Phobias.. we all have one.

[Shawchert]

My phobia is fear of bridges.... I still cant ride my bike over the thru way bridge. some i can but i do get anxious and it's difficult if a car passes by

[froglady]

I hate bridges because when I was 6 my little hometown had one of the biggest bridge disasters in US history. I still don't trust them and hate to get stuck in traffic sitting on an overpass. Makes me nervous. It's not a phobia, really, just leftover fear from my childhood.

My big phobia is kind of weird. I can't go into those big warehouse stores like Costco or Home Depot. I get so uptight I can't breathe and have to leave. All that stuff stacked up on either side of me looks like it's falling in toward the center and going to crush me. I even get vertigo because I have no peripheral frame of reference outside the aisle I'm in.

[peachybby]

Claustrophobia. Yes, I know, pretty common. Mine goes pretty far. When I watch tv, anything on it that’s set in a tight space (movies like The Descent, 47 Meters Down 2) really get my lungs constricting. When my husband wrestles me, rolling me in the blankets or hugging me too hard, I panic! Ideas like spelunking give me nightmares!

[CrayRosie]

Worms.
I know it is strange. I am aware of it. I know it isn't rational, hence why it is a phobia.
I am not necessarily scared, but it makes me violently ill, and I cannot look at, or say the name.

When it rains it is awful

[Kass]

Thalassophobia. The fear of the ocean, or large/deep bodies of water.

I discovered it when on a Pier and the tide was up as a child.. I went near the edge with my parents for a photo shoot and immediately felt such deep terror.. nowadays I can't fathom travelling by boat, a ship, or cruise. I get the chills watching tv, movies or playing video games with such themes (haha.. Pirates of the Caribbean was more like a horror movie for me in certain scenes but I still loved them).

Another one, Chilopodophobia? Centipedes. Spiders don't bother me (if they mind their business), but these long.. fast.. venomous.. things - NOPE! I'm simply grateful that in the UK they aren't very big compared to other warmer places.

[castlevania]

i have trypophobia- defined as the "fear of holes" but it isnt a fear so much as a highly unpleasant numbing sensation in my brain when i see highly specific patterns of clusters of anything "small", not limited to being circular in shape. pondweed, brain coral, specific brightly colored and clustered patterns of fish and insects (that are not necessarily aposematic), microscopic photos of cells (something that has stopped me from wanting to pursue labwork in medical fields), etc.

yet sometimes clusters of other things will not trigger the numbing/itching reaction in my brain. it is odd. again- not a phobia as in an irrational fear, so much as an instinct to avoid seeing these things to prevent that gross sensation in my mind.

[dahliais]

Those fast-moving arthropods. Spiders, centipedes, cockroaches and so on.
In where I live house centipedes can grow as large as an adult''s palm. They live in my storeroom and bathroom in large numbers, and make my scalp tingle all the time. I allow them to exist because they kill cockroaches and other pests and never attack human, but their slender spotted legs make me uneasy. I call them horrible friends.
Ironically, my fear also goes for some crabs (even though they are delicious).