Almost every person I know has at least one thing that scares them... except the ENFPs I know.  Their naivity towards some of the dangers around them is an interesting characteristic that I just can't seem to figure out.  Anywho, I was asking my ENFP friends if they were scared of anything even when they were little.  They couldn't seem to recall anything.  They asked me the same question, and that was a quick and easy response... Yes, when I was little, I was very afraid of these guys:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9hooe-yKQ

Even watching it now, they give me the creeps. 

Everybody has fears. ENFPs are no different. I have vertigo so I'm deathly afraid of standing at a precipice. I mostly fear someone dying without knowing the full scope of my love for them, or vica versa.

I don't mind all spiders, but jumping spiders..... and centipedes ( we had giant centipedes in our basement, like 8-9 inches long and 3 inches wide ).  They are too fast to be anything but evil.  I also HATE june bugs because they're like kamikaze pilots zigzagging towards your face, so I fear the buzzing of a june bug.

I also fear doing data entry for 8 hours a day in a cubicle.

Hmm.. I can't say I have any big fears that I can put my finger on at the moment.. I suppose my fears are circumstantial. The last time I felt like I was truly scared was when I capsized in the middle of the largest lake on the coast of Australia and my boat was sinking.. No life jack and the shoreline a few kilometers away, with a current that was pulling me towards sharks - less then a Km away.. Yeah.. It was freezing cold (middle of winter) I was stuck out there swimming for a couple hrs, and practically blacked out when someone finally rescued me.. That was frightening because I was being realistic with myself and telling myself that there is a nice possibility that I might drown. Non the less, I was determined to swim back to shore, so I never gave up.. Haha.. No one is an atheist when they stare death in the face.. I suppose my biggest fear is not so much death, but the associated pain before death or the complete cut off of relationships... That is what probably scares me the most about those types of situations.. But remaining calm is what helps one to get through it all alive..
I suppose because I have had a few near- death experiences like that one, is the reason I don't get hugely scared over what people consider either trivial or common.. The dark, or heights don't seem too bad as they use to be when I was younger, mainly because I have had time to desensitize to them over the years..... Spiders - I find gross, but, not scary - I rationalize this, because I am a lot bigger, and I think that the spider would be more scared of me..
But, I would definitely agree with Caprice on the loss of data.. That would drive me up the wall.. Considering I don't have a back up hard drive at the moment..

I don't think this one classify's as fear as such, but, I am not very trusting of people in general either.. I am not insecure, but I have come to recognize a general pattern in the way a lot of people seem to act.. So I am not very trusting at times...

Hmm.. I think that's everything...

Uhh:

heights

flying

drowning

pit bulls

being stuck in a dead relationship

just to name a few! 

Posted By Nadette on 02 Feb 2011 09:58 AM
Wow, that sounds really scary, Justin! You mentioned that you were able to remain calm though. I've noticed that I respond to dangerous situations quite calmly as well. I've been in a few slightly scary car situations where I lost control of my vehicle. In every situation I immediately responded by being completely calm, collected and resourceful. Is this a universal ENFP thing?

I'm not really sure.. But I deal with immediate stress so much differently to a lot of people around me.. For example, a family member of mine stopped breathing for no apparent reason, and completely blacked out minutes and we were on the roadside with the closest town about 30 miles away.. Everyone was panicing, except me.. I was on the emergency line, and calming down other family members at the same time.. That was a scary scenario, but I felt as though I had to keep calm, because if fear gets a hold of you, it tends to be a downward spiral.. Miraculously, after about 5-10 minutes that family member actually revived and we got the paramedics showed up 10-15 minutes later, but, it still shook us all... Resourceful is definitely a word that I feel very attached too in times of stress, because generally I feel a very strong urge to neutralise and possibly resolve or calm the situation.

My experience has been my emotions sometimes just shut off all together, and I just act.. Other close ENFP friends of mine have told me that they've experienced the same things...

Other close ENFP friends of mine have told me that they've experienced the same things...

Just out of curiousity, male or female or both?

If there really is a scary situation, i also tend shut up with the thinking and emotions - well, at least i don't fear the situation itself - If i feel anything at all, then it is that this is an urgent scenario and that i must be at top form to overcome this. And you know, actually, i once read this:

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the knowledge that something else is more important.

 I find this to be very true. In your situation: if there is a life at stake, it is not the time to panic.

Just out of curiousity, male or female or both?

My experience has been my emotions sometimes just shut off all together, and I just act.. Other close ENFP friends of mine have told me that they've experienced the same things...