2006-09-16 00:36:33 · 32 answers · asked by jules 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
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2006-09-16 00:44:48 · answer #1 · answered by ~ B ~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heights - I can't look down out of the window if I'm high up in a very tall building and I wouldn't do a parachute jump if you gave me a milion pounds.
Flying - I have done it but I hate it, only a stiff gin and tonic beforehand will get me through! Then, I spend the rest of the holiday worrying about the flight home.
The dark and enclosed spaces. Especially being buried alive - many have tried, unsuccessfully, to convince me that in this day and age it doesn't happen but I have nevertheless stipulated that I want to be embalmed when I die.
Being trapped in a burning building.
I used to be spider phobic - but I'm delighted to say that, after two years in the late 1990s living in a spider infested house, I can confirm that the technique of flooding used in behavioural psychology does work!
2006-09-17 00:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiders, definitely. I hate the creepy crawly nasty things.
Also, and this doesn't really count as a phobia, but I am a worst-case-scenario person. Given any situation, I immediately picture the absolutely worst, most horrifying thing that could happen. And always without cause.
2006-09-16 03:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by MamaMia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone kidnapping my kids- but thats more of just a general fear; i have a phobia of the unknown, of not knowing a little bit about what is coming up in my life; social workers; i used to have a fear of the country bears at Disneyland and the birds in the Tiki Room too; aliens; the dark- as a child and even a teen; sharks- even though i am an avid surfer and snorkeler, i will not watch jaws as a result; scary movies but only Freddie and Jason movies- because of my older brother tormenting me mostly
2006-09-16 01:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by April H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a phobia against people who are afraid of heights. Have you ever tried to ride an elevator with one of them? Scary trip.
2006-09-16 00:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any phobias, thankfully. Phobias are highly treatable though with Systematic Desensitization (a Behavioral Psychology technique). Though it is better to seek out a professional counselor or psychologist that specializes in it, some people have had results in reducing their anxiety simply with a self-technique.
2006-09-16 01:33:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Water,spiders,lizards.
2006-09-16 00:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by aditi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dying
2006-09-16 00:37:57 · answer #8 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poverty, sitting in the last row at the movies (I think some loony will creep up behind me and strangle me), frogs, snakes, driving across bridges
2006-09-16 00:50:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Falling.
2006-09-16 00:46:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate tall buildings and spiders. So you wont get me anywhere near a tall building filled with spiders.
2006-09-16 00:39:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋