What is fear?
There are many definitions of the word fear, an emotion experienced in anticipation, to be uneasy or apprehensive, to have a profound emotion that is related to or inspired by a deity or high spiritual being. Fear can also be defined as a group of biological responses that occur during a situation that activates a human's flight or fight survival response.
What ever the fear response is, it will fall into various categories. There are levels of fear, and degrees in which fear is felt. Fear can be everything from distrust of a person or of a situation. Many people feel that distrust is actually when a person has lack of faith or there is an absence of belief in a situation or in an individual. However, this is not actually the case. Distrust is usually a feeling …show more content…
They might have wonderful ideas, but this fear prevents them from speaking and getting those ideas across. Some people experience fear to such an extent that they become trapped in their homes, unable to leave because of the symptoms of fear they experience. Allowing fear to make decisions for us prevents us from enjoying and experiencing life the way it can be experienced. Because of fear, some people never travel by plane, or take long car trips missing out on visiting family, friends, and events and missing out on perhaps life changing experiences because fear stops them from taking part in the