What is your Phobia?

[GageEndal]

[quote="vixendrop";p="643580"][quote="lifedeath";p="643456"]
Acrophobia- Fear of heights

(and i mean....really fear of them)

hmm....Actually i fear only if there isn't a thing to hold onto that is positioned a liitle over my chest.
If a bar like that exists (and it is solid enought) i can stand anywhere and look towards anywhere.
What is that?
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Sounds more to me like a fear of falling... if you have something blocking your chest it's less likely that you'll fall, and therefore you aren't afraid. Just my thoughts.[/quote]

I'm almost in this one. I don't like heights and I don't like death. Falling is really fun though. I go cliffdiving when I head out to the Salt River, it's only about 20 feet, but it's the best 3 seconds I get out of the day. Even though I do it a half-dozen times (So I guess it's the best 18 seconds... whatever).

Anyway, I'm not too keen on heights, but it's nothing I can't get over. I have great balance so I don't really worry about falling too much. Unstable surfaces will mess me up real quick though. That's why my bridge fear.

[NotQuiteDead]

Two phobias, both brought on by Iraq--
Gephysrophobia--everytime we ever got hit, it was either during a bridge crossing or going under one. Now I can't stand doing either back home.

Claustrophobia--Although this one's getting better (one of the reasons I took a job in the mall), if I get into cramped spaces or am with large groups, I get really REALLY nervous. That one's getting better, though.

[AzraeL]

[quote="Imeut";p="643454"]Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets.
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Isn't agoraphobia not wanting to leave the house?

[Rorschach]

Cause and effect, I would imagine.

I think the lady's right, although I can't be arsed checking.

[CyberEd]

[quote="CyberEd";p="643429"]I found this one to be extremely ironic:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.[/quote]
[quote="Spongiform";p="643482"] Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (I don't have this one but I've always found it to be very amusing.)[/quote]


do you have me on ignore mate ?
or are you just a tad lazy ?

[Blaze]

Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.

Wouldn't that also be Fear of Potatoes?

[CyberEd]

or papaya...

[Rorschach]

[quote="CyberEd";p="643619"]
do you have me on ignore mate ?
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Just in case he has :)

[Arc Orion]

Of course, that doesn't help much, since whoever CyberEd might be talking to isn't mentioned or implied by that tiny bit.

[lifedeath]

Sounds more to me like a fear of falling...

*DING

Point...i think.
But there isn't an actual phobia...except a fear of stairs (e?) and this...

Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.

...a little different i guess.

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Isn't agoraphobia not wanting to leave the house?

Just to know

Agora is the Greek word Αγορά...for market...which was a place in ancient greece where all the people of the town got together.
Thus it was too crowded...and it was an open place so that many people could get there to talk, chat, say philoshopies, market etc.

Your friendly week Greek lesson from LD!

[lila_may_qt]

Dunno what it's called, but anything that can peirce my skin. Mosquitoes, Bees, needles... etc

[Nitz Walsh]

These are mine...

Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
Xylophobia- Fear of wooden objects.

[lifedeath]

LDVamp : Wow...i didn't know there was another one of us in here.

[LondonBusChaser]

I got a terrible terrible case of leporiphobia - fear of rabbits

[Arminius]

[quote="Nitz Walsh";p="643669"]These are mine...

Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
Xylophobia- Fear of wooden objects.[/quote]
Are they really phobias or you just dislike that? Phobia is when you begin to tremble or fell anxiety.