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I need my space...claustrophobic....don't fence me in so I can't even move!!!  In my car, if I end up in a bumper to bumper traffic jam, I become claustophobic.  Once I actually got out and started walking.    Elevators are  a little scary, too.  Sitting in the middle of a row of seats in a packed theatre......waiting in a crowded doctor's office.....even having someone sit or stand too close to me can stress me. 
The worst time was when I got arrested .  The officer handcuffed me and put me in the back seat of his car, then shut the door.  The windows were up and there was a partition between the front and back seats.  I couldn't move...trapped.....I had an anxiety attack in the car. 

I don't like heights, but my worst fear is rats. I can't help looking at them, but they make me shudder. Don't know how anyone can touch them or let them crawl on them. oh I'm shruddering now.

I am terrified of the dark, i am 55 yrs old and have tried to conquer this fear many times in my life, but its still with me,

i think its because the lady that used to look after me as a child used to lock me in her huge walnut wardrobe, if i am in the dark, i can feel the fear of when i was 3....they say the child makes the adult...

I'm scared when driving through mountains.  I agree with Bob that those guardrails aren't nearly tall enough!  Love flying though.

Rats.  I completely loose it. 

I have a fear of being homeless,even tho I've never been the fear is always there.

I have the fear of germs, I cannot go into public toilets,eat out at restaurants,etc.

No, I don't have any phobias, but I think a lot of people have a spelling phobia.

Ducky

Good one! They seem to be afraid of using proper grammar too! Great combination.

1.  Heights. I can't believe I was once a window washer working off an electric scaffold 16 stories in the air. 

2.  Small spaces. Spent four days in the "Hole" while in jail. I'm 6'-1" and couldn't lay on the floor without touching a wall. Completely naked and no light in the cell. Almost went insane.

Flying and in small spaces sorry cant spell the correct name for it

Creepy crawly or flying BUGS!  I can't stand for one to touch me.  A tomato worm is the ugliest critter around.

SPIDERS!  Always has been so for me and don't know why. They gross me out and frighten me to the core. I can handle anything else, roaches, ants, mice, snakes, but not spiders.  And, Umbriel, my husband is my "spider slayer" hero. I make him put them outside whenever possible, as I know they are good in this world, but he doesn't like them  either. Does it for me as my fear is irrational,  almost instinctual.

Being buried alive.I watched a TV show about that subject,didn't sleep that night.

I'm getting cremated when I die.I want to be damn sure I'm dead & not covered over with soil.

Snakes. My fear is over the top. I fear them on TV. If one is on TV and my husband is with me he shouts “Shut your eyes, Itsmee! It’s an S.” Even the word bothers me. Ohhhh! This thread.

Cleveland Rick, I fear being homeless too. It’s quite unlikely but still ... OMG!

And spiders ... and black rats ...

It’s been real, Chilleanne but it hasn’t been real fun. 

Have you ever considered bringing a disinfectant to alleviate some of your fear? I purposely attempt to avoid touching the door handle on the way out of a public bathroom. The rational going on in my head is, I don't know if whoever touched it last washed their hands before doing so.

I've seen some the of the best dressed, respectable looking people come out of a bathroom, and I go in to use it after them, only to find they pissed all over the toilet seat. The mindset of someone doing that is absolutely beyond my ability to comprehend...but, I can understand your reluctance.

frozen lakes ,ponds or rivers. nothing gives me the creeps like falling through thin ice into ice cold water..

Work I'm allergic to it but the doctor won't take me seriously wil.l not give me a sicknote Bloody Quack

I don't think I have any phobias, but my daughter is terrified of bees. She was stung twice as a child, but most of us have been stung by bees without becoming phobic ... I think ... she's also scared of driving over bridges and she has no idea why.

Arachnophobia, even the name sounds creepy, the fear of spiders, in my state unfortunately we have some deadly spiders. --- the notorious Red Back

I hate going to the toilet and realising there is no toilet under me. oops