Random phobias

I can not go near any form of cinnamon even the word freaks me out my brother eats cinnamon toast crunch and has the box of it in the pantry next to mine i can't get my cereal because it is there. I have gotten it in my eye 7 times and i have eaten cinnamon 7 times and visine only made it worse.

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I just turned 18, and right now it's January. I had a nightmare that there was a thunderstorm, and I'm so afraid of thunderstorms that I was afraid to go back to sleep because I was so sure there was a storm. I've had a fear of thunderstorms for my entire life; but it didn't become a crippling nightmare-inducing phobia until I was 14. I frequently have nightmares about getting struck by lightning or being close to something that gets hit, and whenever a real storm comes I have a panic attack.

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I have had this nightmare 3 or 4 times before, that is very difficult to describe. It seems like I've only been asleep for about half an hour or less. I'll hear a noise, the noise has been always different in each of the dreams, like the sound of a train or most recently just the sound of a creaking door. A few seconds after the sound, something is holding me down so i cannot move or even talk. I've never seen exactly what is holding me down because im too afraid to open my eyes. It seems as if it lasts forever before it is over. I wish i knew what it was that was doing this to me in my nightmares.

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I have a fear of not being able to see parts of my body (mainly my legs and feet). When I sit at my desk, my legs are hidden and exposed to the open space beneath the desk. I always feel like a monster is going to come up and grab me and pull me out. It gets so bad that if I am watching a horror movie on my computer I have to retract them so that my knees are to my chest.

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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 cannot stand the sound of fingernails touching anything and anytime someone touches me with their fingernails I start to scream and cry and sometimes freak out...

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I have a fear of buttons, I hate them! I despise them! Ever since I can remember, I refused to wear them. I feel like they will fly through the air and into my mouth and choke me to death. I feel really dirty when I touch them and I hate say the word or think about it. But now I HAVE to wear them, so my condition is much much better. Because I force myself not to think about it when I wear them or touch them. I always think they will choke me, even when they are on TV, and my worst fear would be drowning in them. I'd rather get drowned in toads! I thought i was weird and i must be crazy but then I found out it was real and all the symptoms matched up, it's called Koumpounophobia.

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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'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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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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