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I find this topic interesting.  While watching Kate Humble do her thing on Springwatch tonight, she mentioned the fact that many people don't like spiders. I like spiders and try to help them when I can. Providing housing and shelter for them ( under the washing machine in the utility and in the shed ).

One thing I don't like though is heights. I always find it amazing that so many other people are afraid of heights as well. Even when there is no immediate danger, heights are something that make me nervous. I know it is completely psychological, there is no more of a chance of me falling off a 1000 ft wall than there is from a 2 ft wall.  The only difference is my mental state.

Is there a fear that you can't explain?   I have no idea why I don't like heights.

It's all about conditioning sark, you're just not used to standing on 1000ft walls, if you stood on one for a few hours every day you would lose your fear.

I used to work in high places, and the biggest danger was forgetting I was up there and stepping back off the ladder to admire my handiwork.

I used to know a lady that was terrified of red jelly, now that's irrational.

lol   it's the green stuff that get's me .  Nah, just kidding.  That is a really odd fear.  I like jelly

Alsatians and Rottweilers


Watching someone else have an injection(Can never watch casualty, not that I'd want to)


Shellsuits

this is one for the golfers out there & something I'm suffering from myself "THE SHANKS!!!"  There is no real cause & no real cure - it's all in the head!!

Standing too close to the ball.

I agreee that a fear of heights is not really irrational. The head knows that 1,000ft drops are not too good for us, and so it's natural to be wary of such things.

Just like a fear of rottweilers, the head knows it's a breed renown for viciousness, a little bit of respect and caution is advisable.



Personally, I've got the whole claustrophobia thing going on.

I wouldn't go pot holing for 1,000,000 quid.

I have an irrational fear of wasps/bees/any buzzing object to the extent I actually jumped into oncoming traffic to get away from one.

I have never been stung to my/or my mothers knowledge but I just freak out if one comes near me.

When my oldest was a toddler I actually ran in the other direction and let go his buggy while walking down a hill and if it hadnt been for a stranger catching the buggy god knows what would have happened.

I try so hard to control it and not pass the fear on to my kids but christ its hard.

Get stung, realise its not that bad then carry on!

HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO..........you are shit scared but then you think.............ok get stung and you will be ok!!!!!!!

So what do you do to get stung exactly?

Help out a Nigerian refugee who has millions of dollars, but nowhere to put it.

 rotflmfao now THAT is funny  rotflmfao

Look forward to more sensible answers tomorrow as it is a SERIOUS problem with me.

I used to work in greenhouses for about 8 years. Each greenhouse used to have around 20 bee hives in order to help pollinate the plants.  That works out at millions of bees.  I was only stung once in that time.  Bees are good people and I became close to them during that time.  To begin with all I thought about were all the bees flying past me. In the end I didn't even notice them.


I was asked to go pot holing in Wales last year.  No way would I do that. I would hate to be confined in such a small area and wedged in between other people. I am not claustrophobic, but I don't like the idea of that. I think you are too far under ground if something should go wrong.

I am serious, if you were to get stung you would realise its not something to have so much fear about, and would then not have to panic.

Sounds like you are going the wright way though, rapid movement is a gr8 way to get stung.

Pothole's, where i used to live we had people doing it every weekend, and nearly every month there would be rescue services there trying to save someone! seems mad to me!

Unless you have a reaction and your eyes pop out of your head!!

I'm not keen on snakes at all but my girlfriends fear is weird, she is horribly afraid of anything cellular or looks cellular e.g. she can't eat crumpets.

I get claustrophobic, it really annoys me as I can see no reason for me to start getting stressed and panic feelings in enclosed spaces. But as Red says the more I put myself in the situations the less intense I feel about it.

i have an irrational fear of losing money at the poker table. Loss of money = no bananas  :o

Probably not an irrational fear, more just being squeemish but monkey does not like blood and will usually pass out at the first sight of his own or of anyone elses. Thankfully the only time i've had to go into hospital apart from visiting someone was when i was born (and i didnt really get much choice there, my opinion didnt count for much at the time) and the only time i've seen my monkey doctor in the last 25 years was when he wrote to me about 10 years ago saying "i've had your name on my records for 15 years but i have no idea that you actually exist, please arrange an appointment to come and visit".

Well if i get stung by bee/wasp get me to hospital damn quick or my numbers up
and my eyes don't pop out of my head, butmy windpipe closes up until I can't breathe

spiders hate em with a passion and will gladly leg it at 100mph to get away from them

although my irrational fear is balloons, don't ask me why,  not sure if one banged in my face when i was little or what but the sound of them is to me like nails on a chalk board

I thought you were born in the jungle, matt?   They don't allow monkeys in the hospitals where I live.

Apparently my mum was allowed but only if she signed a waiver first allowing Rolf Harris and a camera crew to do a running commentary...........

I got stung by a bee last week.

Five quid for a jar of honey - what a rip-off!! :)

The only thing I'm scared of is being gang raped by a dozen burly men.

I had a big fear for spiders, but i learnt to face my fears with getting a pet Spider in a tank, and put him in my kitchen, at first i couldnt even look at it, now i feed him and clean him out. I still have yet to hold him, but im sure that will come when im ready.
It is very true that if you do face your fears it gets a lot easier, sometimes we have to come out of are comfort zone and fight the fears.

Great.  What kind of spider is he?

I got one for you squirmish blondes.

I was born with a lazy eye and a squint (eye turned in or out). I had an operation (when i was young) to have this corrected so it looks normal, however sight is about 10% of what it should be. Anyway, my eye started to turn in again a couple of years ago and i started to look cock eyed. I needed it correcting again.

The correction procedure involves cutting all the muscles off attached to your eyeball, recentering your eye and then stitching the muscles back to the eye in the correct place. These stitches are left loose as they have have to be tightened, once the position is confirmed and you area wake. 90% of this is done while you are asleep, however the last 10% has to be done with you awake and conscious, so that they can ensure it naturally centres etc.

My eye was slightly over corrected so they needed to put a stitch in to pull it back to normal. You can't feel anything painful, as they numb your eye, however the implement they use to get this stitch in is like a mini sickle. This sickle comes towards your eye, while the surgeon is saying "don't blink" FFS. You can feel the stitch go in (but no pain) and then they tighten all the stitches up around your eye in a set sequence.

The more often you put yourself in this situation, the less scared you'll be of getting bull raped.

You need to face this fear head on. May I suggest you go to RoyalFlush's house in Brighton.  :D

My irrational fear is slightly odd; but I have a phobia of Escalators. They strike the fear of God in to me. I can’t explain it, & no one has been ever able to.
When I lived & worked in London, it was a real problem. I still break in to a sweat just thinking of the time I had to go up the Escalator at The Angel (I think it’s the deepest in the Tube system), I was a sad whimpering wreck by the time I reached the top :D  I had to plan my route around the Tube system to stations that had lifts or were at ground level, happily for me my regular stations were South Ken & Farringdon Road.
Luckily it’s a phobia I don’t have to face everyday, but strangely even if I see an escalator on TV it’ll send a cold shiver down my spine.

Biggest one in Europe.

No wonder I thought I was about to die :D

Oh i cant wait for the England vs Scotland matches.

There's only 11 of us, and only 10 are men, but we'll rape you allright.  ;goodvevil;

Hes a chilli Rose, fully grown, hes very good the kids hold him, and hes never bitten or Flicked hairs.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

i seem to have an irrational fear of women with large breasts...dont know why...i need to overcome this fear as it wreaks havoc with my normal working life

I have an irrational fear of daddy long legs/crane flies, their legs are all spindly, and i hate the way the target me in a room. I know where it stems from, I went on holiday to Butlins one September years ago, and it had been a really wet summer and early autumn, and the ground was waterlogged, and there was an infestation of them in the area - all the walls were literally covered with them, and it was stomach churning.

I did have a fear of lifts after being trapped in one on my own aged 5, but I went to New York and did the Empire State Building and the World Trade Centre in one day and now I am fine with using lifts!

nice try Stallyon!

i only have one irrational fear..............lychees
How can something that looks like the inside of a golfball, needs peeling, has a huge stone in the middle, and make the eater make large stangling,gurgling noises not be a baddie from an early series of Dr. Who.

that's not what they remind me of....

Having your table break and moving one to the right of Julian Thew when he has 37,000,000 chips

 ;tk;

Disgusting tasting things.  I bought two tins from Lidl's a few months back.  I have eaten one because my kitchen cupburds(sp?) were empty and there wasn't anything else.  The other will be eaten as soon as I eat my way through the other stuff in there.  That way it keeps it all neat and tidy.

lychees in tins from Lidl?


nooooooooooo.


do you have OCD Sark?

I am obsessively tidy too.....

If you two are obsessively tidy where do you want my spare key sending too?  lol

I'll even empty the hoover ready for you.

Isn't that a dodgy TV show from the states.

A few years ago I started getting paranoid that I was surrounded by jellyfish whenever I swam in the sea on holiday.  This resulted in a few 'amusing' reactions when my leg brushed seaweed or similar.

In the end I decided to confront it by giving scuba diving a go.  What a transformation!  Now I spend half of my non-Vegas holidays underwater trying to spot sharks!

Other than that I do get a bit freaked out by wasps.  One of my earliest memories is, having just learned the trick with dogs, trying to stroke one as a toddler.  Its the only time I can remember ever being stung and I'm not keen on repeating the experience, particularly as I knew someone who died as a result of wasp stings.

One of my best friends from University has the strangest set of phobias I've ever known.  He's scared of fridges, bananas and tupperware!!!  I thought he was winding me up originally but over time I learnt that they were genuine.

Sheriff

you screamed like a litle girl dint ya