What's your biggest fear?

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Leopardess

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What are you afraid of?

I'm not talking things like "drowning" or "getting shot." I mean, everyone is afraid of that! Unless its to the point of "I won't get in a pool because I'll drown."

I'm talking about things you maybe shouldn't be afraid of...or things that are just so far fetched but you still worry.

For me, I have to say, I have an irrational fear of internal parasites. Specifically, human tapeworm. The thought of it just terrifies me! I watched a few too many documentaries on the Discovery Channel on it...and now it just thoroughly freaks me out.

Aside from that, I've got to say pool drains!!! I think I saw a Rescue 911 episode when I was little where a pool drain was seriously malfunctioning. A little girl was swimming near it...it got her hair...and you can assume the rest. To this day, you will never convince me to dive to the bottom of a pool near the drain - or even to swim over it!!

What about you?
 
LOL this is so stupid but I once was holding a frog and didn't wash my hands afterwards. Well come dinner time I still hadn't washed up and was sick the next day (very bad). I was a kid and my brother tortured me saying "You're gonna lose your arm. They are gonna amputate. You'll never make it." etc.. since then, I know better but I'll probably still never touch a frog. I get chillzz..
 
Spiders. I scream like a little girl if even the tiniest of spiders gets on me. I have to ask my wife to kill spiders if I find one in the house. I would rather eat a living cockroach than have a spider crawl on me for any length of time. I will run from a room that has a visible spider in it. I hate them. If I were brave enough, I would kill them.
 
I hate helium filled balloons. When I was younger the thought of losing a grip on it and it floating away terrified me.
 
I've got the common fear of spiders. I didn't use to be afraid of them. Actually, I used to catch wolf spiders when I was little and feed them crickets and stuff like that.

That all changed when I got one MONSTER of a spider in my hair. I was walking in a friend's backyard and I walked through a spiderweb. I didn't think anything of it at first; just brushed it off and kept walking. Then, the thought process went, "Eeew, spider web. Spider...web. Spider? Spider?!" so I ran my hand over my head and felt a LUMP! I screamed and did the "Get it off me, get it off me, get it off me!" dance and finally dislodged the beast from my hair and it fell to the grass at my feet where it uncurled itself and scrambled off. This sucker was about 3" across! (Counting the legs, of course.) I had the shudders and hysterical weeping for a good half hour after that, and ever since then I freak out if there is a loose spider running around near me. I hate that, because I don't see myself as the kind of person that is scared of spiders but hey...there it is and I don't see it changing in the near future. You want that snake removed from your backyard? Let me know. Want to go crawl around on a cave tour? I'm game. Spiders? NO WAY, NO HOW!!!!!
 
I second Harlock with the spiders. Good thing we aren't roommates, if we got a spider in the house I guess we'd just have to move LOL

The other thing would be wasps or bees, but mainly wasps. Especially the mean red ones!! I've never even been stung by a wasp, but I guess that can be directly attributed to the fact that I'm terrified of them and run away from them as fast as I can :)
 
... I'll step outside the box...

I was always afraid of not succeeding, mostly financially speaking. So for years, I became a workaholic. But I was good at it in the sense that I made time for others, and so my fear was never exposed until I was married. Even after "making it"; having the degree, having enough monetary funds, etc. I was still scared to death that I would loose it all.

But, with age I came to realize I wouldn't loose it all unless I kept stressing about it... so I was able to turn my fear from an irrational one to a distant thought.
 
Arkylady & Harlock....I'm with you. We'd probably have to call the police or fire dept if we all roomed together and had a spider!!
When I was in high school...saw one dropping out of a flower arangement my mom had on the TV. I put a glass over it...weighted it down with an ashtray...and went outside for the rest of the day until my mom and dad got home from work.
After I had my own house...I went downstairs to find a wolf spider on the inside of the door :eek: I opened the door, and banged on it with a stick until the spider fell off and when my husband got home from work made him search the garage until he found it and disposed of it :o
10-12 years ago I got a brown recluse bite on my leg. I never saw it, but by the symptoms that was what the MD decided it was. Big black infected area on my leg :mad: I still have scars. So any spider I see..... :eek: :eek: We had added onto the house that summer and it tool the contracor a long time to get the house closed in :mad2 We had TOns of spiders in the basement!!
 
AAUUUGGHH......DH was standing behind me reading this...and I feel little crawley things on my neck.... :eek: :eek: :eek:
He has to sleep sometime. Well now,I'm creeped out for the night!
 
Rejection and/or failure. If your not comfortable with yourself it can lead to paranoia.
 
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