Irrational Fears

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I've had a terrible fear of spiders since I was a child & have been known to scream the place down if one comes near me , I just cant bear the thought of one on me.

I also have a fear of falling/heights (not sure which I'm more scare of).

I will not go down escalators but have absolutely no problem going up them.

But my most irrational fear was when I suffered really bad with OCD and would wash my hands 10 times in the morning before I would do anything else & continue to wash them another 20 or 30 times through out the day. My thinking was so warped, that I felt safer washing my hands till they bled than picking up something someone else had already touched.

Do you have any irrational fears & do they affect your day?

Your Face

Marriage

ElChe32

People from Meath. There's something just not right about them

NickNickleby

Your Face wrote: »

Marriage

you missed the 'irrational' bit. :pac::pac::pac:

Only joking Mrs N.

ger vallely

Butterflies inside a house. They are pretty and gorgeous outside, no problem with them at all out in nature. Inside, when I hear them fluttering again a wall or window I get all clammy and stressy. Even typing this, imagining it in my head makes me feel uncomfortable. Sickening.

Tauriel

Seaweed you just don't know what's lurking beneath it.

Going bald is another fear despite the fact that I'm female and I have naturally very thick hair.

pleas advice

stamps

Hector Bellend

SEPT 23 1989

Birds

Chev_Chelios

Bees, ****ing hate them.

Outlaw Pete

Enclosed spaces and being in the middle of a very large crowd, like up front at a gig with no pit, or on the Tube at rush hour in London. Control freak I guess.

Stems for being at the bottom of a large mountain made of ten year old boy's at primary school. Eating grass and not being able to breath has stated with me for some reason.

nozzferrahhtoo

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I've had a terrible fear of spiders since I was a child & have been known to scream the place down if one comes near me , I just cant bear the thought of one on me.

I wish I could remember who it was right now but I remember a story about some man (I have a niggling feeling it was someone like Charles Darwin or one of his peers but I might be MILES off) who had a thing for women with a hair lip. Anyway it was some kind of major turn on for him.

Then one day thinking deeply on this he remembered something forgotten in his past where his appreciation of it stemmed from. And suddenly the entire attraction went away forever and never came back.

I had a terrific fear of spiders for as long as I could remember like you. Very intense. Then one day my sister said to me "Oh yeah I remember that time I woke you up because there was a huge spider over your bed". It came rushing back to me, she woke me up screaming like a mad thing to get out of the bed QUICK because of the spider. Dad eventually got rid of it and I went sleepily back to bed and forgot about it entirely. But I was scared of spiders since then.

The MOMENT she reminded me of that though, my entire fear of spiders disappeared. In fact I went actively looking for one until I found it and played around with it on my hands for ages.

Not a fear, but similar responses to it, for me is the sound of pouring water. It arouses this desire to get the hell away from the noise. And aggression, like intense almost violent annoyance at the person doing it.

Pouring a bottle of water into a glass for example. But for some reason it is strongest when a cup of tea is being poured from the kettle. A cup being filled with water in this fashion just grates on my deep.

Probably another lost memory that explains, and maybe even cures it. Wish I could remember it so as to get rid of this response.

Conservatory

Really tall women

Tom Dunne

I have this recurring dream about glass lifts that go not only up and down, but then horizontal.

In the most recent dream, I was in a lift that arrived in the lobby of the hotel I was staying in, it went out into the carpark, into a pickup truck and went down the main street in Tullamore. I pressed the emergency button and Ger Fleming from Met Eireann turned up, laughing at me.

It was horrifying.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Actual full on phobia of mice and rats
Scared of spiders since one got in my ear

But both of those are rational.

My biggest irrational fears are boats but more specifically boats that have sails, the V part of the boat that sits in water, and boards that bob up and down in water. Am fine with kayaks and row boats. Would actually **** myself if I was next to a boat with huge sails. The thoughts of it even. Vom.

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nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »

I wish I could remember who it was right now but I remember a story about some man (I have a niggling feeling it was someone like Charles Darwin or one of his peers but I might be MILES off) who had a thing for women with a hair lip. Anyway it was some kind of major turn on for him.

Then one day thinking deeply on this he remembered something forgotten in his past where his appreciation of it stemmed from. And suddenly the entire attraction went away forever and never came back.

I had a terrific fear of spiders for as long as I could remember like you. Very intense. Then one day my sister said to me "Oh yeah I remember that time I woke you up because there was a huge spider over your bed". It came rushing back to me, she woke me up screaming like a mad thing to get out of the bed QUICK because of the spider. Dad eventually got rid of it and I went sleepily back to bed and forgot about it entirely. But I was scared of spiders since then.

The MOMENT she reminded me of that though, my entire fear of spiders disappeared. In fact I went actively looking for one until I found it and played around with it on my hands for ages.

Ya I think you could be on to something there, I've got a little braver as I got older but just the thought of a spider on me gives me the shivers.

Rubberlegs

Someone sitting on my feet when I am in bed

keith_sixteen

Getting struck by lightning.

jaxxx

Socialising with people in real life.

Spiral staircases

fussyonion

Brian McFadden

BlackEdelweiss

My teenage daughter has recently developed an irrational un-comfortableness (probably a better way to describe it than a fear) of stickers. She cant look at them on anything. Doesn't help her that my 7 year old daughter loves them and coats the house in stickers.

fussyonion

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Brian McFadden

That is not irrational.

kfallon

Tickles, I hate them! *shudders*

Snakes... Never quite understand the phobia I have since I had it long before I ever saw a snake.

Heights and vertigo. Standing on a chair gives me vertigo. Went skydiving to "cure" the phobia, and went nuts on the plane. Still made the jump, but I'll never put myself through that again.

The words 'moist' and 'tasty'

kfallon

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The words 'moist'

He he he!

dd972

Probably a social anxiety thing, but I turn completely timid and asocial at workplaces, just can't understand how other people seem so relaxed in them as if being 'at work' has no effect on them.

IvySlayer

I can never stand on the plughole in the shower

EPAndlee

Hanging my feet out over the end of bed incase something grabs them