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.