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

Edges! Things like railway platforms. I have to stand at the back away from the edge. Hate the gap between platform and train. Cliff edges, riverside edges . Just anything with edges. ?

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Spiders/rodents/some men.

What sort of men timetogo? I am interested can you explain, please?

Wasps - sneaky horrible critters but I’m fine with bees.

Very irrational but burst Balloons!

Very long finger nails. I hate to see films with Chinese Mandarins whose finger nails are so long they curl, it really gives me the creeps. Once saw a programme where someone with nails that curled stretched them out to measure them - made me feel sick. Don't like to see women (or men) with exceptionally long nails either.

David Attenborough said to Princess Charlotte, who likes spiders, that he thought people were afraid of them because they have so many more legs than we have, and so they can move in any direction and we don’t know which way it will be. I’m not scared of spiders myself, but I could see what he meant.

I have a fear of electric bells and buzzers, even doorbells. I think it dates from schooldays, when in middle school we had a very fierce matron who used to make us change our shoes very quickly between lessons, before the bell went. I immediately became all fingers and thumbs, and couldn’t change quickly enough. How I dreaded that bell! Strange, really, because what could she have done to us?

Spiders and falling from a height for me too. Also being in a maze where you can't see over the top.

Like other posters, I hate swimming anywhere near large objects like boats. Also hate caterpillars, but love snakes! My main fear is heights, especially bridges over water. Also hate standing next to huge structure's like Wind turbines. I put that one down to being taken on a sightseeing trip to a lighthouse when I was very small. I can still remember being carried up the spiral staircase in this vast white place...

Rodents and fainting. I know prob sounds weird but I panic if I take a light head at all that I will faint and hit my head. I do faint, did with a blood test, school assembly a few times, cinema, a flight to Tenerife, etc, etc. I think because my mum died with a clot on her brain after a fall I am even more frightened of the fall when I faint.

Frogs terrify me. There is a commercial on TV with 3 dancing frogs that I cannot watch. Can't watch anything on TV with people crawling though tunnels either. I sometimes have nightmares about having to crawl through a tunnel to get away from some unknown danger.

Potholing...... not for £1 million.........??‍♀️??

DanniRae it`s the ones that appear behind me in supermarkets and make me jump.
Honestly it`s like having a giant spider suddenly appear, i am rather a jumpy person at the best of times.

No irrational fears here, I think - but I put it down to my lack of imagination.

Perhaps there is some upside for those of you who do suffer? I know my DD’s fears have included volcanoes, buttons, flying... yet she is creative and artistic.

Crane flies- when I was 7 or 8 I went on a play date after school to a friend's home. When it was time to go there was a swarm of them all over the path I needed to walk along to get home. I tried a few times but each time they flew up around me and I became hysterical. My friend's Mum had to phone my parents to pick me up and I got a right telling off for being so silly.
Being underground- started when we visited a large cave while on holiday in Majorca. When we turned to leave, another coach party were coming in through the narrow entrance and I couldn't get out. I got very panicky and nearly vomited. Now when we go to France via the tunnel I have nightmares for several nights before we travel. But my DH gets seasick and the ferry journey is much longer, so I have to put up with it. He holds my hand and distracts me as much as he can but I love that first glimpse of daylight when we get out of the tunnel.

I am the same Froglady I feel ill watching things on TV showing drone footage over cliffs etc. Another one of mine is going down stone steps especially if there is no handrail.

Thanks timetogo for answering my question. I am very jumpy too!

Earthworms. I can’t pass them . I hate going out after it’s been raining. My puppy once chased me into the house with one in her mouth , and I ran upstairs screaming . My husband was on nights so was in bed . He had to get rid of it from the kitchen. I can’t look at them !

Spiders, to the point of feeling sick just thinking about them. Can't click on any site promising a cure for arachnophobia, as it will inevitably have a photo of a great big spider. Makes my heart jump even when I am bracing myself to expect it.

September is the worst time, when all the big hairy-legged spiders decide to invade houses. And there are inevitably stories in the media saying that this year they are bigger and hairier than ever.

Slimey big River fish, Eels, Pike, Carp to name a few, and I could never swim in a river, or the open sea for that matter!
Tye stange thing is though im fine onboard a boat, happy to skipper one too, and Celebrated my 25th Wedding anniversary by cruising Transatlantic both ways over a month, and even took a dive on a Submarine with no problems at all!
I believe my problems started when I came across a large Conger Eel migrating between a pond and a riverbank and almost steped on it as a young Child about 6years old, whilst playing in a Pub beer garden in Norfolk.

1. Spiders. Pathetic I know but if they're bigger than a quarter inch I run!

2. Deep water - ponds, swimming baths, pools, rivers and the sea. It's probably because I can't swim. I've tried to learn several times but it terrifies me and I just sink like a brick. I love the idea of cruising but the thought of being on a boat (however big) in the middle of the ocean turns my legs to jelly! When I was about 4 I was at the seaside with my Mum and wanted to go in the water as all the other children were doing. She kept saying no. Eventually she picked me up and tossed me into the incoming waves saying 'See if you like it now!' It wasn't very deep but of course it went over my head and I couldn't stand up. A man nearby fished me out and told off my Mum. I've been terrified of water ever since. She was also afraid of water so I guess her intention was to deter me from going near water too. She seems to have succeeded.

Fire scares me, always frightened of been trapped by fire.

Confined spaces. I don't have claustrophobia as such - no problem with lifts etc. but attempting to go into a mine some years ago for a tour at a heritage site was a disaster - the guide said we would need to bend double to get through the tunnels in some places and I found myelf outside, trembling. Another time going up a staicase in the bell tower of a cathedral, I realised it was becoming narrower with every turnt, and I had to get out. Really difficult as people were comig up behind me and there wasn't really room to pass, but they were kind and squashed themselves back against the wall so that the wobbly panic stricken one could get out.

i have spent thousands of pounds and years of my life trying to swim .still can't. my mind does not think this fear as irrational as it is possible to drown . so how can i get over it ? - hypnotism does not work either

Spiders for me too, especially the big ones. I cannot even see a picture of them without feeling bad. A friends' son in Australia was prone to putting photos of them on Facebook, I blocked him.

We get a lot of spiders, being surrounded by fields. We have fitted mesh blinds on the windows, as otherwise I wouldn't have the window open.

I am fine with rodents, snakes etc. Not mad on wasps as I feel they sting me just for the hell of it. But I don't have such an irrational fear of them.

Wasps. I once stood in a queue at Tatton Park, getting hot dogs for my daughters. After twenty minutes, I got them , went to walk away when two wasps found them interesting. A sound ,that was as near as Neanderthal' as you could imagine, emanated from me. I threw the hot dogs,( but managed to cling on to the empty buns!). They landed on the grass. I was lucky: the hot dog seller saw the funny side and replaced them free of charge.