#65

There’s a south London punk band called The Phobics. Close enough?

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#66

I can’t even watch videos of people on mountains or high buildings. But I have a friend who’s phobia is of buttons so I think mine is pretty average.

#67

Dairy Milk or… you know what, I think I prefer the ambiguity.

#68

Bit claustrophobic.

I have that thing about the groups of small holes, like in sponges and crumpets and that, but don’t know if it could be described as a phobia. Just makes me feel v. uneasy.

Spiders for sure, and most insects.

#70

Already tried it mate, didn’t like it.

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#73

used to have a problem with crane flies after two giant mutated ones flew in my window and were fucking in the vicinity of my face when I was a teenager.

Eventually got to the point of holding one in my cupped hands and now I just think they’re annoying creeps but that’s life!

#74

I hear you. Regularly falling off tall buildings is pretty tiring.

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#75

I can’t even talk about bodily/blood stuff without almost fainting. Sucks so bad and seems to have gotten worse over time.

Fainting twice because of a gory scene in a book whilst sitting in my car in a layby waiting for a client meeting was not my finest hour. cancelled the meeting and ate a buttload of sweets until I could function again. Drove home and went straight to bed :frowning:

Also can’t keep ducking the First Aid courses at work forever (v selfish I know), and the TV & I want kids in the near future. Basically I need to get hypnotherapy or CBT or a new brain.

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#76

I get terrified going over bridges over main roads unless I have my earphones in.

#77

Bugs and creepy crawlies. And trypophobia which makes me feel ill just even thinking of the word.

#78

Burger sauce. People think it’s hilarious and joke about putting burger sauce on my food or near me and it makes me proper panic and I freeze up when I see a bottle of it.

#79

Something you want to share with us? :wink:

#80

Haha oh god. A sales call when I was a Sales Rep! Selling construction materials… honest!

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#81

I’m not convinced that fear of spiders is irrational. It wouldn’t be if you lived in, say, the Australian Outback.

#82

I wouldn’t class that as arachnophobia

Fear of your harmless UK house spider is, though

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#83

I wouldn’t call it a phobia as such but nuns really creep me out. I would have to cross the road if I saw one walking towards me. Nuns on television, no problem. Just in real life.

#84

I have a wasp phobia too

used to be very much at the level yours is at but I found that, after enormous difficulty, the thing that helped most was actually challenging myself to pick up (by the wing) any dead wasps I ever encountered

It helped a lot. I mean, I am still irrationally spooked by their presence but can consciously override much of that fear nowadays

#85

That probably would help but even the thought makes me shiver. Got stung for the first time since a kid during the summer (was in the middle of running a parkrun) and only the fact that I was running surrounded by lots of people stopped me having a complete meltdown. Thankfully wasps seem to be having a decline so I haven’t been pestered by too many over the last few summers.

#86

aha, so your fear isn’t totally irrational ?

I have never actually been stung and am paranoid that because of it, if I were ever to be stung I would go into anaphylactic shock and die - totally reasonable right? And somehow this only works for wasps & not bees or hornets

yeah

#87

My balloon phobia has gone from bad to worse since having my kid. I can’t go to kid’s parties, I can’t be in the same room as one, and the thought of him touching a balloon makes my skin go cold and clammy. I’m going for hypnotherapy in Jan to see if I can fix it (although I won’t lose any sleep if it fails, and I just have to avoid children’s parties for life OH WHAT A SHAME)