How to deal with being scared?

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Sometimes i get super scared for things that other people dont.
How can i deal with being very scared?

May I ask what kind of things scare you?

i find that covering myself in a blanket works as well at age 19 as it did at age 5.

I find that stimming helps me cope with any emotion. All are painful and overwhelming to me.

That's no joke. Before the real Internet happened my husband and I went to see the Blair Witch Project. We knew it wasn't real, but it still spooked us so badly that we were seriously scared for about two days straight. We even drove up to his parents' house in the middle of the night one night to make sure they hadn't been murdered. We were all by ourselves so we just kept getting more and more scared as we thought about the movie.

I suggest watching something silly on TV, not even necessarily something you're interested in. Just something light hearted with real people in it. Like a game show or reality show. And maybe eat something, do something else routine and normal.

I've had this problem with creepy alien movies (not scary movies like the "Aliens" series).
Examples: Close Encounters of the Third Kind & X-Files even those I love both of them, Fire in the Sky, Signs, and even ET (Yes, I find ET creepy)

Solution was to always look at the floor when walking around instead of trying to look everywhere for danger. At night keep the bedroom door closed, locked, and hang something that would make noise if the door opened. Then hide under a blanket in bed while facing away from the door to avoid peeking or fixating on the doorknob. Eventually the feelings pass.

As a huge X-Files fan,
there are certain episodes I won't watch.
I know my limits.

Hope you're feeling better today.

an hour passes by quickly when you're looking at silly things.

five hours, even.

maybe call or text someone when you get that scared feeling. knowing i am far from isolated helps extinguish my scared feelings, and even the light from my phone does, too.

how many hours was that?

Avoidance works...

I've been petrified of aliens my whole life (I don't know why and I probably don't want to know why )

My wife won't let me watch scary movies about aliens and that's probably a good thing...

I think there are different ways of being scared.

Besides, fight, flight, or freeze, there is nervous stress and sometimes panic attacks.

How scared are you, or how does it feel?