I can never again go into my garden

I was having a Company Christmas dinner whilst working abroad, when they put the plate down in front of the lad I was sitting next to he went completely white then fainted, apparently he had a phobia about carrots! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed it.

im with you on this i scream blue murder if i evan see a small one.been clearing dads garden he had one i screamed next door neighbour thought i was being murdered. he came round removed it,for next few days i watched carefully before i put my hand down to weed and gradually relaxed a bit, ikeep thinking they are very small ,breathe and try and look before you weed it helps to see it before you nearly touch it with your hand . dads neighbours and my own now know if i scream loudly thats what it is

Phobias are irrational, but usually can be treated quite easily by a professional. Glad people around you are sympathetic. Do get some help, via your GP or local counselling service.

I saw someone the other day rush into the busy road with her baby because she had seen a wasp. Wasps can bite etc but running in front of a moving car is potentially far more dangerous. Luckily, the car driver did an amazing emergency stop.

You’ll be fine with some help. Perhaps Google it?

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I'm an arachnophobe as is my 18-year old grandson, much to the amusement of his twin sister who used to tease him by picking up spiders and offering them to him. I had to convince her that this wasn't funny and was far from kind. Their mother has a more unusual phobia. She can't stand things made from unpolished wood including wooden spoons, chopsticks and the little forks that some fish and chip shops provide. A long time ago she had a boyfriend who was scared of buttons, which was rather inconvenient as he owned a vintage clothes shop.

I know someone with a phobia about buttons too.

Have a quick look on google maps to see if there s a pond in a garden nearby, if so you may be on a trail between one pond and another as these sound like youngsters in search of a new place to live having been thrown out of the maternal water.

Once you track the route you can attempt to block it and direct them a different way

Please don't attempt to rid your garden of frogs (or other wildlife.) Frogs need all the help they can get because they're declining in numbers. Much better to face your phobia and to seek support to deal with it - as wisely advised here by other GNS.

I can sympathise with you HurdyGurdy.
I was out in the garden clearing weeds and suddenly this creature jumped out unexpectedly...a frog. Strange little creatures and don't think I could pick one up!
Having said that, many years ago while at the Isle of Wight zoo when visiting with my children, people were invited to hold a snake and have a picture taken. I toyed with the challenge and somehow I managed to have the courage to have a go. To my amazement, when I held it (draped around my neck) it felt quite warm blooded, yet you could feel the strength it had in that rather long body.
On the other hand, I still don't like spiders and couldn't pick one up!

I am sure if you have the right therapy from a qualified person, you will be able to enjoy your garden again.Good luck .

We had frogs in our very wet garden so put in a pond to welcome them. They love it. I think that frogs return to their birthplace to breed so it's likely you will see more. Frog 'song' at night is lovely so I do hope you manage to overcome your phobia. It would be such a shame not to enjoy your garden.

Try NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming. Sounds technical but there are therapists all over the country. I had the same phobia with cockroaches. i can't hold them but now I can look at them without hyperventilating ( and sometimes passing out!)

I totally sympathise. I also have a phobia about frogs. I had one in the kitchen once so will never leave the back door open. Another time I saw one sitting on my front door step and had to knock for my neighbour to come and move it so that I could get indoors. Like you, I know it's irrational but I really can't help it.

I feel for you. If is a dead bird in my garden m, I can’t open the back door or look out of the window. My girls have inherited my phobia. It keeps my non-phobic DH busy! If we didn’t have him we seriously wouldn’t cope.

I have a spider phobia. No logic to it whatsoever. But fortunately it doesn't interfere with day-to-day life. But your phobia is affecting your life quite badly. You do need to seek help to cope. Otherwise you will miss out on so much.

Face up to your phobia and get help, easy as that.

my real phobia is dentists.. If I have to phone one it can take me days to be able to pick up the phone to call. I'm also with Tamayra I wish I wasn't afraid of the water, I can't say a phobia because I have been able to get into the water, albeit at the edge hanging on to the side of the pool, but I can't swim, can't get my feet off the bottom. Also yes, like many people I also hate spiders and could not sleep if I saw a large one in my flat, I would have to kill it, even tho I usually try not to harm anything.

How funny Jennil23, my phobias are dentists and water too! I can't manage to have a dental x-ray taken without gagging furiously, and I panic with instruments stuck in my mouth for more than 30 seconds, so even having a filling is a nightmare, makes me edgy just typing this! I can get into a pool for about 10 minutes, but am petrified of my head going underwater, so any attempt to learn to swim has me hyperventilating.

My one other phobia is snakes, one about 4' long emerged out of a hedge beside me on our last holiday, it was as panicked as I was, flipping on its back and writhing around trying to get back in the hedge, but for the whole of the rest of the holiday I stamped loudly whenever going anywhere near that hedge and walked past it very quickly, could not relax anywhere in the garden. I can't even bear earthworms in the garden. If it has legs I am okay, so spiders not a problem, and I have a fondness for bats. There was a scream from next door on one occasion and my neighbour had found a baby bat flapping on the ground and was hysterical, I scooped the little creature up and took it into our garden, hung it on a bush, and by morning it had gone.

My 'phobia' is rats, and I have been for weeks without going into my garden without making lots of noises and foot-stamping before I can hang my washing out. I would willingly swap the rats for frogs!

I also have a phobia about frogs HurdyGurdy, and I think it was passed on by my mother.
We used to live on a farm, and when young frogs didn't bother me, but the fear of them jumping suddenly gradually resulted in a phobia.
I do go in our garden, but my husband has to make sure there are no frogs about.
There are a couple of people who do regular sessions on 'This Morning', and they seem to help people enormously with phobias. At the end of the sessions, people can often pick up the animal, insect etc they are frightened of, but I couldn't see myself voluntarily picking up a frog.

I have a horrendous frog phobia, have to dash indoors and shut the door! Big brother used to chase me with them!

I wouldn't call it a phobia but I really really don't like the dark. The scariest ride at the fairground was the one when you sit in a little car and whiz round in the dark and scary things pop out at you like skeletons and cobwebs. I find it terrifying and have to cower and shut my eyes till it's over. Don't mind the big dipper and the other high fast ones !

One day last week, I opened my front door only to find a small frog sitting under the overhang thingy on the bottom of the door. I don't like frogs because they jump, often unexpectedly and quite high. They also look slimey.
I hurriedly shut the door after stepping outside and with a long garden cane, gently prodded it's bum to make it jump away. After several prods it went next door.
I won't make further comment... just in case. I don't want to push my luck.

@hurdygurdy I am also terrified of frogs and toads and refuse to set foot outside on evenings when it is damp or wet as they come out to party where we live. I had to run from my garden lady week shrieking as whilst enjoying a drink on my patio a leaf fell into the low wall next to where we were sitting. The leaf then moved and move again I then realised it was a frog! My drink and I were back on the house in seconds

My fear was heights and I was a hill walker and loved mountains. There were times when I couldn't get over my fear and I would have to turn back. So I hypnotherapy, it took 9 sessions and it worked. Worth a try. I don't like frogs either.

Ghost train! That's what I meant at 15.45. I could not remember what it's called!! Senior moment.