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Are you suffering from any phobias?

Do you suffer from any phobias?

  • Yes and I still do currently

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • Yes, but I overcame them

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • No, I don't

    Votes: 5 41.7%
  • Total voters
    12
Sort of? I get claustrophobic in really tight spaces like caves. I only had to go caving once to know I don't like caving. I'm fine in small spaces til they start pressing in on my sides. Engineered spaces are better for my head than natural. If I know it won't get any worse or fail, I'm generally ok with it.
 
Not really, but wasps and hornets really freak me out. I have an irrational fear of getting stung. But it's not like I plan my life around avoiding them or something.
 
I have a weird phobia of spider webs. Spiders themselves don't really bother me, it's the spider webs. Especially the big cob webs. They trigger a fear part of me that does not exist for anything else. Been that way since I was a kid. This has also given me a weird 6th sense for finding and avoiding them when walking in the bush. But if I'm not sure I just wave a stick around.

Now days with the possibility of ticks, I probably don't want to be touching any vegetation or getting too close to any these days anyway, so when I work in the bush I'll probably want to use a pole saw to get branches from a distance and work my way in. That's less of a phobia and more of a real fear. I don't want a life altering disease.
 
Heights. I'm okay with balconies or amusement park rides when I know I am safe but I do not get along with ladders. I can usually power through it but can't always suppress the involuntary shaking. Sucks because it really limits how much work I can do on the house.
 
Scared of heights. I guess it's not bad since I was scaling up 20' ladder to clean gutters and stuff.

But I get pretty dizzy if I'm staring down from a 3+ floor balcony. Man, you can just picture that it's all over if you slip.
 
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You're not getting me into Room 101.
 
pete6032 said:
Not really, but wasps and hornets really freak me out. I have an irrational fear of getting stung. But it's not like I plan my life around avoiding them or something.
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Hey, me too. I'm not even allergic or anything, I've been stung a couple times, and it hurts and all, but if I see one, you bet your ass I'm trying to get the fuck away from it.
 
That article says

Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that provokes excessive and persistent fear. You might be wondering how to tell if the fear is rational, or if the excessive fear has morphed into a true phobia. The DSM-5 notes that the difference lies in whether “the fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the specific object or situation and to the sociocultural context.”
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Which seems to concede that it is largely a subjective thing. Who decides whether a fear is 'out of proportion', especially when you have to consider 'the sociocultural context'? It's a phobia if you feel it's a phobia, I guess. I don't really consider any of my multitudinous list of fears and loathings to be phobias.
 
i'm not afraid of heights, im afraid of falling off high things...

but no actual phobias that i know of. i have definitely self diagnosed as someone with misophonia tho.
 
I had a neighbor in the row of hangars that came down to ask me to put up some light bulbs in his hangar. He'd flown all over the country but he could not manage an 8-ft ladder!
Flying is not typically triggering a fear of heights. Your world becomes the airplane, and you don't really perceive it as standing on the edge of a cliff. I have a healthy sense of self-preservation so I wouldn't consider that I have a fear of heights but I have a respect.
 
skyking said:
I had a neighbor in the row of hangars that came down to ask me to put up some light bulbs in his hangar. He'd flown all over the country but he could not manage an 8-ft ladder!
Flying is not typically triggering a fear of heights. Your world becomes the airplane, and you don't really perceive it as standing on the edge of a cliff. I have a healthy sense of self-preservation so I wouldn't consider that I have a fear of heights but I have a respect.
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23AndMe tells me there's a genetic component to having a fear of heights (and I don't have the marker).
 
the short tower crane at the school
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Access is via the death ladder
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Looking up to the crow's nest. I would climb up there and grease the sheaves once a week. it's 65' above the water.
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But it did have a great view.
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