Phobia

Jarod Johnson Katie Tiller College Prep English 09 November 2017 How does fear affect us? Fear is defined as “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous,” and is usually associated with negative impacts on oneself or others. Fear has many different impacts on people and everyone handles them differently, according to what they see fit. So while fear does have some bad impacts, it also has good impacts on people. So with that being said, fear causes people…

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…

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…

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…

Trypanophobia Trypanophobia is the severe fear of needles used for medical procedures or in a medical setting. About 10% of people have a needle phobia , it is common in the general population and problems when people avoid receiving medical care because of their fear. Symptoms The people who with Trypanophobia may dread receiving medical care, particularly injections. The physical symptoms, such as the rise in blood pressure, increase in heart rate, increase in stress hormones , fainting,…

The event I went to was the production of the Dead Gallery:The Phobias put on by Eastern Michigan University in honor of Halloween. The production took place in the lab theatre of Quirk, and lasted only about 20 minutes. It had four actors who were always on stage, who were leading a sort of gallery of fear. Throughout the show, they pulled “unwitting audience participants” to the stage and made them live through their biggest fears. The production culminated in a man whose greatest fear was…

In this paper, the issue I am going to discuss is Laura’s social phobia. Social phobia is fear of socializing oneself with people and immediate environment. Social phobia is also known as social anxiety which occurred when a person has an extraordinary or unnecessary fear of social situations. It is also seen as fear of being judged or embarrassed by others and this type of fear can make it difficult for anybody that experience it, to attend school, or any other outside activities. So relating…