fairfarmhand Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 I've done some decently courageous things in my life (not compared to some people, but they seemed pretty brave to me) But I am afraid of crazy fast high amusement park rides, my biggest fear I guess would be going on living if something were to happen to my dh or my children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 mice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 yes. me too. Mice, snakes, roaches too. I had a mouse in the house a couple years ago. I opened a drawer to get a dishtowel and it popped out at me. I jumped into the kitchen sink and couldn't stop screaming. (dh came in and asked "why didn't you grab it?" He was annoyed with me for not catching the stupid thing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Loosing the freedoms we have had in this country. Loosing my family Snakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 (edited) Being home after dark without my Dh. He took the older kids to a ball game last night. I was a mess from dark until he got home (about 8:00). I'm not really a wimp, but I had three incidents when I was a teenager that seem to have made an impression. We lived out in the country so it should have been nice and quiet, but we had an escaped convict camping out at our property line, a strange vehicle in our drive in the middle of the night waiting for the train to go by (Dad was thinking drug drop), and my BIL and his brother coming by to scare my sister and I when my parents were on a hunting trip. I was never hurt. I never even came into contact with someone trying to hurt me. Silly, huh. ETA: Since I've had kids, I also obsess about things that could harm them. I think, "How could I get all four kids out if there was a fire." I can't count on Dh. He doesn't have a hurry button, and he is hard to wake up. The boys have an old alarm clock in their room. The accidentally set it one night, and it went off about midnight. I hear it, leap up with my heart pounding, and look for smoke on my way to get kids. I'm yelling at Dh to get up. He leisurely rolls over and asks what is going on. I told him that night that he is on his own in a fire. I'll wake him up, but then the kids and I are out of there. Edited November 2, 2010 by Meriwether Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 A few years ago, someone on another board posted pics of a "whip" spider or something like that. It looks like a cross between a scorpion and a spider and I don't care what you believe about creation - there is something just VERY wrong about that thing. It's like it was made from the worst of both. Or that it wandered off the set of a sci fi movie... I have almost zero interest in traveling to the Middle East (hate dry air but would love to see King Tut) but when they posted pics of that thing from Iraq, that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I've had more nightmares about finding one of those things in my cupboard than I care to think about. :eek: I'd sleep with a snake if we loved him and he was ill. I catch spiders and take them back outside if it's at all possible. I put the worms from the driveway back into the grass after rain. But if I had a whip spider in my house, I'd shoot it without giving one thought to the tile floor or the drywall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 large spiders create panic attack like fear in me. I used to be that way about all spiders, but lately I've gotten more brave. Very tall bridges. I have driven over one once. We have two in our town, think shipping lane high. One even has the audacity to curve in the middle. I'm okay riding over them in the car, forget the driving. When we went over the bridge in San Diego to Coronado Island I almost made dh stop the car. I closed my eyes and we made it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katemary63 Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 I squash spiders with my bare fingers. I pick up mice by the tail and toss them to my barn cat. I am the family snake killer. (DH is petrified) I climb to the top of the silo to check the grain level. (DH is petrified) I check the farm/ cows/ barn at night, alone. I hike the woods alone. I even snorkel alone. I love roller coasters and most rides. I travel alone; stay in hotels alone. I confront people when needed, even scary, intimidating people. I tell the truth when I have to. I do my absolute best to never let fear stop me from doing what I want to do or what needs to be done. But.... To loose a child or Dh....just the thought petrifies me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 . To loose a child or Dh....just the thought petrifies me. Amen. This. Add to it - the thought of my dying and leaving my children without a mother. Terrifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Flying. Driving in bad weather. Losing a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Snakes, all kinds of snakes, any snakes, slithering snakes, squeezing snakes, did I mention snakes???? I don't even like pictures of snakes. I try not to teach much of anything about reptiles so I don't have to encounter snakes. DD likes snakes, I literally make her do the units on reptiles with her brothers! When she was younger, I made dh teach the reptile units. I refuse to let them buy books on snakes!!!!! Play snakes are evil, models of snakes are evil, artwork with snakes is EVIL! Threads about snakes make me shutter...if a snake came near me, I'd probably scream and pass out. There was a snake preserved in a glass jar in our biology lab in college. I was nervous entering the room and I had to make sure NOT to glance that direction. Faith - neurotically, deranged when it comes to snakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 (edited) What terrifies me? Not terribly serious things.... snails, cockroaches, snakes, spiders heights - I'm terrified that I will have a moment of temporary insanity and just throw myself over whatever it is I am on top of, even though I have never experienced a moment of temporary insanity. I picture myself just jumping, and then I get dizzy and move away from the edge! Serious things... my kids rebelling and hating me when they're teenagers Edited November 2, 2010 by KrissiK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 now that I think about it, there is something more terrifying to me than loosing my kids.... the thought that they would turn away from me, from God, from the fundamental principles of their raising as adults. That's scary to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich with Kids Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 TRAINS! If I am first in line at a railroad crossing, I about come out of my skin thinking it's going to come off the rails and plow into me. My other one is heights. It's not necessarily fear of me being in a high place (although I am uncomfortable even standing on a chair), it's seeing someone else up high. I guess it could be better described as a fear of seeing someone fall. Our neighbors are building a boathouse and there are men teetering all over the beams and it's making me crazy! :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Unruly crowds. Every so often there's a news story about a stampede at a sports event or some other overcrowded venue, and that just horrifies me. We were in a large, pushy crowd at the Olympics earlier this year, waiting to get into a stadium, and those news items were all I could think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorMama Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 I've done some decently courageous things in my life (not compared to some people, but they seemed pretty brave to me) But I am afraid of crazy fast high amusement park rides, my biggest fear I guess would be going on living if something were to happen to my dh or my children. Right now I'm terrified of reading the rest of this thread and finding new things to be scared of. :tongue_smilie: Scorpions are my big, irrational, screaming-in-terror, don't even wanna look at them fear. *shudder* I'm not a fan of spiders, wasps, flying, or driving near water (bridges, country roads next to lakes, etc...all I can ever think is that if we ended up in the water, how would I get all the kids unbuckled and to safety? Nightmarish obsession.) And I'm terrified of the house catching fire. I check and double-check things before bed. The thought of SIDS horrifies me. Of ANYTHING bad happening to my kids. And tornados scare me silly. This is a pretty long list, huh? Ironically, I also fear that perhaps my anxiety is a little out of control... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykdsmomy Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Throwing up Earthquakes Nuclear war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 currently? Saying things that have the possibility of splitting my family apart. :glare: other than that-precipices. HATE them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Right now I'm terrified of reading the rest of this thread and finding new things to be scared of. :tongue_smilie: Scorpions are my big, irrational, screaming-in-terror, don't even wanna look at them fear. *shudder* I'm not a fan of spiders, wasps, flying, or driving near water (bridges, country roads next to lakes, etc...all I can ever think is that if we ended up in the water, how would I get all the kids unbuckled and to safety? Nightmarish obsession.) And I'm terrified of the house catching fire. I check and double-check things before bed. The thought of SIDS horrifies me. Of ANYTHING bad happening to my kids. And tornados scare me silly. This is a pretty long list, huh? Ironically, I also fear that perhaps my anxiety is a little out of control... Oh - This is me, too. Exactly. I only mentioned getting the kids out of the house if there was a fire, but this is my other "how would I get all of the kids out." Honestly, if I put my hand over the baby's mouth and nose, could I swim to the surface with the other three hanging on? I have nightmares about this. I am become more nervous about heights as I get older. If I am walking along a railing, I hold the baby away from the railing. I am always telling the kids to stay back. My SIL stood the kids up on a rampart wall (castle in Spain). She was holding onto them, but I about flipped out. IRL, people think I'm calm. Only my Dh, sister, and mom know I have irrational fears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheApprentice Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Looking over bridges while I drive Husband quiting a paying job to go into business for himself:001_huh: My children making decisions that negatively impact their entire life :001_unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwickimom Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 My #1 fear? throwing up. Seriously. Yes I am a dork. I havent thrown up in like 10 years and I sometimes sit around worrying about what if I throw up? Like I am going to NY in December. I am excited to fly, but all that has been crossing my mind is what if I get sick on the plane and throw up? I have already looked into the best anti nausea meds out there....what is wrong with me? Puking is not that big of a deal!! I am scared to death to stay home alone at night. We live out in the country, I hunt and can shoot a gun just fine, but I cannot stand to be here after dark alone. Hubby had to go out of town for work for a week last year and I slept during the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 TRAINS! If I am first in line at a railroad crossing, I about come out of my skin thinking it's going to come off the rails and plow into me. Ooo. I saw a commercial for a new movie coming out, "Unstoppable." It looks like it's about a runaway train. You don't want to see that movie!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlemother Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 1. Losing my dc or dh. 2. Killing anything. 3. Heights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Heights. The thought of something hideous happening to dd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykdsmomy Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 My #1 fear? throwing up. Seriously. Yes I am a dork. I havent thrown up in like 10 years and I sometimes sit around worrying about what if I throw up? Like I am going to NY in December. I am excited to fly, but all that has been crossing my mind is what if I get sick on the plane and throw up? I have already looked into the best anti nausea meds out there....what is wrong with me? Puking is not that big of a deal!! I am scared to death to stay home alone at night. We live out in the country, I hunt and can shoot a gun just fine, but I cannot stand to be here after dark alone. Hubby had to go out of town for work for a week last year and I slept during the day. It's my #1 fear too!!! There is actually a name for it "Emetophobia". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Heights. This includes bridges, overpasses etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisamarie Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 So good to see that I am not alone in my irrational fears.:tongue_smilie: *Snakes and mice reduce me to screaming like a little girl. I HATE being the first person up in the morning and being the one to turn the lights on in the kitchen because I've been unlucky to see several mice scurry across my kitchen floor. *Walking on the peer with my kids. I have to hold their hands because I'm afraid they'll fall over the side and crash onto the rocks or go into the deep water and I won't be able to save them. *Tight places and being in the middle of a crowd of people. I thought I had gotten over it until Sunday when DH put DS's robot box head onto me while we were trick or treating. It was a tight fit and I had to keep taking deep breaths to not panic that my head was in a small box. Crazy, irrational, I know. *Staying home alone at night. I have gotten better only because DH spent 4 nights in the hospital in August and I had to stay home alone since my usual place to crash is my Grandma's and she was out of town. 2 weeks ago I had to stay home alone overnight again and I did just fine. So maybe this fear has been conquered. now that I think about it, there is something more terrifying to me than loosing my kids.... the thought that they would turn away from me, from God, from the fundamental principles of their raising as adults. That's scary to me. :iagree: I try not to even think about it, but I know it would kill me to have to stand back and watch my kids turn away from God. TRAINS! If I am first in line at a railroad crossing, I about come out of my skin thinking it's going to come off the rails and plow into me. I am the same way! I am not afraid of it exactly, but I am uncomfortable thinking that I would get squished if the train derailed. And it's not completely unfounded because we've had several derailments in my area over the last 5-10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Anything happening to my children. Being Buried alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Flying, I saw the plane in the Pentagon after 9-11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Snakes/spiders/roaches/mice Heights Being home alone at night (and it never gets easier, even several months into a deployment) Driving over long/tall bridges Fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Like so many, something happening to my kids, or dying and leaving them. The sun burning out. It's my middle-of-the-night terror. I actually get sick to my stomach thinking about it. I know I'm nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 I'm afraid of heights, but not in the roller coaster sense. More in the ski lift sense. Or the mountain climbing sense. Or the lean over the bannister on the second story sense. And being separated from my family in any way, or something happening to the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 This is going to sound strange...having to kill my children. It is a recurrent nightmare. George Orwell would be put to shame by my dream. Horrific. And, driving over bridges. I'm getting better with them. I have no problems if on foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawana Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 1. Something happening to dh. 2. Driving on high bridges. 3. Driving on canyon roads near the edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I have recurring dreams of something horrible happening to one of my children and I am helpless to do anything about it. Seeing them falling off of a cliff or caught in a fire or whatever. It terrifies me. I LOVE my husband, but I could handle something happening to him much better than happening to one of my kids. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Inna* Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Dying slowly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 my biggest fear I guess would be going on living if something were to happen to my dh or my children. That is my worst fear, I've had awful dreams about it happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gratia271 Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 going on living if something were to happen to my dh or my children. :iagree:also dying and leaving my children without a mother. I am terrified of heights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwickimom Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 It's my #1 fear too!!! There is actually a name for it "Emetophobia". good to know that there are so many of us, its a phobia :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 It used to be jail, but after visiting a jail, man they have it pretty good (well, except for no outside freedom lol). Now, I don't even want to voice my fears for fear of them coming true lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I've done some decently courageous things in my life (not compared to some people, but they seemed pretty brave to me) But I am afraid of crazy fast high amusement park rides, my biggest fear I guess would be going on living if something were to happen to my dh or my children. I'm afraid of being eaten alive. I used to love to surf when I was a teen. I mean, I really, really loved it. Then I got bit by a shark. I could never go in the water again. The stark realization that I am food... that scares me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 spiders terrify me. I've gotten better since living in the country, but they still terrify me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Idealogues and fundamentalists of any stripe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 The only time I've ever been paralyzed by fear was by a giant spider. I simply could not move, all I did was stare at it and shake. There are plenty of things that I'm scared of, but spiders really make me come unglued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 (edited) My number one fear is losing one of my children or my husband. I can't even let my mind go there, or I get hysterical. I am also very scared of spiders and scary movies. And I am absolutely terrified of living with bipolar disorder the rest of my life and the effect it will have on my precious babies. Edited November 3, 2010 by Nakia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Car accidents and armed B and E. I still drive, and am home alone fine. I am not so worried about dying. I know my family would step up to being fine examples for my son, and would help out my hard of hearing, severely dyslexic hubby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetobeme Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 raising my children since being left and divorced by their father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I think I'd rather go through labor again than smush the big black spiders that show up in the corners of our bedrooms. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 OH MY. I just googled that and got chills myself from the pics. Forget trying to kill it I think I would run screaming and leave state!! A few years ago, someone on another board posted pics of a "whip" spider or something like that. It looks like a cross between a scorpion and a spider and I don't care what you believe about creation - there is something just VERY wrong about that thing. It's like it was made from the worst of both. Or that it wandered off the set of a sci fi movie... I have almost zero interest in traveling to the Middle East (hate dry air but would love to see King Tut) but when they posted pics of that thing from Iraq, that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I've had more nightmares about finding one of those things in my cupboard than I care to think about. :eek: I'd sleep with a snake if we loved him and he was ill. I catch spiders and take them back outside if it's at all possible. I put the worms from the driveway back into the grass after rain. But if I had a whip spider in my house, I'd shoot it without giving one thought to the tile floor or the drywall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I am fine with snakes (well, I jump but am fascinated if I actually see one in the wild, and we have a pet one), and fine with mice and roaches and all those things. We live near a river and have plenty of rats around. But we have had too many shark attacks around here these last few years. I love the beach and our beautiful Indian ocean, but darned if I will stay in very long or go out very far anymore! I get jittery and I am sure sharks can smell fear! I still swim- and I don't even believe in killing the sharks- I love them in one way- but I stay close to shore and am hyperviglant about dark shadows under the water. I also do not like amusement rides. Even the ferris wheel will have me sitting on the floor of the cage and calming my breathing. I was pregnant with dd16 last time I went on a thrill ride. Dh and I thought, lets have some fun. I screamed the whole time for them to stop the ride- and I meant it- but they didn't. It was so horrible. I am a bit teh same on boats. I like to be able to see the shore, and feel I could swim there safely. I get jittery and have to soothe myself. SO, I seem to prefer solid earth under my feet. Heights get me too though not so badly if I feel the structure I am standing on is safe enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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