h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just out of curiosity,i am really interested in phobias!!Now i know this might sound odd,but i'd love to know if other people would go to extraordinary lengthsto avoid what ever it is they're scared of!!!Opinions please

Hi Sal, for a starter, you could have a look here:

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Thanks Bel.i took a look!!
I am terrified of ,and we had one came in (out of the cold i think)
You would not believe how badly i behaved!!

I think only people who have similar problems can imagine that.

I seem to have developed one about being in crowded place?
Which is weird for a bloke who used to be in the Navy, crammed into a small space with around 40 other blokes?
Smudger.

hi sal
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as you know, ive had a fear of hypo needles since i was about 4
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even small spiders, if the move, make me jump.
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certain bugs, like earwigs, make me cringe jim xx

I too, was given the fear of hypo needles, by a nurse when I was 10 yrs, she was trying to take a blood sample and my arm was like a pin cushionplus went black and blue aftereven now, any injection, I cringe and sweat, even though I know it's nothing

I was made scared of needles by having asthma - it's really difficult to take blood in the middle of an asthma attack, and they don't tell you what's going on at the time.

Also they put one of those needles in my hands while I was panicking and trying to fight them off, and now I won't let them put them in me at all. If I have to have an op they have to use the gas mask thing which they always complain about doing, and although I always wake up with a needle in, it's not so bad. It's the actual going in of needles that I don't like.

hi
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i was about 4 or so living in lancashire,in a small village, the nearest hospital was in warrington about an hour away
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one day i was at the doctors for a jab, so my mother said, and the needle broken in my arm, so an amblance had to come for me and take me back, that was over two hours plus the wait, with a peice of neddle in my arm, and the doctor couldnt remove it.
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now the sight of one gives me the jitters lol jim

on a lighter side
I also have a fear of soap!

my granddad always used to say, where's there's muck there's money!
I'm still skint, but why change habit of a lifetime

Soap??? Not heard that one before

I agree about spiders... spent half an hour capturing a Huntsman in my bedroom at midnight earlier this week. I had to have a to calm down afterwards.

Anything piercing skin gets me, so giving blood is a nightmare. I look the other way and Think Stoical Thoughts

Heights too. Mind you, is that really a phobia? I have vertigo and have been known to throw myself off tall things (a harbour wall being the most spectacular... happily the tide was in).

I'm not sure I actively avoid things though (other than ladders).

Fb

hi all
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frenchbean your hheights is batophobia.
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for more info on phobias, put phobias in the h2g2 search box fo r the guides
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jim

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I suffer from vertigo,but it's a medical condition,and also agrophobia.That actually
afects my day to day life,i can't walk outside,i have very little balance,and open spaces scare me.
But,the had me staying in one room with a tray ,and everything on it that i needed to sustain me for the day!!!
Needles don't bother me too much,but the tiniest creature has me hiding !!!

I don't likes and I've no knowledge where the fear came from of them, but I think I could hold a big tarantula type one, it's just the house type ones I'm not keen on

I love mice and rats

Even their names make me shudder!!!Everyone tells me they're more scared of me.....i assure them they're not!!!

all us animal's are cuddly

My grandaaughter has a hamster,and i can hold him,and stroke him,with no problems,he's lovely!!!
If a mouse ran across the floor i'd be in hysterics !!!

an hamster is only a mouse with a better fur coat on