Phobia categories

Insanely Abstract

This section of the Hall contains phobias which are so strange or surreal that they don't fit into any other classification.

Read about general insanely abstract phobias. Below are the ten most recently added phobias in this category.

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!!!

Lisa Fowler
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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???

Lil Lisa Love
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i have a phobia of squeaky sand and the noise of the freezer when i get something out of it. it makes me cringe and grit my teeth. i cant stand the noise or feel of it. it drives me insane!

Elliott
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I have a severe phobia of glitter. It sticks to you and never comes off.

Karen and Dora
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sock puppets... especially chester from the sifl and ollie show

bob
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I am a 20 year-old female. I have been suffering from paranoia off an on for most of my life. I used to be afraid of people and going out and this was about 4 years ago. Now it is almost the opposite, I am afraid of being in my home alone. I am also afraid of bathrooms, the dark, and I am scared of very unlikely things happening to me like a plane crashing into my home, or alien abduction, or being attacked by people. I feel safe when I'm around family and children (almost any child, even if I don't know them), and I feel like animals can understand what I'm going through for some reason. I have been diagnosed with many mental problems in the past such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders. I've been on many different types of medications but they would only help temporarily and would eventually make everything worse. I no longer have an eating disorder either, I eat very often and I eat very healthy foods. I don't know what to do, I can't handle things getting any worse than they already are.

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I've always been quite proud to only have one phobia, and to generally consider myself quite tough - this is a phobia of crabs, which in middle England isn't much of an issue. I'm fine with spiders and heights and the 'usual' phobias I come across among my friends. But recently I've developed a phobia of opening and closing curtains. It's not about the fact that I worry who will see me, it's just the sound and the feel, and the worry that I'm going to knock something over. These are the only rational explanations I can come up with; I don't know if they're connected. My housemate is away at the moment and I've had all the curtains open for 2 weeks because I can't bear to close them.

Jen
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I'm afraid of putting a pillow inside of a pillowcase

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I am terrified of string. You know when you have a loose string hanging off your clothes... most people just shrug it off... but I go insane until I can get it off the item...

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I have a fear of honey comb shapes/clusters. I can't look at something like a beehive. The other day I saw a box of honey comb shaped pasta at the grocery store and it really creeped me out. I remember first realizing this when I was a kid. I saw some paint in a very tiny corner on some stairs that had slightly bubbled into a cluster of 3 little bubbles and just feeling almost sick and scared looking at it... The smaller the cluster, the creepier it is to me.

Kat
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