AJuff Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I'm terribly anxious in mazes, irrationally so. Really don't lIke them. Very scared of fainting in front of people as it happened in my childhood! Cringe and feel uncomfortable about seeing toes on tights sticking out of open toe shoes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saronne Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Binoculars I quiver at the thought of looking through them... I hate the sensation of things 'whizzing into focus'. Horrid things!!! I have a similar fear of google earth; when it zooms into focus, I feel sick! Saronne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucknette Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Hi I become really anxious when I am on the London underground platform and the air starts moving because the train is coming. I get worse and worse until the train busts out of the tunnel then it all subsides all while Im standing there making out Im not bothered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Binoculars I quiver at the thought of looking through them... I hate the sensation of things 'whizzing into focus'. Horrid things!!! I have a similar fear of google earth; when it zooms into focus, I feel sick! Saronne Ooh, I don't really 'do' google earth for that very reason! If I ever do, I have to close my eyes whilst I'm zooming in and hope for the best when everything has stopped moving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'm 50+ and am still scared of the dark! - very dark where we live and I'm never more than a few feet away from a torch! (and I still have a night light.....and take them on holiday ) As for fish pedicures.......I didn't think I had a phobia about them at all until I went to one as a family group........they're all still doing impressions of me as I was a complete, gibbering, wreck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue_F Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Airports freak me out, so does going to the doctors.... Not the dentist though..... My friend did a talk on phobias in school and she read out some of them like the phobia of chins and of being followed by a duck!!!! Katy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Slugs! Can't bear them It's one of the reasons I got chickens - stupidly I thought the chickens would eat all those enormous brown and orange slugs that rampage across my garden immediately it rains. But no, our chickens only eat little, almost invisible slugs ....they don't like the yucky big ones! You can't blame them really can you? Oh dear...I seem to have a few I'm not brilliant with heights unless I am completely enclosed..and not good where I can see water moving on both sides of me either...piers, jettys, narrow bridges etc.. Clowns. .I've never grown out of my childhood fear of these and I still find them unsettling that's why Stephen King's IT is the scariest book I have ever read Everything else I am absolutely fine with...although don't like the feel or squeak of cotton wool much either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 London - i hardly ever go to cities as i hate crowds of people, London is the worst for me. OH has to hold onto me all the time as i get dazed and lost. Proper country lass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Bless. I lived and worked there for 12 years, so was pretty immune to it. Now, when we go down to meet up with friends I just get annoyed with the way that everyone walks straight at you. I have to admit that I don't drive around London with the ease that I used to - I seem to have lost my bearings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 I'm not brilliant with heights unless I am completely enclosed..and not good where I can see water moving on both sides of me either...piers, jettys, narrow bridges etc.. Clowns. .I've never grown out of my childhood fear of these and I still find them unsettling that's why Stephen King's IT is the scariest book I have ever read Everything else I am absolutely fine with...although don't like the feel or squeak of cotton wool much either... We were discussing tactile phobias a few months ago weren't we? I can't stand touching material (getting dressed is fine, phew! ) especially changing the beds or doing the cushion covers on the sofa; I have to wear rubber gloves or I feel My daughter can't bear the scratch of nails on glossy paper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 door handles- before i got to touch them i start to think about people not washing their hands and touching it etc, I wear gloves in hospitals and doctors which looks weird in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 door handles- before i got to touch them i start to think about people not washing their hands and touching it etc, I wear gloves in hospitals and doctors which looks weird in the summer. Long sleeves and long skirts are quite handy for that - although you do get strange looks when you exit the loo with your skirt up in the air Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 funnily enough Lesley, I thought of you when Karen posted that... can't imagine why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 London - i hardly ever go to cities as i hate crowds of people, London is the worst for me.OH has to hold onto me all the time as i get dazed and lost. Proper country lass It's not just me then ....been known to be led by the hand in London, and the underground really freaks me out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 OOO yes they are very scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 My daughter can't bear the scratch of nails on glossy paper! The thought of that is sending continuous shivers up and down my arms and back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Does anyone else remember the wooden sticks that the school nurse used to inspect your throat? Just the thought of that on my tongue makes me gag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Tongue depressers? Yup. My doc still uses them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I had recurrent tonsillitis as a child, so got them used on me quite frequently... nearest I got to a phobia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 now you've got thinking about the "Nit Nurse" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Same they don't have Nitty Nora any more - used to drive me mad the number of parents who left their kids seething with lice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) 5 fighter helicopters and 2 Chinooks have just flown over the house - i'm hidden under the desk. Edited February 29, 2012 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstar Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Frogs. I had a visit from one last night, scared the heebeegeebees out of me. I went and hid upstairs while my hubby moved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 5 fighter helicopters and 2 Chinooks have just flown over the house - i'm hidden under the desk. Oh wow - why do they never come this way Mind you, my neighbour firefighter was outside this morning in just boxers and a vest top, taking their new puppy for a wee-break. He's pretty wallpaper but looks nicer in his uniform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 being trapped in things - tight necked jumpers and t shirts get me in a panic and the thought of a wetsuit really freaks me out - soo tight. yes I'm mad but I think its the fear of suffocation. Weird lot arent we Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
