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Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 09:37 PM Aug 2013

Are you afraid is something, and if you admitted it ... [View all]

... Would you be concerned that it would make you appear weak? Or somehow "less of a man"? (Not that I buy into that stereotype personally).

I have a few. I freely admit to a couple of them, fear of heights so strong I won't go up a ladder more than 2 steps. And a big one, now having had a "mental health crisis" and diagnosis, I am really afraid that it could somehow be used against me in some sense some day.

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