Sometimes in life, one has to take chances. I was not sure of that until I strapped myself down in the scariest rollercoaster at Six Flags Fiesta amusement park. My heart was running a marathon as the ride climbed to the peak. My sweaty palms were glued on the back of a passenger’s headrest. My life was depending on it. My friend, Odina, was laughing beside me the whole time; she did not know how worried and anxious I was about this devastating rollercoaster. It is called the Iron Rattler, and…
IN 1947 phobia was know as a separate diagnostic category in International Classification of Diseases. We also know that phobia was divided into three different categories know as Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, Specific Phobias. If a person having Acrophobia it would be a fear of heights, there are lots of people out in the world that may think they might not be having a phobia but in reality I’m sure there are plenty of people that have a fear of heights. Having a fear or knowing you’re having…
get to see the campus and attend a game in Tiger Stadium, I had a whole day and night to pick on and aggravate my beautiful granddaughter. Life does not get much better than that! Our seats in the stadium were located just above cloud level. My acrophobia, which usually kicks into high gear on the first wrung of a ladder, never loosened its grip on me the entire game. Fortunately, most people were too busy tending nosebleeds to notice my white knuckles gripping the seats. Nevertheless, I…
Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces. It is a very common phobia. Many people think that agoraphobia means a fear of public spaces and open spaces, but this is just part of it. With agoraphobia you may have the fear of entering shops, crowds, public spaces, travelling in trains planes or buses. You may also fear being on a bridge or elevator, being in a movie theater or restaurant where there is no easy escape. All these stem from one fear- a fear of being in a place where help is not…
At points in our lives fear is a fog. An aphotic cloud that looms over you causing you to stop in your tracks and put life on pause. Why do we stop though? When faced against a fear seemingly unsurmountable why do we just stop, petrified that a single step may send us over a ledge from which we may never climb up? This dismal outlook on even the most miniscule of fears is a way of life that dictates your every motion, every chance you may be too afraid to take is governed by this mind-set. Up…
Can you sleep at night with no lights or sound available? Are you able to venture through your backyard, without questioning the presence of harmful insects? Despite the pain, is a medical appointment that requires shots bearable? Often taken for granted, these simple trials can escalate to a fear, then continue to develop into a phobia. Patients with phobias are commonly misunderstood because, only on a rare occasion, can another person relate. Although it is known that many people claim to…
In this urbanization era, most of the people are live in urban areas because there are more job opportunities and provide high standard living compare to rural areas. Therefore, they prefer to stay far away from the wild places. However, nowadays there are much of people going to travel for fun and relaxation during holiday. There are some of the people would like to escape from the urban areas and seeking the adventure destination for relaxation, challenge, learning and exploration. This…
Through mise en scene the viewer is immersed in the development of his mindset and motives. Mise en scene is a major part of understanding Scotties acrophobia, which is communicated through angles in which the settings are filmed, modulating the way the audience experience Scottie's frame of mind. In one of Scottie nightmares, Hitchcock uses a medium shot of Scottie walking through the graveyard as a…
their fears to free the chains strangling their emotions and to rid their Achilles’ heel. “Just overcome your fears” is the most common response regarding fear, and that verse is not at all flawed. Common phobias include nyctophobia, social phobia, acrophobia, and so on, and the decision for most people of society is to conquer these fears, which allows them to achieve a reliable solution. They are able to act freely because they contain no purpose to be fearful. These people could have…
A phobia is defined as an irrational fear of something that can sometimes pose little or no real danger. In this paper we will look further into what a phobia really is and the theories and experiments behind them. There have been many experiments behind phobias including one experiment conducted by John B. Watson known as The Little Albert Experiment. We will dig deeper into this experiment and others later in the paper. According to the National Institute of Mental Health more than 10 million…