Mycophobia (fear of mushrooms)

well all phobias have a name, basically its jsut latin words strung together. some people have fears of the strangest things, its jsut how people see thigns and what could happen, for example yoyur fear of mushrooms, could be somthing along the lines of that mushroom my be highly poisonous and could kille me with its toxins, or it is producing spores which could kill me, but then again there are people who have .... hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (thats a fear of long words) some peoples phobias may be strange , but everyone has a fear of something... you might jsut not know you do!

Ok... perhaps you are... any reason that you hate them?

Did they eat your brother or something!

I have a slight unusual phobia of throwing up - emetophobia
Throwing up Scares the hell out of me. I actively avoid things I know would cause me to throw up.. dont try new foods for fear of it alot of the time, and havent since I was about 7 when I think it was triggered by an illness. Weird weird.
I also cannot watch anyone else do it.. Its just Eugh.. In real life, Tv films.. Gah.

I've got this really strong fear of mushrooms, I thought it was a kinda unique thing to me, but recently looked it up on the internet and it even has a proper name and everything. I was wondering if anyone else has the same phobia. A link I found on another website kinda sums up my fear of mushrooms http://www.unusualphobias.com/caterpillar.html (point number one)
However personally my fear of them is even worse than his

Does anyone share my fear in mushrooms or have any unusual phobias?

So this means that i could have a phobia of people that have phobias and not know it!

Perhaps i have a phobia of people who have a phobia to mushrooms!

Amazingly, I have never been sick from drinking. I have enabled a certainself control that I never drink to that extremity of a level.. Over the years Ive perfected not to throw up. Mostly myself, But Ive realised I cant watch anyone else doing it.. Especially on films it makes me all anxious and freaked out.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/t137324.html

I have to say that awoke my mycophobia a little bit

I understand what you mean :P

Its kinda strange how there are so many phobias though, to most people all this stuff is normal, but to some of us really normal stuff seems terrifying.
Wish I'd studied psychology, would love to know how it all works :P

Its Frustrating more than anything. Phobias are considered down to many things. Biologists beleive that phobias are brought on by a response in the body to a fear stimulus crating anxiety, sweating anxiousness etc..
Behaviourists ar emore focused on connections to fear stimulus's to us. We connect the idea of the stimulus with something negative and bad and so we actively avoid it in the future (Which ironically makes it worse because we congratulate ourselves on avoiding the danger)
Freud of course goes onm a completely different track that fears are manifests of other objects that could we not reveal to our conscious or are related in some matter.

You may find that interesting. I covered it in one of my modules this year, Really intriguing.

emetophobia is an extremely hard phobia to live with because the fear stimulus is your own body. its not like a fear of peanut butter sticking to the top of your mouth where you can just not eat it lol. Emetophobia is with you constantly. The vomit reflex is controlled by a center in the brain, many emets can actually over ride this reflex so can drink without getting sick themselves. I rarely drink, but when i do i know my limit and stop before it gets to the point where i vomit.

i'd never heard of emetohopbia, but i probably have that a bit. i haven't hurled in 11 years, even though logically i know it's not a terrifiying thing, i just really hate being sick!