What is your phobia?

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-08 08:06pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:The female orgasm. It's a good thing that it doesn't really exist.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-07-08 08:50pm

I actually have a scar on my arm from where I was attacked by a spork wielding nutcase...

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » 2003-07-08 11:02pm

jegs2 wrote:I hate spiders. I generally kill them if I find them where they don't belong. Lest someone says they do belong, I don't care -- they die, and quickly.

Exactly the same for me. I am not scared by spiders, but I MUST kill them when I see them, don't know why.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-07-09 01:26am

Zaia wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:The female orgasm. It's a good thing that it doesn't really exist.

Give me a few hours and I'll prove it.

...
I think I just signed my death warrant.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-09 01:30am

Gil Hamilton wrote:The female orgasm. It's a good thing that it doesn't really exist.

Heresy!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-09 03:40am

Darth Yoshi wrote:Give me a few hours and I'll prove it.
...

WTF??

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-07-09 03:50am

Wedge wrote:
jegs2 wrote:I hate spiders. I generally kill them if I find them where they don't belong. Lest someone says they do belong, I don't care -- they die, and quickly.
Exactly the same for me. I am not scared by spiders, but I MUST kill them when I see them, don't know why.

Uhhh......That's what serial killers used to say...

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-09 07:58am

Fear of... breaking. With as many physical and mental detriments as I have, I really do have to be very careful (moreso than most 18-year-olds... about 98% of 'em).

~ver

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-09 08:43am

verilon wrote:Fear of... breaking. With as many physical and mental detriments as I have, I really do have to be very careful (moreso than most 18-year-olds... about 98% of 'em).

~ver

Do you have a bone disease of some kind? I've got my own lengthy list of medical conditons, but nothing that would make me "break". Well... unless you count mentally "snapping".

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-09 08:09pm

verilon wrote:Fear of... breaking. With as many physical and mental detriments as I have, I really do have to be very careful (moreso than most 18-year-olds... about 98% of 'em).

~ver

I'm afraid to ask about what you're afraid to break

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-07-09 08:28pm

Needles and Retarded People.

Needles: Stab me, cut me, beat the blood out of me, just keep that damn thing away.

Retarded People: Was attacked by one when I was 6. He threw a brick at me for no reason. No wait, he told the cops the reason. "I had nothing better to do." I wish I was joking. If I see one in public, I move away quickly. I honestly believe one could go crazy at any time and start beating people to death. Sure the thought proccess is irrational: That's why it's called a phobia.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-09 11:24pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:Give me a few hours and I'll prove it.
...
I think I just signed my death warrant.

LOL

Wait. I give you a couple hours so you can prove to me that there's no such thing as a female orgasm?!!!

Let me think about that. No.

Now, if someone said that they would prove that there definitely was such a thing as a female orgasm and needed a week or so to convince me...maybe two.....I'd be willing to sacrifice myself. For science, of course.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2003-07-09 11:27pm

This may sound like bragging, but I don't have an irrational fear of anything.

XPViking

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-10 06:04am

Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:
verilon wrote:Fear of... breaking. With as many physical and mental detriments as I have, I really do have to be very careful (moreso than most 18-year-olds... about 98% of 'em).

~ver
Do you have a bone disease of some kind? I've got my own lengthy list of medical conditons, but nothing that would make me "break". Well... unless you count mentally "snapping".

I have several. Does that count? lol.. Really, though. I have several different things. I have 7 different mental disorders, at least 8 phobias, and a slew of physical detriments, mostly stemming around my joints and my vertebrae, as well as chrinic migraines and cluster headaches.

~ver

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-10 06:04am

Darth Gojira wrote:
verilon wrote:Fear of... breaking. With as many physical and mental detriments as I have, I really do have to be very careful (moreso than most 18-year-olds... about 98% of 'em).

~ver
I'm afraid to ask about what you're afraid to break

Mostly my mind and my back.

~ver

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » 2003-07-10 12:35pm

Originally posted by Zaia
Now, if someone said that they would prove that there definitely was such a thing as a female orgasm and needed a week or so to convince me...maybe two.....I'd be willing to sacrifice myself. For science, of course.

Sounds like a worthy challenge... so when do you want to start?

As for my phobia's... only one that qualifies as a genuine phobia would be hemeophobia. A Fear of blood. Fortunately it's a minor one. In the sense that it takes a lot of blood, a fairly serious injury (to anyone within my line-of-sight), surgery, etc... to set it off. When it does get set off though, I'm very likely to pass out. I will at the very least get lightheaded, dizzy, and show the begining symptoms of shock.

Aside for that I have the occasional panic attack if I let myself dwell on my own mortality for too long. Though it takes some serious stress or anxiety to set that whole downward spiral off.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-10 02:13pm

Mayhem wrote: As for my phobia's... only one that qualifies as a genuine phobia would be hemeophobia. A Fear of blood.

Phew. I thought you were going to say HOMOphobia.

BTW, after renting a book about the history of sci-fi.... I'VE OVERCOME MY IRRATIONAL FEAR OF GREY ALIENS!!! (although I doubt it will have any effect on my reluctance to ask out girls who are criminally underweight.)

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-07-10 02:56pm

Zaia wrote:LOL

Wait. I give you a couple hours so you can prove to me that there's no such thing as a female orgasm?!!!

Let me think about that. No.

Oh come on! Think of the fun you'll have proving me wrong.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-10 04:20pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:
Zaia wrote:LOL

Wait. I give you a couple hours so you can prove to me that there's no such thing as a female orgasm?!!!

Let me think about that. No.
Oh come on! Think of the fun you'll have proving me wrong.

That's one of the single funniest things I've read.

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-10 05:17pm

verilon wrote:I have several. Does that count? lol.. Really, though. I have several different things. I have 7 different mental disorders, at least 8 phobias, and a slew of physical detriments, mostly stemming around my joints and my vertebrae, as well as chrinic migraines and cluster headaches.

My list would include at least 7 bad joints, I sunburn exceedingly easily (to the point where I avoid going outside during the day if I can help it most of the time), I'm partially colorblind (not a biggie but still), I'm partially deaf I get migraines, a few memory problems. Then there's the three phobias I listed earlier, I have Bi-Polar disorder (aka Manic-Depression), and I suspect a couple other mental disorders, though I've not had them diagnosed.

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-10 05:23pm

Mayhem wrote: As for my phobia's... only one that qualifies as a genuine phobia would be hemeophobia. A Fear of blood. Fortunately it's a minor one. In the sense that it takes a lot of blood, a fairly serious injury (to anyone within my line-of-sight), surgery, etc... to set it off. When it does get set off though, I'm very likely to pass out. I will at the very least get lightheaded, dizzy, and show the begining symptoms of shock.

Aside for that I have the occasional panic attack if I let myself dwell on my own mortality for too long. Though it takes some serious stress or anxiety to set that whole downward spiral off.

hmmm.... hemophobia interesting one. I never did understand the fear of Blood.

But then again, some people are afraid of cotten balls and aluminium foil.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-07-10 05:40pm

My fears are as follows:

1) The dark. Depending on where I am, I tend to hate the darkness.

2) loneliness. I fear of growing old alone. Though it looks like I might not be in the near future.

3) heights. I am extremely afraid of heights.

4) choking. I'm afraid of choking.

5) all the above combined. I fear that I would die alone in the dark on top of a mountain choking on a peanut.

Sporkzen · Post by **Sporkzen** » 2003-07-10 08:04pm

Zaia wrote:I have an irrational fear of sporks.

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2003-07-10 08:27pm

Stinging bugs. Closely linked to a bad allergy of said bugs.
Dentists.
Spinning metal things. (I wonder if this has a -phobia name)
Needles.
To a smaller extent, groups of people.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-11 06:19am

Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:
verilon wrote:I have several. Does that count? lol.. Really, though. I have several different things. I have 7 different mental disorders, at least 8 phobias, and a slew of physical detriments, mostly stemming around my joints and my vertebrae, as well as chrinic migraines and cluster headaches.
My list would include at least 7 bad joints,

kness, ankles, wrists, shoulders, scoliosis in lower back, upper back and neck problems.

I sunburn exceedingly easily (to the point where I avoid going outside during the day if I can help it most of the time),

photosensitivity causes me to not be able to look at fluorescent anything without an instant migraine, and I am extrasensitive to sun poisoning (nausea and a headache after being in the sun too long)

I'm partially colorblind (not a biggie but still),

Astgmatic

I'm partially deaf

Partially deaf in my left ear (can't hear stereo 75% of the time) and reverberation sets off migraines

I get migraines,

Chronic migraines and cluster headaches

a few memory problems.

Can't remember most of my childhood, and I have no sense of time whatsoever

Then there's the three phobias I listed earlier,

The 8 I have listed

I have Bi-Polar disorder (aka Manic-Depression), and I suspect a couple other mental disorders, though I've not had them diagnosed.

Bipolar (Hypomanic, Rapid Cycling), Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Clinical Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, and two more that I cannot think of.

I may also possibly have something called Ailer's Something Syndrome, but I do not think so (hereditary ailment). Also have a slight tendency toward sodium deficiency as well as hypoglycemia.

Yes, I am severely afraid of breaking.

~ver