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Phobias
My worst nightmare (or phobia), is to be stuck inside a narrow and dirty tunnel. A sewer pipe, for example. The chances of me ending up in a sewer pipe is very slim, but I think about it so much that I feel as if I am training myself mentally for the big day.
I found a list of different phobias in Schott’s Original Miscellany. Here are a few:
Beards……………………….pogonophobia
Fall of satellites……keraunothnetophobia
Tickling with feathers…….pteronophobia
Sharks……………………….selachophobia
Clowns…………………………coulrophobia
Getting wrinkles…………….rhytidophobia
Going to school…………….didaskaleinophobia (Andie?)
I couldn’t find fish face phobia.
I have a balloon phobia. I guess it could be considered a fear of sudden loud noises, or the anticipation of them.
I’m a mess at children’s parties when kids are running around with balloons. I’ve also been known to walk out of stores if they’re filling balloons with helium.
Is there a name for this phobia?
October 25th, 2006 at 11:35 pmI just don’t like tiny spaces. Freaks me out! Oh, a beard phobia?!?!? So what is it called when you are obsessed with facial hair??? I might have that
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 amMaybe they’re referring to the ‘beard phobia’ that cats have?
Check it out on the ‘Improbable Rsearch’ website: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html.
As for training yourself mentally for the big day… as a slightly paranoid child, I used to practice writing with my left arm instead of my right, in case the right ever got amputated, and I also used to practice jumping from a bed on one side of the room to a bed on the other, in case I ever had to jump across a ravine, or crocodile infested river, etc.
We had a lot of spare time in the country..!
October 26th, 2006 at 8:00 amTrina, I have that same ‘fear’ of loud and unexpected sounds. Balloons, of course, are the worst culprit. I cringe when a balloon gets close to a heat source. Loud sounds also cause actual pain in my ears, a very uncomfortable feeling.
I think pogonophobia may be part of the reason behind the so-called “Santa Clause fear” many children show at a young age.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:11 amthat’s so funny………..
when I was a kid, I lived in this really rural area, on a cul-de-sac. at the end of the cul-de-sac was a drainage pipe that went under my friends property to the creek that flowed behind all our houses and we spent HOURS in that thing when we were kids. it was a BLAST!
October 26th, 2006 at 11:25 amI’m all about claustrophobia (sp?). Hate small closed in spaces. I have even taken all of the interior doors out of my house except those on the bathrooms. Also I have a fear of heights. Well, maybe not a fear per se but definitely a high level of uncomfortable. Went to the Empire State Building once and could only get off the elevator and stand beside it. In Tokyo Tower there was a plexigass “window” in the floor and the bottoms of my feet ached just to see it. A small child was sitting on it getting his picture taken and I wanted to throw a rope around him and drag him off!
I used to have a fear of flying until I started working for my company, which provides services to the airline industry. Once I got a perspective on how many thousands of flights take off and land every day I just got bored with flying!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:14 pmTotaphobia.
Phobia of absolutely every thing.
Wow.
October 26th, 2006 at 5:38 pmIchthyophobia- Fear of fish.
October 26th, 2006 at 6:09 pmYou wonderful people make me raise my eyebrows all the time. Thanks for sharing.
Geoff: Never heard of that. Wow, really. Paranoia to the extreme.
Cyndi: Were there other people’s fallen hair and such debri in the play area? Gosh, a blast, huh?
October 26th, 2006 at 8:51 pmhehehe… Maybe. :D. May phobia would be…hmm…half afraid of the dark, half afraid of FAILING. Maybe going to school. I’m SO sorry that I didnt get to read your blog that much. I was in Hongkong and in my grandpa’s house. :D.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:41 amWestbrook says he needs to
“Of course he’s going to get by a couple of times, but I’m going to do my best to stay
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 ami have a phobia of pools full of pipes with dirty moss on them and fans around them. also spider
January 30th, 2009 at 1:19 pmI seriously fear & have a phobia of pipes like in a refinery or in power plant & thats where alot of the good paying jobs are. i have nightmares of walking thru a hospital & ending up in the basement of that hospital & seeing pipes & machines & i think i would instantly go into cardiac arrest if i came close to these places. i try looking at pics on the internet but i still get scared.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pmMr. G and killer clown, I hear you, something about dirty pipes and being stuck in them. Aaagh!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:28 pmI have a friend who feels like she has long hair growing from her face. This started right after her last kemo from cancer. Is there anyone out there who may be able to help her or ever heard of this happening.
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July 18th, 2010 at 7:15 pm