Fear Of Phobia Essay

In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that people looked to authorities for security, which permitted extension of apparatuses of coercion like police and military forces.” Panic is a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to completely dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with only overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with animalistic reactions. Panic can occur singularly in individuals or appear suddenly in groups as panic. All beings capable of emotion have felt panic before. Panic is best visualized as uncovering a colony of cockroaches

and watching them scatter in different directions. Panic has saved many peoples lives and has ended many also. But is fear a weakness, no it is not in my mind and many others. Hunter S Thompson author of Kingdom of Fear even said “Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear” (Web. 18 Dec. 2015.).

Almost everyone has a phobia of something like spiders, heights, or even water. Arachnophobia, or fear of spiders, is by far the most common specific phobias. Individuals who are afraid of spiders will go to great lengths to ensure that they do not even see a spider. They may be reluctant to participate in activities, such as hiking or camping, or any activity that has higher risk of exposure to spiders. If you have arachnophobia some simple symptoms to spot are; going of your way to make sure that you do not come in to contact or even line of sight with a spider, freezing in place, relying on a friend or family member to rescue you from the situation when you see a spider. If the person is alone, they may actually leave the house instead of dealing with the spider.
Experts are still uncertain what causes someone to have arachnophobia. They’re a few theories, though. Evolutionary psychologists theorized the most common theories. This theory suggests that arachnophobia was a survival technique for early humans. Since many spiders are venomous, although many do not pose an immediate threat to humans, a fear of spiders may have gave humans a longer lifespan to survive and reproduce in areas with large populations of spiders. Other psychologists argue that many animals were more likely to pose a higher threat to ancient humans, from tigers to crocodiles.
Yet phobias of those animals are not as common as of snakes and spiders.

Therefore, those psychologists feel that arachnophobia is most likely based on beliefs about the nature of spiders and superstitions about them. Another common phobia is of snakes known as Ophidiophobia. This phobia is characterized by an intense or unreasonable fear that is caused by the thoughts or actual physical presence of snakes. Exposure to a snake causes an immediate anxiety reaction that may include panic attacks or other serious reactions. In some cases, people may also have strong anxiety reactions to depictions of these reptiles, thoughts of snakes, and conversations involving discussion of snakes. People with ophidiophobia know and understand that their fears are excessive, but will often go out of their way to avoid snakes, including changing their routines to avoid any possible contact with snakes. This avoidance, anxiety, and distress can lead to impairments in social, occupational, and academic functioning. It should be stated that although a huge number of people may be afraid or feel uneasy at the sight of snakes, a person would only receive a true clinical diagnosis of a specific phobia if snakes were present in his or her environment and the level of distress or avoidance behaviors were causing impairment in their social or everyday

life.

Fear, the emotion we have all felt at some point or another, turns out to be not as horrible as we believe. Fear is an emotion we are all very familiar with and is crucial to mankind. Clouded in superstitious fear is useful and has actually been a friend to humanity all along. Think of phobias less as disorder and more as diseases with cures. Next time you are fearful of something instead of thinking you are being weak think “why am I afraid?”