Fear sometimes goes away over time, like when you were little you were afraid of monsters under your bed. Sometimes they stay with you for a lifetime. One thing is certain; fear is almost inevitable. One of my biggest fears is drowning. When I go swimming I have to be able to touch something or else I get panic attacks. This fear started when I was about seven. My friend and I decided to take the swimming test so we could jump off the diving board. We wanted to be just like our friends who had taken the test. We were told to go in the five-foot part and swim two laps across. We both started out doing well, but about halfway across I started drowning. My friend also started drowning and gasping. The lifeguards blew their whistle and jumped in to get us. I was shaken …show more content…
My friend was taken to the hospital, where I later went and visited, she turned out fine as well. This experience made me deathly afraid of water and I always have to be able to see and touch the bottom. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get over this fear. Another fear I have is having an intruder break into my house. Every time I am home alone, I lock the door and I am constantly calling people to see when they are coming home. This fear stems from the time my mom and stepdad went out to get groceries and left my brothers and me at home. It was about 9:30 p.m. and it was dark outside. My brothers and I were in the kitchen when we heard something upstairs and as we turned to look up at them we saw someone wearing all black run past the stairs. We instantly ran back into my parent’s room and blocked the door with everything we could find. My youngest
That fear stems from the natural fight or flight reaction our body has to protect us from serious harm. The fear I'm talking about is the fear that we learned as children. It's the fear we learned from society and the situations we had to go through. It's the fear that brainwashes our minds and tells us we aren't worth that risk, that we will fail. This is an unnatural fear and whether we know it or not, it rules our lives in many
During your childhood, I am pretty sure that your fears weren't as big as they are today. My fears were simple, I was afraid of the dark, I was afraid when I lost my parents in the store, and I was afraid when I got in trouble at school. Aundra Kendall admitted
Everybody has a different perspective on fear and everybody is affected differently. The Mental Health Foundation stated that, “Fear can last for a short time and then pass but it can also last much longer and stay with us. In some cases it can take over our lives, affecting appetite, sleep, and concentration for long periods of time. Fear stops us from travelling, going to work or school, or even leaving the house.” This quote shows that fear does not affect people as much as it does to others. Although, fear can affect people for a long time which can cause them to stay isolated from others. There are many types of fears and some examples of fears include: the fear of the number 13, the fear of spiders, the fear of heights, and many others. There are hundreds of fears and many people have these fears and everybody is affected differently.
We humans especially, fear many different things: death, disease, old age, commitment, noises in the night, pain, responsibility, work, being too fat or too thin, or any number of other things. Some of our fears are reasonable and rationale, like the fear for our safety so we lock our doors at night, never walk alone on dark streets, and
Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you
Another cause for people having fear is the past experiences they have had. Generally, if something bad has happened to somebody, they try to forget about it and/or they try to make sure it never happens again. However, in doing so, they still have a subconscious fear that something similar to the terrible event they’ve experienced may somehow manage to happen again, especially if there are a few similarities between the past event and the current situation. For example, if a man had surgery for his heart to perform better and he nearly died, he may be very reluctant to ever have surgery to his heart or any other body part(s) again.
Once upon a time, I'd had the same fear issue standing in the parking lot at my workplace. We were having a Christmas party in the fine dining restaurant. It was one of the rare times when the entire staff could actually show up and celebrate together. When I arrived, the parking lot was completely dark and I realized I was surrounded by a lot of open space, and I froze. I could not get myself to move away from my car toward the building. I had to text Drew, a friend of mine who is like a brother to me, he found me (so did Otha) and they both walked me into the building. It was a complete fear moment due to a horrifying experience I'd gone
I was afraid of Hurricanes, Volcanoes, and water. Let me tell you my fear from the beginning. I was in Kauai. on my 2nd day there at we spent the day at the St. Regis hotel “just checking it out” but my dad asked if we could stay here even though we weren't guests and on the employees said the only way we could stay is renting a cabana for 5 hours with free lunch for only 250 dollars so we said, “yes,” and we were so pumped. As fast as we could we splashed in the water like a bunch of 3 and 4 year old's.
I had several fears throughout my pregnancy, but a tremendous fear was the risk of losing my life. From the beginning until the end, this thought was always in the back of my head. Another thing is you always see something happen in movies, or on a show, you really do not know what to expect of childbirth until it actually happens to you. However, my nerves started to calm down, and I did realize that many women survive childbirth; and that I could top. Once I did start to think positive thoughts it helped a lot. For me, it was after having my son that I think I overcame the fear of dying, and if I ever had a second child, I do not think I would worry so much about that.
While everyone else treaded and paddled in the water, I was sent home because I was screaming uncontrollably, holding onto dear life nearly ripping the skin off my swimming instructor. I have never liked being in water. I never went near it. I was even scared of standing on the wooden planks at Pier 39. I was embarrassed when my mother signed me up for swimming lessons again when I was in 8th grade. I was the oldest and the tallest student in the entire group, but I was eager to learn. I took a deep breath and submerged myself into the chlorine-filled water. After three months, I was able to dive and swim in freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly
Have you ever been in a pool, or even an ocean? Just imagine that all of the water is lava or dangerous chemicals, yeah, that is what a person with hydrophobia feels like every time they see or touch water. Hydrophobia is a extremely bad fear of water. Hydrophobia is also a sign of rabies. For an example have you ever seen those movies were the cats try to hang on the two sides of the bathtub trying to not get pushed into the water. Well hydrophobia is kind of like that.
My fear is Lepidopterophobia, which is the word for fear of butterflies. Many times I have been letting others know about my fear and they always thought it was very funny because butterflies are very small and beautiful. However, I have reason to fear it. My fear has happen since
Yes, we’ve all heard of them, all been questioned of them. Phobias--irrational fears. Arachnophobia, claustrophobia, acrophobia, also known as the fear of heights. These all seem normal to us. But what about the rarely discussed fears? The ones which lurk deep inside of us. The fears which are perhaps the most common, but the least socially acceptable to confess to? Chronophobia- the fear of time, or the future. Decidophobia- the fear of making decisions. Athazagoraphobia- the fear of being forgotten.
traumatism by Roller Coaster, I guess I have a couple of phobias one is the fear of height which is
Fear is the number one obstacle everyone must overcome at some point in their life. When the word fear is brought up I like to think of past situations that I experienced. There are many different methods used to conquer and learn from our fears such and exposure therapy, having a growth mindset, and thinking positive. For example, when I was younger fear was my worst enemy, School was the main reason that caused my fear. My fear of failure was my biggest obstacle growing up so I used that as a method to learn from my fears.