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if anything at all. I have 3 that frighten me, one is balloons,
another is spiders and the biggest of them all is high winds,
which have been raging all night and now.

Emmax

Just spiders.
I know they will not harm me but still am mighty scared of them.

Ann

Spiders I can understand as a lot of people are scared
of them, I think the speed they move at has a lot to do with
it for me.
Balloons from my childhood to this day, any celebration I'm
at if theres' balloons I won't have them near me.
High winds can't figure, its just a fear thats always been there.

Emmax

ISLAM - it terrifies me

Mice and Rats.....I can`t even look at them on the TV....



Nicky

Spiders and drowning - even stand with my back to shower!!!

Thunder and lightening. If I could get under my bed I would.
We get thunder storms at the end of summer with lightening that goes pinging into the ground or threads its way all over the sky and thunder that cracks right on top of you.. Once we had a tree that was hit and split in two and it was still smouldering and completely dead next morning. I have some pieces of it inside as it is supposed to be lucky.

Hedgehogs as I trod on one once when I was about ten and walking in long grass and I can still remember the crunch under my foot. I couldn't bear the sight of them for years after that or porcupines at the zoo.

Claustrophobia. Being shut up in small spaces, crowded buses, or small cars and aeroplanes or movie theatres.
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A friend and I hid in a linen cupboard in an empty house when we were kids and playing hide and seek with our school mates. Luckily we were discovered but I still remember the close dark feeling. I like to be out in the fresh air.

Apart from that only mild things like heights, don't like being too far off the ground.
I climbed up Christchurch Cathedral Spire more than half a century ago when there were only ladders and when I looked down I nearly fell down. I had to come down looking up all the time and I could hardly prise my fingers off the rungs. Now it has fallen down in the earthquake more's the shame.

Apart from that I am as normal as the next person, I think. and I won't even mention snakes.

OH only fear is snakes, see in a magazine,on film
etc goes a funny colour.
My daughter is Claustrophobic, won't take a lift but
has slightly overcome her fear of flying with the help
of medication, gets uptight a week before she goes
on holidays.She is off to Tenerife tomorrow so you
can imagine how this week has gone.

Emmax

Hi Emma and everyone.....I am Claustrophobic, which is amazing as I am also Agoraphobic.... I am afraid of spiders, a fear I have passed on to both my sons, one of whom is 6'2" the other 6'4". Both are afraid of NOTHING else.... well I suppose the normal wise things we should all be wary of.
My daughters are also frightened of spiders but not as bad as sons!
I am less afraid of life now at 70 than I was as a younger woman.
Deanna X

Hi Deanna and all,

They say as you get older you get wiser, I think it's as you
get older you get more wary.It seems that
we all have our own way of trying to rationalise these fears.

Emmax

Most things. Heights,enclosed spaces,going blind,horses.blackbeetles,Islam,travelling too fast,balloons,injections,ferrets.

Scaredy pants doesn't come into it.

Oh yes.Mustn't forget falling down the space between the train and the platform.

Hi Sharron,

Your the first person I've come across who fears balloons.
I did read one time that people fear the noise when it
bursts cause they don't know when it will happen.

Emmax

Hi all,

I didn't like spiders, daddy-long-legs or moths and I used to be terrified of wasps and bees - worrying about being allergic to the sting. Hanging out the washing was a nightmare! I regularly made a mad dash for the door if I heard any kind of buzzing. Then, when my kids started to panic too, I had to kerb my feelings and pretend I liked them. Funny thing is, I don't have a fear of any of them now. I can even pick up those big black spiders that you find it the bath. I think that by trying to convince my kids and grandchildren that there's nothing to fear, I convinced myself!

Only fear I can't conquer is heights. I could never go somewhere like the top of Blackpool Tower, no matter how safe it looked..........my knees go weak just thinking about it.

I don't know what frightens me about balloons.It's certainly not logical but I can never remember not being scared of them whereas I can remember not being scared of heights and being brought down off the thatchers ladder.

I did not swim for about thirty years and,although I still can,I am now also afraid of water.

The thing which frightens me is when I look in the Mirror First thing,Scary Sight.**M**.:o)>

I can imagine **M** LOLx
Sharron when I see a child with a balloon I back
away, rather cross the road than pass the child.
As you say no logic but must be deep rooted from
way back.

Emmax

Hi Merlin..... I forgot that one.
I too hate mirrors, morning OR night, there is some *REALLY STRANGE WOMAN* who stares back at me.
I don't remember ever having met her either.... terrifying isn't it?
If I sit here long enough will remember ALL my fears. Not a good idea I suppose.
Deanna X

I think fear of balloons is quite well known. Does that include hot air balloons as well Emma?

I wouldn't say they frighten me but I don't like spiders.
I won't cross a field of cows but I don't think i am scared of them, it is more self preservation because they can hurt en mass.

I do have a phobia about vomiting in public. And the only time I ever have I was about five years old!! (65 years ago so quite an irrational fear).

I also have a fear about fire i.e. being trapped in a fire. No I have never been even near.


But I think may fears are irrational.

My fear is snakes whether they are on the tv or in a book or in real life
i just cant look at them My OH bought me a lovely book all about differant
animals but in the middle of the book is pages and pages of snakes
i have never picked up the book since .which is a shame because the book it's self is worth reading in fact it's in the attic now ..spiders was my other fear but now i'm not to bad with them if i see one i cover it with an old glass and put a piece of paper or card under the rim of the glass and that way i can throw the spider out of the door or window ...
Hazelx