How fainthearted or not are you?

I have severe acrophobia, so on my 18th birthday I bungee jumped for the first time, tied at the ankles.

I am glad I decided to try it before breakfast. In the right circumstances I would do it again. Then I joined the army and learned to repel.

I tend to be pretty brave about most things, but tight spaces can creep me out.

I think I am quite brave about some things and a complete wuss about others. I could not bungee jump or walk across a rope bridge or anything to do with heights and I would have real issues with anything to do with toads or insects.

I hate public speaking. I have to wax fatalistic about presenting, or I just stand there. So of course I major in a field that’s nothing else.
Eventually, I learned the trick of ignoring everybody while still making eye contact. Helped lots.

Ummmm…..A moderate amount?

I am trying to face my worst fears. I am moving home. I was bitten by a brown snake, and the spiders always made me faint. I’m not doing that anymore. I will force myself to confront a stupid large spider. I will not be foolish enough to be bitten by a snake. I will take myself into my hands and say ’ this is your home now’ and try to get over my fears. yeah

A brown snake! Hope you are okay @trailsillustrated.

Probably less than the average guy – more than I was back in the day. I was like a Rambo. Now I’m more like Rambo 5. Yes, I’ve stopped counting.

I get really freaked out at night easily. During the day I can contain myself and go through things. But if I’m alone at night, sometimes I get really freaked out. I need like 3 or 4 other friends, or at least someone else to be with me if I’m out doing something.

Whenever I’m walking anywhere I’m always really paranoid and I get very conscious of my surroundings. When a car pulls or drives closer to me I always walk faster. That’s something that makes me uneasy. If I’m with a group of friends it’s ok. But alone I always get very paranoid. I don’t want anything bad happening to me.

The Army teaches something called “situational awareness.” It’s a hyper-alert state where your surroundings and what’s going on in them become almost painfully apparent. This and the rules of engagement take your attention from your own concerns and focus them on things you need to be aware of, and what to do about them.

I had always been afraid of heights, but this training enabled me to complete airborne training and learn to almost enjoy it! : )

Pretty much all the time now. I can barely get in the car to go to work some days. Jumping from airplanes, climbing ladders, driving over bridges all have become issues for me. Meeting people holds greater terror now than ever before. Yes, I’m very faint-hearted.

@DaphneT

You should get yourself checked for possible anxiety attack issues. There is help for this now.

@partyrock

Perhaps you should take a self-defense course and learn to use a pistol?

I’m squeamish about depictions of violence and surgery but pretty brave in most situations.

Not fainthearted at all.

Not very. I look away from road kill, if I can, but otherwise I am not a spooky, squeamish female. I can pick up bugs, rodents, and various poo without an issue, not afraid of bugs, animals, etc. The only thing that really grosses me out is vomit. Specifically human vomit, can do animal barf much better than human barf. Not afraid of heights, flying, doctors, dentists, all in all I am fairly non-neurotic. :-D

I’m not very faint hearted at all, I sometimes ask myself if I should be, considering I’m a girl. ~

Give me anonymity and I’ll tell you anything.

Put me in front of people I know, and I look like a choirboy. I could be the poster-husband for the Pope’s nuns.

@MilkyWay

I came close to having my ass whipped by a “girl” with whom I was matched in a hand-to-hand combat competition! : D

@Coloma How about flying poo? When the proverbial excrement hits the rotary oscillator, it is scary to me.