Fears, Anyone ?

SPIDERS
Sorry for the long story I'm about to tell.. ;_;
When I was little [I was 8 years old; My oldest brother was 17 at the time and the twins were 13. My mother had two sets of twins and two other children, me and my twin are the youngest siblings.] my brothers and I would play outside a lot. Our favorite game to play was "Knights" which was just us playing with sticks and pretending they were swords. Anyways, when we were playing the game they decided to make me the prisoner, at first I didn't want to do it because it wasn't something we usually did, but they talked me into it. I followed them out back underneath a large tree where my dad's "workspace" was and my brother Jamey told them to lock me in the shed; Kevin and Kyle hesitated at first, but they did as they were told. I was happy when they locked me in there because I thought they would open the door after a few seconds, but they didn't. I was in there for at least 2 hours before they came back and this shed was FULL of spiders.. I was sitting in the middle of the shed because every corner was filled with spider webs and nasty looking spiders. My mother and father never knew that they did that to me because I thought it was just a game; My mother was out in town with my twin sister and my older sister when it happened and my father was inside watching tv. So yeah, ever since then I've been terrified of spiders.. not just the nasty ones, ANY KIND of spiders creep me out.. ;_;

That sounds just like my older sister. D:

 

Stress

the one main factor that we all can't avoid, which is sad cuz i have anxiety (and sometimes panic attackz). orz..
but it can't be helped, so i try to manage it
itz still hard though....

whenever i'm not stressed, i fear that i will be stressed (because i know i'll be stressed)..
and when i am stress, well ... nothing to worry about cuz i won't be stressed after.. then it just goes back to the one on top. QQ

Future

something that can't be avoided either ...
i guess thatz just cuz i feel unsafe at home, and i don't have control over that too.
either that or i just think too much at home; i guess itz just cuz i'm paranoid. 'orz

Failing

straight A student ... and i can't handle it if i get a B. 'nuff said D:

 

Wasps
They have a 360 degree field of vision, they can fly as fast as you can run, they're pissed off, look evil and have swords attached to their butts. Nuff said.

Being Upside Down
I dunno what's up with this one. I just don't like it. If humans were meant to be upside down we'd have feet growing out of our shoulders and another head growing out of...

Ventriloquist Dummies
Pretty self explanatory I think. I read a lot of Goosebumps as a small child.

 

Spiders:
well my fear of insects, back when I was a boy of 6 years I had a horrible nightmare where a spider the size of a dish on the roof came walking towards me and I was totally scared while in the nightmare even with my mother next to me I could not speak and was this the spider came to me that totally woke up scared to spiders
Height:
For this fear was a combination of a real life event and a nightmare, as a child denuevo I was not afraid of heights till the awful day when I went to an amusement park attraction and let me go to an attraction for 11 years with only my 6 years as a result I end up crying because I thought it would come out flying that night arrives to sleep and I had a dream where I was super high in places and every time I fell so much that hurt me I had to go to the hospital and had to drop 3 times in different places and worst of all was it was so real and fell on my face now terrified me to the heights
Rubber Monster:
ok this fear, was the most big i ever had,thank god I could overcome, as a child I watched a television program called the ghost writer, do not know, but still I was a child of 5 years when it appeared on TV
I have only to say I cried for hours, I had nightmares for 4 months with him and even see it now gives me chills, as I hate this thing

 

Spiders
Roaches
Darkness
My Bi-polar disorder
Myself

 

Spiders
Whose idea was it to put something so evil on this wonderful Earth? At my old school, there was a boy obsessed with the things. He sat next to me. He used to put them on my shoulder and face every day -_- now I can't even look at a Spider without fighting the urge to scream.

Patterns
Once I was in hospital looking at a screen with horrible patterns for hours. Now some patterns give me headaches.

Failure
As Khroma said, I'm a straight A student. I have a fear of B and C

 

My only fears -

Lightning: Used to be horribly astraphobic but it's calmed down a good bit. Now I'm only fearful of the lightning if I'm outside, too close to a window, or near running water from a sink/shower.

Needles: They make me cringe, cry, faint on sight.

The dark: I don't like to be alone in the dark, I'm too imaginative and I tend to overreact when I think about...

Unrealistic darkness creatures or those of the metaphysical: Such as ghosts/poltergeists, zombies, anything relating to possessions, etc. When relevant to horror movies I don't mind thrillers/suspense or even slashers (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, etc.) but I'm naturally terrified of the previously mentioned and anything similar.

When I was younger I used to be afraid of being home alone, especially if my windows weren't covered by blinds/curtains, I never wanted to leave my room even to use the bathroom, but I've since let go of that fear and now I actually prefer to be alone.

 

I fear nothing.
I fear what is unknown and in the dark.

 

Meaning that you have no fears, or that you fear 'Nothing'?
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I wouldn't count phobias as fears, to be honest. Phobias are irrational fears that aren't a matter of being scared or intimidated by something.

 

1. Being alone. I know that I have Jesus but... sometimes I fear that if he leaves me, then I cannot make it. Losing people, having to do things by myself that will be challenging and to test me. I fear them all. It feels like it is just me, the only person standing there in a ravaging crowd of bulls running amok back and forth.

2. Not Fulfilling myself: Not being able to achieve what I need to do. I fear this a little this more than being alone so this should have been number one. It feels like if I do not do what I need to do, then I cannot make it. Why I am still Jesus loving because I think of fulfilling what God wants me to do. I guess it is a more appropriate term of me saying that I am scared of failing.

3.Needles. Never did like them and regardless of going to the doctor, I will still fear them. Why I will NEVER donate blood. "D: But what about those who are unfor..." NOPE! I will not donate!

4. Destruction of relationship: I fear this too. I do not like destruction of relations. Just bickering and then the other side gives up because they let a disagreement get to them. Make me wish that the conversation never starts. It shouldn't happen. There are other factors to this that I know but they are more personal.

 

I admit that I fear failure. I have a habit of reminding myself that I failed for days afterwards. Or more accurately, I fear imperfection; knowing that I could've made something better. And to top it off, I'm lazy, so the two traits contradict.

Summoner, I also fear destruction of relationships. It's unnecessary for a friendship to end due to a possibly short-term problem.

 

The definition of phobia: A persistent, abnormal and irrational fear of...despite the awareness that it is not dangerous.
If you're scared of heights simply because you might fall and die, I wouldn't classify it as acrophobia. If you're scared of being in high buildings, even though you know they're perfectly safe, because when you were younger you nearly fell off a high place, then in my opinion, that's acrophobia. Usually caused by childhood trauma.

Perhaps phobias are fears, but they're a specific type of fear; one that can't be explained. Why am I afraid of failure? Because I hate the feeling of being disappointed in myself. Why am I terrified of spiders? I don't know.

As you said, fear's anxiety. It's there to alert us that we should avoid whatever is scaring us. Phobias are almost like failed fears, the way I see it. It makes us avoid things that are otherwise harmless.