I’m your worst nightmare. Always lurking in the back of your mind. You never know when I’ll make myself known.
Damn! I thought somebody was starting an appreciation thread.
A lot of people so far have mentioned momentary feelings of wanting to or imagining jumping from a high place and I too have felt that. I don’t think it’s so uncommon for those images to occur every once in a while. But I can say as someone with OCD that when they happen all the time it can be a bitch. It’s part of the “obssessive” component of the disorder. I’d see myself doing horrible things all the time - like suddenly stabbing myself with a kitchen knife, or fallling onto something and poking my eyes out. Fun stuff like that. But as I came to realize what was causing it I knew that intention had nothing to do with it. I think of it as a “brain short circuit” causing these flashes and just ignore them.
Just wanted to let everyone know they’re probably as sane as anyone else. 
Oh, my phobia is a doozy… it’s people.
[sup]I’m not really as deranged as I sound, honest.[/sup]
I’m afraid of dogs. They have razor-sharp poison teeth, and I look like a piece of hamburger to them.
I’m afraid of being away from the city. All my life I’ve lived in some kind of city or suburb. Last year the family went on a vacation to Colorado and Wyoming and driving through the desert, I got chills looking out the car window (I wasn’t driving, thank God). Nothing around for miles. The worst part was when I got out to use the bathroom at this little rest stop which consisted of a shack with two bathrooms and old, non-functional soda machines around it. There was a little parking lot next to it and if you went to far, you could drive off the edge of the little plateau the highway was on and who knows what was down there?
A few days ago, I was going to a party and when I realized there was nothing around us but farmlands (we got a little lost ;)) I started panicking and breathing hard.
I’ve got that fear of the dark deep water.No fear of pools or showers.But if i can’t see what’s in the water i get really jumpy.When i’m on a fishing trip i try to stay away from the edge of the boat.I think it has something to do with a movie i saw when i was little.Maybe it was called Tentacles? I remember the big octo or squid arm coming out of the water and grabbing this baby . My other fear is growing old alone.I think i’m gonna be that wierd friend/uncle/whatever that dies alone in his home and isn’t found for like 3 weeks.
Butterflies.
If I see one I turn into a 3 year old girl, I run prancing away with my hands waving above my head and scream. Very becoming.
Wow, I feel like such a normal person now! I’ve never mentioned to anyone my passing thoughts of jumping in front of a train or a truck or something just to see what would happen. What would it feel like? Not that I’d ever do it. Nice to hear that others have the same thoughts without being freaks!
I used to be afraid of needles until I got my tongue pierced. Now I watch the nurse stick the needle in and everything. But - there’s another side to that. When I give blood I always nearly pass out. Not from the needle going in but from the needle coming out. It’s been like this since I was 15 and I cut my finger. I thought that the cut (or needle-hole) wouldn’t stop bleeding and I passed out! I still do it now. I get this silly thought in my head that the blood won’t coagulate and that I’ll just keep bleeding after the needle comes out, so I start to see stars and hyperventilating. I always end up breathing in a paper bag and having them make me stay and eat extra cookies and juice. Is that a phobia? Anyone got a name for it?