My Irrational Fears From the Past Five Years:
1. Sleeping: I was afraid of dreaming, plus being unconscious. The idea of losing control of my mind was terrifying. I became so obsessed that I checked my watch every few minutes and I stopped going to sleep. This lasted a year.
2. I was convinced there was a corpse in the wall next to the bathtub. I was afraid that when I was taking a shower, the wall would collapse and the skeleton would fall on me.
3. I was afraid an asteroid would hit me while I slept. Another reason to not go to bed.
4. I was afraid the Limerick Power Plant would explode. I would stare northwest and wait for the plume.
5. I was terrified of being abducted by aliens "The Forgotten" style.
6. Death: it consumed my every thought and ruined Disney World. It was Kim Possible's fault.
But they were just distractions for my mind as my world fell apart around me. I couldn't deal with reality, so my fears manifested themselves in the absurd.
What finally broke me out of the cycle of terror was Home Movies. I literally owe my life to Brendon Small.
Now I have learned to cope with all this change and I fear things like spiders.
2005 - the year of obsessive paranoia
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