Mattt
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What? Just... what?
What are your phobias?
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What? Just... what?
I fear that my phone falls and breaks so I have decided not to let any other person hold my phone.
You must be having very few friends then...
Mister 44
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I fear that my phone falls and breaks so I have decided not to let any other person hold my phone.
If you own an iPhone as the picture suggests, I don't blame you. They shatter if you fart in their general direction or say the "warranty" within earshot of it.
Hahah They shatter if you fart in their general direction, its true I had one of these but it broke when I threw it onto my bed, It bounced on the cussion and into the wall, after that onto the tiles, so it broke. I have never been the same since.
Stunt
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I think everyone, when perplexed by the intricacies of life and it's pace, in relation to our worthless existence gets this fear every now and again.
But please people, these are phobias we're discussing, not fears.
MalicE
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I don't get seasick, cause I don't go on boats. They are death traps and should be avoided at all cost
I think it stems from the traumatic experience I had on boat as a kid.
Snare
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The reference was to an Outkast song "whistling:
But the phobia itself is a documented reality. And clocks are the primary antagonists to the sufferers' lives.
Snare
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I have a friend whom is afflicted by this. His home always has the faint scent of both disinfectant and insecticide.
I kinda faced my fear of heights, went for a hike the other day, was scary hiking down the steep hill.
Snare
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I'm not even remotely scared of heights. It's plummeting that is my issue
Stunt
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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?
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?
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DieGrootHammer
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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.
reedOsama
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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 :wtf:
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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 :wtf:
http://rense.com/general67/BUMP.HTM