†• Phobia Study •†

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Name: Shorty
Date: April 3, 2002
Phobia 1: Flying things
Comments on Phobia 1: I really HATE moths and birds! They litteraly send me running. My fiance thinks I'm nuts, but it is the fluttering and the thing that they can get cought in my hair!
Phobia 2: Clowns
Comments on Phobia 2: I don't know what it is... But I can't go near a clown, or even look at one!
Phobia 3: Closed in spaces
Comments on Phobia 3: I feel like I can't breathe, I get panic attacks and it is horrible! My sister tried to "cure" me when we were little, by getting me into the dryer and shutting the door!

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Name: Stephanie
Date: April 4, 2002
Phobia 1: Meat
Comments on Phobia 1: i am very picky about my meat it has to be done just right
Phobia 2: snakes
Comments on Phobia 2: they scare me

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Name: Rachel
Date: Apr. 22, 2002
Phobia 1: Being Alone
Comments on Phobia 1:the idea of being lost and alone terrifies me. To be honest, I'd rather be dead if there wasn't an important reason, or if there wasn't any hope of being found.
Phobia 2: Men Strangers
Comments on Phobia 2: I keep thinking ,that they're going to try and rape me. I am very cautious. It probably came from when I was about 7 and a boy at daycare that 6 would always try to touch me. In a bad way. We moved but it always sort of sent me a message: Men are Perverts.
Phobia 3: Hell, and Satan
Comments on Phobia 3: I am tortured by the meer fact that I could go to Hell. It is the place of all hopelessness I pray that i won't go there.

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Name: demonsmurf
Date: 4/20
Phobia 1: people in general
Comments on Phobia 1: i cannot stand to be around them they make me nervous
Phobia 2: people behind me
Comments on Phobia 2: i cannot stand in a line or in a group or people i alwasy have to see whats around me no matter what, no one is allowed behind me

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Name: Julia
Date: april 19
Phobia 1: fear of being loved
Comments on Phobia 1: I dont know if it is a real one but i really am...everytime i have a boyfriend i get all scared of me or him falling in love but then have them not love me/him back.
Phobia 2: fear of bugs
Comments on Phobia 2: ick....creepy
Phobia 3: fear of being in the dark alone
Comments on Phobia 3: i dont know why but i am afraid of being alone in the

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Name: Mina
Date: 4/29/02
Phobia1: Fear of dirty looking, drunk men
Phobia 1 comments: Some guy, EVERY summer, keeps trying to sexually assault me or something!!!!!!!
Phobia 2: Being alone
Phobia 2 comments: I get panic attacks!

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Name: Mander
Date: 05/03/02
Phobia 1: People holding guns
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't explain it!I just feel like running and hiding when I see people with guns! Even if they are just hunting!
Phobia 2: Servere weather
Phobia 2 Comments: such as: thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, gusty winds, some hail, etc...They just freak me out.
Phobia 3: Ticks
Phobia 3 Comments: When I find one on me, I feel like they are all over me! I hate them so much i am almost afraid to take one off my cat or something.
Other Comments: Some clowns scare me too.^___^

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Name: Rika
Date: 5/16/02
Phobia 1: Vampires
Phobia 1 Comments: I hate them!! They suck people's blood and evrything. They may not be a phobia but im freaked out about them!
Phobia 2: Hell
Phobia 2 Comments: I'm so scared to go to hell. The very thought makes me cry. I just pray God will let me into heaven.

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Date: 5/24/02
Phobia 1: afraid of the dark
Phobia 1 Comments: I've ALWAYS been afraid of the dark. My Mother said I'd out grow it. Good Heavens, I'm almost 50 and I'm STILL waiting! :)

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Name: Snow
Date: 5/21/02
Phobia 1: Mice & Rat's
Phobia 1 Comments: I was attacked by a rat when I was 19.I still can vividly see it,I'll turn my head for just a second and think I saw it. I'm on prescription meds for it.
Phobia 2: Moths
Phobia 2 Comments: I am scared of them getting caught in my hair. Not sure why, maybe cause it's waiste length and wavy.
Phobia 3: Driving on a bridge that goes over water
Phobia 3 Comments: I'm terrified that I will suddenly turn right and go right through the gaurd rail and into the river/lake.

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Name: Doreen
Date: May/30/2002
Phobia 1: glossophobia

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Name: Nichelle Walker
Date: 6/12/02
Phobia 1: Whales
Phobia 1 Comments: I am very afraid that if I go into the ocean a whale will eat me.
Phobia 2: water
Phobia 2 Comments: I am afraid of water

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Name: nikki
Date: 14 june 2002
Phobia 1: clowns
Phobia 1 Comments: creepy little freaks. how anyone finds joy in those things is beyond me. i can't even think of them as people wearing make-up...they're a totally different catagory:animals, humans, and clowns.
Phobia 2: fast food
Phobia 2 Comments: i honestly fear that i am the one who will get the food that the disgruntled employee made.
Phobia 3: people around me
Phobia 3 Comments: i'm not a people person to begin with, but when there are alot of them i feak.

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Name: Shorty8
Date: 6/16
Phobia 1: Clowns
Phobia 1 Comments: I don't know what it is about the clowns but my blood runs cold whenever I see one. My friends think it is halarious. They like it so much one of mybest friends drew a clown in my yearbook and laughed when he saw me covering it so I could read the entry.

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Name: Kailybb
Date: 6/16
Phobia 1: Falling
Phobia 1 Comments: I don't mind the heights, it is falling at those heights that bothers me.

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Name: Jo
Date: August 28, 2002
Phobia 1: Spiders
Phobia 1 Comments: I am so scared of spiders that one day I would not even leave my house because there were five spiders on the front porch and one HUGE one on the back door (we are talking three inches, not including legs). My husband laughed at me, but there was no way I was leaving the house.
Phobia 2: Needles
Phobia 2 Comments: I have a panic attack whenever I have to have blood drawn (I am slowly controlling that one) or and IV (still totally loose it). It is so bad, I have had to have people hold me down. Even seeing a needle, knowing it's not going to be used on me causes nausea, accelerated heart rate and difficulty breathing.

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Name: jodie
Date: 2 September 2002
Phobia 1: cow and cow derived products
Phobia 1 Comments: Fear of contracting vCJD (not of dying, just getting the illness)as a result of BSE in cattle mainly in the UK. Avoidance of anything containing or may contain cow derivatives i.e. soaps, fabric conditioner, leather, tablets, milk,etc.

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Name: robyn
Date: 9/9/02
Phobia 1: scared of moths
Phobia 1 Comments: if i see a moth especially a huge one i will scream of fear, and run far away as possible. if one is in the house i will scream, run and close the door of the room that it is in, if im by myself. if someone is with me i get them to kill it.they frighten me like anything and i cant get over my fear of moths. i especially hate the ones that have patterns on them. the ones that have the circles that look like eyes. they tend to come when there is hot weather and a change of the weather is comming.

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Name: Kacie
Date: September 13, 2002
Phobia 1: hydrophobic
Phobia 1 Comments: I drowned in a pool when I was seven. I choked on sand in the ocean when I was 14. I guess you could say I've been unlucky. I've just had experiences that have led me to fear water. I will be fine for a minute or two...then mid-swim, I just freeze and curl into a ball and sink.
Phobia 2: entomophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I'm not afraid of all insects, just crickets. Growing up my parents told me to stay away from them (the black ones). They "carry disease and illness" is all I ever heard about crickets. I moved to Arizona a few years back, and there are a lot of crickets here, but they're brown/tan. They fall out of lights and get into every corner of the house. Having enough of them fall on my head, and already having it ingrained in me as a child that they're dangerous---well, now I'm just deathly afraid. I go into panic attacks.
Phobia 3: hemaphobia
Phobia 3 Comments: I'm only afraid of human blood. I became afraid of human blood when I was ten. A neighbor of mine fell out of a tree, and he hit a street sign on the way down. He lost the skin on his forearm all the way to the bone. Now I get faint when I see even a blister that has popped.

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Name: Miguel
Date: September 27, 2002
Phobia 1: sock puppets
Phobia 1 Comments: They literally make me scream uncontrollably. I am NOT making this up! The thought that someone's hand is making a sock talk is just too much.
Phobia 2: carniphobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I hate circus folk, or carnies. They smell like cabbage

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Name: snoopy
Date: October 1, 2002
Phobia 1: spiders
Phobia 1 Comments: When I was a little boy a spider crawled up on me chest i was sleeping. Feeling something in my sleep i slapped at my chest scattering the babies all over me
Phobia 2: cotton balls
Phobia 2 Comments: I hate the feel of store bought cotton balls they just have a weird feel
Phobia 3: string puppets
Phobia 3 Comments: I'm afraid of string puppets because if your in the same room with them it feels like they are staring at you every move you make

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Name: Mae
Date: 10/3/02
Phobia 1: Severe Weather or "Stormphobia"
Phobia 1 Comments: All it takes is a puff of wind for which I cannot rationalize a source and my heart rate begins its race toward full-blown anxiety. Rain, for the most part, bothers me not. Rain plus wind, however, rapidly turns me into a wild-eyed, easily-spooked animal. In fact, that's what my stormphobia makes me feel like: A cornered, wounded animal, ready to lash out at every thing and everyone, regardless of its/their intent.
Phobia 2: Clowns
Phobia 2 Comments: Clowns, marionettes and even some puppets are NOT on my hit parade. Phobic of them? No, not really. But do I like them? Definitely not! As far as I'm concerned, Ronald McDonald, for instance, is a non-human dressed out in a parady of a real human: Everything in the right place, but just not quite "right."

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Name: Tara
Date: October 02, 2002
Phobia 1: Coulropphobia
Phobia 1 Comments: Fear of clowns, I saw the movie "IT" when i was very young, ever since i have been terrifyed of clowns.
Phobia 2: Dystychiphobia
Phobia 2 Comments: Fear of accidents. Today i got in a car accident, now im so afraid to even get in a car.
Phobia 3: Isolophobia
Phobia 3 Comments: Fear of being alone. that goes back to my childhood...
Comments: I also fear being alone with a strager (men) at night in a dark ally... dont know what thats called though...

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Name: Amy
Date: October 4, 2002
Phobia 1: clowns
Phobia 1 Comments: i am so terrifyed of clowns that when i get around them i fell like they want to hurt me.
Phobia 2: demons
Phobia 2 Comments: i am so horrified of demons that one night that i was laying in bed my purse was on my arm if moved all by itself.

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Name: Christina
Date: October 7, 2002
Phobia 1: birds
Phobia 1 Comments: i had a nightmare about birds

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Name: Mischelle
Date: October 14, 2002
Phobia 1: arachnids
Phobia 1 Comments: Spiders send me into seizures, especially enormous spiders, but the tiny wolf spiders don't bother me. In fact, I play with them sometimes. Scorpions also send me into fits. I've been known to sleep in my vehicle because of constant scorpion outbreaks in my home.
Phobia 2: High Bridges
Phobia 2 Comments: Overpasses and channel bridges terrify me, without question. Usually, I will pull over and make a passenger drive me over the bridge, or I'll take street-level "short-cuts" in order to avoid going over a bridge.
Phobia 3: Dark open spaces
Phobia 3 Comments: It has been said once that "I do not fear the dark, but rather what it conceals." And if it's a large, open room and it's dark, it can conceal a lot. Tiny, dark places don't bother me at all, however.
Phobia 4: Chewed gum
Phobia 4 Comments: My mother places it all over the place in the kitchen to save it for later, and it can be found anywhere from the cookie jar to the top of the computer monitor.
Phobia 5: People
Phobia 5 Comments: It's a paralysing fear that's made me leave jobs, avoid public places, and refuse to go anywhere without a friend or family member to accompany me. This is about every person, but it's more-so about men.
Phobia 6: Open water
Phobia 6 Comments: I can't get into water that I can't see the bottom of. I'll go to the beach, but never the water.
Phobia 7: Burned at the stake
Phobia 7 Comments: I'm afraid that living in the south and everyone's misconstrued throughts about my religion will make them burn me at the stake one day.
Phobia 8: Severe Weather
Phobia 8 Comments: I'm scared of high winds and tornadoes, but I can't stop looking at them.
Phobia 9: Anger
Phobia 9 Comments: I go into panic attacks when someone is angry around me. I can feel their anger, it radiates and when I feel it, it hurts me.
Phobia 10: Republicans
Phobia 10 Comments: I fear their Right-wing theories will one day take over the world and make it unsafe for people like me to carry on in life.

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Name: Jen
Date: October 23, 2002
Phobia 1: Falling
Phobia 1 Comments: I can go into an glass elevator and be ok... but if I am on the edge of a high place looking down I freeze. Knowing if I am to fall I am going to die or a heat attack or feel the pain when I hit bottom
Phobia 2: lightening
Phobia 2 Comments: I have always been afraid of lightening. Since I was a child. If there is a storm I stay away from all windows, and if I am outside and it starts to lightening I turn into a scared 5 yr old. I will start crying and shaking and will run for cover.
Phobia 3: Basements
Phobia 3 Comments: I know where my fear Phobia of basements comes from, its just trying to overcome it. As a child i was locked in the basement because I wet the bed. I wet the bed because I had to walk passed the basement door to get to the bathroom. Now I am afraid if I go into a basement the door will shut and lock behind me and I will be trapped.

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Name: selocke
Date: October 25, 2002
Phobia 1: Clowns
Phobia 1 Comments: Clowns are evil, they just put a mask on to cover it up.
Phobia 2: Fish
Phobia 2 Comments: I don't know how or why... fish freak me out more than clowns do. We just went on a vacation to Mexico and I couldn't even get in the water in fear of the fish. I tried to get in the water but I almost had a panic attack.
Phobia 3: Flying
Phobia 3 Comments: I think that is the whole 'control' issue. I have no control on what is going on and I'm afraid of plummeting to the Earth in a fiery hell.

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Name: Kay
Date: October 28, 2002
Phobia 1: the DARK
Phobia 1 Comments: I am terrified of the dark and have had to sleep with lights on since I was a baby. Every room in my house including my car has multiple flashlights,candles,lighters within reach of whereever I am. I sleep with a lamp on and the TV and if the power goes off I instantly wake up and stay up until the power comes on again.
Phobia 2: Blindness
Phobia 2 Comments: I am so terrified of blindness that I even had Lasix surgery to improve my eyesight because if I went blind then I would be in the DARK forever..
Phobia 3: Roaches
Phobia 3 Comments: I hardly ever see a roach but when I do I spazz out.
Extra: I also am very very uncomfortable around clowns or mimes. They are very creepy to me. I don't trust them.

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Name: Katey
Date: October 30, 2002
Phobia 1: Fear
Phobia 1 Comments: I love hearing about scary things but when all done I am seriously scared.
Phobia 2: Clowns
Phobia 2 Comments: My sister collects them and they scare the sh*t out of me
Phobia 3: My dad
Phobia 3 Comments: I love my Dad he doesnt hit me or anything in that nature, however he scares me with his yelling and drinking. I am very scared of his reactions.

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Name: shadow0555
Date: November 8, 2002
Phobia 1: arachnephobia
Phobia 1 Comments: I feel as though they are around me at all times. I have even had the experience of waking up to find a spider the size of a fifty cent piece on my arm. It is almost like they seek me out. In fact today as I was making my bed I noticed something dangling in front of me, my worst fear was confirmed, SPIDER!

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Name: Stephanie
Date: November 2, 2002
Phobia 1: Heights
Phobia 1 Comments: I am very much scared to death of heights. Its kinda funny to see me in a hotel room that is like on the tenth floor. I slowly inch my way over to the window. I think that I am mainly afraid of heights because I know that you can fall and the falling part scares me more than actually being up high.
Phobia 2: Being alone
Phobia 2 Comments: I've never really ever been left alone all night before. When my sister, who lives two hours away, had her baby, my mom left me home alone because my dad was out of town too. I freaked out in the worst kind of way. Luckily my older brother called to talk to my mom and I asked him to come stay with me.
Phobia 3: Death
Phobia 3 Comments: I'm not positive where this came from, but I can remember when I was maybe two or three laying under the kitchen table crying and screaming that I didn't want to die. It's unknown to me and I think that is why it scares me like it does. I don't know what it feels like to pass and I never will until it is my time to pass.

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Name: Celestrial
Date: November 12, 2002
Phobia 1: Fear of Rats
Phobia 1 Comments: I dislike the site of a mice, rats or any animal of that family it brings chills up my spine. I feel itchy and like I am trapped by them.
Phobia 2: Dirt
Phobia 2 Comments: I dislike dirt to the point that it makes me ill. I have to clean at seven times a day to make sure that there is no dirt surrounding me. I have to take a shower at least five times a day to ensure that there isn't any dirt build up.
Phobia 3: Ignorance
Phobia 3 Comments: I strongly dislike ignorance and for people to have a strong bias against something they are unaware about makes me sick. Ignorance is like the plague you can't get rid of it but boy would I like to just spack it right across the face.
Extra Comments: *~*Note from Shorty: Thanks so much for the wonderful comments! They are greatly appericated and they keep me going *~* Lovely site. Direct information and interactive. Very positive way to allow everyone to voice their opinions.

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Name: Nillaniel
Date: November 14, 2002
Phobia 1: Ants
Phobia 1 Comments: I've always been terrified of ants. I can't remember when or how the phobia started. When I go outside, I have to check for any ants or any small crawling insects, if theres an ant in the room then I'll go to the other end of the house and wait for someone to get it or go find it for me.

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Name: Chelsea
Date: November 22, 2002
Phobia 1: Mice
Phobia 1 Comments: I am TERRIFIED of mice. This phobia has gotten so bad I will cry if I see one because I am so scared. I can't even look at a picture of a mouse without getting chills, wanting to cry, or throwing up.

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Name: twidholm
Date: November 26, 2002
Phobia 1: the fear of cows
Phobia 1 Comments: cows freak me out

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Name: Kat
Date: November 30, 2002
Phobia 1: Cows
Phobia 1 Comments: I'm terrified of cows. I have this idea that they are plotting the takeover of the world. I'm insane, I know.
Phobia 2: Chickens
Phobia 2 Comments: Same as with cows. Their like little t-rexes with feathers. I'll run from them or walk 20 ft around the coop that their in.

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Name: Davis
Date: December 3, 2002
Phobia 1: butterflies, moths, flyng beetles, flying cockroaches, crickets
Phobia 1 Comments: I have phobia of all insects but the worst one by far is Butterfly (Moth) Phobia. The earliest memory I have about my phobia was when I was 6 or 7. After I watched some silly local (I'm from and living in Singapore by the way) TV movie about some preserved in cases butterflies coming back to life and attacking a young kid around the same age as I was then. I guess my phobia just keep "growing" since then. My boyfriend and friends laugh at my phobia and think I'm nuts that a single, teeny, tiny butterfly can turn me a grown woman into quivering jelllified heap of terror. I'd scream like a mad woman and go into panic attack and that's so not funny. I even get goosebumps just from looking at pictures of butterflies! Insects (esp butterflies and moths) are just plain creepy. Hate the fluttering. Gosh, I just hate insects SO MUCH!
Phobia 2: Pill Swallowing
Phobia 2 Comments: I have never heard of anyone with this phobia. When I was a kid, I choked on a small pill. No matter how small the pill is, I just CANNOT swallow it. Period. If I'm sick and the doc doesn't have my medication in liquidfied form, I'll crush the pills and dissolve them in small amount of hot water. I know it sounds gross to alot of people and I hate how it tastes too but to me it's so much easier than to swallow the pills!

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Name: Donna
Date: December 3, 2002
Phobia 1: coulrophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: Your scared of clowns and can't go to the circus because of clowns
Phobia 2: ophidiophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: fear of snakes i scream everytime i see one even little snakes.

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Name: Kaye
Date: December 5, 2002
Phobia 1: No-Name?
Phobia 1 Comments: Since a child, if I am a little un-nerved by a scary dream or from watching a movie tgat bothers me....when I try ro lay on my bed - I am afraid that a hand will out from ubderneath my bed and grab one of my amkles - as I try to get on my bed. Have no idea where I got this from. I have even jumped from a couple feet away from my bed just to prevent this hand from getting me. Its a lomg hand with long slender fingers. Go figure.

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Name: noelle
Date: December 7, 2002
Phobia 1: cats
Phobia 2: inclosed spaces
Phobia 3: not being loved
Phobia 4: snakes,or any kinds of reptiles

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Name: LIL' BEAR
Date: December 10, 2002
Phobia 1: HOMOPHOBIA
Phobia 1 Comments: I AM DEATHLY AFRAID OF HOMOSEXUALS. TO THE POINT THAT I GET WEAK AND SICK TO MY STOMACH WHEN I AM AROUND ONE. I HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER THAT IS HOMOSEXUAL AND I WENT TO STAY WITH HER FOR A WEEKEND AND ENDED UP LEAVEING HER HOUSE 20 MINUTES AFTER I GOT THERE. I ONLY DISCOVERED THIS AT AGE 15. BEFORE THAT I COULD CARE LESS WHO WAS HOMOSEXUAL AND WHO WAS NOT.

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Name: Steven
Date: December 10, 2002
Phobia 1: apiphobia (bees)
Phobia 1 Comments: I hate them... when i see them i have a panic attack! they make me scream.
Phobia 2: agoraphobia (crowds) *~* Note - this doesn't sound like agoraphobia, most agoraphobics can't even leave the house, this sounds more like a social phobia. *~*
Phobia 2 Comments: I cant stand crowds when im at school i can't stand to be in the hall ways. i dont like theme parks because of the crowds or sports arenas.

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Name: >missauraleigh
Date: December 13, 2002
Phobia 1: earth worms/night crawlers
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't handle to look at them, if it rains and there is one on the sidewalk, I will walk all the way into the street or grass to walk around the worm....I can't look at them on tv and god forbid I ever touch one.

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Name: Natasha
Date: December 13, 2002
Phobia 1: butterflies, moths, anything that flies (sometimes birds)
Phobia 1 Comments: I don't know when it began. I remember being a very little girl and seeing a big, black and yellow tiger swallowtail butterfly in the garage window of my childhood home. I would not go in the garage. I didn't ride my bike for three days. I would walk all the way around the house to get to the front door, in case the butterfly should fly out the open garage door JUST AS I WAS WALKING PAST. I couldn't take that chance. Anything with flapping wings terrifies me...a bird got into our house once and was flying around...my dad and my brother were chasing it with a broom while I ran upstairs to my bedroom and slammed the door. Birds outside are okay, though. Only in encloses spaces are they bad. Butterflies and moths are not okay ANYWHERE. My mother can have one land on her finger. I can't. I'm scared out of my mind every time I even see one. I watch it warily out of the corner of my eye to make sure it's not coming my way. I always say (jokingly) to my fiance, "If you ever want to kill me, put me in a room with many butterflies. I will drop dead from a heart attack right there." And I truly believe it, too. The show "Fear Factor"--if I ever went on that, butterflies and moths would be my challenge. I'd never be able to stand it. People say how irrational it is, that they're so beautiful and so harmless. But I don't care. I'm petrified.

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Name: Farar
Date: December 15, 2002
Phobia 1: arachnophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't stand the spiders - not just the big ones, but every, even the smallest ones. Living in Europe is a pretty good treatment because we don't have anything bigger than three inches (legs included), but when I was living in the States (SE Idaho), I've got to cope with hoboes and wolf-spiders... which was too much for me.

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Name: Drew
Date: December 16, 2002
Phobia 1: of falling
Phobia 1 Comments: I don't know how this began---was I standing to close to a roof edge? too high in a tree?
Phobia 2: bugs
Phobia 2 Comments: I like them...but I also like to know where they are in the house, I would rather not have to wake up with them looking me in the eye...hee hee

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Name: Stairio
Date: December 16, 2002
Phobia 1: Heights
Phobia 1 Comments: Have dreams about flying (no psych references, please) then crashing out of control. Total nervous system lockup, I can breath and blink only. Hate to fly, had to twice for the military and once when I got married.
Phobia 2: Barn Owls
Phobia 2 Comments: You know, the cute furry one with the all whote face and those two black eyes on the middle. I hate those Damned Things. My grandfather thinks it has something to do with something else in my life. There is a possibility, based on my own fuzzy recollections and the words of an old man, that I have been abducted. And not by terrorists.
Phobia 3: Ghosts
Phobia 3 Comments: The thought of them gives me the chills down to the bottom of my scrottum (the guys know what I mean) My mother has a theory about this. I had an imaginary friend when I was very young. I can sort of remember some things, but it's hard to know what's real and what was a game, and only real in my head. My friend was a pig named...naturally, piggy. He was a cartoony, sorta felt covered pig. But he was REAL to me (I think) I talked to piggy all the time, i could see the little fugger. I saw him watch me eating, I saw him while I was watching tv or coloring. I have a picture in a scrapbook I an pretty sure piggy helped me draw. There is one event I KNOW was REAL! My Aunt Renee and my mother were with me at the house we lived in. I was taking a nap. My younger brother had just been born, and he was sleeping in a crib across the room from me. I was five. The crib my brother was sleeping it was a family heirloom. Solid oak, built more like a beer keg than a crib. The thing had to weigh at least two fifty (that's pounds) because my father and uncle had to wrestle the thing into place when we moved. Solid as stone. The crib started sliding towards the bed i was in. the rug it was sitting on buckled up in front, it was not being lifted, JUST SHOVED. I started screaming like a five year old white boy, (read ten year old girl) and woke my brother up, who started crying. The crib stopped moving, but by now was well over a foot away from the wall. I was screaming "stoppit piggy!" when my mom and aunt came in. They saw what looked like two screaming children. Then my aunt saw the crib had moved. She started screaming louder than us, and I can DISTINCTLY REMEMBER being scared by that. To this day a women's scream will make me remember that scream my aunt made. They scooped us up, me with my aunt and my mom got my brother. We went to the neighboor's house. My mom called my dad and her father. The men showed up, there was a little talk, lots of soothing words. The two men shoved the crib back into place. Then we went out for ice cream.

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Name: Jesse
Date: December 22, 2002
Phobia 1: WHALES
Phobia 1 Comments: I hate whales(excluding orcas), when I see them I almost scream and I get all itchy and heat streaked. Whether its on the TV, pictures, or real life. I'm so freaked out by them. my girl friend used to say it was funny becuase I'm a "grown man" but it's far from funny. I love dolphins though!
Phobia 2: Planes
Phobia 2 Comments: Ever since 9/11 when I hear a plane flying by.. I think it's gonna drop a bomb or something.. LOL not funny!

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Name: Emily
Date: January 1, 2003
Phobia 1: social phobia
Phobia 1 Comments: I'm just about sure i have this, but no one would believe me if I told them... I can't eat in front of people, I'm a very rebellious person, but I just can't stand justifying myself w/ an authority figure in person. I have gone through these things for so long, personality wise, I hate people, but I feel comfortable around people most of the time. (note: my father also claims to "hate people.")
Phobia 2: escalators
Phobia 2 Comments: I can't stand escalators going down. I'm easy w/ the ones going up, but sometimes they make me feel eery. My father says when I was younger, I refused to even go near them. I'm usually plagued by thoughts that my pants leg, shoelace, or something will get caught in between the steps when it's moving.

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Name: Nicole
Date: January 3, 2003
Phobia 1: Basements
Phobia 1 Comments: THEY ARE TEH SCARIEST THINGS EVER! I WILL NTO GO IN A BASMENT WITH OUT ALOT OF LIGHTS N FRIENDS WITH ME!

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Name: empressv
Date: January 10, 2003
Phobia 1: spiders
Phobia 1 Comments: maybe it's the legs but I won't go near any spider, dead or alive.
Phobia 2: water
Phobia 2 Comments: I won't swim in anything I can't see the bottom of.

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Name: Tracey
Date: January 27, 2003
Phobia 1: cotton balls
Phobia 1 Comments: I'm not crazy or anything, and the fluffy little balls don't scare me, it's the thought of them rubbing against my teeth that freaks me out. My family laughs at it and takes every chance they can to make me freak out, just yesterday my sister stuffed her mouth full of cotton balls.

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Name: Baby Sweet
Date: January 31, 2003
Phobia 1: heights
Phobia 1 Comments: it isnt bad but i refuse to go up ladders
Phobia 2: rocking chairs
Phobia 2 Comments: i always feel like im going to fall over in them

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Name: Katz
Date: February 2, 2003
Phobia 1: watching and/or hearing the snow on TV
Phobia 1 Comments: I really can't stand to see or hear the snow on TV when the cable cuts out. I don't know why but it creeps me out - even in daylight. My sister thinks its funny and used to unhook the cable so when I turned on the TV, I would jump. Now, we have digital TV so it just shows a black screen.
Phobia 2: sleeping in my house alone
Phobia 2 Comments: I have insommnia but when I'm alone in my house, it gets really bad. I'll stay up until 2 am watching TV or being on the internet and then I'll shut it off to go to bed. Once I get in my room, shut my door and turn off the light, I swear there is someone eles in the house. I'll lie in bed for like 15 minutes before getting up and turning on my bed light and reading. I would listen to music but I'm afraid there IS someone in the house and I don't want 'them' to know I'm there too.

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Name: shorty *Not the owner of the site*
Date: February 3, 2003
Phobia 1: olfactophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: i think i smell but i don't!

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Name: Janie
Date: February 4, 2003
Phobia 1: cows
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't be around cows or eat there meat without freaking out.

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Name: Alli-chan
Date: February 5, 2003
Phobia 1: deep water
Phobia 1 Comments: When I was litle, before I learned to swim, my cousin would toss me into the deep end without warning. Then she'd go fetch me after I'd start choking on water.
Phobia 2: silence
Phobia 2 Comments: I can't stand it when it's so silent, you can hear the ringing in your ears. I constantly ahve to ahve some sort of sound around me, whether it's someone talking, one of my pets snoring, a fan or the radio, even the wind. I jsut have to have SOME sound so I can't hear the rining in my ears.

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Name: bee*
Date: February 5, 2003
Phobia 1: butterflies and moths
Phobia 1 Comments: im desperatly afraid of butterflys .... i dont know why or where it came from but ive always had it. I run and scream and cry and hyperventilate. I know it sounds stupid, and all my friends think im sooo crazy. its the only thing im afraid of too. theyre everywhere too - im thinking of seeking therapy. stupid butterflys . people always say "why do you run, they cant hurt you- what are they gonna do to you? flutter you to death?"

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Name: Babygrlbronx
Date: February 7, 2003
Phobia 1: Whales
Phobia 1 Comments: I am afraid of Big whales, im not that afraid of killer whales like shamu but when im up close to them i am terrified. I dont like whales like Sperm whales. I hate them.

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Name: Hailo
Date: February 15, 2003
Phobia 1: Belonphobia...needles
Phobia 1 Comments: I have a major fear of needles....well i'm not sure if its major but, when i go to get a needle, b4 i even get it i shake n quiver n cry....and when i get it i shake more.
Phobia 2: scotophobia....darkness
Phobia 2 Comments: its more of just being in the dark alone. if i am at home with my family and the power goes out i am fine. but if i am at home alone and in the middle of the night the power goes out. i freeze...i cant move...i breath heavily....
Phobia 3: arachnephobia..spiders
Phobia 3 Comments: i have a MAJOR fear of spiders, i panic, freeze, practically stop breathing, and cry whenever i see a spider...of any size
Other Comments: this isn't really a phobia but it adds to them....i am very imaginative n i believe anything is possible...so horror movies really get to me(i still watch them) but i will actually think i am going to die...or something is gonna happen to me if i close my eyes....n ya....

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Name: Amanda
Date: February 17, 2003
Phobia 1: Roaches
Phobia 1 Comments: I'd have to say that my number one phobia is definitely of roaches. I remember a couple of times when I was about 11 I've thrown up a couple of times after seeing a dead roach in my basement. Every time I see one alive or dead I end up screaming and running the other way. I don't go anywhere near that area until like a week after at least. I think I got this phobia when my dad put a plastic fake roach in my sandwich when I was like 5.
Phobia 2: Clowns
Phobia 2 Comments: I hate clowns with passion. I think I've been afraid of them ever since I saw this one movie when I was like 4 and all the clowns started to kill everyone. There was this fun house that everyone ended up dying in and there was like blood coming out from the water faucet. Thats all that I can remember but it's enough.
Phobia 3: Dark
Phobia 3 Comments: I am really afraid of the dark. I thought it was normal at first because most 5 year olds are afraid of the dark, but I'm 15 now and I cry whenever I go into the dark. The biggest factor of the dark that freaks me out is that I have no way of knowing who is in the room with me. What if there is like a burgler or something in the room with me. I always feel so helpless in the dark, I also hate not knowing and feeling helpless.

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Name: Joni
Date: February 18, 2003
Phobia 1: claustrophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: It is intense and terrifying... Crowded Elevators, airplanes, caves, crowds, small hallways, even getting hugged too tight.. I feel like I can't breathe and I panic. Even in pitch dark it will affect me. I have worked hard over the years to get some relief from this and have succeeded to some degree.

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Name: andrea
Date: February 20, 2003
Phobia 1: Grasshopers!
Phobia 1 Comments: i dont know what the phobia is called and i dont know why or when i got it but i am deadly afriad of them but its something i cant help. it is so bad i wont go out to tan towards the end of the summer because they are everywhere since i live infront of a field. It is mostly the huge flying ones im so afraid of but its something that freska me out more than anything.
Phobia 2: Praying Mantis
Phobia 2 Comments: or how ever they are spelled.. it is almost as bad as the grasshopers but its not as bad since there arent half as many and they dont fly all over the place like grasshopers. None the less i am so afraif of them! everyone laughs and thinks its halarious but everytime i saw one i had my ex boyfriend kill it or carry me past them so they wouldnt jump on me. it is terrible :( if anyone knows the name of these please e mail me so i know!! thanks

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Name: Snow Kitten
Date: February 26, 2003
Phobia 1: Stairs
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't going up or down stairs, escalators also freak me out, give me an elevator anyday. My grandmother use to say if I was phobic of something that I must have died that way in a past life. Works for me because I am scared to death of stairs.
Phobia 2: Ladders
Phobia 2 Comments: Going up I am fine, I can climb a ladder till I am exhasted, but coming down is a whole different matter, I start to panic, I sweat and I can't breath. Doesn't matter if I am only 2 rungs up and less than two feet off the ground. I can't stand the idea of coming down. I have to have someone hold my hand just stepping down from a step-ladder.
Phobia 2: Empty swimming pools
Phobia 2 Comments: If they are filled with water I am one happy duck, if I see an empty one I start having a reoccuring nightmare of all these people standing in a pools with me and they are dead, I can tell they are dead but they can't seem to see me or see each other. Its one of the few dreams I can't control.

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Name: Danie
Date: February 26, 2003
Phobia 1: whales
Phobia 1 Comments: I have a phobia of whales- especially orcas, even Shamu. I think it's because whales are so big, who knows, but I will never go to Sea World

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Name: Laura
Date: February 26, 2003
Phobia 1: Fear of my stomach being touched
Phobia 1 Comments: After reading all everyones phobias... i feel kinda weird... cuz this is a crazy phobia... but I don't know why I freak out... but if anyone ever touches my stomach... it freaks me out... and it makes me REALLY uncomfortable... sometimes to the point where I have an emotional breakdown and just start crying... and I start shaking. I don't get it... but I can't stand my stomach being touched... when I do it? its fine... but other people doing it just scare me... even if its family or my boyfriend... Its weird I know.
Phobia 2: Nucleomituphobia
Phobia 2 Comments: Another fear I have is of Nuclear weapons/war. I have vivid, descriptive nightmares of it... and the sound of planes freaks me out just because i become paranoid and think we might be being bombed. It makes me duck or look for cover. The thing that sucks about that is the fact that I live so close to an airport that I can watch them take off from my upstairs window. In any case... nuclear weapons scare me beyond anything else... [other than the stomach thing]
Phobia 3: apiphobia
Phobia 3 Comments: im really scared of bees too... heh. They just scare me!!!
Extra Comments: If anyone can help me figure out the name of or find any scientific research about my stomach phobia... please let me know! I'd really appreciate it.

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Name: Tatt2gyrl
Date: February 27, 2003
Phobia 1: Cotton
Phobia 1 Comments: I am petrified of cotton. I don't mind cotton clothes, but things like cotton balls freak me out. I panic at the thought of having to touch it or feel it. The way it feels on my skin. Just everything about it

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Name: Sam
Date: February 28, 2003
Phobia 1: feet
Phobia 1 Comments: everyone alwayz asks why i am so scared of feet...and i dont know..people with dirty or nasty feet arent allowed to take their shoes off when they come into my apt. i cry whenever i see n e nasty nasty feet and people laugh at me like its funny and so ive tried gettin over this phobia but its nearly impossible for me....
Phobia 2: clowns
Phobia 2 Comments: i dont like clowns becuz one time me and my friend went to a baseball game and we got followed all around by the freak and the bright outfits and scary laugh SCARES me
Phobia 3: *sorry editing out the last one, I just don't want people to feel bad*
Phobia 3 Comments:
Extra Comments: i am scared of ducks too!!!! i had a b unch of ducks chase me at the zoo when i first moved here..

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Name: Firelight
Date: February 28, 2003
Phobia 1: claustrophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: My claustrophobia isn't as bad as yours is, but whenever I'm in a crowded place like in an elevator or even in a group of people I feel really nervous and it's hard for me to breathe sometimes.
Phobia 2: glossophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I'm terrified of giving speeches. I get really nervous and shaky and I can't hardly breathe. On days that I know I have to give a speech, I go through the entire day terrified and nervous.
Phobia 3: thanatophobia
Phobia 3 Comments: I can't stand to think about death. I guess it's because nobody knows what happens when you die. I'm not religious so I don't believe in heaven and hell or anything like that.
Phobia 4: agoraphobia
Phobia 4 Comments: not too bad, but I hate to be around crowds of people.
Phobia 5: acrophobia
Phobia 5 Comments: if this is like heights, then this is definately my worst phobia. I went to a basketball game a few months ago and we were in some of the highest seats and when I looked down, I felt like I was going to faint. When I was little, I used to have these really creepy dreams every night where I'd be climbing a latter and right as I got to the top the latter would start falling. I always woke up before the latter hit the ground, but it always terrified me. A few years ago I went o Rick's Cafe in Negril Jamaica and they have a very high cliff there. I was so scared, I could barely even look over the edge. Every time I'm in a high place, I always picture myself falling. I'm not afraid of flying in planes though. I love flying in planes.

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Name: pats_1081
Date: March 1, 2003
Phobia 1: Coulropphobia
Phobia 1 Comments: Ever since i saw the movie "It" i've never been able to get the thought of evil clowns out of my head when i see them. I freak out when i see them, start breathing really hard, my hands get all sweaty. And depending on how scary the clown looks i might actually get tears in my eyes.
Phobia 2: Clastrophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: It started when i had to go on the elevator up the side of the CN Tower. I just couldn't stand being in a crowd that packed. Any relatively small space does scare me though.
Phobia 3: the fear of heights
Phobia 3 Comments: I dont know the name for this fear, but it is really bad. I couldn't jump off a small cliff that my friends and i go to all the time. i have trouble going up ladders too. and this fear goes along with being scared of going over bridges. just bridges tho, not overpasses...

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Name: Elizabeth
Date: March 2, 2003
Phobia 1: balloons
Phobia 1 Comments: I'm terrified of balloons; specifically, of them popping. I can handle them if someone is holding one by its string and I don't look at it, but if someone touches it, or it brushes against something, I have a panic attack. It's totally uncontrollable. I've never been able to find a name for the phobia, though!

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Name: Flower
Date: March 10, 2003
Phobia 1: butterflys
Phobia 1 Comments: butterflys scare the heck out of me!
Phobia 2: being fallowed
Phobia 2 Comments: i freak out if somebody walks behind me

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Name: Noc
Date: March 11, 2003
Phobia 1: Heliophobia (sunlight)
Phobia 1 Comments: I've been studying phobias lately(The different types and causes) to try and find my own fears. It was hard because for my whole life I've been fearless. Later I found out that not all phobias are fears. They're also things like extreme dislike/sensitivity to things. After that I found heliophobia. I really, really can't stand sunlight and my eyes are very sensitive to it, not to mention my skin.
Phobia 2: Waking up
Phobia 2 Comments: I'm not afraid of falling asleep, or sleeping(hypnophobia), but rather I'm afraid of waking up after I fall asleep. I'm not sure if it's a real phobia(probably not), but it's a fear of mine. I get all freaked out and even start shaking sometimes for the first few minutes after waking up. I usually just get freaked out, unless I'm woken up by an alarm clock....then I get all shaky.
Phobia 3: Heterophobia (straight people)
Phobia 3 Comments: Joke...Most of my friends are straight, so it would really suck if I had this phobia.
Extra Comments: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia(Fear of long words)-I'm not really....I just like to write it. Don't you see the irony?

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Name: robert
Date: March 12, 2003
Phobia 1: fear of clowns

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Name: Sara
Date: March 12, 2003
Phobia 1: Claustrophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: I am so scared of closed spaces that it's not even cool. I don't go NEAR anything enclosed. I hyperventilated so badly when we took a trip to Mammoth Cave.
Phobia 2: Fear of the number after 23
Phobia 2 Comments: I am scared of that number. I don't know why. I have nightmares with that number. I think it's an omen, but it scares the biscotti out of me. NUMBER: 8*3= 2` you get the picure

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Name: Adam
Date: March 13, 2003
Phobia 1: Owls
Phobia 1 Comments: I have a very serious (and frightening) fear of owls. I can't even look at a picture of one without breathing rapidly, sweating, and becoming extremely agitated. I want to get in touch with more people with an owl phobia - is there even an official name for it? Please email me at adam@adamcroft.com

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Name: Mindy
Date: March 15, 2003
Phobia 1: Being alone in the dark
Phobia 1 Comments: I can't stand being alone especially in the dark i have to have someone with me. I won't even go out to my car to get something in the dark.
Phobia 2: Basements
Phobia 2 Comments: I don't go into our basement ever.
Phobia 3: Death
Phobia 3 Comments: I'm afraid of dying and going to hell.

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Name: Hannah
Date: March 19, 2003
Phobia 1: Chinese People
Phobia 1 Comments: I am not positive on why i have this phobia. but every time i am around a person of the oriential race i freak out. my lungs feel like they someone is squizzing them and i cannot breath. i have to hold my breath and i cant look at them. the sound of their voice makes my body shutter. i cant have them touch me or i freak out and i will hyperventalate and it takes about 2 hours for me to completly settle down. i would like to know if anyone knows anything please help me. i dont have any memory of any oriental person doing anything to me when i was younger and there seems to be no explantion as to why i have this phobia. it scares me.

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Name: tortoiseshell
Date: March 22, 2003
Phobia 1: Moths
Phobia 1 Comments: Can't look at one. Can't look at a picture of one. DEFINITELY can't touch one. I have to be careful with nature magazines, National Geographics, etc. because they like to do articles on them and sneak in surprise 2-page blowups of them.

Same with my daily routine come summertime. I only go to gas stations with those types of lights that don't attract bugs. And I give the whole entire area intense scrutiny before I even consider exiting the car, even if I don't get gas. This phobia is really bad because I have to change my routine so much to avoid them, especially when going out.

I think the absolutely worst incident happened when I opened a little-used outside door in my bedroom one summber afternoon (the outside door and screen-door had been closed up all winter) I opened the door and walked away to do something. When I walked back into my bedroom I saw a HUGE dead moth on the floor at the door. I really thought I'd have to go to the hospital that day. It was the absolute worst day on my life, to see the object of your darkest fear in your own BEDROOM it was just an abomination. That incident really undid me. This incident was the beginning of the end (see Phobia #2)

I want to get help but I'm too scared. I'm afraid that they'll make me look at pictures and touch one or something. Or the psychiatrist will let one loose in the office to gauge my reaction. The larger the specimen, the worse my fear.

Another strange thing is that if I talk about them too much, or look too long at pictures, I'll get a most strange tickly feeling at the right side of my neck. I have it right now and it's very unpleasant. I have to press my hand there to relieve the feeling. I've declined posting my email address because I don't want some freak sending me pictures.
Phobia 2: Bats
Phobia 2 Comments: Now I don't know if this is related to Phobia #1 but I can't look at pictures of these either. Can't deal with them, it's too terrifying. Knocking heavily on wood, I haven't had too many incidents with bats. If one got into my building at work, they could forget about me returning until it was dead/removed.

Unfortunately, one got into the same house as mentioned above; shortly after the moth incident. Besides nearly having a heart attack, I busted my lip open on the car door, trying to get into the car. Imagine escaping your home at midnight clad only in your nightclothes. Like I said, it was beginning of the end for that apartment, I only slept there once or twice afterwards before moving out. Some people have chronic bat problems in their homes and laugh about it; I'd just prefer to live out of my car.

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Name: Jessica
Date: March 25, 2003
Phobia 1: Feet
Phobia 1 Comments: I know this sounds weird, but I have a foot phobia. I am terrified of being touched by feet. My friends like to tease me about it and sometimes put their feet on me just to irk me. I tend to get this icky, skin-crawling feelings and if I can't flee the scene or reason with the person, I'll resort to hitting the person until they stop.
Phobia 2: claustrophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I have a fear of closed spaces, in particular, rooms without windows. I can handle it for a few minutes, but after about 20 minutes, I start to get nervous, almost to the point of a panic attack. I guess it's a fear of being trapped, like Edgar Allan Poe's "The Premature Burial" (creepy yet intriguing story!)

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Name: Kaitlyn aka CaTiE
Date: March 26, 2003
Phobia 1: thanatophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: This covers most of my phobias; because it's the fear of death.That's why I hate venimous snakes,all diseases, etc.
Phobia 2: scotophobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I am so scared of darkness, well actually this covers alot of things.Like for instance, my fear of rapists, people with guns, being robbed, which isn't them taking my stuff,but if they have a gun . . . Alot of creepy things happen in the dark.
Phobia 3: Social Phobia
Phobia 3 Comments: I cannot speak in public.I had a C in English,because I was absent,and the only way to make it up was to stand at the front of the room and tell what we learned.I did 2/3 because she got tired of waiting on me.I get in front of people and don't know what to say.My vision gets blurry and I get really queasy. I don't really like to meet new people either.I get scared they're going to reject me, or for instance let's say i meet a serial killer . . .
Extra Comments: I have a lot of fears,but some cover many,like my fear of disease comes from my fear of death. *chill*

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Name: Alexis
Date: April 4, 2003
Phobia 1: needle phobia
Phobia 1 Comments: I'm terrified of jabs and piercings. It started when i was twelve. All of a sudden, shots which used to be painless suddenly felt like they were skinning my arm. It felt as though they were using a vacuum to suck all the skin off my arm. And the worst is that no one believes me when i tell them this. My parents and doctors tell me not a be whimpish and i've been frocibly restrained to had a shot before. The pain is beyond description. They would only understand if i let them become me and let them experience the pain when a needle is stuck into me. I can now feel what it's like to have a shot even though i haven't had one for years. When i was watching my classmates get their blood drawn. I started to visaulize the feeling of getting my blood dranw and next thing i knew i fainted from the 'pain' i could feel. Then i fainted from the pain again when i had my ear pierced. But no one believes me when i tell them how it really feels for me. till then, i'll just avoid needles.

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Name: Kate
Date: April 8, 2003
Phobia 1: Velvet
Phobia 1 Comments: I don't know why, but I am intensely terrified of velvet. I can't touch it, see it, be anywhere around it. I've only ever heard of one other person having this phobia, someone I read about online. I can't find a name for it and I can't explain why, but velvet gives me the willies. I absolutely hate it. It also applies to velour and certain types of felt.
Phobia 2: Diaper Decks
Phobia 2 Comments: One time I went into a bathroom and there was a diaper deck halfway open with a nastysmell coming out of it and for some reaosn all I could thinkw as that there must be a dead baby inside. I was terrified. To this day, I hate diaper decks and will always choose the stall without the baby changing station it it, even if it means waiting in line twenty minutes longer.

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Name: Allayah
Date: April 9, 2003
Phobia 1: Spiders
Phobia 1 Comments: Since I was little it doesn't matter if it's a spider the size of a penny I freeze and can't move. I cry until someone either moves me or kills it.
Phobia 2: Being around People
Phobia 2 Comments: I always feel very uncomforable around people~ I sleep during the day and usually stay up all night and I don't do good in huge crowds...in fact I've stayed in the house for a month one time due to a festival right around my place. Sounds stupid huh?

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Name: Moony
Date: April 9, 2003
Phobia 1: Fear of unsertinty
Phobia 1 Comments: My greastest fear is not knowing where my feet will fall next. If I know that my feet are not going to be on a steady serface or they are hanging several feet in the air...I freak. I have had panics but not very severe since I can control it...pertty well. I first realized this phobia when I rode the Batman hanging roller coaster in Six FLags Magic Mountain. This fear has lead to people thinking I have other phobias, Hydrophobia, when my feet can't touch the bottom of the pool; fear of heights, I'm on a very high place with no solid ground, i.e hangind roller coasters; and Fear of the dark, because I can't SEE where my foot will go next.

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Name: Rachel
Date: April 10, 2003
Phobia 1: social situations
Phobia 1 Comments: I am deathly afraid of social situations. I cant go out in public unless Im forced to, and if I do go out, i have horrible panic attacks. The thought of being out in the open and being so vulnerable to judgeing just frightens me. I especially hate it when people stand behind me, it makes me very nervous.
Phobia 2: masks
Phobia 2 Comments: I have always been afraid of masks, holloween masks or anything. I dont know what it is, but I have been horrified of them since I was a little girl.
Phobia 3: being alone
Phobia 3 Comments: I dont have a fear of being alone in my house or anything like that, just the thought of loosing all of my family, and having no one left really scares me.
Extra Comments: I have so many more fears i cant even begin to count, but these are my major ones. Im afraid of everything, Im such a wuss.

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Name: blessed_0ne
Date: April 17, 2003
Phobia 1: Dirt
Phobia 1 Comments: I have this really big thing about dirt. I cant stand the feeling of it and I hate more that fact tht I know it is around me. I have had this feeling ever since I was really little. I have become OCD because of all of it. I constantly sweep my floors trying to get all the dirt all of them.
Phobia 2: Clowns
Phobia 2 Comments: When I was three I watched the movie IT by Stephen King and ever since then I have been scared to death that they will eat me. I cant even have a doll of a clown in any room that I am in because they just freak me out really bad.
Phobia 3: Spiders
Phobia 3 Comments: Again..this is because of the movie IT..when they see that giant spider in that cave and everyting...they scare me to really bad...I dont know why but I think it is because they have eight legs..I mean most others have either 4 or more then eight... and they are the only ones that have eight legs that I know of...i guess i just dont like bugs at all.

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Name: caroline
Date: April 22, 2003
Phobia 1: phobia of not ever falling in love
Phobia 1 Comments: i dont think this one has a name. but its constantly on my mind. esp. since my mom married my dad and then divorced, and she hasnt ever really met anyone else. one time i started crying and wouldnt stop because i thought i had no love line on my palm. i will literally fall into depression if i even think about people who i know who are "in love".

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Name: Jacob
Date: April 29, 2003
Phobia 1: claustrophobia
Phobia 1 Comments: When ever anybody wrestles me or a big person hugs me and dosnt let go...i start crying and freaking out.
Phobia 2: agoraphobia
Phobia 2 Comments: I freak out in crowds by getting really angry... sweating uncontrolably..and have to go and sit down a lot.

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Name: mexicooo
Date: May 1, 2003
Phobia 1: BUTTERFLYS!
Phobia 1 Comments: THEY FREAK ME OUT!!!!! I CANT STAND IT, just the thought of them makes me curl my toes! the flopping of the wings, and not knowing what direction they're going to fly next makes it even scarier!!! everybody makes fun of me, but....I cant even stand the idea that I might be breathing air, that touched a butterfly's wing!!! ITS THE WINGS THAT MAKE ME CRAZY!

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Name: MABELYNE
Date: May 2, 2003
Phobia 1: sand touching feet
Phobia 1 Comments: I cannot stand walking in the sand. This has not always been a problem, just began a few year ago.

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Name: Travis
Date: May 6, 2003
Phobia 1: apiphobia
Phobia 1 Comments: fear of bees and wasps. I am terrified of them from a traumatic experience when I was younger.

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Name: Brittany
Date: May 6, 2003
Phobia 1: loud noises
Phobia 1 Comments: i hate gunshots and loud noises
Phobia 2: spiders
Phobia 2 Comments: i hate all spiders except jumping spiders
Phobia 3: tornados
Phobia 3 Comments: i hate tornados every time i hear of one i vomit

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Name: leeanne
Date: May 6, 2003
Phobia 1: socks
Phobia 1 Comments: i am normal in every way, but i cannot stand socks. every time i touch them my mouth dries and i talk with a lisp. I absolutly hate them, i can't even say the word. It is pathetic my friends and family think it is hilarious and torture me by rubbing socks all over me. What really bugs me is i can't find a "real" name for my fear.

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Name: Britny
Date: May 8, 2003
Phobia 1: spiders
Phobia 1 Comments: I am currently enroled in an advanced placement biology class. We are having a lab test on animals and of course there are spiders, centipedes and a wide array of other animals that i hate. the worst part is that everyone teases me and taunts me with the spiders. I often find myself so worked up that i can't focus in my other classes. I go home at night and have terrible nightmares about the spiders that i was teased with that day. I tried to overcome this fear but i have come to realize that i can't. People can say what they want to say and do what they want to do to me but this fear is so intense that i find myself crying or even having my whole body just itch.
Phobia 2: Blood, guts, and gore
Phobia 2 Comments: I can not handle blood. When i see it i flip out and my arm or leg will start to hurt. i just feel that blood belongs in the body and it should stay their. When i cut myself or somehow bleed i feel that the blood is going to seep out of the bandage and never stop.
Phobia 3: Needles
Phobia 3 Comments: I HATE NEEDLES!!! I can not understand how a nurse can intentionally hurt someone, when they have to give someone a shot. I am leaving for college this fall and will need to get immunizations before i go. I was also due for a tetnus shot two years ago but i can't muster up the strength to go. My friends are always teasing me about it and do whatever they can to make it look like they are really getting a shot(like when they use a push pencil)My mother says that i am just acting like a baby, but i just can't shake it off! I don't know why but i can't. When i see a needle or picture one, my body tingles and i get really hot. I also sometimes find it hard to talk, as if my mind go blank. Wheeeeee they are soo gross.

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Name: sali
Date: May 8, 2003
Phobia 1: milk being spilt on me
Phobia 1 Comments: this bothers me so much that i do not go near an open milk carton. i don't know the name of this phobia and i would like to find out.

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Name: tracy
Date: May 9, 2003
Phobia 1: cows
Phobia 1 Comments: i cant even watch the tv advert about milk without screwing my face up. i dont know why im scared of them i just am. they give me the creeps. if u locked me in a field with them i would surely die from a heart attack caused by fear. they have the most eerie eyes i have ever seen and when they stare at you i think they are doing it for some apparent reason that they must be planning to trample you and kill you. if anyone else has this or can help e-mail me. it really is a terrifying phobia and it makes me shirk and go cold watchi