What are you afraid of?

Flying kamikaze cockroaches. Those things are brutal and nasty.

[carnation]

Guys, the fear of needles will probably pass. Really. I was the number one needlephobic of all times and the worst part was that my dad was a doctor. Let's just say that the family can tell many stories about what all I did to people who were trying to give me shots many years ago.

But you know how psychologists attempt to rid people of their fears by gradually exposing them to bigger and bigger doses of them (aversion therapy, I think)? When you have a baby, you have blood taken several times and then there's the epidural...after a few babies, I was cured. And even if you don't have babies, you just end up having blood drawn more and more, the older you get. Employment physicals, pre-surgery physicals, that kind of thing. I know lots of young people who are petrified of needles but no middle-aged people or older.

[tinydancer]

Well, I still cry if I have to have blood drawn, and I'm probably lots older than the average member here. It almost always hurts me.
I am really afraid of frogs. I don't know why, but they just gross me out.
I have a fear of being closed up in a small space. I even have weird dreams of having to crawl through some small squeezy space and I wake up in a panic attack.

[OUlioness01]

Originally posted by Jadey28
Here's a question...what would be the worse way for you to die? I am scared of suffocating to death.

death by falling off of something, like a tall building

[KappaKittyCat]

I'm afraid of insects & arachnids (basicly anything with more than four legs), snakes, and being alone.

[winnieb]

Clowns--I hate them!!!! They are creepy--I totally avoid clowns in public (like grand openings and things)--my husband thinks it is funny--he will find some reason to make me walk by the creepy things!!!!

As far as other fears---I don't like being held down--I panic!!! This is not a frequent thing--but if I am laying on the bed being a smartass to my husband--he always holds down my shoulders, where I am unable to sit up. He often starts tickling me at that point--but I panic!!! I get to the point that I start hyperventalating (sp?) and just about black out!!!

-wendi

[MeLikey]

I'm afraid of creepy crawlers but my fear has decreased somewhat...when I see one, I just repeat to myself, "I am way bigger than you, I am way bigger than you."

I am terrified of sharks. Granted, I don't swim way out into the ocean but I do go up to where it's comfortable enough for me to still stand and you never know when a shark's going to come.

[UFSigKap]

I absolutely hate snakes!!! I even have dreams that they are hunting me down to bite me. Even when I see them on TV I cringe.

I am afraid of living life alone.

I am also deathly afraid of needles. Everyone says that fear will pass but I still cry to this day when I have to have a shot. And because of this fear I can't even fathom the amount of needles I will need if I ever have children some day.

[Starlet]

Originally posted by LuaBlanca:
I am absolutely PETRIFIED of birds, especially big ones like Ostriches....I mean, have you ever really LOOKED CLOSELY at a bird? They're ugly, and just overall frightening and creepy. Watching them fly FAR AWAY is okay, it's actually beautiful, but when they're nearby I get all shaky and nervous. I sat in my car for 45 minutes one day because there was a HUGE seagull wandering around the parking lot REALLY close to my car. I eventually rolled down the window and asked the lady getting out of the car next to me to shoo the bird away because I was afraid and wouldn't get out.

One of my friends is scared of birds too...so you're not alone. To make matters worse, one time we were at the beach and a bird crapped in her eye from above. Needless to say, she freaked out. Well, I would too I guess if anything crapped in my eye. Haha.

My biggest fears include dying, spiders, bees...heck any big insect for that matter. I always act like a baby when I have to kill a bug because I'm scared of it. I used to be afraid of heights, but I think that fear has subsided. It used to be a lot worse when I was younger.

I think the worst way to die would have to be in a fire. Remember that episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when Kelly and that other girl were stuck in the fire. That would have to be the worst way to die because you can see the fire coming but there's no way out. So it's like you're awaiting your death knowing that you can't do anything about it.

[SSS1365]

I hate big spiders but little ones don't bother me too much. I also am afraid of centipedes and millipedes, and slugs and snails really gross me out!

I'm not really very claustrophobic, because I can deal with being in a small room or whatever, but I really start to panic if I'm in a big crowd of people. Like one night I was out with a bunch of people and we were in one of those circular booths at a restaurant. Well somehow I got stuck all the way in the middle so that there were 3 to 5 people on either side of me. Plus there were chairs pulled up so that the space on the other side of the table was also taken up. I started freaking out so bad that I totally lost my appetite, but I was trying not to make it obvious to everyone else that I was so freaked out, because I know it's a really irrational fear!

My dad once tried to teach me how to change the oil in my car but I can't do it because I CAN'T get under the car to change the filter! I'm such a dork

[AGDPrincess70]

I beg to differ with everyone who says that the fear of needles goes away over time. I am DEATHLY afraid of needles. Over the past year or so, I have been hospitalized roughly eight times for complications with my kidney, which was eventually removed this past summer. I have been poked and prodded more times than probably anyone else on this site, and let me tell you, the fear gets worse EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Heh, one time I had a severe kidney infection, and I was seriously in the worst pain I've ever been in, in my life. So we go to the hospital and they wanted to give me a pain shot. Even thought I knew I would feel a million times better afterwards, I wouldn't let them give it to me. They had to get three nurses to hold me down so they could administer it. To get my mind off the shot, I started singing "Roxanne" by the Police at the top of my lungs. I was in the far back room, and you could hear me throughout the ENTIRE office. No one had any idea what was going on...a couple of the doctors even came in to see what was going on. I even freaked out a bunch of old people sitting in the waiting room. It was great. It's become one of the most-told stories in the urology department.

[Jadey28]

Originally posted by AGDPrincess70
To get my mind off the shot, I started singing "Roxanne" by the Police at the top of my lungs. I was in the far back room, and you could hear me throughout the ENTIRE office. No one had any idea what was going on...a couple of the doctors even came in to see what was going on.

LOL! That is the best thing that I have ever heard! I think that I will try that next time!

[Nikki_DZ]

I'm a big old freaking 'fraidy cat...LOL.

What is it with clowns??? I hate them, too. Mine stems from the movie "It", the first scary movie I watched. We went to the circus a few weeks later (I was like 12 or 13 at the time) and I made my dad take me home, I was spazzing so badly. My roommate in college used to hide this clown doll in my bed to freak me out. Bitch

I'm also scared of alligators (sorry UF fans!). The parts in Jackass the Movie with alligators had me burying my face in my bf's arm.

Seriously, I fear losing my mother or anyone else I love. My bf lost his mother to breast cancer a year ago, and after watching what he and his family have gone through, I can't even begin to imagine how I would handle it.

[carnation]

Originally posted by AGDPrincess70
I beg to differ with everyone who says that the fear of needles goes away over time. I am DEATHLY afraid of needles. Over the past year or so, I have been hospitalized roughly eight times for complications with my kidney, which was eventually removed this past summer. I have been poked and prodded more times than probably anyone else on this site, and let me tell you, the fear gets worse EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Heh, one time I had a severe kidney infection, and I was seriously in the worst pain I've ever been in, in my life. So we go to the hospital and they wanted to give me a pain shot. Even thought I knew I would feel a million times better afterwards, I wouldn't let them give it to me. They had to get three nurses to hold me down so they could administer it. To get my mind off the shot, I started singing "Roxanne" by the Police at the top of my lungs. I was in the far back room, and you could hear me throughout the ENTIRE office. No one had any idea what was going on...a couple of the doctors even came in to see what was going on. I even freaked out a bunch of old people sitting in the waiting room. It was great. It's become one of the most-told stories in the urology department.

Bet you're wrong about the poking and prodding-- I've been pregnant nine times! Remember, some of us are a ton older than you!

But I agree--"Roxanne" was great!

[Tom Earp]

Carnation, NINE TIMES?

I am agast and scared at the same time!

Damn, off subject, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn movie on, when movie Stars Were Stars.

Hungry as heck, pork chops, and mash taters and country gravey for dinner tonight, Olives for the Libido on the side! Oh, Pookey, Pookey!