Pick your phobia!

Ornithophobia Fear of birds.
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia Fear of crossing bridges.
i used to have these two but i'm over them
i'm awesome like buddha fish

the bird thing was a fear of them touching me
and that may still exist
i have no idea why

Judeophobia Fear of Jews.
haha that has to be fake

Pogonophobia Fear of beards.
how about mustaches?

fear of mirrors
sounds like a name for a band

 

cool?

 

nice
i've never heard of that one before

haha

and GOODVIBES,
read this
http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2007/04/omphalophobia.html

here's an excerpt:
actually pretty much the whole thing
hilarious
"We carefully tended my newborn's umbilical stump with alcohol swabs, cleaning it thoroughly to ensure the prettiest button possible. My first child's stump fell off on day twelve so I was happily surprised when I found Cher's stump in the blanket on only the ninth day. My joy was shortlived. I pulled back her shirt and saw it. At first I wasn't quite sure what it was. I finally understand those who suffer from omphalophobia, or a fear of belly buttons. They must have seen something like this.

On an otherwise flawless being, Cher's belly button is a blood stained nightmare. It protrudes at least half an inch from her abdomen and is almost as wide as a nickel. The stump must have fallen off prematurely because the entire thing is still oozing something nasty. I've never seen anything like it. Ever since discovering her extra appendage, I've taken care to dress her full sleeper suits to help me forget what lies beneath. When I do find it necessary to change and bath her, I find myself focusing on her face, her boogers, her toe lint, anything to keep my eyes off the utter outtiness of her outtie.

Yes it true, I am one of those people who secretly believe that we "innies" are better than the 10% of the population with "outties." Outties are aberrations of nature whose bodies never fully accepted the separation from their mothers. Outties are unable to slip discreetly through crowds as their large protruding belly buttons catch on strangers' belt buckles. Outties wear brown socks with black pants. Outties are just weird. And now I have the biggest outtie of them all living right here under my own roof. True, it could be just an umbilical hernia and may go away in a few months time, but if it doesn't?

She'll never be able to wear spandex tops. She'll never be in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She'll never be able to feed small woodland animals out of her belly button. Oh, the things she'll miss. Of course, there is always umbilicoplasty (belly button cosmetic surgery to create an innie). Or an even more drastic option, dare I accept her the way she is? Take in the outtie? These are frightening times my friends. Frightening times indeed."

i wish there was a picture for you, ahah


do you have an innie or outtie?
i'm an innie
of course

and sorry for five posts in a row

 

I actually have a lot of weird phobias. About 5 really weird main ones.

My biggest phobia is Pyrotecniphobia, the fear of fireworks. Up until recently I never left the house on July 4th and the few days surrounding it. Its a debilitating phobia that has kept me from doing so many things on a semi-daily basis. But within the past 3 years I have been working on ridding my self of this phobia. Mainly through 10 sessions of LSD use. In these sessions I put a lot of thought into my phobia, and into fireworks themselves. I also exposed myself to my fear throughout these sessions. It has worked wonders! I actually 'like' fireworks now. They don't give me much anxiety anymore, they give me pleasure.

 

That's pretty awesome, Dom. Congrats.

Long time no talk, btw. How've you been man?

 

not to downplay it or anything, but how did it do that? aren't they usually only around the 4th? what'd you do this 4th and what are the other 4 phobias if you don't mind sharing?

 

i was freaked out by fireworks as a young kid but then my dad gave me a pack of firecrackers....it went downhill from there

i have now graduated to taking apart fireworks and using the gunpowder and other useful flammables to make my own fireworks...

 

don't blow your hand off

 

i havent been close yet...i really havent done anything like that in a while, though

i did make a sparkler bomb the other day and i have a trunk full of fireworks from last year...i;ll probably pack them in a box and light it on fire

 

I think my sister has this. She still won't come out of her room while fireworks are going off. always been that way for years and years

 

Phobias are not logical fears, that are irrational. In my mind night equated potential fireworks. Till I was in my late teens I would rarely go outside at night, unless i was in a car or in a very public place. As a kid it was really bad to the point of constant nervousness in the back of my head when I was outside at all in the month of June/July. Ive never been to a bonfire because in my mind bonfire sounds like bombfire. Ive had panic attacks, as well as created many embarrassing situations.
All fireworks scared me but I always felt less fear of professional fireworks. I had more control over the situation. They were scheduled and I knew exactly when they would start so I was able to get as far away as I could.
My fear was more of amateur fireworks. As I grew up I was exposed to a lot of misuse of amateur fireworks and I guess it played into my psyche. Amateur fireworks could come at any time anywhere day or night, and you never know when, its like torture to a person with this kind of phobia.
When I was younger I also had a fear of teenagers and in my mind teenagers always had fireworks so that just compounded my nervousness. But this has all changed. LSD helped me so much.

This forth of July I was at rothbury music festival. There were fireworks going off every minute for 96+ hours, literally. It was awesome.... other than the fact that it was dangerous as hell for all those intoxicated people to be lighting off fireworks in a sea of nylon tents.

I can't share my other phobias, I have a fear of people knowing my phobias. Plus they are the really weird kind. People would seriously think I'm nuts. Like this one lady that came into my old job. I worked at a grocery store and we put up a display of Raid bug killing spray at each end of the pet food isle. Well this lady needed a can of dog food but she couldn't walk into the isle. She had a phobia of pesticides. I gladly got the food for her but everyone was making fun of her.

 

Pupaphobia fear of puppets
Automatonophobia Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues

dolls just freak me out.

i didnt see my wierd phobia in that list...

for some reason im afraid of gum. i cant look at it, touch it, smell it, etc. it freaks me out. i have noooooo idea why. :shrug:

 

Moths hate em

 

Achluophobia Fear of darkness.
Phasmophobia Fear of ghosts.

theres so many funny ones though, too many to list :rofl:
eg. Lachanophobia Fear of vegetables. :rofl:

 

I have electrophobia - fear of electricity.
Also fear of needles but I can't be arsed to work out the greek for that one.

 

Aphilladiphisiaphobia, i don't know what this one is but its a fun word to say.
Anatidaephobia, the fear of ducks watching you.

 

isn't using the computer pretty scary then?

i mean more than it is for the rest of us? i mean the internetz can be a pretty scary place

 

well thanks for explaining
that makes sense now, even though it's "irrational"
i always thought people were too careless with fireworks too, and i never wanted to light them off too much, but def not a phobia.

i wouldn't even say that my bird and bridge phobias are full blown
they never really prevented me from doing anything

 

Haha not of it in general, just situations where it could shock me, like unplugging something without turning the socket completely off, or changing a lightbulb. Also static electricity.