I’ve heard all sorts of predigested pap and idiotic methods about overcoming fears. Face it head-on. Find your fear, and live in it. I am sure that many have found severe injury by attempting to cure fears by following idiotic advice. I was very fearful as a youth, and well-intentioned individuals thought they might try to help me overcome my fears.
Do not try any of these at home. Very dangerous! Here are a few examples:
1.) When I was a kid, some jerk decided to cure my fear of drowning by – you got it – drowning me. Not long after that, I taught them to walk on the other side of the street when they saw me – a new fear – for them. Was I wrong? Not in my opinion.
2.) I overcame a fear of heights by skipping across the Knife Edge on Mount Katahdin. A friend thought they’d get a rise out of me by telling me precisely how long it would take me to hit the bottom. That night, I exploited his fear of slimy things by putting some leeches I had found in the stream in his sleeping bag. Was I cruel? Yes. But his screams were precious to hear.
So you have nothing to fear but the fear of helping me overcome my fears.
Peace! and mind your own business.
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LOL! You’re no doubt aware, then, of how G. Gordon Liddy *overcame* his fear of rats…😬
He cheated. It’s supposed tobe the hear, or liver, of the creature You personally have killed…as in other things he fell short.
I’m afraid of sharks, high rise anythings, and potholes. I’m doomed!
Or Ozzy overcame his fear of bats! Wait, was he afraid?
I don’t know about Ozzy.
That advice about fear. There are a lot of different things to fear and they’re NOT all the same!!! But people know everything in general terms.