#specific phobia

[batmanshole]

do you have a specific phobia? not just a weird fear / discomfort with something, but an actual phobia.

yes, animal type

yes, natural phenomenon type (water, fires, thunder/lightning, etc)

yes, medical type (blood, needles, dentists, etc)

yes, situational type (claustrophobia, heights, flying, the dark, etc)

yes, other type (something not under one of these categories)

yes, multiple in two or more types

no, not at all

no, but i have agoraphobia (not a specific phobia, despite the name)

i'm not sure / i don't know what mine qualifies as

results

Voting ended onJul 5, 2023

i have two phobias and idk i dont see many people talking about phobias despite them being fairly common in my experience.

i have pyrophobia (fire) and turophobia (cheese)

also please dont be rude in the notes of this post ok?

[catsbypawty]

May everyone with a specific phobia have a good day today, especially if it’s a phobia that isn’t commonly known/tagged for. You are real, you are valid, and I love you.

[disability-shout-outs]

Shout out to folks with Cynophobia!

[hopefulstakes]

➤ OMMETAPHOBIA

[PT: Ommetaphobia /end PT]

A flag for those who have ommetaphobia (also known as oculophobia), which is the irrational fear of eyes.

Taglist [Ask to be added or removed] — @radiomogai @poppiesong

[asexual-amanita]

The word “phobia” has been used as a kind of buzzword in recent years, and its colloquial meaning has drifted further and farther from its actual definition. People online often use it to mean mildly scared or uncomfortable. Like, no Emily, you don’t have “trypophobia” because patterns of holes make you feel a little icky, there’s more to the disorder than that. To qualify for a diagnosis of a specific phobia, you have to be extremely scared of the object or situation, and it must be significantly debilitating, and affect your everyday life.

I attached the diagnostic criteria in the picture below if anyone is curious.

(Don’t self DX off of this post pls)

[metamorphic-stranger]

There's two types of panic for me.

One is like the classic portrayal of panic. You know, the overwhelming anxiety, the racing heart, the hyperventilating, the sheer hopelessness.

But the other is harder to talk about, and far more embarrassing (for me at least). There's a point at which my brain is fully convinced that I am going to die, and it's willing to do anything in order to protect us. Sometimes my fight or flight response is fight. It's really not pretty. I scream, and flail. I try to hit the people "hurting" me, even though I'd never want to do that.

And I know that that's something I need to work on. I just kinda selfishly wish it wasn't so taboo. It feels like the first type of panic is the only one that's ever any sort of accepted (although even that is mostly not). Maybe I'm just being angsty and self-centered, I don't really know what my point is here. But I remember all that time I used to spend as a teenager desperately searching online for any person sharing an experience similar to mine. If you're like me, reading along silently, please know that it's not just you.

[avery-torch]

Eden

It exists in my head

I am the only inhabitant there-

There- it is silent and smells like

soft, cold petrichor after a storm though the storm never came

The monsters and I dance hand in hand

Every shadow smiles as I pass

When I peer into the still lake, my reflection is there

...not a skeleton ...not a ghoul

When I look away, the puppets and dolls stay still

I don’t have to pull off

their limbs

Every night the stars sing a lullaby for me

and softly caress my hair, so I slumber in peace

The moon’s black face chases the nightmares away, so

all my dreams are of flying

not blood

There, I am the only inhabitant

...It exists in my head

I wish it’d exist in this world too

© 2021 Katniss Night

[rambrosius]

I did it I did it I did it

I ate a cheeseburger for the first time in like 5-6 years

And I didn't choke or anything

So good