1. You can inherit fear.
2. Fears are mostly learned just like subjects at school. We aren't born with most fears.
3. Fear is the opposite of love.
Hate's not the opposite of love, fear is. Oxytocin, the chemical your brain releases when in love, can help override learned fear, such as fears that result from a life trauma.
4. Fears can disappear in sleep.
Research has shown that sleep can erase learned fears when a person is exposed to an associated scent during sleep. This sounds specific, but it points to sleep offering a unique state in which select fears can be eliminated.
5. You can literally be. Scared to death.
If you can't calm down after the initial adrenaline rush that comes along with shock, the adrenaline and calcium keeps pouring into your heart and causes it to tremor instead of beat normally.
In extremely rare cases, this can cause your blood pressure to drop, cause you to slip into unconsciousness, and ultimately cause death
6.The more scared you feel, the scarier things will seem.
7. You don't need to be in danger to be scared.
Fear is also part imagined, and so it can arise in the absence of something scary. In fact, because our brains are so efficient, we begin to fear a range of stimuli that are not scary (conditioned fear) or not even present (anticipatory anxiety). We get scared because of what we imagine could happen.
8.Individuals with anxiety disorders experience normal fear responses to scary situations.
You might expect people with anxiety disorders, phobias, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have unreasonably high fear responses to all scenarios, scary or not. But people with these disorders exhibit normal fear responses to scary situations. People with anxiety are not "hyper" afraid of all situations, rather they experience higher amounts of fear and anxiety to specific situations.
9. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
10. Cynophobia is the fear of dogs.
11. Astraphobia is the fear of thunder/lightning.
12. Trypophobia is the fear of holes.
13. Aerophobia is the fear of flying.
14. Monophobia is the fear of being alone.
15. Alektorophobia is the fear of chickens.
16. Anthrophobia is the fear of people.
17. Looks matter
People who think their neighborhood is well kept worry less about crime, recent studies indicate.
18. A fear response...
happens when we encounter a situation that we perceive as dangerous or threatening. When such a situation arises our brains quickly decide to either confront the threat and deal with it, or avoid the threat and flee, which is also called our fight-or-flight response.
19. Acrophobia is the fear of heights.
20. Ophindiophobia is the fear 9f snakes.
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