what is it called when you have a phobia of stickiness?
Discount Medical Scrubs
I freak out around anything sticky. if some one has a sucker I cant stop staring at it because i am afraid they are gonna touch me with it. I once while working at a restaurant had to get a bottle of syrup down from a cabinet and i could see the bottle had syrup on the outside and i kept imagining accidentally spilling it over my head, and i had an anxiety attack right then and there *i hadn't even touched the bottle yet* my grandma likes to put tape (packing, industrial, or duct tape) on me like my arms or back just so she can call me pathetic and a freak while i twitch and shake and cry on the floor.
if i get something on me i will start scrubbing and not be able to stop. I once scrubbed my jaw all the way to the bone because if medical tape residue. while camping I got grease on my hands while washing dishes and freaked out and kept scrubbing between my fingers until i started bleeding and my dad made me put on gloves so i couldn't feel my hands
IT ITS NOT AN ALLERGY!! IT IS MENTAL NOT PHYSICAL!! I CANT STAND THE FEEL OF ANYTHING STICKY. but gooey or slimy things are fine. I love mud and have no problems with getting raw eggs on me
I think the fear has to do with a sort of binding feeling. with the syrup it was having it all in my hair clumping it and making it get stuck to my face and neck.
the grease made my fingers stick to eachother in the little webbing part and my nuckels
with the tape it was like when you put on a bandaid and then try to stretch the skin under it. god just typing this stuff is making me all twitchy and panic-ey. i actually work with glue alot (Im a craft person)because the glue itself is not sticky. it is runny and slimey and i can easily remove it before it becomes all gummy and groce.
Tags: allergy, anxiety attack, bandaid, craft person, discount medical, duct tape, fingers, freak, gloves, glue, grandma, grease, medical tape, mud, raw eggs, sucker, tape residue, twitchy, washing dishes, webbing
March 11th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
This could be an acute form, or derivative of Haptephobia, or a fear of being touched. Although you may not be tactile-sensitive in most cases (you don’t mind being touched by non-sticky things), you are definitely touch-sensitive to certain things. There may be more to it, if you could analyze why it is you are uncomfortable, or what it is you are afraid of happening. Are you afraid of being smothered by sticky goo and suffocate (syrup over your head)? Are you afraid it will get into your skin and be absorbed into your body and make you ill (grease on your hands)? Are you afraid it will constrict or bind you (tape)?
If you know more about what you imagine are the negative consequences of the result of being in contact with sticky things, it may reveal the real fear, or underlying phobia. How about straight up glue? What are your thoughts on that? The excessive scrubbing may be a fear of dirt, or being dirty; it is hard to feel clean when you have something sticky on you, and that may explain the glue residue from adhesive tapes.
By the way, your grandmother is particularly insensitive, and even cruel, with her practice of taping you. This is sick if done for pleasure (you said she likes to do it), and just plain stupid if she thinks she is helping you to get over it. She needs to stop doing it immediately, or you need to stop being around her.
March 11th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Stichiaphobia. Or otherwise known as Stichiupurassaphobia.
March 11th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Did something happen to you with sticky stuff when you were younger?
I mean it could be a trauma that you carry subconsciously.
I used to be afraid of the dark and it happen for 17 years of my life, then I decided to toughen up and I went in to my parents’ basement with my eyes closed and it was pitch black in there and I locked the door behind me and i sat on the first step then I prayed. I went down the second and third step and I prayed again then I walked all the way down and I opened my eyes and I realized there was nothing to be afraid of because there was nothing there. So I went back up, I took my time too. I got out and I felt better. Since I did that, I never ever felt scared of the dark again, I sleep with all my lights off at night, I can’t stand the light at night because I can’t sleep with it on.
Well my point is, tell someone you trust with your life to get some syrup or tape or anything sticky and before you go near it, clear your mind of everything, tell yourself you are better then the sticky stuff. it gets on you and you can get it off, even if it falls on you or somebody touches you with sticky fingers, nothing will happen to you. You are smart don’t let an insignificant little thing fool you into thinking it is actually gonna take over your life(just read this out loud and think how ridiculous it sounds.)
Good luck, girl! I hope it helps.