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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
the one real fear i had as a kid was one or both of my parents dying. you'd hear those news stories about kids being orphaned when their parents were in a bad car accident and it terrified the hell out of me to think of that happening. and then when i was 18, my mom died and i was forced to confront my greatest fear head on. i've never felt as emotionally devastated as i was in the days/weeks/months after. after going through that any little fear i might have had before seemed pointless
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I kind of had a similar fear. My dad died when I was 18, and for a few months, maybe years after that, I was positive something was going to happen to someone else in my family--almost always my mom. If she went to work or something, I had a nagging fear she was going to get in a car wreck on the way or way home. If I was not home at night, I was certain someone was going to break in and kill her. ~12 years later, that constant fear has pretty much subsided, but sometimes the paranoia and anxiety hits me out of nowhere.