Phobias

Robbli · Post by **Robbli** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:09 am

I have social phobia, yes sometimes I'm afraid of people.

I'm not fond of heights at all, especially if driving in a vehicle on a road with a step drop on one side.

Post by **Daniel** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:54 pm

Summer is here - the windows are flung open, the lights are on, so what do we get? Moths! Am I the only person not to like moths? Especially when they're big, ugly and insist on dive-bombing you!

Liz944 · Post by **Liz944** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:12 am

Be thankful they are only moths... where I live we get bats... and they seem to like flying around lamposts and around the house... they dive bomb you and get caught in your hair....

Post by **Shadwell** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:01 pm

well I had the first moth in my flat yesterday, and lost the little might somewhere!! I still haven't come across him today, and he isn't flying around my light! where is he?!!

Post by **Daniel** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:08 pm

I had exactly the same experience in my room! I had a middling sized moth and a wee one knocking around last night. The bigger one vanished and it's not turned up as yet. Weird creatures.

rah · Post by **rah** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:09 pm

aww i like seeing bats flying around because they're quite often there, it's just really hard to see them normally.

i don't like moths particularly, but i rarely get them in my room because i don't ever open my windows at night for that exact reason! i can't sleep if i know there are insects in the room, so if i've had my window open in the day i always spend a good ten minutes before i go to bed trying to find any bugs that might have come in....and then because i don't believe in killing insects i have to spend bloody ages trying to shoo them out of my tiny windows.

Liz944 · Post by **Liz944** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:29 pm

well I had the first moth in my flat yesterday, and lost the little might somewhere!! I still haven't come across him today, and he isn't flying around my light! where is he?!!

Probably making a light snack of your favorite item of clothing....

Meg · Post by **Meg** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:37 pm

There was a big wasp in my room yesterday and I refused to go in until it had gone, I had to get my sister to open the window and then proceded to stand at my door and watch it fly out. But my windows weren't open so I don't know wehre it came from. I hate wasps!

Luv Meg
Xxxx

Riddles · Post by **Riddles** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:13 am

this may sound really wierd but I have an awful lot of phobias: Fire, Chlaustrohobia, Hospitals, Heights.

thats about all I can think of, I must admit I never thought that having all these phobias was down to dyspraxia, well I'll go to our house and back.

god I hate talking about my fears so openly, its not I don't trust you lot, its more a case of it makes me feel uncomfortable to be telling people my weaknesses, although so of my weaknesses you lot probably would understand considering all of us on here have dyspraxia lol

Post by **Daniel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:38 am

Don't worry Riddles, I think it's quite normal to find it difficult to talk about your weaknesses to others - even those you know and trust - I have the same problem all the time. We all have our fears and problems and I think it can be good therapy to share them with others and get them out in the open.

BetaBox · Post by **BetaBox** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:46 pm

2 words:

COTTON WOOL

Its the worst thing ever. Damn you cotton plant.

Its the sound it makes when scrunched. ewwww.

Riddles · Post by **Riddles** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:30 pm

Maybe mate, but if it werent for cotton wool there wouldnt be anything for me to wear because every other type of material is too uncomfortable to wear

square peg · Post by **square peg** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:03 pm

Heights, being upside-down (not so bad now, but I hated how confusing and unknown it was to have my feet above my head, and the fact that I couldn't imagine what I would see when doing a rolly-polly somehow freaked me out and still confuses me), spiders. Social phobia in the past - other people's disapproval felt like torture, it was very weird but at the time the only way I could remember feeling and the only way I knew how to feel. That's now cured, because it was debilitating.

We seem to have an unusual mix of phobias here. Is it just that only those with them are replying? Would everyone who doesn't have a phobia please come to be counted?

Post by **Shadwell** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:11 pm

I found him!! a couple of days later on the back of my curtain! little b****r!!

I know I am not one for killing insects etc. and I should kill Freddy for all the cobwebs he has made!! but nah! if he got cobwebs up, then there is more chance on him getting the insects I don't want in my flat! trouble is he is scared of heights, so all of his cobwebs are along the floors, and stairs. so not really much chance of him catching anything.

about the highest he will go, it 1/2 way up my bath tub, and create a web in the bath! so I got to get rid of it before I get into the bath!

steph · Post by **steph** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:02 pm

Bridges. I think it's becuase I'm dyspraxic - the more I can see off a bridge, the scarier it is, and I think it's becuase i can imaging myself just tripping up and going flying over the edge.

Ohh me too! I sobbed my heart out when we had to go over the Dartford bridge (the Therwell Viaduct is bad enough) Luckily my husband was driving, so I curled up in the passenger footwell and hid until it was over. I think if I'd been driving I would have freaked, someone else would have had to drive.

I hate the outside lanes of the motorway and dual carriageways too. There doesn't seem to be enough room for a car to fit through.

Other than that, my only other phobias/real dislikes are crocodiles (I have nightmares about them) and polystyrene as I hate the way it feels and the horrible squeak when you try and lift something out of a box that is packed in it.

I quite like rats, bats, mice, spiders, snakes, birds etc. But I'm really not very keen on wasps either.

I sound such a wuss on here, yet most of my friends and neighbours say I'm one of the toughest people they know - probably because they come to me when they have a large spider, frog, bird etc in their house or greenhouse. I've worked with animals in the past (birds of prey in one job, and tropical fish in another) and we've had pet rats and gerbils, fish, cats and dogs (Irish wolfhounds and currently a retired greyhound). The cat also has a bad habit of bringing home small furries and letting them go in our house too, so I'm fairly adept at catching field mice with a plastic beaker and taking them outside again