Phobias

I have claustrophobia, fear of confined and cramped spaces. I should mention this to my psychiatrist on my next appointment, remind me ya

This usually comes about when I'm in a very crowded elevator, train coach or car. Literally, I find it hard to breathe and my heartbeat gets accelerated when I'm in this situation. It feels like everything is trying to crush me (and I'm a pretty large person) and I'm far from the exit that I can get out from. Heck, I get claustrophobic in crowded events too.  It's not very fun, to be honest. And in truth it came naturally a few years ago and I don't know what was the cause of it.

I also have a persistent death anxiety (thanatophobia, fear of death) ever since I can remember. I'm scared of dying. I'm scared of the thought of what's going to happen after I die. I'm scared of whether my death will be so sudden or if it will be slow, agonizing and painful (both of these don't sound pleasant to me). And I am deathly scared of all sorts of situations that could cause my (or someone else's) death. I've had nightmares of me already dead and about to be buried, I sometimes find difficulty in breathing some nights and I get right up and try to regulate my breathing in a really vain hope to stall some kind of death by sudden asphyxiation. I've always had it, it's just that it sort of escalated even further when I was 15 and I was unfortunate to have to attend religious camps that LOVE showing videos of what happens after you die and employ scare tactics to "make you a better Muslim".
 
I'm scared of highs, even though I live at 12th floor o.O


Syn, how long can you 'survive' in cramped space without showing your fear/feelings to other people?
 
Eruner said:
I'm scared of highs, even though I live at 12th floor o.O


Syn, how long can you 'survive' in cramped space without showing your fear/feelings to other people?
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The longest I've lasted is a minute, then it just shows with me frantically pushing for an exit or urging the driver to stop somewhere so I can take a breather. In trains it's almost impossible to stay anywhere near the exit during peak hours. Thankfully I've never actually fainted so far.
 
hmm, I think that your body wants freedom, and fights against any form of prison - aka cramped spaces.

Similarly, my body wants to be healthy, and strongly fights against hospitals, injuries and diseases. Unfortunately, I'm not fast-regenerating Wolverine, but my body is going to faint when I'm in hospitals or any medical room. Once I almost fainted in Veterinary ordinance! Probably my body hates that 'hospital smell'. I can be any brave in my head, I can focus how much I want to be OK, my blood pressure drops down and face turn into grey/white color no matter of my effort.

I'm not sure if it's a phobia, I'm not scared to go into hospital, but, well, I fainted two times in hospital (and outran a queue of waiting people) in total
 
To add to my fear of dogs, I am generally scared of most animal with the exception of birds. After I got attacked by my own dog back in Honduras, I learned my place when it comes to the animal kingdom. I do NOT mess with any animal, no matter how tame it is. Besides, animals are a lot bigger when you see them in person. I went to the zoo with my nephew and when I saw the hyenas...

They were about as big as a small car... and I was about 50+ feet away. These animals are no laughing matter and can rip you to shreds in an instant. Generally, I tend to be more fond of any animal but even then, the day I was attacked by a dog left a very deep scar in my view of animals, which is a shame because I love animals.

I love them from a distance. A FAR distance.
 
I have a fear of lumps and bunch of holes on something. I don't know why, but I feel disgusted when I see one on object or flesh. It makes my skin crawl :wagh:
 
I've been scared of clowns since I encountered one in the middle of my elementary's haunted house. I was, maybe, 8. I screamed when I saw a headless horseman, and the clown came over to help me out of the room. (It was like a maze inside one of the classrooms.) He scared me even more, proceeded to hold my hand, asked me if I wanted candy (he had a big basket of candy in his other hand), and tried to lead me out. Funny how I'm unfazed by mimes.


I have agoraphobia. It's not as bad as it used to be. My dad has it a lot worse than I have, too. I get somewhat panicky when there's a lot of people around me. Especially if I don't know any of them. 

Wide open spaces, like the ocean. Never really know what's under you out there. I think this may have started when I was taking swimming lessons. When we first went into the deep end. I looked around under me, and the bottom of the pool looked like a giant ship's hull, and I saw someone with a blow torch down there. My imagination played with it more over time. Interestingly, I love tight closed in spaces. I once slept in coffin like space while camping. Felt cozy.

Spiders anywhere near me, and unfamiliar bugs. I'm perfectly fine with spiders if they're far from my head/body. I used to have a huge spider 'pet' when I was little that I called Jennifer. She never showed up near me, and I was fascinated by her. If I have a little one fall in front of my face, I freak out. If there's a bug I haven't seen before, no matter where it is, I freak out. 

My own blood. I have a weird syndrome (I don't remember what it's called) where I start to feel dizzy, sweaty, heavy, nauseous, and eventually I pass out. I've passed out a few times during blood tests. I'm ok with seeing other people's blood. Sometimes, I start having that 'feeling' while talking about my own medical stuff that I'm nervous about.
 
Misua Cat said:
Centipedes. One of them was on my head once. :argh:
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You and I are so much in tune. I HATE centipedes but my real phobia is dogs. I am super creeped out by centipedes and the way they crawl and move and EVERYTHING. UGH. They are just so damn gross...
 
I am scared of bees when I was a baby my dad started to freak out and left me in the cart alone while he ran trying to attack it,and as I grew older he did dangerous stunts in his fear I had a face to face with a qwueen bee before and my dad went crazy trying to kill her and there hive that was in the grill he's severely allergic ,and evreytime I see a bee I scream and have severe attacks I think watching him as a baby affected me for some reason.And I really do not like spiders because my cousin had a bad experience with a poisouness one,and I'm extremely terrified of squirrels because they try to attack me and one almost landed on my head when I was little as I was out under the tree waiting for the bus,and I fear crows because a mom crow thought I killed her nest when I didn't and she started trying to peck and attack me and my friend while we were at the bus stop for several months holding a large grudge ......I'm also afraid of snakes once there was a snake on the steps of my old apartment me and my mom lived in and I seen it,he didn't see me I waited and sauntered away listening but some girl didn't see it and stepped on it and then screamed when she realized it was a snake hightail kicked it a few inches away from the sidewalk so I took that chance to dart past it while it was dazed to do errands for my mom.I also don't like intimidating people,or bully's due to bad experiences.But I think I progressed a little on the bee part because I don't drop  unconscious at the site of them...and squirrels give me a love hate view because of thier cute beady eyes......as for crows I  stopped having issues with them unless they swoop down on me......and spiders just plain meet the end of my shoe....but snakes are the recent I'm trying to adjust too .
 
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