What is your greatest (irrational) fear?

[lightningandsnow]

I have a big fear of being institutionalized (psych ward/prison/boot camp), even though I've never done anything, and probably never will, to get myself in that situation.

What are some of yours?

[Callalily]

1. Being homeless n/t

[Connonym]

6. yeah that and also storm drains

I suppose my ultimate fear is that I would be homeless and have to live in a storm drain. With clowns. All of a sudden my anxiety is kicking in, go figure.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. My greatest irrational fear became reality.

I try not to have them anymore because it's almost like feeling doomed.

[graywarrior]

5. Mine is the same as your's.

And I am so sorry it happened to you.

[Callalily]

8. Sending a big batch

of hugs your way! :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[lightningandsnow]

27. I'm so sorry.

:hug:

[CreekDog]

3. flying i guess

had a bad flight that caused it.

[Haole Girl]

4. Speaking in front of large groups..

or even small groups. I would rather swim with sharks. Well, maybe not. Both of those things scare me.

:scared:

[underpants]

7. Jewelry

THIS THREAD IS OVER!!!!

[raccoon]

9. SInce I went to Honduras, it's being trapped in some Third World hellhole and not being able to

get out.

[Solon]

10. Heh, I've been institutionalized, the biggest problem, boredom.

Don't worry too much about it! :)

My biggest irrational fear is, uhm, actually, I don't think I know what my biggest irrational fear is, I don't think I have one. My fear/hatred of authority seems rational, but some idiots may consider it irrational, I don't know. :shrug:

[fizzgig]

11. tornadoes and sharks

completely and totally irrational, considering where i live. i am more than 1,200 miles from any ocean and there are no tornadoes where i live :shrug:

[TZ]

19. I'm afraid of thunderstorms and tornadoes ...

Thunderstorms are common here, tornadoes happen but they are rare --although a couple of years ago I was driving home from work and heard a tornado warning on the radio for a town about 5 miles up the road from where I was....:scared:

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Hee hee.

[RadiationTherapy]

13. 1. Whales 2. My wife and daughter dying if they go away from me.

3. Whales.

[DS1]

14. edges of tall things, and giant ships in port

i always feel like I'll either fall in between it and the pier and get crushed, or it'll tip over and smash me

[mainegreen]

15. That I will experience an uncontrollable urge to jump onto the third rail in a subway.

God knows why I have that fear. I've never felt the urge to jump onto the third rail, but I'm afraid that I will feel that urge.

Crazy, huh?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. mine isnt completely irrational but my brothers death is possibly one of my greatest fears

[SacredCow]

17. Clowns.

[skater314159]

25. I'm scared as fuck of clowns too...

... and a hospital in the UK did a study among kids and young adults, and 100% of the kids and youth said that they hate clows and are totally freaked out by them. The kids also asked that adults ask them what they like, rather than assuming about it and decorating rooms or having people visit dressed up like the very thing that freaks them out - being in hospital is stressful enough!

Your pic reminded me of that, and I just wanted to share.

As far as I'm concerned this:


is MUCH scarrier than:


Because the second one is meant to be scarry/freaky, so in many ways it isn't. The first one scares the crap outta me.

[SacredCow]

28. I don't know why people often assume someone's joking...

when they say they are freaked out by clowns? They're just weird and freaky.

:hi:

[TrogL]

32. join the club

Maybe we should start one.

[Deep13]

18. Bugs. All my other fears are based in reality. nt

[TZ]

20. Oops.

There goes that gift of a Madagascar hissing cockroach that I wanted you to have.....:evilgrin:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. That the Keebler Elves don't wash their hands before making those cookies.

Hey...you asked.



:evilgrin:

[MrCoffee]

22. Superflu. Pandemic virus. The Plague

[Godhumor]

23. I absolutely hate ladders

Which is weird since I have no problem with rock climbing. Go figure.

[chknltl]

24. That the bushes/neocons/supply-siders will destroy American Democracy

It is why many of us are here.

On a personal level: being cut up with sharp blades, being killed and eaten by wild beasts, are equally fearsome for me. (Which explains my severe needle phobia.)

[supernova]

26. Dogs - especially large ones

The way they run up to you and bark and yap and especially jump on you upsets me.

Rationally I know it's just typical dog behaviour, but I find it too abrupt and almost like an attack. I recoil from it most of the time.

[soleft]

29. that people won't like me

But I don't know if it's a fear or an irrational assumption.

[EstimatedProphet]

30. Kittens

Giant kittens the size of 30 story buildings, that like to play with people, before they eat them.

[Westegg]

31. That I'm destined for failure....

...Here's how my irrational mind talks to me:

"You haven't achieved your goals yet, have you?"
"No. Sir."
"So what makes you think you can?"
"I dunno. Hope?...Maybe?"
"Have you tried?"
Yes. Yes yes yes!!! You know I have."
"Have you succeeded?"
"No."
"Then you have failed. You are a failure. Q.E.D."
"But-but-but--"
"But WHAT? The logic is infallible. Don't you see that?"
"I guess. Okay. You win. (sigh)"

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Disapproval

Being alone's right up there, too.

[TrogL]

34. toy balloons

I don't like:

• touching them
  
• seeing them doing nothing
  
• seeing them being inflated
  
• inflating them whether by mouth or with a pump
  
• any noise they make including squeaking, inflating, deflating and exploding
  
• the smell
  
• when they deflate and fly around the room
  
• when a lot of them fall from the ceiling
  
• when they get bounced around at a party
  

Strangely enough, one time I was driving down the road and saw a small child lose her toy balloon. I chased it down and brought it back to her.

She thought I was wierd.

[bif]

35. Heights

I don't mind being up in tall buildings. Just not out in the open.