Things I Fear: Eleventh

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Eleven.  Ridiculous. Not even funny.

#11: SUFFOCATION

Sometimes, when I wake up, I feel my heart beating fast and have a hard time catching my breath.  This leaves me with a deep, sinking fear.

One of my most irrational worries is that the world is running out of air. Whenever I get light-headed, the fear haunts me.  I don't even like to look over articles about deforestation because it triggers that paranoia.

I've always held a nightmare that I'll be left unable to breathe just long enough to suffer permanent brain damage.  Thankfully, I was not born asthmatic.