What is your biggest phobia?

Seems we have something in common. I suffer from agoraphobia and I do have panic attacks. I'm terrified when it comes to crowds. It can even effect me when I'm driving. If the roads are too crowded I have to leave and find an alternate route. Doing shopping, going to doctors, anything like that can be stressful at best and down right impossible at others. I usually try to do this things at off times when there won't be as many people. This can work for shopping. Now I am afraid of clowns but that one doesn't really effect my life. I can avoid those easily enough. Now cockroaches though especially palmetto bugs (very big cockroaches) I am terrified off and can't handle at all. I get someone else to deal with them.

Natural bodies of water!!!! This would mean: lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, and beaches Although I love the beach...do not ask me to go in the water above my knees! When I was a young child, my mother's drunk boyfriend thought he could teach me how to swim....in Florida alligator and snake infested rivers! I was only 5 or 6 years old and very small for my age. So, what would only only up to the chest of a grown very tall man...was very deep for a child that people mistaken for a 3 year old! And it was just not open water! There were the water lillies and weeds that got my feet tangled and I would go under. I even remember at one point touching the bottom with my feet and then suddenly there was a hole! He took me out for hours!!! And by the time we went back to camp, I was so exhausted from nearly drowning, that I fell asleep on the rocky bank! Since then, I hate natural bodies of water. Don't get me wrong! I love swimming and swim like a fish! But in a POOL!!!!

Tornadoes. I am absolutely insanely afraid of them. It's technical term is : Lilapsophobia - Fear of TORNADOES and hurricanes. Every time it storms and I even think it might be bad I start to freak out. It started when I was in 7th or 8th grade and got worse over the years. I use to have my cousin (who is also afraid of storms) come and check me out of school if the clouds looked dark and gloomy. I'd sit in the guidance counselor's office until she got there. (told ya I'm a nut!) I wouldn't buy a house or rent a place without a basement either. I did rent an apartment once without a basement and truly regretted it. I was freaked out and running to my sister in laws house at all hours of the night because she did have one. My husband thinks I'm nuts (probably cause I am). I also will call into work if there is a threat of severe weather that night. It wouldn't be so bad (about going to work) but there is no TV to watch the weather, no internet, and it's a big warehouse (Wal-Mart). And one of the first things they tell you in tornado safety is don't go to a warehouse. My guidance counselor in high school told me to learn more about them and that would ease my fear - WRONG! The more I learned about them and their unpredictable ways the more afraid I became. I think I'm doing better until that first bad storm of the season hits - then I'm freaking out again. All the things that I did learn and all the things that I know when it's not storming (about probability and everything) is thrown right out the window. My poor family gets phone calls in the middle of the night to talk to me while it's storming to calm me down. God love them. My hubby is usually at work during those calls. I've even went and stayed with my in laws cause I was scared (they came and picked me up) and they didn't want me to be alone one time last year. I've nerve pills too that I take. But they don't do me much good for work - cause they put me to sleep. The funny thing is it's only 1 milligram. As far as animals and what not. There are some that freak me out and that I'm afraid of but it's not a real phobia to me. Cause it's not bad enough to stop me from going the the zoo and what not. I just freak out and run usually in the other direction when say I cross a snake in the backyard. LOL

I am afraid of heights and mice. I know what caused the fear of mice but I am not sure what caused the fear of heights. I have been told I went up a ladder when my Dad was on the roof and fell off and got a concussion. But I dont remember it. I can remember in later years going up a ladder and then being afraid to come back down. I cant stand to even watch a daredevil on TV that is on a skyscraper. Gives me the heeee Jeebies.

I have a huge fear of elevators, it doesn't prevent me from using them, but they scare the hell out of me. I get really clostraphobic if there are too many people in the elevator with me. I am constantly having visions of the elevator breaking and me plunging to my doom, and I also have visions that I am in the elevator and the door doesn't close but the elevator still goes. It is probably a very irrational fear, but that is the only one I have.

My biggest phobia/fear is heights. This is why, I don't like sitting in the the Upper Deck of a baseball stadium or, in the cheap seats(usually the same location) for a music concert. Another example is, if I have to cross some sort of ramp/bridge that has glass used in the railing, I start to feel like I am going to fall through railing, regardless of how far I am from it.