[mom2fivesweeties]

Claustrophobic definitely - when trying to go up the Sears Tower in Chicago everyone told me it was a long elevator ride. My friend and I got in and stupid me stood in the back and watched a million people pile in and squeeze me to the wall. that was it - I started screaming and shaking and crying - how embarrassing is that? So we got off and the guard by the elevators told my friend, "We usually let THEM go up on their own elevator!" OMG - at least I got up to the top just 2 of us on the elevator!

[FrouFrou]

My fears...spiders, bees, heights, tall/long bridges especially over water...totally freaks me out!

[Shopaholic1204]

wow..i have a ton of fears...lmao. its a wonder that i can even wake up and face the day, lol. i wonder if its part of my depression..cuz i never used to be this bad.

[dmz1962]

Coulrophobia I believe it is called. Those dreaded clowns. Was always afraid of them as a kid still am not comfortable with them.

[shantroy]

I have a fear of being in the crowds. I don't have a problem being at a football game or a concert. it's not the amount of people that bother me, but get me on the concourse with all the people moving and everyone squished together then I seriously panic. I've been pulled off a crowed dance floor by a bouncer, b/c I froze and was so scared that I forgot to breathe. When we go to hockey games my bf has to literally put his arms around me and propelle me out of there after the game.

[carinna]

That's really cool! Here are mine:

Claustrophobia: Fear of enclosed spaces

Gephyrophobia: Fear of crossing a bridge

Nyctophobia: Fear of night or darkness

[tamaralynn]

I'm scared of heights - but squashed that by working on a window desk on the 23rd floor of an office, parasailing 800 feet up in Hawaii and flying! WOO!!!

My father and uncle used to play "catch" with me - literally! That would probably account for my fear of heights.

I'm still TERRIFIED of spiders. Tiny ones are okay - but when I was 5, my dad thought it would be funny to put his friend's tarantula on my face when I was sick (and coming out of a fitful sleep). Been terrified of them since.

I've never come across a real life one - but I'm scared of scorpions. In grade two our science teacher showed us a freaky film on scorpions where people would have one in their slipper and died of the sting. Yikes!!

I'm also terrified of wasps. I was picking raspberries with my grandmama when I was about 4 - and stepped in a wasp nest. I was rushed to hospital. I had over 50 stings around my body - but thankfully I wasn't allergic. Im fine with bees though.

[Pixiesue]

I don't like heights, even in a sturdy building if zi look out the window for very long I think the building is tilting,

I HATE snakes. They give me the willies. if one was loose in the house. I would leave and not come back. I have learned to control my gut reaction to scream and run. I've even held a little garter snake. I have studied up on them and no that most are relatively harmless to humans but still if I see one moving across my path My heart will start leaping around in my throat, my stomach tightens and I feel an intense desire to run

[CaffeineIV]

I don't see my phobia on there. I panic if I can't breathe through my nose. It has taken 5 years for me to get to where the boys can grab my nose in the hopes that I'll talk funny and I don't instantly jerk away. I've actually been working at it. I get bronchitis regularly (had it 6 out of the 9 months I was pregnant with my first) where I cough regularly and have even torn ligaments from coughing so much. I would MUCH MUCH rather have bronchitis or pneumonia than have a stuffed up nose.

I don't do well with spiders but think that is partly because I'm very allergic. I've been bedridden for a week after a teeny spider bite from a spider that isn't considered poisonous at all.