Phobias

[Drumcondra Red]

Dicky it up all you like with a fancy name, but all I know is that I'm afraid of heights! I know what you're thinking a big, tough strapping lad like Drumcondra Red, but its true, I am, after all, human!!!

[davey]

Only got one phobia - Rats. I know most people find them disgusting but I would literally run a mile if I saw one. It weird because mice don't bother me at all. Don't know what the tech term is

[Thunderblaster]

I suffer from Manchesterphobia, a fear of M*******er United. Thank God they got their butts kicked on Saturday.

[Peadar]

Is it common to have no phobia?
I can't think of anything that would leave me consumed with irrational fear.

Homophobia is unfortunately quite common, as is phobias of people of other colour/race.

Homophobia isn't a real phobia, it's just a term created label homo intolerance. I also don't believe there are too many people with a phobia of race or colour.

[noby]

Luposlipaphobia : The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. Courtesy of the Far Side

[Lionel Ritchie]

I can't find the name for it ...but I've a fear of jewellery.

I just find a lot of it kind of disgusting. Particularly if there's metal involved.

My options with the ladies were considerably shortened back in the mid 90's when there was a not-brief-enough fad of nose and tongue piercings.

Earrings and navel rings are vile too.

[noby]

On yourself or on others?

[Lionel Ritchie]

On yourself or on others?

Thought you were being a smart @rse for a second but that's a reasonable question.

I can't wear so much as a wrist watch. I've tried a few plastic ones, either wrist on outside or inside of wrist.

The wife knew there was absolutley no chance whatsoever I'd wear a wedding ring so we bought the cheapest one we could get for the do
-though in fairness I wore it for the 'moon and a full tortuous month therefter. don't even know where the fcuking thing is now and care less.

I offered to get a "property of Mrs Ritchie" tatoo across my arm, ass, forehead or anywhere else if in lieu -but she hasn't called my bluff on that one so far.

[Dodge]

I think most people who claim a fear is actually more a hatred of something. Like the jewellery thing above, unless you break down every time you see a necklace, its not really a fear.

To answer Peadar, I'm sure most people don't have any phobias. Of those I know I'm prbably the only one who does

[Gerrit]

Found some more:

spermatofobia - fear of sperm
menofobia - fear of menstruation (the actual fluid or the woman entirely ? )
Coulrofobia - fear of clowns
Deipnofobia - fear of chats during dinner
Hedonofobia - fear of feeling physical joy
Kolpofobia, eurotofobia - fear of the vagina
Peladofobia - fear of bald people
Hobofobia - fear of the homeless
Parthenofobia - fear of virgins
Caligynefobia - fear of pretty women
Medomalacufobia - fear of losing an erection
Pentherafobia - fear of mothers-in-law
Pentherafobia, coitofobia - fear of sex
Ephebifobia - fear of teenagers
Cherofobia -fear of joy
Autofobia - fear of being yourself


All of these truely exist, I took them from a Dutch site: www.angstlijst.nl (which means fearlist.nl)

[Gerrit]

I think most people who claim a fear is actually more a hatred of something. Like the jewellery thing above, unless you break down every time you see a necklace, its not really a fear.

To answer Peadar, I'm sure most people don't have any phobias. Of those I know I'm prbably the only one who does

I wouldn't be so sure. Fear is a very natural thing.

I have several phobias, but they don't dominate every second of my life, only in certain situations or circumstances they come up. On other moments I can hide them quite well.
I'm sure most people who have one or more phobias have learnt how to hide them.

[Peadar]

Fear is a very natural thing.

Having a fear of something isn't a phobia.

I have a fear of being hit by a car when I cross the road in Dublin but that isn't irrational. It also doesn't prevent me from crossing the road.

[Ash]

Phobophobia - Fear of phobias

[Lionel Ritchie]

Having a fear of something isn't a phobia.

I have a fear of being hit by a car when I cross the road in Dublin but that isn't irrational. It also doesn't prevent me from crossing the road.

Phobias are irrational fears. Anything that induces irrational behaviour or moderates rational behaviour in an individual is a legitimate phobia.

If someone leaves their rings, bangles, watches, bracelets behind them in my place of work -I won't/can't/am disinclined to pick them up and put them somewhere safe. I have to get a (clean) dustpan and brush to do it.

Your "fear" of getting hit by a car is not, as you correctly point out -a phobia -though I would hope it does moderate your behaviour in that it makes you excerise caution when crossing. It's an informed instinct.

If you had an actual phobia of being hit by a car crossing the road you would encounter considerable difficulty crossing whether it was safe or not to do so.

[Gerrit]

OK, let's re-form my words: having fears, even irrational ones, is a natural thing. We all have our moments when logics die, if humans were all rational the world would be less full of misery and anxieties...

[Hither green]

I know someone with a fear of mummies, not the parental sort but the dead people rapped in bandages that are incredibly slow but still manage to catch people in films. Bizarre really. I didn’t think it would have too much of an impact on his life, until he turned down a trip to Egypt. Madness.

[Dodge]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia

List of phobias. Save you looking them up Gerrit

[Lionel Ritchie]

I know someone with a fear of mummies, not the parental sort but the dead people rapped in bandages that are incredibly slow but still manage to catch people in films. Bizarre really. I didn’t think it would have too much of an impact on his life, until he turned down a trip to Egypt. Madness.

At the risk of opening a sore wound with the Egyptians ...he's probably as likely to come across a Mummy in London.

[Peadar]

...he's probably as likely to come across a Mummy in London.

A lot of that stuff has been returned to Egypt.
If you go to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, you can see the Mummies but have to pay a little extra to get into that part. You must also pay extra to bring a camera, you can't use flash photography and you can't use a tripod.

Sorry for my tangent there.

[Lionel Ritchie]

the flash photography ban I get ...as it's standard practice in museums and galleries everywhere ...the tripod thing is a bit odd. Are they afraid everyone'll bring one or someone'll make a weapon out of one. I wonder.