Phobias?

[simmo1]

This will sound strange, but I was playing with a Cow once at a farm, & the thing swung its head sharply & cracjed its horn on the top of my skull as I was leaning down.

Unbelievably painful. They could hurt you if they wanted to.

This actually explains a lot.

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm arachnophobic and whatever phobia is a fear of being bound or unable to move.

 

[Twizzle]

Dutchy

 

[butchmcdick]

Being a nurse I am good with most things although chunky green flem grosses me out

 

[ME SO HORNBY!]

Wasps and bees. I discovered a massive wasp best outside my house last week and haven't been in my front yard since. Probably wont until the guy come to remove it on Monday.

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm actually ridiculously uncomfortable around cattle. If they ever figure out how fragile we are, they'll f**k our unprepared shit up.

 

[Dutchy]

Dutchy

:lol:

 

[Pugzley]

I get clumsy when I'm on heights.

 

[IanG]

Heights. Especially if I can see down below me. Hence why I've never been up the Queens Wharf Tower

 

[Houdini]

I always thought I had a fear of heights, but I actually think it is a fear of falling (from a height).

I am completely fine in tall buildings or in a plane, but will not go near the edge if I am on a cliff top, mountain etc. Although if there is a fence/railing then I am ok.

It's bad enough that I feel uncomfortable travelling in a car while driving up a road which has a sheer drop off the edge, to the point I can't/won't look out the window at the view. It seems worse going up, rather than going down the mountain. Strange I know.

As a kid I had a massive tantrum when we had a family trip down to Melbourne and we drove along the great ocean road and went to the 12 apostles. At that time, you could still walk out on one of them (the London Bridge). I cried and screamed and refused to go. My poor dad had to sit with me and wait while the rest of the family walked out on it.

I am happy to say that I did eventually make it down the giant staircase at the Blue Mountains. It took 3 attempts, on 3 different trips out there, but I did it. I don't think I let go of the handrail the entire way down though.

So I guess that would classify as a phobia.....

The other thing I can't bring myself to do is watch someone receive an injection. Pretty ironic considering I am diabetic and inject myself twice a day without issue

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Opening myself to cop some stick here but the one the only thing that has managed to leaveme frozen stiff to the ground with fear and not being able to move is going over to a rarther attractive stranger and saying something to them. Never really understood why, if the ice gets broken some other way or am in a big group and end up next to one or something like that then there isn't the same feeling and do ok (ok meaning not make an ass of myself or sound nervous). For a guy who used to run at 110+kg bodies as hard as he possibly could then got into a cage with someone that wants to beat the living piss out of me without thinking twice about it so it's not like i'm a wuss but just been something i've always been terrified of doing.

 

[Dragon2010]

@Rhino. Why you could some stick? Each person is different. We're not savage animals in here. I'm somewhat the same, but with any strangers in general. You can have all the confidence in the world, but struggle socially. They're two totally different parts of the brain. Me, I've got a social issue so that no doubt contributes. Put me in an intellectual over a general conversation and I can talk all day.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

copped a fair bit of stick in the past for it but i should have remembered i'm in the FFB.

Could always be worse, could be in the same boat in terms of relationships had and girls met for completely different reasons (ie being hideous or being a complete douchewaffle).

 

[thorson1987]

Something about heights.

Fine if im in a plane or something enclosed, unless it's a glass floor.

But walking over a bridge (particularly the Harbour Bridge) i have to stand as far away from the edge as possible. Same with cliffs (unless i am jumping off them into a river)

Even walking across the raised platform at work when i arrive or leave i feel all weird and shit.

 

[Dragon2010]

My brother is petrified of heights, one day. We were at a construction site for a house my Uncle was building. We went up a ladder to get to the 2nd floor, as there was no stairs yet. Getting him back down was a mission. He went into an absolute state of panic. Was in the corner petrified and shaking.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

I'm in the "don't like heights unless there's a railing/safety" group

Allergic to bees/wasps so don't like those suckers

Wouldn't classify it as a phobia as such but even though I could eat a raw steak while watching the Saw movies, bad smells completely put me off my food.

Oh, and it was only a matter of time before the OP found his way into here. That was a fear of mine that has come true.

 

[thorson1987]

My brother is petrified of heights, one day. We were at a construction site for a house my Uncle was building. We went up a ladder to get to the 2nd floor, as there was no stairs yet. Getting him back down was a mission. He went into an absolute state of panic. Was in the corner petrified and shaking.

I live in a 1 storey house, and i was petrified when i had to clean out the gutters.

 

[adamkungl]

@Rhino. Why you could some stick? Each person is different. We're not savage animals in here. I'm somewhat the same, but with any strangers in general. You can have all the confidence in the world, but struggle socially. They're two totally different parts of the brain. Me, I've got a social issue so that no doubt contributes. Put me in an intellectual over a general conversation and I can talk all day.

This! I consider myself confident, im certainly not lacking in self esteem or ego. But I'm still pretty shy, don't talk to new people for no reason, and take a while to fit into groups.

As for the thread topic. f**king heights. I don't think it's a fear of falling, since I love rollercoasters and similar shit. But looking over a balcony or standing on something see through messes with me.

 

[fightingirish69]

Wasps and bees. I discovered a massive wasp best outside my house last week and haven't been in my front yard since. Probably wont until the guy come to remove it on Monday.

same here, and those hornets give me the creeps

 

[thorson1987]

This! I consider myself confident, im certainly not lacking in self esteem or ego. But I'm still pretty shy, don't talk to new people for no reason, and take a while to fit into groups.

As for the thread topic. f**king heights. I don't think it's a fear of falling, since I love rollercoasters and similar shit. But looking over a balcony or standing on something see through messes with me.

100% for me on both points.