach the edge of exceptionally high buildings, cliffs, outdoor observation decks, balconies, see-through floors at certain towering tourist attractions, etc.
Being without my athsma medication
Enclosed spaces. I generally can deal if I'm aware I can exit, but being trapped really upsets me. I got stuck on a roughly 5-by-3-foot lift in Paris for about five minutes and probably would have gone nuts had I been alone. But I had to look cool in front of my wife. I do recall it triggered an athsma attack, though.

Fear of heights for me. I can't stand the really high rollercoasters.

spiders.

everything else i can deal with.

POOK said:

oh yeah...i forgot...

i'm afraid of monkeys too.

sag10 said:

I'm sorry to hear what happened to your friend, that sounds terrible! I thought I was the only one who had the weird fear of escalators; I'm glad I'm not alone.

needles
dentist
large bodies of water

utopia7 said:

That's another fear that I forgot to mention. I hate the sound of the drill.

For a LONG TIME,

I've had a totally IRRATIONAL "fear" of Wednesdays..
because
many times in life, if something bad ever happened to me, it typically would happen on a Wednesday.


It got to point where
I would NOT do ANYTHING on a Wednesday

unless

I knew I had "full control" over the outcome..


Thus, for example, I would NEVER schedule a job interview on a Wednesday, for fear that something would happen where I would be really late, or, not get the job at all..


So, for most of my life, I've tended to be VERY "low-key" on the 4th day of each week, to simply minimize the possibility that some bad thing would happen to me.


In the last 2 months-
thanks to God-
I think I've finally found a way to get myself through this..

"Wednesday phobia"..

I am also terrified of roller coasters or
anything that has a steep hill. The most
I can handle is the Pirates of the Carribean
at Disneyland!

psychodelicide said:

all of the dentist are Freddy Kreuger coming to kill me the dental pick is a metal weapon

I forgot RATS RATS RATS THAT WOULD BE THE DEATH OF ME I cannot understand why GOD wold create something so disgusting they absolutely have no purpose in life I am begining to cry