Phobias

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:38 am

Do you suffer from an irrational phobia?

My childhood phobia was snakes. And my Mum's button / needle and thread box.

I have got over the snake phobia.

Yours?

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:43 am

Canals or reservoirs

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:47 am

LoveCurryPies wrote:Do you suffer from an irrational phobia?

My childhood phobia was snakes. And my Mum's button / needle and thread box. I have got over the snake phobia.

Yours?

Ophidiophobia

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:50 am

The Enclosure · Post by **The Enclosure** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:53 am

Snakes for me to.hate the blighters .lol

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:53 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Que

Ophidiophobia is a fear of snakes m8

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:55 am

Bosscat wrote:Ophidiophobia is a fear of snakes m8

Thanks. What’s my canal fear called then?

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:57 am

Potamophobia

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:57 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Thanks. What’s my canal fear called then?

Liverpool-Leeds?

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:58 am

IanMcL wrote:Liverpool-Leeds?

Both

Must be still dark water with no idea of depth...weird. Best not go to Loch Ness...

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:59 am

Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards

Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here

)

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:00 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Both

Must be still dark water with no idea of depth...weird. Best not go to Loch Ness...

No - that's women you are talking about!

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:01 am

Bosscat wrote:Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards
Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here )

Bet that was like an episode of pointless....

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:02 am

Anatadaephobia; The fear that you are being watched by a duck.

cbx750 · Post by **cbx750** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:05 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Canals or reservoirs

Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:08 am

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Here you go have a gander (unless you suffer from Anatadaephobia as this is also geese as well as ducks

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Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:08 am

cbx750 wrote:Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.

It’s strange because I’m a good swimmer and have no issue with the sea or rivers.

It’s usually stuff from childhood so I reckon it could be part of a film I saw as a kid or even could have started with the the diving pool at the Thompson centre...

cbx750 · Post by **cbx750** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:12 am

I think I must have drowned in a previous life.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:15 am

Allodoxaphobia - genuinely. Which is why I always try to keep the peace and find common ground

good list here

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Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:17 am

Rick_Muller wrote:Allodoxaphobia - genuinely. Which is why I always try to keep the peace and find common ground

Reckon there’s a few on here with that.....

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:22 am

Alektorophobia .... Rovers fans

depechedingle · Post by **depechedingle** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:26 am

Moths bizarrely, scare me 5hitless!!!

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:29 am

Phobophobia.

The fear of having a phobia.

MarkGreen · Post by **MarkGreen** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:32 am

Trypophobia - the sight of irregular patterns or small holes.

Genuinely terrifies me!

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:47 am

Absolutely love snakes (unless it's trying to kill me of course!)
But have absolutely terrible arachnophobia and also claustrophobia. I keep thinking I really should get some therapy for the former.

AlargeClaret · Post by **AlargeClaret** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:49 am

Jeffhendrickaphobia ... seems to affect quite a few on here

Tricky Trevor · Post by **Tricky Trevor** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:01 pm

Fear of being eaten alive. Keeps me out of zoos and safari parks and the sea.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:51 pm

depechedingle wrote:Moths bizarrely, scare me 5hitless!!!

I'm with you on that, although I'm not as bad as I use to be.

I use to be very wary of anything that "flaps" so walking along towards a pigeon on the ground, makes me nervous as never sure which direction they would take off and i freeze whenever there is a moth regardless of size

I'm not as bad now with birds, since we acquired 3 budgies (I know odd choice of pet considering, but its a long story), but moths still freak me out.

Oddly not as much fear with butterflies

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:36 pm

cbx750 wrote:Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.

As Hibs said, Loch Ness is the darkest of dark and eerie!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:38 pm

When I was young, I did not like walking across the weir, on the Thames, at Reading. Always felt like I was not in control of my balance. Probably something to do with noise and fast water, right next to you.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:49 pm

I have Thalassophobia, fear of the sea. It's not knowing what's below me that's the problem! Absolutely fine going swimming at the leisure centre so it's not the water.

andyh · Post by **andyh** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:54 pm

I have eurotophobia... Secretly they have razor sharp teeth.

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:00 pm

I hate being sat at the same dining table with someone who mixes his food together. Disgusting.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:05 pm

FactualFrank wrote:I have Thalassophobia, fear of the sea. It's not knowing what's below me that's the problem! Absolutely fine going swimming at the leisure centre so it's not the water.

Have you seen what's below you, in the Leisure pool, Frank?

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:18 pm

Rats and Kangaroos. Why Kangaroos? They’re just giant rats.

Longside · Post by **Longside** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:31 pm

Going to Bla*kb*rn

Bertiebeehead · Post by **Bertiebeehead** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:36 pm

Cinemas

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:48 pm

Bertiebeehead wrote:Cinemas

Interesting. What is it about cinemas? Do you have to avoid going in them completely?

claret2018 · Post by **claret2018** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:00 pm

I kind of get the sea thing - for me it's looking underwater and seeing an enormous submarine or similar

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:03 pm

claret2018 wrote:I kind of get the sea thing - for me it's looking underwater and seeing an enormous submarine or similar

For me it's just a shark, ready for a bite.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:11 pm

FactualFrank wrote:For me it's just a shark, ready for a bite.

Galeophobia Frank m8

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:21 pm

Bosscat wrote:Galeophobia Frank m8

Yep - have that one too. No way I'd ever go scuba diving! The thing is, I'm happy to go on cruises/ships - so long as they don't sink.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:31 pm

What is strange about my claustrophobia is that a few years ago I was bought a ride in a hot air balloon. As we went up in the basket, I was suddenly gripped by acute claustrophobia. All that air, open space and sun lit sky, but TRAPPED!! An absolutely awful feeling. I did manage to get some degree of control (I HAD to as there were others in the basket and no way were we going straight back down) but I absolutely hated the whole experience and was a gibbering wreck.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:40 pm

Bosscat wrote:Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards
Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here )

Covered 3 of those on a site I run in the past - and they seem to come up in quizzes now and again too. Coulrophobia I believe started to become much more known about since the original of "IT" by Stephen King was released.

ClaretinJapan · Post by **ClaretinJapan** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:43 pm

Wasps

ClaretMov · Post by **ClaretMov** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm

Birds, they have creepy eyes and feet and I hate the beaks

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:09 pm

ClaretMov wrote:Birds, they have creepy eyes and feet and I hate the beaks

You are going out with strange lasses m8

Suratclaret · Post by **Suratclaret** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:29 am

Bank statements...the paper variety. Guess I'm cured now as my bank doesn't send paper statements now.

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:17 am

Spiral staircases inside old stone outdoor towers

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:32 am

Misophonia