phobias

[rollercoaster]

is it 8 spiders an average person swallows in their lifetime? how many calories is that?

[angela18]

don't know but they can't be very fattening, seem to have a healthy diet!!

[chris.g]

Cockroaches for me....Flying daddy long legs......water......bridges.....dead insects/spiders(don't mind them alive apart from the ones I've already mentioned)
IF I walk over a bridge I imagine the gaps opening up and me falling through them..totally irrational.....
On holiday a few yrs ago we went on a boat trip. I sat dead centre of the boat, the kids had life jackets on and had to stay within 2 foot of me. When they went swimming I was having panic attacks and imagined them being eaten by sea monsters!!! (we were in Greece AND I've seen Jason and the Argonauts!!! lol)
I try to conquer my phobias but it doesn't always work.....
xx

[buttercup]

Frogs

When I was little my mum used to put the front door key under the mop bucket and when we came up the garden path I would get out of my buggy & go and get the key, but one day my brother had also put a frog under there so when I put my hand under I touched a frog and to this day even if I see one it puts the hair on the back of my neck up especially as there if a well at the bottom of my steps & sometimes in the mating season they clime up the steps. I once wrote a paper on how powerful the sub-conscious mind is as it is perfectly obvious in my conscious mind that the a frog on a step is not going to hurt me I can step over it easily but my sub conscious mind overrules it & I have to go & get someone to move it.

[kallis3]

ladyh, I am the same with being late. I just go into panic mode. If I am driving to work then I seem to get all the slow drivers infront of me and am unable to overtake. I really lose it big time. The worst is getting stuck behind a funeral - unfortunately I work near a crematorium so that is a hazard I have to face quite often.

I have been working at this place for 5 years and pride myself on not being late once.

[rollercoasterride]

I'm claustrophbic. I can't even sit in the back of a car that hasn't got back doors!! Many times I find myself in the middle of the night opening my bedroom door just to check that I can still get out of the room! I'm asleep when I go to the door (I think??!!!) but the opening iof the door wakes me up. I also open the bedroom window in my sleep to make sure it still opens! One of these days I'm gonna fall out of it I just know it! Yet I can go in an areoplane and it doesn't bother me one bit! No windows to open and an airtight sealed door - strange!!!

[Julie]

Mine will make you laugh....I'm terrified of kites and old men. Not necessarily together of course! I can't look at kites without feeling sick and I won't stay in the same room as an old man. So when my hubby gets to a certain age I'll have to trade him in for a younger model eh lol

[Skippy]

What do you do if you see an old man flying a kite?!?!?

Dave laughs at me as I can't go to sleep with the wardrobe doors open - he thinks I'm frightened of the wardrobe monsters!

[Julie]

I'd run a mile Skippy - my nightmare is being forced to watch Dad's Army lol

[chris.g]

Last of the summer wine would be the end of you then....lol
xx

[Julie]

Oh don't Chris....thinking of that Compo man will make me feel sick......lol

[chris.g]

Makes me feel sick and I'm not phobic!!! lol

[kal]

Do they have to be a certain age to make you stomach turn - how old is old??!
I was reading in the paper the other day about someone who has a button phobia - so much so that all her family have to wear clothes with zips...no one is allowed buttons in her house!!!!
k.

[lily]

Maggots for me too, I just cant bear them. Once we had a training day and someone was going through the maggot therapy and I was really dreading it so much I became really sick. I was worried and dreaded that training day for weeks and if I hadnt needed the HPC points I would have done a sicky. The lady didnt turn up, she had been taken ill, I was sooo pleased.

[chris.g]

My sister-in-law has a button phobia and a balloon one, it's a nightmare at family do's!!! lol
xx