Phobias you or others may have...

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I have arachnophobia (scared of spiders) and I dont know why, and I used to have a huge fear of vomiting, and was terrified of bird flu, and whenever someone at my school got ill, I got scared, and I knew if anyone in the school was ill, I knew. I'm not so terrified now, which is good, as swine flu is at my school now...

I have kind of a fear of heights, I think called acrophobia, the thing that scares me the most is of falling from a height, I can tend to start getting realy anxious when I might be on a escalator, so I tend try to stay away from the edges. I kind of also get afraid that I might drop somthing from a high place also and I fearsomething like my sunglasses or even somthing in my pocket might fall. Though I have faced my fear at times by doing, absailing, rockclimbing and high ropes at different times in my life *shudders thinking back*. I guess I also often fear that someone might think low or hate me, I sometimes let people in front of me, not complain of being wronged, worry I am not giving a stranger enough space, slouch down in a movie and am afraid of talking to any stranger in fear of being thought down on. And I guess lastly some stranger seeing my secret thoughts or other side, like fearing that looking directly in the eye will reveal my secrets and that I will be completly revealed.

Well, they don't have a phobia for fear of the unknown..

I have
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes
Myctophobia- Fear of darkness
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things

Heights, bridges, bugs, driving, most amusement park rides.

I have paruresis - a phobia in which I'm unable to urinate in single stall bathrooms.

As is most often the case, this phobia is different for different people. Some can't go in any type of public bathroom, some can't go if other people are present, some are afraid of people hearing them, some are able to go if the stall walls go completely to the floor, so they can't be seen.

For me, it's a fear of keeping people waiting, that's why single stalls are the hardest. Airplanes, buses, trains - those are the worst. Ikea is wonderful though.

http://phobialist.com/ ,is where I got these.

>Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
>Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.

I'm not deathly phobic of redicule and humiliation (or am I?), but I am to a hindering degree. It turns my stomack just thinking about it, given that I was bullied growing up. I'm so afraid of getting it during some job hunts that I can't even force myself out of my bed room, off the bed, or off the floor. I've tried talking myself into it, forceing myself by hateing myself, and it doesn't work. If I expect to get it from a group of people prior to meating them, I get very afraid or nervous of that group, and avoid them if at all possible.

DanasSoliloquy, I think I've never been fond of heights--Acrophobia.. I suppose it started from a long time ago when I was a little kid trying to walk alongside this narrow pathway on the side of a mountain and yet, I felt I was not able to do it completely since it was so windy on that day and simply had to literally carry myself of sorts back to the beginning of the walk path and such..From that point on I was never fond of being in high places though, I once lived in an upstairs apartment for, that did not bother me..

When I was a kid I was afraid of antenna towers and high tension power lines. I think the phobia originated from a power substation next to a road just outside town. We used to drive that way every once in a while.

And also sea weed freak me out when I'm swimming. I don't like when it's touching me.