I fear ALL insects, especially wasps, bee's. I make sure I never run dry on doom...I keep 2 at a time.
So, my phobia is Entomophobia
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I thought these pictures might be appreciated in this thread.
I found this little fellow in the garden yesterday. That is a full size tennis ball in the first pic, btw. I have no fear of these critters, but I must admit I had a good shiver when I saw it.
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One day, I'll grow up and become responsible.
Probably not today.
I'm a weird case...
I get a little freaked out from heights, but I would do stupid stuff like jumping from roofs.
Lol and does the inability to pee at a urinal(unless the toilet is deserted until I'm done) count as a phobia?
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People... A phobia is when you have an irrational fear of something... Not simply a fear.
E.g. of a fear of snakes: Johnny saw a snake in the classroom, afraid, he moved towards the door and left the classroom.
E.g of Ophidiophobia: Johnny saw a picture of a sausage and assumed it was a snake, Johnny proceeded to claw his way through all his peers before proceeding to kick down the wall and leave the classroom.
Do you guys get it now?
Last edited by Stunt; 29-01-2014 at 02:41 PM.
Technically correct, to some extent. You are stipulaing a extreme case of phobia. A phobia is something that causes fear within someone, to the extent that they will show some form of distress. A phobia will cause someone to become impaired, visibly distressed, and is due to a chemical reaction within their brain that overcompensates for the fight-or-flight mechanism.
Because everyone is different, one can agrue that a extensive sensation of fear can be diagnosable as a phobia, without the person literally freaking out. Each person will show distress differently. This chemical reaction may even cause someone to freeze up. But the fear inducing factor will always be present.
Many social interactions classify this as fear as well. Which is why you cannot talk about phobias without talking about fear as. Whether this be a fleating flutter of adrenaline as you see a snake, or a paralysing bladder release when a spder is seen, both are a type of fear, and equally relevant when discussing various fears and phobias
That being said, I would completely agree that i do suffer from arachnophobia. I've broken a bed trying to get away from a spider, I've twisted my ancle running away from one in another incident, and I cannot get close to a spider even in an enclosure. But my fear is always triggered once the stimuli is within my view though.
I think I have megalophobia (the fear of large objects) but it's specifically to do with the sea: large creatures in the sea, ships and even the sea itself. I used to love reading about whales and watching them in documentaries until I realised how big they actually were... funnily enough I only realised how big they were when I saw a seal swimming near the surface in a harbour and it was flipping large.
My mind: if seals are that large then imagine a shark that can hold one in its jaws and then imagine a killer whale (Killer whales scare me to death) AND WHAT ABOUT REAL WHALES!!!!
A lot of things about snakes creep me out too: their movement, their swallowing food and when they curl into a ball that just looks like intestines with a head somewhere. I'm not to fond of them no, but I'd rather pet a snake then be in open water with killer whales coming out of the dark ocean depths beneath me
http://rense.com/general67/BUMP.HTMKETCHIKAN, Alaska - Whale researchers say it was highly unusual for a killer whale to bump a 12-year-old boy splashing in shallow water near Ketchikan.
Ellis Miller found himself face-to-face with an orca charging at him in 4 feet of water Saturday in Helm Bay. The animal, estimated to be more than 25 feet long, bumped but did not bite him.
"I looked underwater and there was this huge head right in front of me," Ellis told the Ketchikan Daily News.