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Just hanging out my washing and thought this may make an interesting thread.
I'll be the first to admit that I have the above:
Fears......Terrified of hieghts (Always feel I'm going to jump into space...horrible).
Phobia.....Orange traffic cones on Motorways, possibly because I feel there is no way out?
Nutty.......When hanging out my washing each item has to have the same coloured peg no odd ones on my washing line!

Things I have overcome:

Fears ...Lifts..using them a lot recently at hospital and I guess it was because I had to do it.
Phobia.....Spiders.. can even manage to pick up small ones, the rest get saved with jar and card.
Nutty.......Might buy some pegs all the same colour!

Come on then it can't be just me x

Sorry about the spelling... that i before e is confusing sometimes! Oh Well x

LOL,  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Its not just you.  I am the same with pegs.  They have to be the same on each garment!!  My daughter says there is something wrong with me!!  I get really upset if anyone messes up the washing on the line!!  Socks have to be just so too.

Heres mine:

Fears:  Terrified of driving because on an accident that occurred a few years ago.
Phobia:  Queue's in banks and post offices, where the zig zag system is used.  I panic!! horrible feeling of enclosure.
Nutty:  Pegs! Same as you.

Overcome:

Fears:  Back in a car with driving instructor, slowly slowly, just got to conquer the motorway again.
Phobia:  Not sure I have overcome any as yet :)
Nutty:  Agree with the pegs...why do they not sell them all the same colour :) :) :)

Food on my plate has to be in  the right place,neatly laid out, none of this modern idea of building a mini mountain.Things cannot touch each other, peas have to be between two larger things as they can move about.I have to tidy my plate before I start to eat. I have to have a side plate for what I call dead things..that is, bones, skin,asparagus ends etc, they absolutely cannot stay on my plate after I have finished that bite.. Dressings have to be on the side in a separate dish,I cannot eat it if someone else puts it on, cannot eat salad on a plate with hot food. If I get a burger from a shop I have to remake it before I can eat it..ditto a purchased sandwich.Will not eat fish and chips if mushy peas are on the plate,has to be separate. If brought anything in a restaurant that has a spoon or other utensil in the food I have to ask for another one. , cannot eat anything that suggests something else with a similar name.eg doner meat..it sounds like human flesh to me. I have to look in a sandwich before I eat it id made in my home by anyone,,even me. Have to have a separate salad fork, cannot eat a slice of pie with a spoon, has to be a fork, if it has custard I have to have a spoon and a fork.Will not drink tea made with milk from a jug that has sat inn the fridge, milk has to fresh in the jug everytime.

and that is just food.............................

XX Jeannine

Oh I can relate to the fear of jumping out in space when overlooking a waterfall or any height. Riding a mule down the Grand Canyon was a good test of it and could hardly look down most of the way! It didn't help the dumb animal wanted to eat the weeds just over the edge and out of his reach.

Cognitive behavioural therapy is said to be very helpful with the obsessive types of behaviour espcially when it impacts normal daily life. Doctors can usualy refer you to a therpaist.

Thanks Weequinie but I really think my clothes peg thing is just that I like the balance of colour.
As a kid I always painted pictures of cottage gardens with washing on a line and guess what ..the pegs all matched. Seems it goes back a long way.

Having colour coordinated clothes pegs probably doesnt impact your daily life too much  ;) Just your artisitc eye at work!

This thread made me laugh. It reminds me of one of my favourite films: "As good as it gets".

Nothing much gets to me really, except enormous hairy spiders blinking at me out of the bath. I'm afraid I have to kill them since the bit that gets to me is how they move about, so no way can I trap them in a jam jar and release them elsewhere. I can't bear to touch them either. Little outdoor spiders are OK though. My brain tells me they're all the same species but it doesn't really help.

phobia type..wasps, I can cope with them outside but can't stand them in the house  ;D

Manics, I have a battery-operated thing like a squash racket called "the Executioner" which zaps things like wasps and bluebottles that dare to invade the inner sanctum - the hoose!! ;D ;D :o

Ray has one of them, Anne, I shut him in the room with the wasp, mind you, he's pretty good with his table tennis racket, too  ;D
been trying to think of nutty ones, no luck, comes of dealing with Ray's everything facing the same way and the toilet roll having to hang a certain way mild obsessions.
fears..nothing yet but my mobility is getting worse, i often wonder how bad I'll be by the time I hit 60  :-\
still, there's lots worse off than me  ;D

Fear? or Nutty? Dogs (other peoples) of any shape or size. Really stupid as I love dogs and have had German Shepherds , Labradors all our married life and have had a King Charles for past 11 years.. I have never taken our dogs for a walk, Charlie was the walker then young Lorna took over. Monday my niece brought her Wheaten terrier (sp?) to my bungalow, that was OK because they were in  my territory but it took me 6 years before I would go in my sons house when he had his first GS. Whenever I have to take Elsa to the vets I make sure young Lorna can come with me.

Scared of big dogs. Have a phobia of walking round at night or in the country on my own in case their might be a dog loose. Like its going to turn into that scene in the Omen in the graveyard with the Rottweilers. Wee kickable-sized ones are no problem, just the ones that weigh 10 stone and can have your face off in a couple of bites.

Oh and if I smoke weed I sometimes go to the loo and sit there wondering whether I am really somewhere else. Like on a settee or at my desk at work.  So I tend not to smoke it nowadays  ::)

Very honest post there Lewic. LOL x

Lewic, very honest,,may I tease a wee bit here.. I have this picture of you in my head,  sitting on an outhouse loo in the middle of nowhere ,in the middle of the night,with a GS biting at the door, the one that chased you in there, having a smoke and dreaming of sitting on  a satin cushion with a wonderful calm look on your face..Smashing :-*..

XX Jeannine

Hate wasps and rats
I can't put a red peg on when I'm hanging out the washing.
;D ;D ;D