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Read up on fear, panic and phobia to get a general overview of phobias and trauma and fear management. Learn mindfulness based self care principles and exercises for managing phobias from my books on trauma and self care.
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Fear | Function | Thought | Treatment | Coping
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Fear | Function | Thought | Treatment | Coping
For Help See: Fear in the Brain | Fear Dictionary
THE LIBRARY TOPIC HOME PAGES
Introduction to Trauma, Fear and Phobia
Part 1: Defining Fear and the Fear Response
Part 2: Emotional & Cognitive Functions of Fear
Part 3: Maladaptive Thought Processing
Part 4: Professional Therapy & Mindful Self Care
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Introduction to Trauma, Fear and Phobia
Part 1: Defining Fear and the Fear Response
Part 2: Emotional & Cognitive Functions of Fear
Part 3: Maladaptive Thought Processing
Part 4: Professional Therapy & Mindful Self Care
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PART TWO - FUNCTIONS
BRAIN FUNCTIONS OF FEAR
MEMORY & EMOTION
Articles defining the structure and characteristics of the emotional center (emotions, feelings, stressors, triggers) and the memory functions that affect fear, phobia, anxiety and panic
BRAIN FUNCTIONS DIRECTORY
Function of Memory
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Structural Functions of the Brain
Neuroplasticity (Rewiring Your Brain)
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- Mind Your Memory and Processes of Fear
- Memory Effects on Other Functions
- Memory Types Serve Different Functions
- Role of Emotions & Emotional Responses
- Characteristics of the Emotion of Fear
- Feeling the Feelings
- Defining the Feelings of Fear
- Feelings You Can’t Define
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See Also
Structural Functions of the Brain
Neuroplasticity (Rewiring Your Brain)
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FEELINGS
OF THE EMOTION OF FEAR
List of Common Feelings Resulting from Fear or Phobia
There are many different feelings people experience. The most common ones are easily defined and recognized.
Gut Feelings
A gut feeling, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something. It may be negative, such as a feeling of uneasiness, or positive, such as a feeling of respect or trust. Gut feelings are generally not regulated by conscious thought, but act as a function of intuition rather than rationality. The idea that emotions are experienced in the gut has a long historical record, and many nineteenth-century doctors considered the origins of mental illness to derive from the intestines.
The phrase "gut feeling" may also be considered as a term for your "common sense," or the perception of what is considered "the right thing to do.” It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "fire is hot", or ideas of what you intuitively regard as true.
There are many different feelings people experience. The most common ones are easily defined and recognized.
- Affection: A gentle feeling of fondness or liking.
- Agitation: Feeling troubled or nervous.
- Agony: Intense feelings of suffering.
- Alarm: An anxious awareness of danger.
- Alienation: The feeling of being alienated (socially disoriented) from other people.
- Anger: A strong feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.
- Anguish: Extreme mental distress.
- Animosity: A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility.
- Annoyance: Slightly angry; irritated.
- Anticipation: An emotion involving pleasure, excitement, or anxiety in considering or awaiting an expected event; suspense.
- Anxiety: A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune.
- Apathy: An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
- Apprehension: Anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
- Aversion: A strong dislike or disinclination
- Bewilderment: A subconscious desire to frustrate ourselves, preventing us from pursuing our goals or achieving the success we crave.
- Bitterness: A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
- Contempt: The feeling that a person or a thing is worthless or beneath consideration; scornful; disdain.
- Cynicism: A cynical feeling of distrust.
- Defeat: The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals.
- Despair: The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.
- Disappointment: A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized.
- Discontentment: A longing for something better than the present situation.
- Discouragement: The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles.
- Disgruntlement: A feeling of sulky discontent.
- Disgust: A feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.
- Dislike: A feeling of distaste or hostility.
- Dismay: A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits.
- Displeasure: A feeling of annoyance or disapproval.
- Distaste: A feeling of intense dislike; antipathy.
- Distraughtness: Very worried and upset.
- Distress: Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
- Doubt: A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.
- Dread: Fearful expectation or anticipation; trepidation.
- Exasperation: A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
- Ferocity: Savagely fierce, cruel, or violent.
- Fraud, feeling like a: A person intended to deceive others.
- Fright: An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
- Frustration: The feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.
- Fury: Wild or violent anger.
- Glumness: A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.
- Grief: Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone’s death.
- Guilt: Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.
- Hatred: Intense dislike which could invoke feelings of animosity, anger or resentment.
- Heebie-Jeebies, the: A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea.
- Helplessness: A feeling of being unable to manage; powerlessness.
- Horror: An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
- Hostility: Feeling opposition or dislike; unfriendliness.
- Huff, in a: A state of irritation or annoyance.
- Humiliation: Strong feelings of embarrassment.
- Hurt: Emotional pain or distress; psychological suffering.
- Hysteria: Excessive or uncontrollable fear or excitement.
- Impatience: A restless desire for change and excitement.
- Indifference: Lack of interest, concern, or sympathy.
- Indignation: Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.
- Insecurity: Uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence.
- Insulted, feeling: disrespected or scornful because of a remark or an act.
- Irritation: The state of feeling annoyed, impatient, or slightly angry.
- Listlessness: A feeling of lack of interest or energy.
- Loathing: a feeling of intense dislike or disgust; hatred or abhorrence.
- Loneliness: Sadness because one has no friends or company.
- Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
- Miffed: Somewhat annoyed; peeved.
- Misery: A feeling of great mental distress or discomfort.
- Morbid curiosity: Curiosity focused on objects of death, violence, or any other event that may cause harm physically or emotionally.
- Morbidness: An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind.
- Nervousness: The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters; agitated or alarmed.
- Outrage: An extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation; a feeling of righteous anger.
- Overwhelmed, feeling: Strong emotional effect from overpowering feelings.
- Panic: An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
- Paranoia: The irrational and persistent feeling that people are ‘out to get you’.
- Perversity: A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way.
- Pessimism: The feeling that things will turn out badly.
- Pique, a fit of: A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one’s pride.
- Pity: The feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the sufferings and misfortunes of others.
- Postal, going: Becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence.
- Pride: A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of one’s close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.
- Rage: Violent uncontrollable anger.
- Regret: A feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over an occurrence or something that one has done or failed to do.
- Reluctance: Unwillingness or disinclination to do something.
- Remorse: A feeling of deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
- Reproachfulness: Expressing disapproval or disappointment with disgrace or shame.
- Repugnance: Intense disgust.
- Resentment: A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
- Road rage: Aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by a driver of a road vehicle, which includes rude and offensive gestures, verbal insults, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted toward another driver or a pedestrian in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.
- Sadness: An emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow.
- Self-pity: Excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one’s own troubles.
- Shame: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
- Shock: The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally.
- Sorrow: A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.
- Spite: A desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone; feeling a need to see others suffer.
- Stress: A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.
- Sulkiness: A sullen moody resentful disposition.
- Surprise: The astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you.
- Suspicion: A feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.
- Tension: A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.
- Terror: An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
- Umpty: A feeling of everything’s being “too much” and all in the wrong way.
- Vengefulness: A malevolent desire for revenge.
- Vulnerability: Feeling exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed.
- Worry: The state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems.
- Wrath: Extreme anger.
Gut Feelings
A gut feeling, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something. It may be negative, such as a feeling of uneasiness, or positive, such as a feeling of respect or trust. Gut feelings are generally not regulated by conscious thought, but act as a function of intuition rather than rationality. The idea that emotions are experienced in the gut has a long historical record, and many nineteenth-century doctors considered the origins of mental illness to derive from the intestines.
The phrase "gut feeling" may also be considered as a term for your "common sense," or the perception of what is considered "the right thing to do.” It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "fire is hot", or ideas of what you intuitively regard as true.
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This content is provided for informational purposes only. Author is not a medical professional. Talk to your doctor to determine what therapy is right for you.
Self care techniques are meant to supplement professional treatment not replace it.
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Self care techniques are meant to supplement professional treatment not replace it.
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