(one big nasty looking spider and my one friend in Sydney says spider killer won't phase them, she has to suck it up with her Dyson and they are so big she can hear them thunking around in the canister! )

BOY! Am I glad I don't live in Austrailia! The same thing goes for the middle east and their Camel Spiders - have heard horror stories of how big they were too! so my phobias are Spiders - heights - flying (which goes hand in hand with heights) Inside or outside all spiders are to be Killed!

I have a fear of falling and of high places.

My biggest phobia was flying...but I am getting over that. Always got motion sick. Now I put the patches on behind my ears and it has helped me tremendously. I dont particularly like heights either.

After 9/11 I had many fears. REally dumb ones. Would not lick an envelop because of the glue! Just got some stupid fear & couldn't do it. Now my biggest thing is ink from the newspaper. I don't know why but I detest it. I am very careful reading it & as soon as I'm finished I get up & wash my hands!

Public speaking. Can there be anything worse????

There IS a magic pill... :-D Talk to your doctor. Mine is Lorazepam.

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wow... Thank you for this information. I'll be Thrilled to be a pill popper! How exCiting if this will really work!!! oh Yay! thank you... xoxo

WHAT I can't imagine. Tell us???????????

WHAT? I can't imagine. Tell us???????????

I am phobic of needles, even though i give shots to cats and dogs everyday. I always laugh at the chihuahuas because they are big baby's which is funny because i act like them with needles, I have bit pushed cried. Also claustrophobic

I have a Harley, and gravel scares me to death when I'm on it since I had a spill because of gravel...LOL

Glass Elevators don't like looking down from them...

Spiders in the bedroom. I make the husband kill them which he laughs at "you afraid it will kick you to death?". If he's away on business and I find a spider in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa that night.

Somehow I'm OK with them when they're outside and just "sitting" there, and I can kill one in any other room.
But there is NO WAY I'm going to bed with a spider in the bedroom, and I can't kill it.

This phobia came about when I was kid and shared a bed with my sister. I saw a Daddy Long Legs on the wall when we went to bed and teased my (older) sister. Sister always slept with her mouth wide open. Yup. When I woke up I saw the spider sitting on her tongue.

Oh god ... now I got the heebie jeebies and I'm going to have to check every inch of the bedroom. WHY did I read this post at 10:24 PM?

Oh, I hate glass elevators, too! Who's idea was that???

Presume, since you quilt, that your OK when YOU are holding the needle? Otherwise, your on the wrong board :)

Loved this - and needed it, too, what with everyone talking about the same things I'm afraid of!

For me, it's spiders, snakes and very high heights. I'm okay with flying, also routine bridges and overpasses, but the ones spanning mountainsides way up near the tops of the mountains... noooo. Riding a ski lift? Nuh-uh.

My other major phobia is having anyone touch my eyes. Eye doctors cannot do it. Eye surgery? Never gonna happen. Yeah, they can put me out or paralyze me, but I'm sure I'd wake up insane from the horror of it. or lose my eye because I'd jerk no matter how well they paralyzed me or strapped me down.

Freeways....I can ride on them, drive on them if there's somebody else in the car....but not by myself. Even on anti-anxiety drugs I still can't. And I can get anxious even driving on busy roads on the way home from work...7.5 miles and a straight shot home.

NOOOOOOO don't! I read 4-6 a week and there are some things I don't need to know!!!!!!!

Lorazepam is good; I combine it with Ativan, works better for me that way. I said I'd never be a pill popper but hey, I like having an active life and these help.

My list is heights (I can get up there but can't do a whole lot once I am there.) Snakes (They have there place and it is not around ME!!)

My husband always says "Don't sleep with your mouth open!" Edie

1. High places (I can only go up to the 3rd step on a ladder),
2. small spaces like closed MRI machines,
3. I seem to be in the beginning stages of germ-a-phobe. I have a large bottle of hand sanitizing gel in my purse at all times now.
4. re-marriage-phobe :) :)

spiders and death.

Can't afford to have any. Have worked hard to get past the various ones that have afflicted me over the years.

Clowns - I hate clowns, hate the circus, hate parades.

Heights and dirty dishes in the sink! Dirty dishes on the side board are fine but once they're in the sink, all slimey and wet, I totally freak out. Entire family has been taught to put their dishes on the counter if they want them washed.

Snakesmand really deep water. I need to be near a place where I can touch the bottom rather quickly.

Same two for me and add a height phobia.

Walking between parked cars' bumpers. I can walk on the side to parked cars, but not in front/back of them. I have named the fear "bumper crushing thoughts". LOL I read that some celebrity has same fear, so I am not only one crazy.

No phobias here.

I bet it was I have been to the Atlanta Roller Girls. Fun thought wasn't it. Gotta give those girls credit I could have never done anything like that.

Getting lost when driving, scares me to death. I am better since my brother gave me a GPS but they don't always work right. Doctors, Going to a simple appointment stresses me out to the max. Takes me a day or two to recover from it.
Snakes use to scare me not anymore unless of course I came across one that was venomous.
Heights make me dizzy so I avoid them when ever possible.

snakes... ever since I stepped on one when I was a child.... trust me that was a looooonnnggg time ago. I even hate when they show them on TV or come across a picture of one...

LOL so thats what I have. I never knew.

Claustrophobic in really tight places. I have had so many MRI's that I"m ok with it as long as I keep my eyes closed.
I'm ok in elevators but the first thing I think when I get in one is if it stops all these people are going to take all my air.

My only fear is that I'll not live long enough to use up my stash and then the family will either pitch it, give it away or sell it for a quarter a yard.

Tight spaces...

Yeah! spiders. Have had a fear of them as long as I can remember. I call DH to kill them.

I am afraid of heights. I can fly in an airplane and look out the window, I can stand on my 2nd story porch and look down, but anything up high has to have a railing or be enclosed somehow.

Snakes and spiders. Not really phobic; just don't like 'em!

I have a crippling fear of snakes. My sister used to chase me with snakes when we were little. She still thinks it was funny. But now I can't even look at snakes on the TV. Thank the dear Lord that we live in a place that has very few snakes.

I'm claustrophobic. I was in a very serous car accident in 1987 and was trapped in the vehicle for 50 minutes and had to be removed by Jaws of Life. Ever since then I don't want to be confined.

OMG... haven't thought of this for SO long... I too, absolutely hate clowns!! I don't want to be around one... watch one on tv... no pictures of clowns... nothing! I must have passed this on to my son. Someone gave him a picture of a clown with a huge red nose sticking out! You turn his nose and it plays "Bring in the Clowns" I went in to put him to bed, and the picture was under his bed. Out to the garage it went... never to be seen again (thank God!) That was about 25 years ago... I think they are evil... :shock: Remember the clown doll in Poltergeist? Or the clown in "It" by Stephen King? I love Stephen King books... but that one just freaked me out. And the little girl was playing Fur Elise on the piano at the start of it. Can't listen to that song anymore... *shutter* :lol: Seems silly, but they are all hiding something behind all that makeup... :?