I've always had anxiety disorder, and was recently diagnosed with agoraphobia. I prefer the comfort of my home to everywhere else. There are a few other places I feel comfortable in, but not many. I especially feel trapped when I'm in a workplace, so I work from home now. It's not easy, but I make it work. I used to be afraid to drive because I didn't like leaving my house alone. Travelling with another person helped my anxiety. Now I refuse to go anywhere if I didn't drive there myself so I can escape. The feeling of being trapped when I'm not home kind of comes and goes, and is worst when I'm under a lot of pressure or stress. I've avoided medication all my life, but I'm seeing a psychiatrist now.

Things from above falling (ceiling fans, chandeliers etc.), I'm very uneasy when I hear footsteps/creaky floors above me, I feel like shit's gonna collapse right on me. I have no idea where it came from. Also sea creatures (whales, sharks), scare me a bit. Everything else I can handle.

I'm afraid of fire. Can't light a match or lighter. When I was five my mother threw a paint can in the incinerator and ten acres of field in my backyard set much of the street on fire.

Public speaking. I get a bit queasy on a tall ladder, but I see that as survival instinct. The same with my fear of snakes. I haven't let either of the fears get in the way of living a full life, but my fear of public speaking has hurt my career, and other areas of my life.

I fear that if I get sick and I am in a hospital room and I am immobilized and I cannot speak or move, but can hear and am conscious of my surrounding, that my family and friend would take turns praying and reading the bible or any religious books thinking that they are helping me and comforting me. Can you imagine someone reading that myth to you all day and you cannot leave or say shut up.

Why did it have to be snakes?

I'm afraid of midgets. One once bit me in the knee

I have many phobias. I am very afraid of insects. All of them carry germs/diseases. I can not walk into places by myself, my food can never touch each other, heights and people.

Yes hights and open spaces and I get panic attacks

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I hate needles, I have to steel myself when I get one, yet I have no trouble giving them. Upon occasion I have passed out when I got one but only if I was already ill or injured. Is this a phobia? I don't know but I suspect it could develop into one if I let it.