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do you have trypophobia?

google trypophobia on google images and post if it disgusts you or not.

i am so freakin grossed out by it and i need professional help.

edit: everytime i see an image though, i can't help but to just stare at it, even though it makes me throw up. pls help me.
my first summer paycheck is going to therapy.

edit: i am cured

July 5, 2012

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KingsGlory

@Nashi: You could still try and who knows you both might enjoy it

Reply July 6, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: <.<" well.. yes.... but you know.. the string... and all.. yeah... not going into more detail

Reply July 6, 2012
KingsGlory

@Nashi: lol couldnt you try the "other" end?

Reply July 6, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: lol it's fine. the worst about it (which didn't bug me before but ever since I've had my Fiance...) is that you're not able to do "it" during it... you have your sexy man RIGHT THERE D: < and nothing can happen lol
plus the pain but you can fix that with medi.
And I think I'd rather be an emotional chick bleeding every few weeks than to be at risk to get a random boner outside

Reply July 6, 2012
OhhTom

That is not right, this is just discusting, you hve answered your own question

Reply July 6, 2012
Soma

Interesting...

Reply July 6, 2012
Vaiuation

I recall earlier this year, someone posted a picture of a lotus leg. </3 </3 </3 </3 </3

Reply July 6, 2012
SmilingCurse

I have it really bad -.-
I had professional help and I still go to therapy for it. I just can't stand it. I want to peel off my skin because I know my skin is made up of holes and I can't stand it...I really can't. I freak out like crazy when I see that. I sometimes faint or just get really hysterical.

Reply July 6, 2012
Nashi

@aclAnn: What issit? the chocolate? o.O

Reply July 6, 2012
MatthewDough

Yes, I suppose I would consider it "mild" but when it gets intense, my body starts to itch all over.

Reply July 6, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: o.O well I'm not really talking about PMS... I'm more talking about the visual stuff.... xD

Reply July 6, 2012
foxxman301

Beehives on skin, but where are the bees?

Reply July 5, 2012
KingsGlory

@Nashi: Aww i'm so sorry you had to go through that. Dont have one and the girl i like she is pretty chill during her cycle. Also I have 2 sisters, but one hasnt had it yet the other is 19 so i know about it.

Reply July 5, 2012
Tennzin

i had a fear of this but i never knew what the phobia was called.
it all started when..
i was trying to make a sauce.. i guess i put too much flour in it though.. because it starting..
bubbling with these... these.. CRATERS.. it was horrifying.. those craters seemed to be.. moving..
i threw that stuff in the garbage as fast as i could o.o

Reply July 5, 2012
Fiercerain

Fear of holes? I was immediately focused on the clusters of holes, but I got over it real fast.

Reply July 5, 2012
ThatBox

Well those pictures are just gross. I don't see how you're abnormal for being disgusted with those.

Reply July 5, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: I was a lil kid (probably preteen I don't remember xD) so it was a panic situation for me.. OH MAH GAWD NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE T__T
and DON'T BASH NATURAL CIRCLES D: < in case you have a gf (or will have one) you'll have to deal with that too sooner or later <.< lol

Reply July 5, 2012
KingsGlory

@Nashi: That sounds horrible D: and ewwwww to the last part

Reply July 5, 2012
Casey

Looks like a bee hive.

Reply July 5, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: > .< oh my fortunately I haven't seen much RL blood yet.. and one time I did bleed heavily (colored a pond red xD) I thought I was gonna die and when they gave me the shots to numb it it felt like spears up my leg and I screamed like someone's skinning me xD

I think things that are in a body should stay in there D;.... unless it's waste... or other things that are natural to go out..

OH MY GOD I JUST REALISED... the only blood I don't mind is "that" one during "that" time lol!

Reply July 5, 2012
KingsGlory

@Nashi: aww dont feel bad i have a bunch of guy friends who if they see blood they either faint or wanna puke.

Reply July 5, 2012
Nashi

@KingsGlory: >: pffft you guys being all tough about it... lil girly me doesn't like it T^T....

Reply July 5, 2012
NonameAI

Wow
mine is REALLY bad but mine only occurs with natural things.

Reply July 5, 2012
KingsGlory

@Nashi: I have no problems with blood. I've donated twice so far (just turned old enough to give) I think blood is so cool, the idea that its basically billions of little solids suspended in a liquid is just fascinating.

Reply July 5, 2012
ILikeAnime

That was akward and uneasy...

I seriously had the urge to stab the hell out of that skin!

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
daninichan

My friend told me to Google image it at school.

Now whenever I see circular sprinkles, I think of trypophobia.

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

ok i think that this thread cured me. i can look at those images without cringing anymore, even though it disgusts me.
loveyouguys

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
steven7x23

my ears shook but i know those images are fake, i have seen them many times, but my ears still shake

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Kythro

[quote=NotUoid]which shrimpy are u
there were like 2[/quote]

the funnier nicer one
@Nashi: that sounds bad ;0 i don't have a problem with blood whatsoever

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Kythro

@NotUoid : omg qurl long time no see HELLO

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Nashi

@KingsGlory: I don't like the smell of raw meat (like when you first roast it without spices) and veins have always irked me... I can't see blood at all, I'm a complete wussy about it (like when my granny would have a small cut on her finger and she'd shove it under my nose for some pity I'd smack her and whine that I don't wanna see it I actually suffer more seeing it than she does having it..)
and veins often have blood around them still x.x (at least it's like purple tiny tube pieces with red stuff around. UGH)
I also can't stand squished insects or anything living that has something that belongs inside outside.. @__@

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=NotUoid]OH MY GOD
SHRIMPY?[/quote]

KELLY? O_O

@Nashi : thanks for explaining it c: i'm not that totally grossed out by it anymore <3

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Nashi

@Kythro: Well all I can say is look closely. Do you notice revealed flesh? Liquids? Red parts (infection, blood)
calluses are somewhere inbetween brown yellow and white (also white when soaked with water)
Fresh skin is pink. To me it looks like there's perfectly intact pink skin under it all (the "bubble holes" don't get any deeper than to the pink part) so to me it must mean that's only calluses which you could get rid of with either scratching (not fully though) or a liquid treatment specifically made for it (there's stuff like that for feet where you let the liquid soak in the skin and then you can just scratch the dead skin off. Aside from the chemicals being not too healthy the skin is not damaged (not scratched off or anything) as the liquid only attacks dead tissue.

Much worse than that is seriously a papercut in a papercut. (I've had that before. GOD DAMNIT IT HURTS.. cut myself with a paper (between index finger and thumb, on that stretchy skin part) then later a paper went through the EXACT same spot cutting deeper.)

Anyway though... what exactly indicates something unhealthy/sick in the foot pic anyway? Cause as I said nothing indicates the live skin is in any way damaged

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=NotUoid]you could idk, but there's a diff between being disgusted and being full force afraid.
most people think omg that's gross i obv have the phobia[/quote]

thinking of it like that is making me feel better
thx qurl

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
KingsGlory

[quote=Nashi]@Kythro: o.O that bad? If it's within a normal measure and not sick it shouldn't be an issue lol..

OT: I was actually brave enough to look it up but the longer I looked at the stuff the calmer I got actually (especially after realising (or thinking) that the first picture that came up was a person's shoulder with a lotus seed thing photoshopped on it lol)
I don't mind anything natural (aside from veins in meat, I can't stand eating meat when it has fat or veins in it or when it's diff colored like the meat on chicken legs (near the bone))

What I personally absolutely can't stand are unhealthy ("sick&quot things.
E.g. a medical way of cleaning wounds and getting rid of infected/dead tissue: maggots (I feel horribly just thinking about those wiggly things in a wound.. would never want to have that, UGH. Seen that on TV many times..)
or any kind of parasite in flesh (whether it's a human or animal)

The Lotus thing irked me at first cause it looked like there could be larvae in it but the longer I stared at it (and after reading that fear is as infective as fear ) the calmer I really got.

There was also a picture of a person who had kind of holes in the sole of his foot (for those curious: [url=http://cfile23.uf.tistory.com/media/185B1C374EF80EDE1B90BE]bubbly foot[/url]) but to me it only looked like damaged callused skin which could easily be removed (my feet actually automatically peel when there's too much calluses lol)

And the lotus doesn't even look bad now anymore... (I'd actually like to rip it open and pick the seeds out for entertainment xD)

Also, wouldn't those with trypophobia be scared of eating corn too? (considering it leaves "holes" when you eat it) or baked stuff? o.O
or even drinks with bubbles on them? (cause I saw a picture that had like foam on it)[/quote]

I feel the same way about the sick things not the meat though (i'm the family chef raw meat doesnt bother me).

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

@Nashi : that thing can get scratched off? e_o wouldn't it leave indents in your foot or something? and i'm trying to get over how disturbed i am at that pic, bit i just can't stand the parts where it goes deep .__.

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lansh

The pictures look fake.

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Nashi

@Kythro: o.O well the skin on feet is quite thick... it looks like the skin of that person is wet (otherwise the skin wouldn't look so bright, would it?) and I'd imagine it'd be easy to just scratch over it and get it smooth again. (e.g. a knife but not the razor sharp kind xD)

Yesterday I had a tiny butt piece of glass stuck in my foot. Had to poke in the skin above it with a needle so I could squeeze it out. it bugged me the first time I had to do this (not too long ago either lol) but I don't have a problem with it anymore.

and even if sand would get stuck in it, so what? It's not wounds or anything. I'd find pictures of maggots in wounds much worse.. (like I saw a woman with an infected heel and they opened the patch and hundreds of those things fell out immediately. Or in a pet show they lifted the cheek-thing (idk how you call that part where the whiskers come out xD and maggots were also falling out (the feeling of having something wiggle in a wound of mine is HORRIBLE. Or anything entering my skin for that matter. Reason why i can't stand shots x.x.. thanks doc, I'd rather get sick!)

You should try to look at the foot pic in a more logical/rational matter it's not red, it doesn't bleed, there's no quite/yellow/green liquid (pus)... it's only damaged calluses (at least from what it looks like as I said)
nothing overly bad. Papercuts are worse (they go deeper than that )

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=NotUoid]it's not weird, you don't have the phobia.[/quote]

qurl are you sure. i literally have panic attacks when i see it irl. it also triggers my asthma which doctors have thought i outgrew

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=Nashi] (for those curious: [url=http://cfile23.uf.tistory.com/media/185B1C374EF80EDE1B90BE]bubbly foot[/url]) wouldn't those with trypophobia be scared of eating corn too?[/quote]

oh.
my.
god.
that's the picture that i kept staring at. i just find it so disgusting i keep thinking of sand getting stuck in it, or having it scraped across my face, idk why.
and i actually like how corn looks after i eat it, that's weird

@SupremeOFWGKTA :

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Nashi

@Kythro: o.O that bad? If it's within a normal measure and not sick it shouldn't be an issue lol..

OT: I was actually brave enough to look it up but the longer I looked at the stuff the calmer I got actually (especially after realising (or thinking) that the first picture that came up was a person's shoulder with a lotus seed thing photoshopped on it lol)
I don't mind anything natural (aside from veins in meat, I can't stand eating meat when it has fat or veins in it or when it's diff colored like the meat on chicken legs (near the bone))

What I personally absolutely can't stand are unhealthy ("sick&quot things.
E.g. a medical way of cleaning wounds and getting rid of infected/dead tissue: maggots (I feel horribly just thinking about those wiggly things in a wound.. would never want to have that, UGH. Seen that on TV many times..)
or any kind of parasite in flesh (whether it's a human or animal)

The Lotus thing irked me at first cause it looked like there could be larvae in it but the longer I stared at it (and after reading that fear is as infective as fear ) the calmer I really got.

There was also a picture of a person who had kind of holes in the sole of his foot (for those curious: [url=http://cfile23.uf.tistory.com/media/185B1C374EF80EDE1B90BE]bubbly foot[/url]) but to me it only looked like damaged callused skin which could easily be removed (my feet actually automatically peel when there's too much calluses lol)

And the lotus doesn't even look bad now anymore... (I'd actually like to rip it open and pick the seeds out for entertainment xD)

Also, wouldn't those with trypophobia be scared of eating corn too? (considering it leaves "holes" when you eat it) or baked stuff? o.O
or even drinks with bubbles on them? (cause I saw a picture that had like foam on it)

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=Nashi]Enlarged pores of the skin)[/quote]

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Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Kythro

[quote=OhMiOhMai]. If you are grossed out by a million tiny holes photo shopped where someone's fingernails should be, .[/quote]
reading that made me cringe. and yes i am grossed out by those simple things too </3

Reply July 5, 2012 - edited
Nashi

According to Ubrandictionary (LMAO)

"Trypophobia is an intense fear of the following things, which results in an all-over itchy feeling and general uneasyness. Lotus seed pods, Crumpets, Pumice, Cavities in teeth, the Ampullae of Lorenzini in Sharks, Holes in concrete, Bug tunnels in wood, Enlarged pores of the skin, Aero Bars, Holes in walls caused by bullets, Bone marrow, Wasps' nest, Honeycomb, Bubbles in Dough, Ant holes, Veins in meat, Clusters of holes"

Well... o__o aside from maybe cavities (ouch!) ... and veins in meat o.O mmm *shrug*
I definitely don't mind the rest (most of it anyway)

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