[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

[Niall]

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

[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 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

[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

[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.

[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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

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.

[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

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

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]

Originally Posted by lostalex

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

[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]

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.

[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]

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...

[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...?..

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..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

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

maybe so yeah

..it's always the parents who are blamed.....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]

[JoshBB]

Snakes they're bloody horrible