Do You Have Any" Phobias"?

I'm terrified of water, just thinking about being underwater is overwhelming for me. Even scenes in video games or movies that are underwater I have to look away or I won't be able to breathe, and don't even get me started on swimming. If the water comes up to my waste I get jittery, let alone any higher! I have been trying to get over it though, the books I've read on phobias say approach it in your mind first. So I visualize myself in aquatic situations that have happy endings ~LOL :)

Hi sweetie. I am completely horrified when it comes to heights. That is going to be a problem for me. And i absolutely go nuts when i see a christmas beetle. I honestly hate those things. TATA.

I totally have a phobia of snakes and mice. Snakes just seem totally creepy to me, and they have bothered me since I was a child. I would see one and run in fear. Mice are just so quick that they startle me. I don't want to kill them, I just want them outside in the fields! lol... :)I have not overcome either one of these phobias.

Oh, yeah - I have some phobias. Since I was a kid I'm still afraid of spiders! I really can't stand them! I also hate snakes - but not as much as spiders. Even a small one can lift my hair up. It's kinda funny . . . Do you know, I even left my previous place because of a spider. Believe me, it was a BIG one! We don't have such spiders here in Bulgaria. But Destiny knows what to do and decided to send me an demon spider :D Like all the others I see around are not enough! Strange, isn't it?

I'm terribly afraid of cockroaches!! I don't know if there's phobia name for that. Well I guess there's a lot that are afraid with roaches. LOL. Is there a phobia name for fear of roaches? Hahaha. I don't what I'm afraid of. I haven't been on anything that I've been afraid all the time.

I think it helps to remember that a phobia is usually irrational in nature. In fact, when you say you have a phobia, you probably know you are implying that you are afraid of something that most people are not, at least not at that level. Even if your phobia is not that unusual, such as a fear of heights, you imply that you accept it as not "normal." For instance, buckling your seatbelt because you "fear" getting into an accident would not be considered irrational or unnecessary precaution; however NEVER even getting in a car because you "fear" getting in an accident would be considered by most to be irrational and an unnecessary precaution. Most would probably think of the latter as a phobia and the former as precaution. When I was a child, I was terrified of spiders. If I saw one in the house, I would become very frightened and yell. My mother or sister would often then have to come kill it because I couldn't bear to go near it. But as I got older and learned more about nature and biology, I realized that the spider doesn't mean any harm to me and is probably more afraid of me than I of it. So I came to accept them more and while I would not want one crawling on me, I can remain calm when I see one. Not to say that I never smash one I find in my own house, but I am no longer so frightened that I can't be near it. I think the best thing you can do when you have a phobia is try to learn more about what you are afraid of and often try to learn more about yourself and think about what it is about a certain situation that causes you to have such an unpleasant reaction and determine if that's really necessary.

I'm afraid I have a phobia for heights too but am not sure. I will relate to you a recent experience and let me know if you can help decide my case. Just the other day I had gone to a mall, although I had little intention to shop or eat anything. I escalated few flights of stairs and finally got to the top most floor. I strolled across the floor window-shopping several merchandises for all the things I wouldn't buy and finally relented at the parapet fencing the open central area reaching down to the ground floor. I leaned over the railing to get a top view of the proceedings down below and felt a chill of fear tingle my body. My heartbeat did up a little, although nowhere close to palpitation. A few scenes of worse things befalling me did flash to my imagination, albeit fleetingly. The experience on the whole wasn't dreadful altogether, but it did shake me a little for the short time I spent there gazing underneath. Why I mentioned earlier I'm not sure if this could amount to a phobia is because for one, the parapet was of glass/fiber with metal railing and not enough to absolutely ascertain safety against a mishap; and two, the parapet was short to my own liking, even if it wasn't short enough to tumble over. I haven't been to dizzying heights that often, so I cannot even confirm from my memory if this is a one-off incident or otherwise. What do you make of all this, am I acrophobic?

Yea I do have one, but I don't know if that's considered one. I'm especially afraid and disgusted of those rusts that you see on floors. You know, those brownish orange patches, sometimes, dots here and there and sometimes one big patch. When I see those, I'll be quite creeped out inside and I feel very disgusted, especially when the floor is moist and the brownish orange thingy appearing there...Eww... ARGH. Yucks. Hmm...thinking about this, I do have quite a unique phobia.

Hi, You may find strange on my Phobia - I am not phobia on heights,but I am phobia with the word "fever". Everytime when my son has fever, I started to get nervous and this phobia feeling comes to me again. It was because when my son was around 1.5 years old, he was hospitalized due to high fever, I was so heart pain to see him in this condition. So from that day onward, I was phobia with "FEVER", not a good sign and I always have sleepless night when my son is attacking by fever. Especially in the midnight, the fever tend to rise up very high. I do hope I can get rid of this phobia soon.

i'm afraid of heights too. i don't know since when i developed it but i realize i'm afraid of heights. i had lots of dreams related to heights where i'd be clinging on desperately to something from the top of a building, cliff, mountain,...anything tall, only to fall off and wake up suddenly as soon as i touch the ground. it's terrifying u know, even in dreams. i'm afraid of certain insects and reptiles (especially snakes). recently i've developed a fear of flying. with the rise in air accidents i began to develop this fear and anxiety grips me even with every little shudder i experience while flying. i didn't have this fear at all before and i've been flying quite frequently for the past 15 years.

yes i have...i have fear on spider especially to the big spider called tarantula.. when i was alone in our house i saw a big spider under the table.. i was so scared i don't know what i am going to do that time.. is it funny? hehehee... that's all..nice discussion!

Yes i have a fear of heights and also water, I am scared of water in circular objects like drums and cylinders. I have been having this fear ever since i was a kid. I also have this fear of reptiles and snakes. I was once almost bitten by a snake once. That i must admit was really scary for me also as well. I am scared of my mom too! That is not a phobia but still scared of her... Cheers!

Hello jujunme! I think I have lots of phobia but I can't enumerate all of them, ^_^! Like you, I'm also afraid of heights. I could feel the shaking/trembling in my body so as much as possible I'm avoiding high places.

I too, have fear of heights. My officemates would always entice me to go ziplining but i really would just go and watch them but never try it because of my fear of heights. Eversince i was a child , i have this fear of heights. I don't even want to lean so much in a railing of a veranda or a deck of a high building. I don't even want looking out of the window of a very high building. I would just watch a scenery from a very high building within a distance from its window. I am also afraid of snakes, specially those big snakes , that even watching documentaries or seeing pictures of them gives me creeps. It's as if they're going to bite me or swallow me whole. I would always change channel if the TV program has some videos of snakes.

I have a fear of insects and toads . I live in a swampy area which is kind of wet for most part of the year . So it is very common for the Toads and Frogs to be present here . I don't mind them in the ground even near me , but I feel extremely uncomfortable if one touches my legs . They are kind of sloppy which makes me cringe a little if they come in contact with me .

jujunme hi yes I am also really afraid of heights as I always have this picture of me falling or jumping over the edge of a railing .that's one reason I dislike the nose bleed section of baseball seating an want to be further down and closer to the action. I refusedsto walk by the railings of two storied malls much to my husband's amusement.Although I am a widow I still do not walk near the railings as it gives me the creeps for sure.

I'm afraid of roaches spiders bee's centipedes and other insects, accept butterfly's I kinda like those sort insects there pretty and harmless. But other then that I'm (not) afraid of heights, water, the dark, horror movies or TV shows. in fact the goriest film dosent phase me go figure.

I am afraid of roller coasters. Not heights, not flying, just roller coasters. I did, however, attempt to overcome my fear this year by going on Space Mountain with my sons this year. I was scared stiff, but I survived, and am quite proud of myself. Don't need to do it ever again, though!

Unfortunately i do have phobias, they are not really that bad, but enough to upset me. This may sound funny but I'm disgusted by spiders, Anarachophobia was the name i think, not quite sure tho. I'm also afraid of heights, i wasn't always afraid of it tho. I fell off the balcony when i was like 10, and i've been afraid if heights ever since then.

Yes dear. I have so many phobias. i do not know why i have so many phobias and it is too long to mentioned those fears i have.