Fears List

This is not a complete list of what are considered Fears but it should get you started.

Fear of: Abandonment, Alcohol, Authority, Being alone, Being alive, Being broke, Being found out; “If you knew this about me…” Being fired, Being caught at anything, Being laid off, Cancer, Cats, Churches, Change, Commitment, Confined spaces, Confrontation, Courts, Creditors, Criticism, Crowds, Crying, Deafness, Death, Dentists, Detachment, Disappointment, Disapproval, Disease, Drinking, Doctors, Dogs, Drowning, Drugs,  Dying, Emotions, Emotional pain, Employment, Failure, Fear, Feelings, Financial insecurity, Fire, Flying, Gangs, Getting old, God, Going blind, Gossip, Government, Guns, Heights, Homosexuals, Hospitals, Hospitalization, Hurting others, Hurting self, Impotency, Injury, Insanity, Insecurity, Insects, Intimacy, Jail, Lesbians, Life, Loneliness, Losing, Losing children, Losing friends, Losing wife, Losing husband, Loss of love, Making amends, Men, Money, Parents, Never experiencing true love, Old age, Others, Other animals, Pain, People, Poor people, Poverty, Psychiatrists, Physical pain, Public speaking, Police, Psychic experiences, Races, Relapse, Responsibility, Rejection, Self-expression, Sex, Sin, Snakes, Sobriety, Sorrow, Spiders, Sponsorship, Stealing, Success, Surgery, Taxes, The dark, The law, The unknown, Violence, Unemployment, Widths, Women, Water, Wealth, Wealthy people, Writing inventory … 

If these lists aren’t comprehensive enough for you, a simple internet search for List of Fears and Character Defects will keep you busy for hours. There are a lot of them.

The Herd Instinct – Penguins Example:

One of the best examples of the herd instinct is the movie March of the Penguins.

“Even in the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way”