Do you have an irrational fear, also known as a phobia?

I have come across a "phobias" list many times just by being bored and needing amusement. The phobias listed there, although ridiculous are all real. I think one of my fears is of losing a great amount of money. By great I mean about a $20.00 bill. I once met a woman who was afraid of the color yellow and refused a plastic bag I put her fragile item in. Very weird, that was also the only thing she bought.

I do not have any irrational fears that I can think of, but from time to time I have seen people from time to time who had irrational fears,one big example of someone who has a lot of irrational fears is the character Monk on the show Monk cause I swear he is afraid of everything.

My irrational fear are earthquakes, even though I haven't lived in countries that have seismic activity for many years. Many times at night, when I am trying to go to sleep I get the feeling that things are moving and of course my sleep is gone by then!

What a great discussion! I will have to come back and read all the responses you get. It will definitely be interesting to read all the phobias MyLotters have. Personally, I have acrophobia, which is the fear of heights, and as I've gotten older, it has gotten worse and I now get a bad case of vertigo along with it. I also have a terrible fear of swimming in creeks, lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. I just do NOT like to be in any kind of water that has all sorts of creatures which I cannot see, such as jellyfish, sharks or snakes. Which brings me to another fear I have. I absolutely freak out when I see a snake, scorpion, wasp, bee or a spider, or any other creepy crawly creature that bites or stings. I don't consider my fears to be irrational, but some folks may think they are. But I think they are way more rational than being scared of BUTTONS! LOL!

I am afraid of the insides of toilet tanks. If the toilet breaks and I can't fix it with a plunger, then I call someone over here to do it for me. I am also afraid of looking behind closed doors if I don't know what is behind them. We have lived in our place for almost 2 years and 3 months ago was the first time I had looked under the bathroom sink in the cupboards. I am terrified of snakes. I also am afraid of anything with a stinger and I am making my kids afraid of stingers as well because my hubby and his mom are deathly allergic to them and I figure if they are then the girls are probably as well. I also have issues with heights. Mine are weird because I could be on the top of a mountain looking down and that doesn't bother me but being on top of a ladder does.

when you come to think of it, you think that fearing buttons is ridicoulus but I know what a irratinal fear is. I fear heights, I can't stand on a chair. I had panic attacks i the past. And you think you're gonna die. So I respect that, I don't understand it but I respect it. Cause lot of people don't understand how come I think I'm gonna die if I climb the roof...

All of my fears are very real and fairly rational. I have known some people with irrational fears. I have a friend who can not enter a building where the windows don't open.... like office buildings found in metropolis areas. She came to visit me once when I worked downtown in one of those buildings. I was just out of college and still low on the totem pole so my office did not even have a window. She wanted to see if she could do it. She couldn't! I had to walk her out of the building, holding her hand in the elevator. She told me a story about living in a dorm in college whose windows opened but that were different and just folded out on the lower panel. She said she was able to do it but that by the end of her first semester she had practically developed OCD about it because she had to go and open and shut the window several times a day. You would never know this about her, she is so normal in almost every way.

I have an irrational fear of heights and to this day i still do but to a lesser extent. I think why i was really scared of it was because i dread falling and i never felt safe when i was up high.

im scared of amish people.. to me when i see them dressed they look like people from the past like ghost or something.. everyone laughs at it but i see ghost as is and to see them and them be real its like confusing since they look like they could be ghost from the past

Yes, I have when I have a fever I could see some horrible thing! I also never watch the horrible movie! I could go to the WC after an horrible imagination!

I am afraid of height. Even if i am on the third floor and don't look down I get butterflies in my tummy. If someone else sits on a wall then also i get scared. I do not know what is this phobia called.

Phobia? hmm well.. There's was one time where I swim (that time i don't even know how to swim) Once I reach the deeper areas, i sink.. After that, someone saved me.. i forgot who.. it was a pretty long time ago. From then onwards, I developed pools phobia.. I am not really afraid of water.. mind you~ I just developed a fear on swimming areas. I am still not afraid of rain or anything =D