Culture of fear

has fears of being a bad father, of being disliked by co-workers, and of his wife leaving the marriage even though there are no indications that she is dissatisfied with the marriage. These concerns consume his thoughts and he is unable to stop worrying even though he acknowledges that his worries are unfounded. He over estimates the danger and level of fear he should have in his worries about his parent’s health. His father had a myocardial infraction, but is well, but the patient’s fears…

Fear can be immobilizing. While some fears are irrational such as the fear of heights or stairs, some fears that manifest are not so irrational. The fear of persecution is one of the latter. From the birth of our human existence to present day persecution has existed. Some are persecuted because of the color, some because of their lack of social station, but what we, a humans, truly thrive on for our source of persecution is religion. People have massacred for it for and later been massacred…

Living in constant fear of death can hinder our experience of being alive, which can lead to an unfulfilled existence. This immense horror we feel toward our passing is absurd. In response, we try to plan everything out for ourselves and our loved ones; everything is scheduled from dentist appointments to career paths. We set ourselves some sort of path for the future, even though we can never be sure if we 'll even see the next hour of life. In order to get rid of this irrational fear, Zhuangzi…

Fear, a primal instinct triggering our fight or flight response. When fear strikes, a humans hereditarily response is to subdue the source of that fear. In today’s America, xenophobia has triggered the fears of large portions of people from coast-to-coast. It’s largely known that the 2016 presidential campaign and presidency of Donald Trump has sparked fear and hatred towards immigrants, both legal and illegal. Hate crimes, according to the FBI, increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, coincidentally…

Fear is a negative emotional response to threats in the environment (LaTour and Rotfield, 1997). Witte, K (1994) defined fear appeals as “persuasive messages that arouse fear by depicting a personally relevant and significant threat, followed by a description of feasible recommendations for deterring the threat” (Williams C, 2012). Fear appeals can be grouped into physical and social fear appeals, physical fear can be characterised by threats that may cause harm to the body and social fear…

Story of Slavery or Misconception Through Fear According to Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions there are eight basic emotions that the human body can show. These emotions are joy, sadness, trust, disgust, anticipation, surprise, anger, and fear. (Wilkins, Quora.com) One these basic emotions shows more of a presence in the Octavia Butler’s short story Bloodchild than any other. This basic emotion would be fear but not in the way most of us would think of it in a literary work. This…

“It is difficult for grown-up persons, unless perchance helped by a hateful memory of their own terrors in childhood, to realise the terrible agonies of fright and anguish, which seize some nervous children when they are alone in the dark, or are left by themselves in a large room, or have to pass a room or closet of which they have conceived some formless dread, or are sent alone on a strange errand” was a quote adapted from “The Pathology of Mind: a Study of its Distempers, Deformities, and…

How people deal with their anxious and fears? Being scared for the new things in life could be something that many people go through every day. Likewise, eight years ago I got into a new school because my family moved to the capital city. However, I never thought that get in a new school and being the new girl could be one of my worst fears in life. Back in Venezuela, when I was 12 years young girl my family moved to the capital city because my mom got a new job and my dad so. We were exiting…

The tale of the Cucuy is a scary humped back man who listens to children who misbehave and can hear children very well due to him having one big red ear. The Cucuy also known as the bogeyman will come down the mountain to carry bad children away. This story is about two lazy sisters who refuse to help their younger sister do their chores, causing their father to call upon the bogeyman who takes them abruptly from the dinner table. The Cucuy carries away the two lazy sisters and places them in…

The psychologist that he went to for many years claimed he had high levels of anxiety because of his fear for vomiting which would cause him anxiety whenever he got nervous, forming a constant cycle; which is known as catastrophizing from what I learned in class recently. After attempting to over come her phobia of vomiting with the exposure effect, she…