QOTD 3/5

[girlonfire]

Have we done this one yet?  My memory sucks.

Whats your phobia?

edit- feel free to start a new QOTD if this is a repeat

[girlonfire]

Mine is cockroaches. Eeeeeeeew. I hate them so much! They are all over the friggen place here in the warmer months and they always pop out when you least expect them. I remember being young, 5-7 yrs old, and putting on my school shoes one morning and feeling something wiggling around my toes. I kicked my shoe off and out came a monster roach. I had a fear of putting my shoes on for years after that. I've also had one fly into my long hair. Ack! The nasty buggers fly!!! Ooh and the countless amount of times that I've opened a drawer or cupboard and have one scurry out. Or when sitting on the couch at night and seeking one run across the floor or wall. Evil vile horrible little things.

[Unknown]

Flying, not just scared to fly I mean I hope the plane crashes so I don't have to be flying anymore scared of flying. I have flown all over the world 10x and back, I just get highly drugged first (a nice cocktail of Xanax and Ativan really does a crazy body good). I am not a high anxiety person, and normally don't take any anxiety medicine, but when I have a trip coming up I start to get OCD tendencies and even as I type this my heart rate is increasing.

A little back story. I was not always afraid of flying, but once I was on a flight from Geneva to Paris and I had a very realistic dream that the plane crashed. Kind of freaky, but the plane didn't crash and all was well. After that though I couldn't fly normally without crazy panic attacks. I went to all kinds of therapists and phobia specialists, and what helped me the most is a doctor who wanted to try EMDR (eye movement desensitization and Reprocessing). That seriously worked, and he told me they use this therapy for people suffering from PTSD, and he thinks my brain processed that dream as an actual event giving me PTSD versus a phobia.

With that being said, I still have lots of issues flying, and will take drugs and do a round of EMDR before a flight I have been doing better.

[annarose]

Im scared of bees and wasps. I assume all bugs that fly near me are bees or wasps until i get a good look. There was once a dead wasp in the hatch back of my car for like a week - i couldnt even bring muyself to remove it for fear of it springing to life and stinging me. A stranger at a gas station saved me and removed it for me hahaha

[RedDDD]

I guess Im not really afraid of anything. I think this is more of a pet peeve then a phobia but I really HATE when people crowd an elevator. First off its just rude. No one likes being in a crowded elevator so when the doors open and it looks full just take the next one. Why make everyone smush in. In the case that the thing crashes to the floor or we all get stuck in it #1 I don't want to be in the elevator full of gross strangers #2 If I have to wait for rescue I would like to be able to sit down and have some space.

I once got on the elevator at work taking it to the 34th floor and I got off at like floor 20 because people just kept getting on and I was like DUDE....eff this noise. Ill get off and take an empty one thanks.

[fiveohfive]

I'm not exactly scared of anything in particular, but I really don't like when things jump out and "scare"...DH tapping my shoulder when I have headphones on, if a mouse gets in our garage, too suspenseful of a movie, etc.

[junewife]

Phobia is a strong word. I can't honestly say I have an phobias, but I do have semi-irrational fears. My biggest one is probably a tragic accident involving my DH, my brother, or my kids. Sometimes I imagine elaborate and awful scenarios if I can't get ahold of one of them.

[Deleted]

Clowns. The makeup scares the absolute living crap out of me, because it's SO easy to make it look evil.

Losing my loved ones.

[amy11401]

I am claustrophobic. I don't like feeling trapped.

[princessvespa1]

None that would really cause me to "shut down", but more like give me anxiety:

Being in an elevator alone/ being in an elevator with strangers
Escalators/roller coasters / anything with an urban legend that people's hair (or shoelaces or clothing) has gotten caught and ripped their scalps off
High buildings that fire engine ladders could not rescue me from
Flying
Travelling and dying on my bday - I dont want the dates on my headstone to be the same day (different years)

I'm sure I will think of more later...

[sugarkissed]

The dentist... I get some really insane anxiety and typically have to be drugged.

Funny enough, my dentist once told me that he is afraid of flying... I'm a former flight attendant. It's crazy how we all have such different fears.

[lilqt3929]

I don't know if these would be considered phobias but I have many fears...

Heights, being in a horrible accident, home invasions, being followed by a stranger, escalators and glass elevators, doctors and dentists, there's many more I'm sure because I have a ton of irrational thoughts that are always going through my mind.

[girlonfire]

Mar 5, 2015 9:47:49 GMT -5 Unknown said:

Flying, not just scared to fly I mean I hope the plane crashes so I don't have to be flying anymore scared of flying. I have flown all over the world 10x and back, I just get highly drugged first (a nice cocktail of Xanax and Ativan really does a crazy body good). I am not a high anxiety person, and normally don't take any anxiety medicine, but when I have a trip coming up I start to get OCD tendencies and even as I type this my heart rate is increasing.

A little back story. I was not always afraid of flying, but once I was on a flight from Geneva to Paris and I had a very realistic dream that the plane crashed. Kind of freaky, but the plane didn't crash and all was well. After that though I couldn't fly normally without crazy panic attacks. I went to all kinds of therapists and phobia specialists, and what helped me the most is a doctor who wanted to try EMDR (eye movement desensitization and Reprocessing). That seriously worked, and he told me they use this therapy for people suffering from PTSD, and he thinks my brain processed that dream as an actual event giving me PTSD versus a phobia.

With that being said, I still have lots of issues flying, and will take drugs and do a round of EMDR before a flight I have been doing better.

This reminds me of the movie Final Destination 

[girlonfire]

Mar 5, 2015 9:53:43 GMT -5 annarose said:

Im scared of bees and wasps. I assume all bugs that fly near me are bees or wasps until i get a good look. There was once a dead wasp in the hatch back of my car for like a week - i couldnt even bring muyself to remove it for fear of it springing to life and stinging me. A stranger at a gas station saved me and removed it for me hahaha

I have a dead roach that's been in my closet for at least a month and I reeeeeealy don't want to go near it.  I'm allergic to roaches too (ha, my phobia turned into an allergy!) so I should get rid of it stat ... but nope, I just procrastinate.  Maybe this weekend I'll down a bottle of vino for a little liquid courage. 

[junewife]

Mar 5, 2015 11:12:21 GMT -5 princessvespa1 said:

None that would really cause me to "shut down", but more like give me anxiety:

Being in an elevator alone/ being in an elevator with strangers
Escalators/roller coasters / anything with an urban legend that people's hair (or shoelaces or clothing) has gotten caught and ripped their scalps off
High buildings that fire engine ladders could not rescue me from
Flying
Travelling and dying on my bday - I dont want the dates on my headstone to be the same day (different years)

I'm sure I will think of more later...

I hope you don't think I'm dismissing your fears, but this one made me chuckle.

[marley629]

My irrational fear is of lawn mowers. Strange I know. I am also deathly scared of roller coasters and heights in general. Going up isnt so bad, it's going down that is my issue.

[krose]

Another for flying. I too must be doped up before getting on a plane. I actually recently passed on a trip to Florida with LO because of this. DH was going to be there for work and he's going to visit his grandparents who live there. I was going to fly down with LO as well. I decided I didn't feel comfortable taking the meds and being alone with dd, but I also can't fly without them. So no trip.

[happymama]

I can't say that I have anything that qualifies as a true phobia. I am uncomfortable with heights, watching a climber dangle off the face of a cliff gives me sweaty palms, but flying or looking out the window of a skyscraper doesn't bother me, I just need to feel secure.
Probably the closest thing for me is my paranoia of something happening to DD. I fight every day to keep it under control, but it is a struggle for me to keep the fear in check.

[legitsince86]

I don't like the being in the dark. I have a nightlight on in the hallway at night. When DH is gone, I have a nightlight on in our room.

[carli]

I second cockroaches. They are just the nastiest thing ever! I can't even kill them, I just run away.

[carli]

Oh...I sleep with the lamp on until DH comes to bed too. One night not long ago I saw a shadowy figure in the doorway and totally thought it was DH. When he didn't respond to me talking to him, I turned on the light. No one was there. I've slept with the lamp on ever since.

[redfraggle]

spiders

[jlprybs927]

I don't know if I would say phobia, but things that give me heart palpitations are as follows :

-driving through tunnels that are underwater
- bugs of all kinds
-heights
- when my husband tailgates
- driving in the snow even though I've driven it in all my life. - Big rigs.

All of these things give me anxiety. Also when I merge into rush hour traffic in the morning every day. I have to get off my exit and over 3 lanes before I hit the tunnel which is about 10 seconds, so I get mini ❤️Attacks Monday - friday.

[joi922]

Not sure I have any true phobias, but two things that make me anxious:

Heights - I'm okay flying, but anything else is a no. Those glass floors they put as tourist novelties in the CN tower and similar places? I might step on it for several million dollars, but otherwise I'll pass. My heart rate also increases if I look over the railing on the 2nd floor or higher at a mall. We looked at an apartment in a high rise that had one wall of floor to ceiling glass. Gorgeous views, but I felt anxious if I stepped too close and looked down.

Bridges - specifically if I'm driving over or under one and have to stop. I just have horrible visions of the bridge collapsing.