Any irrational fears?

[2kimi2furious]

Finding hair in my food.
I cannot eat without quickly glancing at what is on my food/utensil first. It makes me eat slower but it is so annoying when I am in a rush or just trying to relax. I have lived around pets all my life until a month ago and I still do it... When I lived with my in-laws they let their pets freely roam on the counters, even while they were preparing food/cooking. It drove me absolutely insane.

We have three pets. We don't let them freely roam on the countertops, but we STILL get hair everywhere, sometimes even in our food. I feel like a totally gross person, but there's only so much I can do. My babies shed so much.

 

[Midoriya]

Just insects, that’s all. Just think they’re gross, but I know some of them are necessary for the environment and all. Probably something I could easily overcome if I put enough effort into it.

 

[cornimer]

I have emetophobia and have for as long as I can remember. I remember instances of people vomiting in front of me since like age 4 & have nightmares about it every few months D: like that shouldn?t be a memorable event you remember lmao.
Went to therapy for it and honestly didn?t help much.
I think I?m slowly getting over it though. I?m a nursing student & last semester I had a patient that was nauseous. I just wanted to run away, but I managed to stay with her and help her when she was vomiting... I had to call in another student with me cause i just felt so anxious being alone with her. Still progress xD

I have nightmares about people vomiting too. You're not alone. Kudos for being able to be a nursing student - I could never do it.

 

[Zane]

dying before AC Switch comes out

 

[chocopug]

I used to have a fear of vomiting, but I got over it after a couple of bad illnesses which involved a lot of vomiting - I guess it was kind of an exposure therapy XD It's a good thing since I suffer from nausea a lot these days.

I do have a fear of snakes and fire, but I don't think those are particularly irrational!

 

[Aniko]

Phones, mail, filling forms, visitors.

 

[LadyDestani]

I thought of another irrational fear I have. I get really freaked out by anything related to eyes. I can watch horror movies and see all kinds of blood and gore, but a simple image of something sharp pointed at a person's eye and I start feeling so anxious that I have to look away. But worse than that, I can't even watch someone put in contact lenses. I have them myself, but if I see someone else moving their finger towards their eye, I can't handle it. It stinks too because I love watching cosplay and special effect shows, but cringe everytime they put in contacts. It's so bad that just a close up image of an eye will start to freak me out (like for eye care ads) because my imagination gets the better of me. It's really awful.

 

[Oldcatlady]

I have nightmares about people vomiting too. You're not alone. Kudos for being able to be a nursing student - I could never do it.

Ahh that honestly is horrible I’m sorry to hear I actually thought for a long time that it was an uncommon fear but met a few other people that have it.
Thank you, it was the biggest reason I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be in that profession. Blood and other body fluids are fine but I just can’t do vomit

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

when i eat something new i feel like my face is going to puff up any second

 

[partangel]

that ill fall on the stairs and my face will be completely damaged (i always imagine getting my nose broken in the most gruesome ways for some reason)

 

[Mimi Cheems]

One of my biggest irrational fears is probably... Going to a safe place, questioning it's safety, and heavily worry about getting murdered. I've always had the worst irrational fears because of my chronic anxiety, so basically everything I worry about is an irrational fear. And the fact some of these irrational fears have actually happened, it doesn't make my anxiety any better... ;w;​

 

[Aquasplash]

I'm afraid to eat a Twinkie...

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Might have had an odd dream once about someone taking nail clippers to my teeth.

 

[Stella-Io]

These fears don't take over my life, but they definitely could be better.

I already have arachnaphobia (fear of spiders) so whenever one gets close, no matter how small, I get itchy and fear that if it bites me, it's going to be poisonous and that the medicane to treat is is going to be all the way in Canada. I don't even live near the Canadian border. Based on a show (Monsters Inside Me) which is why I bring up Canada. The medicane the person needed after being bit by a black widow wasn't legal to prescribe in the US, but legal in Canada.

Also storm drains. I'm afraid that if I walk on one that either my jewelry, rings, keychains on my bag or me if I actually walk on it will fall down. I always clutch my jewelry and keychains when I walk by a storm drain, and never in all of my life have I physically walked on a storm drain.

Also when I was younger I used to be slightly afraid of unknown toilets, like if I was in a hotel or something. Embarrassing, yes. Idek why, somethin about the flush sound?

 

[Halony]

Just like some other people who posted in this thread, I've been emetophobic for 3 years now, which means I'm extremely afraid of throwing up or seeing others throw up. There were times it would dominate my life completely. I used to be afraid to go out, because I was scared I'd throw up. I'd constantly check how I felt during the day. When I entered a building or a room, I would scan the place to find out where the garbage can was (to throw up in), the kind of flooring and the quickest way to the restroom. I'd hate public transport, because it meant being in a moving vehicle with lots of people, no restrooms most of the time, and no way out.
Fortunately, I'm doing better now.

 

[Acruoxil]

Just like some other people who posted in this thread, I've been emetophobic for 3 years now, which means I'm extremely afraid of throwing up or seeing others throw up. There were times it would dominate my life completely. I used to be afraid to go out, because I was scared I'd throw up. I'd constantly check how I felt during the day. When I entered a building or a room, I would scan the place to find out where the garbage can was (to throw up in), the kind of flooring and the quickest way to the restroom. I'd hate public transport, because it meant being in a moving vehicle with lots of people, no restrooms most of the time, and no way out.
Fortunately, I'm doing better now.

that honestly sounds so harsh worrying about something that most of us take for granted, i could never think of anything worse than that. so glad youre doing better.

i mostly have fears that question my identity and feelings, that the way i feel about things in general isnt normal and the idea of it scares me. i mean it doesnt count as "irrational" or anything(or at least i hope lmao) but thats the only thing i can think of that actually scares me.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

For some reason, I’m afraid of picking up the phone to answer it if I know it’s not one of my family members. Partially it’s because of getting unwanted calls such as telemarketing and the caller looking for someone. I don’t know but maybe just talking over the phone makes me feel uncomfortable because those things I’ve mentioned above are likely to happen.

 

[2kimi2furious]

For some reason, I’m afraid of picking up the phone to answer it if I know it’s not one of my family members. Partially it’s because of getting unwanted calls such as telemarketing and the caller looking for someone. I don’t know but maybe just talking over the phone makes me feel uncomfortable because those things I’ve mentioned above are likely to happen.

Dude, I have pretty bad anxiety about telephones too. If I have to make a call for work, I have to hype myself up and get adrenaline running so I can do it. It sucks. And I'll never answer a call if I get it unless it's from my mom or my husband. Everyone else knows to just text me, lol.

 

[BeardosFangirl]

Spiders, oceanic trenches, and not so much irrational since it can actually happen, but being forgotten. Once you've been forgotten by a cab, that stuff sticks with you.

 

[skarmoury]

I have an irrational fear of thunder and lightning.

It was hard for me to deal with it since it's irrational, and people think I'm just asking for attention when I say I'm scared. One of the moments that stuck to me was when we were in class, and our classroom had this giant window at the side. When lighting struck the whole window was just a flash of light, and I got so scared I broke down in the middle of the classrooom. A few people came to help me and comfort me, but a particular classmate of mine said, "Wow, you're overreacting. It's just lightning." and he just rolled his eyes and walked away. tbh I wanted to punch him?? Like I WISH I could control this somehow but it's my body's instinct to cower in fear when there's lightning so.... Im sorry my fear bothers you somehow? Smh.