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 have a really bad phobia of zombies. Like, I cried uncontrollably when I tried to watch Zombieland. Other forms of undead, like vampires and mummies, and liches are totally fine though and don’t scare me. It’s just zombies.
Interesting! Do you also experience fear if you see a static corpse? For example like in a medical or police show?
My biggest fear is waking up without my penis.
I remember some news segment from my adolescence, where a journalist is conversing with an autistic person who is terrified to hold scissors or other sharp objects, as he “might drop them and accidentally cut off his reproductive organs”. He reiterates this several times during the conversation. I think about it often, and wish I could find it.
Look for it over by st marks place.
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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.
Im curious, does that include Norwegian fjords? Surrounded as they are by huge, smooth mountains.
In winter times I think that is healthy. How people can live at the water-line there, thats just asking to eventually be pushed into the sea by a snow avalanche.
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.
