Hello Mike, I have a few very common phobias, but the one that really baffled me, was the one involving underwater, man-made objects, such as propellers, underwater pilings, from old wooden docks, etc. Anyway, as a teen, I discovered this weird fear of mine, while out boating with my dad. I was too embarrassed to discuss it with anyone, until I came across it on TH-cam recently, and realized I share this phobia, with many others. It's called submechanophobia, and, just like you mentioned, fears are a very real thing, to those who actually experience them. Much success to you on your extremely interesting videos! Greetings from N. Kentucky!
I just discovered you Mike, and am now addicted!!! For quite some time I suffered from gyphyrophobia, a fear of bridges. I could easily drive over them, but couldn't walk across even the smallest.
Mike, I've missed you so much!!! I've been watching daily since you've been back. Life feels right again. For me, I found out I have trypophobia, a fear of clusters of holes. Ones found in nature specifically trigger me (wasp nests, honeycomb, that weird brown plant thing that looks like a wasp nest, etc.) but not things like bread or sponges. Triggers make me feel itchy all over and overall extremely uncomfortable. Even in my nightmares I'm wake up throwing myself across my bed to get away from it. My therapist helped me trace the source, and it's because of an article my mother showed me when I was a tween (thanks for the added lifelong trauma, mommy dearest)
Our daughter has a terrible fear of the stomach virus. It puts her in a panic if she hears that someone close to her has had this problem or if she finds out she is in the presence of someone that has had any type of GI tract issue. She seriously goes into a panic and will be in a tailspin for three day, which is longer than the stomach bug usually lasts. She can't control it whatsoever. it's debilitating and I as her Dad, hate it for her!
I have a fear of mosquitoes! I have an Strong Allergy to the bites. I was bitten by more than 100, and I had to wash the bites in bleach. The bites became infected and I have scars on my ankles. I really Freak Out if a mosquito gets inside my house, especially if the mosquitoes are large!😱😱😱 I also have a Fear of Clowns!😱😱😱
You know there is one phobia that wasn't mentioned that deserved a spot. And that one is this. Masklophobia: A specific phobia used to classify a general and in some cases an irrational fear of masks, people in costumed clothing and mascots which is common among toddlers and young children. The common cause for masklophobia is not known.
This, among with kyrofelonoshophobia (fear of cartoon characters), sanguivoriphobia (fear of vampires) and a couple of others I learned of while double-checking things are why I'd argue that fictofabriphobia may not be a phobia it's a bunch of them instead...
Welcome back Mike, missed you. So I am an adult and I’m still afraid of the dark. This is probably the most embarrassing one and the one I don’t admit to most people. Once I am in bed, and I know the lights are all turned off in the house, I’m OK as long as I’m not near the edge of the bed. I thought it was very interesting about the fear of not being able to leave somewhere. I have this feeling when I ride an elevator, especially by myself. I usually attributed it to claustrophobia, which I also have, and has gotten worse since I’ve gotten older. One last comment: what about all the people that come home and need something on like the TV radio etc. Are they actually uncomfortable with silence?
It's great to see you all back. Also I knew a person who had a severe phobia of any and all bugs. They would start panicking if a fly landed near them.
With me it's a fear of bees which I Define as anyting that flies and has a stinger due to getting stung right next to my eyeball when I was about five years old
My phobia: wet paper. Not sure what it’s called but it’s real. People ask me why... I tell them I can’t rationalize an irrational fear. Also, glad to see you back!
I have a really weird one not on this list. As long as I can remember I've been intensely uncomfortable with anything but a wall or significant empty space to my left side. There is "Sinistraphobia" but I think its more like "Levophobia" because while I am very strongly right handed I don't have any particular aversion to left handedness or left handed people.
I have an extreme fear of electricity. I have such a hard time plugging things in or unplugging them or turning on or off the light switches. I hope that someday, I can get over my fear of electricity because it definitely holds me back in life. I sympathize with anyone who has a crippling phobia like me because it's really no way to live. I'm currently seeing a therapist about other things and I'm hoping that she can help me get over my fear.
I have Epilepsy. I had a horrible seizure at my local grocery store. I was taken away in an ambulance. Without looking at my medical alert they thought I must be on something. I was tested for everything... even given a spinal tap. Now I have an intense fear of grogery stores. The one down the street I have not been in in 6 years.
So great to have you back!!! So the only phobia I deal with (and it's got to be one of the most irrational) is mottephobia. Yep, I'm terrified of moths and butterflies. They make my skin crawl. And oh my gosh if one happens to touch me. GAH....
My grandmother was terrified of butterflies see what happened is she had a little daughter and her mother they both died in the winter time and right before they died she said she saw a black butterfly hovering before both of them so yeah dude they can be scary
When I was younger I was terrified of butterflies. I was in my teens when I was finally able to be outside around them. When I was little, maybe 4, my mom sent me outside to play in our fenced in back yard. Our yard was always covered in butterflies because of all the flowers we had in the yard. Well my mom locked me out & wouldn't let me in. So I stayed by the back door for a couple of hours crying until my mom finally let me in...and from that day forward I was terrified of butterflies. It wasn't until after I had lots of therapy that I was able to get over my fear. Now I am terrified of bees due to getting stung & almost dying. Although the humor isn't lost on my family & I over my fear of bees. My name, Melissa, means honey bee, & the fear of bees is called melissophobia...lol
Ablutophobia is also common with Autistic children and adults. The bathtub environment can be overwhelming, bright, shiny, cold, and sound is odd in a bathrub too. I am an adult with Autism, and I ahve a terrible time showering. It's debilitating, honestly. From fearing I'll be interupted by my cousin/roommate, to fearing running out of hot water, to feeling the spray on my skin is irritating for me, and it IS, I have to carefully select times to shower, and put it off as long as possible. It is crippling and I feel silly, but it's so hard to just go for it. I also have trouble eating, another sadly commont trait for people with Autism. I should not even be alive, I eat so little. It's very hard to explain too. Sometimes I am able to eat daily for weeks then I simply stop for weeks. I'll snack, or force myself to make a sandwich, and eat once a day only even when I am able to cook and feed myself. It IS a fear, but one I cannot point out and say "This is why." This is made worse by being Bulimic in my teens, and then overfed by my former husband, who wanted me to be too fat for anyone to try and take from him. So, food, not my friend, in my own mind at least.
31 yr old with autism here. I'm not sure if it's the same with you, but if I'm not hungry for something, I can't eat it ie I can really only eat if I'm hungry for a food (or type of food). I can be starving, but if nothing on the table matches what I'm hungry for, I can maybe only stand a bite or two. I also have a hard time eating in front of people unless I'm really comfortable with them
@@brohen YES, same here. I can only eat once a day usually, and I monodiet most of the time besides. The act of cooking is literally uninspiring and if I cannot be alone in the kitchen, I WILL NOT COOK FOR MYSELF... [that's meant to be Italics, not a shout.] I dislike eating with people, tho I have good manners and am not likely to be stared at... I feel you!
First off, welcome back Mike. Ok so when I was first watching horror movies at 17,I got into watching East Asian horror. This also included watching the American remake of the Ju-on or Grudge series. I definitely developed a fear of being in a shower, long hairs and mirrors. I've matured and gotten over them but I can definitely see how some people might have those fears.
I'm glad you handled this topic with a reasonable degree of sensitivity to the respective sufferers, which may be more than is commonly done. In reality, the whole language and paradigm of phobia as a social phenomenon, needs to be redone. Thanks for not adding to the existing stigma.
I am 74 and I have that showering phobia. It is of being wet. Cold or hot. I noticed it after moving up north from Arizona and Florida. Not sure why? I loved swimming and bathing until my move back to Indiana in 2005. Also thanks for the Nomophobia, I believe it is an addiction cause and wondered how long it would take to be recognized. Now I hope to catch the 25 list of what you been doing. 🎉 glad you are back. Missed your videos and your wit.
I had zoophobia as a child. I was afraid of dogs and cats. If you owned one I refused to step foot in your house unless you put it away in a certain room. Fast forward to me as an adult now. I’m the owner of Great Danes. I also want to pet every dog I see and rescue every stray cat. I think it’s safe to say I grew out of it.
Glad TH-cam suggested this post. As I haven’t watched a List 25 post for quite some time. I didn’t know You Mike were back at the channel. I look forward to seeing more of these posts in the future…… ⚛️☮️🌏
I have the pickle phobia. My friend got really drunk and ate a bunch of whole pickles and threw one up in my sink. No one would take it out and Draino wouldn't desolve it. That was 40 years ago. I'm still freaked out if I get one impaled to my burger.
I was so happy to see omphalophobia on your list. I have been aware of my omphalophobia only since my late teens. I don't care about seeing them, but I am terrified of seeing people touching their own, touching other people's, touching mine, and I can't touch my own. When you pulled your shirt up I freaked out, just in case you touched yours on camera and had to listen rather than watch until you moved on. I have other phobias, but this is the only one I give into. As a result, my children all have deformed belly-buttons, because I couldn't take care of them properly when my babies were born. I disagree with your reasoning as to what we're afraid of. In my case, I'm not afraid of belly-buttons ravelling. It comes down to non-consensual penetration that I can't control, so more likely to do with trauma and PTSD. Two years ago, a student of mine found out about this phobia and rubbed his belly button on me in order to get what he wanted. I was clothed at the time, but my boss didn't care. He received three day suspension due to physical and sexual assault of a teacher.
I’m a needlephobe, but more specific I fear the sensation of getting poked or stung. If I’m numbed somehow beforehand I don’t care. It’s amazing how many doctors and nurses don’t try to understand that :/
Not even joking, when I was a kid, I had a friend whose little brother was deathly afraid of Dr. Claw from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I found it absolutely ridiculous since we only ever saw Dr. Claw's arm, but this kid would run out of the room any time Dr. Claw spoke or his arm was shown on the TV. Fair enough he was like 5 or something, but still, it was weird.
I have somnophobia. It stems from a deep fear of having nightmares, caused by extreme PTSD, for me at least. I also have day-night reversal issues, which is a circadian rhythm disorder. I take two antidepressants and a large dose of melatonin to sleep. It is a struggle to convince myself to take said medication, because I know it leads to falling asleep. I have panic attacks knowing that it's time to sleep. I procrastinate until I'm exhausted and usually my "days" last more than 24 hours, which leads to a constantly rotating sleep schedule. Even after I take my meds, as I feel them start to work, I panic. I have to fall asleep with both light and noise around me, as a distraction.... like, listening to videos like this. XD Eventually, the meds just push me over the edge, and I wake up not even remembering how hard it was to go to sleep. I'm constantly tired, though. Like, 24 hours a day. I talk and move around in my sleep a lot. I just never rest well, and when I DO have bad nightmares, it's even worse. I don't think most people even understand how bad nightmares can be. Imagine being chased by something that you know is literally going to murder you, and you are supposed to be somewhere that you can't get, at the cost of severe punishment. So, not only are you running for your life, but you know that even if you survive, your life is OVER. Say, for example, you are in the military (a common theme in my nightmares, from my service in the Navy), and someone is chasing you to kill you, and you were supposed to check the watch bill as soon as you got on board your ship, and you could be missing a watch right now and you don't even know it, and you can't find your uniforms, and again, someone is trying to kill you, and you are running... and then you are trapped, and they are almost to you, and there's no way out, and you feel this for what feels like HOURS. You won't ever understand that terror until you've served...
Glad to see this channel back! I don't if anyone has heard of it but I have Trypophobia the fear of clusters or hole patterns. Not officially diagnosed but I Googled it and I have all the symptoms or most when I see a cluster of holes.
I developed a new phobia later in life. I found myself in criminal legal trouble ad was arrested and taken into custody. Unfortunately I was also the victim of mistreatment while in custody. As a result I am now afraid of Law Enforcement Officers. Everytime I see a Squad Car or a Uniformed Officer I get a chill running down my spine. A real nice addition to my Claustrophobia.
I think most people are afraid of death. We really don't know where we're are going, if anywhere. But we are going somewhere. Energy never dies. We lose are vessel (our bodies) but we still exist. Don't be afraid!
Sidonglobophobia- Fear of cotton balls, especially the sound they make when squeezed or torn apart as well as how they feel. I actually know two people, my ex and my aunt, who have this phobia. I thought it was so weird that my (now ex) boyfriend was afraid of cotton balls, then years later I found out my aunt was afraid of them as well.
I am a Lab Tech... I swear some of my coworks have this as they refuse to refill the cotton balls. I know my nephew (my birthday buddy) can't stand to touch them... I on the other hand suffer from apiphobia (stinging insects). I scream and run whenever I see one.
My mom was bitten by a rattlesnake as a child, back before antivenin was a thing. Luckily, it was just a glancing blow, but she was really sick and the experience left her with a severe snake phobia. Actually, salamanders, worms, my pet rat's tail, anything snakelike. But by her early 70s, she worked hard to overcome it and even once picked up a snake. (It was very cold and couldn't respond to her.) Sometimes I don't think she had a phobia, which is an irrational fear.I think she had PTSD from the experience of being bitten by a rattlesnake during an Era when there wasn't medical treatment available for such things.
Love your series bro, quite informative and interesting. I'm not a perfectionist in any sense of the word, but your editor misspelled 'perfectionism'. That's all, and do keep this series up!!
I have an insane fear of pipes. I cannot go in to crawl spaces, attics, even shopping centers that have exposed pipes or I will have a massive panic attack. I’ve never heard of anybody else having it and I don’t know exactly where it stems from but I know it developed when I lived in Germany.
I definitely have a degree of kenophobia. The first time i really experienced it was when i traveled with friends, and when i got out of the car, i looked up and felt like the sky was gonna swallow me whole. It was the first time i saw the sky so open and unobstructed. It looked like it could go on forever. I gasped and pressed myself up against the car. Literally took my breath away. Luckily, no one noticed, and we got into the house quickly. But man, my heart was pounding, and i felt so unsafe. It is definitely an odd feeling. Same thing with open fields or the ocean. I just get so uneasy and nauseous
You should make a video titled Mike is back! Try to draw in the old viewers who have made it a bad habit to glance right past the notifications since you guys left.
Agoraphobia is real but was incorrectly defined. It is NOT the fear of being trapped because trapped is exactly what an agoraphobia is. It is fear of crowds or wide-open spaces. Generally, it is the fear of leaving the house. My agoraphobia actually came in handy during the lockdown, because I was able to commiserate and help people who felt trapped by being stuck at home deal with their issues. I also didn't have to explain why I never went out anymore.
I suffer from ablutophobia. Mine stems from childhood abuse. I also have a fear of two fictional characters so I was surprised that was the fake phobia.
I knew someone who had the Pickle Phobia and was willing to talk about at lunch one time at work. She said that pickles look like fingers and olives look like eyes in formaldehyde. She said her phobia started in grade 8 when they first where shown two different jars to be passed around the room containing fingers and the other was tongues. But the greenish color and some of wrinkling of the fingers and tongues is what stuck in her mind. After that she couldn't eat pickles. Things like pickled peppers that the brine is more a off white- yellow and the peppers retain their bright natural color don't bother her. But olives and cucumber pickles are the real ones that completely cause a Phobia response. This seems like a mild thing and not much of an issue because initially to those without this Phobia, it seems like "well don't buy pickles". Except that many buffets, banquets, pot lunch events, seminars etc include trays of pickles. This can cause great anxiety for people with this Phobia to the extent of not attending or have panic attacks if it is a mandatory work function because often you cannot opt out. Pickles are pretty much a common item in restaurants just like cheese and can be found in your food that you may have ordered but is not explicitly listed on the menu. Most people do not have pickle allergies so restaurants may not list that the dish you order contains pickles. Sometimes they are used as a garnish as well. For people with this Phobia, they often either have to explicitly ask the waiter if any pickles will be present but others eating with them may have plates of food with pickles. This often results in these individuals to not want to go to restaurants and they can develop an additional fear of being asked to go to restaurants or other food related events further interfering with their social life.
I think phobia is a misnomer in some cases. It's defined as an irrational fear. Like someone even saying there is snake in the house and a panic ensues in someone who is afraid without any evidence this is even really happening. They might sweat, scream, and run away without needing to confirm there is a danger. Saying someone is phobic of poison, heights, or being run over for example, would be silly. You SHOULD be afraid of dying so if a real threat presents itself, you aren't phobic, you're surviving. You have instincts to help you avoid danger. We just need to redefine phobia imo. Some are very rational fears.
I developed a fear of dogs after being attacked by 2 full grown German shepherds that were trained to be vicious and happened to get loose. I was 5 and helping my mom bring in groceries when they came out of the alley. My mom in a panic ran inside and closed the door leaving me outside between the front door and our screen door that couldn't close all the way. It was in the evening and have been terrified of dogs ever since.
I have submechanophobia. Wikipedia: Submechanophobia is a fear of submerged human-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater. These objects could be shipwrecks, statues, animatronics as seen in theme parks, or old buildings, but also more mundane items such as buoys and miscellaneous debris. If I’m swimming in water, I absolutely cannot touch anything such as the underside of boats, buoy chains, ropes or anything unnatural. I can’t swim next to things like piers/metal structures and I’m also afraid of swimming next to the wave machines in swimming pools 🥲
I am one of these people that suffers from Somniphobia. It's not a strong fear but as someone who has had episodes of sleep paralysis and insomnia and night terrors...it is scary. Really scary. I once suffered from sleep paralysis 4 times within a month. It got so bad I wouldn't sleep until my body fainted from exhaustion. Thankful I haven't had an episode of that since last year, but I suffer from night terrors almost daily. Wake up screaming but no clue what I dreamed. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I have automatonophobia: the fear of human-like figures, specifically pedophobia (the fear of dolls). My parents dropped me off at my aunt and uncle's for a night and I was forced to sleep in my cousins' room, with ALL 4 having porcelain dolls. I never felt SO anxious in my life: I was afraid the second I fell asleep, I was dead meat! I was SO GLAD when morning came!
I have a fear of large dogs, not dogs in general (except I avoid long-haired dogs due to allergies). I'm always afraid of them jumping on me, even just in friendship. I also get nervous about not being in water I can't stand in, over five feet, most likely because I have a hard time floating or treading water (I only float naturally on my stomach). I also used to think of myself as "people claustrophobic", that too many people in too small a space ratcheted up my anxiety, and I also hate being singled out, like a spotlight is on me, it makes me so anxious. I realize now that it's due to being introverted and socially anxious, but I DON'T hate people, I just prefer smaller crowds or have more space apart from them. The space of one person standing between us helps immensely.
Mike!!! My friend you are back the original host of list 25. Man when you left I stopped listening. The new host for a while was not all that great and was not even funny like you man I am so glad that you returned!!! I will keep subscribed. So I wanted to say 2 things here about phobias. Wow. Very amazing. So when i was a child I had a fear of cuckoo clocks. I thought the bird was going to come down and eat me or something and it made a weird unfamiliar sound. Not like anything I had heard before. I would scream bloody murder like someone was killing me when it was just the sound of the cuckoo clock. Well, now an adult I listen to cuckoo clocks all the time at night and remember my child hood. I got over that fear when I was in 4th grade. I just automatically got over it and was realizing over time that their was really nothing to bee afriad of. It was just a clock that made a very funny sound. Yea…. Those were the days… alright the thing I wanted to mention. So beeing a working pianist and born with pianos hahaha my family was and still are musicans. Yes. I was the one to take the piano because everyone was intimidated by its greatness. Yes. It is a big and beautiful instrument but it also is intimidating at that. Proud to bee one of its players. So I looked up to see if their was such a phobia of pianos and their actually is…. I laughed at this and I think that it was before ou returned to list 25. The phobia of pianos is “Plano phobia.” I probably didn’t spell that correctly. The fear of pianos. Why would someone bee afraid of pianos well, I really think that people are afraid because of past experiences of teachers and having to bee at an extremely demanding instrument. Very bad experiences and some people don’t mix. If someone has a very bad experience with learning an instrumnt they will become afraid of it. I never knew that that was such a thing but it is. Some people will never touch a piano again and maybe even listening to it because it will just bring up bad memories of when they were taking up lessons. I mean the piano is such an intimidating instrument already and then bring on top of that a really bad teacher??? I could see why maybe their would bee a phobia for this. But yes. The fear of pianos is called. “Plano phobia.” Their is actually some phobias of flutes as well and the flute actually is one of the most relaxing instruments in the world. But i wanted to bring that up. I have been actually researching this to see if their is actually such thing as beeing afraid of pianos or if their actually is a phobia. I looked it up on line to see what the name of it was. Also. Their is a phobia for cuckoo clocks as well. It is a really long word but it is the phobia of cuckoo clocks. As far as the piano goes though I never knew their was a phobia for this. I mean the piano is the lead instrumnt and it is played in everything. You really can’t get around not hearing a piano on a day to day basis. Beings that the piano is my work I don’t listen to it before i go to bed because I play the thing every day but hahahahahahaha that doesn’t mean that I am afraid of my work hahahahaha. Actually listening to a piano before I go to bed just keeps me awake and thinking about work. That is the connection that i have with listening to it. When I hear a piano before I go to bed I connect with that instantly my brain is wired like a true pianist. I can’t just relax and listen to a piano. It just makes me think of work so I try and listen to other things before bed hahaha. Sometimes I will just look up piano things on line and torture myself with work before bed but not often. Great reminder of what i have to do though for the next day it basically says “you have work tomorrow!” That is the reminder that comes up in my brain.
11:01 No, other phobias are not related to a fear of death - at least not for all people. It’s a fear of pain and/or suffering. Even a person who has no fear of dying and even welcomes it can still have phobias.
The phone addiction…that’s how it feels for addicts when they can’t get their drug BUT, if someone loses their phone they’re just gonna freak out until they find it. Addicts will freak out they can’t find their drugs but also go into withdrawal. So imagine not finding your phone, you’ve ripped everything apart, your house looks like a tornado hit it, you are begging people to help you but everyone is turning their backs,, you’re starting to sweat and get pains in your stomach. The sweating gets more and more and now you are going between the chills and being hot, sweating through your clothes. Your whole body aches and nothing you do will help at all. Your stomach is now rumbling nonstop and now you’re starting diarrhea. Now you’re at the point that you just lay on the bathroom floor because you don’t know what’s gonna come out of where and when. This is a real experiment doctors have done to people. They take their phones for undetermined amount of time. The scientists know how long, but the test subjects don’t. You may be able to find the video on TH-cam. It really made a lot of people understand a little bit better of what addicts go through daily. It’s NOT fun.
even after i felt desensitized from horror movies and games. Ex. franchises RE, DS,SH(s), amnesia, etc. Subnautica made me realize i had thalasmaphobia. Not ocean persay, but the deep parts. Then there is iron lung.
I have Hoplophobia, (pronounced [ˌhɔpləˈfoʊbiə]), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, a fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.
your videos are very informative and entertaining. I started watching the 25 phobias segment knowing that I don't have any and at the end I had "em all... 😉. all kidding aside, I related to plutophobia (fear of money) and eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors). when the Powerball lottery was nearing $2B I seriously thought about what I would do with what I considered a "disgusting amount of money" and despite the minute chances of winning, it actually caused me a little anxiety thinking about it. interestingly enough I worked in finance and accounting for most of my professional life so I am familiar with the effort and responsibility that comes with it which probably had a lot to do with the anxiety. I concluded that I would hire a reputable financial consultant and pay him or her to deal with it. But who? My phobia concerning mirrors is much easier to explain. when I look in the mirror it destroys my extremely positive self-image.
I have a fear of open spaces, crowed places, powerlines, eletrical wires (certain types), traffic cone primarily the orange ones with reflective stripes, spiders, Heights, tight spaces, and trucks (simis), primarily when in a vehicle next to them, and a fear of not having my phone
SEVERE ophidiophobia here (raising hand). I am mortified by snakes. Even garden snakes. It took my kids years to talk me into go into the herpetarium at the zoo, and even then I hyperventilated and ran out the first 5 times. My big brother was arachnophobia and I kid you not, he once shot his refrigerator because there was a spider crawling on it. (he didn't live near anyone).
23:34 I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), but it’s not a fear of everything, per se. It’s constantly feeling anxious or worried for no particular reason. Kind of a permanent sense that something bad is going to happen. It’s not fun. The stress alert on my watch goes off all the time.
I have a colleague who has an intense fear of walking through underpassses. He literally runs through them. He fears that the overpass will fall on him. it's called Gephyrophobia.
Both of my daughters have a phobia. My oldest has a phobia about the word "knee". She doesn't like to say it, hear it or see the word. My youngest has a phobia about cotton balls and the cotton found in medicine bottles. She also can't stand to hear the sound if someone walking in snow
You wrong about agoraphobia however. I suffer from a mild form of it related to my PTSD. The exact definition is as follows: Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult
I was a waitress in our downtown business district. At lunch hour our customers were bamkers, lawyers, stock brokers, etc..I had a regular customer who always made sure to mention, "No pickle" One day we were so busy, I had to have my co-worker to deliver his burger basket (I rang in no pickle, but it was overlooked) Suddenly there was a screech and a commotion that made me pause and see what was the matter..turns out he had a fear of pickles, and literally jumped back almost screaming when the basket containing his lunch had a Pickle in it...
Ficto-whatever it was, fear of a fictional phobia - I can tell you without a doubt that I was terrified of JAWS, Freddy Kruger and Elm Street, and two of the fictional characters in an episode of the X-files.
Omg. I actually have clinically diagnosed somniphobia. I have extremely severe night terrors which are caused by diagnosed PTSD. The longest I have been awake at once, was 6 days. I usually sleep about 10-15 hours per week. I am legally disabled because of the severity of my Agoraphobia. Its so severe that last time I talked to my physiatrist, I was explaining how I'm beating myself up over not working working right now. She told me, very point blank, there is absolutely zero possibility of me being employable, because of the level of my disorder. Its absolutely nothing for me to to not leave my apartment and not speak to anyone for up to 2 months straight. Agoraphobia is the most messed up and hardest to understand of all disorders in psychology. I don't really fear money. I just absolutely detest it and everything it stands for.
You guys are back on List 25?? Best part of the channel.
We are. Check out our other recently released videos.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
- Roosevelt
"And..you know... staircases... Maybe large curbs"
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List 25 is the best part of the List 25 channel? What am I missing here lol
@@DavyTwoHandsMike left and came back
I had a fear of Mike from List 25 not coming back on TH-cam but not anymore.
Gonamikeaphobia.... horrible phobia
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Mike has nine lives.
Hello Mike, I have a few very common phobias, but the one that really baffled me, was the one involving underwater, man-made objects, such as propellers, underwater pilings, from old wooden docks, etc. Anyway, as a teen, I discovered this weird fear of mine, while out boating with my dad. I was too embarrassed to discuss it with anyone, until I came across it on TH-cam recently, and realized I share this phobia, with many others. It's called submechanophobia, and, just like you mentioned, fears are a very real thing, to those who actually experience them. Much success to you on your extremely interesting videos! Greetings from N. Kentucky!
Love seeing you back Mike! Perfectionism misspelled lol 😆
I just discovered you Mike, and am now addicted!!! For quite some time I suffered from gyphyrophobia, a fear of bridges. I could easily drive over them, but couldn't walk across even the smallest.
Welcome and glad you're enjoying our videos!
Mike, I've missed you so much!!! I've been watching daily since you've been back. Life feels right again.
For me, I found out I have trypophobia, a fear of clusters of holes. Ones found in nature specifically trigger me (wasp nests, honeycomb, that weird brown plant thing that looks like a wasp nest, etc.) but not things like bread or sponges. Triggers make me feel itchy all over and overall extremely uncomfortable. Even in my nightmares I'm wake up throwing myself across my bed to get away from it. My therapist helped me trace the source, and it's because of an article my mother showed me when I was a tween (thanks for the added lifelong trauma, mommy dearest)
Our daughter has a terrible fear of the stomach virus. It puts her in a panic if she hears that someone close to her has had this problem or if she finds out she is in the presence of someone that has had any type of GI tract issue. She seriously goes into a panic and will be in a tailspin for three day, which is longer than the stomach bug usually lasts. She can't control it whatsoever. it's debilitating and I as her Dad, hate it for her!
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I have and always have had trypophobia, it gives me chills to look at anything with a clutter of small holes like bread,sponges even froth on beer
Mike! So glad you're back! I missed the videos and your witty remarks and jokes.
Happy to see you back Mike. All the best to you post COVID. And happy to hear your soothing voice.
Thank you kindly!
I noticed that when you lifted up your shirt to show us your belly button you had red splotches on your skin. Are you OK?
I have a fear of mosquitoes! I have an Strong Allergy to the bites. I was bitten by more than 100, and I had to wash the bites in bleach. The bites became infected and I have scars on my ankles. I really Freak Out if a mosquito gets inside my house, especially if the mosquitoes are large!😱😱😱 I also have a Fear of Clowns!😱😱😱
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He has psoriasis. He mentioned it in one video.
After post COVID? So after after?
Sorry, had to give you a hard time.
I suffer from agoraphobia and social phobia., and aquaphobia. I've had therapy for all of them.
Keep up the positive progress. I've found that the years of therapy have been freeing.
Hey Mike the weight loss looks good on you buddy. Glad to see The List again.
You know there is one phobia that wasn't mentioned that deserved a spot. And that one is this.
Masklophobia: A specific phobia used to classify a general and in some cases an irrational fear of masks, people in costumed clothing and mascots which is common among toddlers and young children. The common cause for masklophobia is not known.
This, among with kyrofelonoshophobia (fear of cartoon characters), sanguivoriphobia (fear of vampires) and a couple of others I learned of while double-checking things are why I'd argue that fictofabriphobia may not be a phobia it's a bunch of them instead...
Would have been hard with this during Covid..
This phobia would have been a nightmare during covid mask requirements
Welcome back Mike, missed you. So I am an adult and I’m still afraid of the dark. This is probably the most embarrassing one and the one I don’t admit to most people. Once I am in bed, and I know the lights are all turned off in the house, I’m OK as long as I’m not near the edge of the bed. I thought it was very interesting about the fear of not being able to leave somewhere. I have this feeling when I ride an elevator, especially by myself. I usually attributed it to claustrophobia, which I also have, and has gotten worse since I’ve gotten older. One last comment: what about all the people that come home and need something on like the TV radio etc. Are they actually uncomfortable with silence?
Meh, I get it. Bad things can happen in the dark. The fear of the unknown.
It's great to see you all back. Also I knew a person who had a severe phobia of any and all bugs. They would start panicking if a fly landed near them.
Yes I have a neighbour who suffers from this. No back yard picnics for them!
Phobia of blood sucking bugs like lice and bedbugs, yuck!
With me it's a fear of bees which I Define as anyting that flies and has a stinger due to getting stung right next to my eyeball when I was about five years old
My phobia: wet paper. Not sure what it’s called but it’s real. People ask me why... I tell them I can’t rationalize an irrational fear.
Also, glad to see you back!
I have a really weird one not on this list. As long as I can remember I've been intensely uncomfortable with anything but a wall or significant empty space to my left side. There is "Sinistraphobia" but I think its more like "Levophobia" because while I am very strongly right handed I don't have any particular aversion to left handedness or left handed people.
I have an extreme fear of electricity. I have such a hard time plugging things in or unplugging them or turning on or off the light switches. I hope that someday, I can get over my fear of electricity because it definitely holds me back in life. I sympathize with anyone who has a crippling phobia like me because it's really no way to live. I'm currently seeing a therapist about other things and I'm hoping that she can help me get over my fear.
I have Epilepsy. I had a horrible seizure at my local grocery store. I was taken away in an ambulance. Without looking at my medical alert they thought I must be on something. I was tested for everything... even given a spinal tap. Now I have an intense fear of grogery stores. The one down the street I have not been in in 6 years.
Being scared of all animals would be sad 😕
I agree.
So great to have you back!!! So the only phobia I deal with (and it's got to be one of the most irrational) is mottephobia. Yep, I'm terrified of moths and butterflies. They make my skin crawl. And oh my gosh if one happens to touch me. GAH....
My grandmother was terrified of butterflies see what happened is she had a little daughter and her mother they both died in the winter time and right before they died she said she saw a black butterfly hovering before both of them so yeah dude they can be scary
Lepidopterophobia. I have the same phobia. I hate butterflies and moths. HATE them.
When I was younger I was terrified of butterflies. I was in my teens when I was finally able to be outside around them. When I was little, maybe 4, my mom sent me outside to play in our fenced in back yard. Our yard was always covered in butterflies because of all the flowers we had in the yard. Well my mom locked me out & wouldn't let me in. So I stayed by the back door for a couple of hours crying until my mom finally let me in...and from that day forward I was terrified of butterflies. It wasn't until after I had lots of therapy that I was able to get over my fear. Now I am terrified of bees due to getting stung & almost dying. Although the humor isn't lost on my family & I over my fear of bees. My name, Melissa, means honey bee, & the fear of bees is called melissophobia...lol
Ablutophobia is also common with Autistic children and adults. The bathtub environment can be overwhelming, bright, shiny, cold, and sound is odd in a bathrub too. I am an adult with Autism, and I ahve a terrible time showering. It's debilitating, honestly. From fearing I'll be interupted by my cousin/roommate, to fearing running out of hot water, to feeling the spray on my skin is irritating for me, and it IS, I have to carefully select times to shower, and put it off as long as possible. It is crippling and I feel silly, but it's so hard to just go for it.
I also have trouble eating, another sadly commont trait for people with Autism. I should not even be alive, I eat so little. It's very hard to explain too. Sometimes I am able to eat daily for weeks then I simply stop for weeks. I'll snack, or force myself to make a sandwich, and eat once a day only even when I am able to cook and feed myself. It IS a fear, but one I cannot point out and say "This is why." This is made worse by being Bulimic in my teens, and then overfed by my former husband, who wanted me to be too fat for anyone to try and take from him. So, food, not my friend, in my own mind at least.
31 yr old with autism here. I'm not sure if it's the same with you, but if I'm not hungry for something, I can't eat it ie I can really only eat if I'm hungry for a food (or type of food). I can be starving, but if nothing on the table matches what I'm hungry for, I can maybe only stand a bite or two. I also have a hard time eating in front of people unless I'm really comfortable with them
@@brohen YES, same here. I can only eat once a day usually, and I monodiet most of the time besides. The act of cooking is literally uninspiring and if I cannot be alone in the kitchen, I WILL NOT COOK FOR MYSELF... [that's meant to be Italics, not a shout.] I dislike eating with people, tho I have good manners and am not likely to be stared at...
I feel you!
First off, welcome back Mike.
Ok so when I was first watching horror movies at 17,I got into watching East Asian horror.
This also included watching the American remake of the Ju-on or Grudge series.
I definitely developed a fear of being in a shower, long hairs and mirrors.
I've matured and gotten over them but I can definitely see how some people might have those fears.
As a kid I didn't fear the bath I usually feared the drain as it was dirty nasty down there.
DrainOphobia
I'm glad you handled this topic with a reasonable degree of sensitivity to the respective sufferers, which may be more than is commonly done.
In reality, the whole language and paradigm of phobia as a social phenomenon, needs to be redone. Thanks for not adding to the existing stigma.
I am 74 and I have that showering phobia. It is of being wet. Cold or hot. I noticed it after moving up north from Arizona and Florida. Not sure why? I loved swimming and bathing until my move back to Indiana in 2005. Also thanks for the Nomophobia, I believe it is an addiction cause and wondered how long it would take to be recognized. Now I hope to catch the 25 list of what you been doing. 🎉 glad you are back. Missed your videos and your wit.
I had zoophobia as a child. I was afraid of dogs and cats. If you owned one I refused to step foot in your house unless you put it away in a certain room.
Fast forward to me as an adult now. I’m the owner of Great Danes. I also want to pet every dog I see and rescue every stray cat. I think it’s safe to say I grew out of it.
Great to have you back Estrin. You're looking great.
am so happy yall are back this was my favorite channel
Glad to see the return of the youtube list king!
Glad TH-cam suggested this post. As I haven’t watched a List 25 post for quite some time. I didn’t know You Mike were back at the channel. I look forward to seeing more of these posts in the future…… ⚛️☮️🌏
Love watching List 25. I always learn something new. I myself am afraid of the ocean, open water. I've seen Jaws to many times.
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I have the pickle phobia. My friend got really drunk and ate a bunch of whole pickles and threw one up in my sink. No one would take it out and Draino wouldn't desolve it. That was 40 years ago. I'm still freaked out if I get one impaled to my burger.
The GOAT of List 25 is back in full effect
I was so happy to see omphalophobia on your list. I have been aware of my omphalophobia only since my late teens. I don't care about seeing them, but I am terrified of seeing people touching their own, touching other people's, touching mine, and I can't touch my own. When you pulled your shirt up I freaked out, just in case you touched yours on camera and had to listen rather than watch until you moved on. I have other phobias, but this is the only one I give into. As a result, my children all have deformed belly-buttons, because I couldn't take care of them properly when my babies were born.
I disagree with your reasoning as to what we're afraid of. In my case, I'm not afraid of belly-buttons ravelling. It comes down to non-consensual penetration that I can't control, so more likely to do with trauma and PTSD.
Two years ago, a student of mine found out about this phobia and rubbed his belly button on me in order to get what he wanted. I was clothed at the time, but my boss didn't care. He received three day suspension due to physical and sexual assault of a teacher.
So pumped you're back!
I’m a needlephobe, but more specific I fear the sensation of getting poked or stung. If I’m numbed somehow beforehand I don’t care. It’s amazing how many doctors and nurses don’t try to understand that :/
They should cause alot of people fear or are phobic of needles
Not even joking, when I was a kid, I had a friend whose little brother was deathly afraid of Dr. Claw from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I found it absolutely ridiculous since we only ever saw Dr. Claw's arm, but this kid would run out of the room any time Dr. Claw spoke or his arm was shown on the TV. Fair enough he was like 5 or something, but still, it was weird.
I have somnophobia. It stems from a deep fear of having nightmares, caused by extreme PTSD, for me at least. I also have day-night reversal issues, which is a circadian rhythm disorder. I take two antidepressants and a large dose of melatonin to sleep. It is a struggle to convince myself to take said medication, because I know it leads to falling asleep. I have panic attacks knowing that it's time to sleep. I procrastinate until I'm exhausted and usually my "days" last more than 24 hours, which leads to a constantly rotating sleep schedule. Even after I take my meds, as I feel them start to work, I panic. I have to fall asleep with both light and noise around me, as a distraction.... like, listening to videos like this. XD Eventually, the meds just push me over the edge, and I wake up not even remembering how hard it was to go to sleep. I'm constantly tired, though. Like, 24 hours a day. I talk and move around in my sleep a lot. I just never rest well, and when I DO have bad nightmares, it's even worse. I don't think most people even understand how bad nightmares can be. Imagine being chased by something that you know is literally going to murder you, and you are supposed to be somewhere that you can't get, at the cost of severe punishment. So, not only are you running for your life, but you know that even if you survive, your life is OVER. Say, for example, you are in the military (a common theme in my nightmares, from my service in the Navy), and someone is chasing you to kill you, and you were supposed to check the watch bill as soon as you got on board your ship, and you could be missing a watch right now and you don't even know it, and you can't find your uniforms, and again, someone is trying to kill you, and you are running... and then you are trapped, and they are almost to you, and there's no way out, and you feel this for what feels like HOURS. You won't ever understand that terror until you've served...
Glad to see this channel back! I don't if anyone has heard of it but I have Trypophobia the fear of clusters or hole patterns. Not officially diagnosed but I Googled it and I have all the symptoms or most when I see a cluster of holes.
When I was a child, I had a fear of a stray hair. I would start gagging if I saw one. I finally overcame it tho.
Stray hair,yes Uncomfortable when a woman with long, loose hair walks through a restaurant shaking her hair. Am with you on this one.
I developed a new phobia later in life. I found myself in criminal legal trouble ad was arrested and taken into custody. Unfortunately I was also the victim of mistreatment while in custody. As a result I am now afraid of Law Enforcement Officers. Everytime I see a Squad Car or a Uniformed Officer I get a chill running down my spine.
A real nice addition to my Claustrophobia.
Great to have you back, Mike ❤️
I think most people are afraid of death. We really don't know where we're are going, if anywhere. But we are going somewhere. Energy never dies. We lose are vessel (our bodies) but we still exist. Don't be afraid!
Sidonglobophobia- Fear of cotton balls, especially the sound they make when squeezed or torn apart as well as how they feel.
I actually know two people, my ex and my aunt, who have this phobia. I thought it was so weird that my (now ex) boyfriend was afraid of cotton balls, then years later I found out my aunt was afraid of them as well.
I am a Lab Tech... I swear some of my coworks have this as they refuse to refill the cotton balls. I know my nephew (my birthday buddy) can't stand to touch them... I on the other hand suffer from apiphobia (stinging insects). I scream and run whenever I see one.
My mom was bitten by a rattlesnake as a child, back before antivenin was a thing. Luckily, it was just a glancing blow, but she was really sick and the experience left her with a severe snake phobia. Actually, salamanders, worms, my pet rat's tail, anything snakelike. But by her early 70s, she worked hard to overcome it and even once picked up a snake. (It was very cold and couldn't respond to her.) Sometimes I don't think she had a phobia, which is an irrational fear.I think she had PTSD from the experience of being bitten by a rattlesnake during an Era when there wasn't medical treatment available for such things.
I am so freaking happy that y’all are back on list 25!!!!!!!!!! One of my favorite channels.
Love your series bro, quite informative and interesting. I'm not a perfectionist in any sense of the word, but your editor misspelled 'perfectionism'. That's all, and do keep this series up!!
Or was it on purpose.....? LoL
❤ So happy to see you back!
Great video! I have sleep paralysis and also sleep walk. It is very disturbing. Thanks for bringing these phobias to people's attention ✌️
Glad your back missed you
Missed you too!
I used to be terrified of death and dying, i'm 51 and not frightened anymore. You laughing at the hippo one cracked me up lol
I have an insane fear of pipes. I cannot go in to crawl spaces, attics, even shopping centers that have exposed pipes or I will have a massive panic attack. I’ve never heard of anybody else having it and I don’t know exactly where it stems from but I know it developed when I lived in Germany.
Yay, you’re back!!!! I’ve missed you!
Missed you too!
I definitely have a degree of kenophobia. The first time i really experienced it was when i traveled with friends, and when i got out of the car, i looked up and felt like the sky was gonna swallow me whole. It was the first time i saw the sky so open and unobstructed. It looked like it could go on forever. I gasped and pressed myself up against the car. Literally took my breath away. Luckily, no one noticed, and we got into the house quickly. But man, my heart was pounding, and i felt so unsafe. It is definitely an odd feeling. Same thing with open fields or the ocean. I just get so uneasy and nauseous
You should make a video titled Mike is back! Try to draw in the old viewers who have made it a bad habit to glance right past the notifications since you guys left.
You seem to have missed the exact video you described lol. Check out our video from last week.
He already did
It's a List 25 of What Mike's Been Up To Since We Last Saw Him
I’m so pumped you’re back!! Going back and catching up now ❤️
Agoraphobia is real but was incorrectly defined. It is NOT the fear of being trapped because trapped is exactly what an agoraphobia is. It is fear of crowds or wide-open spaces. Generally, it is the fear of leaving the house.
My agoraphobia actually came in handy during the lockdown, because I was able to commiserate and help people who felt trapped by being stuck at home deal with their issues. I also didn't have to explain why I never went out anymore.
Glad you’re back- you look like the break did ya good :) seem refreshed or something- just happy you’re back :)
So am I lol
I suffer from ablutophobia. Mine stems from childhood abuse. I also have a fear of two fictional characters so I was surprised that was the fake phobia.
I knew someone who had the Pickle Phobia and was willing to talk about at lunch one time at work.
She said that pickles look like fingers and olives look like eyes in formaldehyde.
She said her phobia started in grade 8 when they first where shown two different jars to be passed around the room containing fingers and the other was tongues. But the greenish color and some of wrinkling of the fingers and tongues is what stuck in her mind. After that she couldn't eat pickles. Things like pickled peppers that the brine is more a off white- yellow and the peppers retain their bright natural color don't bother her. But olives and cucumber pickles are the real ones that completely cause a Phobia response.
This seems like a mild thing and not much of an issue because initially to those without this Phobia, it seems like "well don't buy pickles".
Except that many buffets, banquets, pot lunch events, seminars etc include trays of pickles. This can cause great anxiety for people with this Phobia to the extent of not attending or have panic attacks if it is a mandatory work function because often you cannot opt out.
Pickles are pretty much a common item in restaurants just like cheese and can be found in your food that you may have ordered but is not explicitly listed on the menu. Most people do not have pickle allergies so restaurants may not list that the dish you order contains pickles. Sometimes they are used as a garnish as well.
For people with this Phobia, they often either have to explicitly ask the waiter if any pickles will be present but others eating with them may have plates of food with pickles. This often results in these individuals to not want to go to restaurants and they can develop an additional fear of being asked to go to restaurants or other food related events further interfering with their social life.
I think phobia is a misnomer in some cases. It's defined as an irrational fear. Like someone even saying there is snake in the house and a panic ensues in someone who is afraid without any evidence this is even really happening. They might sweat, scream, and run away without needing to confirm there is a danger. Saying someone is phobic of poison, heights, or being run over for example, would be silly. You SHOULD be afraid of dying so if a real threat presents itself, you aren't phobic, you're surviving. You have instincts to help you avoid danger. We just need to redefine phobia imo. Some are very rational fears.
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I have aquaphobia. Fear of pretty much all water, including showers and rain, for irrational reasons. But it's very difficult to live with
I developed a fear of dogs after being attacked by 2 full grown German shepherds that were trained to be vicious and happened to get loose. I was 5 and helping my mom bring in groceries when they came out of the alley. My mom in a panic ran inside and closed the door leaving me outside between the front door and our screen door that couldn't close all the way. It was in the evening and have been terrified of dogs ever since.
Waz up Mike man glad to see you again thanks for the video
I have submechanophobia.
Wikipedia: Submechanophobia is a fear of submerged human-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater. These objects could be shipwrecks, statues, animatronics as seen in theme parks, or old buildings, but also more mundane items such as buoys and miscellaneous debris.
If I’m swimming in water, I absolutely cannot touch anything such as the underside of boats, buoy chains, ropes or anything unnatural. I can’t swim next to things like piers/metal structures and I’m also afraid of swimming next to the wave machines in swimming pools 🥲
I haven't seen your face in a while! Looking good!
I am one of these people that suffers from Somniphobia. It's not a strong fear but as someone who has had episodes of sleep paralysis and insomnia and night terrors...it is scary. Really scary. I once suffered from sleep paralysis 4 times within a month. It got so bad I wouldn't sleep until my body fainted from exhaustion. Thankful I haven't had an episode of that since last year, but I suffer from night terrors almost daily. Wake up screaming but no clue what I dreamed. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Looking good MIKE!!!
YAY! welcome back!!
I have automatonophobia: the fear of human-like figures, specifically pedophobia (the fear of dolls).
My parents dropped me off at my aunt and uncle's for a night and I was forced to sleep in my cousins' room, with ALL 4 having porcelain dolls. I never felt SO anxious in my life: I was afraid the second I fell asleep, I was dead meat!
I was SO GLAD when morning came!
I can understand the doll one cause I always thought dolls were alittle creepy, that is why I never liked playing with them as child
Fortunately, no one has a phobia of TH-cam. It’s a great way to relax.
I have a fear of large dogs, not dogs in general (except I avoid long-haired dogs due to allergies). I'm always afraid of them jumping on me, even just in friendship. I also get nervous about not being in water I can't stand in, over five feet, most likely because I have a hard time floating or treading water (I only float naturally on my stomach).
I also used to think of myself as "people claustrophobic", that too many people in too small a space ratcheted up my anxiety, and I also hate being singled out, like a spotlight is on me, it makes me so anxious. I realize now that it's due to being introverted and socially anxious, but I DON'T hate people, I just prefer smaller crowds or have more space apart from them. The space of one person standing between us helps immensely.
Mike!!! My friend you are back the original host of list 25. Man when you left I stopped listening. The new host for a while was not all that great and was not even funny like you man I am so glad that you returned!!! I will keep subscribed. So I wanted to say 2 things here about phobias. Wow. Very amazing. So when i was a child I had a fear of cuckoo clocks. I thought the bird was going to come down and eat me or something and it made a weird unfamiliar sound. Not like anything I had heard before. I would scream bloody murder like someone was killing me when it was just the sound of the cuckoo clock. Well, now an adult I listen to cuckoo clocks all the time at night and remember my child hood. I got over that fear when I was in 4th grade. I just automatically got over it and was realizing over time that their was really nothing to bee afriad of. It was just a clock that made a very funny sound. Yea…. Those were the days… alright the thing I wanted to mention. So beeing a working pianist and born with pianos hahaha my family was and still are musicans. Yes. I was the one to take the piano because everyone was intimidated by its greatness. Yes. It is a big and beautiful instrument but it also is intimidating at that. Proud to bee one of its players. So I looked up to see if their was such a phobia of pianos and their actually is…. I laughed at this and I think that it was before ou returned to list 25. The phobia of pianos is “Plano phobia.” I probably didn’t spell that correctly. The fear of pianos. Why would someone bee afraid of pianos well, I really think that people are afraid because of past experiences of teachers and having to bee at an extremely demanding instrument. Very bad experiences and some people don’t mix. If someone has a very bad experience with learning an instrumnt they will become afraid of it. I never knew that that was such a thing but it is. Some people will never touch a piano again and maybe even listening to it because it will just bring up bad memories of when they were taking up lessons. I mean the piano is such an intimidating instrument already and then bring on top of that a really bad teacher??? I could see why maybe their would bee a phobia for this. But yes. The fear of pianos is called. “Plano phobia.” Their is actually some phobias of flutes as well and the flute actually is one of the most relaxing instruments in the world. But i wanted to bring that up. I have been actually researching this to see if their is actually such thing as beeing afraid of pianos or if their actually is a phobia. I looked it up on line to see what the name of it was. Also. Their is a phobia for cuckoo clocks as well. It is a really long word but it is the phobia of cuckoo clocks. As far as the piano goes though I never knew their was a phobia for this. I mean the piano is the lead instrumnt and it is played in everything. You really can’t get around not hearing a piano on a day to day basis. Beings that the piano is my work I don’t listen to it before i go to bed because I play the thing every day but hahahahahahaha that doesn’t mean that I am afraid of my work hahahahaha. Actually listening to a piano before I go to bed just keeps me awake and thinking about work. That is the connection that i have with listening to it. When I hear a piano before I go to bed I connect with that instantly my brain is wired like a true pianist. I can’t just relax and listen to a piano. It just makes me think of work so I try and listen to other things before bed hahaha. Sometimes I will just look up piano things on line and torture myself with work before bed but not often. Great reminder of what i have to do though for the next day it basically says “you have work tomorrow!” That is the reminder that comes up in my brain.
I don't know if it has a name, but I have a terrible fear of open wooden stairs
11:01 No, other phobias are not related to a fear of death - at least not for all people. It’s a fear of pain and/or suffering. Even a person who has no fear of dying and even welcomes it can still have phobias.
The phone addiction…that’s how it feels for addicts when they can’t get their drug BUT, if someone loses their phone they’re just gonna freak out until they find it. Addicts will freak out they can’t find their drugs but also go into withdrawal. So imagine not finding your phone, you’ve ripped everything apart, your house looks like a tornado hit it, you are begging people to help you but everyone is turning their backs,, you’re starting to sweat and get pains in your stomach. The sweating gets more and more and now you are going between the chills and being hot, sweating through your clothes. Your whole body aches and nothing you do will help at all. Your stomach is now rumbling nonstop and now you’re starting diarrhea. Now you’re at the point that you just lay on the bathroom floor because you don’t know what’s gonna come out of where and when. This is a real experiment doctors have done to people. They take their phones for undetermined amount of time. The scientists know how long, but the test subjects don’t. You may be able to find the video on TH-cam. It really made a lot of people understand a little bit better of what addicts go through daily. It’s NOT fun.
I have massive PTSD, some days are easier than others, but if you have it, you are not alone.
even after i felt desensitized from horror movies and games. Ex. franchises RE, DS,SH(s), amnesia, etc. Subnautica made me realize i had thalasmaphobia. Not ocean persay, but the deep parts. Then there is iron lung.
I have Hoplophobia, (pronounced [ˌhɔpləˈfoʊbiə]), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, a fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.
your videos are very informative and entertaining. I started watching the 25 phobias segment knowing that I don't have any and at the end I had "em all... 😉. all kidding aside, I related to plutophobia (fear of money) and eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors). when the Powerball lottery was nearing $2B I seriously thought about what I would do with what I considered a "disgusting amount of money" and despite the minute chances of winning, it actually caused me a little anxiety thinking about it. interestingly enough I worked in finance and accounting for most of my professional life so I am familiar with the effort and responsibility that comes with it which probably had a lot to do with the anxiety. I concluded that I would hire a reputable financial consultant and pay him or her to deal with it. But who? My phobia concerning mirrors is much easier to explain. when I look in the mirror it destroys my extremely positive self-image.
I have a fear of open spaces, crowed places, powerlines, eletrical wires (certain types), traffic cone primarily the orange ones with reflective stripes, spiders, Heights, tight spaces, and trucks (simis), primarily when in a vehicle next to them, and a fear of not having my phone
I missed this channel. It's good to hear I'm Mike from list 25 again
It's good to say it again
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Check out our video from last week. I talk about that. The GUESS WHO'S BACK thumbnail one.
Hey! It's great to see you again!
SEVERE ophidiophobia here (raising hand). I am mortified by snakes. Even garden snakes. It took my kids years to talk me into go into the herpetarium at the zoo, and even then I hyperventilated and ran out the first 5 times. My big brother was arachnophobia and I kid you not, he once shot his refrigerator because there was a spider crawling on it. (he didn't live near anyone).
I have xinxiangphobia - the crippling fear of mail or mailboxes. Imagine having a panic attack every time you open your mail.
I'm claustrophobic, hate needles and freak out over earwigs.
23:34 I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), but it’s not a fear of everything, per se. It’s constantly feeling anxious or worried for no particular reason. Kind of a permanent sense that something bad is going to happen. It’s not fun. The stress alert on my watch goes off all the time.
That you didn't mention my phobia makes me less phobic about my phobia, lol.
I have a colleague who has an intense fear of walking through underpassses. He literally runs through them. He fears that the overpass will fall on him. it's called Gephyrophobia.
Both of my daughters have a phobia. My oldest has a phobia about the word "knee". She doesn't like to say it, hear it or see the word. My youngest has a phobia about cotton balls and the cotton found in medicine bottles. She also can't stand to hear the sound if someone walking in snow
You wrong about agoraphobia however. I suffer from a mild form of it related to my PTSD. The exact definition is as follows: Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult
I was a waitress in our downtown business district. At lunch hour our customers were bamkers, lawyers, stock brokers, etc..I had a regular customer who always made sure to mention, "No pickle" One day we were so busy, I had to have my co-worker to deliver his burger basket (I rang in no pickle, but it was overlooked) Suddenly there was a screech and a commotion that made me pause and see what was the matter..turns out he had a fear of pickles, and literally jumped back almost screaming when the basket containing his lunch had a Pickle in it...
Ficto-whatever it was, fear of a fictional phobia - I can tell you without a doubt that I was terrified of JAWS, Freddy Kruger and Elm Street, and two of the fictional characters in an episode of the X-files.
Im so happy you are back Mike you are a phenomenal host your list are always amazing
Some people are having such a problem with The Little Mermaid being played by Halle Bailey, could that be an example of Fictofabriphobia?
Omg. I actually have clinically diagnosed somniphobia. I have extremely severe night terrors which are caused by diagnosed PTSD. The longest I have been awake at once, was 6 days. I usually sleep about 10-15 hours per week.
I am legally disabled because of the severity of my Agoraphobia. Its so severe that last time I talked to my physiatrist, I was explaining how I'm beating myself up over not working working right now. She told me, very point blank, there is absolutely zero possibility of me being employable, because of the level of my disorder. Its absolutely nothing for me to to not leave my apartment and not speak to anyone for up to 2 months straight.
Agoraphobia is the most messed up and hardest to understand of all disorders in psychology.
I don't really fear money. I just absolutely detest it and everything it stands for.