frightening

We've had chilling, frightening or distressing.

A story or piece of information can be described as chilling if it's frightening, distressing, or it makes you feel uneasy.

Every day, it seems, there's a new, bewildering or frightening story about AI in the news how it's going to steal our jobs, spread internet fakery on a colossal scale and generally take over the world.

Furthermore, once they have laid their hands on the maturity to be able to say ‘I find love so hard and so frightening,’ it might even become a little less so.

A part of me, that dates back to a defence mechanism of childhood, needs to put some walls between us because proximity feels at some level odd and frightening.