Any interesting or unique phobias out there?

Question

Let me know if you or someone you know have a phobia(not fear) of something.

Remember a phobia is extremely intense emotion.

Answer 1

i have a phobia of grasshoppers if one touches me i will hyperventilate and i cant brush them off since i would have to touch them more i will stand still and fling parts around to get it off and cry i almost wrecked my car cause one was on my leg. they cling to you and it feels like forever before it gets off.
im also agoraphobic which is a fear of large open spaces i cant swim in the ocean or lakes since i cant see through the water i flip out. i also cant be in large fields with tall grass

Answer 2

I live near Canada... I have an intense phobia of walking on ice. All my buddies go out ice fishing and I can't. I can see that the ice is at least three to six feet thick...trucks drive on it, there's fish houses out there, everyone goes out... and I cannot bring myself to step out onto the ice without a panic attack...

Oddly enough... I rock climb, scuba dive, ATV, water ski, motorcycle... I even ice skate at the arena... just no frozen lakes or rivers for me. I have *never* once stepped onto the ice. But I'll do just about anything else.

Answer 3

i do, have some form of phobia the position in simple terms takes position even as i'm round women individuals colligues having lunch time on the similar time. As i do not communicate for the era of my eating because it evaluate impolite in my way of life. I continuously seem to journey uncofortable round people even as am eating. I hardly pass to eating position for that particular purpose, quite after some stranger comenting about how fussy i change into, by way of very actuality the waitress gave me incorrect food and that i requested for the precise suitable one 2 circumstances, so i have were given been given extraordinarily aggravated as you are able to favor to imagine of. people continuously inquire from me why i'm so narrow and all that, yet i do devour regularly occurring, in simple terms like a number of individual else. and they seem attentive to too....

Answer 4

Hi
My favourite is "Genuflectophobia" It apparently is the mortal fear of having your knees bend backwards. It's in the DSM IV

Answer 5

Well I have an intense hatred for anyone who messes with little kids.

Also my grandma is terrified of water, her brothers use to hold her head underwater, so she never learned to swim, and is afraid to this day.

Answer 6

ive heard of a phobia of styrofoam. i don't quite understand it, maybe that sick crunchnig noise when it gets bent?

Answer 7

my mom is afraid of water.
cas her cousins used to shove her head under water when she was little and she couldn't breathe.
now if she gets her face wet she either gets REALLY mad,.. or freaks out.

Answer 8

fear of money, fear of bacteria, fear of paper, fear of writing tools, fear of moving things.

Answer 9

There is this one person that is afraid of the following things:

Children,
Dolls,
Clowns,
Puppets,
Stuffed animals,
Toilets,
Tubs,
Drains,
Behind shower curtains,
Cabinets,
Sinks,
Mirrors,
Closets,
Beds,
Something that could be under my bed,
Corners,
Behind doors,
Behind objects in general,
Under objects especially beds, dressers, tables, desks, and the like,
Being near, in, or around tall buildings,
Windows,
Being in a lighted room when it's dark outside,
Garages,
Attics,
Basements,
Pantrys (I blame Signs >.< *shudders*)
Pincher bugs,
Lacewing bugs,
Being infested with intestinal worms,
Being suffocated,
Being buried alive,
Touching random people or having them touch me,
Eating food other people have directly touched,
Spirits/Ghosts/Demons/etc.,
Deep water,
Big fish,
Fish in water,
The possibility that there might be a fish in the water (that ones the
worst
>.<),
Tight spaces,
Touching dead insects,
Touching insects guts/fluids/or anything else that comes out of them,
Touching the dismembered limb/head/or chunk of an insect,
Naked mole rats (or other naked rodents),
Corners,
Cats,
Showers,
The kind of darkness that you don't know what's in it,
Crickets,
Grass hopers,
Lady Bugs,
Silence in which I might hear something coming to kill me,
Cracks,
Pipes,
Under decks,
Bees/Wasps/and other stinging insects,
Going to bed,
Being asleep because something could get me without my knowing it,
Making decisions,
Touching sunlight after being in darkness for a prolonged period of
time,
Beards,
Thunderstorms,
Mites/Ticks/etc.,
Throwing up,
Flying in an airplane..well really just airplanes in general,
Crossing the street,
Meeting people,
Guns and bullets,
Dentists,
Doctors,
Being in the nude in front of a doctor (specifically a doctor, or a
teacher
for that matter *ponders*,
Termites,
Lakes and other bodies of water,
Being stared at,
The smell of a hospital, dentist office, or other clinic area,
Conjoined twins detaching when they are smaller and don't appear as
another
person (I blame X-Files for this one, the circus had a guy with a twin
hooked to his stomach that was only about 1 1/2 feet tall, and detached
and
was crawling around all pink and slimey and and *hides*),
Small creatures being under, near, around, or behind things where they
could
grab my foot,
Being on my computer without being connected to the internet where I
could
talk to other people (HUGE FEAR! I can't be on my computer without
being
online.. it makes me nervous and panicky >.<),
Roofs,
Inanimate objects attacking me,
Pool plugs,
Having things in my hair,
Ants crawling on me,
My nails being ripped off or people with no nails,
Touching peoples knees,
Touching peoples elbows,.. basically touching peoples joints, and just
touching people in general,
Touching other peoples spit,
Talking in public
Touching styrofoam when it's touching cardboard (and the sound that
makes),
Touching pus from someone else *shudders*,
Long body hair on men o.O..not sure where that comes from O.o not sure where most of these do,
My cup/glass/drinking container being contaminated (if I see a spot in it I can't use it even after it's been washed),
Something living in my bathroom,
Things crawling on the ceiling,