The Aganist Terror Management Theory (TMT)

Terror management theory encompasses a few critical psychological truths that have been backed up with a multitude of empirical evidence. It is an important theory that umbrellas many facts that pertain to anxiety, fear, and stress. Anxiety is a complex problem that can be derived from several different sources. The TMT theory, though, proposes that a root cause of the dilemma is due to societal factors that weigh heavily upon the human mind. Factors like nationalism, personal and societal beliefs, as well as political agendas keep an individual unnecessarily wrapped up in stress, worry, fear, and anxiety. It is essential that an individual, according to the theory, delve into his or her own inner psyche thorough a professional assessment by someone else who can identify the problem for the individual. According to TMT, one cannot see his or her own inner belief

We live in a society where people are afraid of death for many reasons. Not only is our own mortality mirrored to us by the loss of loved ones and encountered illness through the years, we also are surrounded by its haunting images laced throughout our media and administered to us by our politicians. In the midst and in the aftermath of September 11th, for example, we also were subjected to political monologues, news loops, and conversations that reminded us of our vulnerable mortality by images of people in the middle east who were allegedly behind the national attack. Furthermore, such behavior by the figureheads behind this manipulating behavior creates an “us versus them” mentality where we associate those in certain other geographical locations to directly threaten our mortality and sense of safety. For this reason and many others, these types of cultural anxiety reminders of our impermanence creates unnecessary anxiety and terror for many, as we are constantly faced with the thinking of our own expiration date and bodily