Fears are like underwear...

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  • lkplibra
    lkplibra Posts: 147 Member
    I'm scared that if people really knew me they would find me unloveable.
  • lkplibra
    lkplibra Posts: 147 Member
    Oh...and the dentist too! ::noway:
  • likeschocolate
    likeschocolate Posts: 368 Member
    a chocolate shortage
  • Twinklegirl34
    Twinklegirl34 Posts: 59 Member
    I am very shy and self conscious and find it really hard to walk into a room and meet new people... One of my goals right now is to speak to someone new at every opportunity
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    Odd numbers.
    I bought a car with no volume numbers and my dad fixed every tv in the house to not show a volume bar.
    No joke.

    What do you do about your phone, that I assume you have?
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    I'm scared that if people really knew me they would find me unloveable.

    ^^^ this too
  • vcfervc
    vcfervc Posts: 28
    So if I don't wear underwear I won't have any fears? Let me try that.
  • ApexLeader
    ApexLeader Posts: 580 Member
    i don't wear underwear
  • Moxie42
    Moxie42 Posts: 1,400 Member
    Most bugs but especially spiders (it's a phobia...and I'm going to tell myself that photo posted wasn't real, even if it was...sometimes denial IS better...)

    Sudden loud noises, which has led to a fear (well, anxiety really) of several things including balloons- I HATE balloons!!!!
  • lawyerette
    lawyerette Posts: 301 Member
    Spiders and not being "good enough".

    wow. SO true.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Heights, squashed bugs, being overweight and failure.
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    Heights, squashed bugs, being overweight and failure.

    Squashed bugs?
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    I am ridiculously afraid of the thought of eternity. No end. No beginning. Just the inability to know how it began and knowing there will be no end. It freaks me out. I feel like hyperventilating just thinking about it.

    I also get terrified and have to sleep with a bible under my pillow any time I watch a movie about demons and paranormla stuffs.

    Seems like these two are related...

    How So?

    Both involve the unexplainable or incomprehensible.
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    Suspension bridges scare the piss out of me. And uncontained fires. The kind that burn quick and kill families. That is all.
  • greeneyes0809
    greeneyes0809 Posts: 422 Member
    Rodents, those teeth and tiny claws, don't even get me started on those tails!
  • koshkasmum
    koshkasmum Posts: 276 Member
    "Fears are like underwear" - I thought you meant I should use clean, nice ones every day in case I get hurt and rushed to the hospital.....
  • CristinaL1983
    CristinaL1983 Posts: 1,119 Member
    I used to be afraid of heights. More accurately, afraid of falling from high places. I started riding rollercoasters, realized I love them and started skydiving every weekend. I still get a tingle in my gut when I'm climbing a ladder or looking down from somewhere high or about to jump out of a plane but it is definitely not paralyzing like it used to be.
  • Grandmajoann2
    Grandmajoann2 Posts: 2
    Feel the fear and do it anyway
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    I used to be afraid of heights. More accurately, afraid of falling from high places. I started riding rollercoasters, realized I love them and started skydiving every weekend. I still get a tingle in my gut when I'm climbing a ladder or looking down from somewhere high or about to jump out of a plane but it is definitely not paralyzing like it used to be.

    Every weekend?!
  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
    I used to be afraid of heights. More accurately, afraid of falling from high places. I started riding rollercoasters, realized I love them and started skydiving every weekend. I still get a tingle in my gut when I'm climbing a ladder or looking down from somewhere high or about to jump out of a plane but it is definitely not paralyzing like it used to be.

    Wow, good for you for taking charge of your fear like that!
  • olDave
    olDave Posts: 557 Member
    I ask myself if something is within my control or not. If it's not, then I train myself not to worry about it. If it's within my control, then I am comforted by that fact and set about a course of action.

    People fear pain and death. But since they are both a normal part of life and out of my control, I train myself not to fear them. In other words...Don't fear pain and death (or anything else) but fear the fear of pain and death.

    A wise man once said..."All we have to fear is fear itself.":smile:
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    A wise man once said..."All we have to fear is fear itself.":smile:

    Yes, but, dude! Sharks!!!
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    For those who say "I don't wear/have underwear"...

    Pics or it didn't happen.
  • gfedex
    gfedex Posts: 226 Member
    The dentist. I avoided it for seven years until waking up with a swollen face sent me for an emergency appointment.

    Now I take mild sedatives before I go for anything bigger than a cleaning. Had I known it was an option earlier, I could have saved myself a fair pile o' cash.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I'm scared of getting shot especially in the eyes. Or getting impaled in the eyes by something sharp.
  • wnbrice
    wnbrice Posts: 244 Member
    Parasites, needles. Basically anything that goes beneath the skin.


    Thank you scarabs in The Mummy......
  • charismanoodles
    charismanoodles Posts: 343 Member
    Deep ocean water. Hell no!
  • itsavilesecurity
    itsavilesecurity Posts: 7
    Sharks and Rashes..
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Math. I have trouble with even basic addition and subtraction. Anything beyond that and I literally have to talk myself through a panic attack.

    Horses. They are so big! I'm a little afraid of anything that could crush my skull with an accidental kick.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Success, failure, clowns and rapists. Oh, and centipedes. Creepy little ****ers are WAY too fast.

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