Weird Phobias

[Londonsays]

My boyfriend slurping tea. It makes me feel sick.

 

[Prodcon21]

My feet touching anything other than a sock or a shoe. The thought of walking barefoot on the ground knocks me sick. Or in the sea. Or it touching my quilt. Eughhhhh.

Pigeons

Me too. One got stuck in my hair when I was a teen. Petrified ever since. X

 

[abitfairytale]

What weird phobias do people have?

Mine are:
Wet cotton wool (stems from childhood dental appointments for braces when they stuck cotton wool in my mouth for the impressions )
Feet - a pedicure would literally be my worst nightmare. And except for sandal/holiday season, I keep my toenails v short as I hate being able to feel them against the end of my socks)
Out-y belly buttons (sorry if anyone has one!) - I was dreading mine popping out when I was pregnant. Luckily, despite birthing a small whale, it didn't happen!

 

[Annie101]

i have this ridiculous panicked feeling when there's only 1 item in the fridge, say example one egg, i worry that it would feel lonely and isolated. Therefor i immediately either cook it or or buy more eggs. Also my lipsticks and other make up needs to be lined up as i dont want it to feel lonely.
Same with Shampoo's etc in bathroom. It gives me major anxiety. I cannot handle bellybuttons in any shape or form, cannot even touch my own.
And i just want to die if i am in bed and my husband toe touches me.

 

[AutumnSpring]

Ice!!!

The noise of it scraping goes right through me. People biting ice lollies. Taking anything out of the freezer.

I have goosebumps even talking about it

 

[Be More Pacific]

How could I have forgotten this one...?

Hairs

You know, when you go to use a sink and there's a big old shiny black (always black) hair there. Or pubes on the loo. Freaks me out. Even when it's my OH's and we've lived together for eleven years.

And also hairs in plug holes <shudder>

 

[Anything you like]

Suffocating or drowning, not really weird but I get funny even with watching films that include those things I feel like I can’t breathe lol

 

[hrh89]

Polystyrene makes me feel sick. The squeaky noise the texture nope

Absolutely despise feet but that’s quite a normal one I think

I have a huge fear of submerged or sinking ships. I recently found out it has a name submechanophobia. It both horrifies and intrigues me. I sometimes go and look at pictures to purposely scare myself. I used to be obsessed with the Titanic as a child I read so many books on it I think it came from that. What a nutcase

 

[Begborrowsteal]

My feet touching anything other than a sock or a shoe. The thought of walking barefoot on the ground knocks me sick. Or in the sea. Or it touching my quilt. Eughhhhh.

Im the opposite. I hate socks! Feel like theyre stuck to me. Absolutely cannot sleep in socks!

 

[KateESJ]

The movie Dumbo.


It’s not so much a phobia but a trigger that brings back really bad memories that can lead to panic attacks so I avoid it. Long and unpleasant story behind it.

 

[Malbec]

As a child I hated swimming pool drains! Especially in the deep end.

Me too, they still freak me out as an adult! Especially the ones with a black grate

 

[squarebutton]

Wasp hives! *shudders*

 

[abitfairytale]

Ridiculously high escalators - not a fan in general of escalators but doubled with height and I do not like at all. Been known to walk miles extra when visiting London to avoid particular tube stations due to this

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I never thought I was claustrophobic until the day I climbed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh.
I don't know what happened, but Jesus I just freaked out completely.

Going back down and a large man was coming up and wouldn't move back so I could keep going down. I ended up shouting at him to get out of my way (and I'm never like that. Usually I'm an idiot who lets people walk all over me, but that's another story)

Got to the bottom, got out and just ended up shaking and crying. I think I had some kind of panic attack.
My husband didn't know what the hell was going on.

 

[philopastry75]

Submarines, aeroplanes that have sunk underwater and shots of whales (especially orcas) in the sea from above make me freak out. Not sure what the name for this is though.
edit- Googled it, it’s called megalohydrothalassophobia- a phobia of large things in deep water. Be cautious when googling though as images come up that are awful.

 

[Rocknrolla]

Champagne corks popping, I think it’s the suspense also balloons especially at a children’s birthday party, waiting for the inevitable of one of the little fuckers standing/popping them.

Meat - I will cook a meal, sit down to eat it then I’ll convince myself that I haven’t cooked the meat properly, I’m going to get food poisoning to the extent i will pick the meat out or leave it all.

 

[Londoncailín]

Ridiculously high escalators - not a fan in general of escalators but doubled with height and I do not like at all. Been known to walk miles extra when visiting London to avoid particular tube stations due to this

When my mum visits me in London, she will not get off the tube at Tottenham Court Road station because of the height of the escalator!

 

[Anything you like]

Another one is large things if anyone knows what I mean, an object that is just huge scares me, not tall buildings i don’t mean, just large things such as a huge ship or a huge statue when your so small, not sure if I make any sense whatsoever it’s just a feeling I get lol

 

[abitfairytale]

People dressed as animals - Disneyland would be my hell.

Sloths. Oh yes. This used to be easy to ignore until they were stuck on every bloody item from Pjs to mugs. Used to be a video game where it looked like sloths came out and attacked you. Turned out to be like dead people so it made it 10000% times worse and I literally feel my heart stop whenever I see a sloth

Now, my daughter's a bit funny with characters, people dressed up. But hers is if they're a person pretending to be another person - so for e.g. people dressing as disney princesses where you can see their faces. We went to a shopping centre once and there was 2 people dressed Elsa and Anna, and she absolutely freaked out.

A fucking giant Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse or Pluto in Disneyland Paris though, and she was bloody loving life!! But the idea of the Princess Pavillion and she was almost in tears with fear.

Weird child (very proud of what I've raised )!!!!

 

[Be More Pacific]

Spiders. Only large house spiders though - little tiddlers don't bother me. It's the thought of them crawling on me. My OH insists on putting them outside rather than killing them as well

Being buried alive. I watched a TV series (Messiah) and it opened with a drinking straw poking out of the ground with some raspy breathing. The victim was underground wrapped in cling film with a straw in their nostril to keep them alive for a certain period of time but knowing their eventual fate. The thought of their terror freaked me out for a long time. It's also how Fred & Rose West used to control some of their victims (wrapped their heads completely in tape and put a straw in their nostril to keep them alive whilst they had their "fun")

Some stranger ones - not really phobias but just things I'm weird about.....

I saw a photo of a wasp's nest and it gave me the proper heebie jeebies to the point of making my tummy flip flop but I couldn't stop staring at it.

The thought of my ankles knocking each other or even touching <shudder>

Agree about the hot drink slurping. My dad does it and it is disgusting Just wait for it to cool down for fuck's sake!!

A closed MRI scan isn't much fun either especially if you're bigger. Don't look at your feet would be my tip or even open your eyes at all the whole time you're in there - that's how I cope. I have had a panic attack before going in once - the nurse had to hold my hand and calm me down

Animals in your house that shouldn't be there - rogue birds, mice etc. Totally fine with them at other times.