What's your phobia?

[lestatdark]

NintendoPie said:

lestatdark said:
Mostly two:

Spheksophobia (fear of wasps) - When I was a little kid, we had a nest of tarantula hawks hornets in our garden and I got bitten by four of them before we knew they were there. Tarantula hawks stings are amongst the most painful in all the world (second only to the bullet ants stings), so I still remember the pain vividly to this day.

Acrophobia (fear of heights) - I suffer from a mild-to-severe case of vertigo which becomes rather proeminent whenever heights reach a large amount. Last summer I went camping with a couple of friends and my GF and we went trail-blazing through some rocky paths with very large jumps and falls....it took all my mental strength to get through them and that left me more exhausted than the actual jumping and walking about.

Wait, you were going to jump off of a mountain yet you have a major fear of heights?

Jump off a mountain is a big exaggeration . Just between rocks separated by a couple of meters (though with a semi-large cliff on the left side). 

The fear is psychological. With a lot of mental control you can temporarily overcome it in cases of need. My problem was mostly getting through the vertigo, since that's actually what really scares me the most, for it throws my balance and my equilibrium to shit whenever I'm in such a situation.