what's your biggest phobia?

MommaTrish said:
ants.
yup, you read that right, ants.
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My 37 year old brother - stands about 6 feet tall - big guy - is terrified of ants. He will literally run away from them like a little girl. When he was 3 he played in an ant hill and was bit repeatedly by fire ants. He was so sick from all of the ant bites. It stuck with him.
 
I have a few things that creep me out enough that I'll dream about them (like scary looking fish or tornadoes) but the only thing that really gets me on a physical level is water (pools mostly) where I can't see the sides/bottom. Large bodies of water don't bother me so much, I can swim in the lake without an issue. If I see a pool that is dark and I can't clearly make out the bottom and sides, my heart starts to race, my palms start to sweat and I feel visibly shaky. This will happen if I'm watching an HGTV type show where they show someone's extreme pool. If the pool is clear and I can see the bottoms and edges, all is well. If not, it really makes me nervous. That said, considering I was nearly drowned as a small child, I think this phobia is probably justified. I also don't like to be in any water that is over my head and I used to freak out when I got water in my face. Both of those are getting much better, but dark water... I can't handle it. I'm told it was late in the evening when he tried to drown me so that probably has something to do with it. :(
 
Nadal, really. I have things that make me vaguely uncomfortable, (flying, driving on cliffs) but no phobias or anything that would stop me from doing something.
 
Glad I'm not alone in all this!!!

1. Fire - I'm OK with one in a fireplace when it's all nice and proper. I can do a campfire if it's in a nice big ring. But I'm real OCD about the whole thing. Last fall my son's class went on a campout and OMG the boys playing in the fire about sent me over the edge. :cursing: Thank God one of the Dads was a volunteer firefighter or I would've lost it.

2. Snakes - I always jumped when I saw a garter snake in the yard and my heart would race. But now that I'm in rattlesnake country it's just terrifying. :crying:

3. Spiders - I'm getting better about this one, but ditto with the snakes about. We have black widows in California. I do-not leave my shoes outside! ;)
 
Sherri Tierney said:
terrified of ants. He will literally run away from them like a little girl. When he was 3 he played in an ant hill and was bit repeatedly by fire ants. He was so sick from all of the ant bites. It stuck with him.
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This is both of my boys. When we lived in Georgia, both were covered in ants (at separate times) and it took me spraying them (and then myself) with the hose to get them all off, it was awful. Those bites hurt!
 
Any creepy crawling bugs; ants, spiders, cockroaches, you name them... I hate them!
Snakes! Yikes!
Unbalancing acts... I can't ride bikes, I can't skate. I remember trying ice skating the first time, I was shaking badly and crying... :(
Dark. Simply because I hate horror/thriller movies...
 
Traci Reed said:
Nadal, really. I have things that make me vaguely uncomfortable, (flying, driving on cliffs) but no phobias or anything that would stop me from doing something.
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I hesitated to answer because my fears don't stop me from doing something. Just the water thing makes me physically uncomfortable.
 
Thunder.... not Lightning (love that), but Thunder freaks the heck out of me. I can sense a storm coming in my knees, they lock or give out, if a thunderstorm is near even before I hear it. Oh and elevators! Terrified of elevators, when I was 3 I got pushed back in to one in a very busy mall, separated from my family, and stuck on the darn things for quite a while. These days I can go on them.... (faced my fear a few years ago going to the top of the Empire State Building), but it takes a lot of slow deep breaths to make it calmly...... but I have a BAD habit of counting the "weight" that gets in an elevator.... I was first on once, and after a large number of people got on, I pushed my way through as fast as I could to get off.... it was WAY too close to max numbers and I was more than willing to wait for the next one. LOL Oh and since I can't swim, I do panic in water once it gets to a level to make me start to float.... I prefer to just stay out of the deep water.
 
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I have a fairly irrational fear of murky water, I can't stand to even be near water I can not see through. I am convinced it is filled with parasites and monsters. I am a MAJOR germ a phob. If I hear someone is sick with the stomach bug it sends me into an all out panic. Even if I haven't seen them in months. I begin to clean and make my family take precautions. The worst part is I know it is nuts-but I can't help it!
 
Bugs/spiders really freak me out. I'll go running out of a room. I can handle small spiders but the bigger ones terrify me. I have to leave the room until my hubs gets rid of it or if he's not home, I shut the door and stay out of that room. I got a spider bite last summer when sleeping (it was swollen and red for a couple of weeks and the doc figured it was a spider bite) and I was so freaked out that I had a hard time going to sleep for weeks. Funny thing though, if I have a camera at my face I can get up close and take a pic of it (as long as it doesn't move lol).
 
I had to think about this!

Murky, dark lake water. Mirrors in the dark (sometimes not just in the dark). Dolls creep me out, wouldn't call it a phobia, but if there's a largish (or non Barbie) type doll, I don't like it in the same room with me.

My daughter has a huge map phobia. She can't be in the same room with a map or look at one.
 
I am claustrophobic so anything where I feel I don't have enough air or I feel closed in will make me start freaking out. Like I can literally feel my heartbeat start quickening and my blood pressure raising. Driving in fog or blizzard conditions I believe is what started it and is the thing to get me going the worst. I have to do it for work, but if there was absolutely any way possible I wouldn't, instead I just go into near panic attack.
 
I am afraid of being trapped! It's a little different than claustrophobia but it freaks me out bad sometimes. If you just hold my arms down I freak out. It isn't a the same as being afraid of a small space. It's hard to explain but it is awful! Hubby likes to show people randomly and grabs my arms and I HATE IT.
 
Roaches give me the willies, just shudder thinking about them. Don't like spiders either, especially the jumping or fast ones. I also hate crossing over tall drawbridges or even really tall long bridges. I always tend to drive slower and grip the steering wheel very tightly.
 
None now, but when I was a kid I was worried about shark attacks. Not irrational if you're talking about the ocean, but I had visions of a shark swimming up out of the grate and attacking in a swimming pool! Even then I knew it was impossible and managed to swim anyway, but the fear of it stuck with me for a few years.

I still can't watch scary movies. They freak me out so badly that I don't want to be home alone or be awake after everyone else has gone to sleep. I can read books with scary scenes, but movies...just NO.
 
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