What scares you?

[MoseyWalker]

or makes you just nervous?

It seems like I spend my days being nervous. All day at work I'm nervous. My blood pressure is off the charts.

What makes you nervous or scared?

[Deja Q]

1. Death, obviously.

And crowds.

[graywarrior]

2. Life, in general.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

3. Absolutely cannot stand...

Blood, spiders, and death. And heights.

[qnr]

4. People, basically. I'm what's known as a social phobic. n/t

[MoseyWalker]

7. I'm with you on that

and I now have a job where I go to work in a building with no windows.

I am freaking out internally, but trying not to, because I need this job.

[Jamastiene]

8. That would be my choice too.

What can I say? I know the human species and I have seen enough to know it is in my best interest to fear it.

[Redstone]

5. Nothing, actually. And that's NOT a good thing, believe me.

A psychiatrist once told me that I have a "pathological lack of fear." In dangerous situations, I get VERY focused, but not afraid.

You can imagine the kind of trouble that's caused me throughout life, I'll bet.

Redstone

[MoseyWalker]

11. So

put yourself in "good" situations!

stay away from the other influences?

[Redstone]

12. Yeah, but I'm also a maniac and have ADD, so there's no telling what

tangent I'll be off on next.

Though things have quieted down since I got married. Mrs R told me in no uncertain terms that if I'm in a perfectly good airplane, I have to STAY IN IT until it lands.

Dang.

Redstone

[MoseyWalker]

16. there have been times

I've wished to be in shoes similar to yours!

Consider yourself lucky, and maybe even blessed by something out there!

Someone is there to help and be with you. You lucky............

[Redstone]

19. Oh, yes, no question that having Mrs R has extended my lifetime.

I do remind myself every day what a fortunate son of a bitch I am. I do.

Redstone

[rockymountaindem]

25. I kind of thought that about you

just from watching you post around here. At lot of times I've seen you post about things that you've encountered and the thought runs through my head "this guy does *not* back down". I wish I was like that, but honestly I've never been in a position where my fight or flight response has ever kicked in, so who knows? Well, at least not with people. I'm not a huge fan of when the moths fly in my face while I'm mowing the lawn. Full disclosure and all :)

[Redstone]

35. Well, now you know that "this guy does not back down" because

he's essentially oblivious.

No, you do NOT want to be like that. Trust me.

Redstone

[Mojambo]

6. Chickens freak me out

I'm afraid they're going to peck me.

[Deja Q]

10. I wouldn't mind a chicken pecking me...

[Chan790]

9. Bees.

Last time I was stung I nearly died and I've been on a quest to eradicate them from my yard ever since. It's a losing fight because I'm surrounded by organic gardeners; not that I'm complaining as I love the free produce and I'm a vegetarian so I won't have to go grocery shopping again until November at the earliest.

[querelle]

13. Bad Drivers

I don't drive myself and being a pedestrian or even a passenger in a car really freaks me out at times. I get very tense in cars. My biggest fear is dying in a crash.

Q

[Haole Girl]

14. Speaking in public

and snakes on a plane! :scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Spiders.

I routinely do stupid shit which could result in severe bodily harm. Doesn't faze me. I see the tiniest spider and I'm screaming for someone to kill it for me.

Upon being presented with a rock wall on a poison ivy covered granite island that is directly above shallow rocky water...
Me: I could climb this.
(gets up a few feet & comes back down)
Me: Yeah, that's really dangerous to do in flip flops. Here Ginny, hold my flip flops and meet me at the top.
(Successfully scales wall)

Upon seeing a tiny spider...
Me: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! SPIDER!!!! I NEED SOMEBODY TO KILLLLLL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MorningGlow]

17. Tight spaces

I'm a titch claustrophobic.

Martial law or any other real-life resemblance to The Handmaid's Tale, thanks to this administraiton.

The possibility of losing my job. Again, thanks to this administration.

Turning MorningGlow Jr. over to anybody else--even grandma.

I'm sure there are hundreds more, but those are the biggies.

:hide:

[idgiehkt]

18. malls.

fundies. knick-knacks. probably alot of other stuff I can't think about.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Stay out of a Thomas Kinkade store at a mall!

:scared:

All your fears in one place ...

[idgiehkt]

27. lol

God, do they have whole stores dedicated to that man? Is that like a 7 secrets kind of thing? Kreeepy.

[Arugula Latte]

38. Well, I do think they have T.K. sections in Christian stores ...

Not sure if they have an entire store, though. Gawd, that would be horrible. :puke:

[idgiehkt]

40. oh, that must be where the christians get all that stuff

I can't figure out about his stuff because alot of it looks like it is supposed to be dated before the widespread use of electricity yet all the buildings are so lit up. And candles don't provide that much light. Must be the aura of holiness coming off of the fundies or something...

[RiffRandell]

20. My husband's cancer coming back.

[MoseyWalker]

23. Stay positive

and do your best, which I'm sure you are.

I wish you and hubby peace and luck, as it is.

[RiffRandell]

24. Thnaks. That's really nice. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Doctors, dentists and hospitals - medical stuff scares the crap out of me.

I used to be absolutely terrified of flying but I got over it.

Spiders, snakes, bugs are all OK with me except for very large centipedes, which creep me out.

[lost-in-nj]

22. My family's

safety. My children are going out on their own.
Will they be OK? When it snows are they going to get to their destinations ok?
etc.


My husband had a heart attack in June. Will he have another one? Will he want to "live" and leave us behind?

Those kinds of things.......



lost


ps my children are 22 and 28 :P

[bigwillq]

28. The Bush administration.

Not much else.

[Ramsey]

29. Large winged insects

You should have hear my ear-piercing scream when one dive bombed me in the house last night. Luckily my 3 cats were on the hunt and they decimated that sucker!

[Cobalt Violet]

30. Heights.

But not all heights. I can climb mountains that about it for heights. I hate tall buildings, and ladders. Any thing that one can fall from. I feel safe on mountains because the base is so solid. I don't know if this make any sense. I have nightmares all the time that I'm falling from something.

[femmocrat]

31. Heights and crowds. And two more years....

Heights includes balconies, steps without backs, glass elevators, bridges, overpasses, overlooks, amusement parks, and even seeing someone else in a high place. It's mostly height with nothing underneath that causes me to get weak-kneed and breathe rapidly.

Crowds.... being closely surrounded by people scares me. Also I cannot walk into a crowded room-- that gives me a panic attack.

And two more years of the * administration scares the crap out of me.

[BreweryYardRat]

32. Roaches.

Parasites.

Occasionally, something I read/watch or something in real life makes me jumpy for a day or two (or, in the case of one of my suitemates last year, half a semester), but no real phobias other than the above.

When I'm jumpy or run into an example of phobia #1 (hopefully, I'll never encounter anything from phobia #2), my response is to find a weapon/something that can be used as a weapon. Has a calming effect on me, y'know?

[Nicole]

33. Spiders and snakes

:scared:

[Yavin4]

34. muthafuckin' snakes on a muthafuckin' plane

someone had to say it.

[reyd reid reed]

36. You mean besides right-winging, war-mongering shrubbery?

Pain. Not physical pain, I've got an alarmingly high tolerance for that. Emotional pain. My tolerance there is very, very low. Doesn't take much. And it ain't gonna happen again, not if I can help it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Heights and small spaces.

It used to be death too, until I almost died. Now I'm clear with that.


Maybe flying a little bit, not the flying part, but the not being able to tell my kids it'll be okay if something bad happened.

[mad-mommy]

39. everything