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 What are your fears? March 30, 2006 4:05 PM

I am trying to wake this group from the stupor I let it fall into, hence, this question. 

We all have fears, some rational, others irrational;fears of the physical and of the metaphysical/spiritual.  And some of our fears have lingered since childhood. 
Since I asked, I'll go first.

I am crazily afraid of stinging scorpions.  I live in Oklahoma and in the summer months the soil gets very dry.  Scorpions come into our homes looking for a cooler environment.  One summer, when I was about 11 or 12, a scorpion crawled into the sleeve of my gown while I was asleep.  I must have rolled over or agitated it in some way because it began to prick me.  Before I fully awoke and realized what was happening I was stung about 15 times.  It made me very sick and since that time I have, needless to say, been afraid of them.

Now for my irrational fear.
Remember the child hood game of standing in front of a mirror in a dark room and chanting "bloody mary"?  Well, my older brother and cousing taunted me with that when I was a kid.  I was pretty fearless and loved scary stuff, but for some reason I couldn't try that one.  I still, to this day have not done it and can't bring myself to actually look into a mirror when the lights are off. 
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 April 13, 2006 2:41 PM

My rational fears ar being helpless, being out of control, and losing myself in my disorders.

My irrational fears are Felix the cat, nightmares, and losing the ones I love.

My phobias are pretty outrageous-- snakes, spiders, insects, drowning, heights, darkness, the supernatural-- none of that really bothers me. But Felix, Felix I'm terrified of. I'm not joking and I don't know why.

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Right April 13, 2006 7:49 PM

before I turned 13 I was hit by a car while crossing the road.  I was with my older brother and several friends.  It was really crazy how it happened, but anyway...for many years after that I was terrified of crossing a street with more than one lane of traffic.  I had Drumaphobia, never diagnosed, but the symptoms were there.  This phobia stayed with me until I was 20 years old.  Spring break of my 2nd year of college I went with a group of yearbook/photography students to London and Paris.  I thought that my whole trip was going to be ruined because we did a lot of walking and the traffic is crazy there.  Our tour guide ( a wonderful Irish woman ) told me that if we were hesitant that we would surely get hit by a car, but if we would step out with confidence that they would stop for us.  True to her word, that was the case, and I have never been afraid to cross the street since. 
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