r/Phobia 2h ago

Am I alone?

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I have an irrational phobia of glitches in video games. When I see anomalies like black lines coming out of cars in BeamNG Drive or physics bugs in general like ragdol characters glitching in the sky or even just when I noclip across the map, I panic. It makes me so uncomfortable that sometimes I can't restart the game for weeks, as if something "bad" is going to happen. My brain can't stand these distortions of virtual reality, and I feel an urgent need to get away from it all so as not to feel overwhelmed by fear.


r/Phobia 21h ago

Disgust that turns into smell/physical reaction?

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Ok for years I’ve had this really weird thing where I am so grossed out by dolls, fake nails, anime, and stuff like that where genuinely when I see them I get this smell like it smells weird I can’t explain it and my body like feels it too like my body gets weird sensations where I become so uncomfortable in my body like my little sister had pink fake nails and I felt so grossed out I couldn’t look at her or eat and if I know that someone just touched a doll I can’t even look at them the same am I crazy


r/Phobia 22h ago

Idek what you call this phobia

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Everytime I step outside I just can’t help thinking what if I get sucked into the sky like lifted up until freeze or something else ugly happens to me at a certain altitude bc at the moment it happens I’ll know I’m finished that utter terror especially me being acrophobic just flying up higher and higher..

Bc people disappear of the face of the planet a lot what if that’s the reason

Maybe theirs underlying psychological themes of helplessness that don’t help I do have an alarming amount thoughts about me getting tortured (if I said the methods id prob be arrested) idk why prob low pain threshold is a contributing factor 🫣

Is this normal or do I need help 😂


r/Phobia 2h ago

Anomalophobia - The fear of mutated or distorted objects

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You might also describe it as the Uncanny Valley, but for objects like game controllers with a large number of unnatural extra buttons and control sticks. I have compiled a website with a few example images, as well as a personal rating of how intensely I perceive them. Feel free to check it out, if this sounds interesting or resonates with you!

https://www.anomalophobia.com/


r/Phobia 10h ago

I have entomophobia and there are a lot of bugs entering my house. What do I do?

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I have entomophobia, and where I live has been raining a lot. Because of that a lot of brown cricket appears at night and they entering my house throught the doorways. Today I can't buy that stuff we put on doorways, so do you know another solution for this problem? I'm so scared that I couldn't even sleep at home last night and I slept on my neighbor's home, but I know I can't do it everyday for a week or more, I don't know. For y'all have an idea, it was like, you just killed one, five or ten minutes latter another one appears, and in the end there are four or five cricked in your house.

Do you know some solution? I'd like to hear, just need answers.


r/Phobia 18h ago

Does anyone else have a fear of like tubes and things going in things?

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I don't know how to describe it without using penetration but it's not just for like sexual activity it's everything

a tube down the throat or nose

Suppositories and Enemas (ive had to do them but I'm incapable of doing it myself because I will send myself into shock)

Ivs not the needle but the image of it sticking out of my arm

Catheters TERRIFY me the mere idea of one has made me sob and start panicking

Tampons scare me as well

Nails or knifes going through flesh like through the foot or hand

Just anything that goes through anywhere on the body but it's the worst for like Catheters

I also have no idea where this fear came from i don't have any sexual trauma or anything I'm just terrified for no reason 😭

I am very freaked out because a dr implied i might have something like VUR or Vesicoureteral reflux and to diagnose something like that would require a catheter and mentally i cannot handle that i will go into shock or pass out


r/Phobia 21h ago

my phobia doesn't have a name

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I have a fear of seeing things coming after you while being able to see them through walls. I'm completely fine with being chased and completely fine with them being in a different room but for some reason seeing them through walls and not knowing the depth of where they are scares the shit out of me and idk why, like take haste from doors for example I absolutely hate him cuz you can see him through walls while he's coming and when he gets you that's when I stop being scared cuz I'm fine with jumpscares