~Phobias~

[Lilith]

What scares the hell out of you?


They say everyone has a fear of something....rational or not.....

What is yours? I promise I will not use this information to torment you later:rolleyes:

[Sugarsprinkles]

Snakes and rats/mice!!! Keep them the hell away from me!!!:eek: :eek:

[Lovediva]

I was going to say Pussy farts....LMFAO but that's Kyttn's answer..LOL..:D :D


As for me it's lightenning. I run under the covers till it passes...

And another is my computer blowing up!!! :D :D :D

[Irish]

Ruining someone elses relationship.Years ago;before I was married;I was seduced by a friends wife!Even tho she was the
instigator;I never could look at him the same.I was engaged to my wife then and;just fooling around;could have screwed up a
good friedship and my future marriage.My wife found out about it
later;(years later)and even tho it was just mutual masturbation;
she was pissed off! Irish
P.S.After that;I vowed never to fool around with a friends wife or
girlfriend.I have had plenty of chances but always stayed true to
my vow.

[Ophelia]

CLOWNS!~

Ick...I shiver just thinking about the damn things!

Ophelia

[Lovediva]

Ophellia..where you just on the Maury Povich show recently??? LOL :D

If not you are not the only one with that phobia...I laughed when I saw that show..people scared of clowns...but it's a real phobia for some!!!

[Murphy]

I;m terrified of Georgeous women with whips making promises - Just kidding Lilith

I'm terrified of one day loosing my abillity to communicate. Of having a funny thought and not being able to communicate it and make someone laugh.

[Ophelia]

Diva...wasn't me on Maury, but it could've been. I think Clowns are sick and wrong. I can't stand them. eeewww...see...I get all creeped out just talking about them!

Ophelia

[Lovediva]

Well it's a real phobia and I feel for you Ophelia, especially after watching that episode. Funny as it may seem to most of us...they are very much real!

There was even this one lady who was scared to death of tin foil!!!!!

[Lilith]

Ophelia~ have I told you today that I love you? I HATE CLOWNS!!!!!! Evil bastards are hiding something!!!!!!! I have always hated them! We must be soul mates! LOL

[RandyGal]

I go away and find this stuff all over my keyboard.

Do you KNOW what that MEANS???

It's clown poop and it means they've BEEN here! :eek: :( :whiteghos



p.s. i'm also not fond of lightening and yeah, losing my ability to communicate is a VERY scary thought indeed.

[Aqua]

The actual name for the fear of clowns is coulrophobia... I don't really fear them, they're just not right! I don't of anthing that I have a real phobia of... except not being able to visit Pixies! :D

[souls_cry2000]

I'd have to say that a death by drowning scares me alot. I've been through almost buying the farm that way once and don't want a repeat performance. To die alone is my greatest fear. I've stories about people who died alone and no one comes to check on them till their house is either about to be condemned or the stinch begins to bother the neighborhood.

[Lilith]

Aqua~ We are gonna have to seriously work on that.......remind me the next time I have you chained up at my mercy to do some stimulus testing til we find an appropriate phobia......;)

[Irish]

souls_cry2000----That can happen;the alone thing I mean!My mother is 89yrs.now.She lived in another state.(Conn.)My father
is dead so she lived alone.She was falling alot.I was going to get
her; one of those necklaces;with the call button on it.Some one reminded me that she could fall down;knock herself out;and could
lie there for days until someone found her!Against her wishes;I moved her to an assisted living home in this state.I sold her house.I hated to;because my father and I built it when I was a kid
You do what you have to do.I went in the armed forces at 17;mainly;to get out of her control but she is still my mother!
Irish

[mindboxer505]

Actually i have three....thr first is probably alot of fatherly instinct but for somehting to happen to my kids......ive seen alot of parents that were totaly unable to protect their kids and that scares the crap out of me.
the second and third are from an incident that happened to me as a kid.....so called friends litterally bound me and put me in a old wooden box and left me there for ...prob 20min....but ive never been able to handle being tied or in a tight space....handcuffs?? forget it!! small rooms....i can hold my breath and get thru them.....lord help me if i ever get arrested for anything....they'd have to mace me and totallly bind me hand and foot......i'd probably go nuts.....

[Lilith]

Damn MB that spoils all my plans for you...... I will just have to come up with an alternative:D


Hopefully the bad karma has followed those nasty kid their whole lives!

[BamaKyttn]

my fears are: being alone, surgery and stitches scare the CRAP outta me.... and Pussy farts are awful!!!!!!!!!!!

Kyttn

[vampeyes]

I am terrified of bugs and being alone

[mindboxer505]

vampeyes....as long as ya come here.... i can guarantee ya .....you will never be alone..............and just stomp them bugs.........hehehehe

[Sugarsprinkles]

Originally posted by Lilith
Damn MB that spoils all my plans for you...... I will just have to come up with an alternative:D

Hey Lilith, maybe if we put our heads together we can thing of something we can BOTH do to/with/for MB....:eek: :D :)

[mindboxer505]

uh oh.....now where's that exit????
Hope noone ask for my deepest fantasy.....i'd be in real trouble then!!!!!LMAO!!!
and more than one might say eeeeeeewwwww!!!!hehehehehehehe!!!!!!!

[danziggy]

my greatest fear is some horrible happening to my kiddies. Would drive me mad. there was a big murder case here in the uk a few years back where a couple of kids took a small boy from a shop and toutured him then beat him to death and left him on a railway line. they are both out of prison now. but on some witness rehab program.

[Lilith]

Danziggy I still think about that case. Horrid.....

[danziggy]

my smallest boy is now the same age as the boy they killed!! is just awful.....

[kimmer22]

I am deathly afraid of big spiders....one time I hyperventilated and freaked out so bad because it was on the ceiling above me, I wouldn't move off the bed until it was dead or out of my room. And if you hit at them...they always run at you......Aaaaaahhhhhhh its so terrifying....
I sound like a big wuss huh??

[kimmer22]

oh and...i work at 7-11 and i am really afraid of someone coming in and just taking a swing on me or something....but i dont admit to that....its just too horrible to imagine...especially when i've worked alone and had these idiots come in all pissed off.....

[Lilith]

Kimmer22~I was in an armed robbery once and I swear no one should work at jiffy stores at night.....

[sugarfreecandy]

Phobias? ................ Did somebody say my name?? :confused:

I've alluded to this on the site before, but have never quite come out and laid down my whole phobic experience for all to see, so here goes... *deep breath*

For a long time I was completely defined by my phobias. I had the 'typical' ones, the fears of spiders and bugs (didn't help that my mother was in entymology), heights, and so on, and those alone were the cause of many sleepless nights for me.

My more severe fear, however, took the form of social phobia, also known as generalized social anxiety disorder. Basically, I've been painfully aware of criticism since I was a little kid, a perfectionist in all I do, and that and my shyness combined to make me terrified of doing anything perceived as 'wrong' or 'weird'. That culminated, when I was in high school, with an absolute horror of being embarrassed or made fun of, and a paranoia which convinced me that almost everything I said or did would be construed as 'weird'. I'm not talking about truly odd things here, either --- somehow I was convinced that something as simple as buying a lettuce at the supermarket or getting a book out of the library would make people think I was weird. (Yeah. I know. It's silly, but then again, that's what phobias are about: unreasonable fear.) Anyway, it got to the point where I could no longer go to school, and then later to the point where I couldn't leave the house at all. Not fun, let me tell you... :rolleyes:

But happily, that phase of my life is over. I now lead an entirely normal life (well, apart from posting nude pics of myself on the internet ;)) and to talk to me in person you'd barely even realize that I'm shy, let alone that I've had that kind of experience. To be perfectly honest, sometimes I wonder if it was even me --- the person who feared so much is so far from the person I am now. I have surpassed my phobia and will never let it overcome me again; but I am no more free of it than an alcoholic who has been sober for years is free of his/her addiction --- I know that the patterns of thinking, the raw emotional responses, are still there, and they do still resurface from time to time. Now, however, I know I have the strength and the support to get beyond them, whereas before I floundered, not believing I had the potential to recover.

Anyway, that's my story. Sorry to go on for so long, but I wanted to offer my experience as a tale of hope for anyone out there who is reading this and struggling with their own fears --- you can get beyond them, and they don't have to rule your life. There's no miracle cure, but good friends and hard work will triumph. I for one am always available to listen if anyone wants to talk...

*standing proudly on the soapbox, no longer hiding under it*

--- sweetstuff

[kimmer22]

well i dont work the nite shift....but 2p-10p is bad enough.
and i keep thinkin of these phobias i have...lol
when im at work sometimes i have to climb the ladder to do something...i get so tense that when i am done i can barely walk because i have tensed my legs up so much from the fear of falling off the ladder or having it collapse or something

[Aqua]

<The crowd cheers and dozens upon dozens of flowers are thrown to SFC's feet>
Very inspirational SFC!! Thank you for being so willing to share yourself in this way... sometimes that's harder than sharing your body. You never cease to blow my mind, with words or images, drawn or sketched. Now just keep standing on that soapbox so I can gaze a little longer... :D

[sugarfreecandy]

Wow, thanks, Aqua... I decided when I overcame my own phobia that it was important to talk about it when the opportunity arose, because one of the worst parts of the experience was the feeling that I was completely alone in what I was feeling. Didn't even have a name for the fear for years... Knowing that there were other people out there with the same feelings was one of the things that helped me get beyond the terror.

And now, to make this even more of a saccharine Hallmark moment, I just want to say that all of you people here at Pixies' have helped me to come out of my shell in ways that you can't even begin to imagine --- and I'm not just talking about stripping off my clothing, although that's part of it. So I want to thank each and every one of you for being the funny, warm, and supportive people you are!

Group-grope for everyone!!!

--- sweetstuff

[Aqua]

I'm always ready for a Pixies group-grope!! :D :D

[Irish]

Kimmer22---I have a friend;who owns two(2)all night(7-11 type)
stores.One is right near an interstate highway exit.For a while;he
was having trouble with people;coming in drunk;and hassling&
robbing his night staff.I have a concealed weapons permit and
offered to fill in a few nights until his problems were over.He said;
"Thanks for the offer;but I know you!You'll get pissed off and
someone will get hurt!It's only money.I'd rather they got the money and no one got hurt.That's why I have insurance."It would
be better if more people thought that way.It wouldn't have been my way of handling it;but it makes more sense.I must be getting
older.My macho thinking is being replaced by rational thoughts.
Irish

[axe31]

being traped or buried alive big fear things like the sept 11
i can not watch scares the shit out of me have a deep
resect for the emegancy servaces ho dea with every day

[scotzoidman]

My phobia - acrophobia, fear of heights... can't get up on the roof, a problem when I needed to reshingle the mini-barn (only 8 ft off the ground, but may as well been 8000 ft) had to have a bud come over to finish the job, cleaning the gutters wears me out cuz I lock my knees to keep from shaking, and let's not even talk about glass elevators & those atrium lobbies.... who's the friggin' sadisitic bastard architect that came up with THAT?!?

[jay]

I have a few I am so scared of clowns it isn't funny and the seconed is having a car fall off the hoist onto me one day some jack ass started lowering a car on me and since then I always keep one eye on the controls and the last is clausterphobia(sp?) when I was a kid my mother put me in a laundry hamper and then sat on the lid so I couldn't get out and I guess it stuck

[Prophet Reality]

Okay here is mine.

Giving myself to a woman, entrusting her with all of my secrets and all of my love and then having her laugh at me and leave. I know it is weird, and somewhat typical, but that is mine. So I remain a vampyre, and fear nothing else. After all, fear is the mind killer.

And for all of you that fear clowns, I can understand that one. I had a friend that worked at McDonalds, and everytime Ronald came in town he had to call out sick in fear that Ronald would come to his store.

SFC.... I am so glad that you were able to recover from your phobias and are now the well balanced woman that we all lust and love to well.

And finally, phobias are a very scary ting indeed and tend to take over a persons senses when they kick in. I have seen some of the bravest and smartest people lose complete control when their phobia arose. So to all of you that have them, and are able to keep functioning, Bless you!

[Sharni]

Spiders...of course i have to live where most are poisonous....eg: funnelweb *shudders*
Crickets - not exactly sure why...but they give me major wiggins :eek:
Seaweed (kelp) - if ever i'm at the beach and there is kelp around i dont go in....i cant stand the feel of it touching me

[Sarriah]

CLOWNS SCARE THE SHITE OUT OF ME. Even the lil clown on yahoo makes me shiver...........................*cries*

[Phoenix16]

Spiders of course...something about all those legs. I don't care if they are the size of a pencil eraser either and some of 'em are furry little devils and some hop..oh it's just freaky.

Also long bridges that are over water. All I can think about when I'm on one is the bridge collapsing and my car going into the water and dying. I try to avoid them at all costs.

[Lilith]

I knew you were my people........I have never been surrounded by so many wonderful clown haters in my life. I had felt so alone...<sniff sniff>

Sharni~ I am sooooooo with you on the green slimy stuff. If I see vegetation of any kind in the water, then I am a beach bunny only that day! Blech!!!!

[Oldfart]

I am reading about deep fears and phobias.

Phobias are intense irrational fears which are able to be

dealt with only with help.

Deep fears primarily expressions of real concerns.

My spider and height phobias are common, but also my fear of

water in which I cannot see the bottom or any distance into the

water . Sure there's a claustrophobia aspect to this.

[legend]

I am in the fear of heights group...but I also fear that one day I'll end up in a town with no women :D

[Oldfart]

Legend, that's not phobia, that's Tasmania.

[Lovediva]

And finally, phobias are a very scary ting indeed and tend to take over a persons senses when they kick in. I have seen some of the bravest and smartest people lose complete control when their phobia arose. So to all of you that have them, and are able to keep functioning, Bless you!


Very well said (((((Prophet)))))!!!!

[BamaKyttn]

Originally posted by axe31
being traped or buried alive big fear things like the sept 11
i can not watch scares the shit out of me have a deep
resect for the emegancy servaces ho dea with every day


Dont worry Axe darlin, I'm a Search and Rescue member, my German Shepherd and I will come find you. Merlyn and I can find anyone.


Prophet: I'm with you babe.... all the way. damned mortals and their senses of humour
Majikly Delicious,
Kyttn

[mtavistar]

Well-my phobia is jelly fish. On the beach, in the water, wherever.
I've never heard of anyone else having this phobia-but hey, never know i guess. Something about how gushy they are and can still sting you and they're hard to see. Oh, and black or green or red snakes in trees-only if they're in trees do they bother me.

[Sharni]

I don't have a phobia of Jellyfish....but i certainly do not like them..
We have some doosies here in Oz and they cause some Qld (and other states too) beaches to close...

mtavistar - there is bound to be more people with this phobia...maybe not on Pixies...but somewhere out there

[legend]

mtavistar, Sharni - a lot of the beaches up north here have been closed because there has been an influx of deadly jellyfish. and now they think they've found a new deadly species. so i wouldn't think it to be an uncommon fear.

[sugarfreecandy]

Mtavistar ---

OMG --- you have the thing with the jellyfish too??? I thought I was the only one with that! I didn't mention it in my phobia spiel above because, well, it's not a very active phobia with me right now since there aren't exactly a lot of jellyfish in the Great Lakes... But put me anywhere near seawater and I get completely and totally creeped out. Took a trip down to the East Coast to go to Prince Edward Island with my family when I was a kid and from the first time I saw a jellyfish on the beach, I had nightmares every night.

Hmm. Come to think of it, I've had almost every fear or phobia mentioned on here to some extent. Gee, I guess why they called it generalized anxiety disorder, huh? :rolleyes: Or maybe I'm just plain chicken...? (Nah.)

Hugs and courage to all.

--- sweetstuff

[dtydawg]

Heights, I have a great fear of falling.

[sadora]

I have a phobia about heights, but can control it now to some degree.
I have an odd phobia about tree frogs. (aka, sucker toed frogs) I get creeped out just looking at them. I have been jumped on by them before, and is the most disgusting feeling!! Living in south Florida, they are everywhere.
I have no phobias with other reptiles or animals. I am the kind of girl who goes fishing and camping. Taught her kids how to catch lizards and snakes. Will catch spiders and put them outside if they scare someone else in the house.(ifup to me, would happily cohabitate). This phobia bothers me. I think, they are just frogs, but when faced with one.... irrational fear.

[Lilith]

Sadora~ Nothing worse than stepping out the house and having one of those lil' green sticky things land on you.... maybe it is regional!LMAO!Yuck!

[BamaKyttn]

One of my lil brothers... when he was about 6 jumped into the ocean and at the same time, it looked like 40 or 50 jellyfish surfaced.... they were all in his swim shorts all over his legs and stomach and back.... he didnt swim for the last week and a half of vacation.....

thought the swelling would never go down

Kyttn

[legend]

Originally posted by BamaKyttn
thought the swelling would never go down

yeah, I often get that when I'm looking at all the lovely Pixie's Ladies pics :D

[Irish]

legend---That is a different kind of swelling.They tell you not to
scratch Poison Ivy or not rub it because a liquid will come out &
spread the infection.With this kind of swelling;you rub the swollen
area;a liquid;comes out and; in most cases;the swelling goes down!Just a medical remedy to offer assistance.It has;worked;at least temorarily;for me.That's why they call me;Dr. Irish Irish

[sadora]

Lilith- I won't even go around bushes after dark. So afraid one will jump on me. One time, we were having a few beers around the pool. I had kittens at the time, so didn't pay much attention to something crawling up my leg. I reaced down to pick up the kitten, and it was a damn tree frog!! EEWWW!
*rubs her hand vigorously just from the thought.
Another thing that creeps me out are those wooden dummies. I saw Magic when I was a kid, and I still don't like the look of those things.

[Lilith]

Sadora~ Were we separated at birth? Ventriloquist dummies.....(shudders)

[legend]

how can anyone be afraid of those poor frogs, especially tree frogs....we get really big white lipped tree frogs here, and they hardly move! you can pat them and pick them up and they don't care.

[RandyGal]

Man oh man...white lipped tree frogs, green sticky frogs, jellyfish?

All we have here are mosquitoes and I ain't afraid of no itsy bitsy skeeter. :eek:




Especially for Lilith....

**newsflash! this just in!!! i found these shoes at the side of my bed. what could this MEAN?????**

[Lilith]

Randygal~ Unless you are married to Ronald McDonald I would look in your closet for the clown there holding a bloody knife:O

[Irish]

RandyGal---If all you found was the shoes and no white residue and that's all that you remember.He can't do very good work!I
wouldn't worry about it.Just get a pregnancy test;to be sure!
Irish

[RandyGal]

Excellent point Irish...

thanks.

*heading to the store now to buy a CPT*






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[scotzoidman]

I got my big tax rebate from "W" last year... did I get fucked by a clown? ;)

[Lilith]

Scotz~ you don't have to worry you don't get preggers from getting fucked up the ass :D ROTFLMAO

[Irish]

Scotz---You got fucked by a clown when Bill Clinton was in charge!
---my opinion.My wife got a check when we were married and in the service.Not Food Stamps!! Irish
P.S.Different strokes for different folks.

[MissX]

Can't do heights, nor depths in murky water-I mean I live in the UK, there ain't any bad things here with teeth in these waters,,,but my imagination goes riot and I have to get out of the water.

And the worst one - water on my face. I hate not being able to see...whether it is getting splashed at the pool or in the shower...I hate it. I can't see and I just know there is a monster ready to shred me to bits just behind me...I feel so foolish, but I can't stop the panic inside :(

[Lilith]

MissX~ that is why you must follow the safety rules and ALWAYS shower with a buddy... has kept me safe for a long time now:D

[MissX]

Right, Im off to email this to MrX, I knew someone would have a solution if I 'fessed up to Pixies.
Thanks Lilith!

[Oldfart]

Send in the clowns?

First, make sure Shonda Purvis of Dallas isn't within screaming distance. "Evil! Evil! Oh, I hate clowns," says Purvis, 36. "Despise (them). Get the shaking heebs just thinking about them."

Purvis and others suffer from coulrophobia, the fear of clowns.

They join an estimated 6.3 million Americans from ages 18 to 54 who have specific phobias, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

You scoff? For heaven's sake, you ask, who in the world would be afraid of Bozo? How could Ronald McDonald make anyone want to heave up her hamburger?

Ask Forrest York of Mesquite, Texas, who recalls being traumatized by the Town Clown on the old "Captain Kangaroo" TV show. "I was sitting in the living room and all of a sudden the clown comes on," he says. "I'm scared, and I know I don't like this."

York, 38, has three boys and a girl. None is afraid of clowns. But when he takes his youngest boy to McDonald's, he has to turn over his son's box of chicken nuggets if it bears a picture of Ronald on the top.

"I'm not comfortable in any way looking at them," says York, who owns a T-shirt that reads "Can't Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me."

Popular culture has long acknowledged a dark side of clowning. Its ancient roots embrace some aspects of shamanism and the supernatural.

Clowns may have evolved as jesters and tricksters, but the dark side never vanished. Even Disney acknowledged it: Remember those sadistic drunks who tortured Dumbo in Disney's animated classic?

Clowns in horror movies such as "Poltergeist" or "Spawn" are meant to scare the baggy pants off you. Pennywise, the clown in Stephen King's "It," lives in the sewer, has razor-sharp claws and kills children.

All this fear of clowns distresses Ruth Chaddick of Cuero, Texas. Chaddick, 48, is special events manager with Feld Entertainment, which operates the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. A Ringling clown for five years, she also worked with Ringling's now-defunct Clown College for 13 years. She taught clowning and makeup, among other things.

"(Ringling clowns) were trained to be sensitive," she says. "If someone was fearful, you would not push yourself on that person."

She can understand how children can be intimidated by their first real-life encounter with a clown. "Children are used to seeing clowns 3 inches tall on TV," she says. "But at the circus, they're seeing this large person, all made up in strange clothes. Momma has pushed them into the clown's arms and said, `Here, let's take a picture.' The parents have told them all their life not to talk to strangers, and all of a sudden here's a stranger."

Ringling clowns were taught how to deal with this, Chaddick says. "You make yourself small. You get down to their level -- squat or whatever -- (and) use a soft voice. We don't go around with big honking horns. Use a small voice and take anything away that might be fearful to (kids)."

Colin Ross, a Dallas psychiatrist, sees coulrophobia as a garden-variety phobia. It can be treated like most other phobias, with gradually increasing exposure to the source of the fear. He sketches out the procedure after the patient finds a therapist:

"You talk about it until you're comfortable with the subject. Then the therapist shows pictures. Then maybe you look at a clown doll across the room, then progress to holding it. Then a video of a clown, looking at it in longer increments. Then going to a museum or store with clown costumes. Then going to the circus, just walking in and out. Then staying for two minutes but not for clown act," he says. Finally, you can face the music. And, hopefully, the clown.

"If that doesn't work, then you might try some anti-anxiety medications while you're doing this work. Then you might try a variety of medications," Ross says. If the fear still persists, "it might become a psychological puzzle -- you might want to see if something else underlies this fear."

Thanks, but no thanks, says York. He's never consulted a therapist and doesn't plan to. "I just find it a whole lot cheaper and easier to avoid the silly people." (He's talking about clowns.)

And York isn't sure there'd be any point in therapy, anyway.

"I don't know that I want to like them," he says. "I have this deep-down feeling that some of them are serial killers and are wearing makeup to hide."

BOX

Coulrophobia has spread to the Web, where sufferers can vent on sites such as www.ihateclowns.com and www.clownz.com.

[Lilith]

TY Oldfart!!! I did a speech on courophobia last semester at school. Played sound clips of Pennywise, from It, and songs from Insane Clown Posse (nasty nasty stuff).

I need one of those t-shirts!

[Collegeboy]

Crowds... I don't know why but I freak out if I am surrounded by people I don't know I start to flip out and yell at people to get the f**k away from me... *sigh* yeah I am that crazy person....

[Vicious Tease]

Nothing that hasn't been mentioned already but ...

Clowns (creepy, evil bastards) and spiders (I literally have nightmares about them)

I do, however, feel a little better knowing that the clown thing is common. I thought I was the only one.

[south]

Is it just me or does anyone else fear Tyra Bank's navel?
..We get about 8-12 Victoria's Secret catalogs a week and her navel is every where it is so deep and cavernous I am petrified just turning the pages I mean this is the stuff of Stephen King novels.....

[2-4-tea]

snakes anything but snakes

[Lilith]

2-4-tea clowns and snakes both pure evil only good clown/snake is a dead clown/snake.


My worst nightmare...................a snake handling clown!:o:p

[babybunny]

Clowns, Spiders and......Dark Black Bodies of Water. *shudder*

[Irish]

south---The only time to fear Tyra Banks navel,is when it's not
deep enough to stick your tongue or dick into! Irish

[south]

Irish...that is the scary part...you don't know what might be lurking in that thing! I have seen horrible things crawl out of deep dark holes...I mean it is not like there is any warm pink inside to that thing, it is just like a dark endless abyss... Sure she is pretty but there in lies the danger! You go to give that thing a kiss and next thing there are people putting your face on milkcartons and light poles.

[Cobalt]

Either I or Cheyanne not living long enough to enjoy our life together, and still be phisicaly able to enjoy it , after the kids have all moved away from home. My plans of that future with her is what keeps me going every day. I REALLY hope we make it there.

[ShadowRaven]

Not afraid of clowns....I just don't like them (ok hate is getting a bit closer).

I am really scared of large open spaces....like large fields or the plains states :). But yet I want to own and operate a small farm and yet I freak out in open spaces? LOL. I know I'm probably nuts but hey. :)

[2-4-tea]

thanks for the visual lil the clown snake handler all I need in my nightmares lol I will be holding my teddybear tonight

[Neige]

Hmmmmmmmmm... seems like I'm alone in my fear.... SILVERFISH!!!!!!!... Yep, those tiny creepy squirmy bugs you find on the bathroom floor after dark... *shudder*

[BlondeCurlGirl]

Anything creepy crawly does it for me.

I probably sound very weird with this, but I cannot stand using multi-user bars of soap...I've seen way too many yucky ones with hairs stuck to them and stuff, which I equate with being dirty (not the point of soap after all)...so I make sure I've got my own when traveling or whatever.

[Lilith]

BCG~ 2 words..............liquid soap:p

I am with you on that............. groady germy scummy soap yuck!

[ryker]

Being totally alone....i'm a very social creature

[Sharni]

*BUMP*

What are you scared of?

[IAKaraokeGirl]

*bump...'cause I wanted to bump Sharni back and for the newbies.* :)

[cowgirltease]

Not a dayum thing! ;)

[FallenAngel5]

I have such a list. :)
Thunder/lightning
Bugs, any bugs, but especially spiders and centi/millipedes *shudders*
the dark - inside, outside, especially when I'm alone

[Callie691]

i know this isn't on the same lines as the rest of the forum. but look what i found.
Kolpophobia - Genitals, particularly female
Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia

Funny how i cant seem to find a phobia of male genitalia. but, then again, i've only been through 4 sites looking for it. (sarcasm)

oh and i would really not want these phobias...
Coitophobia: Fear of sexual intercourse.
Genophobia: Fear of sex.
Hedonophobia: Fear of pleasure.

Not to mention this bummer
Phobophobia: Fear of phobias <--imagine you have this and finding out YOU HAVE THIS!-- can you imagine the anxiety attack ?

oh and my fear is stage fright...
Topophobia: Fear of certain places. Fear of performing ("Stage Fright")
And one i cant find a name for , major fear (while swimming) of bodies of water that i cant see the bottom in.

any help finding this one ?

Callie

P.S. hope you all find this interesting.

[imaginewithme]

I hate bugs & I hate having my feet pulled. :rolleyes2

I use to hate bridges and being stuck in traffic but have gotten over those.

[AngelicVampires]

I'm afraid of being alone in the dark, afraid of spiders (but bugs in general),and snakes.

[Galatea]

Long Bridges. I use to have to go with my sister from memphis to west memphis across the M bridge which is like a mile long and I would hold my breath and close my eyes and lock down until we were safely across every time. Lake Ponchatrain (sp?) too. That is a LONG bridge. I feel like I'm going to throw up whenever i go across a churning body of water. There is this spillway at the lake in my town that has this bridge over it and its no more than 30 feet across but everyone who I ever tell about my fear of this thing tries to drag me across it. NO FUCKING THANK YOU!

FROGS! OH MY GOD! When I was a little girl about 3 or 4 I was going outside one night to get something for my mom out of her car and my shoes were outside because they were wet and when I slipped my foot inside there was a red tree frog inside one of them and it squished ALL over my foot and I can't get within 10 feet of one now. It was AWFUL when I lived in my previous home because every spring/summer night I couldn't go outside because every outside door would have a frog on it. Just sitting here typing this I can feel them crawling on me.

anything creepy crawly, spiders, bugs, lizzards, snakes.

Ever since I can remember. I couldn't have been more than 5 I've had this insane fear of the end of the world. I remember being that young and having panic attacks laying in bed at night thinking about the planet imploding and recently it has manifested into nuclear explosions. One of those things where some country bombs some city in the US and they fire back and bomb somewhere else and then someone bombs them and we all get to shooting until the whole world is like a million zillion degrees and everything just fries. What do you call THAT?

Then there is the fear of flying brought on by 9/11 and the one where I am afraid that my little girl is going to choke or get strangled or just stop breathing and I not find her until it is too late....I'm just a paranoid freak.

[Lilith]

Galatea I too was seriously afraid of the end of the worls as a small child. It was almost irrational. The thing is I believe, after having raised my own, and loved and cared for a couple hundred others, that it is actually a developmental milestone.

In a post nuclear threat world (or at least from the view of a 5-7 year old) I have seen kids select things as wild as the sun burning out or exlploding in order to provide the socialized fear of the world ending due to something out of their control. I believe it is an extrememly important point of development where a child begins to realize that the world is something not within their immediate control unlike their parents and friends.

[rabbit]

Falling off a roof or a tall ladder....it has never happened to me but I am always paralyzed with fear whenever I have to climb up a tall extension ladder or walk on a sloped roof.

[lizzardbits]

narrow wooden bridges, or just narrow bridges in general :yikes:

[Callie691]

Could someone please tell me what the "*bump*" thing means.

thanks in advance
Callie

[Lilith]

Could someone please tell me what the "*bump*" thing means.

thanks in advance
Callie
It means that this thread originated a long time ago but someone wanted to post to it or offer it up to be posted to again. So they *bump* it by posting too it, to make it resurface on the front page of the forum.

Generally forum ettiquette usually dick tates :p that people don't go insane bumping to the point of eliminating current threads, and that they don't bump all their own threads constantly, etc. I have seen some forums that have very specific bumping guidelines. It's never been a big deal here.

[lizzardbits]

anything creepy crawly, spiders, bugs, lizzards, snakes.
lizards with a double z--:yikes: i hope that i don't creep you out. i crawl but only when i am either that drunk or trying to be seductive, *L*

[Galatea]

Sorry lizz din't mean you. No, I wouldn't run from you.... ;) I might run at you....with a can of whipped cream and a bottle of chocolate syrup.

[Callie691]

It means that this thread originated a long time ago but someone wanted to post to it or offer it up to be posted to again. So they *bump* it by posting too it, to make it resurface on the front page of the forum.

Generally forum ettiquette usually dick tates :p that people don't go insane bumping ...

Thanks for the info Lilith. i thought it was something like that, but i wasnt sure. for all this newbie knew it could have meant something totally different. considering i have seen several threads get bumped, and then there will be four or so more bumps within a few posts. just trying to clarify my theory. thanks again.

Callie

[Fangtasia]

Spiders & Crickets ~ creepy fuckers!!

[cherrypie7788]

As a lot of you already know, BUGS. Of any kind. Not just crickets and spiders, though those are my two biggest "ickies". I would rather deal with rabid animals, insane jealous wives, or door to door salesmen ANYTIME :D

If there's a bug, I'm running from it.