Most of us have some sort of fear that we have...usually stems from something we were afraid of early on in life.
What about ones that surface later on in life? A few years ago, I started having these horrible, crazy fears of thunderstorms. I've always loved them and even sat outside getting drenched...but then all of a sudden, I was paralized with fear about them. For some reason, I got over that and can now enjoy them like I used too, but all I did was replace it with another fear. One of heart attacks. I'm so scared to death that I'm going to have one, I won't even do any strenious exercise. Two years ago, softball was my life. I loved to play tennis...I was so active. Now, you couldn't pay me to do any of those things because I'm scared to death to make my heart beat fast for fear of having a heart attack.
It's crazy because I know I'm in pretty good health. I stopped smoking several months ago. My weight is really good considering my height...and my BMI is good. But I can't shake this fear. Sometimes it takes over my life and it's all I can think about.

Anyone know why these fears can come on later on in life and why I just replaced one fear with another?? And why heart attacks?

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I don't know either Puppy but I think alot of us have them. We get one and get rid of it by replacing it with another one. I do this too. I found this article that was kind of nice to read.

Maybe you could have your doctor do a stress test.. a sort of observation of how your heart is working while you are at rest and exercising with EKG, etc so that you KNOW definitively what your heart function is like.

Puppy, I too, dealt with an irrational fear of thunderstorms. I even went for counseling about it, since I lived in Tornado Alley, thunderstorms were a daily part of life, and I couldn't live mine in the closet.
She said my desire to control my emotions (mainly anger) manifested in the fear of the one thing that I had absolutely NO control over....a storm...a big angry violent storm.

anyway...with counseling, education, and a little divine intervention, I got over that, but didn't replace it with anything else.

This all really started about the time that I became a mother and found myself responsible for another life....hhhmmmm.....that's a big job. Scary. Wonder if there's some connection.

Just musing now. Pondering.

Well, it could be, Cyndi. Experts say that panic and anxiety are set in after something big or tramatic happens in your life. I'd say that becoming a mother is something really major.

This started with me after a series of events (bad ones) took place...and it just kept going from there.

I just want rid of this fear.

Thank you all for sharing, it's nice to know I'm not alone.