Fear Thread! What are you afraid of?

Deathwithab

Needles...specifically blood tests..I hate the idea of veins and needles together yuck yuck yuck i cringe..They have wrote needle phobic in my clinic hospital files lol

mine too , I think they might have also wrote don't let eat for 12 hours before because last time I went into a panic and threw up on the nice nurse lol then freaked out even more

mjmcdon

Any sort of bug in general, ESPECIALLY spiders!
Anything bad happening to anyone I love.
Loneliness
Death

mrmarius

Closed spaces

Quarantined

1. Spiders - I shake out blankets, clothes, and shoes too. A huge black spider once built a web inside the leg of my mothers pants, which she had ironed and put on a chair so she could wear them that night. She saw what she thought was dust or powder on them, shook them, and a spider bigger than my hand flew out of them towards me. I was 4. Scared me silly.

2. Having my wrists or throat touched. I also sometimes get these random feelings that someones going to stab my wrists or slit my throat, makes me squirmy for hours.

4thehardman

I am afraid of the things that I cannot control. All of my biggest fears are driven by this one overwhelming notion that life is just going too well and I worry about how I will be made to pay for that (was raised RC!), I am scared of the things in my past that I did that I could have controlled better. The memories that haunt me at 4 o'clock in the morning and keep me lying awake until dawn.
I'm scared for my children and the attention they recieve (I have identical triplets) and that something terrible may happen as a result. I fear for my eldest daughter who is the loner of the family, that she doesn't have the space to thrive.
Moreover than anything else I am afraid of it all changing. I have such an amazing life. I'm so lucky and so happy. We worked so hard and had a lot of heartache to get here. I am stiil in love with my husband, he is my hero. I hope that never changes.
Oh yeah, not too keen on toads

nothingisred

My only real phobia is flying, and it's really extreme.

I've never met anyone with a phobia of flying anywhere near as bad as mine. I haven't been on a plane in 12 years. Anything plane related makes me very nervous, shakey and makes my heart race, even just seeing them on TV.

I know the exact root of my phobia, I had a really bad experience on a plane when I was 9 years old where the plane came close to crashing (and then we had to get back on the same plane 10 hours later). It's obviously really scarred me! But I also grew up in a town with an airport that saw 5 crashes in the town in the space of 8 years as I was growing up, including one right in front of my best friend's house, so that has obviously made things worse!

Living in England I've been lucky enough to be able to jump on a train or a ferry to go to Europe but I've realised now that I want to see the world, so I HAVE to get over this. I really want to go to Latin America and South East Asia, and that's not going to happen without a plane! I'm hoping to take some short plane rides next year to help me get over it, I'm determined.

Funny thing is though I LOVE heights and all of that, I really want to do things like go in a hot air balloon, go hand gliding and bungee jumping and those things don't scare me in the slightest.

Booboo78

Mouldy or contaminated food
Other people being sick
Heights
Closed spaces
Drowning

I actually really like spiders. So much so, I kept a tarantula as a pet once!

SinIsIn

The BIG kamikaze cockroaches that FLY !!
I have a HUGE dislike for CLOWNS.
and Frogs

TheRoadDog

Not crazy about heights, but wouldn't call it an all out fear.

JStarnes

1- spider crickets (I think their actual name is camel cricket?) *cringe* I hate to even think about them..
2- If I'm alone, 95% of strangers in public scare the bejeezus out of me....irrational fear, I know, but I still freak out and imagine that they're gonna kidnap me and film their own version of "Strangers" with me. :indifferent:
3- the bank being robbed

Most other fears I can kick if I'm exposed to them - heights, small spaces, bugs, snakes, etc. But these 3, I cannot get over.

VeganGal84

1) anything going in or out of my veins (getting my blood drawn, or getting a shot or an IV. I used to say "needles" but I'm not scared of needles, just the thought of losing blood or a foreign substance going into my veins!) I'm so phobic of this that I fear that some day I will die from something that would have been ridiculously preventable had I only had a blood test or gotten some injections.

2) stuffed animals. Not teddy bears, but actual taxidermy. I'm terrified of the things!

3) gaining the weight back. This is my only rational fear.

chocolateandvodka

1. threads about what i'm afraid of

2. being responsible for another human being

3. heights (sort of)

4. frogs/things that jump/mainly frogs.

5. snakes

godroxmysox

* Anything with more than 4 legs (spiders, earwigs, butterflies....yes, butterflies - pretty to look at, but don't you dare land on me!)

* Being home alone and having the cops come to my door to tell me something terrible has happened (a repeat of when my dad died - anytime the doorbell rings, my heart stops)

* Social situations - pretty sure I'm socially awkward, lol

Stacera

1. clowns
2. dying alone.. which also goes with this other fear b/c as a teen I had a recurring dream that while I drove country roads out here at night I would swerve to miss a deer in the road and end up in a ravine and no one ever finds me and I die... yep I'm morbid. so because of this, when I'm driving at night while on any country roads I make someone talk to me on the phone the whole time.

Punkedpoetess

1. Bugs and spiders.

2. Snakes

3. Needles, I hate blood tests.

4. Large crowds (I don't do well socially when around too many people)

live2dream

Rapists, murderers and clowns.

^ This. But I lump all moral deviants like rapists and murderers and such in with the clowns anyway. Creepy damn clowns.

Exactly what I would say too... that and public speaking.

Tori_356

Driving on the freeway & over the freeway overpasses
giving birth to my future children
death & those close to me dying.

alice0711

SNAKEEE!!!! BOA!!! ANACONDA!!!! I SOO HATE THEM!!

Saruman_w

I don't have any intense fears. I don't like heights, being high up makes me uneasy but I can deal with it.

sparklesammy

rational fears
1.illness/death in my family
2. financial instability
3. failing

irrational fears
1.balloons
2. wind turbines

sparklesammy

rational fears
1.illness/death in my family
2. financial instability
3. failing

irrational fears
1.balloons
2. wind turbines

oh, and scorpians. (irrational)

magichatter06

kaits108

open heights, androids and giants.

So if I'm stuck on a Ferris Wheel with a giant android robot, I'm definitely going to die of fright. FYI.

nekosimba

I have some normal phobias, and some odd ones.

1. any sort of bug or arachnid
2. stairs (particularity falling "UP" the stairs and cracking my teeth on them)
3. clowns
4. balloons
5. falling
6. large crowds

nekosimba

* Anything with more than 4 legs (spiders, earwigs, butterflies....yes, butterflies - pretty to look at, but don't you dare land on me!)

OMG! Me too! I had one openly swoop and try to attack me! (butterfly that is)

godroxmysox

* Anything with more than 4 legs (spiders, earwigs, butterflies....yes, butterflies - pretty to look at, but don't you dare land on me!)

OMG! Me too! I had one openly swoop and try to attack me! (butterfly that is)

Good to know I'm not alone in this, lol

katya73

I know these creatures are totally harmless and cute to other but .......I am TERRIFIED ... I mean really TERRIFIED of mice and omg rats ... Ughhhhh,,,yukkkko

grrrlface

Polystyrene........ I hate the stuff. That noise it makes when you touch it... Urgh I can't even go near someone who has the stuff near them..
I can't touch anything that's packed in the stuff.

& on the same touch/sound thing... cotton wool.

lucky2too

Mice

kenzietea

death or dying