What is your phobia?

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Trypanophobia - Fear of hypodermic needles.

I've had this since I was a child. I fainted in primary school after getting a jab (it was just before lunch -prolly my blood sugar dropped) and since then, I've had this phobia of needles. The thing that freaks me out the most is the idea of somebody else penetrating my skin with a tiny needle and the possibility of some bad happening, such as me fainting or a burst vessel or the needle snapping or something like that. I hate the sensation as well.

Weird that I can unflinchingly watch all manner of gore and yuckiness, but watching someone get a jab still makes me cringe and shiver.

Now I want to emphasize the fact that I DO NOT fear vaccines. It's not what's in the syringe that scares me - it's just the needle and the fear that the person administering the shot may have a spasm or something. It's more about trust, I guess.

I can sorta understand the button phobia in light of my late mother's revulsion at seeing lots of little bubbles all together, as in a steamed surface. bubbles are sorta like buttons.

they were talking about phobias on the radio the other day mostly because there was an article about kids being scared of clowns.

There was a man on a very late night tv show in 1990 who came on to speak about his phobia of spoons. He couldn't stand looking at a spoon, let alone touching one.

By the end of the interview the show's presenter deciced that it would be a good idea to tease the poor fellow with a spoon.

Eventually the presenter was so excited by this curiosity that he was running around the studio chasing the man with a spoon!

I couldn't believe it.

There was a man on a very late night tv show in 1990 who came on to speak about his phobia of spoons. He couldn't stand looking at a spoon, let alone touching one.

By the end of the interview the show's presenter deciced that it would be a good idea to tease the poor fellow with a spoon.

Eventually the presenter was so excited by this curiosity that he was running around the studio chasing the man with a spoon!

I couldn't believe it.

My two main ones are the sound of people vomiting and dogs (any dog, no matter what size, breed or temperament).

Vomiting is a weird one for me. I hate and fear being sick myself (although luckily, even though I feel nauseous on a pretty regular basis, I haven't actually vomited in 12 years) but, with other people, can tolerate the aspects of vomit that freak most people out-the sight and the smell of it-I just can't handle hearing people gagging and retching! I panic severely-I almost got myself killed at university by running across the road without looking just to get away from the sound of some guy vomiting in the bushes at the side of the road. Luckily one of my friends grabbed hold of me before anything bad happened. Another time, I had to fight every instinct in my body that was telling me to pull the emergency stop button on the train because someone had just thrown up all over the carriage. Looking back, I could have just moved carriage but I don't think as logically as that when I get so panicked. People look at me like I'm really weird because, if I can't get out of a situation where someone is being sick (such as in a vehicle), I will put my hands over my ears until I know whoever is ill has stopped being sick. This has led to me being told a few times that I'm not caring enough as, instead of helping a friend who is retching, I will just cover my ears or try to leave. Just this Friday, I was on a bus on the way back from a works party and one of my colleagues started gagging. She had already been sick 3 times but the driver couldn't pull over straight away as we were on a motorway with no hard shoulder section. As soon as she started gagging, I put my hands over my ears but then the driver started passing back some bags for her to be sick into and, as the person I was sitting next to was asleep and there was nobody else close enough to help, I had to take my hands off my ears to retrieve the bags and hand them back. It does make me feel bad that I can't be more sympathetic to people when they are being sick but it's just the noise-if people could vomit silently, I'd be fine!

Crickets

Children in high places - I actually knew I had this phobia when I volunteered to take a friend's
daughter on a helter skelter -

Paraskevidekatriaphobia=fear of friday the 13th. triskadekaphobia=fear of #13 in general.