Can Fear Be A Harmful Emotion?

Could fear be a harmful emotion? Fear itself is only a thought, the person has the capability to how they let that thought affect their actions. Fear is not a harmful emotion because it can cause various reactions depending on how the person permits it to influence their actions. The individual themselves, are the only ones that have the ability to control or at least manipulate how that fear is perceived. Fear is an involuntary emotion, it can happen at any time, but that does not necessarily mean that it is harmful. What is could be harmful however, is how this person can either have total control or little to no control at all, and could let that emotion cloud their thoughts and thus allowing a capacity of different circumstances occur.

Fear does not have the ability to make someone’s choices or judgments. I believe it is a matter of how a person lets this emotion control their mind. Fear, itself, is very unpredictable, there is no pattern for what can be feared and what cannot.Some people rarely sense the feeling of fear, or rather enjoy it, and others are terrified when they sense this type of emotion. Basically, people can never truly comprehend what the meaning of fear is or know why it’s occurring. In an excerpt from the essay “What Are You So Afraid of ?”, the author states,“ Seems more likely to me, is the possibility that fear is a simply unpredictable rogue impulse that all too remains indifferent to the genuine threats around us. And that may be the scariest thing of all”. Meaning she believes fear is an unpredictable emotion. There is no way that fear, itself, can be determined because there are no specific causes to fear, which is why the author is saying that the unknowingness of fear and the uncertainness is scarier than the genuine emotion itself. That sense of fear can happen at anytime for no particular reason, but there is no way that can determine that something harmful is happen to somebody. When I feel that sense of fear, I acknowledge it, and it heighten my sense of surroundings, but I do not automatically think

Fear is merely a thought or a reaction that the body produces to bring awareness to situations of danger. This emotion is more of a survival instinct than it is harmful, though it does have the capacity to affect people’s life long term. Regardless of what the situation is, whether it be an actual instinctive feeling of the need to survive or just simply being scared of something one is not familiar with, fear is still very unpredictable but I don’t believe it can be harmful to the body or to the mind unless someone does not have the ability to control their emotions. The only thing to fear is how much someone is willing or involuntarily letting this fear influence more than they have the ability to control and it does not let one think of anything, except the thing your mind is currently thinking of at that time, it is most when it deteriorating the thinking capacity. More often than not, this emotion pops up in the mind as a sense of protection and survival