Are you sometimes afraid people may harm you?

Sometimes I have the feeling people may cause me harm and/or rob me. Especially when I see two or more youths coming toward me and if they are talking or laughing loudly, I can freak out and I usually change my direction. On one hand, I am anxious when there are lots of people, but on the other hand, when I am almost alone, I feel like an easy victim and frequently scan the environment, which makes me a little nervous... again.

I rarely go out alone, Im too afraid to, and not just that people might harm me, more thinking about bad things that might happen and that I wouldnt be able to cope on my own. Like if I saw someone fall over for instance or if I was in a shop on my own and someoen came in with a gun, I couldnt handle those situations on my own.

I, like you am afraid when there are alot of people about, especially in very crowded areas packed with people. When I see a group of kids coming towards me I get scared.

But I avoid going out on my own as much as possible.

Is there a word for this? People who wont go out of their home at all, its called agoraphobia. What is it called when you wont go out of the home unless you are with someone?

Sometimes Il go to the post box on my own, but these are rare occasions

elleklobber said:

more thinking about bad things that might happen and that I wouldnt be able to cope on my own. Like if I saw someone fall over for instance or if I was in a shop on my own and someoen came in with a gun, I couldnt handle those situations on my own.

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I have this fear, too.

Kamen said:

Sometimes I have the feeling people may cause me harm and/or rob me. Especially when I see two or more youths coming toward me and if they are talking or laughing loudly, I can freak out and I usually change my direction. On one hand, I am anxious when there are lots of people, but on the other hand, when I am almost alone, I feel like an easy victim and frequently scan the environment, which makes me a little nervous... again.

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Yes. I usually tense up, and prepare myself mentally in case of being attacked. I'd be quick to react if anyone started a fight with me.

I've worried about the same things. I also worry that someone may try to beat me up (lol). I know that's stupid, but I worry about it. We have a couple of really mean bus driver's around here, both of which have threatened other people & yelled at me because they think I'm rude since I don't talk. I alway worry that either them, or someone else is going to try to hurt or even kill me. Some people in this world are lunatics. I also worry that people are going to try to rob me.

I'm really scared of youths, I'm 23.
Doesn't matter if look suspicious or not. It could be a girl or guy.
I feel much more comfortable with old people.
I'm very scared too of kids like 3 or 4, they always smile to me and everyone looks to me and I simply don't know what to do.
And everyone give that look like: "you ruined the moment, freak."

If i have to walk past a group of youths (especially chavs) i feel nervous, and i expect them to say something to start trouble o'r something.

I'm also terrified of children. I don't know why i am terrified of them so much but i just don't know how to talk to them. The worst thing is when a random kid with his/her mother saying hello to me in a shop o'r something, and i'm scared that if i respond people will think i'm a paedophile but when i ignore the kid i then feel so bad. What makes it worse is that my sister will be having her first baby in January, and i don't know how i should talk to children.

I think youse have a form of psychosis. My psychologist asked me a few things like that when I was in there today.

I'm the same way. When I walk past a group of young kids, age 12-15 or so, I get very nervous and afraid that they are going to say or do mean things in an attempt to seem funny in front of their friends. And I am 21 years old and I get like this. A lot of younger kids just seem to act like such punks.

Harm is a relative term. There's emotional harm, physical harm, etc.

There's plenty of assholes out there who simply like to talk shit and intimidate others, which falls under the emotional harm category. I guess you could say I have a pretty big fear of something like that happening to me. It's already happened to me a number of times in the past. It seems to happen to everyone at some point really. You just end up crossing paths with a bunch of shitheads who like to challenge people and put them down.

I know it may sound silly but it's an incredibly dehumanizing experience to have someone talk shit to your face, and then for you to do nothing back. It leaves you feeling pathetic. Whenever it happens to me, it ends up bothering me for weeks.