What is your irrational fear?

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Hospitals I hate hospitals (which they make worse by having them smell so damn bad.)

Yeah, I'm irrationally afraid that if I use a dash of denial (to quell my fear of death) that I won't be able to stop. Am an all-or-nothing person of extremes (not by choice). Don't want to delude myself by avoiding truth of reality, realize it's in my interest to do so in some sections of my life. Knowing this doesn't help me get my emotional state to co-operate. My body goes into "imminent threat detected" mode when I'm unoccupied, bc. death creeps into my consciousness.
Hard to compartmentalize & shunt things out of awareness, easier to look for "what else is interesting & appeals to me" than directly try to "not think about bad stuff". Distraction can be good, though I feel guilty about it. Seems inauthentic & dishonest to not deal w/my fear openly, head-on. Which I cannot. Negotiate w/myself over my own survival from one minute to the next.

Buddy I worked in the damn things you don't know smell till you smell the putrid discharge of a cancer tumour puked up by a patient that resembles a black tar/car tire like substance that stinks your clothing out for days. Never have i smelled anything so vile in my life that has come out of another persons body cavity

I'm mildly nyctophobic, yep, I'm afraid of the dark. And I dislike crowds.

That's funny...I love getting lost. It's so fun. What usually helps me if I get lost is I try to remember what I thought about something when I saw it.

I'm afraid of corpses, needles, loud noises, things that smell really bad, snakes, failure, public speaking (though, I have been better with that one), leaving messages on answering machines, heights, crowds, open spaces, roller coasters, being in the passenger seat of cars when they go kinda fast (that's normal though), telling people personal things about myself, animals (mostly dogs that bark very loudly and jump on me), bugs, other sharp objects, the things that go on in my head sometimes (verging on schizophrenic), my alter-ego, and, most of all, mental institutions (mainly me being institutionalised).

Yes, because I have done it. I got depressed over it. It used to happen a lot when I was a kid too. I sometimes I get stupid and all this dumb stuff comes out of my mouth. I can't seem to stop it at times like this.
Another irrational fear?
I'm scared of ships. As far as I know there is no name for it. I haven't had a bad experience in the past or anything like that. This fear is truly irrational.
Even books with a picture of a ship on the cover or a movie with ships in it makes me cringe. Typing it does the same, so I will stop now.

cockroaches (any size)...vaccuum cleaners...blow dryers...talking to people...stairs
all of these things frighten me. (silly, i know).
the vaccuum bothers me so much that my husband has replaced all of the carpet in our home.
as for the blurting thing---i do it all the time.
my friends love the bluntness (or claim to)---they always know what is on my mind.
i decided years ago that i can not concern myself with people who can't take the truth.

I hate blow dryers and vacuums, too. They're awful. Oh, and blenders. Blenders are terrible, as well. Also, firetruck/police sirens are very annoying. I live in the center of town, so I live by both the fire department and the police department. It seems like every time I go outside, a siren goes off. I'm also terrified of fireworks, ever since I was a little kid. I never go with my parents to see fireworks on the Fourth of July, because they scare me to death. I hate the noise and I always think one's going to land on my head and blow me up or set me on fire and kill me .

Dogs (I'm a bit better with that now - I used to run into the road when one was coming up to me, I'm generally OK as long as it's on a lead) and telephones.

For me it has to be the freezing cold wind either at night or early morning and having to walk in it. Or it's really anything that is cold or ice cold. I hate cold and I hate being cold. I've got my self so fearful of cold water that I have to put my hands quickly under the water and then quickly take them out. Another fear of mine is well heights. You won't see me in a sky scraper or anything higher than a two storie building that's for sure. You won't even be able to get me to climb up a large tree.

This may be a weird one being stranded on a bouy to far from shore to swim in from it. Deep water bothers me also

Dimwitted nazi losers from rural areas.

Do you know any? I haven't seen any of them around here.

When you, like me, are falsely rumored to be gay, you meet what exists of people like that. I'm impressed one of them actually told his kids that I was something I'm not repeating here. That's how hate spreads.

For me it's spiders(my sister and I were in the same room once on the upper level and we saw a spider and screamed bloody murder and mum told dad to go up there cause it sounded like someone was getting killed.) and hospitals but I supose hospitals arn't so irational

So how are you dealing with it? Has this thing that this person has told has it spread like wild fire all through where you live?