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18 Aug 2011, 8:34 pm

Xaisede wrote:

Heartbeats
Tradition
Technophobia
Wet food

i also hate really wet food, i love to eat things dry, ill eat dry toast and bagels, and never use butter on bread, what is technophobia?

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19 Aug 2011, 1:34 am

Spiders (Especially Tarantulas)
Scorpions
Germs (Certain ones, more of an OCD thing than phobia...)
People :roll:

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19 Aug 2011, 1:57 am

Scandium wrote:

Spiders. Ever since I read that black widows live between trees and in toilets, I've been afraid of walking in between trees and sitting on toilets.

I'd hate to tell you this, but you're wrong. Black widows don't live in toilets and between trees. They make small messy webs close to the ground, usually around wood. I've found them outside behind plants and under bench tables. I've never seen one in my toilet, although, they might make a home in an old outhouse or something.

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19 Aug 2011, 12:18 pm

- Open/deep water

- Dead bodies, including animal bodies

- Dark, enclosed spaces, like underground tunnels

- Nighttime intruders (I'm always checking that the doors are locked!)

- Losing my phone or my internet access

- Germs

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19 Aug 2011, 2:59 pm

SammichEater wrote:

Scandium wrote:

Spiders. Ever since I read that black widows live between trees and in toilets, I've been afraid of walking in between trees and sitting on toilets.

Oh. So my toilet-phobia and tree-phobia were wrong this entire time? I've seen two black widows: one in a pipe and one in a doorway. If they can live in a pipe, then they should be able to live in a toilet.

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19 Aug 2011, 7:35 pm

Fear of wrongly concluding that I have a friend.

Fear of being inescapably pathetic.

Of course those things tie into my Social Phobia.

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20 Aug 2011, 3:23 pm

minorwpuser wrote:

- Open/deep water

I used to be somewhat afraid of that as well. Especially dark water

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20 Aug 2011, 3:51 pm

Spiders, lifts & Waxwork figures

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20 Aug 2011, 7:55 pm

Erm, people...?

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20 Aug 2011, 8:46 pm

Fear of the unknown and an intense fear of heights.

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21 Aug 2011, 6:04 am

Cars
Death
Public bathrooms
Spiders
Snakes
Sharks
Ocean
Heights
School
Authority (cops)
Bridges (driving over them with water underneath)
Dark tunnels
Thunderstorms
Fire
Certain noises
Glowing red eyes
Clowns (it)
Birds
Losing my mother
Being alone forever
Rejection
Failure
The dark if I'm anywhere else but my own house
Billy Idol getting married
Billy Idol dying
Billy Idol not liking me or being "afraid" of me
There's probably more but I can't think of any now'

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21 Aug 2011, 6:52 am

What's going to happen to me when Mick Avory passes away? It will be a shock on my system. I might not even live to tell my unsupporting mum about it because I might die of a heart attack.

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21 Aug 2011, 10:48 am

#1 biggest fear is walking into a social or networking event when I don't know a single soul there. I've had to do this a few times at mixers they have at conferences and it was absolutely horrible.

#2 fear is tight and confined spaces, especially underground. I have a lot of respect for coal miners.

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Vomiting/Stomach flu - Origin unknown. Mostly afraid of myself vomiting, but other people vomiting distresses me too.

I'm not sure if I have a phobia of this, but I am neurotic about it. I only allowed myself to throw up once in the past 19 years, in late November of 1998, when I had food poisoning and might have needed to have my stomach pumped or something if I didn't do it on my own. I am convinced after reading articles in various medical journals (I used to work in publishing as a proofreader of medical journals) that a lot of the time vomiting is psychological and you can choose not to throw up. (You can't really control nausea all the time, but just because you feel sick doesn't mean you need to vomit). So, other people's vomiting really bothers me and I view it as a sign of weakness and of being really inconsiderate to those around them. I am totally neurotic and weird, but at least I realize this.

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21 Aug 2011, 10:54 am

blueroses wrote:

IdahoRose wrote:

Vomiting/Stomach flu - Origin unknown. Mostly afraid of myself vomiting, but other people vomiting distresses me too.

I agree that vomiting has a psychological element. I've felt like I could easily vomit many times in the past but I haven't actually done so since I was a small child. It's possible to stop yourself from doing it if you really want to.

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21 Aug 2011, 10:58 am

Thanks for making me feel less crazy. Always appreciated, lol

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21 Aug 2011, 11:01 am

blueroses wrote:

Thanks for making me feel less crazy. Always appreciated, lol

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