Fear is both beneficial and detrimental. It helps create boundaries and realize our flaws, and it keeps us in place. It's important to know what rattles us most to realize the scope and scale of our personal problems. When deathly afraid though, it stops your train of thought and binds you in a noose. Fear effects us in different ways, and we must decide how to deal with it effectively. I fear my mom, as her abusive nature and demeanor made me deathly afraid and irrational beyond compare. I also fear failure, loneliness, and being misunderstood.



What do you fear? How intense is it? Thanks for helping out.

Heh. I don't remember anymore how much things i fear. But i do remember what fears me THE MOST: Mushrooms. There isn't quite a reason why, my body reacts kind of scared when i get close to them or even touch them. A friend destroyed giant mushrooms in a field with a stick, and one mushroom's left overs were thrown over me. I almost fainted back then. That's how badly it is...

I don't have a phobia on anything (or do I?), but you can say I have a strong fear of... rats. I can't stand them. These days you can find them everywhere. I mean, they're big, disgusting, and they can seriously injure you. Plus you cannot kill them by just stepping on them...

Do you know what else I fear? Unanswered questions, what if questions. I try my best not to think of them, but eventually they become stuck in my head, and I overthink, and overthinking kills my happiness. You see, I love thinking logically, and I believe that every question has an answer, and to find the answer we use science facts and our logic. Every puzzle has an answer imo (Yes, this means that cancer does have a cure, it's just we haven't found it yet). I'm a person who seeks answers, I'm a person who wants an answer to everything I guess. Asking types of questions like "Is life an illusion?", "Why do exist?", "Is there a God?" etc... proves that you're a smart person, a person who thinks. I often ask myself these questions, and because of that I was put in a bad mood for over 1 month. Do you know how I got rid of my bad mood? I stopped overthinking. Like I said, overthinking kills your happiness, and because of overthinking you can create problems that weren't even there in the first place. I mean, if the questions above have an official answer, will it ever change anything in your daily life? The question is no. So I simply moved on.

I also fear not being loved back. Psychology says that you're not afraid of love, you're afraid of not being loved back, and yes this is me I guess. Love is... a fun and weird emotion if you ask me. One of the hardest things in life is liking someone whom he/she dislikes you. Do you know what I do if it was my case? I simply remove that person from my life list, since no matter how hard I try that person will never come. It is like waiting for a boat at an airport. When it comes to love, romance, it kinda hurts. Another reason why I fear 'love' is because I'm afraid I'll change completely. Okay, everyone changes with time, but here I mean I don't want to change in a bad way. Because of love I will overthink about my crush, and not pay attention to things anymore etc... Oh and did you know because of love you can lose 2 close friends? It's been proven scientifically (can't argue with science son ).

I guess that's pretty much it. I might have a fear on other things, but those 3 are the ones that popped in my head.

That's a very good question. To be honest I wouldn't know what I would fear. Or...I would had forgotten the types of things I fear. If you like I am still afraid of the dark. Even though I have gotten used to it. sounds...childish right? But its just that way with me. And my other fear is if my family is killed before my eyes...I don't want to go into details as of why. But if you would like to know in pm don't hesitate to ask. I'll be more than happy to tell you as of why...

Ok...I cheated and I had to look up what the "phobia" is for my one and only fear.

The only thing I am actually "afraid" of is people becoming amputated and its called "apotemnophobia." And the best example I can describe is like the people in the movie series "Final Destination." If you haven't seen any of them then try not to read as this may contain spoilers but the people in those movies have been crushed by a glass pane, shot in the eye multiple times with a nail gun, blown up by fireworks, caught in a tanning machine and literally burnt to death...you get the idea. Its the only time where I've actually had to "close my eyes" and look away from the screen in a movie theater. I'm getting shivers just thinking about it.

One of the things that I'm actually scared about, as opposed to just worrying about or being nervous about, and probably me only fear as well, is being lonely. I only have a couple of really good friends, both from my real life circle and from here as well and they help out a lot, but if they were all to disappear one day I would probably be Lost and the thought of that is scary.

My only real fear is my family getting hurt. Not my parents or siblings but my wife and kids. I don't know what I would do if something happened to them, especially if it was something I could have prevented if I had tried.

I fear a lot of things. Pretty much everything, but I'll only list a few of them on here.

-I fear death. Whether it's from drowning or getting hit by a car or anything really. In fact, whenever I'm crossing the road I always look left and right and left again because there might be a car that just runs me over.

-Being a failure in life. Which is kinda ironic because I always get good grades, and generally do good wherever I go (except for anything physical. I suck at sports). But you know... whenever I make mistakes, I always fear that I'll make more and that I'd eventually end up at the bottom ><.

Also just a little thing I have to point out, but like 90% of the things I worry about or fear never happen :v.

Spiders. Don't know why just seeing one gives me shivers. So lucky me I live in Norway where are biggest spider is 10cm big. Also no toxic to humans. Don't know why I fear them so much. Just do it for no apparent reasons

More than anything I fear myself and what I'm capable of. In a moment of weakness I could throw my sobriety away and go right back to how I was living before. That and the lengths I went to to get the substances. I'd be doing it all over again. My addiction is a huge fear that looms overhead constantly.

I literally NEED the medication prescribed to function, and the doctor I'm currently seeing is adamant about weaning me off of it for no reason other than "This is how it's supposed to work." So losing access to that is probably the biggest fear I have. I know I'd relapse sooner or later without it, if I didn't just kill myself from how agonizing life is without it.

Spiders. Spiders are so eek

Like I cannot get over them so I'm just gonna like squish every single one I see.. we have black widows and brown recluses down here too so that's fun

yoshirulez! :

Oh jeez. I remember there was Brown Recluse on the wall right next to the adult in the cabin when I went to this church camp one time. It was 1:00 AM and I saw a figure on the wall, so I was like "uh, there's an octopus looking thingy on the wall behind you" so we turn on the lights and it's a freaking brown recluse. Like please no I'm good. We woke the whole camp up with our girly screams because it was 2013 and puberty.

I'm afraid of a lot of things, I think. I haven't really been in a situation to be afraid about something recently. When I was little I used to be terrified of dogs, then my biggest fear switched to storms, but I like both of those things now. If I had to guess my current biggest fear would be the future. I don't know. Oh, either that or dying. I would rather not die right now.

I Reeeeeeaaaaally, really, really........really don't want to go to hell.... Other than that, heights and really deep water. I have no idea why, but water deeper than about 6 feet freaks me out. I'd flip out if I ever woke up on a boat in the middle of the ocean.

I'm afraid of heights, the dark, large bodies of water (don't ask, I have no idea why) and those creepy trees like the kind you see in horror movies.Those things scare the heck out of me.

MrBeingcool1 : Funny thing, my little brother's afraid of mushrooms for some reason too!

I remember those threads! I like to stir up collective brainstorming constantly, provided people are willing to elaborate and all. My threads were designed to help us all think outside the box, and deduce just how much we can answer life's most difficult riddles. I love your response!

Spidey243 : Oh wow, really? Lol i must be a lot like your brother. Maybe i AM your brother.

This is funny, i thought i was the only one with this.

Not an easy question to answer, seeing as how I have far too many responses. But I suppose out of all of them, I fear getting old and dying the most. Dunno why, I mean it happens to all of us at some point. Then again, a lot of fears are irrational, so I don't dwell too much on it.

Some of the other things that I try to avoid stressing about is stuff like failure or stagnation in life. I want to always be going somewhere no matter what, and I can't stand just sitting around getting nothing done. Failure results in setbacks, which means having to do things over again or even needing to move on to something else after all the work I've already gone through. I just don't want to waste my time and effort doing things that I know are destined to fall apart at the end.

Now that I really think about it, with all my thoughts collected here in one place, maybe that's what I actually fear above all else... Wasting time and regretting not doing the things I enjoy before passing away. I don't want to grow old and have a million things left in my life that I want to experience. I want my life to be fulfilling so that at the end, I can at least be satisfied that I lived a good life.

Maybe I'm still too young to think about these kinds of things, but it's hard not to when you're an anxious overthinker like me.

I fear Hillary Clinton becoming President, I fear someone breaking into my house, or attacking me on the street, I fear not being able to pay rent.

But I mostly fear for my health, I am very sure that there is something screwed up with my mouth, and the only thing it seems to likely be is mouth cancer, I mean my Aunt had it. The only problem is my insurance doesn't cover Dental, so I can't get it checked out, which means if I'm going to die I won't even know.

I fear darkness and fire, when I see matches it is as if am burning in a chimney.