Which phobia is worse?

[Marc]

Top 5 Fears.

Which is worse please

[GypsyGoth]

I would have picked rats but since that wasn't there, I went with heights.

[Ninastar]

the dark

[Liam-]

I chose spiders because clowns weren't an option :(

[Alf]

the dark
Don't you have any light bulbs?

[cheeky_monkey]

Spiders :worry:

[Marcus.]

Heights

[joeysteele]

I haven't any of those phobias but know others with some of them.
I went with heights because I have seen the terror of someone scared of heights when they are stuck somewhere.

[Jessica.]

Snakes and Spiders equally.

[reece(:]

Snakes:worry:

[LaLaLand]

Heights/falling.

My main phobia is vomiting though, it's horrendous.

I used to be severely scared of spiders though so I bought a tarantula, it cured me and now I'm fascinated by spiders. Love them :)

[Benjamin]

Spiders I guess, but it's not my biggest fear.

[Josy]

Spiders

[Natalie.]

SPiders are the absolute worst

[Ammi]

..heights or confines spaces, either of them..I couldn't just pick one because either would send me into a panic...

[AnnieK]

Confined spaces out of those....as clowns wasn't an option.

[lostalex]

i voted heights cause its the only one i have and the other ones are ****ing stupid.

how can you be scared of a spider? it's just a tiny little bug....

[Kizzy]

Well how can you be scared of heights?... you're just stood still, only higher :laugh:

[Niamh.]

Spiders then confined spaces

[lostalex]

Well how can you be scared of heights?... you're just stood still, only higher :laugh:

well i think i can fight a spider and win, but there;s no way to fight falling from heights lol. if you fall there's not much of a fight you can put up. so maybe it's about control.

[lostalex]

i'm really surprised that spiders is so high on this poll. just ****ing step on the spider. end of battle. you win, why is that scary to anyone?

[Niamh.]

well i think i can fight a spider and win, but there;s no way to fight falling from heights lol. if you fall there's not much of a fight you can put up. so maybe it's about control.

yeah but phobias are mostly irrational fears,you can't help being scared eventhough logically you shouldn't be

[lostalex]

okay, but at the very worst, you get a spider bite and you need antibiotics. big difference than falling and going SPLAT. lol

seriously heights are the worst. i hate heights and i get vertigo. it's a legitimate fear, not an irrational fear like a little bug.

[Ellen]

Heights but also have a phobia of cows.

[Niamh.]

okay, but at the very worst, you get a spider bite and you need antibiotics. big difference than falling and going SPLAT. lol

seriously heights are the worst. i hate heights and i get vertigo.

It's not even getting bit that I fear from spiders, just them being on me terrifies me more than anything else in the world.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I would hope we all have a good fear of heights otherwise we are not long for this world.

Like a fear of fire or snakes to a degree.

An hour with a good therapist can overcome most irrational fears that we pick up from our parents

[Marc]

I really hate Snakes but I voted Heights..I just have to think about flying on a plane and I hate it :sad:

[Niall]

Confined spaces. But surely no phobia is worse because all phobias are entirely subjective. [sunglasses emoji]

[Ellen]

It's not even getting bit that I fear from spiders, just them being on me terrifies me more than anything else in the world.

Im not scared of spiders but about a month ago i was sat outside and one jumped in my cleavage!!!! I slighlty freaked out and made myself look a right idiot whilst i was showing my chest off to all & sundry trying to get it out! :shocked::joker:

[Niamh.]

I would hope we all have a good fear of heights otherwise we are not long for this world.

Like a fear of fire or snakes to a degree.

An hour with a good therapist can overcome most irrational fears that we pick up from our parents

Neither of my parents are afraid of spiders, I've no idea where it came from

[Niamh.]

Im not scared of spiders but about a month ago i was sat outside and one jumped in my cleavage!!!! I slighlty freaked out and made myself look a right idiot whilst i was showing my chest off to all & sundry trying to get it out! :shocked::joker:

:omg: I think I would just died right there on the spot

[lostalex]

It's not even getting bit that I fear from spiders, just them being on me terrifies me more than anything else in the world.

after hearing that i'm totally going into boyfriend mode. oh your scared of spiders huh? *tickles niamh all over* spider!!1 spider everywhere!!! lol i would have so much fun if you were my boyfriend(even though i know you are a girl) i could have so much fun with that.

[Ellen]

:omg: I think I would just died right there on the spot

Yes, i think i may have under played the slighlty freaked out. Full on panic mode more like :joker:

[Niamh.]

after hearing that i'm totally going into boyfriend mode. oh your scared of spiders huh? *tickles niamh all over* spider!!1 spider everywhere!!! lol i would have so much fun if you were my boyfriend(even though i know you are a girl) i could have so much fun with that.

Oh you're so mean, arachnophobia is no laughing matter Mr. :fist:

[Josy]

Im not scared of spiders but about a month ago i was sat outside and one jumped in my cleavage!!!! I slighlty freaked out and made myself look a right idiot whilst i was showing my chest off to all & sundry trying to get it out! :shocked::joker:

OMG

[Black Dagger]

I would have picked rats but since that wasn't there, I went with heights.

[2]

Don't really like walking around at night in the dark either, but certain heights are just a nono.

[joe199998293]

Mine are Clowns, Spiders then Confined spaces.

[Kizzy]

well i think i can fight a spider and win, but there;s no way to fight falling from heights lol. if you fall there's not much of a fight you can put up. so maybe it's about control.

Oh yeah... and my fear of the dark could be a fear of the unknown, we psyched ourselves out :laugh:

[Gstar]

Heights and confined spaces

I watched an urban legend programme about a boy who hid in a coffin and the door locked and he couldn't get out and ended being cremated by accident

[Jake.]

Being in confined spaces/heights.. Mainly because I don't like having no control

[Crimson Dynamo]

Neither of my parents are afraid of spiders, I've no idea where it came from

The fear you pick up from your parents (according to a study i read or heard about last week) comes from a subliminal fear that you pick up chemically when young - your parents may now have got over the fear or perhaps they, by protecting you from a spider transferred it. Fear of insects is also an evolutionary fear for children just as not liking green veg is (through avoiding being poisoned in an age before the modern) and i guess like green veg has to be unlearned.

[Crimson Dynamo]

again fear of confined spaces and dark is not so much a phobia as perfectly normal and part of you staying alive.

We all have a fear of death and its hardwired - its why our genes have survived and others have perished

[Ammi]

Heights and confined spaces

I watched an urban legend programme about a boy who hid in a coffin and the door locked and he couldn't get out and ended being cremated by accident

..there is also another one..(which I think is true..)..where a guy kept a female hostage and he kept her in a coffin as well...

[Niamh.]

The fear you pick up from your parents (according to a study i read or heard about last week) comes from a subliminal fear that you pick up chemically when young - your parents may now have got over the fear or perhaps they, by protecting you from a spider transferred it. Fear of insects is also an evolutionary fear for children just as not liking green veg is (through avoiding being poisoned in an age before the modern) and i guess like green veg has to be unlearned.

No they really aren't afraid of spiders, my dad used to pick them up all the time and my mom still won't let me kill a spider in her house, she says ah leave him alone he lives here :umm2:

[Ammi]

No they really aren't afraid of spiders, my dad used to pick them up all the time and my mom still won't let me kill a spider in her house, she says ah leave him alone he lives here :umm2:

..it could be anything..it could be something you saw on TV/a movie or anything with some little thing with a spider and it might have scared you but not too the point that it's a conscious memory of it...?..

[Niamh.]

..it could be anything..it could be something you saw on TV/a movie or anything with some little thing with a spider and it might have scared you but not too the point that it's a conscious memory of it...?..

maybe so yeah :think:

[Ammi]

maybe so yeah :think:

..it's always the parents who are blamed..:fist:...but it could be a subconscious childhood memory from many sources outside the home as well...

[Ammi]

..I think it's the more unusual ones that are interesting anyway because a lot of them can be 'rationed' but some phobias are more unusual and specific to individuals....

[Crimson Dynamo]

http://house-spiders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/House_spider_side_view_01.jpg

[JoshBB]

Snakes they're bloody horrible

[Brother Leon]

Cats.

[Ammi]

..balloons..

[coffee]

I always think I'm fearless untill I'm on a tall building or ferris wheel and actually **** myself so hard or untill I have to go upstairs in the pitch black darkness and running up stairs in the dark is the most scary thing probably known to man I would say...

[Marsh.]

..balloons..

Ooh, what is it about balloons? :laugh:

[Sophiee]

my only fear out of those is confined spaces.

[Ninastar]

I should have picked spiders

I'd rather be stuck in a pitch black room than a room full of spiders

[GypsyGoth]

Over the last couple of weeks I've found three baby spiders on me, they must have thought I was their mommy. I put them in the back garden, which is probably where they came from in the first place.

[T*]

..balloons..

Same :(

[Marsh.]

Over the last couple of weeks I've found three baby spiders on me, they must have thought I was their mommy. I put them in the back garden, which is probably where they came from in the first place.

I thought that said "in me" then. D:

[Marsh.]

Same :(

What is it, the texture? the noise?

[T*]

What is it, the texture? the noise?

I don't know about ammi, but I just don't like them. I'll PM you.

[Anaesthesia]

I love the dark (I have a kinda weird thing going on like nightvision so I can see if I need to if I wake up suddenly, but if I'm relaxed then I find darkness very peaceful)
I love snakes (have kept them for 10 years plus)
Spiders terrify me but I have a good aim and can kill them from a distance (only those nasty long leggedy housethings though....brrrrrrrrr)
I don't mind confined spaces at all, I'm a kayaker and caver.
Heights though...do any of you feel that absolutely horrible thing when you are up high and it almost feels like you want to jump off? That scares me. If I have a barrier that's at least waist height I'm not so bad.

I've started climbing to try to get over it but it doesn't quite work, cos you are looking up when you climb, and you know you are safe when you fall. What I still haven't got over is that horrible vertigo feeling when you actually aren't quite safe.

[Anaesthesia]

Oh, and absolutely balloons. I have to pop them if they come anywhere close to me.

[Ninastar]

Same :(

I hate them too

I hate when I'm in a restaurant and they are filling them up for a party or whatever

It actually makes me shake a little

I don't like fireworks either

[Anaesthesia]

I hate them too

I hate when I'm in a restaurant and they are filling them up for a party or whatever

It actually makes me shake a little

I don't like fireworks either

Fireworks I adore. I lived in Spain for many years and the San Juan festival in June is nothing short of incredible. Sea+fireworks = awesomeness.

[Mystic Mock]

I hate all of them on the poll, but the worst for me has to be heights I really hate it.

[Ninastar]

Over the last couple of weeks I've found three baby spiders on me, they must have thought I was their mommy. I put them in the back garden, which is probably where they came from in the first place.

you should have killed your children tbh

[GypsyGoth]

you should have killed your children tbh

:laugh2:

[Dollface]

I was going to make a thread about fears today :D

I went for confined spaces. I'm fine with heights, snakes & the dark :p Scared of spiders though :yuk:

[BigBrotherDude17]

The Dark. You never know whats in the same room with you when its dark

[Marsh.]

The Dark. You never know whats in the same room with you when its dark

:creep:

[mrflibble]

I'm not really scared of any of those. If I see something dangerous then I'll stay away, so obviously snakes or poisonous spiders would be the worst since they can hurt you. I'm more afraid of harmless cockroaches than spiders or snakes though :laugh:

[Adamw92]

Spiders for me. My fear of them heightened when a friend showed me this picture, I'll only post the link so if you don't wanna see then don't click...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/punkboi/main_Spiders_wall_001.jpg

[LemonJam]

The idea of Spiders being scary is so weird to me like I would keep them as pets to get rid of flies if it was socially acceptable.