Mine are spiders, wasps, enclosed spaces

my fears are of relationships, talking to people and being comfortable around people, spiders

Fear of needles
Fear of clowns/dolls
Fear of elevators

Babies, sex, pregnancy, marriage, rejection, spiders, miller moths, and bugs with stingers (bees, wasps, etc). Honestly, for the most part I feel like people think I'm a failure as a woman because of it.

throwing up (emetophobia)
makes me a little germ phobic but it's because of fear of the norovirus or any illness that might be me throw up.

Anywhere I can't leave. The subway, any train, buses, planes, elevators. Even when a store is about to close and they are about to lock the doors I get very nervous until I am sure the door is open.

I only take cabs and go to ground-floor places. But I'm afraid of the cab being on a highway also.

I'm curious if the rest of you avoid your phobias? I haven't been on the subway or travelled in 2 years since having this.

fear of men

Mine are Spiders, Enclosed spaces I can't escape, strangers (but only at times for some reason), and the dark when I can't see anything, like when inside at night with lights on. But camping is fine. And sometimes going to school. I'm kinda stuck going to school, and with the dark, and spiders (my house has quite a few... :( ) The dark I just flip and try to stay away as much as possible when in my house at night. And I'm extremely afraid of Police. And being ridiculed and ignored. (Because of being bullied) Most of the time I can deal with it because I have to for the dark/spiders/strangers but the school one tends to give me a panic attack.

My fears are...
freeways
long drives
illness
sleeping in my bed

1. Germs. This makes my life SO DIFFICULT. Cold germs, staph germs, any kind of germs. I'm afraid to touch my own feet, because I have the idea they are full of germs, since they are always on the germy floor. I'm also specifically totally paranoid about germs "down there", and this makes my life very difficult....showering is difficult, laundry is difficult (because undies have to be washed a certain way, etc.).

2. Doctors. I'm terrified, petrified of them. This is not good, because I have a medical condition which I am not dealing with and not going in for my blood tests because I am so petrified. I think this is tied to childhood sexual abuse, because the person who abused me to used to tell me that the doctor checked him so he had to check me to make sure I wasn't dying. Now I always think I am going to die if I go to the doctor. I'm somehow phobic of dentists for this reason, too.

3. Dying. I'm always convinced that every lump, bump and sniffle is a symptom of something that will shortly kill me.

There's probably more phobias, but I can't think of them right now.

My fears are
Bathrooms, wasps and being like my mother... Bathrooms are my worst fear.. >.

driving everything to do with driving, heights even couple feet off ground, airplnes, bridges, getting trouble -and being a failure

Snakes. I've talked to a friend about her helping me touch one at the pet store she works at. I feel like the idea itself will kill me.

Small holes-trypophobia.

Wow. I guess I did not realize I had so many phobias I have until reading others that I identify with!

My main one that runs my life (to the point that everyone who knows me knows this...) claustrophobia. One counselor once told me this phobia was not about the enclosed spaces but about control...we never did any work around it though (nor do I see myself doing ant in vivo or any other exposure therapy...no way could I even consider getting close to an elevator)!

But others that are definite- every day some how or another a part of my life (not necessarily in a debilitating way but, I think about them or have some "way" to deal with them whether healthy or unhealthy)

Vomit-especially in public places and/or not contained (like when ppl throw up on rides, in restaurants or bars, in cabs or on busses, on the sidewalk or playing fields.I am freaking out just typing these words...)

Dirty places, like old dirty houses or sheds... I cannot even touch things that are dirty-which makes cleaning a challenge

Bugs inside my house- I have grown to accept that they are outside and I can be ok to sit out to get some sun or be at the beach but when I see ants or fruit flies in my house, I come undone!!

Germs...a very common one

Phobias are really hard to deal with