Everyone here in the United States seems to be afraid of something, including me. Fear is an instinctive reaction, however when lacking stimuli, it roams free in our conscious mind and sub-conscious creating paranoia, phobias, neuroses, compulsions, and even psychotic breaks. is it simply the lack of stimuli?
2006-12-25 10:20:18 · 7 answers · asked by norcalmystic 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
i don't think that it is a lack of stimuli but rather too much stimuli. these kinds of neuroses didn't become really "popular" until people became bombarded with the things that they realized could cause fear. television plays on that as well as movies and other forms of entertainment. most people don't know what they are afraid of until they are actually faced with it in some way.
2006-12-25 10:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by beckdawgydawg 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be something we are brought up with.. There's many fears, and sometimes we're consumed with it.
I know when I was younger, my Dad use to put my hands into a Spider webs, because we were playing catch with a ball.. And it happen to go into a spider web.. And I didn't want to put my hands in the spiders web, it had a spider in it..
And it because a fear in me from Childhood.. I still have problems from it, I don't like anything the is related with a spider and a web.. It just freaks me out, I hate the feeling of a web stuck unto my hands.. I hate the sight of a spider and everything about it.. And sometimes when I think of it to much, it becomes an nightmare for me...
I also am a phobic when I comes to being in a large crowds.. I get very fidgety, my heart beats faster, feel like I need to go home where it safe and I get like if I was pressured feelings.. And if I'm out in it, like taking the city bus, I have to find relief somehow.. The only 2 ways I can do that, One I can focus out the window or get off the bus.. If I'm walking in the Mall, I starts feeling a panic attack coming on, I have to fine a place to go where there's less people walking.. Anyway to find comfort..
2006-12-25 12:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by myst_v_the_fog_buster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not afraid of hamburger but sometimes a sausage scares the heck out of me and I retreat to my quiet little refuge here in the woods where I can eat a candy bar when the world gets to be TOO much.
2016-05-23 06:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our fear serves our political leaders in two ways:
It distracts us from the corruption and mess ups in government.
It enables bills to be passed with special interest attached to them.
Power is corruptive. Always has been. Probably always will be.
As long as we are sheep looking for a shepherd there will never be any resistance to the corruption in government.
2006-12-25 12:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by Russell W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Living in fear is not living.
2006-12-25 10:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so you think in the United States we are more paranoid than in other countries? that is not my impression.
2006-12-25 11:46:08 · answer #6 · answered by lonesome me 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are afraid of the unknown..............
2006-12-25 12:31:34 · answer #7 · answered by The REBELution! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋