#phobias

˙⋆✮ Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders

˙⋆✮ Acrophobia: Fear of heights

˙⋆✮ Claustrophobia: Fear of confined or crowded spaces

˙⋆✮ Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes

˙⋆✮ Cynophobia: Fear of dogs

˙⋆✮ Trypophobia: Fear of clusters of small holes or bumps

˙⋆✮ Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD): Fear of social situations and interactions

˙⋆✮ Glossophobia: Fear of public speaking

˙⋆✮ Hemophobia: Fear of blood

˙⋆✮ Nyctophobia: Fear of darkness or night

˙⋆✮ Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying

˙⋆✮ Mysophobia: Fear of germs or dirt

˙⋆✮ Entomophobia: Fear of insects

˙⋆✮ Aquaphobia: Fear of water

˙⋆✮ Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning

˙⋆✮ Dentophobia: Fear of dentists or dental procedures

˙⋆✮ Selenophobia: Fear of the moon

˙⋆✮ Taphophobia: Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries

˙⋆✮ Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners

˙⋆✮ Atychiphobia: Fear of failure or not being good enough

˙⋆✮ Aerophobia: Fear of flying

˙⋆✮ Agoraphobia: Fear of open or crowded spaces, or situations where escape seems difficult

˙⋆✮ Algophobia: Fear of pain

˙⋆✮ Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car

˙⋆✮ Androphobia: Fear of men

˙⋆✮ Aphenphosmphobia: Fear of being touched

˙⋆✮ Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed or embarrassed

˙⋆✮ Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors

˙⋆✮ Cherophobia: Fear of happiness or joy

˙⋆✮ Chromophobia: Fear of colors

˙⋆✮ Gynophobia: Fear of women

˙⋆✮ Heliophobia: Fear of sunlight

˙⋆✮ Philophobia: Fear of love or falling in love

˙⋆✮ Phobophobia: Fear of fear itself

˙⋆✮ Phonophobia: Fear of loud sounds or voices

˙⋆✮ Phasmophobia: Fear of ghosts

˙⋆✮ Pyrophobia: Fear of fire

˙⋆✮ Scopophobia: Fear of being looked at or stared at

˙⋆✮ Somniphobia: Fear of sleep

˙⋆✮ Spectrophobia: Fear of mirrors or one's own reflection

˙⋆✮ Thalassophobia: Fear of the ocean or deep water

˙⋆✮ Tokophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth

˙⋆✮ Traumatophobia: Fear of injury

˙⋆✮ Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number 13

˙⋆✮ Trypanophobia: Fear of needles or injections

★ i love you, regressors with disabling phobias

★ i love you, regressors who have been made fun of for their phobias

★ i love you, regressors with body part based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with color based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with animal based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with bug based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with environment based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with situation based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with medical based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with object based phobias

★ i love you, regressors with any other kind of phobia

★ i love you, regressors whose phobias come from trauma or a specific experience

★ i love you, regressors whose phobias have no discernable cause

★ i love you, regressors who struggle to find gear because of their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who regress due to / to cope with their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who struggle to regress due to their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who want to overcome their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who don't want to overcome their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who feel alone and misunderstood because of their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who struggle with social media because their phobias aren't common enough to get trigger warnings

★ i love you, regressors who are afraid of their caregivers not understanding or making fun of their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who are open about their phobias

★ i love you, regressors who hide their phobias

i hear you, i see you, and i understand your struggle. you are not alone in this.

i love you, regressors with uncommon phobias!

i have two phobias and idk i dont see many people talking about phobias despite them being fairly common in my experience.

i have pyrophobia (fire) and turophobia (cheese)

Do you have any advice or ideas for getting over arachniphobia?

I'm not bothered by pictures or spider that are physically unable to get to me. (Like I see them out a window or in a zoo or something). But as soon as they have the potential to be in my space its fight or flight and I hate that feeling.

I don't want to be scared of them and I didn't used to be. But a jumping spider launched itself at my face when I was a kid and I think that opened a crack for the general socialization of 'fear spiders' to take hold. (And of course it had to be a jumping spider, they're the cutest ones).

I don't have this problem with any other types of bugs either which confuses me greatly. And I really like looking at them when I know they can't get to me. I just don't know how to fix it.

Anyways. If you like, maybe can you also share the cutest non-jumping spider you can think of? (Jumping spiders would just be cheating in a cuteness contest if you ask me).

Thanks for running this blog. I love how many new critters I've learned exist since finding it. Hope you're having a wonderful day!

Arachnophobia

Okay, so, I would slowly expose yourself to more and more spider imagery, starting with the cutest, and then start venturing out to other kinds... exposure therapy? Is that what that's called?

Then when you've become completely comfortable with seeing them in photos and videos... find a local zoo or nature center where they will let you see one up close. At first in the cage, then they take it out for you, then... eventually... maybe you touch it?

Any other advice is greatly appreciated in comments and reblogs from others who have dealt with this.

I'm not going to include spider images in this post, because I want others, who are afraid of even images, to see this.

If you wanna see some cute jumpers, have a look at this link:

Includes: Hunter, Echo, Tech, Crosshair, Wrecker, Cody, Fox, Wolffe, Rex, Fives, Kix, Jesse, Hardcase

Star Wars Masterlist

A/N: A shorter post about what fears I think they'd have. I scribbled it very quickly and am immediately posting it cause the requests aren't ready yet and I didn't wanna have a day without posting for now lol

Warnings: fears/phobias, obviously, ‼️personal opinions‼️

Word count: 645

Reblogs are very appreciated, since it helps my posts reach more people and motivates me to continue writing 🫶