The older I get, the more scared I am of flying. I have such anxiety in air, especially when there's turbulence. Every time I board a plane, I think I'm gonna die! Yet, I refuse to take meds claiming that I'd want to know if the plane's about to go down, lol.
I'm also afraid of dying before DH. DH had been married once before and his wife then passed away and I never wanted him to have to go through any amount of life without me 
Sorry, this one's kinda heavy!
persimmon / 1420 posts
Sharks. In the pool.
Or in any water, for that matter, but the most irrational one is in the pool.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
i'm afraid of a terrorist attack on my building at work
i'm afraid of someone with crazy road rage killing me on the road
i'm afraid of someone breaking into our house when we are not there and either living in the basement or attic and coming out at night to kill us! lol
eggplant / 11824 posts
Snakes! Part of the reason I never like to go into nature is I am convinced a snake will be hiding up in a tree and jump/fall down onto me and bite me. I know it's a totally insane fear, but you know....snakes are crafty.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@yoursilverlining: haha, it's okay, all your fears are justified here 
pomegranate / 3113 posts
The only one I've had for a long time is revolving doors. But I did get trapped in one (briefly) when I was a kid, so I've always been able to rationalize it to myself. 
pomegranate / 3393 posts
I had a weird/horrifying thought last night: what if you were driving & all of a sudden you became paralyzed or incapacitated and couldn't control the car or move in any way? Ack, I hate my overactive imagination.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@MoonMoon: I always hate it when I have to sneeze while driving!
pomelo / 5469 posts
@snowjewelz: flying's not an irrational fear! At least not to me! I'm with you...I seriously think I'm going to die every time I step foot on a plane. My other fears are the dark and spiders.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@illumina: I guess it's kinda irrational b/c the probability of us dying from something else is so much higher. I try to tell myself that all the time but the anxiety just builds up!
pomelo / 5469 posts
@snowjewelz: I keep telling myself I'm more likely to die on the way to the airport--but it doesn't help. I haven't flown in over a year now it's got so bad!
papaya / 10343 posts
I don't know if they are irrational or not, because they are certainly POSSIBLE, but I think I worry about them more than the average person.
#1- Loved ones dying in car crashes. For some reason I'm never worried that I am going to die in a car crash. But if my husband is 10 minutes late I'm freaking out thinking he's been in a horrible accident.
#2- Me or loved ones dying of some horrible cancer/disease. Every headache is a brain tumor. Every numb foot is MS. Every stomachache is cancer sort of thing. I try to keep my crazy to myself on this one.
pomegranate / 3393 posts
@snowjewelz: me too! Driving is so much scarier to me than flying, for whatever reason.
honeydew / 7444 posts
This isn't really a scenario/situation, but i'm irrationally afraid (and have been before people even used the term irrational fears) of balloons, unless they're secured to something far far away from me.
pomelo / 5509 posts
I'm terrified of vomiting/vomit. I know that no one likes it, but I have an actual, debilitating fear of it. Especially the idea of vomiting in public or being trappped near someone who is vomiting.
pomelo / 5524 posts
I don't know that this is necessarily irrational, but I'm convinced I will forget that I have LO in the car and leave him locked in the car as I step on the train to go to work. My #1 fear.
clementine / 818 posts
@snowjewelz: Agree, flying is totally terrifying to me! I finally had to start taking meds for it because we travel fairly frequently and at even a hint of turbulence I was like ready to read my last rights because I was sure that plain was going down!
I also had the most ridiculous thought the other day, if my daughter wakes up too early I put her in bed with me and side nurse to try and get a little extra sleep. The other day I had this irrational fear of dying in bed with her and her being left in my bed all day with a dead mom and just crying inconsolably without care. WTH is wrong with me that any of that would even cross my mind?!
pomelo / 5607 posts
My least rational one is probably that someone is under my bed and is going to grab my ankles. During the day it's fine, but if it's bedtime, I have to jump into bed from a couple feet away. We wound up putting our mattresses directly on the ground, to make it easier for the arthritic cat and dog with a bad knee to get up there, and it's made my life SO much better because now there is no "under the bed!"
I'm also terrified of falling. Which is fairly rational, except I can't even stand on the couch and jump off. Anything I can't step directly off of I have to sit down first. I can't even watch when I have a video game character jump from too high.
apricot / 313 posts
@Torchwood: ME too!!! I made my DH put our futon mattress under the bed. I though once I grew up and became a big girl this wasn't going to be an issue anymore. I was wrong lol.
Spiders!!!! Deathly afraid, like panic attack if ones near me. I get an adrenaline rush if I am alone and have to kill it myself. It takes a crazy ass pep talk to get me to do it. God forbid if I miss though!
grapefruit / 4703 posts
Escalators! It's so silly, but I always feel like I'm going to get sucked up into it and my skin will get shredded. I am very awkward getting onto escalators because I wait until I'm last in the group so I can have my own step (and ideally an empty step in front of and behind me). The worst are the very narrow ones at airports... ugh.
papaya / 10570 posts
I'm scared of being buried alive - like, in a coffin. Sometimes the thought pops into my head and I struggle for breath.... I've always said that I want to be cremated just in case i'm not really dead because, y'know, being burned alive is so much better!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Mae: Yeah! I always ask DH to let me know once he arrived somewhere. If he doesn't, I always start to think the worst!
@2PeasinaPod: Aww I def see where that came from, esp there have been multiple cases on the news about that happening!
@MrsStormy: Haha seriously I don't know where our heads take us sometime! Maybe we watch too much tv/movies! I feel like that has happened in an SVU episode before!
@Torchwood: Oh that reminds me, I hate roller coasters and I would never ever want to do free falls or sky dives!
@Shutterbug: But wouldn't it technically be safer if someones' on your step so if the worst happen you have another body to block you? I know that's wishing badly for the other person though 
pomelo / 5607 posts
Oh, and stingy bugs! Bees, wasps, anything like that, or just LOOK like that (dirt daubers apparently don't sting, but they look like they will). I wind up completely freaked out to the point of tears at times.
pomelo / 5607 posts
@snowjewelz: Nope. Well, my mom thinks I was when I was little, but she's not sure, and I have no memory of it.
grapefruit / 4703 posts
@snowjewelz: hahaha yes, that's a good point! In my irrational brain I think that someone could bump into me and then my shoelace (though none of my shoes have shoelaces...) would get caught.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Shutterbug: I hate watching kids/teens who like to go backwards on them! So dangerous
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