Originally posted by Cookiebaker
I have a phobia of...this is SO embarrassing ...puking. I can talk about it when it's not happening, I can stand it when my dog pukes...but another person never. I just go crazy inside, almost like my mind goes black, and I go into complete panic attack mode. I can't believe I just told you that!
I thought I was the only one who had this phobia until just now! Wow. Yes I go into panic mode and I avoid places like theme parks with lots of rides because of it. The thought of knowing that a rollar coaster car that I sit down into has been thrown up on makes me beyond grosed out...more like phobic. I won't even go to places like that anymore. And when my husband has the sickies I am usually a bad wife because I run out of the door and drive away as quick as I can....and it's never quick enough! I get beyond grossed out at the thought of it, and never realized it was a phobia until just now

I am severely phobic of needles, even the kind that simply prick fingers. That phobia is so out of control that I would almost rather die then have a needle stuck in me. When I was on my honeymoon in Jamaica, I was stung by a jellyfish and I had a severe allergic reaction. I have never felt that kind of pain in my life, and I was sobbing uncontrolably all the way to the medical station at the resort. The pain was so bad that I wanted to die. It felt as if the affected area was ingulfed in flames. I had huge blisters under my arm and the blisters grew and grew and spread and spread. Pretty soon the blisters were covering 5 times the area and it just kept spreading. My breast was covered in them, I could not put my arm down because my armpit was covered in them...and the pain...my God was it unbearable! The worst part is that the nurse wanted to give me a benedryl shot in my bum, she said that the shot would work MUCH quicker then any liquid or tablet, but I resisted getting the shot, a painless, stupid little needle to stop the intense and growing pain and to stop the ever growing blisters!

Finally, after my husband nearly forced me to decide to get that damn needle, I did it, but it was too late and it did not make the pain go away, so a doctor had to be called in and I had to get another two shots in my bum of drugs to help my pain and to get the swealing down.

After it all, I felt like such a fool. I am usually pretty brave, but the pain from that jellyfish was so incredible that for the first time in my adult life, I sobbed like a baby. I could not believe pain could be that intense. And to resist a teeny needle is just obsurd, but it's a phobia and I feel like I have no control over that phobia.

Bees are another phobia. I have been stung twice in my eye. Once in one eye when I was just a little kid, and once in high school, in the other eye. Both times were a complete surprise and I did nothing to anger the bees. The time I was stung in the eye when I was a little kid is not strong in my concencious memory, but the high school eye stinging is still so fresh in my memory that it could have been yesterday. I still occationally have nightmares that relate to the bee sticking to my eye stinging that most sensetive area. The worst part was that I could hear and see everything close up. I remember pulling that little yellow thing off my eye and I remember screaming at the top of my lungs and a few neighbors came running up to the house to see what was wrong. Wow it was terrifying and so painful. I guess my psychie had enough and now bees are near the top of my list of phobias. I avoid them and I actually am afraid to go to cider mills and places like that which attract bees. Bees can sence fear and so I become more of a target because I am TERRIFIED of them.

Although I am not fond of some other bugs (mosquitos, flies, fleas, leaches, silverfish, earwigs), I am not at all afraid. I actually love spiders and earthworms. Spiders catch the mosquitos and earthworms aerate the earth. I like most bugs, but the bees, wasps & hornets have crossed themselves off the good list of bugs!

My husband's job flies their employees to Germany on a pretty regular basis, and other countries like England and Ireland on occation. The company is German. He said that he wants to take me on his trips since they would pay 1/2 of my airfare and I would get to stay free of charge at the resort/hotel and if we were careful, we could both eat on his daily food allowence. So it would be next to nothing to have me travel with him, but there is one catch...I don't know if I can fly anymore. I was never comfortable on airplanes, but now I am downright terrified. I could probablly do a trip to Chicago or someplace close, but I just don't think I could do a trip overseas! I don't know if it's developed into a phobia yet, but it's deffinately a fear.