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Jerman

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Myself and an ultra cool crohnie (the magnificent MapleLeafGirl), are going to collaborate on a mystery/horror novel together. We would like to take a poll of members to have them write their biggest fears on this thread.

Just to be clear we are looking for the booga booga kind of fears not crohnie fears like "I crapped myself at work and I am a window washer for high rise buildings."

I will start by stating that mine are : being buried alive, drowning, and above all losing a child to kidnapping. :hallo2::hallo2::hallo2::hallo2:

Remember it's your biggest fear so please try to be serious, we greatly appreciate your help and of course your wisdom.
 
My biggest fear is being hit by a semi while riding my Harley. Or losing my kids or grandkids in a fire.
 
My biggest fear is since my hubby is in a risky job and flies in and out of the mine that I will get that phone call or someone at my door telling me something bad happened. God forbid anything happen to my daughter, she has been my reasons for being here.
 
Pirate said:
My biggest fear is being hit by a semi while riding my Harley. Or losing my kids or grandkids in a fire.
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My father was run over by an 18 wheeler while driving his Yamaha when he was 19. He has a metal plate in his leg because of it.

My biggest fear would most likely be finding out that the "Dec. 21, 2012 Doomsday Theory" is true. Because that would mean that everything I admire in SciFi books, TV, and films will never come to pass. Well, that and the whole dying part...
 
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My biggest fear is losing one of my children/grandchildren, second fear is being buried alive, thats why I want to be cremated...
 
Being raped, finally getting the courage to go into a shark cage with great whites and the cage detaching from the boat and start sinking to the deep depths causing me to have to swim to the boat, and falling from heights that are sure to kill. Everything else is just a regular fear.

Edit: Translation: I'm afraid of the dark (the unknown), deep water, and heights.
 
my biggest fear is losing my parents. its not going to be easy for me at all, im very close to my family.

but outside of someone dying, my biggest fear would have to be the ocean...there are some big creatures down there and it just freaks the hell out of me. im also pretty afraid of heights, but ive been bungee jumping before and plan on goin skydiving one day..
 
I'm not scared very easy, but my worst fear is getting old.
Don't laugh..
..imagine having to GO NOW..
..and...
..you...
...can't...
...get..
...up..
..from..
...your...
...easy...
..chair!!!!!!
Terrifies me
 
Well I never told ANYONE of this but .... I also am afraid that since I have been on so many meds and Prednisone that I will fall and break something... getting older sucks!
 
Something happening to my kids, something happening to my husband, FIRE (my biggest fear!), cancer.
Oh, and heights. Can hardly get up a stepladder...
 
I have a really irrational phobia of stuffed animals - not like teddy bears, but like taxidermied ones. I think it's the glass eyes, I can't even be near them or I get a really cold chill and a pit in my stomach, and I just want to run far and fast in the opposite direction. I have no idea why I have this phobia, it's really stupid, but I can't seem to get over it. So I avoid stuffed animals whenever possible.

As far as "real" fears, I don't fear death, but I do fear pain and especially torture. I've been reading the Lonesome Dove series of books, and in one of the books they talk about how some Comanches capture a scalper, and they torture him by hanging him upside down with a fire underneath him, so that his head slowly cooks over many hours while he's still alive. Brr! No torture sounds fun, but I think I'd take waterboarding over that any day.
 
Making mistakes. I don't want to make decisions that I will reget or that affect others in a negative way.
Interesting thread.
 
I am also scared of being trap in elevators, I am closterphoic, hate being in small area and everytime I get in elevator and they make noise I think it is going to break. Besides elevators i would not ever want to go to jail and have to live in a 4x4 cell, I could not take that at all. I need space.
 
I am afraid of falls and breaking bones I broke my arm twice and my leg once as a kid by falling in the school and I am afraid of falls.

I am not afraid of death, but dying is not in my immediate agenda.

Scifimom
 
I am afraid of having another 12" blood clot on my brain causing another stroke.
I'm also afraid of having a bowel obstruction that I'll call the "Big One" where I'd need emergency surgery if the NG tube fails to relieve the pressure in my gut.

I'm also afraid of animals that have no purpose here such as rats, venomous snakes like cobras, rattle snakes, venomous spiders like tarantulas, black widows, brown recluse, mice, bees, hornets, and wasps.

Oh, can't forget this one--- being afraid of my ostomy bag farting loudly in a quiet place if I haven't eaten in several hours so I have to remember to make sure I do eat if I have a busy day ahead of me. :eek:
 
I am afraid of falling. I am not afraid of heights, but falling off of something high. It makes no sense. Maybe in a past life I was pushed off a cliff or something!

I am also afraid of someone being in the house at night. I am already too much of a chicken to go walking around in the dark and if I hear a noise in the other side of the house I get super paranoid and make my husband go check it out. Then he tells me about the "creepy crawleys" in Helter Skelter and I was like great...now I will be paranoid about people creeping around in the house all the time.

I love horror movies, but never watch them in the dark.
 
Zalanicht said:
stuck in a room full of squeaking styrofoam. Lol.
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OH GOD I friggin cant stand the stuff! Makes me cringe!! lol

My biggest fear is being faced with something that isn't human, if that makes any sense??
That's why films like Paranormal Activity, the Fourth Kind and Blair Witch scare me because you don't really know what the horror is based around, it's not something rational and can't be reasoned with... Although my imagination kind of runs away with itself and I end up scaring myself lol
 
One of ya'll reminded me when you said you're scared of being burned alive a of a Catholic saint. The saint was burned alive and before he died he supposedly told the people to flip him over because he was done on that side. Sorry but it made me laugh when I heard being burned alive.haha
 
My biggest fear has always been drowning in a lake or ocean and all those fish eating on me. And my second I would have to agree with ladyb about getting old and have to go NOW and having to depend on someone else to get you there. Because sometimes now with our crohn's that's not always easy now.
 
I know it sounds stupid, but I'm horribly afraid of spiders for some reason. They just freak me out. I dunno what I'm gonna do when I'm living on my own and I can't make someone else randomly kill spiders I find on the wall. Guess I'll just need to have poison spray handy, lol.

I'm also afraid of having some kind of neurological malady like brain cancer, and slowly but surely losing my faculties. And I'm afraid of making mistakes I can't take back, I guess. Hence I am sometimes overly pensive.
 
I have to say mine are: losing my children and mom. Severe thunderstorms and TORNADOS. rats, mice, spiders....the world just is not big enough for me and them too.
 
madasins mommy said:
and making the wrong decisions in life for my children...when only wanting to make the right ones.
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Could't help but let you know that I believe, even not knowing you well, that you are a fabulous mother and a very very strong lady, please hold your head high with the knowledge that we all admire you and the love you have for Maddie. :hug:

:::Jerman steps off of the soapbox::: Great ideas for the thread from you and all, please keep em coming.
 
Hiya Jerry!
great thread!

mine is losing one of my kids by whatever means,
drowning, I'm terrified of water! The thought of being in deep water and can't feel the bottom upsets me so much!
wasps, being locked in a room with them and can't get out! oh God, I'd die!
Going blind! oh God that terrifies me!
Be awake and aware during an operation!!! urgh!
Falling off a cliff and ending up alive but smashed to bits! same with being run over by a train and my legs being chopped off and I can see them over the other side of the track, Oh God!
Being paralysed all over except for my finger like Denzil Washington in The Bone Collector!

Oh shit, I won't sleep tonight now!
 
Astra101 said:
Hiya Jerry!
great thread!

mine is losing one of my kids by whatever means,
drowning, I'm terrified of water! The thought of being in deep water and can't feel the bottom upsets me so much!
wasps, being locked in a room with them and can't get out! oh God, I'd die!
Going blind! oh God that terrifies me!
Be awake and aware during an operation!!! urgh!
Falling off a cliff and ending up alive but smashed to bits! same with being run over by a train and my legs being chopped off and I can see them over the other side of the track, Oh God!
Being paralysed all over except for my finger like Denzil Washington in The Bone Collector!

Oh shit, I won't sleep tonight now!
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Are ya sure ya didn't forget anything my friend lol jk!! Maybe we should just interview you! Very cool movie BTW. Thanks Joanie :ybiggrin:
 
Okay, I'll come clean. I'm afraid of death. I don't now why or when I first became afraid of it but it scares the hell out of me. What if there is no life after death. What if there is nothing but a hole in the ground with a cold stone above my head. Will people remember me after I'm gone.
When I was diagnosed with CD I would have dreams of having my intestines removed to the point there was nothing left. I'd dream of getting stomach cancer and not being able to have anything done about it.
I'm afraid of being in a coma and being able to hear everyone talk about my condiition and when would be the right time to stop life support. And I wouldn't be able to let them know I was alive and it wasn't time.
I'm afraid of getting old. What is my life and health going to be like for me. I'm afraid that the love of my life will get some horrible andd painful illness and I'll have to watch her slowly suffer. Could I be strong enough to help her end it if she asked. She has been my world since she was 15 and I don't think I could go on without her.
I'm afraid of drowning. I'm afraid of breaking through ice and being taken away from the hole I break thru.
 
Wow Pirate, I think the same way most times. But that is why we need to embrace everyday as a special day because the years go by so fast...before you know it you are grandparents and feeling the aches and pains. I try not to think this way any more, negative feelings makes me worse, I am a natural born worrier. I thank God I have my husband who is my rock and never want to be without him. I thank you as one of our admires and a man to admit this,takes alot! You are amongst people who admire who yo are. I do!
 
Oh God Pirate!!

now I AM gonna have a bloody nightmare! breaking thro ice and being swept away and trying to claw your way out and banging on the ice and no-one can hear you! Oh shit!

Jerry! I have loads of these horrible things, my imagination runs riot! It doesn't help reading horror books and watching horror fillums!
 
Pirate said:
Okay, I'll come clean. I'm afraid of death. I don't now why or when I first became afraid of it but it scares the hell out of me. What if there is no life after death. What if there is nothing but a hole in the ground with a cold stone above my head.
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I really don't understand that fear. Since your consciousness doesn't exist after death, you won't be around to give a flying f**k. And if you were wondering, yes I'm an atheist.
 
Jerry I gotta tell ya this, it's funny, not!

My friend Mandy has a horrendous fear of buttons, she won't even wear anything with buttons on or even let her hubby near her if he has buttons on his shirt!
I thought she was only messing about! not so!
cos I'm such a bitch, for a joke on her birthday, I gave her a box of All Gold chocolates, but I had sneakily undone the cellophane, took all the chocolates out, and replaced them with hundreds of buttons, then sealed the cellophane back up!
The joke backfired when she opened them, started hyperventalating in front of me, and nearly died on the spot!
I will never be horrible to her again, cos she's threatened to catch hundreds of wasps and make me eat them!!
 
thank you jerry....that means a lot. and i do appreciate you saying that. i will admit i am not perfect but i do my best. its great to hear you are a good mom sometimes.
 
Jettalady said:
... getting older sucks!
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Like all parents my biggest fear is loss of a child!! Aside from that though, my biggest fear is not getting older!!...Well there's that and Dusty!! I'm afraid of Dusty too!!

Oops, sorry Jerry, I just noticed the Serious Please notice!!
 
I fear a few things, I fear the unknown.

And I have this strange fear of well, swimming in the sea and not knowing what's under me, and when I begin to think about what could be under me, I tend to panic.

The thing I fear the most is the day I lose my mum. She has been my rock and constant support throught my ordeal with Crohn's and has done so much for me. I don't know how I would cope.

I do believe in life after death, but I would still miss her dearly.

Liam
 

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