Share Your Phobias

Um, a little weird and small story time? Hi :D I am someone who's clinically diagnosed with depressive psychosis and it was something that I had to face, alone, because my parents were directly and indirectly the cause of it and they used to mock me as someone who had mental issues and for the record, I had severe depression and anxiety since a young age. The most … [Read more...]

I just randomly saw this and had the need to share my fear to see if anyone else around here feels like that. I am terrified of being forgotten and just in general not being good enough. Whilst other people might look up to famous people it just makes me anxious. I know I’ll never be up there and that the people around me will just forget me as soon as I’m gone. I don’t … [Read more...]

It has been 4 years since I started suffering from social anxiety. I noticed during my class study sessions I had trouble communicating with my teachers. It happened because I could not get along with my class fellows. It was unintentional. All my class fellows had good grades in their subjects but I had below average. I was extremely embarrassed. I could not tell and … [Read more...]

I don’t know why I’m afraid of butterflies. I wish I wasn’t. Most people say,” they can’t hurt you!” I know that, but I just can’t help it. One of my first experiences with butterflies was when I was a toddler and I was watching a show about cartoon bugs and there was this HUGE butterfly that I remember coming on some episodes. It really freaked me out. The wings were so … [Read more...]

Hi! My name is Jocelyn and well I have a weird fear as read by the title. I don't exactly know how my fear started but I know I also have other fears like fear of being alone - Monophobia, fear of death - Thanatophobia, fear of being abandoned - Autophobia, fear of being forgotten - Athazagoraphobia, and fear of pain - Agliophobia; well at least the ones I'm currently … [Read more...]

I'm a high school student now entering my junior year, this happened back in freshman year, if i could be honest i don't know why or how i got just about the fear of everything. I'm afraid of heights, whats in the ocean, falling from the sky, spiders, insects, wasps, bees etc. Not many know, but last year I was seen as crazy, I was out on the baseball/softball field. There … [Read more...]

I have always had this fear. When I got very drunk I went off with this guy and got pregnant. The moment I knew I was pregnant, I went straight to see my psychiatrist and asked her if it would be okay to put me forward for an abortion. Because of my severe mental health issues she did do this for me. Ever since I have avoided being with men because of the intolerable fear … [Read more...]

I know I have been attacked by German shepherd dogs three times in my life. I really can’t remember the first two times except that my mother told me I was just a toddler the first time, aged between two and three years old, and as a result I developed Alopecia, and my hair fell out in huge patches, and I started to be terrified of dogs. I don’t remember anything about the … [Read more...]

Hi. My name is Meke, I'm 17 years old and I'm from Namibia, Africa. Living in such an overly social community, it is rare to find someone who fears groups of people. We tend to have many family and friends gatherings, and that is not the best place for me in the world. When someone is afraid of crowds, the elders call it ridiculous and child's play, saying that they should … [Read more...]

Hello, my name is Ivy. I suffer from Scopophobia which is the fear of being watched or stared at, and Trypanophobia which is the fear of needles. My fear of being watched affects my day to day life. My fear of being watched affects my life because I would start to freak out and almost have a panic attack. There has been times where I have turned down going out somewhere … [Read more...]

While the fear of the dark generally speaks of being terrified of the dark in general, my fear is very specific. I'm not scared to go after dark and in fact find it quite relaxing to walk around in the very early hours of the morning. However, I'm terrified of being alone while I sleep. I need to have at least three rooms filled with light; my own, the hall outside my room … [Read more...]

I have a phobia which doesn't appear on the list, and I have no idea what the medical term would be either (epistolaphobia maybe?). You will probably know. It's the fear of letters (especially in plain envelopes without any company name). It's not so bad with letters when I know the sender and am expecting them, like e.g. the phone bill. But any unexpected letters that … [Read more...]

When I was in the tenth grade, I discovered I had trypophobia. I was in anatomy and we were looking at spongy bones and I just remember not even being able to look at the board and take notes that day. I was TRIPPIN. I was freaking out hard that day. Like my heart was beating fast and I felt uneasy in my chest. And that uneasiness feeling stayed with me the entire day. No … [Read more...]

This phobia is really weird but true, and unfortunately I have it. I am afraid of PSAs (Public Service Announcements). Why? When I was young, and still to this day, I see some really scary commercials about certain topics like fire safety, cigarettes and even an unsettlingly silent milk commercial with a pure black background. Okay, okay, the last one is pretty dumb, … [Read more...]

I have had the weirdest phobia for as long as I can remember. I think it is called selenophobia. I am 57 years old and I think it started when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I used to like watching the old Dracula, Frankenstein, werewolf films and when I was about 9, they used to show them at 10.30pm and my mum would let me come down and watch them with her. I think this … [Read more...]