What's your phobia? (If you feel comfortable sharing)

Was just wondering what people's phobias were....(just in a curious way)

I have two phobias actually. My two phobias would be;

1) atychiphobia - This sometimes comes alive whenever I'm preparing for a a major test.
2) Hydrophobia - I'm very very very scared of large bodies of water. Especially murky water. My worst nightmare is falling of a bridge into the ocean tbh. Lol..

 

Wasps/hornets and their like. I was stung by an enormous number of wasps as a child. I was standing on a lawn when my leg went down a hole where they had a nest. I was at summer camp in upper New York State and we were all gathered on the lawn to salute the flag (we did this every morning) and I screamed so much that nearly everyone ran away. A couple of counselors pulled my leg out of the hole and it was covered in wasps. They also suffered some stings, but nothing like what happened to me. They coated my leg and other stung areas with wet mud and whisked me off to the infirmary. I know someone gave me treatments to counter the venom, but it was so long ago, I don't recall. It was extremely traumatic, like a horror film, as many of the wasps were still wriggling in my leg until the mud or the loss of their stingers killed them. It took a week before all the stingers could be removed. For several years after that, I always got stung by something, even when no one else near me was stung: wasps, hornets, deerfly (bitten) and a doctor told me that I most likely emitted some kind of scent that caused them to attack. A counselor nicknamed me "Bee Bite Baby". Anyway, it gave me a life-long fear of wasps. I'm more in control of the phobia now than I was in the past, but still...

Oh Lord. That is very traumatic..
Hornets are basically the devils of bees.
At least you're better now..

 

I’ve got a bad fear of heights. When I’m high up, I just shut down. My legs become unsteady, I start sweating, and I just can’t move. Watching scenes on tv doesn’t bother me, but actually being in these situations is awful. I can’t climb more than 3 rungs up a ladder, I can’t go up or down escalators, I have a near panic attack when I have to go to the mall, I can’t handle small balconies, etc. I don’t mind my own deck, oddly enough, even though it’s very high up.

I was also stung by a huge amount of wasps when I was very young. My entire leg went down the nest hole, and I couldn’t get it out for a solid minute. Not nearly as traumatic as the story Catappa told, but I would still never wish that many stings on anyone. I have an unusually high tolerance to bee and wasp venom; it shows very little effect compared to other people. It doesn’t much affect pain, though. So basically, I was barely swollen at all, but still in intense pain, so my mom didn’t know how many stings I actually had. It sucked.

Instead of causing a lifelong fear of vespids and similar insects, it had almost the opposite effect. For years afterward, I was still utterly terrified at the sight of even just a honeybee. I ended up researching wasps, hornets, and bees in order to figure out how to avoid attacks. This research caused me to become fascinated by them. I now keep different types of bees, wasps, and ants as pets, and they’re wonderful.

It was extremely hard to overcome that fear, but I’m so glad I was able to. I’ve now held wasps with my bare hands almost daily for 3 summers, and haven’t had a single sting in that time. I’m just glad that incident when I was young never developed into an actual phobia.

Anyway, this isn’t technically a phobia, but I’m a pretty bad hypochondriac. Everything remotely out of the ordinary seems like a deadly disease. Slight abdominal pain? Kidney failure, pancreatic cancer, or appendicitis. A sore muscle? tetanus or some type of blood cancer. Headache? Brain tumor, aneurysm, or stroke. I’ve had multiple panic attacks over a sore leg. I know it’s irrational, but even when I know these things are extremely unlikely for a healthy person of my age, I still know that even when something is rare, it isn’t impossible, and that fuels my fear. I usually calm down pretty quickly, but it’s just horrible.