Phobias

Who's got one then?

I have one. For years I thought I had a fear of heights. One thing puzzled me though. I've abseiled off a viaducts and vertical rock faces when I was a bit younger, with my personal record being 170ft. Loved it. I've also been in a plane (37,000 ft), no fear.

It was while I was at work yesterday, I had to pause to think and as I did so I leaned back. I didn't trust the backrest of the chair and I was not at all at ease, so had to sit forward. Had the chair of tipped me out, I'd have no doubt been laughed at (I'd laugh if I saw it) but I wouldn't have been hurt. Then a thought struck me, I have no irrational fear of heights, I have an irrational fear of falling.

I've told you mine, what's yours?

 

I have a fear of forums Dave...........looks around


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!

 

You've opened a can of worms here Clueless! Where would you like me to start?

Heights, tunnels, aeroplanes and guns. I have never liked guns and it wasn't until two years ago I discovered it was more than that. I'd gone with my family to a clay pidgeon shoot and as we pulled into the car park I could hear the guns and froze in my seat. I was shaking, close to tears and on the brink of vomiting. I left the family there and went shopping. When I returned to pick them up I parked as far away from the shooting area as possible.

Oh and another one, I don't like being in a crowd of people.

 

Don't think I have any

 

Cows........i'm fine if there is a fence between us but i can't walk through a field of them....Last year i was walking in the Yorkshire Dales and ended up takeing a 9 mile detour because it meant i'd have to walk through a field of them....i did cut the corner off one field with them in but i ran like a Whippet.....it was a gold medal winning sprint i can tell you
I'm not a fan of flying....
But my biggest fear is lifts......you'd have to knock me out to get me in one

 

I am also similar to clueless in regards to heights/falling etc. I hate sitting in a car which is driving along a narrow street up the mountain with a cliff on the open side.

also, last summer I had an episode where I had to descend a set of stairs with no banister at either side and my friend had to come back and get me because I was absolutely paralised!
And even so I had to sit down in the middle of the steps and descend that way!

 

I have a phobia about one roundabout, a big one with lots of lights, lanes and accidents. I avoid it.

Use to panic in shops and any public place. Took 5 years to get over it. Before that I travelled around the world alone,

 

I've stood on top of Wells Cathedral with no problem, but you put me up a wobbly tower scaffold & you can watch the Zig quake

Oh, Wasps and accidentally touching Slugs.

 

Dentists and anything medical !!! Val

 

Telephones. It has taken me years of desensitising to be able to even stop in the house when the phone rings. One day I might even be able to answer it. I can speak on the phone when someone else answers and I know who is ringing and why.

 

Like clueless, heights. Never bothered me at all when I was younger. I used to do a lot of abseiling web I was younger as clueless says. About 10 years ago the wife and I went to Bristol so she could show me the sights and haunts she used to frequent when she was at uni there. We went to the Cliffton suspension bridge I walked about 15 metres and froze solid, my heart was going ten to the dozen and I could not move. In the end the wife had to get hold of me and guide me off the bridge which took about 10 minutes. I laughed it off an thought nothing of it. When we went to Paris about 3 years later exactly the same happened on the Eifel Tower and Empire State building in New York a few years later. I cannot explain the fear but I steer clear of anything high now.

Rusty

 

Hate crowds of people
Dislike talking to answer machines

 

Feet, not the appearance of, but if i am doing something i am terrified i am going to drop something on my foot, especially the top of the arch. and if I see someone on the beach say, walking on shingle, my insides knot up to the point of pain