Share Your Phobias

Warning, this will be quite long, and also, I'm just 12 years old. I used to have a best friend, who I told everything. And by everything, I mean it. Let's call her Luna. Luna was my best friend since 1st grade, we loved each other and we never fought. But at the end of 5th grade she moved to Australia. When she left, we had a girl who we used to hang out with who we'll … [Read more...]

So when i was in fifth grade it all started when my friend i thought i could trust teamed up with the person who would bully me daily and i would go home crying every day because of her. Then those two girls somehow turned everyone against me to the point when i didn’t even and still don’t know all of the rumors created about me. Ever since then i’ve been scared of not … [Read more...]

So where to begin? First off I should explain that as of this moment I am currently a 22 year old who lives with her little brother and her parents. As a kid I was both outgoing and extremely shy. I loved to make friends but I really only hung around one or two close ones. I was highly energetic and very intelligent (writing that, while true, makes me feel bad). I easily … [Read more...]

Hello, I am from Brazil and I want to write about this subject because I have never seen anyone talk about it. Yes, I'm a maquillaphobic, and I've had it as long as I can remember. My first memory about maquillaphobia was at the age of 5, when, at the 1998 World Cup, the nursery school teacher painted on my cheeks. Two green and yellow stripes corresponding to the flag of … [Read more...]

Hello strangers. I'm not positive that this is a type of phobia at all, but here it is in all it's glory (I'm scared to type it because I think people are definitely gonna judge me based on my writing skills). Hi, I'm a teenage girl who just entered high school and I'm experiencing a new life in high school. Except, I still brought my old life to my new life of middle … [Read more...]

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...]