Your worst fears...

[mijan]

So I've been stuck on an odd train of thought lately... phobias.  Why am I mentally stuck on phobias right now?  Well, I've been wrestling with my own lately.  Severely.  Because I'm probably going to have to face up to it again very soon, and I don't know if I can handle it.

What is it that causes a perfectly rational, normally brave, confident person, who doesn't have any normal fears (heights, guns, bombs, snakes, rats, serial killers, clowns under the bed), to turn into a shaking, crying, screaming, frantic panic over some minor thing?  Or is it just me?  I think I surprised a couple of people the other day when I expressed my own phobia.  I guess they thought nothing scared me.  So, I got to wondering, what are other people scared of?

I don't mean normal fears, or things that make you a bit uncomfortable.  You might be a bit scared of heights, and you might not want to jump off the high-dive at the local swimming pool, but you don't collapse into hysterics because you need to climb a three-step ladder, so it's not a debilitating phobia.  See what I mean? Picture Bart Simpson: "Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me. Can't sleep, clowns will kill me." Or something like that.

I've turned off ISP logging.  Feel free to post anonymously if you don't want people to know what personally scares the shit out of you, or if you want the liberating experience of "coming out of the closet" with your phobia, you can post while logged in.  I'd really like to know what scares people, and how they cope with it.  So, let the group-therapy session begin...

~P

Comments

[mijan.livejournal.com]

My best friend was arachnaphobic, so much so that even with the tiniest, nonpoisonous spider, she'd cower in the far corner of the room, begging me to kill it. I believe the exact phrase one time was: "You kill a spider, I love you forever." I laughed and squished this little thing that was barely bigger than the tip of my thumb. I don't know how I'd react to those huge, poisonous ones you have where you live though. We don't actually have ANY poisonous spiders where I live. Very safe part of the world. No poisonous snakes either. Although I did get hospitalized for a spider bite when I was training out west.

[ashice-roses.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some people have it very bad. My brother, who used to live in England, but now lives in Sydney, is a bit like that. I found it so funny when I went over to England recently, I was with some friends, when one of them jumped, and said there was a huge spider on the curtains. I went to look, and it was about as big as my thumb nail. I laughed so hard!

-ash

[mijan.livejournal.com]

*snicker* That's cute.

But then again, who the hell am I to laugh at anyone's fears? If someone comes at me with a tiny little syringe, you'd think I was being attacked with a ten-inch dagger.