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opcorn:
I'll tell you what I fear often times. I worry quite a bit about my children being killed. What would I do? I worry about my daughter, not obsessively or anything, but it crosses my mind at times....she lives in Seattle, works downtown, parks her car in a garage. There was a shooting right out in the street in front of her building not long ago. I mean, it's a "good" part of town, but it just worries me sometimes. She goes to school after work some nights and now when it's getting dark early, I have to worry about her coming out of both places.
I worry about my son too, but he's here and it's not so scary. But I do worry about him nevertheless.
I worry about their health. My daughter has a lot of health problems...nothing gravely terrible but it does disrupt her life. She has irritable bowl syndrome, possible diabetes insipitus, terrible, terrible vericose veins (and she's only 27) and she is TERIBLE about following through with her doctors, finishing tests etc. She also has sleep apnea and asthma, although the asthma doesn't give her too much trouble, unless she smokes too much. :yikes:
I'm not afraid too much of things like heights. I am bothered by climbing back down on a ladder. That bugs me....like when I'm shovelling snow off my roof, it's not so bad up there, (even though I fell off once) but I HATE stepping back onto the ladder. It almost went over backwards once, so I opted to skip the ladder altogether and jump off into a snow drift on my deck, which was a little closer to the roof. LOL.
I am not phobic of very tightly packed crowds, but I get pretty edgy and anxious. Once I had a panic attack but never again. That's only when it's literally wall to wall people in a room where you're touching shoulders and there's someone on all four sides of you. I do NOT like that feeling. That happened one time in a church Halloween thingy for the kids in the basement of the church. You couldn't get out of the building if you wanted to. Awful. So, I don't like tightly packed crowds.
What do you think of that? Anyone else have those kinds of fears or worries?
I'm sure I'll think of something else, but that's enough for now.
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opcorn: I'll tell you what I fear often times. I worry quite a bit about my children being killed. What would I do? I worry about my daughter, not obsessively or anything, but it crosses my mind at times....she lives in Seattle, works downtown, parks her car in a garage. There was a shooting right out in the street in front of her building not long ago. I mean, it's a "good" part of town, but it just worries me sometimes. She goes to school after work some nights and now when it's getting dark early, I have to worry about her coming out of both places.
I worry about my son too, but he's here and it's not so scary. But I do worry about him nevertheless.
I worry about their health. My daughter has a lot of health problems...nothing gravely terrible but it does disrupt her life. She has irritable bowl syndrome, possible diabetes insipitus, terrible, terrible vericose veins (and she's only 27) and she is TERIBLE about following through with her doctors, finishing tests etc. She also has sleep apnea and asthma, although the asthma doesn't give her too much trouble, unless she smokes too much. :yikes:
I'm not afraid too much of things like heights. I am bothered by climbing back down on a ladder. That bugs me....like when I'm shovelling snow off my roof, it's not so bad up there, (even though I fell off once) but I HATE stepping back onto the ladder. It almost went over backwards once, so I opted to skip the ladder altogether and jump off into a snow drift on my deck, which was a little closer to the roof. LOL.
I am not phobic of very tightly packed crowds, but I get pretty edgy and anxious. Once I had a panic attack but never again. That's only when it's literally wall to wall people in a room where you're touching shoulders and there's someone on all four sides of you. I do NOT like that feeling. That happened one time in a church Halloween thingy for the kids in the basement of the church. You couldn't get out of the building if you wanted to. Awful. So, I don't like tightly packed crowds.
What do you think of that? Anyone else have those kinds of fears or worries?
I'm sure I'll think of something else, but that's enough for now.
i think the biggest fear i have is someone going in my room when i'm not there. it's not that i don't like it or have anything to hide its just it freaks me out so much that someone might go in there and touch my stuff and i don't know about it. it use to be so bad that i wouldn't even leave my house or let anyone go upstairs without following them because i'd be so scared they'd go to my room.
Thanks CK. I love it when I make a good call. It happens once in a while.
Yoko....that's interesting. Have you thought back to when you first began feeling that way? Did anything ever happen in your room where someone wrecked your stuff or took anything? Has it gotten any less of a worry for you?
My daughter, when she was in high school had a "friend" who took some of her clothes! Isn't that awful?
Yoko....that's interesting. Have you thought back to when you first began feeling that way? Did anything ever happen in your room where someone wrecked your stuff or took anything? Has it gotten any less of a worry for you?
My daughter, when she was in high school had a "friend" who took some of her clothes! Isn't that awful?
I know I've got a decent list of things I severly dislike, spiders are probably my number one phobia, though I am getting better about it.
honestly, even as much as I love water sports like tubing, skiing and swimming, if I stop to think about how much water is underneath me, I start to freak out. I had a huge case of vertigo one time walking along Navy Pier in Chicago, because I was standing in front of a moored cruiser and just thinking about how big that ship was and how the deep the water had to be to float it just really got to me. I guess it's a phobia of drowning?? some of my worst thoughts (which I think formed thanks to an episode of Unsolved Mysteries) is being weighted and tossed into deep water while still alive and watching the surface recede as you went down.
honestly, even as much as I love water sports like tubing, skiing and swimming, if I stop to think about how much water is underneath me, I start to freak out. I had a huge case of vertigo one time walking along Navy Pier in Chicago, because I was standing in front of a moored cruiser and just thinking about how big that ship was and how the deep the water had to be to float it just really got to me. I guess it's a phobia of drowning?? some of my worst thoughts (which I think formed thanks to an episode of Unsolved Mysteries) is being weighted and tossed into deep water while still alive and watching the surface recede as you went down.
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Spiders - I can't even kill them, someone else has to do it. I don't want to touch them and they bite and can be poisonous. (Oddly enough, not scared of snakes!)
Roaches - OMG! As a kid I was at a neighbors house with an open can of coke. While I was sleeping, 3 roaches climbed in, I woke up and took a swig...EWWW ICKY ICKY...one was in my mouth and the others climbed out of the can. I despise roaches!!
Used to be afraid of needles...now I just don't like them. They don't seem to hurt as badly as they did when I was a kid.
There is a bridge in Alexandria that has the same kind of grating material (like in that one pic posted in the street) and I hate having to drive over that bridge. I can be a passenger, then I can look over the bridge at the water or look down at the floorboard. If I'm driving I can hear the rumbling, have to watch the road and feel like I could fall through.
Roaches - OMG! As a kid I was at a neighbors house with an open can of coke. While I was sleeping, 3 roaches climbed in, I woke up and took a swig...EWWW ICKY ICKY...one was in my mouth and the others climbed out of the can. I despise roaches!!
Used to be afraid of needles...now I just don't like them. They don't seem to hurt as badly as they did when I was a kid.
There is a bridge in Alexandria that has the same kind of grating material (like in that one pic posted in the street) and I hate having to drive over that bridge. I can be a passenger, then I can look over the bridge at the water or look down at the floorboard. If I'm driving I can hear the rumbling, have to watch the road and feel like I could fall through.
oh ya... and speaking of my being scared of clowns earlier... my friends want me to go with them this Saturday night to Bennett's Curse. It's a haunted house event in Maryland and they have clowns... I'm going to die, but I can't be chicken... Anyone up in this area that wants to join up? .... clowns... *shivers*
www.bennettscurse.com
www.bennettscurse.com
I'm really not comfortable around mascots or people dressed up in costumes like that. My boyfriend was laughing at me because we were at a university event and the mascot was walking around taking pictures with people and everything. Well, if he ever turned in my direction I turned around and walked away. When I was really little my parents took me to Chucky Cheese where they have those robot puppets characters that do a show. Well, when the show started I got so scared that I started screaming and cried "go home! go home!" all through our meal even after we moved to a table away from the show. We didn't go back there for a very very long time!
I'm not really scared of too much, except one thing: horror movies.
I am the world's absolute biggest weenie when it comes to horror flicks. I just can't watch them without getting really scared. I know, that's the whole point of the movie....but I get scared by horror movie scenes that seem to bother no one else in the theater. And they keep me laying awake at night, like a little kid scared of the dark. So yeah. I avoid them at all costs.
I am the world's absolute biggest weenie when it comes to horror flicks. I just can't watch them without getting really scared. I know, that's the whole point of the movie....but I get scared by horror movie scenes that seem to bother no one else in the theater. And they keep me laying awake at night, like a little kid scared of the dark. So yeah. I avoid them at all costs.
