General insanely abstract phobias

I am terrified of escalators. Down's not too bad, once i'm over the top of it, and i've only had to sit down once. But up is so bad I have to lean forwards straddling a couple of stairs, shut my eyes and hold on with both hands, counting the whole way up. I don't know where the fear has come from but I plan journeys around the fewest escalators. The big London Underground ones are the worst - they're steep and it's an awfully long way down, i almost want to throw myself down to get it over with.

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I used to get so freaked out by public service ads on TV or radio, especially the ones about saying no to drugs or somebody got killed by a drunk driver or any of those types of ads. It would get so bad that I would either flip the channel as fast as I could or cover my ears and curl up in a ball whenever one would come on. The worst ones were the ones that told a story. The worst part is that they get stuck in my head like a bad song. I have recently started watching some of the PSA's on YouTube to see if I could see them without freaking out, and I am now to the point where I either laugh at them or they have the same effect on me that watching a scary movie has on most people, but there are a couple that I don't know if I could see again because they traumatized me so bad that even to think about them gives me the willies.

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My phobia is broken glass. Not the kind when you drop a glass on the floor and it shatters everywhere, but the kind when a stone or something is thrown at a window pane and it shatters the glass and makes it look all splintery. I'm shuddering just thinking about it. I think it might have stemmed from when i threw stones at a window one time and then the window shattered and as i got closer to it, i could hear the glass making this sort of crunching sound before it all fell out in little bits. Ugh, i feel all disgusting now

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When I was small I used to have recurring dreams that I was holding an extremely large pencil, bigger than me and my hand, and I would be colouring in a tiny tiny picture. Now if something really big is next to something really tiny, or if I even think about it, I feel really sick. Even typing this is giving me the heebie jeebies!!

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I am scared to get on the computer or play video games at night.

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i cant abide anything swinging!! if there is someone with a carrier bag with a small item in it then i would avoid them. i cant have those air freshners hanging in cars. i will always check my friends and family with what they are carrying and if i am not happy with this i would offer to carry the bags. this has got so bad i have attended hypnotherepy, but wait i hear you ask does that not involve a pocket watch to swing....? the watches are not used anymore, the hypnotherepy has taken the edge off my phobia but i know its still there in the back of my mind. its got to the stage where it is affecting my work as i have constantly asked my colleagues not to hang anything that swings....!!

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Triangles are scarey. Don't ask why they just are.

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I am terrified of lava. The way it moves and its deadly potential unnerve me to the core. I have never even seen lava in person but I know that I hate it. I have to close my eyes when I see volcanoes on t.v. Even cartoon lava has me sweating and shaking.

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I used to go mad at the sound of a saucepan squeaking against the metal frame that was holding the pan above the gas. Our old one was rusty and everytime i think of the sound now it makes me cringe and i get goosebumps all down my back...

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i have an extreme fear of balls if one is near me i will run away just because i fear it will hit my face

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I have two phobias one is clusters like ants.balls.eggs,fish eggs and anything that lusters when i see something like it I feel sickand i get a chill up my spine. My second one is i cant reall explain it but big and smalls things together in my dreams some times i wake up and cry because im that scared

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I hate cotten balls. I hate them. I can't touch them at all or anything that feels like them. The thought of chewing on a cotten bal (the feeling of it between your teeth and all) makes me quesy and i hate it.

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When I was about ten, it seemed that getting a ringing in my ears would automatically make me afraid --- not afraid of anything in particular --- just afraid. This usually happened in bed when it was dark and quiet. Somehow I noticed that looking at the floor, perhaps because the night-light shone on it, would make me feel better. Then one hot summer night I realized that the fan was making noise that would prevent me from hearing the ringing noise. And so I started to sleep with a fan on and didnt have the fear problem anymore. Ringing in my ears doesnt really bother me anymore, but be it winter or summer, I can no longer sleep without my fan.

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I have a fear of people named Chad. My doctor told me laughingly to call it Chadophobia, but I take it seriously and thought it would be nice to get it out there.

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