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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Diagnosing a Killer, the mental breakdown.
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all I have. Give us your opinion. Content warning, this mental breakdown will discuss
multiple different phobias. Some of these may be triggering to people that have these
fears, so just let everyone know. We are going to be talking about specific fears, most common
fears. This episode is not for you. We'll see you on the next one. Yeah. Love you. Love
you, bye. We're gonna get into this mental breakdown. I am really excited about this
one. I was brainstorming and brainstorming and I said, what have we not covered yet?
And I wanted to kind of go back to my old actual DSM-5 diagnoses, things like that.
So today, we are going to be talking about common and rare phobias. Ooh. Spicy. Yes.
So I'm gonna go ahead and list. I think there's like 10 common phobias in order from like
most common to least. Okay. And then like 21, like rare ones, but I'll just like pepper
through those real quick. Okay. Shut them up. But before we get started talking about
the specific disorders, what is a phobia? I'm sure that a lot of people are under the
assumption that it's just a, you know, fear of something, but it's actually in the DSM-5
under disorder class anxiety disorders. And it is marked as persistent fear that is excessive
or unreasonable, queued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation.
Hmm. Yeah. So of course, we all know the common ones. I'm gonna get into some of those right
now. The first one that we have is social phobia, also known as social anxiety disorder.
This is severe stress that can affect your relationships, daily routines, work, school,
and other activities. It can be a chronic mental health condition, but learning coping
skills in therapy and taking medications if needed can also help gain confidence and improve
your odds to grow out of it if you want. Interesting. Symptoms of social anxiety disorder are feelings
of shyness or discomfort in certain situations, fear of situations in which you may be judged
negatively, worrying about embarrassing or humiliating yourself, intense fear of interacting
or talking with strangers, fear that others will notice you look anxious, fear of physical
symptoms that may cause you embarrassment such as blushing, sweating, trembling, or
having a shaky voice. I feel like I might have had this one point. I feel like everyone
might have had this one point. It is the most common. That's true. Avoidance of situations
where you might be the center of attention, anxiety and anticipation of feared activity
or event, etc. Things of that nature. Social anxiety disorder typically begins in the early
to mid teens, which makes sense because that would be around the time where you're starting
to be really conscious about other people around you and how people perceive you. Although
it can sometimes start in younger children or in adulthood as well. For children, anxiety
about interacting with adults or peers may be shown by crying, having temper tantrums,
clinging to parents or refusing to speak in social situations. We've all seen a child
trying, their parents trying to get them to like order something at a restaurant and
they're like, won't. They say thank you to the nice lady. Some physical symptoms of this
disorder, blushing, fast heartbeat, trembling, sweating, upset stomach or nausea, trouble
catching your breath, dizziness or lightheadedness, feeling that your mind has gone blank and
muscle tension. That sounds like me in public speaking. It like makes me nervous talking
about it. I'm terrified to do a panel honestly because it's going to be that. Oh yeah. Oh
my god. Definitely. I'm going to have to have a few tequila's before. Honestly, probably
fucking same. Hopefully the hotel has a bar. I'm sure it does. Social anxiety disorder
symptoms can change over time and person to person. They may flare up if you're facing
a lot of changes, stress or demands in your life. And although avoiding situations that
produce anxiety may make you feel better in the short term, your anxiety is likely to
continue over the long term if you don't seek treatment. So treatment can literally be anything
like educating yourself on why you're feeling certain ways or if it's more severe of course
seeing a therapist. Yeah. Or just exposure, right? And getting, you know, take a speech
class. Exactly. I kind of got away with like not taking a speech class in high school because
I had like an extra, I was taking an extra dance course. Yeah. So they told me that
I could do speech online. Do you remember that? No. We did. I had to do a video of myself.
The amount of air that just came out of your lungs. I had to record. You were there. I'm
pretty sure maybe not. Maybe you had already moved out. But I had to record a video of
myself giving a speech, like a paper that I had written in front of at least like seven
people. And it was like me, Lindsay and Paige. We were here. And then of course like mom
and dad. And that was only five and no one else was here. And so we had Paige and Lindsay
hold Cameron's mannequin shut up at the top of the school. So it looked like more people
were sitting on the couch. Was that mom's idea? Yes. I knew it. Definitely mom's idea.
It makes sense that because you if you and Cameron were here, the way you're in. Oh
my God. It's funny. See nowadays you could just have a bunch of people on zoom, you know,
that's true. Yeah. It's interesting that you wouldn't even need to have seven people
in the same room or pretend mannequin or pretend mannequin heads. And lastly for social anxiety
disorder, it's estimated that about 12% of the population has had that some point in
their lives. Just quite a few people. Yes. The next one is trypophobia. Trypophobia. Yes.
And I'm sure a lot of listeners know what this is. I'm sure you do from if you have
tiktok. I feel like everyone talks about it on tiktok. It was just the holy one. Yes.
So I hate this. Oh my God. I hate this. So gosh, so many images just rushed through my
head right now and I hate it all. I'm sorry. Well, I'm going to try to get through this
quickly. Okay. Trypophobia brings on feelings of disgust or fear when you see patterns with
lots of holes. Sunflowers, honeycombs, sponges and seedy fruits can cause this response.
Trypophobia is a type of anxiety disorder. Most people don't have a true fear of holes
and exposure therapy may help you manage repulsions to holy patterns. I think for me,
it's not necessarily like a sponge or something like that or honeycombs. That doesn't bother
me. I think when it's in combination with like, because I have a really, like I hate
facial distortion stuff like in scary movies and stuff. So anything that's like that that
has to do with abnormal holes, holy faces. Like when people do like the effects makeup
and stuff, I just want to punch them. No, yeah, honestly, that kind of like gives me
the heaps too, but not as much, I guess. So yeah, I kind of already went over triggers.
I'm not going to like say those again. Okay, great. Thanks. Now, most people become aware
of trypophobia after news stories reported that people reacted negatively to clusters
of tiny camera lenses on certain smartphones. I'm not sure if you know that, but when the
iPhone came out with the three camera back, a lot of people were like, Oh, I don't like
the way that looks, you know, like the two camera was fine, but then three like wasn't
interesting. So that was when a lot of people became aware that they might have had that
disorder. In addition, the TV show American Horror Story cult featured a character who
had trypophobia. So the show included triggering images that of course repulsed some viewers
and increased awareness, although the disorder actually wasn't even named until 2005. So
it's like a relatively new name to diagnose. Interesting. Now, we don't know exactly what
causes trypophobia. One theory is that the brain associates clusters of holes with danger.
For example, you may associate a pattern of small holes with the skin of a venomous snake
or the eyes of a tarantula. So that's seemingly where the fear comes from. Or the holes may
remind you of skin disease or skin rashes, which kind of sounds like your thing, like
a plague thing. Yeah, exactly. Some symptoms of trypophobia include chills, choking or dry
mouth, fast breathing and heart rate, intense feeling of disgust or terror, pale skin, profusive
sweating, nausea or trembling and shaking. And lastly about trypophobia, the prevalence
is only about 17% of children and adults, but that is one in six people that experienced
it. Yeah.
Number three. Top 100. This one is called a ticophobia. It is the fear of failure. Kind
of sad. Oh yeah. A ticophobia is an intense fear of failure. It may cause you to put off
or avoid any activity or scenario that has the potential for an unsuccessful outcome.
I mean, I'm not afraid to talk about this, but I was part of a 12 step program when I
was about like 20. And I didn't want to go to college. I was like, college isn't for
me. I'm going to be like, you know, be a Margera and just make video skits all day long and
not have a college degree and be famous somehow. And content creation is still happening here.
It's true. Yeah. I was told that I was a perfectionist and I was like, how am I a perfectionist?
Like I don't go to school. I barely work. Like how am I a perfectionist? Because you
think perfection, you want to be the best at everything all the time.
Perfect. Yeah.
And yeah, my sponsor said it's because you're not trying essentially. Like you're so afraid
to fail. Therefore you are perfect because if you put yourself out there and you fail,
then you're no longer perfect. Yeah. Yeah. It's real and it's scary.
Carried that for over 15 years now. So damn. Well, I think you're doing great. Thanks.
So a ticophobia comes from the Greek word a tickus meaning unfortunate. Oh, that's
unfortunate. People with a ticophobia may avoid any situation again where they see potential
for failure such as an exam or a job interview. But it can also mean being afraid of a failed
relationship, a failed career or being a disappointment to others. That hurts. Sorry.
The fear often becomes self fulfilling. For example, if you're so scared of failing a
test, you may refuse to take the class, then you may end up failing the entire class. Yeah.
Fear of failure can lead to a broad range of emotional and psychological problems, including
shame, depression, anxiety, panic attacks and low self esteem. It may negatively affect
how you perform at school or work or how you interact with friends and family. A ticophobia
is different from a telephobia, which is a fear of imperfection. So it's a difference.
And I didn't look at the definition. I didn't even do the research. So what causes a ticophobia?
Several things. Family history, if a mental health disorder such as phobia, anxiety or
depression run in your family, you may be more likely to have these conditions. Learned behavior,
you may have grown up in an environment where people taught you that failure was unacceptable
or anything less than perfect was failure. Yeah. And or traumatic experiences. So if
you've suffered abuse or severe punishment as a result of failure, you may fear experiencing
those consequences again. A ticophobia is kind of hard to know like how prevalent it
is because most people keep the fear to themselves or may not even recognize that they have it.
We do know that about one in 10 American adults and one in five teenagers will deal with a
specific phobia, but not necessarily this one in their lives.
Number four. Sanitophobia. This is the fear of death. Okay. Not what I thought it was.
And I don't know. It may or may not be on your list, but the one that I think of the
most that I think I'm most fearful of and it's considered to be irrational is that
like the big open like crevices in the world like in the earth.
Ooh, like the Grand Canyon? Maybe not specifically the Grand Canyon because there's kind of like
a bottom to it. But if there's no bottom, you know what I'm talking about? Well, I don't
like the ocean for that reason. Like I don't like not like I don't like being in the ocean
where I can't touch that freaks me the fuck out.
Yeah. And there's like photos of like someone like diving, but yeah, it's like a whole.
Yeah, I hate that shit. I don't think that's in here. Okay.
So then a top phobia again, fear of death is an extreme fear of death or the dying process.
You might be scared of your own death or the death of a loved one. Another name for this
condition is death anxiety. And it is actually different than necrophobia. Necrophobia is
a fear of dead things. Yeah, not like dying.
I used to have like existential crises when I was like 17 or 18 years old and I would
lay in bed and I would just like cry because I knew one day I would die. I do that. I actually
did that last night.
Say I do that all the time. Yeah, I just did that last night.
I stopped obsessing about it within the last years and last few years. But yeah, when I
was younger, for sure, I was like, everyone around me will die. I will die. We will all
cease to exist.
And it's really heavy. It's scary. If you ever hear me like all of a sudden like fly
out of my room and like run through the hallway or through the living room, that's me like
freaking the fuck out for a second. And I just walk around the game room and then I
just come back to bed and I'm fine. It's the weirdest thing that happens like probably
once or twice a week. Really?
Yes. I am petrified to die.
I got well, I'm not it's not that I'm not scared to die. It's just that I don't dwell
on it anymore. Yeah. And I don't either. Here's the here's the fucked up thing is that I only
really happens when I'm like sober and trying to fall asleep. That's why we drink. Okay,
that's why I drink so much.
That's true.
The voices are so loud.
I know. Jesus Christ.
I need therapy.
So tana, Thanatophobia can affect adults and children. Of course, it's more common in adults
because of the wherewithal of the mental understanding.
But it's more common in people who are in poor health or receive a diagnosis of serious
illness. People that don't have religious beliefs, people that feel a sense of dissatisfaction
within their life, have low self esteem, have other phobias or mental health disorders such
as depression and anxiety, have parents or loved ones who are elderly, ill or dying,
people that lack close family members or friends and people that witness illness trauma or
violence in their jobs such as like healthcare workers.
Oh my gosh.
Like, yeah, people, first responders.
Yeah, definitely.
If you have sanatophobia, thoughts of death may cause intense feelings of panic, fear,
dread or depression. You may avoid places or situations that seem dangerous. You may
also become obsessed with your health, constantly searching for signs of illness, almost kind
of turned into like a hypochondria situation.
Yeah, it's going to shape hypochondria.
And other physical symptoms might include chills, dizziness, lightheadedness, excessive
sweating, heart palpitations, nausea, shortness of breath, trembling or shaking and upset
stomach or indigestion. And honestly, like, my heart like palpitates when I get worried
about this and then it makes me like even more scared because I'm like, shit, now I'm
going to make it happen.
Yeah, when I get anxiety attacks and stuff like that, I usually get really bad acid reflux.
Like, oh yeah.
And if I'm having a stressful day or stressful situation, I know several friends that know
that about me that I'll be like, you know, I'll say like, oh my gosh, my heart burns
so bad. And you know, I had this one friend that was always like, are you feeling stressed?
You know, I mean, he would just know.
Well, because it causes your stomach acid to come up and that's why it makes you nauseous
too, because it like increases the production of stomach acid. And lastly about Thanatophobia,
one study shows that between three and 10% of people might have this phobia.
Number five.
This is nocophobia.
Nope.
Nocophobia is when you have a persistent irrational fear of contracting a chronic, often life-threatening
disease such as cancer or HIV AIDS. And that's a quote.
So it's, it's a hypochondria just on the, the most extracellular scale.
Yes, exactly. So it says nocophobia differs from illness, anxiety disorder or hypochondria,
which causes you to worry about all types of sickness. So this is just like chronic
illnesses.
Oh, like fatal illnesses.
Yes. Chronic illness that chronic illness or terminal, terminal illness.
Yes.
What I meant.
Research indicates that all sexes and ages are at risk for this disorder, but people who
are older might be more prone to nocophobia because it includes fear of dying as well.
Like that's typically the people that have both. People with obsessive compulsive disorder
may also have a higher risk. So I'm sure we've talked about this before, but OCD causes you
to need, have control over situations, including like whether or not you get sick. So it makes
sense that they would go kind of co-morbid together.
Interesting.
Other risk factors include being seriously ill as a child, family history of inheritable
disease, caring for a loved one with a serious illness or a loss of loved one with a disease,
growing up with a parent who has illness, anxiety disorder or hypochondria and gene mutations
that increase your risk of an anxiety disorder.
I had an ex-boyfriend who, or I have an ex-boyfriend I've had, but have an ex-boyfriend that he
was really sick when he was a kid and he was terrified, especially all throughout COVID.
He was terrified to get sick.
Oh yeah, I don't blame him.
And he was, well yeah, nobody wants COVID. I'm just, you know, I could just see that
it was, it was all he could think about.
Well it's like the last time I got sick, like I almost died. So what happens if I get
sick again, you know?
Exactly.
That's scary. Now it's hard knowing exactly how many people have this specific phobia,
again, about one in 10 adults and one in five teens do experience some sort of phobia.
These are just general prevalence.
Number six is arachnophobia.
Oh, I love piter.
You used to hate spiders.
I know. I think it was just because, well, you talked earlier about trypophobia and how
because your brain just instinctually is like, stay away from that, it looks disturbing.
I think it might be a little bit of that when I was growing up. Of course, again, you know,
I don't know, I've grown into my love for spiders. Even my son ran into my room the
other day and was like, I found a spider and I was like, a little one or a big one. He
goes, it's kind of big.
And I walked in there, it wasn't that big. But I said, what do you want to do with it?
You can keep it in your room or you can take it outside. And he goes, hmm, I think I'll
let it, I'll think I'll let it go outside. And I was like, okay, but he thought about
it because he knows that they eat little gnats or whatever, you know, little bugs.
Yeah.
I love them.
Spiders don't bug me. Honestly.
Spiders don't bug me at all.
They really don't.
Fear of spiders becomes a phobia when it consumes your thoughts and it interferes with your
daily activities and keeps you from socializing with your family and friends, which I have
never seen a case that severe.
Severe.
But it can happen.
Wow.
Symptoms of arachnophobia include sweating or shaking and tightness in your chest or
rapid heartbeat, trouble concentrating and functioning and your thoughts becoming consumed
of thoughts of spiders, fear of spiders and even like keeping you up at night.
People with arachnophobia typically avoid places or situations in which they might experience
a spider or spider web or even see pictures of them.
So no camping.
No camping.
No science classes.
Not even glamping because it's still out there.
People with arachnophobia may choose to stay where they feel most comfortable and turn
down social gatherings, family friend activities or, you know, gatherings in general.
Yeah.
Can't go to the family reunion in the park.
Yeah, exactly.
They might scream, run or cry if they see a spider or freeze in place if they see a
spider.
So it's like fight or flight, honestly.
And lastly, about 3 to 15% of the population has arachnophobia.
That's quite a bit.
Yes.
The next one is...
I'm gonna have you guess this one.
Guess it?
Yeah.
It's called Vihophobia.
Vihophobia.
Vih.
Cool.
Oh.
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So Vihophobia is the fear of driving.
This often follows very serious car accidents and can result in the loss of independence
for victims.
These victims are often frozen in fear at the prospect of getting behind the wheel again,
so they're at the mercy of public transport, expensive rideshares, or their friends.
It's different for every person, of course, depending on what triggered it or caused it
to begin.
While one person may avoid all aspects of driving, another may just avoid the highway
because their accident happened at high speeds versus the other person.
I had a friend that was like that and he was terrified to drive.
He only just got his license in the last few years.
Oh man, scary.
I would feel like so...
I have to be able to drive.
I know.
I'm such a control freak.
I always offer to drive.
Although when I did get in that accident, it wasn't that bad, but it could have been
really bad.
I was really scared.
I got in the car, but I was really scared.
But I didn't have my license at that point either, so it was just a passenger.
The worst accident I had ever been in, somebody else was driving, and since then I was like,
I'm never allowing anybody to drive.
Yeah, I think that's where it comes from.
Fucking pass.
Fucking mint.
Now when this disorder becomes very serious, victims who suffer from it are honestly sometimes
unable to even get in a car as a passenger.
I'm pretty sure OCD is the core ability for that one, isn't it?
Oh, I'm sure it is.
I don't think it said it, but I'm sure it is.
I've definitely seen a few cases where people had become to ritualize daily activities in
their routine because of a terrible car accident they've experienced.
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Even physical symptoms of viofobia include increased heart rate, shallow breathing, sweating
hands, trembling hands, tense muscles in the shoulder, neck, or face, difficulty relaxing,
chest pain, nausea, feeling excessive fear, and panic attacks.
That's really sad.
And lastly, about 5% of the population has viofobia.
Then we go on to claustrophobia.
Fear of enclosed spaces.
I feel like I actually have this because I get claustrophobic in here.
I don't know how you sit over there.
I can sit over here because my back is turned to the wall.
That's my thing.
My back turned to the wall, even restaurants and stuff.
Me too, but my claustrophobia is more intense than my need to know what's behind me.
I like to have the exit, right?
Oh, you do?
Oh, no, I couldn't do that.
I would be paranoid the whole time that somebody was behind me.
Well, I would feel trapped if I was sitting there.
And you can see behind me, so I know that you're not going to let anyone kill me.
You're just going to sit there and smile.
Hey, how's it going?
Yeah, exactly.
Guy behind you.
I think I'm okay with enclosed spaces.
I like to be, like I like to tuck myself in at night.
I like to be curled up in a little ball.
Oh, yeah, you have that gross weighted blanket that makes me want to throw up.
My son uses it now.
Mom has one too, and I don't like it.
It makes me feel like I can't breathe, literally.
It's great for neurodivergent people.
That's just the whole thing.
It's meant to feel like a hug.
But I feel like I'm both.
I like the way to blanket.
It's so hot right now, I can't do it.
Although, you know what?
I don't like being touched.
Oh, yeah, I see, you know.
Like, I don't.
Like, the Casey is the only person I will get really close to me.
I just, ugh.
Yeah, don't fucking touch me.
You're a hugger, though.
When I'm drunk.
How many Patrons have you had?
How many Casamigos have you had?
Seriously.
So, claustrophobia, fear of enclosed spaces, becomes a phobia when it interferes with your
ability to function at work, school, or other daily activities.
I guess I don't have it then, because it doesn't interfere that much.
Common triggers include tunnels, elevators, trains, and airplanes, although I freak the
fuck out on airplanes.
I freak out on airplanes, but it's the whole driving thing.
I'm not driving the plane.
It's nothing to do with being enclosed.
I get nervous on airplanes.
Have you ever seen the descent?
No.
Ugh, the descent is so good.
I think I was talking to...
It was either Joe or Brady, but I was like, have you ever seen the descent?
It's so fucking good.
And yeah, you'll get real claustrophobic watching that one, because it's all about spelunking.
Pass.
Yeah.
And at one point, they're trying to rush through this little cave part, and the cave is collapsing.
Oh, hell no.
Yeah.
Well, it's not even a cave.
It's like this...
You have to crawl, and she starts...
Nope.
Absolutely fucking not.
If you have claustrophobia, you feel...
Fabia.
It's not like a frat guy.
Bro, you ever get claustrophobia?
That was so involuntary.
Because I was going to say, feel right afterwards, claustrophobia, you fear agents.
You feel anxious about being in an enclosed space or tight fitting space.
You may have trouble concentrating and functioning.
You may be overwhelmed with thoughts about being in a confined space, and your thoughts
may keep you up at night.
About 12.5% of people in America suffer from claustrophobia, and that's quite a bit too.
The next one is acrophobia, which I also definitely fucking have.
It's the fear of heights.
Oh, yeah.
I am vertigo on the second floor of a house.
One of my high school friends, he put me on top of his SUV once.
He was so tall, he picked me up, and he placed me on top of his car, and I started crying.
Oh my gosh.
It's like, get down.
Yeah, you're really short, dude.
I know.
You can't just jump off.
I'm so low to the ground.
This is where I want to be.
This is where I'd like to be.
Thank you.
If you guys don't know us in person, I'm like, Coelle's big little sister, because I'm like,
what, six inches taller than you?
Yeah, I'm five two, and you're like-
I'm five nine.
Yeah.
I'm seven inches taller than you.
And she's eight years younger than me.
I was like, Cameron used to call me glamazon.
She's a champion.
So fear of heights, having an intense fear of situations that involve heights, such as
being in a tall building or even using a ladder.
The first day that I came in to think, I don't even know if it was the first day or second
day, but my coworker, Matt, was like, okay, so just go ahead and get on this ladder.
And I was like, huh?
And I was like, I have a fear of heights.
And he goes, yeah, no, you're going to have to get over that.
Like straight up, he told me, yeah, no, you're going to have to get over it.
Like, do you realize that you don't just get over things like that?
Yeah.
I had to do it anyways.
So.
Psychological symptoms include feeling intense fear and anxiety when thinking about looking
at or being in high places, fearing that something negative will happen in a high place
such as falling or being trapped in a high place, feeling a strong desire to escape if
you're in a high place.
My biggest fear is falling to my death.
And I still get intrusive thoughts when I'm somewhere to like, eat myself off the side.
He gets a lot of light being up there.
He gets the call of the void.
Just eat yourself off.
I never do it.
It'll be, it's one, it's one second of your life.
I mean, it's the last second of your life.
It's one second of your life.
Jesus Christ.
No, yeah, it's really scary though.
Have you ever explored on the Oculus going to like?
Absolutely not.
No.
Nope.
I can't even play like the gun shooting games as I get scared.
Like I feel like someone's really going to shoot me.
Well, they do things like where you can go to like Niagara Falls and you can like witness
it, but it's all aerial shots.
And so you feel like you're in the air.
Absolutely.
I know as long as my whole thing is even on planes, right?
Because as long as my feet are on the like the floor of the plane, I feel fine.
Like I feel like I'm, yeah, like I'm grounded.
Yeah, I first realized that I really like I'm being silly when I said like, I think I
have, I really think I have this.
I first realized that in middle school when I was an earth club and we went to Garner
State Park for a weekend for a camping trip and we climbed Mount Baldy and it's like this
really big hill that's on the mountain.
Like it didn't dawn on me where like what we were doing or how high we were going until
we were like already like 15, 20 feet like off the ground.
I was like, oh shit.
I like started freaking out and my professor or my teacher held my hand all the way up
there and he was really cute too.
So I was like, thanks.
Shout out to Mr. Ryan.
So he held my hand all the way up there.
We're standing on the top.
It's literally like a football field size flat platform on the top and I was in the
dead center of it and I still felt like I was going to fall.
Yeah.
It was that intense and on the way down I had to hold his hand and my other teacher's
hand like the whole way because I was so scared I was going to fall.
I remember I got made fun of at camp once because we had to climb up this like pole thing
and you had to like use the little pegs to like climb up it.
Yeah, I only made it like not even halfway and then I like got down and I was like crying
and everybody's like, I said, how far did I make it?
They're like, you were like two feet off the ground.
Oh my gosh.
That's like me though.
Crying.
Like I never took part in like the rock climbing shit.
Like even if it was like a let go, it would like slowly drop.
Absolutely not.
Blah, blah, blah.
Approximately 3% to 6% of people have acrophobia.
The next one is aerophobia, the fear of flying.
Like in a plane?
Yes, so it's the fear of like actually waking up one day and being able to fly.
That's the fear.
I mean, there's jet packs and shit like those aqua packs or whatever.
I feel like I would want to do that because then I fall and I fall in water.
Like that doesn't scare me for some reason.
I don't know.
But also, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess like if I was controlling it and I wasn't like attached to someone, I
think that might be okay.
So people with aerophobia may be scared about different aspects of flying.
So just take off, landing or getting locked in the plane.
Okay, nevermind.
You might know that this fear is irrational because statistics show that air travel has
the lowest death rates among any other forms of transportation.
But the thing is, is that the fear of aerophobia isn't actually the fear of the plane crashing.
Instead, it's the fear that comes with being on the plane.
Like you're not scared because you think it's going to crash.
You just don't want to be there in general.
Yeah.
I feel that.
And I fucking hate flying.
I mean, I'll do it, but I really don't like it.
I fucking hate flying.
I throw up like almost every time.
Next time we fly, I'm seriously going to have to take a fucking Xanax or something.
No, I'm going to have to put one of those circular motion sickness patches on my back
and I'm going to have to like get fucking wasted before we get on because I seriously
puke like almost every time.
When we were flying from, to and from New York, I mean, it was better on the way back,
but going up there, I was just like losing my shape.
I was sitting by my damn self.
How do you think I felt?
No, you weren't.
You were sitting on the-
Oh, you're right.
When was this?
What year is it?
Yeah.
I was like, honestly, like not trying to be rude, but I was ignoring you on purpose because
I didn't want to like exasperate it by like being like, are you okay?
Are you okay?
Straight up.
You know?
I, I, I recoil.
I get into my body like, and I, you know, my legs are just like, and I just, oh my gosh,
scary.
Yeah.
Aerophobia affects about 25 million adults in the U.S.
Now those were the top 10 most common.
We're just going to like ramble off these next like couple of ones because I want to
tell you all of them, but we're not going to like go into detail like we did with the
last stories.
And I'm going to fucking butcher all of these names.
I'm excited.
No particular order.
These are like the most rare ones.
Arachid butrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
That's cute.
Isn't that cute?
It's like Mr. Ed.
So this has happened to like everybody at one point or another, like anybody that can
eat peanuts or peanut butter, but sometimes people that have it like can eat like a small
amount of peanut butter.
Other times they can't eat any peanut butter at all because they're so scared of it like
getting stuck.
I'm not sure what it comes from.
I think it might be like a choking thing.
Yeah.
People are just terrified to choke.
Yes.
This next one is called Nomophobia.
Nomo.
And it is the fear of being without your phone.
Oh.
Yeah.
So obviously in today's world, everyone has their fucking phones on them all the time.
So it's not only being without your phone completely, but it's also the fear of having
your phone like die and not have a charger or having like no service.
So it's just like not being able to have that lifeline if you need it.
Yeah.
I thought about that last night.
I was like, my phone's only at 50%.
Should I bring my charger with me?
But could you imagine if that was like your fear that you had to?
I literally let my phone die before I plug it in.
Like I'd never plug it in before it's dead.
I have to wait for that 10% notification.
Yeah.
You know what?
I don't know that risky.
I'll go out like 10% off.
Mathophobia is the fear of numbers.
Most people grow up dreading math class.
Math class?
Shit.
Fear of math.
It's just fear of numbers makes it really hard to do math and they think that it comes
from dyslexia diagnosis because people are so afraid of being made fun of or judged by
not being able to properly read numbers or letters.
Plutophobia.
Planets.
The fear of money.
Pluto.
Which I, why pluto?
I don't know.
I don't have that.
I have the opposite.
I want all the money.
So fear of money or wealth.
Also fear of wealthy people or becoming wealthy.
Oh, I can get that.
Fear of becoming wealthy?
No, fear of wealthy people.
Oh, well, yeah.
I mean, like that's just like not ruining the world.
Bart David Chapman.
Imagine, oh, okay.
Xanthophobia.
Xantho.
It's fear of the color yellow.
Oh.
Shit.
There's yellow on my screen.
I tried to show her the scares.
It just scared me in what you were doing in general.
Yell at anybody and go, ah, they probably be terrified.
So being afraid of the color yellow or objects that are commonly yellow, such as school buses
or flowers.
Bananas.
Bananas, yeah.
Avoid the color yellow at all costs and find yellow foods to be distressing.
This phobia tends to interfere with everyday life as yellow things can be found everywhere.
Self-explanatory.
I mean, the fucking sun is yellow.
Yeah, for real.
This one is called a blutophobia.
A bluto.
It's the fear of bathing.
I don't have that.
I definitely don't have that.
I have a problem with bathing.
I'm like lazy.
I love bathing.
It's my favorite.
I don't like taking showers.
I really don't because it's a pain in the ass, but like I like being clean.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So like I'll just fucking do it.
But like, no.
If I'm gonna take time out of my fucking day to take all of my clothes off and like bathe
myself, I'm gonna do it as long as I want to.
Yeah, you take really long baths.
I do.
It's a process.
It's not, you know.
This is fear of bathing, washing or cleaning oneself in general.
It often occurs in children.
It resolves with age, but then it can be still present in adults.
May result from a traumatic event involving fear of water.
Octophobia.
Fear of eight?
Yes, fear of the number eight.
Good job.
I thought you were gonna say octopus.
So this is the specific fear of the number eight as it appears like written down.
Not like the thought of the number eight.
You know what I mean?
I thought that was interesting to add.
But this rarephobia may come from its resemblance to the infinity sign, which is really strange.
There used to be a guest that would come into Whole Foods all the time and they would look
at their total.
Like they bought the groceries, they did the math in their head.
When they would ring, I would ring everything up for them.
They wanted to know what the total was.
And if they didn't like the number, they would get something else.
That sounds like OCD.
And it was just really interesting to me.
I was like, oh, what was the total?
And then they'll want to look at the number of the tax and then the number of the subtotal,
the tax, and the total number.
And if they didn't like any of that, they would go get something or they'd take something
off.
That's gotta be so draining.
I have to be really, really patient.
Yeah, definitely.
Not to be confused with octophobia.
Octophobia.
What?
Something with visuals.
Something with your eyes.
Fear of opening your eyes.
Okay.
Just walk around like this.
Fear of opening your eyes?
Yes.
Dang.
People with optophobia may prefer to stay indoors or in dimly lit areas.
This is associated with generalized anxiety disorder and it's usually the result of a
traumatic incident.
Like seeing something that was traumatic maybe?
Maybe, yeah.
This next one is globophobia.
Fear of the world.
Fear of balloons.
Oh my God.
I know.
I was like, wouldn't it be like the globe?
The globe.
So, fear of balloons can range of course from person to person as does every disorder.
It can be especially hard for young children as balloons are often present at their parties
and brought on by a traumatic experience as a child such as popping a balloon and being
like frightened of the noise.
It can also be linked to chlorophobia, the fear of clowns.
And they're often found together, those two phobias.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I have a friend of mine who is terrified of, I don't know specifically if it's the fear
of watching a balloon float in the air.
She like hates it.
And I asked her, I was like, why?
And she goes, where the fuck do they go?
She fear, is it fear of littering?
I don't know.
I don't think it is.
It's just the act itself of like watching a balloon float in the air.
Maybe it's fear of space.
Because she doesn't know, it's so vast.
She doesn't know what's out there.
Maybe, yeah.
I always found that really just very unique.
Yeah.
I've never seen anybody not liking balloons in the air.
This next one is called effebophobia.
A what?
Effebophobia.
Sounds fresh.
Effebophobia, I don't know.
It's the fear of adolescents.
Just, oh yeah.
Fear of adolescents or youth, they perceive teenagers as out of control or dangerous and
believe they are rude, unpredictable and do not follow rules.
People with this disorder are afraid of teenagers and will not want to be around them.
They may avoid going to a friend's house if they have teenagers or avoid places where
teens hang out.
Omaphylophobia is the fear of belly buttons.
People with this disorder will avoid seeing or touching belly buttons even their own.
Sorry, I don't mean to laugh.
They might even put a bandage over their own belly button to avoid looking at it.
And they will sometimes avoid places where belly buttons might be exposed like the beach
or the pool.
I have heard of people getting belly button removal surgeries.
Have you heard about this?
Really?
Yes.
I have not heard of that.
Okay, Kyle, X, Y.
Exactly, yeah.
People are removing their belly buttons.
Yikes.
This one is called linonophobia.
Linonophobia.
It's totally pronounced something different.
It's me, Linono.
It's the fear of string.
Someone with this disorder will have an extreme reaction even when just thinking of string
let alone seeing it in person.
They will avoid string or having anything to do with string so they'll buy velcroed
shoes so they don't have to tie their shoes.
They don't use flaws?
Probably not.
Develops from a negative association with string that may stem from a fear of being
restrained or a restrained...
Yes, okay, I can see that.
So a person who experiences a traumatic event such as a kidnapping or a punishment may
develop this disorder, which is really sad.
Paganophobia is the fear of beard like facial hair.
Beard is just...
I didn't want you to think I was saying...
Bears, like a survey...
Oh.
The fear of bears.
So facial hair.
Okay.
Specifically a beard.
Yeah.
Not like a cover-up like when...
No.
Not like, yeah, this is my wife, my beard.
Yes, exactly.
No, so this can usually stem from an alarming incident with a bearded person or from a person
not liking the fact that a beard hides someone's face.
It's like a mask.
Like a mask.
So they'll usually not be friends with someone who has a beard and will feel extremely nervous
when talking to someone who does.
That's very unique.
And the last one.
Are you ready for this?
I don't know, am I?
Yes.
Hippopotamonstrosis quipidiliophobia.
Well, it's the fear of long words and it's the longest word in the English dictionary.
There's like...
There's like 35 letters.
There's more than that.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
I'm not laughing at the disorder.
I'm laughing at the fact that it is the longest word in the English dictionary and it's the
fear of long words.
That's unfortunate.
Yeah.
There's a name.
Fire that guy.
Fire him.
Yeah, for real.
Webster.
Yeah, Mr. Webster.
So another name for this phobia is sesquipidiliophobia.
It's believed that the phobia of long words develops from being embarrassed by pronouncing
long words incorrectly, which I just fucking did.
This may occur when reading aloud in front of the class as a child and this phobia can
be common with people that have dyslexia.
But that is all I have.
That was a bonus mental breakdown.
It was a long one for you guys.
What a roller coaster ride.
I know.
I was just thinking about it the other day and I was like, you know what, this is a really
good mental breakdown because we haven't talked about any of these really, even in our cases.
But yeah, that's all I have.
Do you have anything else?
No, that was great.
That was a lot of fun.
If you guys have any specific fears or phobias that you want to tell us about, that you want
to educate us, let us know.
Send us a DM, send us an email.
If you want to share your personal story with any of these, if you feel comfortable doing
so, by all means.
We want to hear from you guys.
We want to hear the good, the bad, the ugly, everything.
So message us and...
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