I am afraid of spiders (okay not that unusual). But I also have an intense dislike of tentacles - octopus, squid or cuttlefish - I simply can't stand them. If I see them on TV I get all twitchy and have to look away. When I saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 I thought I could brave it whenever Davey Jones sent the Kraken onto the ships, but in the end I had to close my eyes and do deep breathing. It's not so much that I'm afraid of them, I just find they way they coil and wrap around things very disturbing, even if I'm watching a documentary about the sea and it's just a little octopus eating a crab or something...
Anyway, I'm babbling...
Does anyone have an unusual or ridiculous phobia of something?
And does anyone know the name of my tentacle phobia?
2006-10-14 23:14:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Kinetofayetophobia. Literally, fear of moving food. See, I know some Greek. Now go and impress the pros with that one.
2006-10-14 23:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Alen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This probaby isn't that unusual - I don't know how common it is as it's not something I talk about much to anyone - but I am very afraid of being buried alive. Either "officially" after having been mistakenly pronounced dead or accidentally, for example in a collapsed building. I blame it on reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Premature Burial" at an impressionable age! However, nothing and no-one can convince me it doesn't happen from time to time and when I die I am going to be enbalmed to make absoulutely certain it doesn't happen to me.
I'm also terrified of having a general anaesthetic - I know it's only one in around a quarter of a million that dies as a result but just try convincing me it won't be me.....! I did have to have one three years ago when I had a mastectomy - right up till the last moment I was trying to find a way out of it but thankfully I failed (because a lumpectomy under a local anaesthetic, that I had been trying to persuade the surgeon to do instead, wouldn't have got all the cancer out).
On a lighter note - and I'm sorry if it probably doesn't quite qualify as a phobia - I absolutely loathe the noise that folding paper and running your thumb nail along it to get a straight tear makes. It gives me the complete shudders!
Sorry but I don't know the name of yours, hope someone can come up with it for you.
2006-10-15 03:53:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately, to the person who has the phobia, no phobia is ridiculous. We on the outside, who don't have, say, a fear of peaches, may see the person who suffers from this phobia and think that they are completely ridiculous. But to the person with the phobia, it's a very REAL fear; it's something that they can't control, even though they probably really want to. As such, it's not laughing matter, nor is it ridiculous. People suffering from phobias deserve our compassion and help, not our laughter and judgment.
2016-05-22 03:33:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loud crowded places. I haven't seen a football game at a stadium in years. There are also a good many restaurants that I won't go to because of the noise level. It makes me panicky.
2006-10-15 03:49:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am afriad of NOT facing danger if I think something is dangerous to me until I somehow face that fear I have nightmares and about the fear (I am not stupid though I am not going to actually allow myself to get seriously hurt). I also have developed this strange habit of placing my arm behind my back when I am scared and I have no idea why.
2006-10-14 23:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by sjp_amor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a phobia of pelicans.
I've been told its rather strange. I can't even look at a picture of a pelican without breaking into a sweat and freaking out.
2006-10-14 23:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have this thing where if things are too dark and loud I begin to panic and freak out. It happened once at the movie theater and I seriously thought that I was going to die. I laugh at myself about that moment now.
2006-10-15 08:25:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am afraid to fly a kite. I tried to once, and when it got like 40 feet high I started to panic. It sucks and my friends think it's funny. I think it's a control issue or something.
2006-10-14 23:18:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a fear of Friday the Thirteenth
2006-10-14 23:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as you, i am afraid of spiders, too. but it is not just being afriad.. it is something different. i feel very very bad, i feel like fainting when i see them moving-whether on tv or near me-
also i am afraid of cutting myself and seeing blood. i cant even bear anyone being injected... thats too bad for me and i dunno how will i put up with it...
2006-10-15 00:38:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋