General Discussion

@Demonochorus *maybe trigger warning?*
I totally get you on the bones thing, but for me, it's just my own bones. I've been physically sick seeing an x-ray of my skull, and fainted the one time I'd accidentally cut my finger really deep and saw my own bone. One of the worst experiences ever.

I suppose that goes for other things inside my body, too, like muscle and organs. I have nightmares about surgery pretty regularly and I'd probably be really conflicted if I had to have some kind of necessary procedure done. I used to want to be a doctor, then one summer I went to a camp-type thing for kids who want to be in the medical field, and we had to watch a live surgery broadcast, and then I sort of realized that maybe that profession wasn't for me.

I have a phobia of.. warehouses. It's kinda stupid.

@joy1joy1 I feel your pain. ._. It's the worst when someone says, "Oh, but it's just a little needle!" I've gotten to the point that, whenever a doctor or dentist says that to me before or after an injection, I look them dead in the eyes and say, "Phobias don't care." Once I can breathe regularly again, that is. And once my siblings stop laughing at me when I come home and have to sleep off any residual panic.

I'm terrified of jellyfish, but only when they're in the water. If they wash up on the beach then I'll put them back in but if they're where I'm swimming I will nope the **** out of there. My sibs make fun of me for it but they just terrify me. It's actually quite stupid. They don't even have a brain, really.

Welp, now I have a name for one of mine, spectrophobia is great. ;_;

I have several phobias, but one of the absolute worst is trypophobia. >.< I just. No.

Well.. Everyone says I have a Spiderphobia. I'm not too sure about that. Sure I get some 'symptoms': panic attacks, fast breathing (or not being able to breath at all), nausea, dizziness.... But I don't fear them. Its just.. Well someone knows the feeling when you find something so disgusting that you'd rather die than going through that?

I mean that litterally. I was in a situation where the only get-away from the flames was a way through a spideroverrun escapetunnel in the basement. I completely froze up and someone had to flame the nets away before they could even shove me in that direction. I almost knocked someone out in my panic to not go through there.

Its astonishing how long it took me to write that from memory... One would think it gets better over time. D:

@Shakenzie
Thing is, I'm not scared of gore at all! xD
Just the whole bones thing makes me feel fragile and weak ;_;

@Fara
*ugh* i hate it when people you know laugh at you because of it. it's so annoying! i have a funny story (not really), and its only funny because my brother laughed at me. i was flicking through pictures on his computer, and i found a picture of my uncle having a needle, and i nearly passed out.

Aww man, phobias are the absolute worst when you have them
I have a fear of taxidermy and taxidermied animals, so it's hard for me to visit my sister in the south because everyone seems to adore hunting animals and keeping them as trophies. It's also really scary whenever I go to steakhouses, but most of the time i have time to prepare myself for what's inside. One time i didn't prepare myself, and there was a giant brown bear right by the entrance to a restaurant, posed in a position like it was roaring. This caused me to start shaking uncontrollably, hyperventilate, and cry. So it's really unfortunate that I like steak, because all steakhouses have taxidermy.

@DragonsChilde I'm not the only one, woohooo!!! I wouldn't say I necessarily have a phobia, but I am hella freaked out by jellyfish. It's comical, but the idea of being in the water next to one and having it's tentacles just waving out there --it's probably cuz I'm afraid they're all poisonous.

I also have some traits of people with agoraphobia (again, I don't want to say "I have a phobia of this" because I don't take phobias lightly, and I don't feel my life is THAT impaired by it... but is maybe getting there.) I think it's related to the fact that I have really bad asthma, but any time I have to go out, I feel like I need to plan an escape route (in case I get an asthma attack). So being in traffic, being without a phone, being too far away --all these things make me really anxious, and I do avoid certain social situations because of this. At the same time, I'm glad that those situations happen to me because I feel like exposure will help me. The more times I get in traffic and end up being okay, the more times I can tell myself that it will be okay this time too :>