ok, this is going to sound really strange ive never met another person with this phobia. its of tape measurers! might sound funny but if i see one i feel physically sick and want to cry! does any1 have the same phobia or am i totally alone on this?! and also if u have any strange phobias what are they.
2007-05-27 02:51:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
No you are not alone. I have this exact same problem. My dad used to collect tape measures (strange hobby). And i would play with them (another strange hobby). But then one day, the side of the tape cut my are and broke an artery. Not cool. so i had to go to the hospital. I also have a strange phobia of blood so that didn't help the bleeding. So now my stomach gets all weird whenever i am near a tape measure. I have gotten better though. I went out and bought a tape measure and put it up in my room. It helped me be able to deal with the discomfort much better.
2007-05-27 02:56:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm scared to death of fish so I think most phobias are strange to other people. I still know another person who has the same phobia and wont eat anything that comes from the sea.I don't think you're alone with this,I'm sure there's someone else somewhere.
2007-05-27 03:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by jennifer484 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know if you are in the uk - But here (england) we have just aired a series on tv called panic room. About people with extreme phobias. One woman had a really bad phobia of buttons. And they helped her deal with that. So if you can download any of the series i think it might be benificial to you
2007-05-27 02:58:39 · answer #3 · answered by Ami 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is strange! There's probabaly some really interesting childhood story behind that one! I think the only thing that can help is to have that therap, i forget what its called but you are basically just forced to look at thing you are scared of, and eventually when nothing terrible happens your brain just stops associating it with fear. There are courses where you can do this in a controlled environment, or you could just do it on yourself! I am scared of vomit- i'm terrified of being sick!
2007-05-27 06:12:42 · answer #4 · answered by MiniMed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of this one - Maybe you actually have a fear of lizard tongues - tape measures look like lizard tongues as you pull the tape out.
2007-05-27 02:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi, Homophobia. Its purely too overused to hearth up the fallacies of advert hominem and emotional charm and that i'm hoping it is going the way of fascist and male chauvinist pig known a technology in the past. Cheers, Michael Kelly
2016-10-08 22:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-27 02:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say find a frien you trust and get the tape measure out and cry your eys out until your over it. I was afraid of hights until a friend of mine kept me riding a roller coaster over and over again.
2007-05-27 02:57:20 · answer #8 · answered by singapores 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm never heard of that one before but i have a phobia of feet eurgh even the thaught of them makes me feel ill, i even have to scrub my hands when i put my socks on or clip my toe nails and i mean really scrub hard and i cant even look at other peoples
2007-05-27 02:55:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to have a phobia of knees and i still hate it when people touch theirs or tell me feel this, but i eventually got over it
2007-05-27 02:55:36 · answer #10 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋