Fear:The insight news

WHAT IS FEAR ?
Fear is an unpleasant feeling of apprehension or distress caused by the anticipation of danger.The stimulus could be a knife at your throat,a cockroach,an auditorium full of people waiting to hear from you or even a sudden thud of your door!

COMMON FEARS:
Acrophobia:Fear of heights
Arachnophobia:Fear of spiders
Agrophobia:Fear of spaces
Claustrophobia:Fear of confined spaces
Necrophobia:Fear of death
Thalassophobia:Fear of the sea
Suriphobia:Fear of Mice or rats
Belonephobia:Fear of needles
Athazagoraphobia:Fear of being forgotten

OVERCOMING FEARS:
Find out the origin of fear and face it.

Have faith in yourself.

Overcome feelings of guilt,if any.

Go for counselling.

Meditation also helps.

MUST READS:
Abnormal Psychology & Modern Life by Carson,Butcher & Mineka

Anxiety and its Disorders:The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic by David H.Barlow

Overcoming Fear,Uncertainty & Doubt by John D.Moore

DID YOU KNOW ?
Fear of numbers is called arithmophobia and dear of words is called logophobias.Fear of bathing is called bathophobia and fear of animals is called zoophobia.

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