My Biggest Fears
The most common fears you will encounter are the fear of heights, the fear of spiders and the fear of death. My fears are a little more complex than that (Although death is definetely on top of my list) so I thought I'd dig deep, be brave and share them with you (You are free to take this as either a list of my biggest fears or a list of why I'm a wuss).
For starters, I have this crazy unexplainable fear of new places: Whenever I travel somewhere new I feel really anxious the first few days, can barely get out of my hotel room and just want to go home all the time. This may sound very childish but it's a real problem that I discovered a lot of people deal with.
It's the fear of being somewhere completely unknown where you don't know anyone or anything. I don't adjust to things very quickly and I always need an anchor to feel in touch with reality (Hence why I'm afraid of death: I picture it as this big black hole of nothingness; you can see how unappealing that sounds to me).
Then there's the more "common" ones: Fear of drowning, fear of burning alive, anything where I'm conscious and aware that I'm dying and anything where extreme pain is involved (Is fear of giving birth a thing?). They're not extreme fears that stop me from being around water or fire but they're more like- you know when you're on a plane and you can't help but wonder "What if we crash right now?"- they're these kinds of fears, the annoying nagging voices in the back of your mind.
I'm also claustrophobic so I can't bear tight spaces and confinement: I never lock the room I'm in even if there's another way out, and I literally panic when I have to go to the toilet in public places; begging my friends to guard the door for me. I think this actually stems from being locked in a toilet with my sister and cousin when I was a kid for several hours on end with no way out: At the time I didn't panic because I wasn't really aware of what was happening and I had company but I'm pretty sure that's why/when my claustrophobia started developping.
I'm really working on a lot of these fears but I think they're the kinds of things that stay with you forever, you know?
So tell me, what's your biggest fear?
For starters, I have this crazy unexplainable fear of new places: Whenever I travel somewhere new I feel really anxious the first few days, can barely get out of my hotel room and just want to go home all the time. This may sound very childish but it's a real problem that I discovered a lot of people deal with.
It's the fear of being somewhere completely unknown where you don't know anyone or anything. I don't adjust to things very quickly and I always need an anchor to feel in touch with reality (Hence why I'm afraid of death: I picture it as this big black hole of nothingness; you can see how unappealing that sounds to me).
Then there's the more "common" ones: Fear of drowning, fear of burning alive, anything where I'm conscious and aware that I'm dying and anything where extreme pain is involved (Is fear of giving birth a thing?). They're not extreme fears that stop me from being around water or fire but they're more like- you know when you're on a plane and you can't help but wonder "What if we crash right now?"- they're these kinds of fears, the annoying nagging voices in the back of your mind.
I'm also claustrophobic so I can't bear tight spaces and confinement: I never lock the room I'm in even if there's another way out, and I literally panic when I have to go to the toilet in public places; begging my friends to guard the door for me. I think this actually stems from being locked in a toilet with my sister and cousin when I was a kid for several hours on end with no way out: At the time I didn't panic because I wasn't really aware of what was happening and I had company but I'm pretty sure that's why/when my claustrophobia started developping.
I'm really working on a lot of these fears but I think they're the kinds of things that stay with you forever, you know?
So tell me, what's your biggest fear?
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