Do you have an Irrational fear?......?

Crocodiles and alligators. Can hardly bear to read the word. Can’t look at a picture. My son and I also have mild trypophbia. If anyone on here happens to know me I will have well and truly blown my cover now !!

Vomiting, like Oldbat1. I can’t even bear to look at the garden ornaments that have water gushing out of their mouths!

I am absolutely terrified of getting tomato ketchup on me,I would literally be so paralysed I wouldn’t even be able to wipe it off! And it’s not because I’m afraid of blood, been a first aider all my life and love surgery documentaries.

Spiders - hate them

Standing next to huge objects. I think this comes from going to the tank museum as a little girl my dad made me stand right next to it for a photo and I really freaked out.

I don’t like seeing sea all around me either I make myself go on the ferry to get to France ( would rather the tunnel but granddaughter claustrophobic) can’t do it at the moment of course, but I don’t look out of the window it panics me to see the water

I don't like not having my feet on solid ground, or at least not being able to see where I'm putting them. Walking into a dark cinema is a bit scary or wading through dark water - could I step on something nasty? Actually, when I think about it I'm not too keen on water either - it's different when I'm in the bath or the shower because I'm in charge.

When I was young I used to sit up in bed holding my tongue because I was afraid I would swallow it.

Moths for me, for DH it's spider's. Perfect marriage. He deals with moths for me and I deal with spiders for him!!!

Errant apostrophe, spiders not spider's.

It used to be spiders but I had a therapy session ( actually I was watching someone else have it) & I have no fear at all of them now. I was at a yoga retreat & the lovely lady running it also did fear therapy & as we finished early one evening she offered to do a session. The woman having it done was terrified of wasps. I sat through it & it was fascinating but when I got home I found ( some days later) that I was no longer scared of spiders as without thinking I picked one out of the bath & carefully put it outside. Never looked back & they are fascinating creatures.

I have had a dream many, many times of being trapped inside a car that's gone into water.
I'm really anxious now of driving near it!

On a lovely break in Scotland (pre pandemic!) my heart was in my mouth coming and going to our holiday cottage as it was near to a loch.

Spiders - I know they are clever and useful but I can't stand them!

I hate all creepy crawlies, but most of all I hate crabs. I cannot go in the sea because of them. When my great nephew was a toddler and we went crabbing I would pray that we never found one. We never did, but when his dad was little he had a pet crab that he found in the sea and took it to our house where he kept it in a bucket. One day it tipped the bucket over and I went frantic with fear. They seem so aggressive and nasty with their pincers!

I don't like going under train bridges when trains are going over. Really freaks me out!
I will never go through the channel tunnel. I don't particularly like tunnels in places like Deep Sea World.
I love sea swimming so it isn't that I don't like water ?
As a child I didn't like the Hammersmith flyover at all. The last time I went over it was on the back of a motorbike (as a teenager) with my eyes shut!!
I don't particularly like spiders, moths/butterflies or daddy longlegs.
My poor mum couldn't hear the words rat or bat. It made her retch.

Must say I am so lucky- I grew up with parents that taught me not to be scared- and it has worked.

Just don't get the spider thing. They are such useful creatures that do an amazing job - and in Europe we have none to be afraid about. Where on earth does that phobia come from?

Mine are fish - can’t go into the sea as I have fears that they will swim up to me and touch me

sart

The sea. I am terrified at the thought of being in a ship with all that water beneath me. A friend and I want to go to Ireland when we can but he wants to go by sea but I will have to fly!

I'm glad it's not just me with the fear of the sea! I've had a couple of awful Channel crossings back in my long-ago youth and I can't even contemplate going anywhere on a ship (or even small boat) now.
When we went to Australia, my husband booked us a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef on a boat. On the morning, I woke up in absolute bits, knowing there was no way I could go. He went on his own (he wanted to dive, so fine) and I relaxed by the pool feeling a bit guilty but hugely relieved.

Terrified of Clowns and Daddy Long Legs x I’m totally irrational if I see any of them x

Being buried alive. As a child I remember reading a description of someone opening a coffin and finding scratch marks on the inside of the lid. I think it was Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. Terrified me and gave me nightmares for years. Left me with a fear of being closed in. Always sleep with curtains wide open and doors ajar. DH soon noticed that I unconsciously leave cupboards and doors slightly open. I've left instructions that someone needs to stick pins in me to make sure I'm dead. Apart from that, moths and daddylonglegs?

Rats and mice. I see these therapies where you’re supposed “to face your fears“ by confronting them but no way! I don’t like buttons either but that’s a madder one ?

Not irrational but terrified of heights especially where there is no barrier e.g. on a pier. Feel as though I am being mysteriously drawn over the edge. On the other hand I like spiders, mice, snakes and bats

Centipedes and millipedes!

I'm terrified of loggerhead moths. I don't know why. If I know there's one in the room I have to get my husband to kill it. I have to go out of the room till it's gone.

Interesting discussion!

Similar to Woodmouse and others, I do not like big things in the sea. I can cope with ships, but anything hidden like wrecks or whales terrify me.

Like Jaxjacky and EllanVannin I loathe the same thing as them - can't even type it. Try not to think about them.

But unlike Jamcee I adore pigeons and used to keep them. I could pick one up dead or alive, whatever the circumstances.

Years ago my daughter had a totally irrational fear - she was frightened that she would spontaneously combust!!!

SznR

Centipedes and millipedes!

Definitely that one as well ???‍♀️?

GagaJo

Thank you LauraNorder. I'd like to say it gets easier, but it doesn't. On one flight, since the onset of covid, I was hyperventilating so much, the very kind steward told me I could take my mask off. I didn't, because I am also scared of covid, but...

make sure you always have a paper bag with you- you can then take off your mask and breathe into the bag until calm again, then use your mask. The bag should keep safe enough.