I posted earlier a thread about my issue with onions and it occurred to me that my issue with onions is not necessarily a phobia (and not necessarily rational either) however it's born of bad childhood memories.

This got me wondering if others suffer from certain things stemming from bad childhood memories? Maybe the issues you are having are not exactly phobias, just more some lingering issue with not wanting to relive or revisit some past experience.

Just out of curiosity, do you suffer any phobias or otherwise negative effects from childhood and if so, what are they?

I think it's quite common for our fears/phobias/insecurities, etc to stem from experiences in our childhood.

Anyways, my bee phobia is definitely the result of an incident that happened when I was younger. I was about 6 at the time that it happened. Basically, I was outside with both my parents on the back deck. We always had a problem with bees building a nest right under the deck. So, of course there was a nest under there. I can't remember the specifics but I believe that my Dad was getting ready to spray the nest. I think he may have even sprayed it with me out there. Anyways, I ended up getting stung on the knee and my knee swelled up to the point where I couldn't bend it.

I think the part of it that did more harm than anything was my Dad's reaction though. I remember him getting short tempered with me and telling me that it was just a little sting, not to cry. Not that my Dad's a bad guy either. He's just... not a very emotional person. He has troubles with other peoples emotions too. So, as a child, I got a lot of "be a big girl and don't cry", etc because I don't think he could handle those emotions.

So, yeah. Lol. Now I have a pretty extreme phobia of bees.

^Poor cowie!
I guess the circumstances surrounding the anxiety provoking experience are just as important as the actual cause of anxiety eh? I mean, getting stung by a bee doesn't have to be such a big deal. But if someone screams at you when it happens, that intensifies the experience.

But yeah, I think most phobias stem childhood, or at least from past experiences.

My social issues pretty much stem from past school experiences. I was shy even before school, but that shyness led to some crummy experiences in school, which made me into who I am today.

I think it's different when it comes to food though. That's probably what you're thinking of Alter when you say that your onion-issues aren't necessarily a phobia. A phobia = anxiety/fear. A "phobia" for food doesn't really make a person all that anxious though. You feel repulsion towards a specific type of food, but it doesn't technically scare you. So the two things are related, but the "symptoms" are different. Both can be caused from bad experiences though. For years I haven't been able to eat soup with a specific type of consistency (can't explain it better than that.). As a kid I threw up when I ate soup like that, and ever since then I just couldn't even look at it without feeling nauseous. It took some work but I managed to overcome that though.
I've actually had a lot of food issues, and I think all of them stem from childhood. I got really sick as a baby and threw up non-stop. They thought I had a gluten allergy (although they later found out that I don't have a gluten allergy). But yeah, growing up I had a lot of food related issues. I spent long periods where I simply refused to eat, and when I did eat I would only eat a couple of things.
Once again, food didn't scare me, but I felt a kind of repulsino towards it.

I guess it's the brain's different ways of protecting itself. Something non-edible but dangerous -> anxiety -> stay away.
Something edible and dangerous -> repulsion -> don't eat. Maybe.
It's 7am, nothing I say right now probably makes any sense.