Fears...Everybody's Got Them

Swimply, Sounds more like terror than fear. I don't think bats are considered dangerous - are they? I remember seeing some really huge bats when I visited Bali many years ago. Had a visit to the monkey farm, and the bats were hanging in trees. The biggest bats I've ever seen in my life, and I hadn't seen that many. c.i.

c. i. All the experts say that bats will not harm you. It doesn't make me any less fearful, though.

fear isn't logical. I'm sure you know they can't hurt you but that doesn't take away the terror. I know exactly how you feel.

My fear is really stupid - moths - I HATE them, the way they move, they way they flap around you - they terrify me with a stupid panicking unreasoning terror.

I managed to mask it when the girls were young - zipping out of the room at top speed and muttering at husband out of the corner of the mouth KILL!

Neither of my daughters inherited the fear which i am quite proud of. Although one is frightened of spiders. Now I'm not a spider fan but I'd never kill one - just catch them in a glass and put them outside.

The hotel we stayed overnight when travelling south in France had HUGE moths and butterflies in glass frames in the bedroom - they had to be taken out as no way could i sleep in the room with them even dead!

Viv,

Some fears are logical, some aren't. Well, most aren't.

mmmm you're right! I should have said aren't always logical ....

so what scares you Craven?

Stupidity scares me. When I do something stupid bad things happen. ;-)

oh hell - i must terrify you!

I have fear of heights. Several years ago I was on a ski lift and went into a panic. I had all that I could do from jumping off which of course would have killed me. Should note it was not winter we were just sight seeing in Hew Hampshire. Never been so scared in my life. It is odd since I have been on ski lifts before and never experienced panic before.

Vivien- I'm not a fan of insects in general. About the only ones I like are lady bugs.

Au1929- Have you always had a fear of heights? I was never afraid of heights as a kid, but I am much more skittish in my old age.

Craven, You are NOT stupid. Foolhardy maybe but never stupid.

Swimpy
I always got a little rubber legged if I got to close to the edge of a high roof or the ledge of a cliff. I am all right if there is something between me and the edge. The problem with the ski lift was a first and to be sure the last.

My biggest fear is of becoming a bag lady! No joke!

I've had many fears throughout life, but managed to overcome most of them.

Swimpy, I would be petrified of bats too, so don't feel bad!

Anyone remember the movie, The Birds? An Alfred Hitchcock thriller. I think of that movie whenever I see lots of birds circling, watching, waiting ................................

Good to see you again, Swimpy!

What do I fear? The first things that come to mind:
Irrational people with tendencies toward mental or physical violence.
And the idea of maybe being old & helpless one day.

My feet sweat and I go mad with anxiety when I'm a passenger on a road with a very steep cliff of the shoulder. If anyone has ever climbed Mesa Verde - that's the epitomy of the landscape of which I speak. I'm still excedingly nervous if I'm the driver, but I can deal. I drove a few Italians crazy because of it.

I've always been terrified of heights.

Aww, thanks Swimpy. I overuse the word. When I'm foolhardy I think it's "inspid""stupid" and such...

You said you fear bats, he he, so I have to tell you.

When I lived in the north (read very tropical) part of Brazil I ince had a room that a bat would visit every night. It slept in the attic during the day and used to fly around my bedroom at night.

It took a week to finally be rid of him (rat poison) and sleeping was a challenge (flap flap flap of wings).

Hmmm - I love bats and moths - but they are common fears - as are spiders and snakes. It seems we are easily prone to some fears (eg these are ones which can easliy be conditioned into us, and are hard to extinguish) - and some fears are experienced by almost all little kids - eg loud noises, animals etc - but they grow out of them.

I am horribly blood and injury phobic - I am trying to desensitize by watching graphic bits in films, because I fear being incapacitated by this phobia when I am needed, and not being able to help people.

I worked in a hospital, partly to try to overcome this fear, but it didn't work, because, once injuries are sort of tamed and people are not in terrible pain, they do not worry me.

I also had a cancer phobia - especially breast cancer, which my mother died of when I was young - so I worked in the breast cancer unit. That DID help - especially as the first woman I saw die (and it was a horrible death) looked a lot like my mum, and had a daughter the age I was, and an equally unable to cope husband! Faced all me devils at once, in the first week!

I also fear abandonment, spiders (but not to the point of not being able to deal with them) and being driven by anyone I do not absolutely trust.

I fear bunnies.

No, you don't. They fear you.....