Irrational Fears

Cancer. Ever since i was 10, i had a deep-running fear not of dieing by cancer but the tought of something growing inside me and killing me.

>>37201572
the unknown

I would also panic sometimes at night as the walls around me looks like it was closing in on itself on me

>>37201572
There was a time I was deathly afraid of burglars or murderers coming into my house. That fear no longer keeps me awake, but I lock every door in the house and leave a loaded gun on my nightstand.

>>37201572
god damn, me too.
when i was young, i hated swimming in big pools because i felt like a shark could appear in there when i wasnt looking. i knew it was stupid and irrational but whenever i turned around i thought "what if there's a shark behind me" and i felt real panic.
i'm over it now of course but i still feel kinda iffy about large bodies of water

>>37201572
alzheimer. my grandmother had it. at the end it was just a sack of meat. there was *nothing* inside.
every time i forget a word or forget what i wanted to do, i get scared shitless. even though it happening from time to time isn't really a sign of alzheimer.

When I was a teenager I was scared to drive.
I got over it, in the past few months and took my drivers test. I failed

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>>37201572
These things, watching them move quickly freaks me out.

>>37201600
As a Canadian, seeing all those videos and tributes too Terry Fox made me think that getting cancer actually made your limbs robotic.

Imprisonment
Abandonment
Being swallowed up
Buildings collapsing
Sink holes
Holes
>Inb4 trypophobia posts
Time to leave the thread.

>>37201572
Bugs, I hate bugs with a passion and they scare me so much.

dom male

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outside

Orogional post

>>37203450
>wearing shoes inside
>putting your shoes on the couch

Savages like you are better off inside.

>>37201600
Do you eat meat, anon?

>>37203775
Fuck off vegan

You guys dont know what "irrational" means.

I fear uneven lists. I mean lists with 3 or 5 or 7 items and not a pair number of items.

>throwing up
i stopped drinking when i had to puke once and since then i always had the fear of suffocating

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>>37201572
afterlife/immortality

scares the shit out of me

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>>37203738
Its winter here and its cols as fuck lad, my feet are cold, no bully pls

>>37203804
>Doesn't want cancer
>Rages at someone trying to help him with that

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>Hey anon wanna come out on our boat to the middle of nowhere ocean?
>n-no thanks I'm good

>>37203825
>1. Nothing wrong with me
>2. Nothing wrong with me
>3. Something wrong with you though
:^)

>>37203738

I hate wearing shoes inside, but im too fucking lazy to take them off when I come back from work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYgXxIRmac

Is this you, op?? It sounds like it might be you

>>37201572
Omg. I have nightmares about this picture. I think it's cause they look so scary. And I'm afraid of indoor pools to begin with.

>>37203865
>winter
>still leaves on trees
really nigger? ever heard of socks

>>37201572
Every time I take a ramp to exit or enter a highway I have a moment of panic thinking about what if I got on the wrong ramp and was about to hit oncoming traffic. I know it's irrational because I always check first but I still freak out every time.

>>37201572
>>37201755
Lol exactly the same but i like swimming and diving it feels great but i always need a mask or else i can t go in the water

>>37201572
General anesthesia. I'm convinced you die each time you do it and you can't tell because you inherent the dead-you's memories and brain when your consciousness reboots.

Your brain is pretty much ded during general anesthesia, unlike being knocked out or what have you.

As far as I see it I'm on the 3rd "me." Had to do it about a year ago. RIP that me. Hopefully the new me can be better than the last one.

>>37205689
oh i love swimming too but i just have this huge fear of large aquatic creatures. even in video games, if there's an underwater segment i rush through it and if there's some big underwater creature then i'll drop the game right there and never get past that point.
i just cant deal with them

>>37203344
Fuck you for posting that.

>doctors telling my am crazy then locking me up with retards with no escape.
>being constipated to the point where they have to cut you open.
>my crush closing down her secret tumblr were she posts her tits and ass.

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>>37205769
half life 1 part were you are supposed to go underwater to kill the fish scared the shit out of me when i was a kid

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>>37206087
yep, that's right where i stopped playing. i'm an enormous puss when it comes to this stuff.
there's a part in kingdom hearts where this fucker crashes through the window of a sunken ship you're exploring. when i got to that point, i fell out of my chair and had to turn off my ps3. if it werent for the fact you could skip that level, i never would've beaten the game.

i irrationally fear black people

wait, that's rational because they are all savages

being ridiculed or sperging out in public
being alone for the rest of my life

>>37206460
i actually kinda liked it, it scared me but i felt like an adrenaline boost when playing through the level (like i was trying to see how far i could go without triggering the fish and then run away whenever he saw me litteraly screaming over my computer, but in the same time it felt so exiting...) i m quite strange sometimes. i m also afraid of heights, yet i like standing on an edge looking up or down it feels exiting and in the same time scary as hell. I m definitly strange sometimes....

Fear is defined as the barrier between the known and unknown.
An ancient, primal deterrent keeping us from wandering into the dark forest that surrounds our village and succumbing to the horrors that lurk within it.

The first step to overcoming our "irrational" fear is to understand it's significance in an evolutionary perspective - it was once a powerful instinct that kept us away from very real dangers. Begin to realize that the numerous dangers that plagued our ancestors no longer exist in our modern society, but the instinct that evolved to keep us safe from them absolutely does.

Just another mental hurdle that the postmodern man must leap in order to reach self-actualization and reclaim the peaceful mental state in which we are most productive and happy.

That being said, ask a guy who overcame anxiety disorder without the use of medication anything.

>>37206480
>>>/pol/ is this way, sir

>>37206715
buttmad blackie

>>37203940
I knew someone would do this so i lied. I actually fear even lists. They feel incomplete and that makes me anxious.

Im not going to this thread again so dont try it.

Anyone scared of societal collapse?

Mob mentality scares the shit out of me. Especially in America where everyone and their grandmother owns a gun.

>>37206726
i m not even black but i m getting tired of your racisim kid

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These things from harry potter gave me a fear of mermaids even though i know they don't exist

>>37201572
Deep water. If I can't touch the floor with my feet I panic thinking a drop off zone is nearby

>>37203919

Yes. Sea travel and space travel terrify me. Knowing that you're always one incident away from certain and painful death.

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>>37201572
>>37201755
>sharks
Once you learn about mankind's true enemy, sharks seem like mere fleas on the murderous monster that is the ocean.

Fuck bridges t bh pham. BIG bridges, walking/riding a bicycle over them makes me nervous as fuck.

Also, wind, when there's a REALLY hard wind going I'm scared I'll get blown off the bridge. Or when I was on a mountain cliff, you never really think about the wind that goes on on high altitudes, but fuck me that shit is scary.

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>>37201572
I have this ridiculous fear that I would be tied down and have part of my dick cut off.
It already fucking happened

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>>37201572
th-that's not a real pic, right? sharks can't really do that, right? I mean, if they could, who's to say they couldn't jump out of the bathtub, or ever the drain? right? no way

>>37206823
I know that sharks aren't that dangerous to humans but they look terrifying

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>>37206750
Wanna know how I knew you'd come back?
1) You were just seeing if that would work.
2) Your readily apparent and monumental faggotry.

>>37203825
>afraid of lists with 3 items
>lists 3 items
You're full of shit

Spiders, like more than most people, when I was 6 we got kid magazines with a tarantulas face on the cover and I refused to pick it up

>>37201572
This but with the toilet

nothingness after death
I'd much rather go to heaven or even hell or any sorta afterlife rather than simply stop existing
like imagine not even existing, you can't and it scares the fuck out of me

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>>37201572
That is an irrational fear because sharks are just nice animals that want to be your friend! There's no reason to be scared of them.

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>get up in the middle of night
>go to get drink of water
>look out window
>see this

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>>37207053
It's not sharks you should be fearing

My irrational fear is that this guy has voting rights >>37206953

Actually that's a rational fear

>>37207087
i wish i could pet and hug a sharkie :c

>>37207087
Sharks actually bite things because they are naturally curious and that's there only way to really handle things. Of course this lead to them accidentally killing people,.

>>37201572
>>37206953

Get a lifeguard to protect you from bathtub/pool sharks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0G8znfy_hs

>>37207089
whathefuck
you taje that pic?

>>37207089

>get up at night
>go get drink of water
>see pic related outside window
>"oh geez. It's either some prankster filming a Youtube video or someone is about to break in."

Spiders and being completely alone

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>>37206953
crocs and gators can

>>37207392
that's a Lacoste float

Fucking flying. Scares the shit out of me.
I have to fly in two weeks. Help anons T.T

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Can happen anywhere, at any time.

>>37207392
GO WEY LOCH NESS MONTA

You're more likely to swallow fecal matter or get an infection than encounter a shark in a pool.

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>>37207392
crocs and gators are actually my irrational fear, I never would want to be in a body of water with them
there was a section in the zoo my family would always go to where you walk through one of those water tunnels with crocs on each side and I would literally have panic attacks

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>>37201572
im still scared of the sea and large bodys of water because of this game it was so bad to the point where when i was 11 i was even scared of taking showers with my door closed. and to this day i cant go swimming or to waterparks

Mirrors
No rational explanation, looking into my reflection's eyes makes me very disturbed just because. Even worse if it's dark in the room.

Holding babies. They're so easy to drop and if I drop one, it's really bad. Tripping over your feet happens to people sometimes, but if you trip while carrying a baby, you might have just killed someone's kid. Normal clumsiness could have catastrophic consequences and that's the only thing I can think about when I see a baby.

Photography and being recorded.

I don't know why it began but now its mostly a fear of someone somewhere seeing it and doxxing me or some shit.

>>37203825
But fearing a shark in a swimming pool is irrational. How the fuck would a shark magically appear in a pool?

>>37207630
>go to marsh/wetlands with family
>park is just network of low dikes with reeds on each side
>marks of alligators crossing every 50 ft
>hear them in the water
Spooked me, same at a park with signs about mountain lions snatching children and carrying them into the brush.

>>37207092
The thumbnail made this look like a picture of some shit

>>37208272
I thought it was some shit. What did I post?

>>37206773
I definitely share this fear, but it gives me the opposite opinion of my country.
When everyone can potentially defend themselves, nobody goes all out in fucking you over, at least not directly and all at once.
Nobody will come to my door and demand I hand over my valuables because I will kill them or die trying. Nobody will come and enslave my family because I will kill them or die trying. Nobody will castrate me for having the wrong skin color because I will kill them or die trying. No mob or militia will demand I give up my food or my car or my life to them for a debt I don't owe because I will kill them or die trying.
Nobody will likely try any of the above things that are probably irrational fears because in this country, it is likely that I am someone who will kill them.
California though holy shit, when I was there, there was mobs and shit all the time, and now those guys are trying to disarm everyone, I'd shit my pants if I was unarmed and still living in Cali

>>37201572
Heart attack

My mom had one when I was 14, and I've been terrified of the same happening to me ever since. It got really bad recently though. I woke up one night with my heart racing and I was shaking, and I barely ate for the next week. Doctor put me on zoloft, been getting better.

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>>37201572
>be me at 8-13
>have the weirdest recurring nightmare
>always be laying in be at beginning of the dream
>SleepyTimeModeEngaged
>all of a sudden
>this fuckers runs into my room
>it's E.T.
>grabs me and I try to scream
>voice won't come out
>body is numb, can't struggle to get free
>as E.T. has me over his shoulder and we run down my hall I try to call to them
>pass them one by one
>they are all fucking card board cutouts
>just smiling and shit like some sort of superhero being card board and shit
>try to reach for them and scream but always fail
>finally when we reach the door
>get on the floor
>everybody walk th-
>really I actually wake up at this point

Not my most terrifying nightmare, certainly not the weirdest. My most terrifying nightmare happened when I was 17 and I woke up crying, it's the only time I have ever cried from a nightmare, pretty much all of them are stupid shit like this. I don't think I was ever scared of E.T. or anybody of these stupid nightmares, they kind of just happened.

>>37208590
Oh uh, them being family, sorry I'm on my phone and I should really proof read my bullshit.

>I never will though

A lot of bugs scare me but most notably house centipedes. Why the fuck do they even exist?

>>37207531
DELETO THISO POSTO

I am super paranoid about there being a hidden program installed on my computer somehow that has a random payload and will someday pop up and jumpscare me into a heart attack. I open up task manager every 5 minutes and do virus scans every hour.

>>37208655
To quickly take care of any pests in your home.

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>>37207089
i know the feel, they scare me badly

>>37207089
>ayys standing around your bed
>tfw you can sleep paralysis this at any night

i'm not the only one with the fear of snakes or sharks or other dangerous animals being in my swimming pool? when i was young i used to be absolutely terrified of the lines the light and shadows made because in my child mind they looked like snakes

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>>37208917
>tfw your infant night terrors trained you early to wake yourself manually from episodes
>tfw all you ever had to deal with surrounding your bed were wolves

>>37206804
>Knowing that you're always one incident away from certain and painful death.
>terrifying
fuck off normie

>>37203775
>>37203804
>>37203906
the thread should've tanked here

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definitely a claustrophobe. even those scenes in the movies where they have to crawl through the vents make me uneasy

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Unironically
fucking original