Phobias

[Scrooge]

A friend and I were discussing strange phobias yesterday, while ours I would consider to be normal there have to be some strange ones out there, so for therapy please lets here them.

Oh I guess I better fess up..I have an issue with snakes.

My friend..we shall call him Paul...has an issue with needles..faints like a girl at the sight of them.

needles for me too, esp the ones from the dentist... Got one due tomorrow [n][n]

Snakes for me too.

I knew someone who had a fear of bananas once...which I guess is slightly "strange" (whatever that is)

45.

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by VS045
Snakes for me too.

I knew someone who had a fear of bananas once...which I guess is slightly "strange" (whatever that is)

45.

I think bananas would count as strange.

[preiffer]

Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave...

Loser. [:p]



I shall be throwing you out of a plane the next time I see you, with only me attatched to you for "safety" [:w]

[Scrooge]

Why Paul..why the harsh reaction....oh..are you another Paul that faints like a little girl at the sight of a needle [:w]

Banana's are an odd one...

I really don't like sheer drops (e.g. looking over the edge of a tall building), but don't mind heights (e.g. looking out of a tall building, but not from right near the window).

BTW - Paul, has your post counter hit a limit?

[preiffer]

Ha ha! - no , not a limit as such, posts in here don't add anything to it though

[Darren Wheeler]

Turning right here. Strangely only on a plane......
Being dragged around shops by the other half
Spending large amounts of money

Originally posted by Darren Wheeler
Turning right here. Strangely only on a plane......

Actually, I think that frightens me more that sheer drops.....but maybe not as much as banana's. It's just the context of the banana fear I find worrying...

[HighFlyer]

Clingfilm, though most of you know that i think? Absolutely cant stand the stuff. Also hate those 'wet wipe' things, those lemon scented towelettes you get in burger joints and some Indian restaurants. Eugh ....

I knew someone who had a real phobia about buttons though. So much that he couldnt wear anything that had a button on it.

Thanks,
Sarah

Heights, crowds and very closed in spaces (had to have an MRI scan a couple of years ago and almost completely lost it in an anxiety attack - which I have NEVER had before - probably the only thing that stopped me was realising that the scanner was actually open somewhere beyond my head [:I] ).

My niece (almost 9 years old) passes out at the very mention of anythign medical [:0]

Boo

Peaches, (and no, i don't mean the offspring of God Geldolf) I can not stand the fuzz on them, can't even bear to watch anyone pick one up, sends shivers down me[:0]

I have a friend who has a mortal fear of tea cups, especially if there's a little bit of tea left in the bottom. His wife once went away business and left an almost-empty cup on the lounge floor, so he didn't go in there for a week!

Me? Needles, anything health related and anyone touching my glasses (as in spectacles; I have no problem with people handling even my finest crystal). And travelling Y. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

We have a girl here at work who has an awful fear of buttons, when she got married she had to find a dress without buttons! I leant across her once and she near fainted as she saw my buttons on my shirt!!!

I don't have any phobias myself! Does that make abnormal?

Peaches for me too, give me the eebie jeebies.
Thank god for nectarines.

""I'm sorry sir

Shopping for shoes with the OH

Interestingly I just asked my colleagues, and they all came up with animal fears; spiders, snakes, rats, seagulls...

Totally unexplainable but I can't stand seeing loose coins lying around on the floor, counter tops or anywhere else. I have to cover them up rather than touch them! Uggh.

[ChuckC]

My phobia is being unable to reveal my phobias.

Chuck-

FLYING

Paul

A friend of mine is Homophobic. He is afraid of his house.

Drains in swimming pools! An odd one, I think, and I've never (yet) found anyone else who shares this phobia. Even stranger, given the fact that I used to swin competitively. I've always loved swimming, yet if I can't be sure where every single one is in a pool, I just can't get into the water....[?]

Originally posted by catsilversword
Drains in swimming pools! An odd one, I think, and I've never (yet) found anyone else who shares this phobia.

I kind of share this one. Not in swimming pools, but in the little reservoirs / pools (I can't for the life of me remember the proper name we had for them) that the mills had in Bolton in the 1960's. Their position was usually marked by a whirlpool in the water.

Originally posted by mdvipond
I have a friend who has a mortal fear of tea cups, especially if there's a little bit of tea left in the bottom.

I never, ever drink to the bottom of a cup of tea. In pre tea bag days my parents thought tea strainers a waste of space and so at the bottom of every cup lurked a layer of leaf just waiting to spoil your day.

Paul