Fear

Outline
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Fear

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Common types of Fear

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Overcoming Fear

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Conclusion

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References

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Questions
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Fear
Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat which
causes entities to quickly pull far away from it and
usually hide. We can also feel fear when faced with less
dangerous situations, like exams, public speaking, a
new job, a date, or even a party. It is a natural
response to something that a person feels is a
threat.
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Fear – Its Symptoms
When you feel frightened or seriously anxious, your
mind and body speed up. Some of the things that
might happen are:
#Heart beat gets very fast – maybe it feels irregular.
#Breathing gets very fast
#muscles feel weak/sweat more
#Stomach is churning or your bowels feel loose

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Fear – Its Symptoms
#Hard to concentrate on anything else
#Feel dizzy
#Feel frozen to the spot
#Can’t eat
# Hot and cold sweats
#Dry mouth
#Tense muscles.
All these happen because your body is preparing you to respond to an
emergency. it increases the blood flow to the muscles, increases your
blood sugar and focuses your mind on the thing that’s scaring you
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According to surveys, some of the most common fears
are of demons and ghosts, the existence of evil powers,
cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed
spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection,
flying,

heights,

failure,

examinations

and

public

speaking.
But we will be looking at more common fears.
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➢ Fear of Death:
Psychologists have addressed the hypothesis that fear
of death motivates religious commitment, and that it
may be alleviated by assurances about an afterlife.
It is a well known truth that we all in the end will kick the
bucket. But that doesn’t mean we have death as our
worst everyday worry, because we avoid the thought of
it as a near future occurrence in our lives.
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Fear of Death – contd.

The fear of death is tightly tied to the fear of the
unknown; we don’t know for sure what will happen to us
when we leave this world. In fact, we are so interested
in death that we have even developed whole cultures
and religious beliefs that have tried to give an
explanation to death since the beginning of time.
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Death anxiety:

Death anxiety is the morbid, abnormal or persistent fear
of one's own death or the process of his/her dying. One
definition of death anxiety is a "feeling of dread,
apprehension or solicitude (anxiety) when one thinks of
the process of dying, or ceasing to ‘be’.

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Fear of the Unknown

The fear of the unknown is easily explained like this:
the mind tells us that in order to move forward, we
must know what is waiting for us there, because “if I
know, then I can control the situation, and if I don’t
know, then I am not in control”.

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Fear of Survival

According to Irfan Jamil, coadjutor bishop of Lahore, as
the world constantly changes, the greatest fear is the
fear of survival. The social, economical, spiritual,
political and educational circumstances in life make
survival difficult in regard to such pressures that can
come out of it.
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Losing of Freedom:

The fear of losing your freedom has always been
present in human minds because, even though it is not
something that we think about every single moment, it
has given us times of deep thought and wonder at what
would happen if we were to lose the power to control
our own lives. (E.g. Marriage/Relationship/Commitment
and other Responsibilities etc.)
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Disappointment

The fear of disappointment is part of the reason we
avoid the unknown, disappointment is that feeling of
dissatisfaction when our expectations do not match
what actually happened.

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Failure:

The main fear of failing comes with the disappointment
that follows, that feeling that despite your effort,
nothing seemed to go as you wished it did, and it
causes a feeling such that you might not even want to
try again.
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Loneliness

The fear of being alone is that dreadful feeling of
emptiness caused by the absence of interaction with
another human being. This fear has also evolved from
one of our early survival instincts: we fear loneliness
because it is more likely that we would survive if we live
in group.
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Overcoming Fear
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Face your fear if you can
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you
might stop doing things you want or need to do and
you won’t be able to test out whether the situation is
always as bad as you expect.

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Know yourself
Try to learn more about your fear or anxiety. Keep a
record of when it happens and what happens.
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Overcoming Fear
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Relax
Learning relaxation techniques can help you with
the mental and physical feelings of fear.

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Exercise
Take more physical exercise. This can trigger brain
chemicals that improve your mood.

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Overcoming Fear
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Faith/spirituality
If you are religious or spiritual, this can help you feel
connected to something bigger than yourself. It can
provide a way of coping with everyday stress.
Church and other faith groups can be a valuable
support network.

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Conclusion
It's easy to ignore or deny our fears, even to
ourselves, in a society that stresses the importance
of being strong and brave, or among our peers,
competitors. But courage can't come into play
unless you have a fear to face down. By owning
your feelings you've taken the first step toward
gaining control over the situation. It call all be
manage and dominate by us.

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