What Are We Afraid Of?

[Deleted member 6617]

Life scares me! So many decisions and choices. So afraid of "getting it wrong".

Spiders...spiders scare me, but I can't explain why. Weird!

 

[Philippa]

Ugh, that's horrible that he did that to you. I agree, parents don't always realize the effects of their pranks and the comments they make. I am sorry your parents did that to you. Spiders are just...horrible. My ex eventually refused to kill them for me saying I needed to "Grow up and deal with them on my own." I was always told that spiders are good because they eat other bugs, but that didn't help my fear at all.

Thankyou piratelady for acknowledging that.

it's not that I am scared of spiders when I see them, during the day, though they do repel me, but that is how they were designed...to repel and frighten people, so they can protect themselves, because even though they are scary, they are also small, and they do serve a purpose in nature...but that doesn't help when you have a fear of them, I agree.

It is said that spiders represent our own primal fear, and that is why we do fear them so much. So when you see one and are afraid it has to do with something about yourself that you fear. I tend to think this way too. I think that everything in our external world reflects something about us as individuals, in our inner worlds.

 

[Whitneys story]

Existing in the realm of one day at a time for so many years. Raising 2 children and being the provider. I fear tomorrow! I have recently learned this about myself. For me one day at a time took the future out of everything. I do understand the concept however realize it is not healthy. If I did not have my positive attitude, who knows.

 

[Charmedone]

I am afraid of many things, in no particular order:
-The dark
-Food
-Strangers, especially men
-Having the door closed
-Crowded places
-That I will always be evil
-Water and water related things
-Being touched-even shaking hands with someone frightens me
-Speaking in general
-Speaking about the past
-Causing hurt and bad things to happen
-Friends/family dying or being really ill
-That I will turn out like my mum
-That HE will return
-Elevators
-Holes
-Being burried alive
-Going to hell
-Being noticed/centre of attention
-Falling out with friends
-Trusting
-Losing Jake
-My puppy getting hurt

... the list is endless.

 

[Loveneverfails]

I'm deathly afraid of losing my kids. It's a somewhat irrational fear as I don't beat, abuse or neglect them, but for some reason it's hardwired in my head that I don't deserve to have them.

I'm also afraid of the dark. Cannot be completely immersed in darkness or I have a panic attack.

 

[amethist]

My husband cooking.

Something usually gets broken, burnt or something happens to him.

 

[Shellbell]

Affecting my sons and husband and causing them pain with this PTSD
Not being a good enough mother
My children rejecting me when they are older
My husband leaving me
Rejection by my friends
I will never really learn to trust
Not having the strength and courage I need to get well
Panic attacks getting worse
:(

 

[Privateer]

Being stuck behind a desk.
Being a bad husband.
Being a bad father.

Failure at what I set out to achieve.

Heights. I never let it stop me doing anything- I am a pilot, after all- but I'm not a fan.

 

[intothelight]

Letting go of all of my dreams and hopes and having to start all over.....again.:(

 

[Privateer]

Ooh, just remembered one: dying indoors.

I remember lying on a trolley in a hospital grabbing at a medic's uniform trying to explain to him that I didn't want the last thing I saw to be dirty green walls and a fluorescent light strip. I was trying to tell him to take me outside and let me die in the sun.

Unfortunately I was in an incredible amount of pain and had become somewhat delirious, meaning that whatever I thought I was saying, it probably wasn't coming out anything like that.

 

[JustBe]

I fear Height (always have), Drowning ( I'm a very good swimmer), being buried alive (NO IDEA why!), Being trapped (definitely PTSD related), ... hmmmm, many more but all are PTSD related.

 

[Estacia]

Silent Films gives me the chills. I am partically deaf. I fear of losing what little hearing is left.:arghh;