Fear: Causes & Reasons - Symptoma Ireland

Possible Causes for Fear

People may fear heights, flying, spiders, blood, water, and any other number of circumscribed objects or situations. [books.google.com]

Fear of flying increased and fear of injections decreased as a function of age in women but not in men. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[CE] agoraphobia Fear of open spaces. [OED, ID, CE, WP] agraphobia Fear of sexual abuse. [ID, CE] agrizoophobia Fear of wild animals. [ID] agyiophobia Fear of streets. [fun-with-words.com]

Anxiety Disorder

The findings rather imply that the fear of being laughed at is a symptom characteristic for both SAD and APD. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We identified nine patterns of anxious arousal across groups that we further clustered into three groups: fear habituation, fear plateau, and fear increase. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Phobias can take many forms; common forms are fear of heights and fear of animals. [ulifeline.org]

Social Phobia

The SPS assesses fear of being scrutinised during routine activities (eating, drinking, writing, etc.), while the SIAS assesses fear of more general social interaction, the [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The mean number of feared social situations was 2.73 out of the 6 assessed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Existing models ignore variance due to the different social contexts where social fears are expressed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Mixed Anxiety and Depressive Disorder

PTSD can cause flashbacks or nightmares which can feel like you’re re-living all the fear and anxiety you experienced during the actual event. [mind.org.uk]

This isn't true - many individuals experience both depression (such as sadness, lack of interest, negativity, inactivity) and anxiety (excessive worrying, racing thoughts, fear [alleydog.com]

For example, the onset of depressive symptoms can be so disconcerting that the fear of the onset itself can lead to high levels of Anxiety. [anxietyanchor.com]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Of interest to the current paper is that such brain regions are also implicated in empirical research focusing on fear extinction. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Scientists have found genes that contribute to memories of the fear. Stathmin is a protein needed to form fear memories. [symptoma.com]

Fear Extinction Learning with MDMA: FDA Clears Study to Proceed On November 30, 2016, the FDA cleared the upcoming MAPS-sponsored Phase 1 study on the effect of MDMA on fear [web.archive.org]

Panic Disorder

People with panic disorder may have: Sudden and repeated panic attacks of overwhelming anxiety and fear A feeling of being out of control, or a fear of death or impending [nimh.nih.gov]

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship of fear of fear and broad dimensions of psychopathology in panic disorder with agoraphobia over the course of cognitive behavioural [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Attacks occur when the patient cannot avoid exposure to an obsessional fear or is prevented from performing a ritual that diffuses obsessional anxiety. [mdedge.com]

Paranoid Personality Disorder

There’s no “cure” for paranoid personality disorder, but there are ways to redirect and lift some of the paranoia and fear with professional help. [bridgestorecovery.com]

[…] that the information will be used maliciously against them demeaning or threatening remarks or events fears hidden demeaning or threatening meanings in benign remarks or [ptypes.com]

Read this The serial bully's fear of exposure is reminiscent of Paranoid Personality Disorder, a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their [bullyonline.org]

Sleep Disorder

These episodes may cause you to wake up with the look of intense fear, kicking, thrashing and your heart racing. [sleepeducation.org]

Nightmares are vivid dreams that contain frightening images or cause negative feelings such as fear, terror, and/or extreme anxiety. [stanfordhealthcare.org]

People with nightmare disorder may fear going to sleep or have difficulty falling back asleep because of intense nightmares. [sleepeducation.org]

Acute Anxiety

Because their fears are gone very early on." [write-out-loud.com]

Anyone feeling fear or anxiety can greatly benefit from these liquid crystals. [melaniedufty.com]

Are you mistaking the ordinary adrenalin rush of excitement for fear? [write-out-loud.com]

Specific Phobia

The highest mean heritability (±SEM) among fear subtypes was found for animal fear (45%±0.004), and among specific phobias for the blood-injury-injection phobia (33%±0.06) [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Advances in the cognitive-affective neuroscience of fear processing may ultimately lead to new approaches to the clinical management of phobias. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

KEYWORDS: Amygdala; Anterior cingulate cortex; Fear regulation; Functional connectivity; Insula; Specific phobia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hypochondriasis

Hypochondriasis or Nosophobia are terms used for the fear of illness or disease. [fearof.net]

When we couldn't find the cause of certain symptoms, there was always the fear that we simply hadn't searched long enough or hard enough. [mayoclinic.org]

The word Nosophobia originates from ‘ nosos’ and phobos which are Greek for disease and fear respectively. [fearof.net]

Night Terrors

[…] various habits, including metaphorically placing his fears in his wardrobe. [en.wikipedia.org]

Now even more scared, George's fears suck both the Doctor and Alex into the world of the dollhouse. [web.archive.org]

Pavor nocturnus (night terror, sleep terror) is a parasomnia disorder characterized by panicky awakening, fear and signs of autonomic arousal (tachypnea, flushing, diaphoresis [symptoma.com]

Sexual Abuse Victim

Sexual abuse can cause intense feelings of embarrassment, fear and humiliation. [pcar.org]

You want to calm any sense of urgency or emergency and not escalate the fear or anxiety. [centerforpreventionofabuse.org]

Feelings of anger, fear, shock, denial, and confusion are normal. Often pain doesn't simply go away, it has to find a safe outlet. [aftersilence.org]

Rape Victim

Advocates for sexual assault survivors said they feared that the Texas case could have a chilling effect on other victims’ willingness to speak up. [nytimes.com]

The author suggests that such dreams deal not simply with the trauma of forced sexual contact, but also with the coexisting fear and humiliation related to the risk of being [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Fearing jail time, Polanski fled first to England and then to his home country of France, which refused to extradite him to America. He has remained there since. [dailymail.co.uk]

Abuse and Neglect

Emotional abuse predicted shame, guilt, relationship anxiety, and fear of relationships. Emotional neglect predicted relationship anxiety and relationship depression. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] following indicators may indicate emotional abuse: avoiding home (particularly if the abuser is in the family home) running away or continually staying at friend’s houses fear [childprotection.sa.gov.au]

The boy had dental neglect with fearful and uncooperative behaviour; while the girl was defiant and had disruptive behaviour. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Phencyclidine Intoxication

NOTHING – other than the fear of "taking a stand" – prevented these authors from offering a CONCLUSION strong enough to help to make a difference and save some lives. [charlydmiller.com]

Shelby told investigators that Crutcher refused repeated requests to stop and get on his knees and that she feared for her life, believing Crutcher was going to kill her, [cbsnews.com]

[…] of the behavioral signs of PCP intoxication: “Poor perception of time and distance” Confusion Agitation Terror Panic Randomness in thought and action Severe anxiety and fear [phencyclidine.org]

Alcohol Hallucinosis

Considerations in Crosscultural Treatment 133 Models for the Description of Abnormal Behavior 141 MMPI Models 147 Conclusion 157 Phobic Disorders 163 Theoretical Models of Fear [books.google.com]

[…] alcoholic hallucinosis a form of alcoholic psychosis characterized primarily by auditory hallucinations occurring in a clear sensorium, abject fear, and delusions of persecution [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

His mood expresses alarm and fear. [herbalthera.com]

Psychosis

Subjects were presented with a series of 10 different facial identities, each expressing either a 50% (mildly fearful) or 100% (prototypically fearful) intensity of fear, [doi.org]

Individuals who have struggled through psychosis often struggle with negative emotions, fears, and withdrawal. [therapytribe.com]

Or is the fear clouding my memory? [creepypasta.wikia.com]

Cannabis Abuse

After the couple were separated the wife feared that she would be killed and assaulted her child and mother. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

But fears that she had suffered a cardiac arrest triggered by the drug could not be proved. Pathologists said there was nothing wrong with her vital organs. [thesun.co.uk]

Cannabis Use Disorder and Social Anxiety Mental health professionals use the term social anxiety to refer to unusually strong feelings of dread or fear that arise in common [lucidatreatment.com]

Agoraphobia

Description Literally, agoraphobia is a 'fear of open spaces'. [patient.info]

It shows how the interplay between stress, fear of fatness, and panic disorder with agoraphobia changed a patient's eating disorder from bulimia nervosa to to an eating disorder [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The agoraphobic situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. [patient.info]

PANDAS

Restrictions in food intake are typically fueled by contamination fears; fears of choking, vomiting, or swallowing; and/or sensory issues, such as texture, taste, or olfactory [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Emotional lability, school issues, anxiety, nighttime fears and bedtime rituals, urinary symptoms, cognitive deficits, depression, behavioral regression, deterioration in [symptoma.com]

Children develop habits and fears quickly and they may use ERP treatment to teach their brain to ignore the irrational fear signals they have been receiving. [iocdf.org]

Disaster

In particular, objective exposure was linked to greater increases in Activity Level but decreases in High-Intensity Pleasure, Approach, and Fearfulness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] that the Clinical (class 4) compared to the Well-functioning (class 1), more often that felt that reports strongly "embarrassed me," "made me feel sad," "filled me with fear [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

— Mekita Rivas, Glamour, "20 Years Later, Felicity Is Still The Ultimate Fall Fashion Lookbook," 28 Sep. 2018 Fears of disaster may seem out of place in an economy that [merriam-webster.com]

Exposure to Agent 15

Not so much a barrier as a boundary, Concertina wire was a line of demarcation, and where we stood in relation to the wire defined our level of fear. [heraldtribune.com]

The story was picked up by Okinawan media - and Russia Today / Truthout / Zcomm - and Roberts's account will increase fears that even after Futenma is eventually returned [jonmitchellinjapan.com]

One drawback, however, is that the effects of many of these agents are unpredictable, ranging from overwhelming fear and panic to extreme belligerence in which exposed personnel [cia.gov]

Acute Hyperventilation

They anticipate anxiety or fear. This is also known as fear for the fear or anticipation anxiety. [15minutes4me.com]

Ongoing studies will test the efficacy of CART in patients with asthma and fear of blood. [sciencedaily.com]

Those who have their ears to the ground can hear the distant rumbles, and they fear disruption. [openthemagazine.com]

Vaginismus

Examples of Non-Physical Causes Fears Fear or anticipation of intercourse pain, fear of not being completely physically healed following pelvic trauma, fear of tissue damage [vaginismus.com]

So, where was this fear coming from? Was it a fear of STDs or — my worst fear of all time — pregnancy? [refinery29.com]

“being torn”), fear of getting pregnant, concern that a pelvic medical problem may reoccur, etc. [vaginismus.com]

Neurotic Disorder

Docsity.com Agoraphobia • „Agoraphobia“ - the fear from marketplace. • Agoraphobia includes various phobias embracing fears of leaving home: fears of entering shops, crowds [docsity.com]

zoophobia (fear of animals), xenophobia (fear of strangers), algophobia (fear of pain), and claustrophobia (fear of closed places). [rxpgonline.com]

Anxiety is that primal emotion (i.e. fear response) that we get when we feel threatened in some way. [drgeorgesimon.com]

Hyperventilation

Interoceptive exposure (IE; repeated exposure to feared arousal sensations) has been shown to decrease AS. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Possible causes of hyperventilation include: Fear, panic, or stress One of the most common causes of hyperventilation is emotional distress, including panic, fear, or anxiety [medicalnewstoday.com]

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to a fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations stemming from beliefs that these have catastrophic consequences. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Personality Disorder

The dependent behavior may be seen as being “clingy” or “clinging on” to others, because the person fears they can’t live their lives without the help of others. [psychcentral.com]

They are often absorbed with their own thoughts and feelings and are fearful of closeness and intimacy with others. [nmha.org]

Our data indicate an improvement of the recognition of fearful and happy facial expressions by OT in young adults with ASPD. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Parasomnia Type Sleepwalking

These episodes may cause you to wake up with the look of intense fear, kicking, thrashing and your heart racing. [sleepeducation.org]

People experiencing sleep paralysis often are fearful because they do not know what is happening, but an episode may be stopped by sound or touch. [hospitals.jefferson.edu]

Night terrors include the person experiencing fear in their sleep. [riverconnection.com]

Overeating

Sometimes this includes intense feelings - terror, panic, and fear. [growinghumankindness.com]

The pain of worry, fear, anger, stress, doubt—all of which are normal feelings that are universal to us as humans. [tinybuddha.com]

Both are driven by our collective fear of binges, as well as the shame that they arise at all. [growinghumankindness.com]