What is your biggest fear and why do you have that fear

[NJmaverick]

I guess for me it's falling. Now I think that's a bit different than heights. Heights don't bother me. If I don't feel like I am going to fall I am perfectly fine. Hell I have done repelling and bungie jumping. However put me on a ladder or some place that I feel like there is a good chance I can fall and...:scared:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. cockroaches. classical conditioning.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. A serious illness.

I'm no germophobe and can handle your average cold or flu. But a serious illness--like a cancer or some neurological disease--where there is no easy cure (or no cure at all), I'm forever scared of getting. Or a sudden heart attack or stroke that manifests itself out of the blue. I am a major hypochondriac.

[BlueIris]

22. Same. I wouldn't characterize myself as a hypochondriac, but

I am paranoid.

[MrCoffee]

3. My biggest fear is the superflu

I'm talking like the Spanish influenza of 1918 which killed 20-40 million people. The Black Death didn't come close to that kind of mortality rate.

I don't watch the news whenever the latest Hong Kong Chicken flu story breaks. Ignorance is bliss.

[NJmaverick]

7. Do you get flu shots every year?

[MrCoffee]

8. Yes.

But they won't help when the superflu comes.

I'll be under my bunk.
:scared:

[BarenakedLady]

4. Something bad happening to my kids

I can deal with anything else.

[raccoon]

5. Being homeless. Because it can happen to anyone. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. I also have that fear.

Whenever I see a homeless person, I can't but help wonder if he or she once had a normal and stable life, and whether there was one spark that caused everything to collapse.

[supernova]

9. Not reaching my potential

Not being able to fully explore my capabilities.

Living without love in search of above.

Fear of failure.

[charlie and algernon]

10. well right now it's finding out my bank is gone and money has gone poof

[MissMillie]

11. that the next time I give a romantic interest a chance

he won't be worth it.


Why?


because they never are....

[NJmaverick]

14. Isn't it better to have loved and lost than never having loved at all?

Did ole Bill S. get it wrong?

[MissMillie]

17. that theory is right for the first 20 times you let someone in

after that, it just feels like a waste of energy.

[NJmaverick]

31. Sorry to hear that

:hug:

[TZ]

12. My biggest fear

has come true. People suck.

[NJmaverick]

13. I hear you

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

People often do suck. Even if they don't there are often situations that make them act in a sucky manner, at least from some people's perspective. Worse yet we often find ourselves saying goodbye to the rare non-sucky ones. Unfortunately the only constant in life is change. All we can hope for is to try and keep our hellos balancing our good byes and our good changes out numbering the bad ones. Can't stop the bad stuff, we can only work on increasing the good.

[Glorfindel]

15. Edges - I'm afraid of things like balconies, cliffs, ledges, etc.

Up to about six floors, I'm OK, but any higher and it's sheer panic mode. I'm not afraid of flying, because airliners don't have edges. It makes no sense, but that's the essence of a phobia, isn't it?

[commander bunnypants]

18. same here

but then I fell off a cliff

CB

[RebelOne]

16. Right now, not being able to find gas for my car.

Where I live in No. Georgia, all the stations are out of gas. I have 1/2 a tank but that is not going to last long.

[LynneSin]

19. McCain getting elected (or stealing the election)

If I have to explain that to you then why the fuck are you posting here at DU

[NJmaverick]

20. That is a good one, a very good one

:scared:

[Left Brain]

21. I'm with you Lynne

Only cure for this phobia is an Obama landslide come November.

[Rambis]

30. Mine too

I will quit politics if he wins! No more money, time, yard signs none of it! I will have to train myself not to care about "merika"

[BarenakedLady]

32. Yup, that ranks up there

:scared:

[Liberalynn]

39. I'm still afraid Dumbya/and Uncle Dick

ain't gonna go quietly. I am afraid they are going to declare martial law and call off the elections, and declare themselves a totalitarian government.
:scared:

I guess I have that fear because of the course work I did while at college, studying Nazi Germany and the U.S.S.R.


My other fear is dying in a car crash. I was in a car where the breaks went out, and an eighteen wheeler was coming the other way. Luckily the driver behind us realized somehting was wrong, locked his bumper with ours and started breaking with his car, and my mother stayed calm and steered us out of the way. No crash, thank heaven.

Obviously we survived but I have been terrified ever since. I also had a recurring dream of driving a car, coming up to a yield sign, another car is coming, the driver doesn't yield, I hit the breaks, but they don't work, then I wake up.

It took me until I was 36 to overcome this fear enough to get my liscense but I am still a white knuckle driver at best, I only drive when I absolutely have to, and I don't even like to ride in a car that much either.

[sakabatou]

48. n'thd

[Midlodemocrat]

23. Fire. My aunt perished in a fire, so the idea terrifies me.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. I'm sorry

:hug:

That must have been hard

Despite living in an area where bushfires have been known to affect us, fire is only something that scares me on a seasonal basis (i.e. right in the middle of summer)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

24. Being trapped in a car underwater

Now isn't that the stupidest, most irational fear? But yet if our car is near water, it always sends a shiver through my spine

[insanity]

25. A lonely death

I hate the idea of being by myself when my life comes to a close.

[Roon]

37. Yes, that's mine too!

I have a terminal illness and I am always afraid that in the end I'll die alone. But I can be comforted by the fact that my family and ex lovers will be there when I pass on. That means the whole world to me.

[AlCzervik]

27. Something happening to my daughter.

[lizziegrace]

28. Losing my daughter

:(

And water. I had to be pulled out of the deep end by a swimming teacher when I was young. The humiliation and nearly drowning has left me with an intense fear of deep water.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

29. Just thought of another one -home invasion

Terrifies me to the point where sometimes I won't answer the doorbell when it's ringing

It's always been an irrational fear but recently I've had good reason. My cousin was the victim of a frightening home invasion last year

[Inchworm]

33. I fear...

No real fears I don't guess, so long as I see it first. If a critter startles me, I startle back though.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. motorcycles...cause I have to be scared of something, so I picked

motorcycles. Works for me.

[Mutley]

35. Spiders

I don't know if I had a bad experience as a small child, or what, but for as long as I can remember I've been terrified of spiders.

[Ohio Joe]

36. Guacamole

Don't know why but the stuff scares the crap out me. It looks like poison.

[lizziegrace]

40. only you...

:)

[Broken_Hero]

38. Sharks, Jaws(the movie)....

I was born/raised on a remote island in SE Alaska, and after watching Jaws when I was a wee lad, I cannot take a swim in the ocean without imagining Jaws coming up from underneath me to take a hunk outta my hide....

I hardly swim in the ocean anymore, the last time I recall doing so was summer of 95, and the whole time I was just getting anxiety over a shark coming to get me...Its weird I know, but thats how I am about Sharks...

[Neshanic]

41. My dog dying. Just can't wrap my head around that. I will not know what to do.

[BeachBaby]

42. Rejection.

Allowing myself to invest all my time, my energy, and my love into someone who claimed he felt the same way and gave me those same things - only to one day, without warning, tell me it's not enough for him.....and says goodbye forever.

Hands down the worst event of my life - something that I would never want to experience again. And I will do my damnedest to make sure I never do.

[TZ]

44. .

Rejection sucks.
:hug:

[billyoc]

43. Falling? Really?

Step into my office:








:evilgrin:

[NJmaverick]

47. OMG! Not in a million years!

:wow:

[Maccagirl]

45. Being locked up in a jail cell

or not having any control over my circumstanes (like being kidnapped).

Also just being all alone in the world-it's a cold place.

[DarkTirade]

46. Roaches.

Damned if I know why. They just freak me right the fuck out.

[ThomCat]

49. Being abandoned in a nursing home

or worse.

Either way, dying slowly by inches with no attention or care. I will need a lot of meds, a lot of attention, and a lot of care. If I don't get it, my final days will be torture.

I'm terrified of what my final days will be like. :(