Blood phobia

Palms sweating, knees trembling, senses numbing, heart racing almost as fast as your legs, and what else to call this chain of synchronized bodily responses other than fear. Fear, stereotypically, is simply a feeling, a reaction in which takes place in the brain when one is frightened. But what is it that causes this sensation called fear? Why does the brain react to certain circumstances in such a way? Fear is the brain's reaction to abnormality, not recognizing what it is seeing. Fear is…

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,…

Nearly everyone has experienced a degree of nervousness when preparing to speak or perform in front of a group. However, there are those who are suffocated with dread and panic in in such situation. To clarify, this is classified as stage fright. Stage fright is an enormous challenge that has the equal ability to overtake and control a person’s life as a disability, where those able to conquer it, generally have better opportunities. However, like removing the “dis” from one’s ability, there are…

I was nearing the top of the cliff, take a step up the ladder, move the two carabiner clips, repeat, repeat, repeat. My hands were shaking and I was sweating way too profusely for a rather cool 64° afternoon despite climbing the cliff. “You sure this is safe?” I asked my guide knowing the rungs were drilled a foot or more into solid stone. He said that I was safe about ten times already and I believed him, so why was I still so scared? It was because of my fear of heights, or acrophobia. There…

as: Rapid Heart Beat Feeling of Sickness Jackie is seeking help because she is due to marry a “dog” trainer and wants to get over her fear phobia so that she can live a happy life with her husband and be comfortable with her soon to be husbands dog training profession. Both classical and operant conditioning could account for Jackie developing this phobia Pick one and use it to explain why Jackie has remained fearful of dogs. Respondent conditioning in which Ivan Pavlov described as certain…

Clowns are Dangerous What's your worst fear? MInes clowns. In my opinion clowns should be put in jail. I believe that only some clowns should be put in jail because some don't do anything. The reason why I think that clowns should be put in jail is they scare people, they try to kill people, and they try to break into houses. Scaring people Clowns love to scare people they dress up so they don't get noticed and were gloves. Clowns also try to chase people just to scare you or to…

Every person is afraid of something. Every person experiences anxiety, nervousness, and even feelings around certain people. (Fear, unpleasant and stressful, is caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous or likely to cause pain or threat.) Fear is something people deal with at one time or another. Most people experience it as children and condition to respond in many different ways. (Certainly) fear is what shows us how to be careful because, self protection is primitive.…

Kyia Cunningham] [6 Panizzi] Coulrophobia Walking with your sweet, delicious cotton candy, you see something in the corner of your eye… It just stares at you with its red eyes and its pointy teeth. You try to scream but nothing comes out, as it says “ I am not going to hurt you”. Then you’re out of there in a split second. Many people have the fear of coulrophobia. Coulrophobia is where you are…

As children, we are all afraid of something. It may be bugs, clowns, or even the dentist. Walking into an unfamiliar place knowing that they are going to be moving tools around the inside of your mouth with you virtually having no control of. Those tools that make loud humming noises and can drill into your teeth or the side of your cheek with one mistaken shake of the head or twitch of the arm. As children we develop this fear that carries over into our older years. We stop visiting the…

affected daily by their fears, weather it’s a physical presence or a mental visualization that haunts your mind. But you don’t have to be. We can all overcome those fears, but subconsciously may not even consider it. Maybe you're okay with having a phobia or two, or maybe you haven't realized the impact it has on your life. Ask yourself, Is fear controlling you?…