Welcome to The Hall Of Phobias
The Hall of Phobias is a new resource for the millions of people around the world coping with phobias. Every story on the site is submitted by our visitors, and can help you realise that you're not alone. Some of them are sad, some of them will make you cry with laughter, but they're all true. Come and share your phobia with the world.
If you're new to the site check out our random phobias section to get a taste for the stories on the site, or delve into one of the phobia categories: animals, food, social fears, human anatomy, spaces, insanely abstract, little OCD rituals or recurring nightmares.
When you're done reading this site, why not read Patricia Pearson's new book: A Brief History Of Anxiety, available in all good book stores, or read a sample chapter here.
Latest phobias
I have a phobia of being locked up in a small space, and one of being alone. And to top that I'm Clausterphobic. I freak out and panic. I always feel like I'm dieing at school I'm always sitting by the door
from Spaces : Enclosed spaces
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I don't know if it's a considered a real phobia, but I'm terrified of rotten/expired food. The thought of it makes me gag.
from Food : General
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i am afraid that someone is gonna poop outdoors and wipe their butt and thepooped up toilet paper is gonna be blown on to me by the wind.
from Human Anatomy : General
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I am seriously afraid i am going to fart real loud in front of people as without any warning
from Human Anatomy : General
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When I was six I was attacked by my friends dog. About two and a half years ago the nightmares began. In every nightmare the dog always found me whether it be a moderatly cheerful setting or a dperessing setting. So when the dog attacked I 'woke up' in the hospital with my mother staring at me. Then the nightmare stoppe and I finally wake up not able to breathe.
from Recurring Nightmares : General
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I have a reoccuring dream, since I was a child...i am in a dark place and everyone starts chasing me, I run and run from county to county country to country and everyone is after me and out to get me...I HATE IT! I wake up sweaty and afraid, I have other scary dreams which are always something I remember and either scary or not, but usually very vivid and i remember every piece and they are so real as if I could touch them and reality and dreams become a blur...I wake up screaming, boyfriends have left me because I kick them in my sleep and people think I'm weird and it effects me psychologically. my dreams are so real I hate to sleep unless I can just wake up and forget them like everyone else, I just want to be normal, on top of all me other fears...I posted them all on here too, I think it all goes back to my fear that everything will only eventually hurt me in the end, especially people who say they love me, everyone who has ever told me they love me has left me or hurt me in some way...ouch.
from Recurring Nightmares : General
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Bacteria. My stepmom knew everythings about bacteria and to make matter worse I took a culinary sanitation class..the nasty bacterial s**** you hear about in there is nothing like the nasty s*** she talked about! My Mom also has OCD, so ANY bacteria around me makes me freak, I want to clean clean clean and I do not have any tolerance to bacteria, I know this, so I want to stay in a clean bubble forever!!!
from Insanely Abstract : General
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I HATE onions, I will vomit if I am served them and not eat if I am served them even if it is fast food I would rather throw the food out! I claim to be allergic because I HATE THEM! IDk why. but I cannot stand onions or be near them and I ahte when people eat them!
from Food : General
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I recently wrote about my phobia of dark, including dark waters and darkness and now I realize it also includes the darkness of closing my eyes, I cxannot close my eyes for more than ten seconds without freaking out about what is aro0und me or what may be there to attack me.... please include this in my entry...Lil Lisa Love xo ...www.myspace.com/lillisalove OR lisaclontz@yahoo.com
from Spaces : Darkness
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I am deathly afraid of water I cannot see through, it is linked to my fear of the dark, unable to see what is around me or what may be coming towards me from any direction. It may simply be the fear of the unknown, not knowing what my bottom half is doing and what its surroundings are, even if I am on a raft, not knowing what creature could be lurking just beneath me. I need to see what could be approaching like a "LochNess Monster" or a shark, even though that is just ridiculous, but I do not know that when I am in the water! I have tried to overcome my irrational fear but go insane when seaweed or something brushes against my leg I FREAK OUT! Even if I was on a movie set in a "fake" lake, with nothing in it, I would still be ridiculously afraid and not be able to go near it. Any water I cannot see through, in the Bahamas, you can see straight through the water, I went scuba diving 200 ft under the ocean, it was amazing! When I am on a BIG boat I am fine too... It may have to do with several childhood almost drowning experiences or movies but I am not Hydrophobic at all. I NEED to be able to see my surroundings or I freak out! I need to be able to know if something bad is coming to get me, so at night, it can be dark but the door to my room must be open and the hall lit up and any other entrances must be locked and secured and double checked, or all the entrances locked and secured and the light on in my room. I have to be in well lit areas at night, like in cities or rural areas, but I cannot be in the wilderness dark at night, AT ALL. I think I hear or see something in the dark. I do go camping, but lock my tent closed and keep it extremely well lit up the entire night OR keep the entire campsite lit up the entire night so I can see the shadows near my tent. I become panicked, sweaty, rapid heart rate...of unknown noises at night. I imagine monsters or bears or ax-murderers or burglars, I have to know I am in a safe place where evil or bad things cannot get me or harm me and I have to be able to see that or my imagination gets the best of me and worse comes to worse I will hide in my sleeping bag or even in my sheets as still and quiet as I can so that the evil cannot find me, even though I am concurrently having a panic attack and every sound scares me! This irrational fear of the dark of dark things, darkness is defined as" the absence of light, so IDK if I'm afraid of the absence of light or darkness...or both?!?! I have kept in under wraps most my life and no one, even those closest to me really knows....what is this phobia called???
from Insanely Abstract : General
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