Life of the modern person is constantly filled with fears. It can be the fears which came from the childhood, the investigation of forbidden desires, the fears which became a consequence of a mental trauma, or caused by any unresolved problem. In any a case the fear is a protective function of mentality which in real life causes the person many problems. It is impossible to win against fear, but knowing its psychological origin, it is possible to suppress easily it and it considerably to facilitate to itself life.
Concept of fear of psychology
Fear in terms of psychology, this condition of mentality which evolves from a preservation instinct as reaction to any danger. The major moment in psychology of fear are its reasons. They can be divided into 4 views: external events, requirements and inclinations, emotions and cognitive processes. Subspecies of these reasons can be congenital or acquired.
Congenital triggers of fear include uncertainty of a situation, feeling of loneliness, change of an incentive and pain. The feeling of fear can change from an unpleasant presentiment to feeling of horror and panic. The person becomes diffident and feels the threat which hung over him. The fear which interacts with other emotions is capable to have a huge impact on behavior of the person. In interaction with suffering, it can strengthen the problems arising when forming the personality and to slow down her development. If the fear is connected with contempt, then the person from simple uncertainty can reach fear of.
The psychology considers fears of the person as emotions which he least of all would like to experience. People are frightened by the fact of experience of fear. The psychology of panic and fear studies those forms of uneasiness which are shown in the form of the panic attacks and are capable to do essential harm not only to mentality of the person, but also all his organism. The panic attacks usually happen in big cities where the stress became a daily condition of the person. At the same time the panic form of fear has somatic roots and can lead to development of diseases of nervous and warmly vascular systems. So, dizziness, a fever, loss of orientation in space and the shortage of air becomes the most frequent forms of manifestation of inexplicable fear in populous places. Similar symptoms comprise also phobias – the special forms of fear which are shown only in certain cases or situations. The modern psychology contains 29 main fears which are divided into crazy, supervaluable and persuasive.
Crazy fears - it phobias the reason of which cannot be explained. For example, it is not possible to offer a logical explanation to why the child is afraid to put on socks or refuses to eat any given food. Such fears often indicate presence at the person of deviations in mentality. Such people usually become patients of clinic of neurosises.
The fears connected with some ideas are called supervaluable (as it is accepted to speak with "fixed ideas"). Such ideas are usually connected with a certain life situation, but then find such value that the person cannot think of anything the friend. Fear of a performance before public, stutter, fear of death, fear of fire and other belong to such fears.
Phobias which the person tests only in specific situations belong to persuasive fears. The fear of height (gipsofobiya), fear of the closed spaces are the most widespread (claustrophobia), fear of open spaces (agoraphobia) and fear to eat food (sitofobiya).
Main reason of these frustration not fear, but fear of fear. The person is afraid in advance of what can happen to him or those feelings of pain and sufferings which he in the long term can experience. The person who realizes this fact can quietly begin to work on the fears and to suppress them in the consciousness.
How to get rid of fear?
Work with fear labor-intensive process. The main problem which prevents the person to overcome the fears this belief, widespread in society, that it is a shame to be afraid. Therefore most of people is afraid to admit to itself the fear something, and suppresses them in consciousness why these fears seem even more, than is actually. In a question how to overcome fear, the psychology considers many opptions. Here some from them:
- The best way to overcome the fears is to look them in the face. For example, if God forbid, you once got into accident, you could have a fear again to take the wheel, and you never made to yourself a promise of it to do. And in vain. If you are afraid to repeat action which led you to fear, then this operation "through" it cannot is necessary to perform constantly. The same concerns also fear of public statements. Sign up for courses of speakers, and soon for your fear there will be no trace left also.
- As is well-known the alarm generates fear. True and a converse – the fear generates alarm. Take the sheet of paper and divide it in two. In the first column write pluses which in you receive from a condition of alarm (for example, are ready to everything, carefully you behave), and in the second column write what you lose in a condition of uneasiness (for example, you cannot relax, badly you feel, etc.). Estimate written from outside. Everything that you wrote – heavy and excess load which you carry in yourself every day. Having seen it on the sheet of paper, you will begin to treat the alarms differently.
How to get rid of fear the psychology contains in the solution of a question several main postulates, using which, you will be able to get rid of the phobias. Remember several basic rules for every day:
- all reasons of what happens to you are in you;
- you always have forces to be above vital circumstances;
- the fear is a dependence, and any dependence can be overcome;
- try to fill the life with joy, but not fear.
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