What do you fear?
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October 10th, 2009
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Do you think you can eventually overcome your fear?
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“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” Other then that I’m coward and fear everything.
There are some things I need to do, before I can move on. If I don’t overcome my fears, I’ll be wasting away big parts of my life for no good reason.
Without fear, what is there?
“No courage without fear.”
I fear rejection, loss, and all the horrible feelings that go along with them. I never allow people to really get close to me, because I am afraid they won’t like what they see and then they will just leave me. These irrational abandonment issues are something I fight with everyday, because I want to let someone in, but I don’t know how. So yes, I fear something, and it’s mostly myself.
Bridges, going over them and under them. I have little faith in man-made structures.
Without fear everyone would instantly die is what I’m guessing would happen. Yet minimal fear could be considered a great way to live with hardly a worry.
Self preservation is not dependent on fear. Decisions based on fear is what get people hurt.
@oratio I watched a movie where they made a drug that removed all the fear and anxiety a person had. They ended up simply rotting, on the other hand a few people had an opposite reaction to the drug and turned into monsters.
bears really big bears The North American Grizzly
Getting sucked into a creepy cult.
Also reaching my potential.
(something from Maria Bamford but I couldn’t find it on youtube, sorry kids)
@Samurai Well, I agree to that we need our emotions. All of them. For a time, in healthy doses.
@oratio Yeah, I agree as well. Emotions are formed by the surroundings and necessitys. This is why cats have different emotions then humans, but without one of the emotions needed for survival they will be instantly impaired.
Rodents, snakes, and birds inside the house. I don’t like small things that scurry or move erratically. I don’t think I will get over it, nor do I really want to.
I’m afraid of heights, and open stair cases, the type you can see through the back of. I guess I am afraid of falling because I had a nasty fall when I was very young that resulted in a very bad concussion.
Open stair cases creap me out too, the handrail exists for a reason. None of this ‘open-plan’ malarky.
I’m afraid of ending up old, without enough money, in a bad nursing home, where they mistreat the patients. It’s not so far fetched, as I have been living off my savings while I finish school, and the money may run out before I have my Master’s.
My biggest fear is that something will happen to my husband or kids. It’s not a crippling fear, but just an “I can’t even think about it” fear. And no, I don’t imagine I’ll ever get over it.
My other irrational fear is spiders. I wouldn’t say I’ve gotten over it, but I’m much better than I used to be. Even a small spider across the room would make me feel very anxious and nauseous. I gradually got to the point where spiders don’t bother me as much unless they surprise me. The other day, I was in the shower and happened to look up to see one of those creepy, long-legged house spiders on the ceiling. It made me uncomfortable, but I was able to finish my shower. I just kept an eye on him because if he made any sudden moves I would have mashed him with the Pantene bottle. A few years ago I would have ran out of the shower and stayed out until someone (my husband) squashed it for me.
@saraaaaaa I know! And I cling to the handrails with shaky hands!
Needles. NEEDLES! I even refuse to get a flu shot.
I’m deathly afriand of throwing up. I’ve only done it a few times in my life but now that I drink I will have to face my fear if I get too drunk… which I hope will never happen
I fear swimming in the deep end of the pool. I hope that some day I can overcome the fear but I have a feeling that I won’t simply because I don’t care to challenge it. I am certainly old enough to be getting over it (it stems from nearly drowning as a child). It is quite embarrassing to go swimming and be the only adult staying in the shallow end.
My food touching, getting old, losing my mother,being without gum, I’m scared that I pretty much probably have every illness and disease out there and just don’t know it yet and I’m really afraid that I’m going to be sitting in my rocker at 80 if I make it that far and I look back and ask myself if someone was to make a movie about my life would anyone want to watch it and the answer being NO.
My number one fear is that my wife dies before I do. I am old enough to understand what mortality means, and life without her would NOT be worth living. The mere thought of it makes me anxious.
I can handle anything as long as I have her by my side.
If she does die first, I will probably use a gun to blow my head off rather than face life without her. and I’m not a big fan of suicide except in extreme cases.
The one I listed is not my biggest fear. Just a practical one. Don’t know why I feel the need to clarify but I suppose it’s because others were brave enough to share their deep fears.
@evelyns_pet_zebra Aww, hugs!! I fear losing my husband, but I know statistically men usually pass away first, and he is a little older than me. The thought of it makes me sick.
A huge fear I have is dying during childbirth, or when my children are young. I want to raise them, I want to be there for them, and love them. I want all those memories, and thinking about what would happen to them without me makes me feel anxious. Ugh.
I have a really big fear of Clowns and Chickens.
for me its caterpillars. i wont elaborate because i do not want to think about them.
also, a little less ridiculous, i’m terrified of moving and being alone without anyone at first. agh.
@Tink1113 Reminded me of another one Chickens!! They are awful they are just huge and flap their wings in your face! Actually I’m not a fan of birds in general I actually start getting really anxious when I drive underneath overpasses when I have my windows down because bird always swoop under them and I start thinking if they fly into my car I’m dead! I would not be able to control myself from screaming and wreaking my car.
Fake fears: things like spiders- they’re only fears cuz we let them be.
Real fears: not going to heaven, being a bad influence, not living up to my full potential, not reaching my dreams, losing ambition & determination in life.
Can I get over these? I hope so.. as for now, I don’t know..
Losing loved ones. There are certain people in my life that I am terrified of losing to the point where I don’t want to be alive without them.
That’s the only thing that I am really scared of and I am sure that I am not the only one that has a fear like that. I haven’t overcome it in any way but I have ways to handle it so it doesn’t affect my day to day life in a major way.
Losing my sons or them being harmed
Getting Alzheimer’s
Having a long painful terminal illness
@deni They may be funny, but, when I was little I used to be chased by them and they would attack me. So since then I don’t go near them. At all. And their clucking Scares me even more.
@Tink1113 aw. okay. understandable. people ask me how i can possibly be afraid of caterpillars but its really a personal thing and i dont expect others to understand, so truce lol.
but we currently own some chickens and they’re actually really friendly. i agree that the mean ones can be scary because those things can be MEAN but the more tame ones are soft and fluffy and i think their noises are hilarious.
@deni Haha truce.
I can handle baby chicks, but not when they start growing up. I am not usually around them, just when I visit some relatives.
@Tink1113 our baby chicks came in the mail!!!!!! all alive too. and happy and fuzzy. it was cute.
The mixture of stupidity and hate.
Rats.
I began going into convulsions during Kinski’s Dracula.
Myself. And yes, my hope is to one day overcome that terrible thing.
Are you unable to look at yourself in a mirror?
Depends what I must answer for. Horrible to entertain what I am capable of.
But it’s nothing so morbid as it may sound. I’m just a man trying to learn from life. Others have shown me forgiveness. The hard part is learning to forgive myself.
I have a difficult time flying. The feeling of not being in control along with the claustrophobic way the inside of the plan seems to me makes me dread having to fly. Luckily it isn’t disabling as I have never passed on a trip because of flying, in fact I travel for work a few times per year… I would just rather be on a train, car, motorcycle, jet powered roller skates, etc.
Pain and suffering. Being incapacitated. Being a burden to my loved ones.
I do a lot of volunteer work with youth. I fear the day when I must lay my burden down and allow them to carry on and run this great nation we have. In trying to protect our youth from the realitiy of the the world, we have created a generation that I fear will not be able to keep things going when their turn comes. My parents probably felt the same way but these kids, children of children, 2nd and 3rd generation crackheads and welfare sponges, can’t even read,much less hold positions of responsibility. I am only 48 and can see the United States failing within my lifetime. I will do all I can, but I know I’m just pissing in the wind.
Wow! that’s a word you don’t see every day. Had to look that one up.
Unfortunately there is a high probability of its occurrence.
I just thought up a fear. what it you woke up one morning, and there sleeping peacefully next on your arm was Hillary Clinton?! AAUGH!!
@majorrich So, you’re saying Bill has suffered enough?
no, just sympathizin. poor sorry SOB
Heights!! I hope to evercome it, I have brought the question to all of you great people, so we’ll see! I can handle pretty much anything else, Bugs, reptiles, the dark anything…. I’m even fine going up to high places, but getting me to come down is like trying to get a cat out of a tree! I freeze up and my knees buckle! Man it’s a good thing I’m not really tall, I dont think I could handle it!
nothing…there is nothing to be afraid of…for me anyway. Fear is useless to me and just makes me miserable. No fear here.
That I will be broke and living in the streets.
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