The Full Form of FEAR

What is Fear?

        

          Its generally a psychological response of our brain, towards something. We see many a times that many a times people are afraid of many things like Spiders, Dark, Heights e.t.c..    

How Fear works?

                           The brain structure that is the center of most neurobiological events associated with fear is the Amygdala, located behind the pituitary gland. In the presence of a threatening stimulus, the amygdala generates the secretion of hormones that influence fear and aggression. 

                            Once response to the stimulus in the form of fear or aggression commences, the amygdala may elicit the release of hormones into the body to put the person into a state of alertness, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc. This defensive response is generally referred to in physiology as the fight-or-flight response regulated by the hypothalamus.Once the person is in safe mode, meaning that there are no longer any potential threats surrounding them, the amygdala will send this information to the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) where it is stored for similar future situations

How Fear is Overcome?

          The Best way to Overcome a fear is to face it, without this one can never expell his fears. There is an intresting story of my friend's relative brother...

        

                 When his brother was 7 years old, they went to a beach, his uncle just in a manner of playing took his brother and threw him in the water, co-incidently a wave collided the boy just after he landed in the water, thus drowning him partially. Anyhow he was saved but after this incident he developed the fear of Water (Hydrophobia or Aquaphobia). 

                     He used to be so afraid that he was even afraid of a bucket of water. Thier parents consulted a doctor and so began his therapy. Everyday he used to be taken to a swimming pool and be hanged overhead by a rope. He began to learn how to stroke, soon he even learned to swim but still his fear remained. 

             

                      After he had learnt how to swim he was taken to the very same beach where he drowned as a kid, he swam there, after swimming he realized he was afraid no more....