Anyone have an irrational fear

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I absolutely have the exact same thing! If I have my flat iron on, I'll without tying to, imagine myself accidentally clamping it on my hand, and burning it, and think about how painful it would be. Even thought I know that I'm not going to pick up the iron, put my hand between the plates, clamp it down and leave it there.
Or I'll be cutting some fruit, and I'll see my fingers, and the knife, and I'll picture, digging the knife under my nails. It really can get disturbing, and I really have no control over whether I think those thoughts or not :/ I really wish I could stop thinking about that kinda thing. It really bugs me...

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i am terrified of the square root of 2.

I'm quite afraid of clowns. I have a panic attack if I see a picture or video of one. Thankfully it's been years since I've seen any in real life. I'm not really certain where this stems from.

i also do not like "clowns"
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their teeth look yellow against the white powder they are caked in.
there is no rule book for how to act like a clown and so there are very many weird men who try to pull "funny" faces to approximate a simplistic representation of "clowndom", that look quite sinister (to me).
almost scarily sinister.

clowns live a lie every minute that they are a clown.

if someone makes a living by being a clown, then when they are not a clown they earn nothing.

sounds like something i am glad to be able to forget my interest in as i choose to sidle toward my bed.

I terrified of the following: (In order)

-Death or anything to do with the subject (I have only ever heard of a few people having this fear, none of these on this site)

-Committing suicide

-Dogs

-Cars

-Therapy

M irrational fear is that I will become involved in violent altercations whenever I leave my house or/and interact with strangers.
If I have to leave the house and venture into society - for whatever reason - I will fantasise and mentally picture what is to come and eventually it leads to violent altercations and/or arguments.
I do that 'Mindfulness meditation' to calm myself before I venture out and it helps but even now I am picturing some kind of flame/spam war errupting from this post and know that it is really just an irrational fear... right?
Crazy violent things don't even happen to me that often but hey, I do live in Australia...

i am terrified of thinking of something that justifies my terror.

Usually around water. The times I'd get into a pool I can get irrational thoughts, such as:

1) My extended family had a swimming pool and their house had a power line feed that brought the cable in across the length of the pool from the alley to the service head drop on their home, and when swimming, I would think about the line dropping in the pool as in a car snapping the pole in half in the alley.......worry, worry.

Or the filter shorting out and passing a current through the water.

2)A whirlpool vortex.

I recall taking swimming lessons @ 5 in a public pool, and there was a separate rectangular diving pool that featured the high dive and low dive with a depth of 12 ft 6 in stamped along the perimeter edge of this pool. I remember being instructed to dive in off the edge and swimming the length at one stage of my training, and panicking when passing over and looking down at the two round man hole sized drain covers. *Whirlpool* thoughts came to mind. I fought to keep thought control to 'keep swimming' to complete the task.

My post prevalent irrational fear has been rape, ever since I was 8 and I read an article in the newspaper about a rapist moving to my city. Ever since, I've been scared of older men, and keeping my bedroom door unlocked at night, and just the thought of being raped throws me into a panic attack.

I also have mild agoraphobia. It used to be way worse, but I'm getting better at it. I have like, safe spaces where I don't have panic attacks. School, work, home and the library. Everywhere else pretty much scares the crap out of me.

I have a fear of getting executed by a Lethal Injection or hanging :'(

Fear: Because it hurts to get executed (physically aswell as anxiety).

Irrational: Because I live in a country that doesn't have the DP.

I think it would be fair to say that my irrational fears outnumber my legitimate ones by a large number. lolanxietyissues.
Going into a full list would be exhausting and certainly embarrassing but to name a few:
Being attacked by complete strangers randomly in long lines/crowded areas, choking on chicken wing bones if I'm eating them by myself, answering the phone if I don't recognize the number on the caller id, getting arrested wrongly as a case of mistaken identity or misunderstanding or even just because the police feel like f*****g with someone, driving by children playing in the street because I'm afraid they may decide to fling themselves in front of my car with no motive, my dog developing some neurological disorder and confusing me with a rabbit or some similar prey (ok, admittedly that was only once and I'd hit the vaporizer a few times too many )
If you worry that your fears are uniquely strange, don't, I guess is the take home message of this unnecessary list.

My Irrational fears are:

1. Breaking a chair by sitting in it.
2. Getting arrested and having to languish in prison for the rest of my life
3. Not being able to breathe
4. Going out in public and getting made fun of, being embarrased
5. Hurting or killing someone

I envision horrible things happening to me as well--mostly when I'm driving, which gets me all nervous.

I have some phobias I struggle with that other people don't always understand. I'm terrified of dead things. I will not touch or breathe near a dead animal. This is troublesome since my husband and I have many small animals with short life spans.

I'm extremely phobic of large or heavy things that loom over me. I will never ride in a hot air balloon, nor will I go in a parking lot that has a large balloon animal or something to that effect.

Also, I'm terrified of things that live under water, most especially large things with teeth. I do not like to swim in the middle of a body of water because I can't see what's under or around me. I will never go whale watching, and my worst nightmare would be a dead whale falling on me. o_O

My "afraid of" list:

1. Having my stupidity revealed publicly
2. Saying the wrong thing, so I tend not to reach out to people that may need me
3. Failure