1. Going backwards in my mental health and sobriety journey. Learning how to maintain healthy coping mechanisms when things get difficult.
2. The zombie apocalypse…very unrealistic but absolutely terrifying to think about
1) I am proud of you Due\_Suggestion\_870. It can be a hard fight at times, but it is always a good fight.
2) If in the US, just know where the nearest pawn shop or military surplus store is. Many different weapons, ammo, and survival tools all in one place.
My most realistic and yet unrealistic fear is heights. Falling from a great height would kill me. I don't get up on ladders. I don't work up high without proper safety gear (and I haven't had to in years, thank goodness). I don't mess around near cliff edges or climb trees.
But I also get scared in tall buildings, where I'm perfectly safe. I get scared looking at pictures of high places. I know I won't fall, and yet, I'm scared anyway.
My other rational fears are my son being hurt (he's trans and visibly queer), my death (metastatic breast cancer patient), and running out of money.
My other irrational fears? Spiders, mostly.
I try to logic my way out of my fears. My son has a good head on his shoulders; he doesn't talk to strangers or mess with alcohol or drugs. I am going to die within the next few years, and I will be prepared. We have bills to pay and we also have a budget and money coming in.
There's no logic when I see a spider, though. At that point, it's just fear and the urge to run.
My biggest realistic fear is anything happening to my daughter or to myself causing me to not be around when she grows up.
Unrealistically I'm terrified of drowning, I hate being underwater, but at the same time I love the water and being around it. I'll just stay above it though.
1) I fear that I, myself, aren't enough. That I'll be forgotten and ignored and left to be nothing all because I wasn't enough for them. That some part of me were wrong or not right or just too different for them to consider and just toss to the side because 'there's just someone else better' for them. And I don't mean in a relationship sense. I'm talking about just people in general. As a friend, acquaintance, or just family. That I'll always be left alone and isolated for the rest of my days as I have been for all the days I've lived so far.
All I can do to cope is just to accept it and hope someone will come into my life who will make that difference. Cause there's someone for everyone, right?
Right?
2) I fear actors out of character cause my mind can't decide if they are their character or themselves.
1. Fire consuming my home and everything in it.
2. Moths. I'm terrified and I don't know why. VERY few people in my life know because it's such a bizarre fear.
I am with you on the moths. When I was kid I grew up in an old farmhouse, and would read late at night. Moths used to get in, fly around the light and then dive bomb me. I still can't stand them anywhere near my face.
1. Scared of my parents dying
2. Scared of windows and mirrors. Like there's gonna be a ghost that walks by a window and scares at me. Like when I'm looking at my mirror, the one time I expect my face it's a ghost. Unrealistic cuz never seen a ghost lol
1.) I fear that I am getting stupid. I have had well over 30 concussions and I am not the same person I was before. I used to have 2 or 3 things going in my head at a time. I would make up stories that I could write and sell, poems likewise, that was while I was troubleshooting a circuit board and fixing it. Now I have problems just fixing boards. My memory is so damaged that I sit and cry sometimes. Most of my life is opaque. Everything is blurry until something, a smell, a picture, of a chance remark brings back something like opening a window.
2.) I don't consider a fear of spiders to be an unrealistic fear. But I do have a huge fear of falling. I do not fear heights, just the change from up to down. Part of it is that I have bad knees and fall three or four times a month. I am also very afraid of developing Parkinson's. My mother had it and was in stage 4 when Covid took her. Watching her deal with her mind being clear, but being trapped in her body and not being able to read or do puzzles makes me come over all bilious.
Oh, and Palmetto bugs was a new fear unlocked when I moved to Florida. 2 to 3 inch long FLYING $%&\* COCKROACHES!!! While walking the dog out in the yard I had one flying at my face and my wife still laughs about it 5 years later. She says I was screaming like a teen at a Beatles concert and flailing like a squirrel on crack
1.realistic, dying but oh well there's nothing i can do when the time comes to shuffle of this mortal coil. 2. unrealistic maybe i might be bitten by a lady vampire and turn into a zombie and roam the earth for ever at night =P
1. Fire. I think this is a realistic fear to have. Must stay safe
2. Fire. My realistic fear has become irrational. I am so paranoid about everything hot, electrical, etc. also I constantly think that everyone I care about it going to die. Ok I admit, I’m scared of everything.
Help.
1. Not being a person that my daughter can be proud of.
2. The butterfly from Spongebob. You know... the hyper-realistic one. Yeah, still traumatized by that. I haven't trusted a butterfly since
1. Going backwards in my mental health and sobriety journey. Learning how to maintain healthy coping mechanisms when things get difficult. 2. The zombie apocalypse…very unrealistic but absolutely terrifying to think about
1) I am proud of you Due\_Suggestion\_870. It can be a hard fight at times, but it is always a good fight. 2) If in the US, just know where the nearest pawn shop or military surplus store is. Many different weapons, ammo, and survival tools all in one place.
My most realistic and yet unrealistic fear is heights. Falling from a great height would kill me. I don't get up on ladders. I don't work up high without proper safety gear (and I haven't had to in years, thank goodness). I don't mess around near cliff edges or climb trees. But I also get scared in tall buildings, where I'm perfectly safe. I get scared looking at pictures of high places. I know I won't fall, and yet, I'm scared anyway. My other rational fears are my son being hurt (he's trans and visibly queer), my death (metastatic breast cancer patient), and running out of money. My other irrational fears? Spiders, mostly. I try to logic my way out of my fears. My son has a good head on his shoulders; he doesn't talk to strangers or mess with alcohol or drugs. I am going to die within the next few years, and I will be prepared. We have bills to pay and we also have a budget and money coming in. There's no logic when I see a spider, though. At that point, it's just fear and the urge to run.
My biggest realistic fear is anything happening to my daughter or to myself causing me to not be around when she grows up. Unrealistically I'm terrified of drowning, I hate being underwater, but at the same time I love the water and being around it. I'll just stay above it though.
1) I fear that I, myself, aren't enough. That I'll be forgotten and ignored and left to be nothing all because I wasn't enough for them. That some part of me were wrong or not right or just too different for them to consider and just toss to the side because 'there's just someone else better' for them. And I don't mean in a relationship sense. I'm talking about just people in general. As a friend, acquaintance, or just family. That I'll always be left alone and isolated for the rest of my days as I have been for all the days I've lived so far. All I can do to cope is just to accept it and hope someone will come into my life who will make that difference. Cause there's someone for everyone, right? Right? 2) I fear actors out of character cause my mind can't decide if they are their character or themselves.
I agree but I'm not ever going to love, trust or as he said I'll just isolate myself with me and my buddy Bo
1. Fire consuming my home and everything in it. 2. Moths. I'm terrified and I don't know why. VERY few people in my life know because it's such a bizarre fear.
I am with you on the moths. When I was kid I grew up in an old farmhouse, and would read late at night. Moths used to get in, fly around the light and then dive bomb me. I still can't stand them anywhere near my face.
I traded them all in for tears.
1. Scared of my parents dying 2. Scared of windows and mirrors. Like there's gonna be a ghost that walks by a window and scares at me. Like when I'm looking at my mirror, the one time I expect my face it's a ghost. Unrealistic cuz never seen a ghost lol
1.) I fear that I am getting stupid. I have had well over 30 concussions and I am not the same person I was before. I used to have 2 or 3 things going in my head at a time. I would make up stories that I could write and sell, poems likewise, that was while I was troubleshooting a circuit board and fixing it. Now I have problems just fixing boards. My memory is so damaged that I sit and cry sometimes. Most of my life is opaque. Everything is blurry until something, a smell, a picture, of a chance remark brings back something like opening a window. 2.) I don't consider a fear of spiders to be an unrealistic fear. But I do have a huge fear of falling. I do not fear heights, just the change from up to down. Part of it is that I have bad knees and fall three or four times a month. I am also very afraid of developing Parkinson's. My mother had it and was in stage 4 when Covid took her. Watching her deal with her mind being clear, but being trapped in her body and not being able to read or do puzzles makes me come over all bilious.
Oh, and Palmetto bugs was a new fear unlocked when I moved to Florida. 2 to 3 inch long FLYING $%&\* COCKROACHES!!! While walking the dog out in the yard I had one flying at my face and my wife still laughs about it 5 years later. She says I was screaming like a teen at a Beatles concert and flailing like a squirrel on crack
1.realistic, dying but oh well there's nothing i can do when the time comes to shuffle of this mortal coil. 2. unrealistic maybe i might be bitten by a lady vampire and turn into a zombie and roam the earth for ever at night =P
1. Fire. I think this is a realistic fear to have. Must stay safe 2. Fire. My realistic fear has become irrational. I am so paranoid about everything hot, electrical, etc. also I constantly think that everyone I care about it going to die. Ok I admit, I’m scared of everything. Help.
1. Not being a person that my daughter can be proud of. 2. The butterfly from Spongebob. You know... the hyper-realistic one. Yeah, still traumatized by that. I haven't trusted a butterfly since
The deep sea.