The Panic Room

[bigmamma]

Watching this tv programme about people facing their phobias . Do you have any ?

[Pippa68]

Frogs.

*shudder*

[bigmamma]

Night mrknowall x :-)

[society]

I am claustrophobic bigmamma, how can I overcome that fear?

[bigmamma]

Red~bez , i have known a few patients to be afraid of cotton wool

Pippa , frogs .......can they jump !!!

[Lisasaymoo]

Masks and moths.

The one with masks started when i was about 12 and at a Halloween school disco, and there were four or five lads wearing those Scream masks and raving under the strobe light with glowsticks, doesn't sound that scary but it really freaked me out! Shortly after that my lovely boyf at the time thought it would be funny to stick on his scream mask then turn the light out and jump on me... i got so scared i punched him full force in the gob, ha ha!

Moths just because they're furry and creepy, bleh! x

[redhead23]

how come ur name has changed to bigman ????/

[Emz26]

And when rice pudding forms a thick skin..........EEEEWWWWW!!!!!!

[funkymoped]

imagine driving down a twisty country lane... doing about 50mph and having to concentrate because you dont know the roads too well and its raining...

then, from the middle of nowhere a piercing scream. a scream so loud it almost pierced my ear drums !!!

as soon as i physically could, i pulled the car to the side of the road.... panicing slightly i asked what was wrong..

"theres a wasp in the car" my daughter hates wasps !
:-)

[cazzz1975]

lol funky, imagine a similar scenario, but at the point of asking what was wrong, my daughter points with a terrified finger to a green fly crawling up the window!!

my daughter hates anything that moves

[bigmamma]

Funkymoped , totally understand your daughters fear of wasps !!!

Emz26 , breathe deeply and slowly ........erase all rice puddings from your mind ...............

Somebody have a bowl at the ready in case !!!

[Emz26]

I have goose bumps just thinking about it!!! I will probably have nightmares!!!!

[Goodsoulette]

Rabbits,
spider,
horses
and well, being in a hold up in a bank or work etc and being forced to take off all my clothes.

[bigmamma]

Hi goodsoulette , the fear of the hold-up..........well it might not be so bad if everyone had to disrobe eh ? :-)

[RATTER15]

I think most people assume that any fear or dislike is a phobia!! When I was a pest controller, nearly everybody that phoned me up with a wasp problem claimed that they had a wasp phobia, when I arrived at the site, they were clearly just afraid of wasps!!

Being afraid of something or not liking something is not a phobia!!

I have a slight phobia of heights, whilst I know I cant fall of the top of a multi storey car park, if i was to go near to the edge, my heart would race, I would sweat profusely and would feel faint! even though there is a huge wall 2ft thick, I think that the wall could actually break away and allow me to fall!! how mad is that!!

Some people even have phobias over numbers!! how irrational is that!!

A phobia is a totally "irrational" fear!!

Sorry to go on lol, I'm not saying that you people don't have phobias, I'm saying many people don't really know what a phobia actually is.

end of lecture!!!

Pedantic I know!!

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[knobbynonuts]

work

[shineybomb]

I have an irrational fear of:

Clowns
Spiders
Snakes
Heights (same as Ratter - can't go near the edge!)
Ketchup (it cannot be anywhere near me, not even a closed bottle)
Enya

[nannon]

Dwarfs and midgests, (if that is not the correct term to use then many apologies!!)I know its mean and sounds nasty but i genuinely am petrifies of them! ever since i was little and a dwarf came up o me in the street and just shouted and sceamed at me - i was rooted to the spot and ever since i'm terrified!

Washing baskets - have no idea why but if they are in someone bathroom i have to take them out of the room or cover them with a huge towel

Odd numbers - they freak me out

Clowns

Pigeons

Have irrational fears about people dying

Getting bombed

Spiders

[Skreecheeboy]

Oh good one, Shineybomb, Enya gives me the willies too! I also have a strange fear of mushrooms and waking up and wondering how I came to be outside somewhere completely inconvienient and random, not knowing how I got there!

[bigmamma]

Nannon , if odd numbers freak you out , I guess I shouldn't draw your attention to the fact that your answer is post number 35 on my thread !!!! :-)

[nuoyg]

Heights and spiders are my main two. Scare the living jeepers out of me. And was in mexico once chilling on a beach and turned round and there was a massive lizzard next to me, it had elbows the lot. Didn't know I could run that fast in heat until that moment. I half exected it to ask me to rub sun tan lotion in it's big green back <flash back - aahhhhhh>