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General insanely abstract phobias
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!!!
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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???
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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!
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I have a severe phobia of glitter. It sticks to you and never comes off.
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sock puppets... especially chester from the sifl and ollie show
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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.
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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.
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I have a phobia of kitchen cabinets, particularly putting food in cabinets. It makes me sick to see food items in the pantry cabinet. I have trouble looking at it, let alone taking those items out and attempting to prepare or eat them.
It's something about the cold, dark cabinet shelf that totally grosses me out. I hate the thought of food (or dishes) sitting in the cabinet. I always think there are little creepy crawly things that run over the food or plates and it turns me off.
Whenever my girlfriend comes over there's always tons of things sitting on my kitchen counters and she ends up putting those things in the cabinets...we then argue because I can't stand that!
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I have a phobia of sitting in corner booths at restaurants. There's just something about being in the corner or next to the wall and seeing the dirtiness/dingyness of the corners of the table up against the wall just makes me absolutely sick.
The corner always seems like the nastiest place to sit and I just can't stand thinking about it while I'm trying to eat.
My girlfriend and I went out to breakfast a couple of weeks ago and the waitress sat us next to the wall. I could barely eat. I had to force my food down and it only made me more sick by the time we were done.
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I'll see millions of holes in or on something, and it sends chills on my spin, Its the million of tiny whols creep me out.
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I can NOT sleep facing anyone. Including my husband. I have this image stuck in my head that in the middle of the night they are watching me, eyes wide open like some possessed demon with an evil grin, plotting my demise while I peacefully sleep. I'm terrified if I face someone and open my eyes, that I'll find them staring at me with all white eyes, with no pupil. pure evil.
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I am very scared of straws. They scare me and I do not use them
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I don't know what it's called, but I have an extreme fear of people touching my pillows. Whenever anyone touches them, I feel the need to scream, yell, and wash my pillowcases. If I had enough money, I would probably go buy new pillows everytime someone touched them. It just freaks me out. A LOT!!!!
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i have a fear of bieng wet or being under water. it freaks me out i think i will drown.!!!!!!!!!
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I can't stand the sound of glass... either breaking, or clinking against something else made of glass. If someone drops and breaks something made of glass, I will literally have a full-on panic attack. Putting away dishes is always a horrible ordeal for me, as I flinch and catch my breath the entire time, simply because of the sound. Although, oddly enough, a recorded sound of glass (on TV or in a movie) doesn't bother me. And it's not the glass itself that I'm afraid of. Just the noise it makes. I'm wondering if it's something about the frequency of the sound. Can't find anyone anywhere else with the same issue.
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I am terrified of large masses of Japanese or Chinese people. I have no problem with anyone of that culture. But after watching scary movies from there, if i was ever in China I probably would have a mental breakdown.
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Dark windows at night terrify me. I can't help but stare at them; I feel like something is sitting just on the other side, right up against the glass and watching me, and that if I look away whatever it is will break through the window and attack me.
Eventually I'll work up enough nerve to close the curtains, but the whole time my heart will pound and I'll tremble. I have to do it as quickly as possible, as well; Run to the window, pull the curtains closed, and run away again as fast as I can. Once I'm a good distance away again, I have to continue to stare at the window a few moments to make sure that the curtains are completely secured, and nothing got in while I was making my escape.
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