What are your biggest fears, real or delusional?

I've been thinking a lot this past week how now during my episodes I become fearful that someone is going to take my son away and lock me in a hospital against my will. Then I'll lose my job and home and son. I'm not still not sure how real or imagined these fears are. This causes me to become untrusting and get real quiet. If they don't know how bad I am, they can't hurt me.

I've never told anyone this but you guys...

What fears do you struggle with?

I'm not really afraid of dying for my sake, but I'm afraid of dying and leaving my son an orphan. I want him to be grown up with his own family before I die.

I also fear my son will die from a drug overdose in his early 20s. I'm afraid he will develop bipolar and turn to opiates to cope just like his dad.

My HUGEST fear is burning up in a fire. I have to check the house constantly, unplug appliances, and am always smelling strange smoky smells. OCD maybe or ??

I fear my H dying before me.

I fear developing some form of dementia.


WC

I hate this question, or to be more accurate I hate my honest answer. I usually lie if it comes up in conversation. I have kids and my greatest fear should be for their lives. But it isn't. It's for my own life. I feel guilty that I feel this way. It is not a decision I made consciously. If I think of loved ones dying, it would cause me a lot of anguish; I don't grieve well. But thinking of my own death? Raw terror. It's a primal fear. It's why I am never suicidal even when I am way down in the abyss where the light doesn't reach.

Mine is drowning

that's not weird.

I smell smoky smells all the time and fire is 1 of my triggers

my biggist fear has always been growing old, getting to like 50 and looking back on my life and thinking well... I have litirally nothing to show for it at all. no qualifications, no job, nothing. I've not even changed society

don't get me wrong, I don't want to be a scientist or an inventor, even an author of a bestselling book.

I just think it stems from..

well, when I die, I want to be remembered for something, not just.. well, yeah, here was someone who accomplished nothing- just moand constantly about mental illness and their issues.



i'm also terrified of being outside, it's been years since I was even okay to stand in my garden.
cancer.. while it's not like a big thing for me, it crosses my mind more and more lately (I think it's because so many people get it, and their are so many types)

other health issues related to what i'm doing to my body



birning alive

being involved in a car accident

this forum closing (then I won't have anything!)

that if people find out who my alters are, I am going to be ruined

physical violence.

I've had enough of it as a child- I don't need people doing it to me randomly

Fears for my daughter
Fears for my mother
Fears this disease will be fatal
Various ways of dying unpleasantly
Dementia

that I am being watched by the FBI.

something I've had for maybe 3 months now

I learned a new word today...Pyrophobia. *Pyrophobia is an irrational fear of fire, beyond what is considered normal. This phobia is ancient and primordial, perhaps since mankind's discovery of fire.*
Guess it isn't so weird after all...

Fear of my husband dying. Fear that I have caused him more harm than good. Fear of losing control of myself, physically or mentally. Fear of people judging me.

Number one: Being mangled or paralyzed. For more than the obvious reasons.

Shattered.... if you're afraid of getting "old" at fifty and feeling like your life was a waste....try being already 62 and in that boat

Sorry it made me laugh... I don't mean to invalidate your fear.
I'm just saying I understand.

My biggest fear is being elderly and unable to care for myself. I can't rely on my daughter because she is mentally ill and abuses hard core drugs. (Meth, heroine)

She is violent, abusive and has threatened my life on numerous occasions. I'm terrified that I would be at her mercy. I have a living will that specifies that she is NOT to be involved in any decisions regarding my health care and finances. That gives me some comfort.

My kids dying/being harmed
My husband leaving me
MI worsening
Medication
Flying
Being trapped
Good golly this list could go on but I think that's enough for today

I think I'm there with some of you.

Burning alive

My son dying

Me dying and my son not having anyone to take care of him

Being homeless with no where to go

Just a few...

Been thinking about it and I have to add being paralyzed or having some disease that traps my functional mind in an inert body. Being completely dependent on someone else and not being able to communicate.

Being homeless again.

Losing one of my children is my biggest fear.

I got a little smile out of it too, so don't worry.

I'm sorry that you feel that way.

must be such a hard feeling to come to terms with

I didn't know that word, and learning new words is always fun.

thanks..

When an elderly man I am afraid of being tied to a wheelchair with both a colonoscopy bag and a catheter bag. My current fear is that my daughter will never call me and go on with her life without me. Oh yes, from time to time, I am afraid of ending up homeless.

Loads!

1. Dying
2. Family deaths
3. Being broken into house wise
4. Falling
5. Being made to look like an idiot
6. Forgetting important info
7. The police trying to get special info out of me
8. Dementia and Alzimerers (sp)
9. Losing my Twin
10. Being sent to jail

I understand most to all of these are irrational. I worry people will think I'm a fraud and I don't aren't entitled to benefits and I'll be sent to jail.

I'm a worry wart through and through