This reminds me of an Episode of Maury I watched were the woman had an irrational fear of olives.

What?? Styrafoam? That's strange. At least she overcame it. Good for you Arne!

Time to wrap up that talk show thing, Tyra.

are her producers desperate?

And you managed to write that entire entry with no mention of Tyra's phobia.

DOLPHINS.

I fuck you not.

Guess she doesn't walk through many darkened Sea Worlds at night...

Best part: her yelling a not so forceful "NO!" and running halfheartedly away. The pyschiatrist barely has to speed up to a trot to catch her.

Ok. hasn't this bitch ever opened a box of consumer electronics in her life? That shit is always packed in some kind of styrofoam..What about a beverage in a fair or some shit...You know, STYROFOAM CUPS? I mean come on..This kind of crap pisses me off.. They should of had one of the workers come from behind and club her with a couple of choice pieces....

Well, clearly Tyra is irrationally afraid of making a good television show. But that squeaky noise that styrofoam makes IS kinda scary...

Well I know two different people who have an intense phobia of wooden spoons and popsicle sticks, so I guess anything is possible.

Hey m_ruv - my friend is afraid of popsicle sticks too! Small world...

I don't like walking through revolving doors. It's probably because of some suppressed memory as a kid, when maybe I was dragged under some doors by the hems of my bell-bottoms or something. I found a website devoted to this, which proves to you that there is a website for everything.

Casey! I also am afraid of revolving doors... I envision my foot getting caught. I always wait until nobody else is passing through.. and then revolve full steam ahead.

this tyra clip cracks me up... she is so overdramatic in her voice over, so very very Tyra

"I always wait until nobody else is passing through.. and then revolve full steam ahead." Same here
My friend is afraid of baloons.

Wow. Amazing. I have tornado-phobia and I live in freakin' tornado alley. But this site has been a nice distraction from all of the tornadoes that have hit my area this week. We had some Sunday and more today...this is NOT they way I want to confront this fear.

Thank you for making me laugh, TVGasm!

^ By the way, I was not paid to say that last sentence...it kinda sounded like a commercial, didn't it?

"This reminds me of an Episode of Maury I watched were the woman had an irrational fear of olives."

I think I saw that one (or another episode), but my favorite was the woman afraid of mustard.

I actually knew someone with an intense fear of foam.

Styrofoam?!?!? Spiders I understand. Snakes I understand. Even DUSTBUNNIES, but Styrofoam? Give me a break!

Revolving doors...totally. what's up with that?

I'm not scurred, but drinking from styrofoam cups makes my teeth hurt.

I never have been afraid of revolving dooors -- but I'm petrified of escalators.

that woman just wanted to be on television.

i am afriad of the fuzz on peaches. eeghghghg.....

I'm afraid of Mormons.

And, holyterror, I'm afraid of Morons. I'm not usually a proponent of death, but I'm ok with the idea of all the people with enormous "problems" such as fear of styrofoam, clowns, olives and the like being rounded up and dropped off on a deserted island. There they can contemplate their navels, cry, and hopefully die.

http://www.unusualphobias.com/

I had not heard of this one before: fear of claymation:

http://www.unusualphobias.com/Thingspage.html

hah, I saw this on Best Week Ever right before this was posted on the site. I thought the guy who had a fear of clowns was funny. They brought out a bunch of clowns and the guy started bawling.

I'm afraid of clowns, too. A lot of people are. I was once at a hospital and a whole buch of people were waiting for an elevator, but when the door opened there was a clown in the elevator and no one would get inside.

John Wayne Gacy was a clown.

Ok. All this talk of irrational fears has reminded me of a funny one from childhood. As a little girl I was convinced that a lobster might bite me on the butt as I sat on the toilet. So it was very important to have the light on and to not linger. Who KNOWS what damage a lobster claw could do to a tender little ass cheek!

Another good one I have is the intense belief that at some point in my life I will pull back a shower curtain and find that someone has hanged themself. This is not debilitating. Rather, I am resigned to this actually occurring. Each time I have to do it I have a kind of "Well here goes nothin'. Maybe this is it" thought process.

Lizardqueen- were we separated at birth!?!?! i was terrified of most toilets as a child and my poor parents had to carry a port a potty thing around for way too long into after toddlerhood.

and same goes for the shower thing. every time i pull the curtain back i'm like 'this is probably the time something absolutely horrifyign is behind it". same feeling opening stall doors in public bathrooms.

Lizardqueen...oh my! I just absolutely lost it when I read the bum-biting-lobster bit. I haven't laughed that uncontrollably in a very, very long time. Of all things to bite your tushie, a lobster? We don't have a whole lot of pipe dwelling shellfish around here, so maybe that's why it's so freaking funny to me. Grow up in Maine? That's awesome. Thanks so much for making my day. I have a good idea I'll try to retell your story, only to be interrupted by periods of hard laughter.

My irrational fears:

Can't pee in public, I know that might be pretty common, but its just the fear that someone might hear me. For large events, like a concert, etc. i find putting my hands over my hears and humming loudly works.

can't go to gas stations that i've never been to before. when i moved to a town 10 miles away, for the first three months, i drove back to my old town to get gas.

I have a new fear, not irrational, of Tom Cruise.

Tracie!

I am so afraid of Tornadoes also! I guess it does come from living in tornado alley. I can't go to sleep when there is bad weather because I lay awake listening for a train and I make my husband sleep next to the window so his body will shield me from the flying glass I know is coming!

hardly; I'm fine with peeing in public, I just fear hearing OTHER people pee in really quiet bathrooms. So I feel your pain.

I'm deathly afraid of tunnels, esp those that go underwater. Even thinking about it is giving me the heeby jeebies right now.

To all you folks who live in "Tornado alley" and say you're afraid of tornados, that just shows that you are sane. That is nothing like a phobia, which is an irrational fear of something, i.e. styrofoam or plumbing-dwelling crustaceons. I have to say LQ yours from childhood takes the cake. Right now I am trying to convince my 6 year-old daughter there is no monster under her bed. However, my logic-based arguments such as "if there were really monsters under peoples' beds, how come no one has ever seen one and how come it's never on the news" aren't getting any traction.

By the way for all you shower-phobia folks, you might want to look into a clear showing door or curtain.

I was taken to Maine as a child. But I have no idea where the lobster in the toilet idea came from. Next time any of you go pee I bet you'll be looking for those snappy claws though! Glad everyone got a good laugh out of that.

For the shower curtain thing, you could also keep your shower curtain pulled partially back so that you will know that there's nothing in there as you approach.

My phobia is needles and bee stingers--anything that can poke into my skin. I'm okay with sewing and I can thread a needle just fine, but tell me that I might need a shot or, heaven forbid, an IV, or have a bee or wasp fly within 25 feet of me, and I feel like I'm going to pass out.

After seeing that clip, i was convinced that ths w'm just wanted to be on TV, but thn, y would u want to be on TV to admit such a dumb thing as 'foam' phobia? After reading all the comments abt different types of phobias, i see that this foam phobia is strange, but prolly not false. I once knew some1 who was afraid of the 'down' escalator only.

The lobster claw/toilet fear reminds me of a story i 1x heard abt an elderly w'man who found a live RAT in her toilet---yikes!! that 1 gave me a chill 4 a while.