Psychology of Fear - E-book - ePub

Each and everyone is feared by some or the other thing intheir lives. When a person finds itself in a difficult situation oris threatened by something, then fear is contemplated to be theappropriate response of the body. Fear is an emotion whichone feels when he/she experiences or passes through adangerous situation or through a situation of perceived threat. When the body experiences the feeling or emotion of fear, itresponds in two ways: Biochemical Reaction and EmotionalResponse.
Biochemical response of the body is generallyreferred to as the fight or flight response of the body in whichthe body prepares itself to either fight with the situation or flyaway from the situation. This is considered to be anevolutionary development which is important for our survival. Every individual's way of physically reacting to fear is more orless the same however the emotional response is contemplatedto be a personalized response of the body to fear and hencediffers from one individual to another.
The subject of Psychology of Fear differentiates fear asconscious, and fear as an unconscious, fear as emotion andfear as a feeling, fear as anxiety and fear in phobias and lastlyfear with bodily actions and fear without bodily actions. This isdone in order to understand the nature of fear and then takea probable course of action to cure it.