What is your phobia?

[12karen]

Mine are thalassophobia and arachnophobia

[aceleon]

what is thalassophobia?

i have acrophobia (fear of heights)

and probably have a mild case of agorophobia but i only fear wide open spaces not closed places, crowds or leaving house alone or such things, i don't have sociel anxiety or such things, i just don't like emptiness, it isnot even the wide spaces, it is emptiness and openness i get anxious from.

to key to solve me as a person is stoping thinking me as an human and start thinking me as a predatory animal, instincts driven and all, once you start thinking how an social animal like a lion would act (even though i am a dog person i am personally more feline than canine) you will suprisingly start to see from my point of view, evation of wide open spaces is a sign of that too and like some cats i can climb to high places but i can't go down (i basically got stucked to places sometimes and couldn't go down like trees with large big branchs (i literally spent a camp in the woods on a tree played it as this here is more comfy and i don't wanna sleep on the ground there can be bugs etc shit)

[12karen]

Thalassophobia differs from aquaphobia, the fear of water, in that it centers on bodies of water that seem vast, dark, deep, and dangerous. People are not afraid of the water so much as they are afraid of what lurks beneath its surface.
It also boils down to the fear of swimming without being able to see one's limbs (especially the feet), and the fear of traveling at sea. It can also manifest itself as a fear of deep water, of waves.

[aceleon]

then i might have this too thalassophobia i mean.
in short i fear everything a wild animal would be afraid of.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I know when I was younger a lot of my classmates thought I was scared of the water in the pools. I was more scared about drowning then anything, since I was pretty small and couldn't swim.

[aceleon]

@PBandJ_Nerd you werenot able to swim your fearisnot a phobia it has a legimate reason to be afraid of.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

In other words: Phobias are extreme fears that can't be explained. But not all fears are phobias. Correct?

[aceleon]

@PBandJ_Nerd yes, phobias mostly irrational and uncontrollable, i know that i have nothing to fear at swings but i still can't use them.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I tried to look through a comprehensive list and can't really find one that seems to fit except maybe Dystychiphobia (fear of accidents).

I don't mind accidents where I hurt myself (even an adrenaline junkie and used to getting hurt all the time) but I am very afraid of accidents that hurt others. I prefer to drive very small vehicles, for example, since the risk of harming others if I make a mistake seems less than if I drive a larger vehicle.

I'm also one of the most paranoid engineers on my team. I write more tests for correctness than anyone else since I don't want a bug in my code to end up harming one of our customers. I don't think I could ever work a mission-critical job where a mistake on my part could cost someone else's life. That would keep me up every night worrying about whether I made a mistake.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Oh also Autophobia (fear of being alone) and Astrophobia (fear of outer space). I always thought it would be terrifying to be lost in space with no one to talk with (I'm an extreme extrovert). Even the pandemic lockdown almost made me lose my mind even though I had my wife to keep me company at home. I don't think I could manage being alone on a space mission for months or years. I'd probably start to go a bit bonkers even after 6 weeks or so.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Bugo/insectophobia is my biggest one. I've always been scared of bugs & insects all of my life. Why? We have no clue. There's only a few I'm not scared of: grasshoppers, dragonflies, butterflies, rolly pollies, crickets, pray mantis, leaf bugs, lightning bugs, and not sure what else. I also don't like heights, this includes the escalator. I don't like the dark either. I absolutely hate Halloween masks (those things get more realistic every year I swear). And clowns.

[IslaTheWitch]

arachnophobia...

[12karen]

🤝🤝🤝🤝

[IslaTheWitch]

this cortisol and adrenaline kick... lol

[AlexEfron]

🕷️🕸️🕷️

[RavVid]

Ophidiophobia. Australia is home to 85% of the world venemous snakes. The top 3 call Australia home. 20 of the top 25 most venomous snakes are locals.

Even non venomous pythons have been know to kill from their bite.

My fear is highly rational I would argue

Thalassophobia is rational if Great White Sharks hang out at the beach.

Arachnophobia is rational if you have redbacks or other spiders that can kill you

[12karen]

Hell no, spiders even if they won't and can't kill me, no

[RavVid]

I like sensible girls.

[Avcfhcic]

Arachnophobia as well, I despise spiders and get a cold sweat when I see one creeping.
Thanatophobia as well, I used to have panic attacks when I was younger and still sometimes get them when deep in thought.
Lastly, like FOMO, but girl related. I fear never being with a girl, never having that connection and ending up a virgin and alone.

[Drew-1990]

What ever is the snake one is called lol and I have zero reason to be the snakes in my area are all small, not poisonous, and unaggressive. But I see them I move away.

[12karen]

Haha, I love snakes tho

[12karen]

But I understand what you mean 🙂

[Drew-1990]

Well just keep them away from me. You have a snake with you I'm going no where near you. I have nieces who know this, I'm a grown man and I will run away from a little girl holding a snake

[12karen]

I'll get rid of the snake if you get rid of the spiders, that's the deal,

[Drew-1990]

Deal, that is an easy trade I can squash them no problem.

[tfan1]

Globophobia - fear of balloons. Specifically latex ones that are inflated by blowing into them or are filled with helium. Latex water balloons? No problem. Mylar balloons? No problem. By the way food for thought - the sound of a balloon exploding by over inflation or popping by an object - has the same decibel damage as a 22 gun going off in front of you with no ear protection and can make you go deaf.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

[12karen]

Lol
I've got a friend who has penisophobia, don't even know if that's real

[PrettyCrumblBb]

@12karen I've never seen a penis but I heard they look like aliens 👽

[BlissfullyCurSed]

@PrettyCrumblBb and uterus is actually a spaceship

[PrettyCrumblBb]

It all makes sense now 🤯

[strateguy632]

i had fear of heights even 8 feet! now i added germaphobia, and need to remind myself my immune systen can defeat most illnesses. still i fear the major ones. people should fear std's some herpes stay for years, and spread by touching.

[ManOnFire]

Yep, thalassophobia is definitely one. Also the fear of living forever.

[12karen]

Oh I truly understand what you mean by fear of being immortal

[ManOnFire]

Yeah. Imagine you're in heaven and thousands of years pass and you're still alive. There's no end. Scary to think about.

[BCRanger10]

That someone's always theeeeeeeerrrrrrrreeeeee...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NmQN635Rheo

[Jennz6]

The same thing that agape said, I am afraid of being enslaved after the last time, I was so scared

[12karen]

The last time?

[Jennz6]

@12karen I was kidnapped when I was 14 years old and forced into prostitution

[12karen]

Wow that's why it was your job before Marine, I'm so sorry 😢

[Jennz6]

I’m over it now except I don’t ever want to be a slave again, it’s my phobia

[12karen]

I understand, glad you are over it

[Jennz6]

@12karen you are so sweet

[KittyKat90210]

I have an intense fear of phobias. :D

Ok, the real answer now... arachnophobia (spiders) and acrophobia (heights)

[itsclearlynicholas]

I'm also afraid of heights 😅

[itsclearlynicholas]

You're not left handed or are you?

[KittyKat90210]

@itsclearlynicholas No, why?

[itsclearlynicholas]

I'm left handed and afraid of heights.

[AviatorTom]

Nyctophobia, but it depends in the specific situation.

Same for acrophobia.

[AnusNdaPainus]

Chapodiphobia

Glossophobia ( this one is severe )

[DagonbroughtMehere]

Llithiophobia & Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

[elaphe]

I don't really have one but i might be a bit claustrophobic.

[ThebestIndian]

lol. My phobia is how my future is gonna be. So, I don’t know what is it called. Let’s say futurophobia

[Agape93]

Thelassophobia, being eaten alive and enslavement

[12karen]

Woww

[NathanDavis]

I do have a mild case of germophobia...

[Slapmynuts]

Same regarding spiders!😬

[12karen]

Ah Those monster

[Slapmynuts]

I just can't do it! Especially those big and fuzzy ones!😮

[12karen]

And then you find out they can jump

[Slapmynuts]

Gross!🫣

[12karen]

Hopefully they can't fly

[Slapmynuts]

😮🤢🫣

[whereismyjohnny]

Escalaphobia. 😐

[BobbieBoy666]

Hornet's wasp's bee. 🚫

[Ms_Facesitter]

Spiders, people, heights.

[Xia1994]

being buried alive, drowning.

[exitseven]

I am afraid or heights.

[RebelinSteel]

Dumasaphobia

[12karen]

Original

[Charliefretz329]

Marriage… nowadays

[12karen]

Interesting one

[Paris13]

Heights. xxoo

[laly520]

arachnophobia

[AlexEfron]

Herpetophobia

[Worst]

Heights

[CVNT5]

heights