QotW - What are you afraid of?

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Registered: 04-22-2003
QotW - What are you afraid of?
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Sun, 03-05-2006 - 9:13pm

Fear is a natural part of being human.  It might be something physical, emotional or spiritual, but unless you have transcended the mortal body, you are probably afraid of something.  What is it?


I am afraid of dark water, especially moving or deep water.  And I am afraid of heights, but I love to fly.  I've tried to meditate myself out of these fears, but nothing has worked, so I simply try to avoid them.  I'm not crazy about boating and I gave up swimming a long time ago! 


I used to be afraid of speaking out in public, but now I really enjoy it, and I'm much better at accepting the existence of garden snakes in my yard!


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 03-05-2006 - 9:23pm

Bees!!

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Registered: 06-19-2003
Sun, 03-05-2006 - 9:33pm
My fears are "buzzy stingy insects", unstable heights, and water deep enough that my feet can't comfortably touch the bottom.


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Registered: 04-13-2003
Sun, 03-05-2006 - 11:07pm

Of my heart going off and that I won't be able to calm it by myself and that I have to go to the hospital, where these nurses aren't able to find the right needle to give me the medication, which will help stop that exelerated heartbeat.

I was a nurse once, when I was young, and so I don't like what they do in hospitals these days, putting needles in on the top of the hands, THE most painful place for a patient!!

We never used to do that at all!!

I am also afraid of snakes and I don't like them at all.

Then am soo afraid of falling and breaking an arm or a legg or my hip.

am not afraid of wasps or beez as I work in my garden all summer long.. but I don't even like to come across those garter snakes.. ggrr ugh ugh.

am also lately afraid that I will have more and more trouble with my eyes and then I won't be able to read, or do all the other things which I like, like visiting on ivillage various different boards, making my beaded necklaces and gardening or driving aroun don my own to go all over the place. sigh sigh
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Registered: 01-31-2006
Sun, 03-05-2006 - 11:43pm
I am afraid of speed. Whether it is in a car, a boat, or skiing, my solar plexus tightens up when I start going fast. I see the exhilaration others feel when they go fast, that need for speed, and wish I had it too! The first time I remember it was following my friend Laura down a hill on a bike very fast at age 7-- I fell off and skinned up both legs. I don't know if that started the fear or not. My DH thinks I should see a hypnotherapist to try and get rid of the fear... maybe I will try it some time!
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Registered: 01-03-2001
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 12:50am

You'll laugh --- cockroaches! The BIG flying kind you find in Florida and Texas. They terrify me!

I'm no fan of fire or heights either and I'm slightly claustrophobic (can't handle caves of photographic dark rooms wihtout MAJOR concentration on the fact that SOON there will be light)...



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Registered: 10-09-2002
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 1:38am
Have to agree with Jodi,
Bees & anything that bits, stings .. yikes, look out I'm gone :)


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Registered: 09-19-2005
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 1:51am

I really don't like mice or rats. I didn't have a problem with them till one day I open a drawer and one jumped on me! I was wearing a sweater so of course it got stuck. (with a lot of screaming and a semi-convolution like dance moves it got off) I know the poor thing was as scared as I was, but now it's my phobia.

My biggest fear is having something really bad happen to my family, and me not being able to do anything to stop it.

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Registered: 11-16-2001
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 4:11am

Do you want the whole list???


I used to be very afraid of dogs (a huge dog and I had an encouter when I was about 7 or 8. He was bigger than I was, and he followed me down the whole hill from my best friend's house to my own). I got over that a few years ago when we went off-roading and I had to share a Landrover with a dobberman named Alvis. He and I got to be very good friends, though he probably still thinks that I'm his personal pillow rofl...


I'm afraid of heights. I've walked across a so-called bamboo bridge trying not to think of the abyss below, I've hiked, but getting down is a nightmare. I won't jump, either, unless I really, really have to, and only after screaming for about half an hour.


I'm afraid of swimming in the ocean in my bare feet.


I'm afraid of birds. I've been known to detour a whole piazza to avoid birds.


I'm afraid of being in a car when it's raining.


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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 6:57am
It's too embarrassing. I'm afraid of so much. Not much of it is tangible. MOstly it's theories, worries, irrational stuff. And most of it is incredibly unlikely. Sigh! WHat a way for a logical person to live!

 

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Registered: 05-11-2004
Mon, 03-06-2006 - 9:24am
I don't like spiders-I hate them-I even had a scary dream of one almost crawling on my nose the other night and I woke up getting away from it LOL. Snakes are fine as long as they are not poisonous-like lizards too.- I don't like unstordy ladders or heights. yuk



 

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