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[Trinika]

Pyrophobia – A fear of fire. This is the phobia that I possess. I sometimes go sleep fearing the house will catch on fire in the middle of the night, but like unicornrose said “Not all people with phobias have them all the time either” So most of the time I am fine.
I am actually more afraid of small fires like candles. I cannot stand being around candles.

[tamilsun]

Wow, so many phobias! I'd hate to be around someone with Sinistrophobia (fear of objects on the left side of body/left-handed), since I'm left handed...One thing that I find funny about one phobia, is the fear of long words. It's called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Someone with that phobia would be afraid of the name, itself. I'd hate to have some of those phobias that I saw on the list at phobialist.com.

[Unregistered 018]

im afraid of clowns(just the scary ones), bees, dying in a very stupid manner like gunshot or car accident, and giant red squid. im not sure where the clown thing came ffrom but i am allergic to bees. im definately not afraid to die. i am a big wave surfer and will challenge any wave anywhere but to be shot in a drive by or killed in a car accident freaks me out. its such sad way to go. some people might think dying in a wave is stupid but it's my passion so i cant complain. my parents didnt like it too muh but they got over it. the red squid thing... just watch the discovery channel when they search for these 300 foot long giant red squid at night. these things have beaks as big as your hands and they wrap up thier prey and squeeze them to death. look up pictures on google or something. im sure i will never encounter one but i'd rather see a shark then one of those suckers!

[iGuest]

Phobia of odd numbers anyone?
Odd Phobias

Hi guys,

I'm a film and tv student from swinburne university( Aus), making a short documentary about
Bizarre phobias, I am quite interested in the phobia of odd numbers. If anyone out there has this phobia, or knows of anyone that does, I'd love to hear about it. If you can give me a bit of information about the phobia, how it effects your daily life, or any interesting stories where the phobia has effected you or someone you know, send me an e-mail at jblawton a.t hotmail.Com

Much appreciated,
Jess


-question by JESS

[iGuest]

I have a slight fear of odd numbers
Odd Phobias

Replying to Trap FeedBacker

Just replying back, I have always disliked odd numbers, but I work with numbers much more now... I work in a hotel. I don't like typing in or writing down odd numbers I tend to almost always round something up so that it can be an even number. I wouldn't say I have am an extreme case, but its like I don't feel right if the number is odd and always find a way of making it even. Most of the time I will put guests coming into the hotel in all the even numbered rooms first, and when authorizing credit cards I ALWAYS round up to the nearest even number. And when I see someone else who authorized with odd numbers just looking at it makes me nervous, I just feel like its not complete for some reason. I really feel weird even saying all this, but its progressively gotten worse through the last year or two.

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[sarahreese]

i had Nyctophobia at one point in my life and did over the phone therapy. But I definitely don't watch horror movies just in case it could flare up. in case anybody wants to know it was WeListen2you.com where i talked to counselors. I actually was so busy I didn't have any time to sit down with a counselor not to mention this method was cheaper.

[iGuest]

Fear of Odd numbers - i have it =/
Odd Phobias

Replying to Trap FeedBacker
I have fear of odd numbers, but I think I have this fear b/c of my birthday which is Friday 13.
And everyday I try to only get even numbers out of things...Like my blog, I have 14 things that interest me and if I decide too put more of the things that interest me, I have too make it an even number or else I don't feel right and I think that I'm going to have a very bad day.
And on odd days I always feel weird and when something bad happens I blame it on that day. I have days where I'm going along and its an even day and then something bad might happen and I will think back to that day and try and figure out what odd number had happened on that day and I blame it on that.
Or like when the guy I liked left on the date of 27...I blamed it on that date. =/

-reply by Danielle

[iGuest]

Replying to Mortanis ummm yea whats the ... For the thing of the ... You know??? or for the fear of backs?? and the fear of getting cutt??

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[iGuest]

fear of clowns....coulrophobia
Odd Phobias

My name is Treasure and I'm 18 years old. I have a deathly fear of clowns and have had it since I was a child. My real father was not a nice man and forced me to watch Stephen King's IT when I was a very small child. Ever since then I can't deal with them. I live in a big city where there are many street performers and such. I was driving with my family one day and noticed a clown walking on the side of the road.

I immediately started screaming, begging my grandfather to drive faster. I was terrified that it was following us. I ended up hyperventillating so bad that I had a panic attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. My father had to sit in the room with me because I was afraid that clown had followed us and was waiting until I was alone to attack me.

I can't handle clowns in any way, they creep me out to the point where I will have to be restrained. I can't sleep or be alone for days after the fact. It has caused serious problems in many different ways in my life. I f anyone else has a story or an incident where clowns have affected them in a serious way, please let me know! You can email me anytime! Thank you so much!

-reply by Treasure Beach

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I suggest meditation. :-)

[iGuest]

Replying to FeedBacker

That's crazy, because I do the same thing with even numbers! I will NOT use even numbers for the life of me! Whenever I set my alarm clock it has to be an odd number (mainly 3 or 7 - never 5). Or when I make plans I always say something like 1:07 instead of just 1:00 or say that someone gives me 4 m&m's, I would ask for 3 more to make it seven.Weird huh??? I don't know what it is and I just cant get myself to stop. And its not like I'm afraid something bad will happen on an even number, I just feel more comfortable if my life is more so based around number ending on mainly 3 and 7, then 9 and 1.

-reply by CHanson