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    basement in the pitch darkness. The audience sees and follows Clarice through Bill’s night vision goggles. Placing the viewer in Bill’s perspective gives the popular human fear of being watched in the dark a terrifying realness. Filmmakers use perspective, lighting, and time to create a serial killer character and target the audiences fear of the uncertainty of darkness. Whether you enjoy watching horror films or not, they are a unique part of our past and present film culture.…

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    according to (Sue et al.2014, p.93) Kusek states that with a trigger that causes extreme fear such as a “spider” we can over obsess about the idea of the spider still being there even when its gone. According to (Sue et al.2014, p.93) LeBeau et al. states specific phobia is an extreme fear with “exposure to the stimulus nearly always produces intense anxiety or panic.” In the case with Phillip, he shows to have a fear about driving and running someone over with every bump he crosses or any…

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    Chapter 1 What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety disorders are a group of mental illnesses where one has overwhelming feelings of worry or fear at a constant rate that can become crippling, both psychological and physical. While anxiety is a normal, everyday occurrence those with anxiety disorders experience high levels of distress that ultimately interferes with his or her ability to lead a healthy lifestyle. Different types of anxiety disorders There are several types of anxiety disorders. The…

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    But how do you overcome this fear of death? It is impossible to face death so that is out of the question. Encountering a near death experience sounds like it would only make matters worse. Encourage myself to die; chances are I wouldn 't live to see the results. Being around death to get use to it, seems defective already. The solution of getting rid my fear seemed scarce, basically impossible. I have never had anyone in my existing life pass…

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    People say that a fear of the dark represents a fear of the unknown. We don’t know what might be hiding in the shadows. We fear the vulnerability that comes with blindness. As we grow up, fear of the unknown no longer manifests in the need to turn on the light in every room or check under our bed for monsters, but the need to plan out our lives, and to minimize surprises. For most of my life, I had to deal with my fear.As I got older, my fear of the dark lessened slightly…

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    Anticipatory Anxiety

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    individuals with significantly elevated levels of stress and anxiety in their lives an anxiety related diagnosis may still not be appropriate. This is not to say that all anxiety is created equal. Panic attacks are a dramatically unsettling experience. The fear and anticipatory anxiety of various phobic thought processes can be overwhelming to the point of being crippling. Given the complexity of accurately assessing and identifying anxiety symptoms and disorders it should be expected that many…

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    difference is that unlike a panic attack, anxiety may be persistent and can last for longer periods of time, like days, weeks or even months. A panic disorder might be a factor if one is in fear of suffering from a panic attack. If the person makes abrupt changes to their lifestyle such as avoiding areas or place for fear that an attack might occur, then medical advice should be sought for, this can be diagnosed and can be given treatment. These disorders may be closely tied to the stress in a…

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    this to portray how Ted Lavender as a representation of fear which is a consistent theme mentioned throughout the book. Although Lavender was not afraid to show his fear of war, since the soldiers knew that taking drugs was a way for Lavender to deal with war, he is still the representation of fear because he fears the war which is why he takes the drugs and carries the extra ammunition. However, when the soldiers carry fear, they carry the fear of embarrassment. So “some carried themselves with…

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    deRoon-Cassini & Bernstein (2016), agoraphobia is the most common phobia that clinicians treat. People with this phobia typically fear leaving their home, being in public and traveling because they worry that they may have a panic attack in a place that they do not consider safe which can be embarrassing and uncomfortable. In the film, Bob Wiley gradually gets over his fear of leaving the house because he eventually travels by himself to New Hampshire to track down Dr. Marvin. However, with that…

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    believed the highest way to achieve happiness was to have one's soul be free of any belief that we as humans will have eternal life, to eliminate fear and anxiety from things such as death, and pain, for reference he explains death as a deprivation of sensation and nothing more; an afterlife was not something Epicurus supported as he felt it was another source of fear and anxiety a disturbance to the mind. Epicurious states that all natural…

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