What is a phobia?
Phobias are persistent and intense fears of a particular:
object
person (like a doctor or clown)
situation
activity
If you have a phobia, you may experience severe anxiety and panic attacks when you’re:
exposed to the object or situation you’re fearful of
thinking about the thing you’re afraid of
anticipating an encounter with the item you’re scared of
I wouldn’t say I have an actual phobia, but I completely understand people with trypophobia. It makes me very uncomfortable and I find it pretty revolting.
Heights - fuck high places.
Spiders. Terrified of them to the point of just picking a direction and running until im far 😂
Yup. Especially those fuckers with extra long legs. Just pure horror.
And also many other insects with long legs.
If there’s a single spider sighting in the house, my wife is affraid to go to bed alone for the entire week. I’ve suggested therapy, but she’s read somehwere that therapy involves showing you pictures of spiders until you’re not affraid anymore and the thought of that scares her already.
Scopophobia (the fear of beeing watched/seen) which has basically induced agoraphobia (fear of outside).
I’m an autistic woman though, so people watching me and assuming shitty things, puts me in a very real danger as I can’t information process in real time, or efficiently talk out loud.
I have pretty strong fear of people in full body mascot costumes. This includes furry suits too. Not a crippling phobia, but enough to keep me on edge.
That being said, I don’t hate furries. It’s just all suits where I can’t see person’s face freak me out.
Is that also the case for full body armor and other fictional or real types of costumes where you can’t see the face? Or does it have to have a ‘fake’ face like mascot costumes? Just curious
