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    don’t let others see that you’re scared, so you try to be brave for others. Bravery is having fear but putting it aside for others. Everyone has their fear or fears but overcoming it is called courage. Our military troops have many fears once they are deployed, but they choose to suppress them. Their actions to defend our country and people; risk their lives for us. Those are the brave ones; to look fear into its eyes and overcome it. Risking everything valuable to you but choosing to face it.…

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    Interview Anxiety: Tips to Conquer the Fear-Inducing Situation – Part 2 In Part 1 of Interview Anxiety: Tips to Conquer to the Fear-Inducing, we discussed the various methods to overcoming interview anxiety. In this second part of the article, we will discuss various assurance and relaxation techniques you can perform to help alleviate interview anxiety. Techniques to Alleviate Interview Anxiety Relaxation/Confidence Boosting Techniques 1. Posing Powerfully This may seem silly, but…

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    Controlled by fear Imagine walking into a room late, tasting the sweat dripping from your forehead, thinking that all eyes are on you. That uneasy feeling people get when all eyes are following them is a familiar occurrence that everyone can relate to. Fear never fails to be present to make sure someone feels uncomfortable. Fear is when a person is afraid to step out of her comfort zone because a feeling or person is holding her back. From the book and movie “Everything, Everything”, Pauline…

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    To write about fear and the overcoming of it is not a new concept-Poe's works thrive on it, and empowering poems like W. E. Henley's "Invictus" teach us all about how to best it. "The Waste Places" by James Stephens is very much the same. Through its use of extended metaphor/symbolism of a lion stalking in a desert, Stephens creates a profound allegory about fear and how to overcome it. It is important to note that Stephens begins the poem claiming he is a "naked man" who runs through the…

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    what happens (if anything at all). We are left to our own assumptions and views on how we think about death, whether fears, faith, or no thought at all. The philosopher, Socrates talks about death and the role it can play in the lives of men in the Apology. Socrates knows that many fear death, but he himself, does not. Ultimately, some saw him as courageous for being able to best a fear that…

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    shy. A great deal of people aren’t brave enough to speak in front of a big crowd. They see that everyone is looking at them and don’t want to speak anymore because of the frightness. How can speaking in front of class can be terrifying? People have fear of public speaking because they are afraid of what people might think, they’re afraid if people are going to laugh, or they’re afraid that they might sound inarticulate. They’re many reasons as to why humans don't speak in front of many people.…

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    skill of overcoming and conquering a fear is not easy to obtain. The treatment of exposure therapy is currently being used to successfully alleviate fear and anxiety disorders. At exposure treatment sessions, patients are asked to repeatedly recall and describe their traumatic event until their emotional reactions reach a point of termination (5). Humans have used the well-known process of fear conditioning for years. This fundamentally important process has been used to treat clinical and…

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    the reason that something bad can always turn to a positive in any situations you’ve encountered throughout your life. Some people say that disadvantages and obstacles can never be accomplished or overcome since they’ve never encountered their fear and go out to accomplish their obstacles.Obstacles are difficult to accomplish including when you never been in that situation before in your life.For example, if you were terrified of roller coasters and you went to the most fantastic theme park…

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    really just their personality. They don't realize there is a name for what ails them, let alone a treatment for it. Sometimes people know there is a problem, but they are embarrassed. They do not seek treatment because they fear the shame and public ridicule of the diagnosis. They fear people thinking they have a mental disorder. In the past, anxiety disorders have been treated using methods and approaches…

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    Fear, it is something nearly everyone have. Fear has it own benefits and disadvantages. It can protect someone from danger or put someone in danger. According to Alix Spiegel, one of the hosts on Invisibilia, on the episode, World With No Fear, “If you have no fear, more terrible things will happen to you, but you don’t personally experience them as terrible. If you have a lot of fear, fewer bad things are likely to happen, but it’s very probable that your life is more painful to you” (Spiegel,…

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