Is fear truly a state of mind?

Answer 1

It's one of our primal instincts. I don't believe it's a state of mind, per se.

Answer 2

I think fear is a state of mind but you need to differentiate between justified and unjustified fears. To be afraid of a paperclip for example is unjustified normally as most people do not associate paperclips with pain or suffuring of some sort. However, if you have been treated in such a way (even in a dream) that you were made to associate a paperclip with pain then it is justified.

Being afraid of the unknown, death especially, can be frightening because it is an unknown and all of us have experienced pain from doing something unknown to us. Example...playing with electricity for the first time and getting a shock.

If you can reasonably associate the result of something with a negative consequence then it is a logical conclusion. Then again the only real rationale is that which exists in our own mind.

Answer 3

fear is inborn instinct. It is inside the blood. No number of boyonets and rifles arm a timid man.. He will not use them and some times may sell them as scrap.
The many scientific explanations are appealing and convincing to the mind of reasoning .But necessity alone, defines with certitude.
Fear is a state of mind and trait of character. All other explantions show the sharpness of their heads , and not the weakness of theri hearts A lion sleeps inside the heart of a brave man.

Answer 4

Yes, fear is completely a state of mind. It is simply a quick adrenaline rush that gets your blood pumping faster, and makes your brain think things it wouldnt normally think if you were calm. People who are paranoid just dont have control over how to stop the adrenaline rush (fear) from stopping. If you are not paranoid, your body naturally stops the adrenaline. Like, before you get a shot, your adrenaline is pumping really fast. After you get the shot, your adrenaline goes down. But people with paranoia's bodies dont stop the adrenaline from coming, so they are afraid of that thing for a while longer.

Answer 5

Ask FDR on that one, and he wouldn't tell you anything b/c i think he's dead, but he said the only thing to fear is fear itself, which would mean that is a state of mind. He got America throught the great depression, so he had to be wise.

Answer 6

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Fear is a state of mind. What I am terribly afraid of my friends think is silly. I have a friend who absolutely freaks out when she sees a spider and I find that silly yet to her it is very real. So I believe fear is subjective and that is what makes it a state of mind.

Answer 7

Fear, like pretty much everything we have programmed into our system, is a survival instinct. We should listen to that "gut feeling" a lot more than w e do. If we did, we wouldn't get outselves into half the threatening situations that we have a habit of doing.

Answer 8

yea, well its all in the mind...when u r afraid, ur wild thoughts take u everywhere u think of the worst end, and worst everything. But since ur mind is in this state ur whole body is takened by it. It is also an instinct for humans to feel in certain situations. U maybe afraid of sumething, suchas a phobia, but yet someone else doesn't have that phobia....its in ur mind.

Answer 9

Fear is defined as "free floating anxiety."

Fear is also a natural instinct. And, of course, many things we fear never even happen.

Answer 10

What else could it possibly be? Does it exist outside of a brain somewhere?

When my friend sees a snake and is terrified, and I go over to pick it up and pet it, where is the fear? In the snake? In the air? No, it's in her brain (mind).

Answer 11

Not a state of mind, but a reaction of the mind.