Phobic fears...

Things I am scared of are heights, snakes, sharks and a bit scared of bridges. For 5 years I was scared of leaving my house but that's way better now. I'm not entirely sure any fear is irrational as such as fear is a feeling and feelings sort of are what they are if you get what I mean in my crappy garbled way of trying to explain

My biggest phobia is Katsaridaphobia...the fear of cockroaches. I will scream like a little girl if a roach ever crawls on me! I will burn down my house trying to kill a roach if I see one! I would set off a nuclear bomb to rid the area of cockroaches, except for the fact that roaches can survive a nuclear holocaust!

My fear is well known claustrophobia, there is nothing I can do, if I am trapped in a lift, or in a closed space I feel sick, I sweat, I cannot breath and my heart accelerate even more than usual (I suffer of tachicardia, that is not a phobia).

I don't have any phobias unless it's a fear of lists like these! I did look and 'lists' isn't featured

Most phobias are completely rational. I fear people. People are horrid. My life is one big nightmare. I also fear lorries ... I predict that one day I will be squished by one.

@pgntwo oh my god ok I read through the whole list and I am shocked with how many fears there are. Let me just say....not mocking these phobias but I can't believe that the majority of these phobias exist! I also picked out the ones I related to lol *Buried alive, being or cemeteries- Taphephobia or Taphophobia. ( cemeteries don't really scare me but buried alive does ) *Celestial spaces- Astrophobia ( I'm not totally sure if this is what it means but I did notice that whenever I look through my telescope into the night sky, I start to get scared and ALMOST panic. Doesn't bother me just looking up without a telescope but with a telescope, I will feel scared. I didn't think it was a phobia though ) *Choking or being smothered- Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia. *Clowns- Coulrophobia. ( I'm not THAT scared but prefer them to not be around lol ) *Darkness- Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia. ( sometimes and depends on a few things ) *Flying- Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia. *Love, falling or being in- Philophobia. *Ocean or sea- Thalassophobia ( I like the beach but don't like big waves or swimming out too far. I freak ) *Sleep- Somniphobia. ( Sort of! Like if I've been having nightmares every night for a certain period of time I try to avoid sleep cause I'm scared of what I may dream ) *Spiders- Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia. *Undressing in front of someone- Dishabillophobia. Other than that I'm pretty normal @Daljinder Thank you for telling me about this!

Due to the longer nights I tend to suffer Androphobia probably because longer nights also means a rise in crime.

I have Cacophobia, which is exacerbated by Scelerophobia.

@pgntwo - Friend PGN - I have a really common fear - close enough to the irrational, yet a part of everyday life in Mill Otter-like places. It is the concern over how to properly spell (f)(ph)obia. Which is it? Is it an F-word or a P-word? Shaking in the constant and intense need to know. Have fun and give away more great posts like this one. -Gus-

@pgntwo I don't have polyorchidophobia but I am an inveterate ophidiophobe. Add to that my fear of heights, small places, eagles, people and snow and I'm a bit of a mess.

I have linkapedalophobia which is a great fear of links so won't be able to open that---lol!

I don't personally have any phobias, but I am fascinated by them, as with the reverse, philias ("love of" rather than "fear of"). Ailurophobes are scared of cats, but ailurophiles love them. I'm definitely the latter. I love your awesomely creepy image!

I don't consider it a phobia but I'm always nervous whenever I use the escalators.

I know that I don't like bats or snakes

I knew some people who have this kind of fear but so far I could not think of any irrational fear that I have but I am certain that I have few rational fears though.

I am paraskavedekatriaphobic and I had created a paraskavedekatriaphobia group on the old myLot. I have had various accidents on Friday the 13th, and since many years I never take a car or a public transport on these days. You have more car accidents on Friday the 13th than on any other days of the year, ask your insurer ; you might even have several plane crashes on Friday the 13th, it happened in 1972. People know it and planes are empty this day. Another example : last year I had an invite for a reception on a Friday the 13th. I would have had to take a train, and I sent a mail to apologize because of my paraskavedekatriophobia. During the night I received several phone messages asking me if I was safe? Yes, I was, I had not put a foot outdoors. And you know what : it was the day of the Paris attack at the Bataclan. It is the most reasonable phobia that I know : paraskavedekatriaphobia should be encouraged.

I do not like my face submerged in water or any thing too close to it. I once had to be taken out of an MRI scan three times as I couldn't handle it. My other totally irrational fear is toads and frogs. I only have to see one to literally experience a kind of shock reaction inside. As for heights. I was once rescued off a hill as I froze and could not go up and down. I felt such a fool!

The only phobias I have are of sharks, deep dark waters, and being surrounded by water. It is weird because I don't fear drowning but thee idea of going into aquariums or even in a room with a lot of fish tanks bothers me.