What phobia do you suffer from?

Just wondering, considering they're so common.

I myself suffer from the top two (Spiders and heights), which is funny when you consider I'm 6'4-6'5.

EDIT: One I forgot. I have a fear of swimming in large bodies of water. I'll be swimming and be scared shitless that a giant water snake thing is stalking me, waiting to get a bite of succulent Devon legs. Then I book it back to the shore.

I don’t really suffer from any, That I know of usually when I get that fuzz feeling of adrenalin in my stomach I just power through because I know life is to short to worry, sometime when faced with like hornets I get a bit freaked out but that’s cause I am allergic, so I would say I have a small fear of bee's and hornets. 

" Just wondering, considering they're so common.I myself suffer from the top two (Spiders and heights), which is funny when you consider I'm 6'4-6'5. "

I have a mild phobia of water ever since I got washed into the sea and got stranded on a section of beach no-one could get to. But only big masses of water like the oceans and lakes. I'm not scared of having a shower or going swimming in a pool.

" I have a mild phobia of water ever since I got washed into the sea and got stranded on a section of beach no-one could get to. But only big masses of water like the oceans and lakes. I'm not scared of having a shower or going swimming in a pool. "

I'm like Indiana Jones, I'm fine with anything really, aside from snakes. I HATE snakes.

Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones - This, I'm not sure why I am, though I'm always scared to pick up the phone and hear what the other person has to say to me.
Also, I have a fear of heights.

" @MattyFTM said:

" I have a mild phobia of water ever since I got washed into the sea and got stranded on a section of beach no-one could get to. But only big masses of water like the oceans and lakes. I'm not scared of having a shower or going swimming in a pool. "

really? how did you get rescued? "

Needles, Spiders, buzzing things (Wasps/Bees, but anything that buzzes makes me go "ZOMG A WASP!!!") heights, i'm a complete pussy :P

I'm freaked out by heights. I remember a home I had in NY had an attic and I could count on one hand the number of times I actually went up there. I could barely bring myself to climb that 8 foot ladder to reach that next floor. I try to get over the fear by going on at least one roller coaster every time I enter a theme park but I usually just end up closing my eyes for the entire ride.

Most of my phobias stem from a fear of blindness. So, basically anything that impairs my vision. Darkness, obstructions, open areas, etc.

As such, I tend to never put myself in complete darkness or in maze-like areas cause the lack of visibility bothers me. Open windows and being outside are kind of interesting as it's because there's too much to see and thus I can't keep track of it all.

I also have a fear of being attacked, which goes great with my fear of reduced vision. They're wonderful allies in freaking me out. "I can't see out here, oh shit, I'm going to die, something's going to kill me."

As you can probably guess, in having such fears, Silent Hill freaks me out to no end. It's like it was tailor made just for me. :P

I suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. It's the fear of long words. Also aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes. Pretty much all the ironic, mostly nonexistent phobias, really.

The first one actually is a word, the second one is an old joke that I an not so sure about.

Oh, wait, almost forgot luposlipaphobia. That one is the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table whilst wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Credit to Gary Larson for that one.

Needles.

It's been a year since we had one of these topics. How nostalgic.

i have a fear of falling (Basophobia)

" How can anyone be scared of needles "

Second one. I'll get rid of it.

" @Karmum said:

" @PeasForFees said:

" How can anyone be scared of needles "

I'm sure alot of young kids didn't like needles, and it stuck with them.I used to hate needles, and I still dislike spiders. If a spider is in the bathroom, I will wait for it to get out. Fuck that, I'm not going to watch a spider crawl around when I'm doing my business. I suppose my disliking of needles attributes to the fact I rarely was sick, and rarely required needles. So whenever I had them, I'd have a total fit about it. This problem has worn off, but then again, I'm not going to be excited for the next needle I have to get into my arm. "

Dude kill the spider, duh, I am lucky that I don't think I am scared of anything, but I dislike rollercoaster, but i will still go on them "

Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells. Especially the type that comes out of a fat persons ass after feasting at Taco Bell.

All of my phobias are rational ad therefore not phobias =( I'm just super human.

I can't stand heights. They bother me very much. Also needles.

Emetophobia. Even thinking about the word and it's meaning makes me uncomfortable.

"@PeasForFees: You don't see how some people would be afraid of having large thin-but-sharp objects shoved into their skin? "

I don't like knives. And I also dislike insects in general. Fuck them all, I appriciate their benefits to the planet, but just stay the fuck away from me.

And a quote from a Fantastic 4 cartoon I once saw:

Reed Richards: "a fear of heights is irrational, it makes more sense to say you have a fear of falling".
 

I think I actually have Enochlophobia and/or Agoraphobia. It really sucks, going through 12 years of school is not fun with those phobias.

Arachnophobia as well. I think spiders might be the incarnation of scary.

Arachnophobia. I was bit by a Black Widow once and I never want to relive that experience again. Black Widows are extremely aggressive unlike a Brown Recluse which only bites as self defense. They bite you for no apparent reason.

Just so no one ever has to feel that kind of pain, here's what a black widow looks like. It's a lot more potent than a brown recluse. It hits you a lot faster, and when the venom hits you, it feels like the bodypart that it bites weighs 300 pounds, and you're so sore that that any pressure on it hurts really bad. You almost can't move it. It takes about 5 minutes for the venom to do this.

I felt it bite me, which didn't really hurt at all(kinda like an average fire ant). I saw it, swatted it on the ground and noticed it was a black widow. I crushed it, but the problem was, as soon as I realized it was a black widow, my adrenaline got going. My heart started racing because I was so freaked out, which sped up the venom. 

My entire right arm started becoming incredibly sore and burned like crazy.. My hand swelled up like a balloon. I had heard of how black widows were so deadly because the venom hits you so much faster than a brown recluse. So I had to get home and call the hospital to see what I needed to do.

I was about 5 miles from our house(I lived on a farm). So I got on my 4-wheeler, and rode back to the house as fast as I could. I got lightheaded and flipped my 4-wheeler on a turn going about 30, which broke my left wrist(the opposite side the spider bit). The adrenaline was going so I really didn't care about the wrist, so I flipped it back on it's wheels and kept it in second gear and rode the rest of the way. I went inside, and my dad saw my right arm was huge, so he took me to the hospital. As soon as I got in the car, I calmed down. That's when the pain really hit me. It was so sore that I couldn't hold it up, but if I put it down on the arm rest it hurt even worse. I couldn't get away from the pain.  They gave me antivenom and pain killers, and put a splint on my wrist. It was painful for the next few days, but the 2 hours after it were by far the most painful hours of my life.

Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces. (usually in parking garages)
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.

oh, i dont like having big needles being shoved into my skin....

lol can you really "suffer" from that stuff...  you make it sound like a big deal

I have a fear of needles, but thats not a phobia, because its a rational fear

Galeophobia - Fear of Sharks.

Arachnophobia.

Mildly claustrophobic (fear of small/dark spaces)
A homemade snow-cave,collapsed on me as a kid. Nearly suffocated, but got rescued before I passed out or anything dramatic. I'll never enter such things again lol.

I hate hights yet I live 11 floors up. I'm also afraid to fly anywhere. WHich sucks cause I really want to travel. So I pretty much suffer from Ironicalphobia heh...sigh.

I have Acrophobia. I usually get very nervous and my hands get sweaty when I'm up in very high places. Even the thought of being in a high place gets my hands sweaty.

Friggin' spiders, man.

Wild mushrooms for me