How to deal with being scared?

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I try to face it. I flare my nostrils and growl at myself. I've shouted "COME ON THEN!! !" to a deep pitch black forest during a howling gale because the sheer scale of the noise was terrifying. It works for me. The feeling I'm trying to gain is that I'm also an animal, and the thing I fear is locked in with me, not the other way around.

Yes, I think the best solution posted by one of the people here to combat fear from scary things in movies
is to simply not watch or read things that you know will scare you.

I have a mate who works at the cinema who can get me in free to films. He loves scary movies even though they do scare him.

I dont really enjoy scary movies nor do i enjoy stimulating thoughts that scare me, so i do not bother.
I know, somethings that scare us are naturally really interesting, such as aliens etc.
I love the x-files series and the Millennium series. But yes. one or two episodes of these are really scary.

I guess its just knowing as to what films are fairly tame and which ones will really make us scared properly.
I guess the easiest thing to do is sleep with the light on and just try and distract yourself.

in that case, i'd be more terrified at the thought of getting something in my eye than most other, reasonable things.

it happened in march. it was stuck there for two days and it landed me in the urgent care clinic more than a month after that because the continued soreness signaled to me that i was going to permanently lose my vision in that eye.

i like being able to see.

i would say that repeated exposure to a scary thing, in some cases, desensitizes you towards it. that's the way it was for me and anatomical abnormalities or malformations. i'm not as fazed as i once was. unless we're talking about late at night when everyone is asleep

and i will reiterate...if you're scared, TALK TO SOMEONE!

Are we talking about a healthy precaution, say, being afraid of a large barking dog, cliff edge, or fast car?

Are we talking about a phobia, like of drier lint or green jelly beans?

What are you afraid of, if you don't mind revealing it, to us?

(I have found that the back of my eyelid can be used as a cleanish and smooth pair of tweezers, this summer, to remove embedded metal, from my eyeball. )

It was about a scary episode of a show i like

Did it change your daily routine, and linger with you?

Was it more of a momentary startle?