Strange Phobias

lostinrates

GPs, which doesn't make life easy if you have chronic health problems. ATM I'm struggling a bit but cannot get to grips with my local surgery. I'm looking for another one that will take me (there is not a lot of competition in this area and there aren't very many to choose from ). Its very difficult and I get really cross with myself and also, not very many surgeries are terribly sympathetic...which I understand, afterall, they are very busy and needed places. I'm amazed that my feelings have got so out of control over recent years. My last GP was wonderful, and worked really hard to make things easier for me, phoning and patiently putting up with me shaking and weeping in her surgery. I really like her very much as a person its just as a GP I behave somewhat irrationally with terror.

memelalou

The sound of people brushing their teeth! I'm fine with my own, infact i'm a little obsessed with dental hygine. Other people brushing their teeth makes me gag, i cannot stand the noise.

My husband really can't stand cotton wool, even hates to look at it.

busiscoming2

lozzy88 wrote: »

am with ya on bananas but the whole bananas and also hot dogs bloody awful things, am greatful for online shopping, at my local morrisons they seem to stack them all up at the end of the milk lane just to scare the !!!!!! outta you when you least exspect it.

Also people dressed up as big animals or toys, like in a big panda suit, or teddy bear collecting for charity.

I actually have a few more but they are the oddest

Me too!! Never actually thought of it as a phobia!

tanith

My OH has numerous phobias , flying , needles, anything spicy but his most odd one is a word.. yes believe me a WORD... Guillemot is the word that sends him running for the hills , I sometimes say it just to frighten the bejeezers out of him but if comes on the tv he will leave the room . Utterly rediculous but he says he can't help it... and yes he knows no one else in the world would put up with his eccentricities...lol

crispy_chris

I'm scared of powerplanet cooling towers.

I don't mind seeing them in the distance but hate the thought of being close to them. On one occasion when driving home the normal route was closed so had to follow a diversion which ran really close to 8 of them. It was dark so on one side of the car was just a huge hulking mass of blackness but I knew it was there....was the most disconcerting driving experience I've ever had - just wanted to get out of there!

scooter_chick

Feet - other people's naked feet (even in sandals). People touching their naked feet. Bleugh!! It's a real problem on the tube in the summer or on the beach, I don't know where to look. My OH has to wear socks in the house, and have NEVER touched his feet.

My own feet are fine. I happily go barefoot, have pedicures etc. It's just other people's feet that are all wrong.

jakes-mum

Mine is blackboards the sight of them reminds me of boys at school scratching their fingers down them, people writing on them with chalk freaks me out, what if the chalk snaps and they catch their nail :eek: :eek: horrible! The ones for kids were banned from my house

Also phlegm, sorry but its gross, the sound of someone bringing up phlegm makes me feel physically sick also again at school with boys spitting, ugh. It got so bad at one point I couldnt swallow my own saliva, I would go spit it in the sink. I absolutely hate having a cold and that phlegmy cough or even worse someone else having a phlegmy cough and spitting it up! oh ugh, no got to stop thinking about it!!

My DH is scared of cotton wool, I have to hide mine in a cupboard and long since gave up wearing nail varnish as taking it off freaks him out terribly

LittleMissAspie

I can't touch limescale. It's the touching equivalent to hearing someone scrape their nails down a blackboard, it makes me absolutely cringe and feel sick.

Mrs_L

Mine is balloons, it's not the fear of them bursting, it is the thought of them actually touching me or of someone touching them, it makes me feel quite sick. It's a very similar feeling to the nails on a blackboard feeling.
It has definitely got worse as I've got older, helium balloons are ok as they generally feel different to the ones you blow up yourself. It can be very difficult sometimes as shops often give them out for special events and I'll be in town and some child will just innocently brush past me with a balloon and I have to run, at weddings and parties my hubbie will check the room and see where we can sit so that balloons aren't directly in my view.

Birdy12

euronorris wrote: »

Unusual: The inside of pumpkins, with all the seeds. *shivers* Same for Melons, and anything else with lots of seeds in them. Bleugh, I hate them!

Pomegranates for the same reason!