What Terrifies the Ever-Loving BAJEEZUS out of you?
 

For me it's General Anesthesia.

I have never had to have it. I know thousands upon thousands of people get GA performed successfully for various operations all over the globe every single day. However, no amount of reassurance from people who have had it done to them personally, even people whose opinions and points of view I trust without question, could break this phobia of mine. I know it's a completely irrational fear.

I know that it is perfectly safe. In fact, I have done enough research on the processes, procedures, drugs, etc in hopes of breaking this fear through education on the subject that I could probably almost perform the procedure myself! Yet, to no avail. My phobia remains intact and as strong as ever.

It's not something I even considered as a kid... or even a young adult... but recently (Over the past couple of years), and for no reason that I can explain I simply "developed" said fear.

I've done all manner of crazy things which would probably scare many people in a stupefied puddle of slobbering goo. But for some reason this simple thing makes me feel like I would literally rather have an operation done Civil War battlefield style than to be put to sleep. I wont say that I'm unafraid of excruciating pain, but I dare say I am less afraid of it than Getting put under.

And the fact that I am in the unfortunate circumstance that I will soon have to face this phobia in the very, very near future for the extraction of some dodgy teeth makes my heart beat quicken and my anxiety muscle start doing jumping jacks in my stomach.

So in light of having to face down my own worst fear... I want to know what it is that Scares the FREAKING CRAP out of some of you BOTL's and SOTL's. And if/how you faced it down.

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You'll be fine Brother. Thats a cakewalk once your their.

Biggest Fear. Prison. I here they don't play nice!

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Being stabbed.

Drowning.

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Snakes.

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needles

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Get a permit to conceal and carry. You know what they say about bringing a knife to a gun fight :D

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I have no doubt that I will be fine. It doesn't really ease my mind at all though. Which is what makes the whole thing stupid to me. In my mind I KNOW it'll be fine... it's not even the thoughts of the unknowns/what ifs that give me problems because I can rationalize those away. It's just the actual thing... and I'm sure, as with all phobia's, it's just a psychological block that can only be erased by dealing with it...

Kind of like the people who are afraid of snakes holding snakes and losing their fear of them...

Ok maybe that is a bad example but the point is... I feel like it is one of those things that only goes away once a person has experienced it first hand...

I'm also afraid of Babies. Terrified I will break them. And actually not just babies but the whole process of childbirth FREAKS THE F'N HELL out of me. And I don't even have to do the hard parts.

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You know, I've been put under once when I got my wisdom teeth out. I remember them giving me the shots in the IV, I think one was either valium or morphine. They told me to count backwards from 100. I got to 97, then watched the clock on the wall melt, and it felt like I fainted. Next thing, I woke up. Groggy and confused. It felt like I was being born. I had no recollection of ANYTHING (kind of like amnesia), but that all came back after a few minutes. Wasn't bad, actually.

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It's like you're there the whole time!

If I can get through life without getting stabbed, I win.

:r

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Get over the Baby thing Brother...You just got married! If you are like the 87% or newly weds out there, babies are coming!


I suppose you van psyche yourself up by tricking yourself into thinking you actualy enjoy your fear. Put your game face on and take yourself out of your shoes and into someone elses. Look that **** in the eye and make a game out of it.

Bottom line, picture the absolute worst that can happen and learn to accept it. From that very point, anything better than the worst is easy to deal with.

Two Cents!

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Within 10 feet of you somebody can stab you before you can draw a gun and stop them. I know it sounds like BS but I have seen videos and training to prove it.

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Not trying to sound like a bada$$ and not saying a situation never pops up that I may become a little scared while dealing with it, but to be honest I can't think of something that terrifies me. And hopefully things will stay that way LOL

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getting retributed by someone I have massively bombed.:r

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Only if I stand still too. But you can be sure I will be dodging the attack whilst drawing my weapon.

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And you should be.........:D

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:hn

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Not even being a Victimike in Hostel or Saw?

Cut at the Killies?

Skinned Alive?

Paralized from the Neck Down?

Your Unit stops working?

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Everyone should be afraid of prison. ;)

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Heights. I don't even change light bulbs.

I'm going under GA on Thursday and wasn't worried a bit until I saw this thread. Thanks, Jeremy ;)

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Who were they fighting? Steven Segal? The young Steven Segal... the one from Under Siege... Because if it was Steven Segal: Lawman getting stabbed and trying to draw the gun... then I could see that... if it was Under Siege Segal doing the stabbing on someone else... I could see that too... Either way I think if Steven Segal was in the video/training it's probably skewed.

Something else that TERRIFIES me is Botfly Maggots. I don't spend much time in the tropics/areas where these insects are prevalent... but holy crap... if you want to see something that will make your Oh-****-ometer peg out... google image botfly maggots.

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OK - that wasn't something I should not have done right before eating tuna.

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thanks for that, Jeremy. I could've lived a happy and full life without ever seeing botfly maggots... that's some scary sh*t!

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Being part of the food chain.... I am failry uncomfortable swimming in the ocean and hiking in bear country. I do them both, but I don't feel great about it...

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It wasn't Steven Segal LOL. Another thing and you can try this at home (make sure gun are unloaded!!!!). You can be pointing a gun at somebody and they can draw and shoot before you get a shot off.

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Thank Jeremy. Those things are awesome!

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...s/565322e7.jpg

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I'm not so scared of wild animals. Except timberwolves. Some nights when I get home, the long walk from the garage to the house in near pitch black is a little nerve-racking. But I live out in the country.

Once I walked out to my car with the girlfriend and kid. I was parked in front of my garage, with the garage door wide open. We are almost to the car, and she says "Pete, look at the kitty!" It was a cat alright. A rather large bobcat was in my garage, batting at his reflection in a mirror, about 10 feet from us, but we startled him. I stood between the cat and my girlfriend/kid until they were in the car, then I carefully got in the car. I was mostly scared of what a cornered animal would do.

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As long as that person can draw, aim, and fire within 3/4 second. Remember, the target will not be stationary after that reaction time.

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Spiders. Started as a kid after watching "Curse of the black widow", then my Grandmother would squish Black Widows with her palm (one tough Grandma) which really freaked me out. as a young adult I did crawl-under insulation for PG&E ZIP program in Chico, CA. We'd have to use folding shovels to dig trenches under floor joists, lay on our back and pull ourselves up to each section of floor to insulate. One time, I reached up, pulled myself to the next section and was nose to nose with a huge black widow. I pretty much freaked as I was somewhat trapped with the floor joist against my chest. My work partner was a little guy and he scrambled to me and drug me out by the leg. I quit that job that day.

Always been terrified of the bastards after that. Was bitten by a brown recluse some years later and had a horrible wound from that.

Me and spiders don't get along.

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Decaf Coffee.

Wait... that isn't a "fear."

I will get back to you after I finish the contemplation of hosting my Waffle Thread.

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Move to AZ. No permit necessary :tu

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I'm sorry, son. I fear I may be the source of that fear. Maybe your having to deal with me going under for knee surgeries, and knowing that afterwards, I always puke my toenails up, may have something to do with it! I've never feared the GA, just the after-effects. But, then again, you also know that above ALL, I'm phobic about throwing up! Not much that really bothers me in life, but Throwing up is at the top of the list. LAst knee surgery, they gave me a double dose of the medicine that prevents nausea from the GA. Didn't help! Because of that, when I had my tooth extracted earlier this year, I refused the GA, and went with the local shots. Had to listen to the sound of the extraction, but didn't feel a thing, and avoided the GA. Don't know if they do wisdom tooth extractions without GA! Make sure the GA guy/gal knows about your sometimes rapid heartbeat.

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WTH!!! What's this talk of BABIES!!! You just got married!! I'm telling you mom! That'll fix you, scaring me like that!!!

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I have had teeth pulled over the years and never once was GA ever suggested.

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Zombie boob? :D

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:tpd: That's at the top of my list. Even the picture of the spider on the can of spider killer under my sink freaks me the heck out.

I don't know why they scare me so much. I must have repressed my traumatizing childhood experience. :sh

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My older sister is sooooo afraid of spiders, I can draw a dot, put 8 legs on it, and she freaks. Buys spider killer spray, and puts tape over the picture of the spider!

I routinely kill brown recluses with my hand. They're flimsy, kill easy. I don't do that with Black Widows though. I use a stick or whatever is handy. Never been scared for spiders or snakes. While it will make many people cringe, I've often considered having a tarantula as a pet, and letting it run free in the house. However, my wife would shoot me, right after she shot the spider!

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Nah,

Throwing up doesn't scare me, or even really play into the phobia itself. It really started out as something that I was mildly afraid of and I just kind of got interested in it and thought that if I learned about it then I would see that it is as safe as putting on a bandaid.

But the more I read... the more terrified I became...

It really didn't help any that the first book on Anesthesiology I read was almost begun with these words... almost verbatim:

Though Scientists have yet to fully understand HOW General Anesthesia affects the brain... they have nearly perfected the actual manipulation of the drugs and procedures."

I'm sorry... but I don't care how many doctorates you have... Telling me that you're going to inject me with something that you don't know how it works? I think I'll pass... I dont care if you know exactly how much to use. Do some more research on it and get back to me.

That's kind of like saying... we don't know how this saw that we are going to use to cut open your cranium works... but we know that it does work. And that we are really good at it.

Pardon me for being skeptical but I'm not so convinced... mmmmkay?

And on top of it... I don't like the ieda of relinquishing control of myself to someone I've barely met... If my anesthesiologist was a life long friend whom I trusted with my very life... I probably would have no qualms about it. But what if this guy/girl's wife/husband just got caught sleeping around and the dude's head isn't in the game... I don't want to be a victim if said infidelity. Maybe I'm just not the type of person is trusting of strangers... even strangers with licenses and degrees that say they know what they're doing... but in any case. If I wake up with a leg missing or something like that I swear they better hope they cripple me freakin good otherwise I will literally bite their legs off... assuming they actually fix my tooth.

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floating out in the open ocean....There is honestly very few things in the world I'm actually scared of except for THAT. I can swim and have done some type of underwater maneuvers where I had to fight my way out but not knowing what's coming up from underneath and just floating... *shivers*

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Mean Darrell.

And Gurkha cigars.

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Cockroaches!!! I can do spiders, snakes, bugs, bats...but I hate me some cockroaches!!

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I tried like heck to think of a fear, couldn't come up with one. I used to be scared to death of needles, but for the last couples years a week hasn't gone by that I don't get a blood draw or a shot. I just simply got used to it.
Maybe "getting in a car wreck"? I was in a really bad wreck 7 or 8 years ago and it haunted me for a long, long time. It still comes to me when I'm sleeping, from time to time.
Aside from that, I'm still scared to death of my ex-wife.

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Maybe running completely out of cigars?

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/2...607f3b21_b.jpg

:p

This is my Dumeril's boa.

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My wife.








kidding honey...please don't hit me.

:)

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Not gonna happen. We can cross that off the list. :D

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prick. lol. Even pictures creep me out. Remind me never to herf at your place :r

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Fixed for ya Doc!

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:r:r:r

For me Werewolves

and

Creepy Dave!

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Being stranded in the ocean. Never been on a cruise. Hated flying over the ocean to Ireland. Won't go out on a saltwater fishing boat to the point where you can't see land in any direction. I swim in the ocean, but afterwards I think I am dumb.

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Tape, huh. Brilliant!! Thank your sister for me. :D