Some things you guys are scared of/fear

[Brooklyn Knight]

Could be a phobia you guys have, or maybe it's something you guys find gross.

Me?

I hate basements. This apartment building is old and while the apartments are up to date, the basement is not, which is true for most basements around here.

That old musty smell, the bricks and old wooden doors. Add in the insects that get in, as well as the boiler room, I get this unpleasant feeling.

The worst one I saw was at a friend's house. It also is an apartment building but it has more apartments; close to 20, if I'm not mistaken. Going down, it's also the same story: musty smell, bricks, old wooden doors. However, since this one has more apartments, the basement is...huge! First, it's broken into quadrants. The boiler room makes our boiler room look like a hot kettle. And the number of pipes running through out and the noise they make.

If that weren't enough, one room has a small hallway. When you get to that hallway...you see three tunnels in front of you. These tunnels look like abandoned subway tunnels!

...And no, I just hightailed out of there when I saw that.


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This one's a little deeper: when someone is asleep, I have to see that they are breathing.

The reason for this is because my dad was an alcoholic. Both he and my mother battled through some various illnesses and pain. Both would also take some potent prescriptions, and I would get paranoid that the mix of alcohol and drugs would kill my dad, that the prescriptions my mom was taking were actually doing more harm to her than good.

So, for a long period of time, I checked-up to see that they were breathing whenever I went to the bathroom or kitchen. I also do the same with my sister, my girlfriend, or anyone who goes to sleep and I'm near them; being ready to do CPR and call an ambulance.

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Rats.

Just the fact alone that these little suckers can give you the bubonic plague. From afar, I don't get jittery. A few feet away from me, I position myself getting ready to stomp on one just in case.

These guys can get defensive, aggressive, and there are a few cases where some are as big as a dog or a cat.

...It also most certainly does not help when you hear stories like this.

 

[Anhelyna]

I'm claustrophobic to a mild extent having been trapped by fire .

I really can panic easily if I can't see a clear way out . I don't enjoy flying - but it's a means to an end , staying in hotels can be uncomfortable since doors have to be shut and locked at night for safety. It was much easier when my husband was alive - now ......

 

[Brooklyn Knight]

I'm claustrophobic to a mild extent having been trapped by fire .

I really can panic easily if I can't see a clear way out . I don't enjoy flying - but it's a means to an end , staying in hotels can be uncomfortable since doors have to be shut and locked at night for safety. It was much easier when my husband was alive - now ......

My mother was highly claustrophobic. She needed either a shot or pills to keep her calm when they performed tests on her. The only one she wasn't really scared of was the CAT scan machine shaped like a doughnut:

And I know what you mean with flying. Getting on board, certain thoughts creep into your head. It's only when I'm in the air that...you have to accept the fact that if anything were to happen, you're basically in a flying steel coffin.

 

[Dylan Michael]

Escalators.
Hugs not from family.
Crowds.
If I'm with people I know a crowd, it's not as bad, but by myself I can't handle it.

 

[Chrystal-J]

Being around people I don't know. (But, once I'm friends with someone, the relationship lasts for 20+ years usually.)

Like Dylan, crowds. My current boyfriend pressed me to go to a night-time festival filled with drunks and loud music. I got there, took one look around and ran like a scared cat.

Bugs of any kind.

 

[catholicbybirth]

Heights, but it has to be really high. I can handle climbing on a ladder, but I never could climb a tree because of the height.

I don't like snakes much, but my sister has a much greater phobia of them than I do.

Janice

 

[TheOtherHockeyMom]

I hate bananas. Not just a mild dislike but a ridiculously strong aversion. It's a shame because they are so healthy...plus if I ever get stranded on a tropical island I'll probably starve.

My biggest seious fear is regarding what kind of world my sons will have to deal with. Between an increasing appetite for war and blinders on about the climate, I really worry where well be in a decade or so.

But the big one turns 8 tomorrow so I'm going to put my fears to rest and celebrate...but not with banana cake.

 

[Going Merry]

Looking at large things like looking up at building can make me get dizzy and fall over, and don't get me started on heights. On a 1 story floor I felt like I was going to fall over a lot. I don't know but I am just not good with heights. Whether I am on the ground or above.

I also have a large fear of death. But I don't feel any emotion over it when it has happened around me. I think it is a defense mechanism in me maybe? Or I am just cold.

I also have strong fears of bad things happening to my family. Even if nothing is wrong.

 

[sea oat]

Getting bedbugs. There's no way we could afford the heat treatment for the house. Everytime I check into a hotel, I look under the mattress.

 

[Winter]

That old musty smell, the bricks and old wooden doors.

This is the kind of smell you find in historic buildings and homes in Europe. Frankly, I love this smell. I know that sound strange but read below and you'll realize why - its the complete opposite to the smells I hate.

My thing I "fear" (although I can't say I fear it) or that I find revolting are "synthetic chemical" smells and products. I HATE the smell of today's fabric softner wafting through the air - same goes with laundry detergent. They smell like BUG SPRAY. They share the same fragrance formula.

Perfume, air freshners, cleaning agents, all that stuff .... if its made with artificial fragrances then its a synthetic chemical. Essential oils, no problem. Flowers, no problem. Artificial -- I loathe.

Plastic ... when I was a kid I used to gag at the smell of my dolls. They had that terrible plastic smell - I would get headaches and feel nausea. That's because they used toxic chemicals in the plastic.

I'd rather smell skunks and garbage before I smell synthetic chemical fragrances.

Plastic bags stink too. They have a perfumy smell. And every Americans smells like fabric softner.

I'm getting upset just writing about it. Blech.

 

[christseeker45]

Male clowns, never cared for them since about 5 years old

 

[TheOtherHockeyMom]

This is the kind of smell you find in historic buildings and homes in Europe. Frankly, I love this smell. I know that sound strange but read below and you'll realize why - its the complete opposite to the smells I hate.

My thing I "fear" (although I can't say I fear it) or that I find revolting are "synthetic chemical" smells and products. I HATE the smell of today's fabric softner wafting through the air - same goes with laundry detergent. They smell like BUG SPRAY. They share the same fragrance formula.

Perfume, air freshners, cleaning agents, all that stuff .... if its made with artificial fragrances then its a synthetic chemical. Essential oils, no problem. Flowers, no problem. Artificial -- I loathe.

Plastic ... when I was a kid I used to gag at the smell of my dolls. They had that terrible plastic smell - I would get headaches and feel nausea. That's because they used toxic chemicals in the plastic.

I'd rather smell skunks and garbage before I smell synthetic chemical fragrances.

Plastic bags stink too. They have a perfumy smell. And every Americans smells like fabric softner.

I'm getting upset just writing about it. Blech.

Never realized how awful all this artificial scents are until I was pregnant and walked down the cleaning aisle at the grocery store. For some reason, pregnancy heightened my sense of smell. Yikes, all those scents were awful!

 

[Dylan Michael]

Like Dylan, crowds. My current boyfriend pressed me to go to a night-time festival filled with drunks and loud music. I got there, took one look around and ran like a scared cat.

Bugs of any kind.

I went to the mall tonight, and I don't think it was all the people, per se, but the noise. It hurts my ears, and I can't hear what my friends say.


And to add another thing to the list.

Driving in Miami.

I love driving, but not in Miami.

 

[Dylan Michael]

This is the kind of smell you find in historic buildings and homes in Europe. Frankly, I love this smell. I know that sound strange but read below and you'll realize why - its the complete opposite to the smells I hate.

My thing I "fear" (although I can't say I fear it) or that I find revolting are "synthetic chemical" smells and products. I HATE the smell of today's fabric softner wafting through the air - same goes with laundry detergent. They smell like BUG SPRAY. They share the same fragrance formula.

Perfume, air freshners, cleaning agents, all that stuff .... if its made with artificial fragrances then its a synthetic chemical. Essential oils, no problem. Flowers, no problem. Artificial -- I loathe.

Plastic ... when I was a kid I used to gag at the smell of my dolls. They had that terrible plastic smell - I would get headaches and feel nausea. That's because they used toxic chemicals in the plastic.

I'd rather smell skunks and garbage before I smell synthetic chemical fragrances.

Plastic bags stink too. They have a perfumy smell. And every Americans smells like fabric softner.

I'm getting upset just writing about it. Blech.

I'm actually allergic to that stuff. So, no fabric softener or dryer sheets for me.

 

[AMDG]

Having fallen from a height when little and hurt myself I have found that I am now afraid of heights (or at least the sweaty palms and irrational "please don't let me fall" assaults me even now--it does make harvesting apples from my apple trees a tad difficult.) But that's nothing compared to my fear of spiders. (At the present we've reached an "uneasy truce"--if they don't come in my house, I promise not to kill them.) I know that one can actually "unlearn" their fears, but I can't imagine how I even got this one.

 

[Going Merry]

Getting bedbugs. There's no way we could afford the heat treatment for the house. Everytime I check into a hotel, I look under the mattress.

Put those anti-static freshener sheets(yay dryer sheets) that you put in your dryer under the sheets. Bed bugs will no longer be a problem

 

[Brooklyn Knight]

Looking at large things like looking up at building can make me get dizzy and fall over, and don't get me started on heights.

I don't have a problem with heights, but I do have the same problem you do when looking up at tall buildings or tall structures.

Vertigo.

I get dizzy and this sensation that something is trying to lift me off the ground. I don't get it when I slightly tilt my head back; it's when I directly look up that gets it going.

 

[Going Merry]

I don't have a problem with heights, but I do have the same problem you do when looking up at tall buildings or tall structures.

Vertigo.

I get dizzy and this sensation that something is trying to lift me off the ground. I don't get it when I slightly tilt my head back; it's when I directly look up that gets it going.

I dislike it. But at the same time, is it strange that I want to go sky diving so bad? I will have to be strapped to someone just in case I guess lol!

 

[Going Merry]

Having fallen from a height when little and hurt myself I have found that I am now afraid of heights (or at least the sweaty palms and irrational "please don't let me fall" assaults me even now--it does make harvesting apples from my apple trees a tad difficult.) But that's nothing compared to my fear of spiders. (At the present we've reached an "uneasy truce"--if they don't come in my house, I promise not to kill them.) I know that one can actually "unlearn" their fears, but I can't imagine how I even got this one.

I was in the backyard a half hour or hour ago, and there was a ginormous black widow. I went out of my way to get a shovel and get it. There is no mercy for my enemies! hehehe

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

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