I know they are ultimately harmless and are good for catching other annoying bugs and stuff, but duuuuuuuuuude. Why do they have to be so creepy? I hate to say I have arachnophobia (feels like saying you have OCD when you're just a little particular), but I can't even look at them on TV. I get instantly sick to my stomach. It's ridiculous.
Which was irrational until about a month ago and then the government had to be like, “Look what I’ve got in this dusty old closet.” I didn’t want to know!
Side note, I keep eyeing references to this and I have no idea what I missed. Even googling for news article I didn’t find anything that seemed unusual.
I know they are ultimately harmless and are good for catching other annoying bugs and stuff, but duuuuuuuuuude. Why do they have to be so creepy? I hate to say I have arachnophobia (feels like saying you have OCD when you're just a little particular), but I can't even look at them on TV. I get instantly sick to my stomach. It's ridiculous.
I don't think fear of spiders is irrational though cause it developed through history to help us avoid dangerous things and there are venomous spiders out there. And even the non venomous can still bite.
I am scared that I’ll accidentally commit a big crime and have to go to prison for a long time. I am so boring, so I’m not concerned about anything specific, just that I’ll do something totally unintentionally.
That’s probably more anxiety than fear, but most of my other anxieties are successfully quieted by medication. 😁
I'm low-key afraid of flying. It is a bit irrational because I've flown tons of places and I love to travel.
Also an irrational disgust of eyelash hairs. I say "hairs" because I don't have a problem with eyelashes when they're attached to people's eyelids. I just hate finding them anywhere else.
I am not the person who had children and then started fearing all the ways they could get hurt or die. But the car going over the bridge into the water thing keeps me awake at night. Whenever I have all 3 kids in the car with me and drive over a bridge I feel panicky.
I decided to research it, so I could at least try to calm my runaway brain that I knew the best steps to take. Maybe it seems obvious, but I needed to mentally work through it. First, brace for impact, don't try to do anything until you've actually hit the water. Next, super important, get your seat belt off and window rolled down right away. Chances are, your electric windows will work for a short time after impact. If not, then use that window breaking tool that we've all bought and stored in our cars, right? Next get out of the car through the window. Don't wait for the car to fill with water or try to open the door. If you have kids, get them unbuckled and out before you, starting with the oldest. Might need to have them climb to the front seat and out those windows because they usually open more than the back. You've probably got about 60 second to get out of the car before it fills with water. Seatbelt, window, kids, get out. Don't waste time trying to grab your phone.
Butterflies is the big one. Like...those butterfly houses where you go in and they are just around you? Forget it! Nope. No way.
I was on the L once and a butterfly was in the train car I was on. Next stop, I had to get off and change cars. OMG. I was aware I was the only one freaking out and totally irrational. Lol.
(I think it's because they are pretty but erratic and I swat at things that fly around and don't want to accidentally kill the butterfly).
I’m an outdoor person and I absolutely love wildlife. I will snatch up a snake, free swim with sharks, hold spiders, walk right up to wild hogs and alligators, wander around with some of the biggest brown bears in Alaska, etc. but if a cicada or one of those hard-shelled brown beetles comes near me I’m fucking outta there.
Being in the country in general - especially at night when it's so dark you can't see anything and there are no lights anywhere. The city is all lit up and that suits me just fine. Going to my mom's house in the woods - she's got like no outside lights on and I run from my car to her house cause it freaks me right out. I've yelled at her before to get some damn lights and she clearly doesn't see the issue.
Sleeping with my feet hanging over the edge of the bed. I feel like something is going to take a nibble out of my toes.
I had no idea this could be an irrational fear. I actually have to have my feet over the edge it I can’t sleep! My toes hang over at the foot, and sometimes I hold onto the edge of the headboard. I’ve slept this way my entire life. In fact now that I’m thinking about it I don’t have a headboard anymore but I hold onto the edging of the mattress.
DO NOT approach me with a balloon. Once it was explained to me that balloons don’t explode, they IMplode, so I needn’t be afraid of them, i decided that the edge of the imploding balloon would brush my face and slice my eyeball open.
I am not the person who had children and then started fearing all the ways they could get hurt or die. But the car going over the bridge into the water thing keeps me awake at night. Whenever I have all 3 kids in the car with me and drive over a bridge I feel panicky.
I decided to research it, so I could at least try to calm my runaway brain that I knew the best steps to take. Maybe it seems obvious, but I needed to mentally work through it. First, brace for impact, don't try to do anything until you've actually hit the water. Next, super important, get your seat belt off and window rolled down right away. Chances are, your electric windows will work for a short time after impact. If not, then use that window breaking tool that we've all bought and stored in our cars, right? Next get out of the car through the window. Don't wait for the car to fill with water or try to open the door. If you have kids, get them unbuckled and out before you, starting with the oldest. Might need to have them climb to the front seat and out those windows because they usually open more than the back. You've probably got about 60 second to get out of the car before it fills with water. Seatbelt, window, kids, get out. Don't waste time trying to grab your phone.
I am scared that I’ll accidentally commit a big crime and have to go to prison for a long time. I am so boring, so I’m not concerned about anything specific, just that I’ll do something totally unintentionally.
That’s probably more anxiety than fear, but most of my other anxieties are successfully quieted by medication. 😁
My mom is the most law abiding person I know and she is practically catatonic whenever she has to go through security. She thinks if you forget to take off your jacket at the airport it's like straight line to Gitmo.
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Aug 31, 2023 14:11:51 GMT -5
I have irrational phobia of needles and getting blood drawn. I think the fear is rational but I have irrational fears of getting blood drawn and them draining out all of my blood. I also have a fear of elevators, in particular getting trapped in one and it falling. I have actually been stuck in one before but it was on the ground floor and the door wouldn't open, so just had normal claustrophobic feelings lol.
To the OP with the fishing/fish hook fear, this happened to me as a child. My uncle or cousin was pulling back to cast his line and the hook got my finger. Surgery not needed, but definitely traumatic.
Bees - especially wasps. The saying that they are more afraid of me than I am of them...NOPE! If they are afraid of me, why are they flying anywhere near me?
White utility vans. The kind with no windows in the back. But only white, really. If it's another color I don't think about it that much but a white one? I won't park by it or walk by it. No way.
I’m terrified of being anywhere near people who are fishing. The concern is when they cast the line I will get caught with the fishhook and have to have it surgically removed.
This has also been a fear but it got worse when in college I had a classmate who had this exact thing happen - it went through his eyelid.
This is not irrational. My friend got caught on a fishhook when we were camping with her family. It went through her scalp. She didn't need surgery, thank goodness (and she caught on to it right away before it could be tugged on), but I have had a fear of this since then.
Belly buttons - I hate the sight of them (my own included). And if I see someone else touch their belly button, it sends me over the edge.
I do not have a fear of belly buttons, but I don't like when you can see an outline of someone's belly button through their clothes. My friend knows this, and I could see her belly button through bridal gowns when we were shopping. She asked the bridal consultant how to hide it. The bridal consultant said to put cotton in your belly button. That sent me over the edge! I don't like the feel of cotton balls... then to stick it in a belly button?