What's the Fear you faced successfully and managed to defeat?

Question

What's the Fear you faced successfully and managed to defeat?

Answer 1

The fear of leaving my old job/career path, which I'd spent a lifetime working towards, and taking an unknown trail instead.  It took a year of hard thinking, crying, uncertainty, and mind-numbing fear to finally get out of where I was...  That change is the best decision I've made, but it was also the hardest I've ever had to make.

Answer 2

My own thoughts about myself.

Answer 3

ever been in combat

you have all night to think about going out at dawn, ied's, snipers, suicide bombers, and other things.

in the morning you get up and you go out, and it is a good day if you come back and did not have to shoot someone and none of the soldiers you lead were shot.

General Sherman said war is h**l, and for those who live it, it is constant and does not abate.

everything esle, seems trivial when you face your mortality constantly.

Answer 4

People used to terrify me. I was a VERY shy, backward little girl. One-on-one, I was okay, but groups of people were just too much for me.

I didn't know it then, but I got panic attacks at the thought of facing people every day at school.

I gradually got a little better.

By middle school, I was just shy and worried CONSTANTLY of what people thought of me. Finally, toward the end of high school, I realized it doesn't matter. As I've gotten older ( I'm 28 now), I've finally outgrown it. Took a while.

Answer 5

Not being able to perform.

Yes, when I left home for the Air Force over 48 years ago, I was a country boy with little education, didn't have a good command of the English language and had only 3 dollars that Daddy put in my pocket as I boarded the Greyhound bus headed for the Air Force. I sobbed then I cried and all I could think about was failure. How could I ever face my family again as a failure. The fear was so great, I can not explain ever having a more horrible feeling.

Then I grab hold of me, myself and I. In my mind I told each of these beings WE CAN, WE CAN and WE WILL. I also told myself. I am an AMERICAN and the last four letters of my nationality I CAN clearly told me I could, I would and guess what? I did!

So defuse fear by thinking positive.

Answer 6

Being taken over by what I call the dark side of myself.  My thoughts and actions were turning very evil at one point.  I woke up during a dream where I saw myself literally looking at what my mind had taught me Satan looked like.  He was opening a door and smiling...... it scared me in to changing instantly.

Answer 7

Marriage

Answer 8

...jumping out from a perfectly good aircraft at 10,000 ft...

...pure adrenalin rush...hmmmm...used to it NOW!!!

Answer 9

The fear of getting out of my relationship, thinking that it'd be worse than being stuck with him.  Glad to see I was wrong.

Answer 10

the scientific term for my fear was

"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"

which is the fear of long words.

Fortunately it's gone now ....

Answer 11

well ill always be a little worried but iv pretty much gotten over the fear from when i was i a car accident