General human anatomy phobias

Admittedly, this isn't quite a phobia, but it's certainly along those lines.

It's things that are meant to look human, like waxworks. It's not that I'm completely terrified of them, I just get a little freaked and wary around them. I think the problem is that they look human enough that I subconsciously expect them to be alive and walking around, but they're just not quite right so that if they were walking around it would be absolutely, horribly terrifying. I hope you understand what I mean. Here's some of the things I'm talking about:

- Dummies at museum displays, especially if I can't see their faces (look too real that way) or if they're looking directly at me (seems like they can see me).
- Porcelain dolls, ventriloquist's dolls, etc.. Borderline horrific. They don't look cute, realistic or humorous, just scary.
-Waxworks. Oh my God. They epitomise the whole 'too realistic but not quite' thing for me. Imagine being locked in Madame Tussaud's overnight. Ugh.

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I'm terrified of breaking my sternum.

Whenever anything gets near it, I cringe. If I'm wlaking down a crowded hall or street, I have to hold a book or purse of something over my chest because I'm scared someone might elbow me or something.

The thought of that long, narrow bone snapping in two at the tip and the ends grating the inside of my chest... my pulse speads up and I have to touch the bone to make sure it's still whole.

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I hate people to touch my head. Going to the barber shop is horrible, yet I do submit to it. I keep my hair short so the barber can do it in the shortest amount of time. I don't even like to wear hats because they are touching my head.

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When my friend threatened my with her foot, as she knows I am podophobic ( scared of feet) and placed her hand on my arm, I freaked out, thinking it was her actual foot. She laughed and explained it was her hand! I am still not forgiving her for that!

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i have two phobias, one is of people opening their eyes too big, if i can see the whites above your iris, i immediately have to look away until you return your eyelids to a more normal state, it gives me the chills just thinking about it.

my other phobia is skin and hair, i cant touch another persons skin or hair. me touching someone's head, or skin is like putting your hand in a garbage disposal with a three year old's hand on the switch, i flip.

im not sure if it is related, but i also get very embarrassed if my skin moves, i have this warped idea that my skin needs to be tight, and rock hard, so that even pressing a finger against my arm in front of someone, and watching it snap back when i take my finger away, it feels almost like i just took off all my clothes in front of a crowd.

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I have this fear of lasers becuase once in kindergarten this girl told me that if a laser hit my eye i woud go blind and then doctors would cut me open,shortly sew me back up and then i would die...

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I have a fear of people touching my thumbs!! i cant have a hand massage because i just hate the feeling when some one touches my thumbs!! i just think that some one will brake them!! i dont have a problem with my other fingers there fine its just me thumbs!!

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Lately, whenever I see a sharp object, especially wire cutters, bolt cutters, or something of that ilk, I get a nauseating image of someone using them to cut the tendons below my knee caps.

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I have a phobia about getting my fingers broken... If anyone touches them I have a panic attack. What is the name of this phobia???

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I have a fear of having my fingernails ripped off. It just been something that has disturbed me my whole life. Especially at night when my arm sometimes goes numb and it is placed under my pillow, I have to wake up and use my other arm to carefully remove my hand so my fingernails don't get snagged on anything and get pulled off. It gives me the chills everytime.

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I have a phobia about needles - yes, I know a lot of people are scared of them, but - specifically IVs which remain in the body. I can barely stand being jabbed for an injection or having blood taken (the briefer the better) but having the needle and then the shunt remaining in my skin - violating that boundary between in and out - completely makes me frantic.

I've had to have an IV in twice: once during my c-section delivery, and once while I was being prepped and recovering from surgery. Both times were stressful enough without having this thing fastened into my veins and pumping or sucking fluid from my body...

How would you feel if you had a snake sink its teeth into the back of your hand and then had its head taped down, with its body along your wrist and taped around your arm? How about having to sleep and eat with a serpent's fangs and its coiling body attached to you, for three or four days at a time?

That is the repulsion I feel about an intravenous - to even look at makes me want to yank it out myself, except that the terror of feeling even the slightest twitch or jerk on the area of violation prevents me. I begin to tear up and shake if the fingers on that hand move, or the tubing jiggles as the nurse changes the drip bag.... I lie with the arm as far away as possible, in a completely level position, and try not to think about it. Shudder...

I'm afraid of wasps and splinters for much the same reason - that violation of the boundary between inside and out.

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I am not sure this is a phobia... I have an extreme dislike of dirty fingernails, and even long fingernails (even if they seem fairly clean and manicured I feel like it is dirty). Fingernails that are broken are really gross to me, even painted fingernails that are short but the paint is coming off are tough for me to deal with. I actually have been having a lot of problems because I cut my own fingernails too short regularly and my fingertips get beat up bad (and never heal)... I never chew them though... that never appealed to me...

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I have a phobia of my veins bursting in my feet. Whenever im thinking about my feet or feet get brought up in conversation i almost always have to sit down so i dont start freaking out. Also when i see a vein buldging out. Ive cried before over that!

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I have a fear of breaking or already broken bones.

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I cannot handle my toes touching. Specifically my first and second toe. It makes me freak out. Like I can't breath.

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My brother has a fear of hearing toes or knuckles cracking, or popping. He can't stand the sound of them, and won't let you get close enough to do it to him. He cries everytime you accidently pop his finger of toes.

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I have a phobia that, whenever I go on my tiptoes, I can feel, a bone/vein, and it really creeps me out. That maybe it will burst or break? So, I have to come off my toes, quickly. I've been nearly in tears, many times, because of this.

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My phobia is about the wrists. When I think about wrists, mine or someone else's, I feel sick. my biggest fear is getting stabbed in the wrist.

I think wrists are the root of all evil. They are man's only flaw, and they should be destroyed. I am one of the only few who see this enormous truth, and I feel bad for those who think their wrists aren't going to trick them or kill them.

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