What are you afraid of?

[LDAHL]

Standing on questionable ice, and seeing it crack under my feet.

Panicking people.

I really, really hate rats.

[bae]

- Heights
- Confined spaces
- Injuries
- Heavy weather events
- Wildfire
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

[ApatheticNoMore]

to a degree too many things to count

- unemployment (oh yea definitely do)
- poverty
- disease (not at a hypochondriac level, but yea I fear bad diseases)
- medical procedures
- death of loved ones
- climate change (this is constant background dread, but usually of the future)
- we have coyotes here, I have a bit of fear of encountering them walking at night, because I've straight out seen them walking down the street at night, even if they aren't supposed to be dangerous,. I don't think about it at all UNTIL I'm foolish enough to be walking at night, and then I remember" "uh oh ..."
- I don't know if I'd call my reaction to heights even exactly a fear, I don't like and usually avoid looking down when high up is kind of the extent of it

[iris lilies]

In my youth I was afraid of tornados, but have since beat that with logic.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I am afraid of buildings and other structures collapsing in earthquakes. I'm currently in a one story apartment, so being that's how I choose to live, I might have some fears . But it's not like I don't enter other buildings, just I've always thought about how my offices etc. would fare in an earthquake. It's never preventing me form entering them but ...

[catherine]

--being around angry, toxic, unpredictable people
--the idea of mountain climbing (never done it, but I can't think of anything scarier)
--very loud noises
--plane crashes--or rather, the few times when I was on a plane and had irrational anxiety over the plane crashing, as well the rational fear of the plane crashing when I was involved in two emergency landings
--pain/hospitals (not hospitals in general, just being in the hospital due to a painful event)

[frugal-one]

The next town over was devastated years ago by a tornado. The siren went off in the community where I live one time and the people on the street around me were literally screaming and panicking. I could feel my hair standing on end. Their fear was contagious.

[Teacher Terry]

I definitely have a fear of crime as I had someone try to break into my apartment twice in Wichita when I was 19 and had a baby. To make it worse my husband was away both times on duty in the military and Wichita had the BTK killer around. I also had a few other bad random experiences so I only considered condos in a secure building. That severely limited my options.

I am mildly claustrophobic and took Xanax to have MRIs. I am afraid of snakes and heights. I never was afraid of flying until in my late 40’s I was on a flight where people were praying and crying. The stewardess was strapped in among the passengers and when some asked her a question she said it didn’t matter because we were all going to die. She was not young and losing her shit. After that I needed a buddy and Xanax to fly. Now I just need Xanax.

[Tradd]

Catfish I encounter when diving. 3ft and up. The 6ft monsters scare the hell out of me. Encountered one once at a diving quarry in far southern IL. I will never go there again. I can’t even watch videos.

[bae]

Catfish I encounter when diving. 3ft and up. The 6ft monsters scare the hell out of me. Encountered one once at a diving quarry in far southern IL. I will never go there again. I can’t even watch videos.

OMG. Right. I forgot one on my list:

- Sea monsters

I visited the Steinhardt Aquarium in SF once, and they have an amazing display of Fish Of Your Nightmares.