General insanely abstract phobias

I go absolutely fruit-loops when it's quiet. I need to, at ALL times, be able to hear some kind of sound. If ever I find myself in a position where there isn't some sort of noise, I'm generally utterly paralized for a few moments before I get up the nerve to start alliviating the problem. I'll run around the whole house, frantic, turning on TV's , radios, fans, water faucets, the shower; anything that will make sound. When I get really bad, I'm even prone to breaking glass dishes or figurines.

I was raised in a very busy environment, with a lot going on and a lot of family coming and going at all hours. If it was ever quiet, it meant something was seriously wrong, and now I can't handle being in a quiet place.

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I HATE having other people try to tend to my wounds, of any kind, regardless of how small it may be. It could be a paper cut or a broken bone; It'd make no difference. I don't know what it is about it, really. I don't even think that it might be my not wanting them to hurt me by accident or something.
I've been known to jerk away and be generally very unpleasant if someone tried to assess any small wound I have. If I offer up to show them myself, without them asking or anything first, then it seems to be fine.
But really, I always only ever want to take care of it myself. I've broken this one bone in my foot about 3 times, and have only had a cast once.

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I have a phobia about half a face - I just couldn't cut a picture of a face in half, the thought of it makes me ill. If I cut something out of a magazine or a paper I always check on the back of the page first to make sure I am not cutting through a picture of a face.

This phobia also extends to other round things that break in half, and when I was about 6 one of my buttons broke in half in school and the teacher was cross with me because I told her I was too scared to do it up. Even now I'm grown up, the thought of cutting mushrooms up, especially large ones, makes me feel quite ill. Once Idid it and threw them away cos they were too scary. I couldn't be a chef in case I had to do it.

I used to call scary round things broken in half "nasty moonies".

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I've always been afraid of falling asleep in cars or airplanes. This is due to my fear that if I do so, the car or airplane will crash and I will die, without being able to even know it. Just thinking about it horrifies me.

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Until I was about six or seven I had a fear of electric fans. Not only were they noisy, I thought if I stood too close to them they'd suck me in and shred me into a million bloody bits. I even had a couple nightmares of an evil electric fan that came into my room at night, hopping along the floor with a loud "THUMP THUMP THUMP".

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I have a fear of cotton/cloth/paper towel/popsicle stick. I can't stand the sight, thought or feeling of it touching any part my nails, mouth (especially teeth) or private areas. When it does (or I see it) I get so nauseous and sick and I'll cry or think I'm going to pass out. I literally start crying at the dentist when I see that wad of cotton, q tip, or gauze in their hand because I know it's going to my mouth. If I take too long of a shower and my hands get “pruned” I can’t touch a towel until they are better.

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At chruch, my dad would tell me that Jesus is watching me 24/7 and will know exactly what I'm doing the whole time. I was SO terrified of Jesus for a decade when I was a child. At chruch I would be very well-behaved and courteous because he would look over me and monitor my behaviors at extra effort because it is a house of worship! At bathroom I would tell him not to look while I'm using toilet or shower or changing clothes, and then told him to turn around when I'm finished and go on continue to look at me. I believed that he was STARING at me and monitor my every minute movement and consveration. I couldn't stand any portraits of vintage hippie Jesus at grandma's house because he would look at me through the eyes of picture and take a better view of me instead of looking down from heaven. Sometimes I tested on him for Zeus-like thundering fury by making a very tiny rip on the Bible or stealing prizes at games in chruch.

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I used to be very terrified of sleeping under dreamcatchers as a child. My grandma gave me one for my birthday and nailed it on the wall above the front end of my bed. I asked her how could it catch bad dreams? She told me the magical beads and knots would suck them up like vacuum and seal them inside forever. So I asked her if it wooshes while sucking up bad dreams and she replied with a yes. Every night I would worry and sweat if I will see it wooshes and moves while catching nightmares! I always gaze at knots and beads if I can see any nightmares inside them. My fear got worse and worse so my dad had to put it down in the box so I can sleep with ease.

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I have a fear of the film, The Witches. It has a U rating, and is a kids film (I'm 16), but I'm absolutely terrified of it. If you've ever seen it, you'll probably understand. The bit where they all pull off their hair and their faces makes me cry. My palms start sweating and I start panicing. I always think the Grand High Witch is going to come out of the video case. As a result of this, the video has to be kept in a shoebox, in another box, under my brother's bed, in his room.

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Its been a few months now, every time I see or think about one I start to shake. Even though I'm terrified of it I can't stare away my friends often have to pull me away from it. I have an obsession with spirals, the shape the pattern; but I also fear it, it induces panic attacks and other unpleasant actions. Sometimes I voluntarily trigger it, I know I'm afraid of it but I can't stop the want to see one. What is happening to me?

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I have a phobia of acute angles in triangles. I think it's just the visualisation of being trapped in an acute angle of a triangle as it is getting smaller. I'm not claustrophobic, i just find triangles a little unpredictable. I've heard there's a shopping centre in Kent that is shaped like a triangle and just thinking about it makes me hyperventillate. I just can't think of anything good when there are triangles around.

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I too am afraid of shapes; circles, mostly, but lately I've been fearful of half circles and arches...I am not sure why, but they make me sick and terrifyed, I see them in night mares and when I see them in real life I freak!

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I have a phobia of towels, i dont know why and it is very strange but when i am left by myself in a room weird feeling's run round in my head - i feel like they are going to suffacate me or something.

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i have this weird phonia of extruding things such as hair growing through skin, seeds sprouting and little plants growing out, ..just thinking of how to descibe it makes me itch all over especially on my back and scalp. i can't stand to watch time-lapse photography of grass growing. those playdoh toys with hair that grows is so gross!
i once saw a nature show about a frog that lives underwater and has holes in its back skin that baby frogs could hide in. GROSSS! it has haunted my thoughts ever since.
roots growing is so creepy too. i can't talk anymore about that. gross.

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i am so scared of soft hands. my own hands and other peoples. if i touch somebody elses hand that is soft i can quite easily be sick. if my own hands become soft again will be sick, i begin to sweat and panicy. i avoid every that i know will or could cause my hands to be soft. i cannot watch other people use hand moisturiser. i have had this for as long as i can remember.

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My phobia is called Gurgomophobia, and it is the fear of pulling a string, that could trap some kind of animal.

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I have a weird phobia of some shapes...such as triangles and circles. I cannot stand thinking about them,they absolutley make my spine tingle and my skin crawl just thinking about them. I just find them incredibly creepy.I have no idea why.

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