Fears, Do you have any?

Heights. I tried the excelsior steam yachts at Carters steam fair over the weekend and asked for the ride to be halted because I couldn't handle it. Never again.
 
kaptainmarc said:
Are you scared of anything? have you ever over come a fear/phobia?

I ask this as I am petrified of frogs all shapes and sizes,
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My eldest is now 28 but when she was 16 she was diagnosed with a clinical phobia of frogs and it took 18 months of Psychiatry to get over it.
She missed her 16th birthday because somebody accidentally used the word frog and she spent the rest of the day puking and confined to her bedroom.
After the first session we had to put the word FROG on 3 doors in the house but it took about 3 months before she would go through them.
It was then little steps and eventually every room in the house had toy frogs but she still wouldn't handle them.
It was a Thursday night when I kept on at her to pick one up and after about 3 hours she finally gave in, collected about 100 of them up and placed them all on the table but when Mrs Dimple came in she wouldn't believe it until she handled them again.
Her final session was with the Psychiatrist at a Garden Centre where they sat next to a pond full of frogs.
 
I have phobias about filling in forms and replying to answerphone messages,
it makes any dealings with petty officialdom a complete nightmare.

I can completely believe someone couldn't walk through a door with the word frog on it, phobias are curiously strong.


I think heights is a different thing, that is fear and it feels different,
phobias are like a self destructive loop
 
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Just remembered O'd meant to say that my girlfriend is absolutely petrified of birds. We went to Longleat the other day and we got trapped in this path with a load of turkeys (I think) just walking along in front of us. She completely broke down...I couldn't believe it. I had no idea how bad it was until then, poor girl.

I can't comprehend it at all, though!
 
I don't like heights at all.

Also I wouldn't go into a cave and go through small holes for a fear of getting lodged somewhere and not being able to get out, no worries if the cave is large enough to walk in.
 
Dimple said:
My eldest is now 28 but when she was 16 she was diagnosed with a clinical phobia of frogs and it took 18 months of Psychiatry to get over it.
She missed her 16th birthday because somebody accidentally used the word frog and she spent the rest of the day puking and confined to her bedroom.
After the first session we had to put the word FROG on 3 doors in the house but it took about 3 months before she would go through them.
It was then little steps and eventually every room in the house had toy frogs but she still wouldn't handle them.
It was a Thursday night when I kept on at her to pick one up and after about 3 hours she finally gave in, collected about 100 of them up and placed them all on the table but when Mrs Dimple came in she wouldn't believe it until she handled them again.
Her final session was with the Psychiatrist at a Garden Centre where they sat next to a pond full of frogs.
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I'm not that Bad I can look from a distance and toy ones are fine, When we moved in the next door neighbour told me he had a pond just for frogs I wanted to move house!
There's a pet store near me that I use to go for my fish that had a lot of frogs and toads I couldn't go anywhere near that part of the shop even knowing they couldn't get out. I would like to think one day I would be able to pick one up or at least put it on a shovel and move it.

good on her though for getting over it. must have took a lot of courage

Nick1881 said:
I don't like heights at all.

Also I wouldn't go into a cave and go through small holes for a fear of getting lodged somewhere and not being able to get out, no worries if the cave is large enough to walk in.
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I went caving once my belt got stuck on a rock and I couldn't move freaked me out no end, and I do not understand how people can think its a fun activity
 
kaptainmarc said:
good on her though for getting over it. must have took a lot of courage
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She still hasn't handled one and funnily enough she could say the word TOAD and look at a toad if she knew it was a toad.
Weird how the mind works.

She also had a fear of flying but not that bad it would stop her.
She would start crying when she knew the taxi was coming and it would get worse until the plane was in the air and then she'd shut up. As soon as they announced we were landing she would start again but not that bad that attendants would be concerned for her.
When she got over her frog phobia she put things she had learned into her flying fear and got over that.
We were flying somewhere when the plane hit really bad turbulence and everybody was poo'ing themselves but she was sitting there going 'Woooooh' :D
 
Mine is a fear of jumping from any height even jumping from a 3 foot wall i just can't,
no problems with being up high or from drops on roller coasters.

Only other thing is i hate flying this seems to be that if we crash odds of survival are tiny
 
Koumpounophobia. Google it and laugh.
It's a phobia, so I'm not afraid, it's something I can't explain, 'bothers me' is the best was to describe it.
Apparently I would cry as a baby when I was clothed in certain things, and my father has it too, of which I didn't know until I knew myself.

It is very strange. I could be holding a small disc of plastic, no problem, punch 2 or 4 holes in it and I'd drop it, and probably have a shiver sent up my back.
 
Heights, and I don't mean that I just don't like them, I think everybody has that fear to an extent born out of instinct but full of phobia, I lose my **** even at small heights.

I literally had a panic attack on Sunday, going about 5ft up on a ladder to help my dad fix the guttering at their place.
 
Mainly spiders.
I would say heights, but it's more the fear of falling. If I get up a ladder I'm always thinking 'what if?'
 
Wasps (although can't say it's a fear of them just that I hate them so much), and weirdly I do have a fear of accidentally swallowing chewing gum and it getting stuck or it staying in my stomach for years and years and not dissolving (well that's what I was told as a child would happen, can't be true surely, can it?)
 
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