Fear (a closer look)

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by monica whipple1 view·Updated Mar 9, 2021
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  1. fear a closer look.
  2. How does fear work?
  3. What is fear?
  4. Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts
  5. with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of
  6. chemicals that cause a racing heart, fast breathing and energized
  7. muscles, among other things.
  8. Also known as the flight or flight response fears an
  9. automatic response because we don't consciously trigger it.
  10. How does fear work?
  11. Here has two aspects.
  12. Physiological and psychological.
  13. Fighter flight is part of both the physiological and psychological
  14. aspects. Thalamus decides what are sent.
  15. Incoming sensory data sensory cortex interpret sensory data, hippocampus stores
  16. and retrieves conscious memories.
  17. Processes Sets a stimuli to establish context.
  18. Amy Golda decodes emotions, determines possible threats.
  19. Stores fear memories.
  20. Hypothalamus activates, fight or flight response.
  21. The physiological aspect.
  22. What does physiological mean?
  23. Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms.
  24. In a living system, physiological is more or less the
  25. physical part of something.
  26. Physical effects.
  27. When in fear breathing rate increases, your heart rate increases.
  28. Digestive changes, upset stomach, shortness of breath, sweating or chills.
  29. Blood vessels constrict.
  30. Blood flows away from the heart and into the limbs
  31. in order to prepare for action.
  32. Chronic fear on your physical health include headaches turning into
  33. migraines, muscle aches, turning into fiber.
  34. My Algeria body aches, turning into chronic pain and difficulty
  35. breathing, turning into asthma adrenaline.
  36. When in fear, adrenaline is released into the body and
  37. triggers a fight or flight response, the adrenaline causes an
  38. increased heart rate.
  39. Increased breathing rate dilates blood vessels to the lungs and
  40. muscles. Yeah, mhm.
  41. The psychological aspect.
  42. Psychological effects of fear.
  43. Of course, fear has physical effects but also has mental
  44. effects, feelings of being overwhelmed, upset, loss of control and
  45. sometimes even impending death.
  46. Emotional responses.
  47. A personalized response.
  48. Emotional responses.
  49. A personalized indifference person to person because people experience different
  50. feelings and thoughts.
  51. Anxiety disorders due to fear disorders due to fear.
  52. Agora for phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic
  53. stress disorder separation, anxiety disorder, specific phobias and social anxiety
  54. disorder. Yeah, what does fear lead to?
  55. What is a phobia?
  56. A. Phobia is a distinct fear or anxiety about a
  57. certain object or situation.
  58. Fear experienced is almost always disproportionate to the true danger
  59. of the object or event poses, and people with specific
  60. phobias generally know that there's no real reason to be
  61. afraid and that their behavior is not logical.
  62. Phobias can manifest at any time but tend to emerge
  63. in childhood or adolescence.
  64. There are five main types or categories when it comes
  65. to phobias.
  66. Animal type dogs, snakes or spiders, natural environment heights, storms,
  67. water, blood injection slash, injury type, fear of seeing blood,
  68. receiving a blood test or shot watching television shows that
  69. display medical procedures.
  70. Yeah, situational type airplanes, elevators driving in close places, other
  71. types. Phobic avoidance of situations that may lead to choking,
  72. vomiting or contracting an illness in Children.
  73. Avoidance of loud sounds like balloons popping or custom characters
  74. like clowns.
  75. Yeah, sorry, this was fear at a closer.