Was ist der Unterschied zwischen I'm afraid of being sick und I'm afraid of getting sick ?Du kannst auch einfach Beispielsätze geben.

They are similar, they convey the same meaning but focus on different aspects.

Being afraid of *getting* sick means, for example, you're trying to avoid situations where you might become sick, because *contracting* a disease scares you. You are concerned about the possibility of becoming sick. I am afraid of being around bats because they could give me rabies, which is lethal and will kill you horribly after years of dormancy.

The second one could be thought in two ways. More similar to the first one: being afraid of *being* sick means that you're afraid of the state of sickness itself. You're afraid of the symptoms, but maybe you don't even consider getting sick a realistic possibility. For example I'm afraid of an extremely rare disorder which slowly destroys your ability to sleep until your brain dies, but I know it's impossible I have it.

Being afraid of being sick could also mean you *already* feel sick, and you're afraid you might actually have contracted a disease, so the point here is that you not only *feel* sick, but you *are* sick