Your Weaknesses and Fears (Phobias)

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    • DangerlineVidz wrote:

      Butterflies and Claustrophobia
      Oh, yet another one who suffers the same pain. I am REALLY afraid of butterflies and insects of the same kind. I get weak knees, start to shiver and cold showers are running down my spine whenever I see or even hear one of these. I seriously get sick whenever one of these things is around.
      I also can't stand long, stretching corridors. I don't trust them and I always get the feel they get longer with every step I take, may it be forward or backwards.
    • I'm prone to nightmares, usually after playing any game with horror as a main element

      zombies, zombies, zombies, excluding L4D zombies, those are cool

      Fear of Disgaea being discontinued before I die of old age...

      Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot.
    • I love candles- but you'll never catch me lighting one.
      I have a fear of matches and lighters.

      It was a pain back when I studied chemistry- I always had to get somebody else to light my bunsen burner for me.

      I also fear freshly caught fish.
      I was at the fish market as a child and my mum asked me which fish I wanted to eat that night. I prodded one- but he was still alive and he nipped my finger.
      I haven't been in a fish market since that day...
      I don't do much, but I occasionally tumbl .
    • Now when I read the whole thread some things came to my mind.

      When it's dark and I can't see well or when I'm frightened for some reason I just can't look into a mirror. When I'm in the dark and suddenly realize I'm looking into a mirror I just freak out for a second or two, shivering a bit and get back to normal, but avoid looking in the mirror. It may be because I fear something's appearing in the mirror that just... shouldn't appear there, you know?
      When the light is on and I'm looking into a mirror it depends on my mental state. When I'm feeling good/normal or even depressed whatsoever it's no problem. But as soon as I am frightened by anything (might it be moths/butterflies (I HATE them seeeriously. But this I stated before) or a creepy story that keeps spinning in my head) I feel really uneasy when I'm looking into the mirror. If I just encountered a moth or butterfly and look into a mirror a short while afterwards I get so frightened of one of these... things appearing in the mirror (>implying I have the physical strength to go to a room where there's a mirror because when I encounter a moth/butterfly I manage to walk/run away but soon afterwards I have to lie or sit down because my knees are getting so weak I can't stand properly).

      The dark however can be frightening and interesting and the same time. Whilst most people are afraid of seeing things in the dark, I sometimes even seek for them. I literally cause my brain to play games with me. But... one day I was dumb enough to do this in front of a mirror. I got scared like shit. Also I managed to rapidly move my head towards a mirror, got scared, screamed and backed off. I laughed afterwards about my own retardation.
      But... back to the darkness. Sometimes my brain is playing tricks on me when I don't want it. But only indoors. When I'm outside I don't see things in the dark. I just don't. Even if it's pitch black outside, as long as it is outside i don't see such things. But when I enter a pitch black room and I can't see well I start to see things. The strange thing about this is: When the room is pitchblack that I can't even see my hand or something I also don't see things. This may come from the belief that if I am blind, everything/everyone else is also blind, too. But when it's dark that I almost can't see shit then I know that there might be something that can see me since I can see edges and stuff.

      About heights... it's not an actual fear, really. I can handle heights. I love to stand on rooftops to look over a city, I like big bridges and all this kind of stuff. Also I like rollercoasters. But I won't ever dare to approach an edge. Never. Ever. The only fear I have is I might can't control myself and throw myself down. I only fear from dying by falling, not from the height itself.

      Two things I also fear are vomiting and passing out. Well... I never passed out due to my fear of passing out. Sounds strange but it's true. Whenever I feel like I'm going to pass out I'm in panic, breathe heavily, shiver and force me not to pass out. The feeling inside me when I feel like I could pass out is faaaaaar above just uneasy. It's terrifying.
      And with vomiting... I don't have actual emetophobia but whenever I feel like I am about to vomit it's the same thing as with passing out. I force myself not to (even if it's healthier to throw up, I don't care). As soon as I throw up I feel disgust but then it's fine. But the feeling of the possibility of throwing up makes me go panicking.

      And one time I felt the fear of me killing myself.
      It's been some years ago sincve that happened, but it was a realy uneasy feeling I got back then. I thought about lots of stuff when suddenly the thought of suicide came to my mind. I don't know why, but I was forced to think of various ways to kill myelf. Soon after that, I felt an adrenaline rush as I realized what I just thought and feared myself for thinking that. I feared I might going to open the window and jump out so I couldn't even look at it. I feared to grab a pair of scissors and kill me with this. For about an hour I was really afraif I might kill myself and I don't know why. Never happened again.
    • I don't think this is even remotely normal, but I'm an emetophobic, meaning I have a fear of vomit. I don't like to see it, hear it, and I especially don't like it when I'm the one doing it. Sometimes if I feel like I'm going to throw up, I'll have a panic attack. o-o
      Other than that, I guess I have a minor fear of spiders and maybe tornadoes.
      I DID NAZI THIS COMING.
    • @up i wanted to help u with it but idk what to say xD

      since like few years i am afraid of this japan horror girl u know white dress black long hair ...

      weekness hmm its really hard to make me feel embarrased but when my clothes are dirty i just freak out ...