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[Lily]

Fear, oh fear.

fear |fi(ə)r|
noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat

If there is anything I cannot stand it is fear. You may ask, what has fuelled this post? Well, fear did. For the last 2 or 3 days I have been to afraid to post on isfat because I feel ‘less intelligent’ than you all and because I don’t want you to think I’m a ignorant 15 year old with no life and no future.

Posting isn’t the only thing I’m afraid to do. I’m just going to throw this out there: I like a girl & she likes me too. This shouldn’t be a problem, right? But it is.We go to a Catholic all girls’ school and I am so afraid of the shit we’ll get if we date and people find out.

I’ve come to realise that most people are constantly afraid. I mean I am almost 100% sure there is SOMETHING that you’re afraid of right now (yes, you reading this!) it might be logical or it might be completely irrational but I’m sure there’s something. What makes us this way? The media? Our parents? Society in general?
Thoughts?

[lozinabox]

Okay some of you are talking about fears of snakes or spiders and other things.... which most humans have. These fears are said to be either evolutionary or genetic. You will find that many animals, suck as mice, are also afraid of snakes because they possess a particular danger to them, just like snakes are threatening to us. So these are not irrational as such but are mechanisms for survival.

A lot of you are talking about irrational fears. Well an intense irrational fear is known as a phobia and an overall sense of fear with a vague or unidentifiable cause is known as anxiety.

Phobias can occur through conditioning of a person to behave in a certain way. Surely some of you would have heard of Little Albert and how he was conditioned to fear all things furry. Well this would be a form of phobia because a furry teddy bear wont hurt hm. People have real fears of things and yes they often seem a little crazy but they are truely real. There are people seriously scared of spoons, frogs or other things that may seem a bit silly or odd (known as specific phobias), public places (agoraphobia) and even socialising or eating out in public (known as social phobias).

If any of you experience any of these things to a point that it greatly disrupts your day to day living, I suggest seeking a form of psychological help.

However from what everyone has posted so far... it doesnt sound too serious (unless the seriousness was masked) which was good.

As for my crazy fear... I cannot sleep without setting an alarm clock because I am afraid that if I dont set it I wont wake up and I will die...