Unusual fears or phobias

[Paul the 6th]

it was in my mouth! ARGH!!!! I'm outta here lol

I've met quite a few people with the same dislike/hatred/phobia/outright mortal fear of seafood so it doesn't seem that uncommon thankfully

there is some logic to it. Most seafood smells like a sewer or p*ss, and alot of it looks like mucus/dead rotting stuff - so why on earth would anyone think "oooh I'll put this in me mouth, yum yum yum"....

Originally Posted by zobers

ooo just thought of another one, I am very scared of silverfish, not silver fish, i mean the ones that you sometimes get in bathrooms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish

URGh its making me itch.

They're horrid things, I squished one last night that dared to emerge from under the toilet mat....always feel so bloody guilty when I do it though!

Can understand the seafood thing, can't stand it either but wouldn't call it a fear, just an intense disliking.

I'm really scared of putting my head underwater, hate the sound of water in my ears. Had a bad experience in the pool when I first went swimming at school, ever since my confidence in water has plummeted

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

"oooh I'll put this in me mouth, yum yum yum"....

cos its delicious i love seafood, gimme a crab and a mallet and watch me go!

I hate wasps. And they know it. I used to rent a room and at the end of one summer, there was a nest in the roof that had fallen. I'd wake up to 4 or 5 of the blighters drowsily crawling round the floor. One dropped on my pillow in the middle of the night - which i heard, grabbed the light switch and ran!

And just last night i reached for my dressing gown and accidentally squished a really big one, which was sat on it. It didn't sting me but i can still feel where it touched my hand.

Oddly enough, being stung isn't the issue - been stung a few times and its just not that bad.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

seafood. can't touch it, can't go too near it, can't look at it. Makes me throw up. If someone has touched seafood and then goes to prepare something like a sandwich for me, I can't eat it cos it's been contaminated.

I was in a pub in whitby having sausage and gravy in a yorkshire pudding once. A bit of prawn had got in there somehow but I didn't realise. I took one bite and tasted the prawn oil spreading through my mouth - I spat it out then ran to toilet with my hands on my mouth trying not to let the vomit come out. Prolly one of the worst moments of my life.

I'm a lot better than I used to be, so fish and chips or fillets of fish are kind of ok, but stuff like shellfish, lobsters, muscles, fish with skin & heads on, etc - I run a mile.. dirty b*stards. Makin me ill just thinkin about it

have a feeling you'll regret posting that....

I've always had a thing about people being sick.

When I was a kid and I was being sick I had to shut my eyes, put my index fingers in my ears and pinch my nose with my two little fingers.
And whenever anybody else was sick I panciked and did one down stairs and put the TV on rather loud.

Not as bad as I used to be now lol. Still not too keen on it though. Whenever I'm sick now I'm drunk anyway (only, twice!) so it doesn't bother me.

This one will surprise you. I use to have a fear of motorbikes.

Not just motorbikes on the road being ridden normally, but ones being used anti-socially. When I was a kid (about 9/10 I think) I was walking through a field up to football practice, which was at the far end of the field.

Some youths (15/16) had a dirt bike and we're riding about on it as you do. Nowt wrong with that as far as I'm concerned, though I was a bit wary of these guys.

So one guy goes up to the far end of the field where I'm going, turns round and starts to ride towards me, building up to about 40mph. I've no idea what to do so I just freeze and he decides to dodge round me literally at the last possible moment. Passing me only a foot or so from my arm. I bricked it and ran upto the football field in tears.

For a good few years I shat myself everytime I saw/heard bikes being ridden how and where they shouldn't be, until my Dad got me on the back of his.

I think that's pretty much it.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

have a feeling you'll regret posting that....

only if you explain why I'll regret it lol


edit: oh if you mean for practical jokes and the like, an ex mate I used to live with once cooked a meal for me and vic and put oyster sauce in it even though he knew how bad i was with it all. He had two black eyes and I destroyed his room (smashed telly and his bed was in bits). He never did it again

I really dont like needles. I remember being about 9/10 and i had a bloodtest... i dont think ive ever screamed so much in my life. Since then ive had two more injections, one when i was 11 (menijitis) i was just shaking the whole way to the school but i think i just about managed to not cry. I also had the BCG jab in year 8, so i was 13. I didnt mind that one as much although i couldnt eat all day and its all i was thinking about. I had the biggest adrenaline rush lining up to have it, so much energy but it was so scary. It hurt like **** but i didnt shed a tear.
I just hate the idea of the needle peircing my skin.

I have a completely irrational fear of anyone medical. Doctors, nurses, anyone like that. I proper panic if I ever have to see docs about anything, no matter what it is.

Its not really a fear but I cant touch jewellery, rings, chains etc, wierd huh ? dunno why but if the wife asks me to fasten a necklace for her I just cant, dont even like thinking about either, just writing this isnt easy, dont know why I have tbh.

I feel really guilty about my one and i dont mean to make people feel bad But i have a real issue with amputees and stumps

Dunno if its the fear of losing a leg or anything or if its the stump with the puss and ....ok....i cant keep typing .....

Its no offence to the people who are amputees its not about them at all, just the bit they are missing! In fact weirdly enough one of my best mates has only on leg. She lost the other when she was a baby in a lawn mower incident. I didnt even notice for about 6 months until we were in a pub once and i put my hand on her knee (in a non sexual manner might i add :P ) and felt her false leg. Im cool with her tho .....as long as she doesnt show me it!