Definition Essay: My Fear Of Fear

Fear

I have a fear of height.I really don’t know exactly what I fear about height but I just do.I wasn’t not born with fear of height; no one is.I was not born with fear of snake, bugs or clowns; it just happened.Fear is a self made idea.

Fear is danger.For me danger is having fear of storms.When I was little I feared lightning and thunder.I felt like I was in danger every time the lightning struck and thunder clapped.Astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia, is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.As I got older I found that I am not in danger when there is a storm.I realized that the fear of thunderstorm was a mind made idea that I created in my head.

Fear is pain.The pain of losing someone very close to me.When I was in 5th grade I lost my grandfather to cancer.Fear is the pain I felt knowing that he was good one day and non-existing the other.But when you think about it everyone has to die one day or another.The fear of losing my grandfather is unreasonable and self made because he would have to die and that everyone dies one day.

Fear is adrenaline. The rush I get when I am in a terrifying situation and don’t know what to do. A hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress.Adrenaline only releases when there is an emergency situation.But some "situations" are mind-made.Like fearing the dark, there is nothing about dark that needes to be feared.You just think that there is something, as a result you stressed your self out and your adrenaline gets released.

Fear is emotion.It is things that I make up/ imagination, its caused by overthinking ideas.
Denotation of fear is An unpleasant feeling caused by belief that someone or something is danger likely to cause

pain.
"Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." Is a famous quote by Karl Augustus Menninger. I hope that one day I too grow out of the things I fear, but I know I will create more as I go along.