Fear
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King_of_Smart 
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 Posted: 02:08PM Nov 13, 2007 |
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What do you think creates fear? Why do mostly people only have fear?
(P.S. this is my first Human Mind topic, so if it's a bad one, let me know mods  )
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MAvanzi
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Posted: 02:14PM Nov 13, 2007 |
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I think fear is in people minds that why if you go to therapy you can be cured.
I have a fear of Snakes a reason i don't know why probably watching all them snake programmes where people get bitten.
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LeafFan4life
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Posted: 02:15PM Nov 13, 2007 |
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fear is definatley created by the mind. I, for one, can never overcoem my fear unless I am insured that everything will go back to the way it was incase it doesn't work out.
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jppbl
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Posted: 02:54PM Nov 13, 2007 |
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Major phobias are a result of hereditary memory. Our ancestors had reason to fear snakes and heights, so those fears were passed on to future generations. Therefore, the fear is already embedded in our minds, but our minds then magnify that fear. These innate fears are the inspiration for many horror movies (they just twist them around a bit).
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Repfire
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Posted: 11:19PM Nov 14, 2007 |
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Technically all emotions are created in the mind. They are not physical, thats for sure.
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HarryPutter
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Posted: 12:41AM Nov 15, 2007 |
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The fear of having fear is the worst fear and can probably never be defeated if you ask me.
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Repfire
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Posted: 11:01PM Nov 15, 2007 |
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I got that... phobophobia...
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AndrewWalker
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Posted: 08:49PM Nov 20, 2007 |
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I believe fear is particaily made in the mind, but mostly experiences can cause it. Phobias are unreasonable, irrational, or strange fear for no appearent reason, or way over exagerated. And a phobia is considered a mental illness. I am afread of spiders and I have a strange reflex when I think about it. Also paranoia doesn't help.  Fear of spiders and death are the two most common fears. I also have very strange fears that seem ridiculous, but I can't help it, so my family gives me a hard time. I also have a complicated mind and my mind sometimes plays tricks on me, not scary, but it afects the way I persive things. Anyway fear is sometimes serious when it causes you to not be able to function for long periods of time. Some fears are created in the mind, but others are created from outside sources.
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Repfire
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Posted: 06:29AM Nov 26, 2007 |
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FYI Everyone thinks their mind is complicated. My mind though is pretty simple. And like I said all emotions are created in the mind (or more accurately the brain) and therefore so is fear.
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Trickster1992
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Posted: 10:34AM Dec 4, 2007 |
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Repfire wrote: FYI Everyone thinks their mind is complicated. My mind though is pretty simple. And like I said all emotions are created in the mind (or more accurately the brain) and therefore so is fear.
Everyone's minds ARE complicated. Just, sometimes people's thought patterns aren't complicated at all. Everybody has their own distinct "thought pattern." It's like the brain's fingerprint. It's why you'll never see a group of a hundred people all thinking the same exact thing.
Not all emotions are created in the mind (which is the same thing as the brain, at least to me). The basic emotions--sadness, happiness, anger, boredom, queasy, etc... are created in the mind. But first, there are a few emotions that are not created in the mind, they are created in the soul, and you won't ever know this unless you experience them yourself (not a lot of people seem to nowadays.). And second, though basic emotions are created in the brain, the brain does not randomly create them. There are cases of a person having a disease that makes them depressed for no reason, or happy for no reason, or hotheaded for no reason, but more often than not a person acquires a simple emotion because of a circumstance that their mind decided should be reacted to with a certain emotion. Like if your younger sibling wrecks the car you spent 60,000 dollars on, you probably become furious.
and to answer the topic question: Fear is a result of a bad past experience. If you're claustrophobic, chances are you got locked in a closet by an older sibling when you were younger, or you got trapped in a tight space. If you're afraid of dogs, you might've been attacked by a dog as a child. We tend to not remember these incidents, but it's a scientifically proven fact that if something bad happens to you with one thing (such as a spider) and you see that thing later in your life, you get a sort of deja vu and are afraid of it. There's also, surprisingly, fear which results from somebody ELSE having a bad past experience. Like somebody else gets bit by a spider, your mind registers that spiders bite people, and that they are toxic, and that you dont want to be bitten or get sick, and so when you see a spider you freak out.
Hopefully that was understandable. I know I have a tendency to explain stuff and then people are like "Ummm no thats not how it is... I dont know what you said but you're obviously wrong cause you're 15 so you're stupid."
My worst fears are
Thunderstorms
Going underwater
Invisible creepy crawlies (dont ever smack a bug or arachnid lightly when it's on the wall. And never smack it at all when it's on the ceiling.)
Being a failure.
I'm afraid of thunderstorms because I had a lightning bolt strike right in front of me. I'm afraid of going underwater because my "dad" dunked me under the water a lot when I was between the ages of 8 and 10 (and because I cant handle the water rushing into my eyes). I cant imagine anybody NOT being afriad of invisible insects/arachnids. Imagine theres a huge spider on your wall, and you hit it but it doesnt die and it falls, and you see it crawling around on the floor and you hear a noise so you look up, look back and the spider is blended into the floor. You cant tell me thats not creepy. The last fear I listed, which is my biggest fear (and the reason I tend not to do anything) has a background id rather not talk about. But there you have it, proof that I do actually abide by scientifically proven facts. (that really ARE scientificaly proven facts, and not pseudoscience like evolution and flu vaccines....)
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HarryPutter
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Posted: 11:09PM Dec 4, 2007 |
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I am fearless!  I hope no one is mean about my fearlessness! Especially those creepy spiders!
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Queen_Nesh7
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Posted: 11:30PM May 30, 2008 |
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yes fear is something your mind creates now there is technology that scientists have that can take away the fear...like um...they ask u alota questions then when they figure out when this fear became one of yours like around what age u were they can take it out of ur mind...  ok that sounds confusing..idk i dont remember what it was called but its sum surgery they do to the brain and they take out that section or w.e i dont kno!!!
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stephiesd
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Posted: 10:41AM May 31, 2008 |
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Queen_Nesh, you have a couple of different things mixed up, it seems.
Yes, they can do surgery on your brain, but it's not usually to remove fear. It's usually used to combat major depression and other mood/emotional disorders.
What you're describing is simple therapy. You can get therapy to help you overcome most fears.
Most, not all, though all can be at least somewhat improved.
Therapy can simply be discussion, or they can condition or flood the fear out of you.
Flooding is when they constantly expose you to what you're afraid of until you become desensitized to it.
Conditioning is when they help you attribute the stimulus (what you're afraid of) to positive responses.
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MoneyPitch
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Posted: 04:10PM Jul 18, 2008 |
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All the theories on it are purely based on speculation. But my theory on Fear is, all of your fears are stuffed deep down into your unconscious mind and were given to you at birth. Some may be stuffed in there from traumatic events that happened in your past. The second something triggers that fear, it is pushed up into your subconscious and your body uses its instinctive response to it. Within seconds, it is pushed into your conscious mind where you have almost complete control over your response to this fear. Adrenaline and other fight or flight chemicals surging through your body may inhibit your ability to think through clearly as these chemicals were made for our primitive minds thousands of years ago and give us power to flee or confront the fear. To gain the ability to think clearly during a crisis takes practice and is not a natural instinct.
Without fear, there would be no courage. Courage is simply the intelligent confrontation of fear. And you can train your mind to do this with some practice. I really didn't answer the question, but I was bored and wanted to state my fear theory lol.
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Posted: 02:46AM Jul 19, 2008 |
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Yes, the mind makes fear. You just don't sit there and go, "Oh I think I'm gunna be scared right now." you go through a series of feelings before "Fear" actually comes up. For example, if you're in a dark alley, you're not gunna be scared just because. Your mind goes through all these situations of things that can go wrong all at once.
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