Fear and Phobias

Fear is an emotion aroused by danger. It is an important protective instinct. At any hint of danger, a substance called noradrenalin is released into the blood. This prepares the body for action. When we are scared, our skin is pale, as blood is diverted to the muscles.

Our body is sweating more, to cool the muscles; our breathing is faster, and provides so more oxygen for the muscles; our heart beats faster to push more blood to the muscles. Also the gut and bladder relax, as blood is diverted from them to the muscles.As a result, we can feel quite sick and breathless. In many creatures, including man, fear can also cause paralysis, or freezing with terror. It is very common to experience fears in childhood.

Many of these childhood fears, such as a fear of animals, darkness, storms, doctors and strangers, disappear as the child gets older. However, as people get older, a few may suffer badly from phobias.

These are unreasonable fears, which send one’s body and mind into panic. Some of the common phobias are a fear of heights, spiders, and closed places, flying in planes, speaking in public, injections or blood. There are also endless uncommon phobias, including fear of running water, swallowing solid food and even going to the hairdresser’s. Everyone is mildly phobic about something, it is natural.

But when your phobia spoils your life it’s time to do something. When I was a child, I didn’t have any typical childhood phobias, except of one, which lasted until now – my fear of insects.

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My childhood was also probably the most dangerous part of my life. Most children don’t have the self-preservation instinct and neither did I. Bruises were quite common and I never remembered how and when I injured myself.

Also bloody knees and elbows were part of my everyday life. As I grew older, wounds started to appear more and more seldom and I am happy to say, that I have never had any more serious injuries as a dislocated ankle. I have also never been in an extremely dangerous situation, only some common ones. Probably the most common dangerous situations are falls – falls of bicycles, roller skates, horses… I have been learning riding a few times in our holiday and once I also fell down. Of course, it was not pleasant, but also not very dangerous, as I am not a good rider so the horse was just trotting.I hurt my head, although I was wearing a helmet, and my hands and my buttock, but it was my self-confidence, that was hurt most.

Once, it was in summer, I was going to a lake with my friends to chill, because the days were really hot. We decided to swim across it. When we were right in the middle, I got a cramp into my calf. It was painful and I couldn’t move the leg. After a few minutes, when I felt a bit better and tried to return to the bank, my latter leg received a cramp. That time I luckily had a friend nearby, who helped me to get to dry land so it had a fortunate end.In none of these situations I felt fear, because I didn’t felt like my life could be in danger.

As I said, I have no experiences with really dangerous situations, but I think that almost every situation can turn to a dangerous one. Of course, various kinds sport, mainly extreme sports and speed sports, adjust the amount of danger of the situation. But even when you step out of the door you can bring yourself into danger. I think that it is important to find a balance between setting our lives consciously and unceasingly in danger and sitting at home timidly don’t enjoying our life.