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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Natako on August 23, 2012, 10:59:41 PM
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So I have a fun fact to share with you all - I'm afraid of bees.
Not just "Ohmigawd, get that thing away from me!" afraid, but screaming at the top of my lungs afraid. I went out for food with a family member today and we were sitting in the car eating when a bee (or maybe a wasp, or maybe a yellowjacket, I was too panicked to pay very close attention) flew in and started hovering around me. I flipped out and started screaming like a sissy (literally, screaming) and kept twisting around in the car seat trying to get away from it.
Ahem...anyway...now that you're all mocking my pain, why don't you all man up and confess your own stupid phobias? Come on, you've all got that one thing that makes you scream like a little girl. Admit it. :P
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Your fear of bees is fun to watch, though. Remember at LaRonde? Yeah. Wasps everywhere.
And protip: Don't try to smack wasps on the floor while sitting on a bench. benches may abruptly stop the momentum and leaves you with pain.
Not too bad, though. At least you didn't get into a car accident like my friend did when a spider dropped from the car ceiling or something.
I don't think I have any actual phobia, to be honest. As far as I can remember, there never was a single thing that I wouldn't approach nor anything. Or does social phobia count? Because I guess that would be mine.
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My ex was very allergic to wasp stings so we had a real fear :p One sting and she would've had to be rushed to hospital.
As for me... I dunno. I'm quite a hyprochondriac... If that counts. Other than that I used to be afraid of worms and maggots, but that was years and years ago. Now I just dislike them.
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People, I'm deathly terrified of people. No joke. :\
Last year a lot of bad **** was going down in my life and something must have snapped inside my head. Now I can't go to a single public place without being terrified of that "everyone is watching (and judging) you" feeling.
Like if I go to a store for example, everything is perfectly fine up until I get to the cash register. I almost literally become paralyzed with fear that the clerks are silently criticizing my purchase selection.
And I know it's stupid and retarded and paranoid, and that most people don't even give a ****. But just something in my head turns me crazy when I go out into the big wide world. Pretty damn ironic considering I used to be the class clown/life of the party type of guy. Life is funny sometimes, clown funeral funny.
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Driving. It stems from a childhood incident where I crashed my dad's truck into my mom's van. Now, I'm deathly afraid of driving. I'm also afraid of other drivers, but I lack any confidence in myself when behind the wheel, so it's far worse.
I also have minor fears of whatever you guys mentioned so far. I have ways to keep them in check, but they get to me just the same. I also used to have a fear of cats' claws. The cats were fine, but the moment any pointy ends surfaced, I was out of there. Now, I'm more or less fine with it.
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Heights.
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Thornphobia
Voidphobia
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These:
-Being injected with heroin by a surprise attacker, then becoming addicted to heroin because I have an addictive personality.
-Aye ayes.
-Inflatable automobile men (http://www.bankrate.com/financing/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/car-blog-wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man.jpg (http://www.bankrate.com/financing/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/car-blog-wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man.jpg))
-Being stabbed repeatedly in the face by a horse with syringes on its hooves.
These are all true!
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Oh, Zuhane, lol. Though I do have to admit that half of those things would scare the living crap out of me too.
That post also reminded me of the fact that I'm afraid of needles though I can tolerate them better now than when I was younger. I'm still a wimp who has to look away whenever I see anyone getting stabbed by one. I HATE needles.
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I give shots as part of my job. I really wish people wouldn't be so afraid of them.
You know the majority of shots are only accompanied by pain due to the alcohol used to sanitize the site of injection... the needle itself doesn't do much unless you are getting something heavy duty (which I have yet to give).
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Heights.
I am cripplingly terrified of heights, to the point that I can't get within 20 feet of a cliff edge.
Also weird things I'm afraid of:
Spiders
The dark (and I'm almost 20)
Parties
Rotten milk
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Acrophobia.
But I deal with it.
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Oh God, death. I'm terrified of death. It's not really the idea of dying that frightens me, though. I'm fine with that. After recovering from severe suicidal depression, you kind of get to a point where death is inconsequential. No, it's the death of those who I'm close to that shakes me to the core. I've had a lot of close family die every year or two (sometimes multiple times a year) for a good decade now, and I'm living in fear that someone else is next up on the chopping block. I seem to have problems with human interaction because I don't want to have another death waiting in line for me to suffer through. It's made me a massive worry-wart, paranoid of anything too dangerous. It may be contributing to my germophobic behavior, but that might just be the OCD taking over (something else in my life that seems to be getting worse by the minute).
I'm some kind of neurotic mess.
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Voidphobia is usually associated with the fear of the dark, but it's much deeper.
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/void-phobia/symptoms/ (http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/void-phobia/symptoms/)
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My psychiatrist says I have Pantophobia.
But, mostly spiders.
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Also, I'm mildly agoraphobic.
Wide open spaces make me nervous.
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Also. Not making fun of your phobia or anything (I know how bad it can be), but, fear of empty spaces? That's understandable, but me, I actually enjoy them quite a lot. The more empty a room is, the better I'll feel.
Voids.
Dark voids.
Lackthere of light.
Also means a fear of loneliness, a fear of feeling empty.
Locations and darkness like this freaks me out.
[spoiler](http://carlmarchant.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/carl-marchant-dark-hallway2.jpg)[/spoiler]
Achluophobia, is the fear of the dark. In which, I'm fine at night time, or so long as I can see the walls.
But the moment it looks like something travels forever, into an infinite void of blackness, I freak out.
Kenophobia. a fear of open or empty spaces, voids. For me, only dark empty spaces freak me out.
Honestly, anytime I fall into the void on minecraft I get slight shivers.
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I think Natako opened up a pandora's box and exposed us all for the psychotic lunatics that we all are. ::)
You can't have gradual exposure for death. Or, well, maybe you can. That's called living.
Or it's called a near-death experience. I've had more than my share of them. I got hit by a truck, had a roof collapse on me, and fell down the side of a very steep hill. And that's the stuff I can remember off the top of my head.
It may be contributing to my germophobic behavior, but that might just be the OCD taking over (something else in my life that seems to be getting worse by the minute).
I'm some kind of neurotic mess.
I'll see your gradually spiraling OCD and raise you a gradually spiraling schizophrenia. What's that? Not now Mr Wall, I'm talking to the internet! D:<
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schizophrenia is not a phobia, wrong conversation! D:
Also Green,
I'm very well aware how much of a lunatic I am. :/
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Schizophrenia in itself is not a phobia, no. But it's a magical doorway to the wonderful land of phobias. Like I said in my original post, every time I go outside I feel like EVERYONE is watching me. -_-
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Earthworms. (Scoleciphobia in medical speak.) I will however admit that worms are the best bait for fishing, and will gladly handle the annelids if I can land a nice trout. In any other circumstances, I can't stand to look at them. Leeches? Even worse. Giant worms? Ugh. And then there are giant leeches...
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Nothing. Well, as I kid I got attacked by a dog. It was pretty big and jumped on me and barked at me and all that and the owner was just "oh he's just saying hello". Well **** you owner, big smelly dogs are scary for 5 year olds.
But yeah. Not afraid of them anymore. Things become less frightening when you learn how they work. Dogs and cats are both very predictable in their behaviours so after some relatives got both the mentioned and I was exposed to them it went away.
Also. Any fear from bugs and insects and any other smaller animal went away the moment I realized that they died easily. Was a bit afraid of getting stung by bees. Then one day I mistook one for a pesky fly and smashed it with my hand. Bee died, no sting.
Any bug is usually pretty dead when you grab it and squish it. It works, true story. And just like any horror game, the moment you realize that stuff can be killed - the "OMG OMG OMG!" feeling goes away.
Sure, the thought that someone is trying to kill me hanging out in dark areas isn't the most pleasant one but I figure that if someone actually wants to kill me they will succeed. Same if I'm sleeping and someone kills me in my sleep.
Not that afraid of dying, just don't want to die. Not gonna go doing crazy daredevil stuff because of it though.
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I'm afraid of volcanoes. Shut up.
Also heights. No, not the falling. Actually being too far from the ground makes me nervous. There's also the current fear that Atlus will never release Persona 5, but continue stringing us along. The last is my biggest fear.
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I was hit by a car once. Or rather, I ran into a speeding car while riding my bicycle. I came out of it unharmed (though not the same can be said for the bike), but it freaked me out immensely. The two seconds between seeing the car and hitting it felt like an eternity, which I spent regretting how short my life was. It didn't really do any good to my fear of dying. If anything, it made it worse, and left me afraid of cars. (seriously).
But thankfully I survived. Got up, picked up my broken bike, thanked math and probability for keeping me alive, and moved on.
Wow, I had a remarkably similar event, except the far wasn't moving. Also, my bike wasn't the only thing that got wrecked; I chipped my front-left tooth on the top part of my mouth. My face hurt like hell, but it was mostly fine. The chip wasn't even all that bad (it's still present. Dentists say it isn't bad enough to require any work, but getting it capped might be a good thing), so I left it alone.
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I'm scared of deep water and things that live in the deep sea. A lot of them are slimey, have giant eyes, whiskers. Some are just floating digestive systems that just consume things. There are worms 2metres in length, fish that suck the inards out of other creatures leaving only skeletons and hollowed out skin/scales...the bottom of the ocean is the stuff of nightmares.
Even in lakes I don't like touching seaweed, I get paranoid that there's something lurking in it.
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I don't blame you. If I lived in Brazil, I probably wouldn't go in the water either. Hell, I thought it was bad when one of my old friends (who lived in Florida at the time) told me that they had alligators in the water down there...and went swimming anyway!
I also have a mild case of achluophobia like a few of you. Like Felix, I can tolerate it until it's so dark that I can't see anything. At that point, I start freaking out. Trying to sleep during a power outage is fun because I get so anxious that how tired I am doesn't even matter anymore.
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Darkness is on and off for me. Most of the time, I love the dark. But then there are the days when I can't stand it. As in I have panic attacks if I don't have the area flooded with light. I don't know why. Electromagnetic radiation?
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I don't like it when it's too dark. Because I can't see. Other than that, I don't mind it.
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I got bit by jellyfish and crabs when we lived in Italy. Still went in the water every day. :D
As for the dark, I don't mind it one bit. Ironically enough it's because of my schizophrenia. The little voices in my head tell me that it's ok and that there's nothing to fear.
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I got bit by jellyfish and crabs when we lived in Italy. Still went in the water every day. :D
Yeah, but we're talking alligators here! When I'm at the beach, I honestly don't care about jellyfish or crabs either. If I was down in Florida and was told that there were alligators in a lake, you'd probably see me hopping in my car and putting as much distance between myself and that lake as humanly possible.
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Fair enough. XD
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I also have a mild case of achluophobia like a few of you. Like Felix, I can tolerate it until it's so dark that I can't see anything. At that point, I start freaking out. Trying to sleep during a power outage is fun because I get so anxious that how tired I am doesn't even matter anymore.
I scream when the power goes out... (unlit, dark, windowless room.)
Schizophrenia in itself is not a phobia, no. But it's a magical doorway to the wonderful land of phobias. Like I said in my original post, every time I go outside I feel like EVERYONE is watching me. -_-
Out of all the problems I've been diagnosed and acquired. I'm glad Schizo isn't one of them. :/
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Out of all the problems I've been diagnosed and acquired. I'm glad Schizo isn't one of them. :/
To be honest, it's not so bad. You're never alone or lonely. XD
For the time being my schizophrenia is manageable (I'm taking medication), so I can make lemonade out of lemons and enjoy it for what it's worth. But I can definitely picture myself a handful of years down the road living in a garbage dumper wearing a tinfoil hat trying to keep my brain safe from the government conspiracy. :x
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To be honest, it's not so bad. You're never alone or lonely. XD
For the time being my schizophrenia is manageable (I'm taking medication), so I can make lemonade out of lemons and enjoy it for what it's worth. But I can definitely picture myself a handful of years down the road living in a garbage dumper wearing a tinfoil hat trying to keep my brain safe from the government conspiracy. :x
... I'm never alone or lonely myself. but I don't have Schizo.
I'm within calm limits, my mind has just been sliced into pieces like an apple cutter to the brain.
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@natako and felix
Damn, do you guys not keep candles and flashlights at your homes in the US?
the flashlights are upstairs D:
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the flashlights are upstairs D:
If you have a phone then you don't need any flashlights. Oh what a wonderful age we live in. :bend:
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Unless you're like me and you forget to charge your phone.
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You're sounding more and more like my brother. XD
What's your battery life like?
Me, I can get about 2 and a half days WITH browsing the web, WITH playing games, and WITH listening to music.
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Don't have a cellphone.
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Don't have a cellphone.
In this day and age?! D:
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yes
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: The fear of long words.
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's actually a fake thing.
Fear of long words is a real thing, but that's not the real name for it.