Hi Linda,
I kept it general on purpose. I'm afraid of many things, from spiders to heights, I have a friend who is afraid of chickens though as far as I know she has never been on a farm, another friend is afraid of food which isn't firm (Jello makes him quiver), yet another is terrified of pigeons, etc. All somewhat insignificant, in the grand scheme of things, but annoying. I don't like being afraid of spiders and have become better at it. There is further a discussion here on a fear from having things stolen, but I didn't feel it was general enough to all the many small fears we all have.

I was thinking of whether to open this general topic and then each fear as a subtopic, but it seemed to me that it would work better with having first a somewhat general discussion, with examples of many different fears and how to overcome them, and only then further discussions delving into the specific fear.

You ask: "What is the fear? If you don't want to say, then is it a big crippling one or a little 'ick' one." - I guess I'm thinking of little 'ick' ones, but they are crippling in small ways. Some people, though not me, have a fear of flying. Perhaps we should have them in mind too.
There are so many fears and I think there is much to gain in seeing how someone overcame a fear of snakes, even for a person who is only afraid of rats.

(If you want to know the history of thinking about this: Two days ago when walking to my apartment I saw a huge cockroach. I went in but the cockroach was so big that I felt I had to immediately lock the door as it might knock it down. I still remembered the sensation yesterday and I started to think about this feeling of fear, which for me changed quickly to thinking of fear in general.)