Parasitophobia and dermatophobia (fear of parasites and skin disease, respectively). This bleeds into a fear of fungal infection and worms in general. I guess my kryptonite would be a parasitic skin infection 🙃
I don’t know what it is about them that repulses me/freaks me out over anything else- I quite like spiders, snakes, heights, the dark, etc- it’s just instant nausea when anyone starts talking about them. If there’s a hint I’m in danger of encountering either irl, I’m out.
Worst fear is having something crawl into my ear (I guess I can thank Animorphs for introducing yerks to me as a kid). I’ve seen some videos of that sort of thing happening to people, and I can’t even fathom how calm people seem to be in comparison to how I would be if it were me. I’d have to have to put on a watch so I didn’t start ripping into my head in animal panic.
I also have a particular dislike for really large fish and really large lizards. Anything larger than a foot and a half begins to make me uncomfortable. Dinosaurs are right out.
As my sister would say (who has a fear of lizards, herself) “If I were trapped in a room with a komodo dragon and a gun with two bullets in it, I would shoot myself twice.”
I can function at height if I’m on my own but im all thumbs and feel like I weigh 250lbs more. Add any people to the mix and my body starts squatting and the running joke is i look like I’m laying an l egg. I’ll end up walking in an odd half crouch crab like way. Common example is being on a raised walkway, by a pier, canals, climbing stairs of attractions like a fire tower or an old building, ramparts of castles etc.
I did a bungee jump once and the worst part was crab crouching across the gangway that was suspended beneathe the bridge,. Once I was in the basket awaiting my jump, i was fine as i could sit down and I was all strapped in, the jump was easy!
I hate when you near the edge of a parking structure, even if you’re only three levels up and are protected from the edge by a massive concrete wall, and you can feel your body turning into slow, electrified Jell-O simply because that edge is even there. I swear I can tell how high I am inside tall buildings just by how the floor feels.
Funny thing is, I’m a pilot. I’ve flown airplanes with the doors removed and nothing between me and the dirt below but half a mile of thin air. Didn’t bother me a bit, just another day at the office. But when I was roofing my shed, putting the drip edge on standing on an 8 foot tall ladder…shivers down my spine just thinking about it. Again just being on the roof wasn’t a problem, putting the shingles on in the middle of the roof I’m fine, but being right up on the edge of the roof is really nope inducing.
What ! That is so weird. I have no problem getting up on a roof, but when travelling by plane I have to summon my entire self control or I’ll have a panic attack
Almost everything I enjoy requires vision. I think I would be very depressed without it. Take my voice, my hearing, my leg or arm, but dont take my sight. So I am very careful with my vision too.
So got me very worried a year ago when I noticed my eyesight had started to deteriorate. I cant see clearly in half-dark environments anymore. Watching meeting car lights and I cant measure their distance. Digital speed signs are hard to read at night. Watching the moon and it is blurry and has a squished halo. I’m only 38! I was planning to live until I was hundred. What if its gone long before?
Hope I didnt give you another fear. 😟 Anyway, if anyone is a djinni or devil or any other kind of wish-fullfiller for a terrible price and reading this, I’m up for negotiating for a perfect vision for the next 60 years.
I’m 36, my vision never has been perfect. About a diopter and a half of both myopia and astigmatism in each eye, plus my eyes are blue so my irises aren’t as opaque as I’d like. I have struggled with bright lights since I was a kid. I cherish my prescription sunglasses.
Snails. Fucking disgusting. Fish are veeeery edgy too, always found them completely weird to look at.
But fish are also often dead when you see them, so maybe in general dead animals with their eyes and all.
Also blood, not the liquid, but having something in your veins, in the most intimate part of your body. I often nearly collabse, it gets better with every time, for example the second covid suringe was way better, still traumatic.
No clue if there’s a name for it, but I recoil in disgust from long loose strands of hair. Absolutely hate it when I accidentally get some on me from my sister or mom and feel it wrap around my fingers or something.
Im curious, does that include Norwegian fjords? Surrounded as they are by huge, smooth mountains.
In winter times I think that is healthy. How people can live at the water-line there, thats just asking to eventually be pushed into the sea by a snow avalanche.
Stairs and inclines, like steep hills and tiered seating. We can’t sit in the cheap seats at sporting events because I constantly feel like I’m going to fall and I get anxiety attacks. Stairs and escalators are bad too, but I’ve gotten much better with those over the years (can’t exactly avoid them in most cases).
I have a 2 story house with a basement, and even going downstairs in my own home can sometimes be hard.
Apparently I have the phobia of not creating a better/optimal world for my son.
Like… I’m seeing a psychologist right now, and I’m on antidepressants, because I dangerously flirted with a burnout. Not a burnout related to working too hard or too much, but being obsessed with having a positive social impact with my work.
And since I don’t have much impact, I was putting an enormous pressure on myself to find a way to have a greater social impact, for the sole purpose of making sure my son would have more options than I did.
I have a really bad phobia of zombies. Like, I cried uncontrollably when I tried to watch Zombieland. Other forms of undead, like vampires and mummies, and liches are totally fine though and don’t scare me. It’s just zombies.
I can’t handle weirs or locks or bridges. I know rationally that it’s just sand and water and some structure, but I can’t stand being near them. Even just thinking about it makes me anxious.
thalassophobia even in video games. I almost drowned as a toddler so maybe that’s why idk.
Heights and tight spaces make me tense and sweat
Agoraphobia but mainly it’s limited to too many ppl in touching distance.
Don’t know if it related to that but I have to always have an exit plan. I always take my car so I know I can leave at any time I sit on the end of aisles if I can help it and 9 times outta 10 if I’m indoors I know exactly the exit I can head for if I have too
Edit I also will go out of my way to avoid calling anyone by their name. IDK if that’s a phobia but it just feels to personal or invasive to do.
Submechanophobia. No matter how much I try to rationalise, water grates in pools raise my heart rate.
Deathly scared of buoys.
Anyone read how a few divers went to explore weird pillars in a lake, only for one of them to get sucked into a nuclear plant water intake? Jesus wept. (He lived, somehow.)*
The exit plan is absolutely agoraphobia. I got that too. Gotta sit at the end of rows. Gotta plan my exit so that I either get out before the crowd, or after. Prefer car-vacations over planes or ships. My impresssion from the psychiatrist is that any fear that makes us feel irrasionally trapped, thats agoraphobia.
avoid calling anyone by their name.
I do that too. But because I’m really crappy at remembering peoples names. And those few times I do remember I’m just not used to it. I really should work on this because repeating peoples names does make it easier to remember them.
I have pretty strong fear of people in full body mascot costumes. This includes furry suits too. Not a crippling phobia, but enough to keep me on edge.
That being said, I don’t hate furries. It’s just all suits where I can’t see person’s face freak me out.
Is that also the case for full body armor and other fictional or real types of costumes where you can’t see the face? Or does it have to have a ‘fake’ face like mascot costumes? Just curious
I have this too! For me it’s something about not being able to read someone’s facial expression and not having the ability to gauge what someone is thinking or feeling, thus feeling like anything can happen.
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