It's fears and phobias time!

Fear of being buried alive

Fear of drowning

Fear of being burned alive

Cleithrophobia fear of being trapped

Mesainikavasanistiriophobia fear of being tortured

I'll go with those for now.

What are your fears and phobias?

I went to my friends house with my ex-girlfriend. To get to know her more, I asked the table, "What's your greatest fear?" We went around the table, then it came to me. With their eyes gazing me I said, "Perfect. Now I know all of your fears, and you don't know mine. Mwa ha ha!" >:D lol

The ocean is one. Darkness is the second.

I fear heights so much I literally become partially paralysed by it.

And yet, I can't help but go up a tall building every chance I get, just so I can look straight down. I find a certain rush in that fear.

I'm weird.

Heights, Arachnophobia, nightmares about coming unprepared or failing in test

Chemophobia - an irrational fear of chemicals. I tend to get unnerved whenever I have to work with chemicals I'm not familiar with, and I'll be reading the warning labels front and back, and I will use extreme caution generally even if the chemical is not that extreme.

trypanophobia - the fear of needles. I understand, and I can take getting a shot when going to the doctor, but to this day I have to look away in the opposite direction from the procedure, because I hate watching needles poke into my skin. I also can't watch needles poking into other people. I don't know why people sometimes want to show me stuff like the shot they got, but I always squirm and I tell them to stop showing me and I do not want to see at all, and if they persist I will just leave because they did not respect my boundaries.

I fear what comes after this life,the Lord Jesus Christ won’t welcome me into eternal bliss in Heaven and to be eternally burning in Hell. I believe in eternal peace/pain after death.

My fear is open seas. I'm terrified of going into deep water or dark water for that matter as I can't swim. Pools, I can fairly tolerate depending on how big the water level is. The fear of drowning underwater is why I'm afraid of getting in the water as I can't swim.

I have a phobia of Ants! If I see one ant in the house, I know there are more of those bastards and I start to hunt them down before they can take over. I'll spray insect poison every chance I can get.

The trick is to not look down😉 I love the view when going to high places.

Pretty boring, just spiders. Only thing (that I know of) I'm irrationally afraid of. Not many spiders around here that can do much to me but cause some discomfort. I just get creeped out by them.

There's things I'm afraid of but I feel that's all pretty rational. Drowning sounds unpleasant. I work with chemicals and steam as well, so I'm super paranoid around that. But I'm not fearful.

A new fear for me recently though is the existential dread of WTF is going on with my country (the USA) and where exactly we are going. I take an interest in politics but I've always felt like, even if the folks I don't like win, we'd be OK; I never obsessed over it. Can't really say that now; things are going bad and going bad fast.

Not at all, I do the same.

I think it's fairly easy to get over your fears if you can ensure there are safeguards. For example, going to the top of a building but knowing there's a railing or window to protect you.

For me, if I see a spider at a distance, I'm actually OK with it. I might even try to make friends with it as part of a self-imposed exposure therapy of sorts.

If a spider get's the jump on me, like I see it crawling across my desk a foot away from me? Ohohoho man, I freak the hell out lol. You ever see a 6'3" man jump and scream like a girl? Get a spider to surprise me.

@davillain: I think they call that thallasaphobia? Fear of open ocean or deep water.

There's a great subreddit dedicated to it. I'll spare you the link 😋 It's fun though, like it will be a super calm day on the ocean in a boat with no land in sight then they'll dunk the camera under water and you just see 30 sharks in there. Love the comments.

I get it. I'm sort of creeped out by the fact that there are lakes out there we still haven't seen the bottom of because they're so deep. Lakes. Not even talking oceans here.

Also reminds of the line from Sea Quest where they're like "We know more about space than we do about our oceans" and I always thought that sounded kind of true. Like, we can theorize about the universe and stuff, but we know the ocean is real and we don't know everything about it yet and it's literally right there next to us.

Nothing that I know. But when I was a child I was afraid of killing bugs because I feared their spirits would follow me all my life.Then I grew up.

I had all sorts of fears and phobia's growing up. Some of them I didn't fully shake off until I was around 22-23 years old. I suffered from a form of OCD and when I was very young things like glue and and hairspray terrified me. I grew out of all of these eventually. I had a pretty bad hand washing stage. No matter how much I washed my hands, they just weren't clean. This lasted from 11 to 12 years old. What prompted it was the AIDS UK PIF's on TV in the mid to late 1980's. Honestly, the they were pretty scary stuff!

My last phobias were blood related. Couldn't watch films with much in the way of gore otherwise I was sick. I wasn't scared of needles per-say, but injections and blood tests would make me nauseous. I'm not sure how, but none of these things effect me now. I'm fully cured.

Mate, you might struggle down here in Aus...

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@mrbojangles25 said:

Pretty boring, just spiders. Only thing (that I know of) I'm irrationally afraid of. Not many spiders around here that can do much to me but cause some discomfort. I just get creeped out by them.

There's things I'm afraid of but I feel that's all pretty rational. Drowning sounds unpleasant. I work with chemicals and steam as well, so I'm super paranoid around that. But I'm not fearful.

A new fear for me recently though is the existential dread of WTF is going on with my country (the USA) and where exactly we are going. I take an interest in politics but I've always felt like, even if the folks I don't like win, we'd be OK; I never obsessed over it. Can't really say that now; things are going bad and going bad fast.

@madrocketeer said:

I fear heights so much I literally become partially paralysed by it.

And yet, I can't help but go up a tall building every chance I get, just so I can look straight down. I find a certain rush in that fear.

I'm weird.

Not at all, I do the same.

I think it's fairly easy to get over your fears if you can ensure there are safeguards. For example, going to the top of a building but knowing there's a railing or window to protect you.

For me, if I see a spider at a distance, I'm actually OK with it. I might even try to make friends with it as part of a self-imposed exposure therapy of sorts.

If a spider get's the jump on me, like I see it crawling across my desk a foot away from me? Ohohoho man, I freak the hell out lol. You ever see a 6'3" man jump and scream like a girl? Get a spider to surprise me.

Mate, you might struggle down here in Aus...

Oh I absolutely would.

Don't know how you folks cope with those things down there.

Then you get those assholes that like to prank people with spiders, like "Hey I'm going to pick up this dinner-plate sized spider and put it on my friends shoulder". NOPE!

I'll go to New Zealand, where (allegedly) there are no venomous things.

I didn't anticipate it but when I went in for an MRI the supposed "large bore" machine terrified me. They tried covering my eyes and giving me headphones but no luck, I went back with a sedative and still no luck. I went to another facility that had an open MRI machine where it's still tight top and bottom but open on sides and I was totally fine with it that time. The previous machine was so tight my arms felt pinned on both sides and the top of it was so close to my face I had maybe an inch of clearance before I'd hit my head. If I'm ever to go into one of those again they better hit me over the head with a brick.

The tight space might not have done much to me itself, but having to stay perfectly still in it for the better part of an hour tipped my anxiety levels into "fuuuck no". "Large bore" my ass, maybe for pygmies.

Do not like heights. Refuse to go up a loft.

Small spaces.

I have done a lot to Rock climbing and hiking, have zero problems with planes, insects , spiders.

But tight spaces make me very uncomfortable.

I work on the 15 floor, and if it's too busy with people I will take the stairs.

I used to work at floor 19, and it was often very busy so I would mostly walk upstairs. It's a bitch during the summer.

@lamprey263: I manage to finish the MRIs, but they take a lot of mental energy for me not to panic.

The sounds really makes things worse.

I have a fear of being in crowded places.

Hate spiders and cockroaches.

Can deal with snakes or mice, they fine, but hate spiders and cockroaches

@mrbojangles25:
Mate, you can't come all the way around the world just to visit our sheep shagging cousins across the ditch and not us!

I don't think I have any phobias. At least not that I know of. Snakes, spiders, the ocean, outer space, heights, cramped spaces.. I'm ok with all of that.

I mean, dying or getting tortured or something. Everyone are afraid of that.. But that's not a phobia.

Is it really that bad? I never knew they made that loud of a sound until recently when I was watching a show and I was like "Wow is it really like that?".

My brother-in-law has claustrophobia and had to get one recently, it took him like two or three tries and they finally doped him up with something that relaxes you lol. Felt bad for the guy.

Closed should have to be deep dark waters, but I'm not bothered by it if I'm on a boat, only being in the water myself gives me the creeps.

Not a fan of fast small animals like mice, but it's not like a scream and run away if I see one.

@mrbojangles25: yes, they are very loud.

Usually they put some weight on you so you don't move a specific body part. And the examination lasts a very long time.

Honestly, the degree of information you can get from those things is amazing, but it's not a coincidence a lot of people have problems remaining inside the machine.

It's so stressful that they usually give you a small device with a button that lets the doctor know you want to leave.

I don't think I have a phobia. Phobias are an irrational fear, I don't think my fears are irrational.

When I was a kid, I've Always felt something off about kid dolls.

Is that Real?

Very

I am not fond of heights.