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Hey! I know everyone has a fear of something in their life. Do you want to know that how we can face this?
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#1
I have worked hard to overcome my fear of heights. It is just small areas up high in the sky I fear. Or if I can't see out, like elevators. As dumb as it sounds it always scares me. I, again, have worked vary hard to over come this.
Final score:
12points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
I HATE ELEVATORS!! To make things worse, people like to tell their 'trapped in an elevator' stories while in the elevator. "Did I tell you about that time i was stuck in an elevator for an hour and a half?" NO AND PLEASE DON'T
thatawkwardhistorian 2 years ago
I'm scared of elevators, not because of the height, but because of all the horror stories I've heard of them dropping or crushing people.
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#2
Spiders and holes. (Separate or together!) 🫣
Final score:
10points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
Ooh the hole one is trypophobia! Its actually pretty common i think
#3
Heights and deep water that I can’t see the bottom of!
Final score:
8points
thatawkwardhistorian 2 years ago
Both are a big no-no for me, though I am working hard on the height fear. The deep water fear is one I think I'll have for the rest of my life.
#4
My biggest fear is dying when I know I am going to die, but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it (drowning, suffocating, excessive bleeding, burning, starving, etc.)
Final score:
8points
#5
Darkness, no one knows what's in it, it's just a void of darkness, how could I not find that scary.
Final score:
7points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
I used to have a night light for this very reason. My mom used to tell us if we were bad monsters would come and get us. I was so scared of the dark. It still gets me sometimes when I turn of the lights. I tend to just make a run right after I turn off the lights
#6
Poison gas
Final score:
6points
#7
I’m absolutely terrified of someone I love dying and me being mad at them as the last thing that they remember of me
Final score:
6points
Abigail Thornton (Submission author) 2 years ago
Like that one Vision quote, “ What is grief if not love persevering?”
#8
Ferris wheels, this weekend I will hopefully be able to do the Ferris Wheel for the first time in my life because I have been avoiding it for all my life.
Final score:
5points
Charlie Spring Heartstopper (Submission author) 2 years ago
I went on the Ferris wheel and it wasn't that scary, I really like the view when you're at the top.
#9
I'm Trypophobic, which is a fear of holes, or a pattern or cluster of holes. Certain foods with seeds creep me out, like sliced tomatoes or honeycombs. When I was younger, I had a pimple on my back that got infected, so I had MRSA. The doctors had to cut it open, and scoop out the infection, so I had this abscess that was about 2 inches wide and 3 inches deep. I had to go to the doctor every other day for about 5 weeks so they could change the dressing and pack in gauze. It was very painful and unsettling. If I have a pimple or cut I'm very uneasy and worried about an infection. I've gotten better over the years, but certain patterns still creep me out.
Final score:
5points
#10
I have a fear of being helpless. Being unable/too weak to help/save myself. Now I work out and train excessively to prevent this from happening.
Final score:
5points
#11
Yard gnomes creep me out
Final score:
4points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
Omgosh! Yes! I forgot all about that! They always make me feel like someone is watching me 👀...
#12
Definitely heights. Terrifies me. Also making a left across traffic without a light or stop sign. I'll drive 2 miles out of my to way avoid it.
Final score:
4points
#13
Small spaces, especially caves. And elevators, plus being restrained in any way, or people touching me in general. Also loud noises… there’s a lot. None of them really have a reason, they just scare me.
Final score:
4points
#14
I have megalophobia. Period.
Final score:
4points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
I think I have the same. Especially in cities. I fear the skyscrapers will fall on me or grow wider and crush me against another building.
#15
Certain noodles, ladders, and escalators.
Final score:
4points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
I can't with ladders *shudder* even a small step ladder that's like 4 rungs. I hate it even when i know that it's sturdy
#16
Getting caught!
I haven't done anything, but it's the only thing I fear.
Final score:
4points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
When I see a police officer, I always get the sudden like 'omg what if i accidentally broke the law without knowing it' feeling even though I never have
#17
I absolutely HATE SPIDERS and I am deathly afraid of balloons popping. One time a kid popped a balloon behind me and I thought it was a gun shot. I have never mentally recovered from that………
Final score:
4points
#18
Yes, losing my love early in life, living without love throughout my life, and finally getting that love back again now that I am old has put a great fear in me. For almost all of my adult life I never cared if I got in a fatal accident, developed a terminal illness, even failed to wake up in the morning. I never worried I would die - it held no fear over me. All of a sudden with such happiness in my life I AM SCARED TO DEATH that I will lose it!
Final score:
4points
Tamra 2 years ago (edited)
Ah, I completely understand this fear. I hear you, I understand. I wish I had some wonderful combination of words to help. I think having that kind of happiness is a double edged sword... it's an amazing gift to have that kind of joy, but we know how devastating it would be to lose it.
#19
WASPS! Everyone always says “yeh most people don’t like them” . But I mean I am sheet scared . If a million£ and wasps were in the same room there is still no way on earth I could go in there
Final score:
4points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
To cheer you up; my sister used to be deathly afraid of flys. My mom said that she (my sister) thought that they were bees.
#20
Snakes. 😵💫😩
Final score:
4points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago (edited)
(No offensive I really don't want to come off as rude or inconsiderate) I don't like snakes either. I really don't like venomous ones. I don't necessarily fear them, but I dislike them. I will see them and be like "ew, I don't like you". I have seen them on camping trips (three times) and I just kind of walk away. I have found some garden snakes at my house and I just decapitate the with a shovel. Then I bury them. I only do it so it does not cause trouble for others and so my dogs don't get it. (We have two rat terriers and a bossie). Once you see them enough it lessens the fear of them. Not all are bad but not all are good. 👍 (please don't hate or downvote I don't wanna get banned)
#21
I totally identify with a bunch of these answers (heights, climbing ladders, lightening,unclear water, but that from being born/raised in FL . Who knows what's swimming around) but my biggest, completely irrational fear is frogs. They just freak me out!
Final score:
4points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
Tell me more about Flordia please. I know about the sharks though. My mom made us watch a lot of shark week before moving to here. (Texas to Flordia) We literally just moved here Wednesday. Idk much about this state, but my dad grew up in Stewart. (Don't know if I spelt it right.) And I know that there is DisneyWorld. (We went there about a year and ½ ago.) But other then Pensacola that is it.
#22
Being left alone,the dark,clowns,deep ocean, being made fun of
Final score:
4points
Tamra 2 years ago
I understand being made fun of really sucks. It's incredibly hurtful, and I also used to live in fear of that (quite a while ago). Just try and remember this: you are NOT what someone else says you are...if they insult you or make fun of you, it's not the truth. Only you can decide who you are. Anyone who hurls hurtful insults at another is simply revealing their own shortcomings. There is only one of you in this entire world, and you should be proud of that, no matter what anyone else says. ☺️
#23
Cockroaches, sharks, elevators, jellyfish, contaminated water, the list could go on.
Y'all I think I need therapy for anxiety...
Final score:
3points
#24
My overprotective mother made me afraid of lots of things so I’ll try to keep the list short. It’ll likely be long tho
Burglars, intruders, murderers, kidnap pets, strangers, wasps, bees, insects, moths, spiders, heights, elevators, snakes, escalators, fires, water (specifically drowning), cancer, not being in control, getting angry, dying, me crying, yelling, arguing, fake friends, being bullied, people, being social, people hating me, making a mistake, failure, showing “negative” emotions around my mom, electrocution, being murdered or kidnapped in my sleep, dying in my sleep, heart attacks, strokes, falling…
Yeah you get the point…
Living that overly protected teen life!
Final score:
3points
#25
i have the very strange fear of the ticking of clocks
Final score:
3points
Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 2 years ago
I can hear one where I am right now, and it makes my house feel very empty. I completely understand, if you listen to a ticking clock for long enough, it will scare you
#26
I have a few
1. fear of being in the dark alone (especially in like mazes where there are a lot of places things could hide behind)
2. fear of the ocean (or deep water without a visible bottom)
3. fear of clusters of small holes (trypophobia)
Final score:
3points
#27
Deep water. I don't care of I can see the bottom or not. Any body of water I cannot touch the bottom of and not buoyant enough.
Empty swimming pool. Whirlpools, especially big ones.
Faces staring through windows from the outside.
Holes with things in them. Empty holes.
Final score:
3points
#28
My rational fear is deep water.
I'm a 5 ft tall adult woman and if I can't touch the bottom of the pool or lake, I'm in a panic.
My irrational fear is big fat ugly green tomato worms. I'm not afraid of earthworm, or snakes, but show me a tomato worm and I'll run away screaming like a, well, like a woman who is scared of tomato worms.
Final score:
3points
#29
Fireworks. I’m terrified with the idea of going to prison and getting severely ill.
Final score:
3points
#30
I am absolutely TERRIFIED of ANY type of arachnid. I’ve got arachnophobia and it’s not just SEEING the spider that’s terrifying, it’s also the knowledge that there has been a spider in the past. Like, for example if I see a spider in a bathroom I will go to lengths to not got in that bathroom. Just arachnids- they are terrifying!!!
Final score:
3points
#31
Tardigrades. I can't bear to see a photo of them. Thank God they are microscopic.
Final score:
2points
1.21Gigawatts?! 2 years ago
They can survive being in space too! It’s also theorized that they can survive absolute zero, or when matter freezes. Them being microscopic won’t stop them from enslaving the universe…
#32
Dentists and flying. Hmm, same sort of thing, being 'trapped', basically.
Final score:
2points
#33
Knives, fish, heights, dark water, birds, and dying (not in that order).
Final score:
2points
#35
I am afraid of the dark and I don't like heights. I don't ride roller coasters because they scare me. I am still a little bit scared of needles, but I am getting used to them because I have to spend so much time in doctor's offices.
Final score:
2points
#36
Fear of losing loved ones. Spiders.
And sleep. Sleeping freaks me out. You are helpless, basically unconscious, and have no idea what's going on around you...
Final score:
2points
#37
I have the fear of forgetting how to be a kid. I don't want to grow up and turn into one of those people who doesn't know how to have fun. And I don't mean partying fun, I mean playing on a playground or building with foam blocks to see who can build the bigger and cooler garage for hot wheels cars.
Final score:
2points
#38
I’m deathly terrified of centipedes and moths
THEY’RE LIKE LITTLE JERKS THAT JUST WANNA RUN INTO MY HAIR OR FACE!!
And my mom and I joke saying that I’m scared of centipedes bc when she was pregnant with me, she woke up screaming bc a centipede crawled across her face.
Just a few weeks ago I was emptying the dishwasher and I grabbed a spatula without looking and and thought I touched squishy piece of mac n cheese so, disgusted I threw it down, and as it was hitting the bottom tray of the dishwasher, a centipede fell off. I screamed, called my mom over, and she tried squishing it. It scurried into the steam vent for the dishwasher and she grabbed some vinegar, drowned it and said “it needed to be cleaned anyway. Turn the dishwasher settings on all the hot settings and if he’s still alive, we’ll fry that sucker!” My moms the second bravest person I know…
Besides my dad who catches moths WITH HIS BARE HANDS and throws them outside for me :]
Final score:
2points
#40
I have a bad fear of Sci-Fi movies. I used to love them actually, don't get me wrong, but I was forced to watch this alien movie called 'Fire In The Sky' and one scene just got to me, and now I have a hard time sitting still watching Sci Fi movies, sometimes I refuse to watch them.
Final score:
1point
#42
The fact scientists now more about space then our own ocean is kinda messed up to me.
Final score:
1point
#43
why you guys downvoting on my suggestion ? i really can't understand :(
Final score:
1point
#44
I would have to say spiders. I am both afraid and fascinated by them. Not so much the small ones now, but the big ones, especially dark colored ones!
Final score:
1point
#46
Crowded areas. I go from bored to stressed out and ready to implode in an instant.
There's also that one thing that freaks me out: having to crawl in tight places while being chased by something/someone.
😓😓😓😓
Final score:
1point
#47
um panic attacks, I know it odd,bc I'm 12,BUT my solution was to befreind a 17yr old to help me
Final score:
1point
#48
Flood water, flash flooding specifically. Grew up by and live by the Mississippi River.
Final score:
1point
#50
This ones going to be hard to understand but ever sense I was little I have been extremely afraid of losing control over my own thoughts and words. Basically I’m absolutely terrified of alcohol and drugs. My parents weren’t crazy with drugs or drinking or anything they are really confused by this since I have no reading to be scared of it. I can’t even be in a room with someone who I suspect might be slightly intoxicated without almost having a panic attack so normally at parties I have to hide because theirs always that one crazy family member or friend. I don’t know what will happen the day I’m told I have to get wisdom teeth removed or something where they have to give me any slight sedative I know this makes me sound crazy but I’d rather die than ever have anything like this happen to me, and if my parents were to force me to get any kind of surgery and get sedated I fear I might kill myself.
Final score:
1point
#53
Mirrors. They creep me out. Especially because after getting out of the shower the word hi was written backwards on one of them.
Final score:
0points
#54
It's weird, because I have both Thalassaphobia and claustrophobia. That means I'm scared of both big wide open spaces, and also tiny cramped ones. Make up your mind, mind!
Final score:
0points
#55
Am absolutely terrified of deep water.
When I was four a creepy pedo neighbour up north tried to drown me, my response was to dog paddle out into the middle of the bay.
I had told his mother what he was doing to me and his response was to try to drown me, at first I fought but then gave up, until his sister knocked him off of me, saving my life.
It was this blind panic that sent me desperately dog paddling into very deep water.
When I tried to stand, I sank.
Heading into shore, ( when I could no longer see him and his sister on the beach), I was so exhausted I bobbed, taking a breaths in between.
The waves carried me into shore.
I was so weakened I crawled partially out of the water and fell asleep on the sand.
This was the 1970’s, when children were not supervised and could freely roam.
To this day, I refuse to swim out beyond where I can see the bottom and ideally, stay in shallow water 3 or 4 feet deep.
Final score:
0points
#57
To be buried alive. And that is why I am donating my organs and then cremated. I will make 100% sure of being dead
Final score:
0points
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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
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