Fear

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief of someone or something is dangerous; likely to cause pain or a threat. Everyone feels fear at some point in time. If we didn’t feel it, we couldn’t protect ourselves from a legitimate threat. Many people view the feeling of fear as a motivational force. Although, some people just don’t care about being scared. Some people even thrive off of fear. In my opinion, I think that fear is an excellent source of motivation. It can turn a person’s life…

Similarly, we fear things and attempt to avoid them, but they never happen. Choices in life we make every day are constantly being influenced by hopes, dreams, and fears that never become actual. In the Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing, people let “nothing” influence their lives. Characters in the play let the rumors, deceptions, lies, and tricks destroy their lives and relationships. “They frequently act on the basis of their fears and hopes, but in the end many of these fears and…

In the Red Scare, fear of communism caused a massive witch trial which lead people to accuse others of being communists or communist supporters. People would be accused of high treason and would be sentenced to death. A difference would be that Miller puts more emphasis on the aspects of the witch hunt: how such a single accusation can cause mass hysteria, fear, anxiety, etc. He points out how worthless these accusations were and the dangers…

He describes the widow as a horrible spider that “[is] black; avoids the light; is a voracious carnivore” (para. 10), which produces a thought within the reader’s mind of an innate fear of the unknown. His imagery of the widow adds to the unknown reason of the existence of it, pointing out how different and unattractive the widow itself is. This allows him to make the reader feel the strangeness of the widow, and how it stands out…

The memory of the intense fear and terror the person feels during the attacks can impact negatively on the person’s self-confidence and cause serious disruption to the everyday life. Eventually this leads to the person suffering Panic Disorder symptoms. Some symptoms of Panic Disorder include anticipatory anxiety which instead of feeling relaxed, you feel anxious and tense. This leads to having fear of fear most of the time and is extremely disabling. Phobic avoidance…

Fear of the unknown is a very powerful emotion that clouds peoples mind and imagination with irrational thinking. The narrator in “The Fall of the House of Usher” is overcome by fear from hearing sounds that are like what he is reading out loud to Mr. Usher. The brother of Irene jumping to the conclusion that the house is taken over by hearing sounds in “House Taken Over”. Both stories are a good representation of imagination taking over reason, and how fear of the unknown clouds these…

When I was younger, I was afraid of the dark, and one night when my grandmother made me go to sleep without my nightlight (which is so scary when you are a seven year old). Although I was forced into this situation, I conquered my fear, unlike Martin. In The Elevator by William Sleator, Martin and his father has just moved into a new apartment. Martin was so afraid of the elevator that he took the stairs which took an abundance of time, so the next day he took the elevator and encountered a fat…

Ever since I was little I’ve had a fear of house centipedes. My mom once told me a story where she woke up and there was a centipede on the ceiling above her I am still horrified of house centipedes to this day. The reasons why they scare the crap out of me are because they move fast, they look very gross, and they hide in unsuspecting corners of the house. Whenever I try to catch them they run very fast and are sometimes hard to catch, for example I went to catch one late at night and when I…

disorders that occur, such as Panic Disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias and generalized Anxiety Disorder. Examples of these disorders are Panic disorders are panics attack that abrupt onset of intense fear or discomfort reaching a high peak in minutes. This disorder produces symptoms of shaking, chest pain or discomfort and feeling dizzy. In contrast to panic disorder (GAD) generalized anxiety disorder is characterized as a persistent, excessive…

anxiety disorder based on the symptoms they may have. Certain symptoms are normal, but when they become life interrupting it’s a necessity to seek for help. It may feel uncomfortable to get help for anxiety but as FDR once said “the only thing to fear is fear itself”(FDR SOURCE). In Linda Geddes article “Worry...Worry...Worry...” she says “the key thing we look for in the clinic is whether anxiety is interfering with a person's day-to-day life , or causing them a lot of distress” states Nick…