Irrational

I used to hate long bus journey in case I had a coughing-fit and had to walk home..

I always have specialty lozenges now..

One fear I know is irrational but I keep feeling it, is, when I'm on a long bus journey, I feel terrified that I will get thrown off the bus and I keep calculating how long it will take me to walk home.  There's no reason why the bus will kick me off, I have a valid ticket and I'm not behaving in any anti social manner.  But I'm afraid the bus will chuck me off.

T said:

It's hard because most of my fears don't seem irrational.

You hit the nail on the head.  Our real fears seem irrational to others, not to us.

TriS I get that too but only on canals or a river edge where there is no barrier, I am CONVINCED I will fall in. It's ridiculous. 

It's hard because most of my fears don't seem irrational. Like I also check all the locks multiple times before I go to bed or leave the house, but I've forgotten to shut the front door or left my key in the lock outside before, so it's a sensible concern. And I'm scared of panic attacks and breakdowns but that's happened before, so...

I guess my one that's probably least rational is falling. Crossing a bridge or walking next to a canal or whatever, no matter how impossible it would be to actually fall, I feel almost like there's this invisible force sucking me towards the drop or water and I have to fight against it. 

Such language nauseates me, but i'm not afraid of it.

Ben

I have lots and lots of fears, to me they all feel rational.

1. People

2. Making/Receiving telephone calls - terrifying 

3. Cucumber. Seriously! 

That's not a bad thing when you have someone to look after. It shows you care. For example the escalator thing and also the stairs at home made me think about exactly how I do things so I could teach him ways to do things in a safe way. 

The hurting themselves is more of a challenge as we have to work out the amount of risk.

1) I have an irrational fear of insects, that they will all gang up on me and attack me. I really hate insects for that very reason. 

2) That if I walk too close to the road I'll fall in and be runover.

3) If I owned a dog it would turn on me and eat me.

I've also noticed, since be moving a parent, my mind will flash momentarily across topics to do with my boy. 'I hope his toy doesn't scratch his arm, or he doesn't fall down the escalators in the shopping centre, etc'.

Guess it's just the brain searching for potential hazards as a parent? Most bizarre though as those worries were never ther before

I'm afraid of: 

- Getting the hook of the hanger caught in my eye whenever I handle a clothes hanger. 

- Flying on a plane (although I have done it many times, I refuse to do it now). 

- If I wake up in the night I imagine there is a man in my house dressed all in black hunting me. It's so frightening. (I live alone).

No problem.. I have an irrational-fear of infantilising-words, such ‘tummy’ and imperative-terms that ‘adults’ use on an infantile-level, this is probably because of all the patronising-noises and grabbing that ensues after they say such words.. as such I avoid social interaction and relations to an unreasonable-degree when I hear such dialogue..

A fine just, a valid list, but I'm curious, 'words'? Please expand

Road works.. 

Words..

Inductions..

Do these fears stop you from doing things? I find avoidance is becoming my teacher (trying to move towards the things I feel compelled to avoid in order to maje progress atm)

1. Going out and getting a disease if I get too close to someone.

2. Waking up and finding that my family have disappeared.

3. Being surrounded by water.

Thanks for that, I often do the same except I never think about it again after

Falling UP the stairs and smashing my teeth out

1. Flying overseas and getting arrested for breaking a law I didn't know they had.
2. Being trapped on a train or bus when they slow down for any reason.
3. Never finding paid work again.