What is your phobia?

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Failure.

better a good failure than a bad success.

I know, I know. If only my nerves believed it.

a good tank of NO2 or a big bottle of stiff alky is a consolation of sorts after either.

I have panphobia. The fear of everything. JK

I have phobiaphobia

Claus- and Aracno. The latter is getting better.

I also have Emetophobia ( Intense fear of vomit, vomiting, naseua, ect)

but i also have a HUGE fear of people in mascot costumes, the dark, and loud sudden noises, and balloons

Like FDR.

I had no idea.

Abortion of any kind

I had many when I was a young child and first diagnosed. The ones that have stuck throughout the years include:
vomiting (although I am dealing better with that as of late)
mirrors (specifically seeing myself in a concave "make up" mirror)
disfigured faces (ppl with cleft-palate or other disfigurements)

I have a fear of toilets. Specifically the back of the toilet. I can't handle it when the lid is off. I'll just hold it. I'd rather poo in a forest than poo in a toilet with the back of it off. Also have a fear that the toilet water will be too high or that it will overflow while I'm on the toilet. This actually happened to me once as a young child and it is still a (minor) phobia. The first is related to a string of nights I had to urinate in the middle of the night (also as a young child), and the back lid of the toilet was off because the chain was constantly coming loose from the handle. Seeing that in a dark bathroom as a kid was horrifying. Terrified to this day.

Also arachnophobia. This has lessened over the years as I have learned to kill them if they are smaller than a certain size. I used to not be able to say the "T" word (think...spiders...), and still have a reaction when I do say (or even think) it.

Other than that, I think my phobias are pretty limited (however unique...lol).

be glad you never had my trapped in flooding lavatory or trapped in bug-filled lavatory dreams.

I read this same article! I have been meaning to post about it. It really resonated with me, but with a different trigger. In school years ago, I saw two photos in my science book that so completely freaked me out that I still remember them 40 years later. One was of the "face" of a lamprey eel, except that it wasn't really a face -- just a big, slimy fleshy hole, surrounded with lots of smaller little pits. I dreaded the day we got to that page in the book. I remember having to put a sheet of paper on the photo so I could do my reading assignment. And the other was some kind of frog whose babies lived in holes in the flesh of the mother frog's back until they could make it on their own. I have seen concrete sidewalks, where leaves, pebbles and such settled when the cement was wet and then were dislodged and left holes, that remind me of that frog's back holes. Even thinking about these photos still is weirding me out and stimulating my gag reflex a little. These examples HAVE to have something to do with this trypophobia stuff. Really wrinkly skin gets me too -- probably part of the same fear. I used to have a fear of photos of bees, but I wonder now if it was the bees or the honeycomb that got me.

But my main phobia is the dark -- nyctophobia, I think? Even at nearly 54 years old, I still sleep with a nightlight. I kid you not. Being in complete darkness absolutely terrifies me. I have severe anxiety problems -- both Social and Panic Disorder -- so I'm sure that's affecting this.

I didn't think I was claustrophobic until just the other day. I'm in the process of remodeling a woodshop into a cottage to live in, and was at Lowe's looking at shower stalls. I stepped into one, closed the door and POW! -- I had to get out of there immediately! I've never had that reaction to small spaces before, so I don't know what was different about this.

Dating terrifies me too, but I don't know if it's to the point of phobic. I haven't been asked on a date in 3+ years, so I haven't had an opportunity to find out. I'm not afraid of crowds, such as sporting events or fairs or concerts. I'm only afraid of having to carry on a conversation with any one of those crowd members.

Heights
Spiders
Being touched in the chest (Recent one)