[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.

[Niamh.]

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

[Ellen]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ellen

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!

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

[Ellen]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

mg: 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

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Ellen

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!

OMG

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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.

[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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

..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...?..

[Marc]

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

[Niall]

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

[joe199998293]

Mine are Clowns, Spiders then Confined spaces.

[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

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Germyle

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...

[Jake.]

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

[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

[Crimson Dynamo]

[JoshBB]

Snakes they're bloody horrible

[Brother Leon]

Cats.

[Ammi]

..balloons..

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..balloons..

Ooh, what is it about balloons?

[T*]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..balloons..

Same