[bpcyclist]

So, I guess other than substance stuff and anxiety issues, phobias are the most common additional dx in us, or so I read. I definitely have a full-on, legit heights phobia, no doubt. I have also more recently developeda some sort of fear of leaving my apt. Not really sure what that is about. Weird.

Anyway, was wondering what phobias you may have. Thanks!!!!!!

[Fuzzybear]

People
Medical stuff
I don't like leaving my cave lately either

[swimmingly]

Yeah, I'm with you both. I have a hard time leaving the house lately. I can do it for appointments and the such. But its hard and I have to self-coach to get out of my truck. And lately I've been in mania so much that I have to be driven places, which affects my wife's job.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Heights, big time
Birds (too bad my mom who I live with just got 2 chickens.....)

[Pookyl]

I suffer from agoraphobia and claustrophobia. I need to be sedated to have a MRI and really struggle to get on a train because a train carriage feels like a metal box. I have to push myself to leave my apartment every day. If I don’t my agoraphobia only gets worse.

[bpcyclist]

Very interesting. Why r we afraid to leave or places?

[Pookyl]

Originally Posted by bpcyclist

Very interesting. Why r we afraid to leave or places?

I wish I knew. I do know that part of my problem is that I don’t want to be too far from my own bathroom. I also think that maybe it’s to do with the fact that I can control my environment when I’m at home. I can’t control what happens what happens outside these 4 walls.

[Moose72]

Spiders! I know they are beneficial, i just can't stand to be near them and will kill them if they are in my home.

[bpcyclist]

Originally Posted by Moose72

Spiders! I know they are beneficial, i just can't stand to be near them and will kill them if they are in my home.

Ooooooooh!!!!!!!!!

I found out a few years I’m scared of heights. Its a weird phenomenon. I mean, it doesn’t seem to be that extreme always but the other day I was walking across a bridge over the highway (in an area of the park) and I happened to look down and got so dizzy and light headed. My heart started racing. It was intense. It wasn’t a full on panic attack I wouldn’t say, but a very negative experience

1. gloves

2. the dentist (I can't remember the last tyime I went to one)

3. heights

4. being emortal

5. crowds

6. deep water

7. loud noises

8. needles

[bizi]

showers.....

[wildflowerchild25]

Serious claustrophobia. I will absolutely take the stairs if I can, even if it’s three stories up. Elevators scare the crap out of me, especially since there’s no cell service. I can’t even imagine getting on an airplane at thus point, COVID or not. I’ll probably gave to be sedated with a benzo.

clowns.

they are just...... no.

death (to an extent)

I'm not afraid of actually dying, I'm just afraid of not doing the stuff I enjoy

[sarahsweets]

I had agoraphobia for a year because of a traumatic event that some people might say is silly but I didnt see it that way. Only exposure therapy worked for me to overcome it.

my body- hate it so much.

being told I smell or I don't look right (I don't know, it's just a thing.)

female contestants on game shows (I don't know, I just am)

mcdonalds closing for good

people falling over (but not myself)
the world returning to normal after kovid (I don't know, it's just a thing)

being without the internet

their's a big list their

being responsible for some kind of major event- a natural disaster, a virus outbreak, etc

for ages I was convinced that I was the soul cause of kovid19

scary thought

getting dimentia

[Nammu]

I have anxiety and strong dislikes but nothing that rises to the level of phobia. Tho as I became old I no longer have a head for heights. I get vertigo now. I used to love heights. But I think that's a physical thing. I hate bugs and spiders in my house but tolerate them outside. Snakes make my skin crawl but no panic despite the pranks my cousin pulled on me.

[Blue_Bird]

Agoraphobia and am afraid of spiders also.

[Scooter9]

I have this really strange fear of getting the mail.

Mailboxes here are centrally located, the mail doesn't come to your door so I have to pick it up.

Sometimes I don't get the mail for a month and when I finally do, it's after lots of convincing myself that it'll be ok.

the police

actually any of the emergency services

[*Beth*]

The one phobia that really gets to me is loved ones being sick or dying. That includes my cats, although with regard to them I might not be so phobic if I was sure I had $$$ to cover their complete care.