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ONLY IN AMERICA will people try n fob this crap off as tv.....iv'e seen better acting on corrie and eastenders ffs

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for crying out loud ........PICKLES???????? get a grip. I know phobias can be a real and scary thing but ....PICKLES??? :confused:

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The thoughts of going in one of those scanners in hospital makes me sweat..I have visions of not being able to move and the power going off,,oh i am getting the creeps just thinking about it now..and the fear of being burried alive too....

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Ye well never mind that video, it's a good thread anyway.
I had a dislike of red ants and woodlice, I have nightmares even now about being covered in the things.
Stange thing is I've been gardening for that long now and I don't use gloves, I've got used to them, yet still have the nightmares. Maybe it was the old shed when I was a kid, the roof used to be covered with them and they'd drop on my head.

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I saw a programme recently that showed a woman with a genuine phobia of chips!


Not keen on mice and rats. Wouldn't call it a phobia, just a fear of hairy things with tails.

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always used to chase the girls around school with spiders untill i watched arachnaphobia now i cant stand the site of spiders and if i see one anywhere near me, im sorry but its gotta die :death1:

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I had a phobia of falling too, I'd often dream I was falling down a shiney flat metal cliff, down, and down. Then I got a job putting highbay light fittings up in wharehouses, fitting street christmas lights

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My son has a phobia of eating food he has touched with his hands, that all started when the dog warden scared him to death by a talk he gave them about the dangers of dog muck and how the stuff could be so easily picked up without noticing the muck.. like football bouncing where it has been. Seemed like dog warden came on a bit strong for the age of the kids. He has improved but is still phobic.

When i was a toddler i was apparantly frightened of running water and open fires.. hmm must have been a witch in my last life!

I do remember a programme that reckoned a deep fear in toddlers can be related to how they died in a previous life... hmmm not sure where i stand on that one!

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my friends laugh at me but i cannot stand being in fields when there are either horses,sheep,cows or geese that are not tied/penned up.I wouldn't say it was a serious phobia because i can walk past them but i have know exactly where they are and walk beside someone...i thought this was odd till i told my mum who then said 'thats my fault,i took you on a picnic in Cambridge,and we walked through a field of cows that started chasing us for our lunch'..............Cheers mum!

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I have a fear of heights, a fairly common one I know - also Daddy Long Legs', I can't stand to be in the same room as one cos I'm convinced it's out to get me, silly cos I know they can't hurt me but it doesn't make any difference

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I have the same fear of being burried alive, so I'm being cremated just in case

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I cant stand being on the motorway i get really clammy hands and i feel sick and i have visions of the car crashing in some horrific way it is awful to have a crash at such speed dont leave you with much chance really.

I know where this comes from i used to watch the trauma life in the ER programme where crash victims came in all the time there was some very disturbing scenes!

If we go anywhere if at all possible i make daddiboo drive the long way through the back roads even just on short trips to see my mum and dad we go the back roads.

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Im petrified of spiders. I cant go within 2 mtr of one. And I cant kill them because I dont dare go near them to do anything to it.. :(

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I have the same fear of being burried alive, so I'm being cremated just in case.

What if you get cremated whilst you are still alive jaysay?

I’m not sure if my hate is fear of heights or fear of falling from them but it only comes into play when I can see the height. By that I mean I can go up a high rise building just as long as I do not see the outside and the drop down to the ground.

Strange really because my last job before joining the navy was with Uni-Relay as a TV aerial rigger and re-wiring the Accrington district to put Radio Luxembourg into thousands of homes. That meant not only climbing ladders with a TV aerial in one hand (not these tiny little ones but the large H and X aerials) or a coil of wire weighing some 50 lbs but also running along the roof tops of terraced houses running out the wire. In the navy climbing masts to get to the radar antenna to execute a repair was second nature even in rough weather. Doing the same on the 600 feet masts at HMS Inskip near Preston was a doddle – then. I’ve stood on the very edge of Table Mountain in Capetown and looked down and out and thought nothing of it.

But today if I walk out onto a first floor balcony I have to keep my eyes firmly on the inside to avoid feeling pretty horrible. Yet I can gaze out of an aeroplane window without a problem.

Yes! I know! I’m weird!

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I can't even read about heights without my stomach turning. The very thought turns me sick. I walk along balconies hugging the wall. A couple of years ago on Lord Mayor's day, we went to a party at our friends' flat in the Barbican - 25th floor of the Shakespeare Tower. Did I go out onto the balcony to watch the fireworks? Too damn right, I didn't. I hung onto the balcony doorpost, trying not to even think about the drop. It's making me feel sick just writing about it ....... phobic or what?

Oh, and snakes.

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Rats and mice terrify me, so much so that I can't even see them on t.v. without heaving! So those 'clean up' programmes are out for me.

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At least it will be warm and not bloody freezing like being in the ground

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Daddy-long-legs. :eek: It's childish, it's irrational, but if one comes into the room - I go out, they make me feel physically sick. Only half a tin of fly-spray and a rolled up newspaper makes me feel any better.

Also, can't stand pitch blackness. The tiniest pin-prick of light is fine but total dark freaks me, I feel like I can't breathe.

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Cockroaches ... Yuk. Thank Gawd never seen any at this house, saw plenty when I lived in Barnes Street. Even ex. did not like, particularly when he came down in bare feet in the middle of the night, in the dark and heard this horrible crunching under his feet :eek:

Mice: Well, not too bad really, until they knocked quite a lot of the houses down in Lower Barnes Street, and population migrated up to the upper. Tried traps, etc. Wasn't bothered til daughter woke up crying, they were actually getting on her bed and chewing her hair ! Ex got out air-rifle and bagged a couple. Finally, borrowed friend's cat and that cured 'em.

Buried alive: Yes, what a horrible thought, only movie I ever walked out of was an Edgar Allen Poe Movie, whereby his victims suffered from catalepsy and thought to be dead; they were consequently buried but then they woke up and were found with all their nails ripped off trying to scratch their way out ... Aaaagh, perish the thought. Manicures cost a fortune. :eek:

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Maybe thats where i get the phobia from,,i watched all those Vincent Price films too...

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I know G-C ... you don't really want to watch do you? but hard to turn away .. maybe good to be scared of something, puts all the good things in perspective.

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Dentists....I would say I am bordering on phobic about dentists.....just thinking about them gives me the collywobbles.

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Tee hee Margaret ... strange how these highly qualified nurses have phobias about the treatments they inflict on other people.

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Spiders and heights. Me and ginger once took the kids up Blackpool Tower. He thought it was funny to take the kids on the " walk of faith " all I remember was shouting very loudly " you kill yourself you B"""rd, but leave my kids out of it" grabbing there hands and walking off, which Ginger thought was hilarious. Then I turned round and saw a baby crawling on the glass with it's little dummy in it's mouth, I remember shouting something awful to that babies dad too lol. My stomach just seems to jump into my throat and I feel sick and dizzy.

Spiders, well i have had that phobia since I can remember. When I was younger I used to roll a quilt up and stuff it down the side of the bed so that no spiders could crawl up the wall onto my bed at night. My phobia is mostly insects in my ears, nose or mouth. That stems from watching a Documentary where a spider had crawled into this ladies ear and it had been there months. She thought she had a ear infection, when really the spider had made a web round her Ear drum.

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Sorry about this fellas, but just thought of another. Moustaches and beards, can't help looking at these things when I am in convesation with someone with this adornment, wondering what is nesting there, literally panic attack mode.

How can ya' get to those lips with that bristle ... yuk.

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lol this thread is a good one, I think the last is the best post :D

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:eek: OMG!! LMFAO!!!

I have a very similar one Kate, I can't actually tell you :rolleyes: but those who know me will tell you I have a genuine phobia of a certain colour and textuure of hair in a particular part of the body!! :o

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Oh no, Tinks, just know ya' gonna' say Red Hair ..sob, sob.

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Can;t be that frigtened of them tinks.........how many red haired men have you been with?? hmmmmmmm, never fine me licking a spider:D :D ROFLMAO

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:eek: NONE!!!!! .......... I couldn't!! lol!

Please don't hate me Kate and other red heads it's not something I can help! :(

Just for the record, never been qith a blonde guy either ..... but that's not a phobia it's just choice.

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There, there Tinks, s'okay, nowt ya' can help.

Ok .. any you men got phobias about Gingermingers then ?? Grrrrh.

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my Husband LOL!! He is a RED head though lol.:D

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I don’t mind spiders even those big hairy ones with multiple eyes that glow red in the half light. Wolf spiders I think they are called.

But what I don’t like about them is when they get in the shower. They take up more than their share of floor space and hog the soap. But they are great for scrubbing my back.

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Hey, why am I paying so much money for those expensive exfoliaters then :rolleyes:

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Don't know Katex...why are you? Speak with JB....he can save you ££££££££s :)

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I like spiders, they look after the plants. It doesn't bother me one bit to see a spider but I do always rescue them if I can and set them free.

I must be a bit boring, I don't have any phobias.

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I like spiders tooo, your such a kind hearted girl Gayle, your lovely.

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I cant stand worms,, but i dont think its a phobia..just darent touch em..

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Nope, I'm attracted to Gingers. Brunettes and redheads/gingers, then blondes, most of the time, although if a blonde has a certain something.
Think I'm getting a phobia for gingers bloomin temper tantrums though :mad:

Tell you a phobia I have developed, seriously, and thats a phobia of having to find a new girl and go through all the first date thing, will it go well, will we click, will we want to see each other again. The thought of it scares me. The dates after are great, fun exciting, but you can't just jump to that bit unfortunately.

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Aw shucks, thank you.

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I have a fear of heights, I wouldn't call it a phobia because I have climbed mountains, but it is becoming more of a problem. I think I am turning into a wuss with advancing age. I was in Skye a few years ago and walked/scrambled up a pinnacle known as the needle. When I got near the top I found myself on a ridge with a horrendous drop all around me and got a dreadful attack of vertigo. I was shaking, sick and dizzy and had to lie down on the ridge. I must have been lying down for a good half hour being eaten alive by midges before I could muster the strength to stand up again and move. I never used to get vertigo until a middle ear infection a few years ago left me unable to balance for a few weeks. Now I don't trust my ability to balance in high places on my own two feet and am definitely a bit wobbly on ladders. I have no qualms about flying and have been on some wild roller coasters so I think that it is probably the balance rather than the height with me..:D

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Now you tell me Lettie......there I was thinking I had a buddy to climb the Harbour Bridge with!

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I have to say that I climbed to the top of York Minster and when I got to the top I came over feeling sick and dizzy and shaking....took me ages to screw up the courage to go back down.....but I think it was because it was one of those medieval spiral stone staircases. It necessitated a strong cup of tea and a bun in Betty's Tea-rooms once we got back down. I was OK after that and have never experienced anything like it since....was not phased by the Skyrail up at Kuranda.

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Is there such a thing as a fear of depths? I only ask because if I'm standing close to a high building and look up to the top I get dizzy, my stomach lurches and I feel as if I'm going to fall over. I'm not kidding, this really happens, though being on top of a height doesn't bother me at all. :confused:

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Thats the same as some people get at the top of the building. thats virtigo.

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We even promised that Busman's best man's wife could stay outside and we would bring food out to her, or stay in the part of the room (separated by an archway) where there were no balloons as the balloons were only in the front area and not in the rear and only at the reception not at the church but even the prospect of being close to the balloons was enough to stop her coming. :(

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Some people have a fetish for balloons, they want to have sex in a room full of them.

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My phobia is snakes. Cant stand them. If i see a picture of one i have nightmares. I went to chester zoo once and i wouldnt go in the tropical house because i would have had to go past the snakes to get out and while i was waiting for the rest of the family to come out i got talking to the woman behind the desk and she told me one of the keepers had been bit by one a couple of days before and that made me even more determined not to go in there.

All the talk of the spiders I had a mate who was scared of spiders but he wanted to see the film arachnaphobia. Anyway we were watching it and everytime a spider came on he hid behind a pillow. Anyway half way through watching the film and his head hid behind the pillow i ran my fingers up his back I've never seen anyone move so fast out of the room! I was laughing my head off!

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Was driving along friday, and the car infront must have clipped a snake in the road, it zigzaged across towards the gutter, I think I missed it, but it looked quite big, about three feet long, 3 inch high, is that a grass snake? I thought grass snakes were smaller than that.

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Grass snakes can grow quite large. My cousin in Kent kept losing fish from her pond, as did her neighbours, so they kept a look out for a heron. One day she noticed something greenish hanging over the pond. Thinking it was a plant which had fallen down, she went over to put it back. It was a grass snake, and she said it was as thick as her arm - obviously well fed! It could have been a baby python that had got loose, but more likely to be a grass snake, sort of sludgy greenish thing? Yes, I fear, loathe and detest snakes - but it's a question of "know thine enemy"!

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I quite like snakes - as long as they're not hungry. :)

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I love corn snakes.

Keep calling them snorncakes!:D

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Was it like this one Madhatter ?

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One for you Willow:D

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Oh that one's gorgeous Mick! :)

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na looked darker than that, almost black. I didn't see an head, so the car in front may have chopped it off.

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Spiders! Ewww. Scary things all big n black n creepy. Scuttling to get ya with all those horrid legs.
I'm still scared of em but I'm not as bad has I used to be.
I hate all insects but not to the point of a phobia. I'm a little scared of earwigs waiting to crawl in your ear.

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A major breakthrough with Maddie at the weekend. She'd been terrified about dogs for some reason but she saw a dalmation on Sunday and she allowed it to get within about 10 ft without screaming. Fortunately, it didn't want to get any closer so I don't know how she would have reacted if it had done.