Updated Phobias List

Since I'm going to try to overcome some of my phobias I figured I should update my phobias list.  I'm always developing new phobias.  It should be kept current.

1.      Accidents

2.      AIDS

3.      Alligators

4.      Anxiety

5.      Appendicitis

6.      Asymmetrical objects

7.      Attacked -being

8.      Atomic explosions

9.      Babies

10.  Bees

11.  Beetles

12.  Birds

13.  Bitten - being

14.  Brain diseases

15.  Buried alive - being

16.  Butterflies

17.  Calling people on the telephone

18.  Cancer

19.  Cannibals

20.  Centipedes

21.  Chainsaws

22.  Childbirth

23.  Children

24.  Choking

25.  Cholera

26.  Churches

27.  Clowns

28.  Cockroaches

29.  Completely isolated - being

30.  Contaminated with dirt or germs - being

31.  Contracting a disease

32.  Cornered – being

33.  Crickets

34.  Crocodiles

35.  Crowds

36.  Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

37.  Death of close family

38.  Dentists

39.  Dirty – being

40.  Dolls

41.  Drop offs/precipices

42.  Drowning

43.  Ducks

44.  Dysentery

45.  Earthquakes

46.  Ebola virus

47.  Electrocuted - being

48.  Expressing opinions

49.  Failure

50.  Falling or being pushed off a ladder

51.  Flies

52.  Floods

53.  Gallstones

54.  Germs

55.  Heart attacks

56.  Heights

57.  Held down – being

58.  HIV

59.  Hit by a car – being

60.  Holes

61.  House burning down

62.  Hurricanes

63.  Imperfections

64.  Insanity

65.  Insects

66.  Jellyfish

67.  Judged negatively in social situations - being

68.  Kidney disease

69.  Ladybugs

70.  Laughed at - being

71.  Leprosy/Lepers

72.  Lice

73.  Lit on fire - being

74.  Lizards

75.  Lupus

76.  Mannequins

77.  Mauled by bears – being

78.  Mauled by elephants – being

79.  Mauled by hippos – being

80.  Mauled by lions – being

81.  Mauled by tigers – being

82.  Mercury

83.  Missiles

84.  Mobs

85.  Monsoons

86.  Mosquitos

87.  Moths

88.  MRSA

89.  Noxious airborne substances

90.  Nuclear weapons

91.  Oleander

92.  Open high spaces

93.  Open spaces in general

94.  Opossums

95.  Other peoples shoes

96.  Outside

97.  Owning a gun

98.  Parasites

99.  People

100.                      People with amputations

101.                      Pitied – being

102.                      Poisoned – being

103.                      Poliomyelitis

104.                      Prison

105.                      Public toilets

106.                      Pushed down the stairs – being

107.                      Rabies

108.                      Radiation

109.                      Raped – being

110.                      Rats

111.                      Religion

112.                      Ridiculed – being

113.                      Riots

114.                      Risk

115.                      Robbed – being

116.                      SARS

117.                      Scabies

118.                      Scarlet fever

119.                      Scorpions

120.                      Sharks

121.                      Shingles

122.                      Shot – being

123.                      Skin lesions

124.                      Smallpox

125.                      Soccer riots

126.                      Society

127.                      Speaking in public

128.                      Spiders

129.                      Stabbed – being

130.                      Stared at – being

131.                      Storm drains

132.                      Submarines

133.                      Suffocated – being

134.                      Syphilis

135.                      Tap water

136.                      Tapeworms

137.                      Termites

138.                      Tetanus

139.                      The Mafia

140.                      Toads

141.                      Tornadoes

142.                      Touched - being

143.                      Tuberculosis

144.                      Tulips

145.                      Venomous snakes

146.                      Ventriloquists dummies

147.                      Walking over bridges

148.                      War

149.                      Wasps

150.                      Worms

Overcoming My Phobias

Now that my restraining order is over I can begin the process of getting a gun, which is something that both excites and terrifies me.  Guns are awesome.  I am not afraid of guns.  I believe people should be able to own a gun if they wish.  I don't even think I would be particularly scared if someone were threatening to shoot me.  I would be surprised obviously, but I don't think I would be particularly afraid.  Because quite frankly, I don't care if I die.  I'm not suicidal or anything but you know, everyone has to die sometime.  If someone was threatening to shoot me I don't know that I would do anything to prevent them.  I am not afraid of guns.  I am not afraid of people with guns.  But the thought of owning a gun, of having one in my possession, absolutely terrifies me.  And I have no idea why.  I've tried to think of the reason and I'm not sure I have one.  I don't think I would do anything bad with it.  I wouldn't use it to kill myself.  Or go out and kill someone else.  And I definitely  wouldn't go on like a shooting rampage or anything.  I could never hurt anyone.  I don't know why it scares me so much. 

I would like to get over this.  I would like to get over a lot of things.  I have so many fears and phobias (see post: Phobia List at: http://stalkingmyexboss.blogspot.com/2013/04/days-until-restraining-order-is-lifted_26.html), I would like to get over at least some of them.  I don't think I can get over my fear of owning a gun, at least not right now, but maybe I can get over some of the other things.  For the next three months (I may continue for longer depending on how well this works out) I will try to get over some of the things on this list.  Every two weeks I will pick an item and spend a few days researching and studying it and the remaining time will be spent on trying to get over the phobia.  I'll try to tackle some of the less serious ones first and work my way up to the more difficult ones, increasing time if needed.

Each post will list the fear level (1 being slightly nervous, 10 being totally unbearable/would avoid at all costs), why I am afraid, some facts about the fear, and how I plan to overcome it.  I figured I would start off with something that doesn't totally terrify me.  My first fear to tackle is: Ducks.