What is your Phobia? Hereditary?
@milkandcookies (18)
January 17, 2019 1:38pm CST
Do you have a phobia?? Is it due to a traumatising incident or have you always had them?
I've been chatting with a friend of mine over our phobia towards heights and she told me her traumatising story that led to her fear of heights.. that made me wonder because I've never had a reason as to why I was terrified of being on high places like she was.
I found out that some phobias can be hereditary where memories can be passed down through generations in DNA. Cool, right?
So just wondering what are your phobias and where do the stem from?? Or are your phobias perhaps hereditary as well? :)
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
19 Jan 19
@responsiveme One of mine I cannot say here lol
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
19 Jan 19
i won't say what my phobias are-it's never a good idea to tell other people..but what i will say is there's one all the women on my mom's line have..it's almost like a genetic memory of something.
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@milkandcookies (18)
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21 Jan 19
That is super duper cool!! I think you're the only person I know that has a genetic phobia like that and for the women only in your family?? Man, science is spooky-
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@debjani1 (7202)
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18 Jan 19
I have the phobia of looking down from a height. I don't know what its called. No its not hereditary.
@MainerMikeBrown (1373)
• Bridgton, Maine
17 Jan 19
It's odd because I can stand on the edge of a tall cliff and not feel any anxiety, yet I don't like climbing a ladder, or at least I used to hate it. I haven't climbed a ladder in years, and in general I'm more calm than I used to be. So it's possible that I no longer have a fear of climbing up ladders.
@MistyckMoon (935)
• United States
17 Jan 19
I have a fear of heights, but my worst fear is of bugs... mainly big palmetto roaches. I have always had this fear that many find amusing and don't understand. Butnutbis not hereditary nor did I suffer any trauma that led me to this fear. As far as fear of heights is concerned, U believe it is not the height that causes the fear but the fear of falling associated with heights.
