Phobias?

• Kollin wrote on 2011-07-01 08:54

  Quote from Joker;496541:

  I'm just gonna put this here.
  
  Wiki:
  
  
  I watched a Documentary on Phobias and some Serious cases, One being a girl who believed her parents were "Diseased" and she couldn't get close to them or even look at them for fear of being "Contaminated" thats what a Phobia truly is.. "Irrational fear of something" there was also a girl who had a phobia of going outside which was really bad... she couldn't even go to the mall. and just recent I found a article of a girl at the age of 8 who died because she had a phobia of opening her mouth.

  
  
  fear of opening mouth? what in the world caused her to develop such a fear. and how did she survive the other years of her life?
• Jelly wrote on 2011-07-01 08:54
  Acridiphobia.
  
  An abnormal fear of grasshoppers or locusts.
• Kollin wrote on 2011-07-01 09:04
  i have the follwing phobias:
  Anatidaephobia – fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
  Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words
  Luposlipaphobia - fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor
  Nihilophobia - fear of nothingness
  Christianophobia - fear of christians
  Workplace phobia - fear of the workplace
  Phobophobia - fear of having a phobia
  Gerascophobia - fear of growing old or aging
  
  guess which of these are fears i actually have
• Joker wrote on 2011-07-01 09:08

  Quote from Kollin;496545:

  fear of opening mouth? what in the world caused her to develop such a fear. and how did she survive the other years of her life?

  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-546529/Schoolgirl-died-developing-extreme-phobia-dentists-refused-open-mouth-eat.html
  
  Theres the link to the story
  
  

  Quote from Kollin;496553:

  i have the follwing phobias:
  Anatidaephobia – fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
  Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words
  Luposlipaphobia - fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor
  Nihilophobia - fear of nothingness
  Christianophobia - fear of christians
  Workplace phobia - fear of the workplace
  Phobophobia - fear of having a phobia
  Gerascophobia - fear of growing old or aging
  
  guess which of these are fears i actually have

  
  
  You obviously dont have the fear of long words if you did have the phobia you wouldnt be able to even look at
• Kollin wrote on 2011-07-01 09:12
  :thumb: correct
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-01 09:24
  Yeah, but this is not the Bean Rua. :smoke:
• Piero wrote on 2011-07-01 12:56
  Trypophobia. :l
  Whenever I see a lot of small holes all together I get all itchy and feel uncomfortable.
  It's not like when you pour Cappuccino or something into a cup, and there's this foam with tiny bubbles and some holes.
  That doesn't bother me.
  But most things that look like whatever I describe, I [SIZE="5"]REALLY[/SIZE] hate it.
  The feeling makes me want to rage.
• ZazieTheBeast wrote on 2011-07-01 13:22
  i have two phobias
  
  I hate Bees/wasp or anything that looks like them, I've nearly jumped out of a moving car after realizing there was a wasp in there.
  
  I am also scared of storms. Dont know why,guess i watched to many shows about tornados when i was a kid. all it takes is for the sky to get a little dark maybe a strong wind
• Saffaron123 wrote on 2011-07-01 13:28
  Insectophobia... :c
• Kayate wrote on 2011-07-01 15:22
  Considering it's phobias
  I hae a fear of being touched, and fear of crowds.
  To throw in something I hate it would be heights.
• Mama wrote on 2011-07-01 16:36
  I don't have a phobia of spiders.. I am afraid of them though, but it's not debilitating enough to be considered a phobia. Same with heights, but that's just a fear of falling.
  
  I do have a phobia of blood, injections, gore. I don't know what it's called, but I get a sympathetic reaction to those things and go white as a sheet of paper and need to sit down, like a vasovagal response. I found out that it's genetic and runs in the family.. I couldn't do dissections or become a doctor for this reason. (learning psychology instead, even though courses that teach us bloodflow etc in the brain causes discomfort -_-)
  
  

  Quote from Kollin;496553:

  
  Phobophobia - fear of having a phobia
  

  
  That's so meta.
• Jelly wrote on 2011-07-01 16:39

  Quote from Mama;496759:

  I don't have a phobia of spiders.. I am afraid of them though, but it's not debilitating enough to be considered a phobia. Same with heights, but that's just a fear of falling.
  
  I do have a phobia of blood, injections, gore. I don't know what it's called, but I get a sympathetic reaction to those things and go white as a sheet of paper and need to sit down, like a vasovagal response. I found out that it's genetic and runs in the family.. I couldn't do dissections or become a doctor for this reason. (learning psychology instead, even though courses that teach us bloodflow etc in the brain causes discomfort -_-)
  
  
  That's so meta.

  
  
  Haemophobia?
• Mama wrote on 2011-07-01 16:46

  Quote from Jelly;496760:

  Haemophobia?

  
  Huh.. so that's part of it. It's actually part of the family of blood-injection-injury phobias which are distinguished because of the vasovagal response.. matches what happens to me -.- (THANKS WIKIPEDIA.)
• Nintega wrote on 2011-07-01 17:06
  I don't got any real phobias. Not scared of ghost cause (prepare for huge nerd moment) they're scientifically impossible. Since ghosts are supposed to have no weight, if you saw one, it'd just be flung off the Earth due to the speed at which the planet revolves and rotates.
• Mama wrote on 2011-07-01 17:15

  Quote from Nintega;496767:

  I don't got any real phobias. Not scared of ghost cause (prepare for huge nerd moment) they're scientifically impossible. Since ghosts are supposed to have no weight, if you saw one, it'd just be flung off the Earth due to the speed at which the planet revolves and rotates.

  
  
  Haha, thinking that ghosts follow physical rules.
  I've always thought that they were products of the mind, personally.