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If I were in a warrior culture that views being alert as a great attribute, my fear of sleep would be accepted, understood and even praised instead of diagnosed and treated.
2008-08-11 15:42:52 / Rating: 78.5 / 
Story archives - tag: "fear"
Youth Minister
Its four in the morning, I'm still sitting at Denny's smoking, and I just now realized that it's because going to sleep means having to wake up tomorrow.
2008-07-30 14:34:41 / Rating: 114.75 /
smella
By the age of eight I had decided that my worst fear in life would be to ever get haemorrhoids, and I even spelt it right as I wrote it on my grade 3 paper.
2008-07-08 09:53:46 / Rating: 97.5 /
not so scared anymore
I haven't seen my abusive brother since I was 10 and he just found me on myspace.
2008-04-28 10:51:33 / Rating: 141.25 /
lassoprecise
In order to feel as if he had some sort of control over his cancer, my father would search the streets for a dollar in change before each chemo session.
2008-04-21 13:59:16 / Rating: 175.25 /
Emms
We had a bomb threat and an unrelated code red lockdown on the same day, five days before the anniversary of the VT massacre and nine days before the anniversary of Columbine.
2008-04-15 10:15:49 / Rating: 65.5 /
Heather Rose
My biggest fear is that she will grow up and wish that I had gone through with the adoption.
2008-02-22 16:08:04 / Rating: 159.25 /
Nameless
Laying in bad with my girlfriend and child as they slept, I felt deep in my gut that my divorce was not because I became a lesbian at all, but because of post-partum depression.
2007-10-29 10:11:45 / Rating: 114 /
Kedearian
I never feared a shoe, but as I sit bleeding profusely from my nose, I began to.
2007-10-02 15:45:39 / Rating: 129.5 /
Lorilou
My trust in the postal system was destroyed the day we received dead cockroaches in the mail.
2007-09-28 17:10:28 / Rating: 153.25 /
incogkneetoe
I finally realized I had to leave when he admitted he threw our four year old across the room after he had finished the fifth of whiskey.
2007-09-21 15:19:03 / Rating: 153.75 /
anonymous
I was scared when the security guard at the mall tried to help me, because ever since that night, I haven't been able to trust anyone in uniform.
2007-08-01 12:39:43 / Rating: 110 /
how i'd like to be credited
As my eyes started welling up in fright in pre-op, I could hear the accelerating beeps on the heart rate monitor and started to regret not sneaking out of the bathroom window when I had the chance.
2007-07-03 17:14:23 / Rating: 104.25 /
Holly
I saw an advert for what could be my dream job, but the prospect of getting it and moving away from the small village I've lived in my whole life to London terrifies me too much to even apply.
2007-06-04 11:35:01 / Rating: 129 /
A Sub
In my early 20's I went to an S&M party wanting to be a 'slave' to a Dominant Woman but left before the party started, because I was a slave to my fears.
2006-11-16 00:07:43 / Rating: 118 /
A. Mouse
The scariest thing anyone has ever said to me is that they thought I was capable of rape.
2006-11-06 09:30:05 / Rating: 152.5 /
KidZero
I didn't know what frightened me more, waking up covered in blood or realizing it was mine.
2006-11-01 16:19:18 / Rating: 188.5 /
DeepEndZen
It's not the hangovers I fear the most, but the fact that I've lost a few hours of my life that I can never get back.
2006-10-23 09:35:17 / Rating: 184.75 /
David
I'm always living in fear.
2006-08-12 16:15:01 / Rating: 94 /