Facing your fears?

Its how you think of it.. one famous guy (i forgot who he is) maybe ford once said that it all depends on the way you think.. it has to do with how the brain functions.. if you think you will succeed then your brain will remember all the times you succeeded and you will be excited, if you think you will fail then your brain will remember all the times where you have failed and you will be put down! Also once you know something you will no longer be afraid of it.. Having said that, i hate snakes and i do not want to face this particular feer.. I do not have a problem facing all my other fears.. happened to me many time in my life and always turns out to be good and nothing like i expected but with snakes, i will never go anywhere near them, cant stand seeing them on TV! www.freedomresidualincome.com/evamaria

It seems that some fears are "rational" and some are not. And some fears are "sequential," as in, a fear of heights may actually be a fear of getting hurt. As a different example, some years back I learned that my fear of public speaking, was a fear of rejection, learned by extensive abandonment and rejection in group situations, when I was a small child. The psyche works in REALLY weird and convoluted ways. I have worked some around phobias and phobics, so yes... actually your fear of mice COULD be overcome, although "holding a bunch of mice" would come at the very end of a course of treatment, long after figuring out what triggers mice as "scary" in the first place, and so forth. But that doesn't answer your question. In the "physical" sense, I'm afraid of snakes. I understand why-- we lived in Africa for a while, when I was a kid, and there were black mambas, which are both aggressive and deadly (the venom can kill a person in 3 minutes). However, even though I understand the LOGIC, I still feel uneasy around snakes of ANY kind. The "public speaking" fear is still with me, even though I have given 100's of presentations in front of 100s of people, and am (I'm told) actually very GOOD at it.

my biggest fear is making the wrong decision. i have see alot of people in my family make the wrong decision and then their lives are ruined or becomes more difficult and i dont want that. there are two things i can do... i can over analyze every action i do or i could try and be spontaneous but just like every thing else easier said than done... i dont have a problem of doing spontaneous things with other people like if it is their idea.. i just have a problem of doing things myself without over analyzing it

I have a phobia of needles. To try and get over it, I used to donate plasma a couple of times per week. It didn't help. Or rather it may not be so much a fear of needles now as it is a hatred of them. I am not a big fan heights. Actually, I'm ok with heights and falling, it's the hard landing at the end I'm afraid of. It's not something I want to go through.

i read in a "sanskrit an indian scripture" that A MAN WHO ALWAYS AFFRAID OF ONE's FEAR SHOULD KEEP WEEPING BUT AT THE TIME OF FACING THAT, HE SHOULD BRING OUT HIS BRAVE AND FACE THE PROBs DARELY !

Mind over matter if it isn't deadly you should be able to face your fears. I was scared of spiders now unless they are big and hairy I just kill them and move on.

Fear is all in the mind, if you believe something wont hurt you then you wont fear it. Most fears are to do with people thinking it can hurt them. For example rollercosters, people dont go on them because they think it could break and they would be injured or killed. But if youve been on hundreds of coasters then you dont fear them as you know you are safe. So in some ways facing your fears can help solve them.

My fear is when i am at the beach. I don't really go in the deep side because i am not good in swimming. I was also traumatized when i was in my elementary years (back then) because i was almost drown. Goodness that i am still alive. It was really a lesson to me and i will never forget that experienced but i am hoping someday i could have a formal training in swimming so that i could overcome my fear.

LOL, I know I shouldn't laugh but that sounds so much like something my sister would do I can actually picture it. I am terrified of maggots (due to a nasty little prank my sister pulled when I was younger). There is no way I could ever overcome this fear. The thought of having to get near one scares me. I realize it's a silly fear, afterall I'm WAY bigger than a baby fly, still I can't get over it. I think it would be way more traumatizing to have to attempt to get over my fear than to just live with it.

you are actually right.The only way to overcome phobias is to come more close and frequent to them.For example to ward off your fear for mouses.You can go to place where they grow mouses and get frequent with them.Holding the mouse i sure think thats not gonna help. The other way to overcome it is psychologically.

The humans have a fear of something or the other and the only way of overcoming the fear is by facng the fear....that does ot mean that if you are afraid of the mouse you will hold a bunch ful of mice in your hand ....it means that next time when the mouse comes towands you dont get tormented and run away instead you sould stand there and let the mouse come and let it go because the human body is much larger than that of the mouse and it is the mouse that is afraid of the human so you need not be afraid..........in order to get rid of the fear we should face the fear......

what part of the mice are you afraid of? obviously holding a bunch of them will do nothing, you just have to figure out a way to really convince your self that they can do nothing bad to you. If you think about it, if a person afraid of heights goes on the worlds tallest roller coaster and survives it (which they will) they realize there is no harm in riding it but they will probably still be afraid of bridges, cliffs and canyons but if they start to try it they should eventually warm up to it... i think it should be the same for you, just take it in baby steps though... just start by like learning what they do and then go from there... look at pictures then maybe see one in a pet store or zoo... then one day way down the line maybe just touch one for a second and then maybe hold one... I hope this helps... if not i'm sorry

I'm not sure I have any real phobias. Okay maybe that isn't true, if I am sleeping you have to be careful of how you wake me. You can't just walk up and shake me are you might get socked. That stems from being attacked in my sleep repeatedly over a seven period. Now my partner is an arachnophobic (sp?) and I don't think there is any treatment that can help her. She can see a tiny spider and she freaks. It's amazing what trauma and fear can do to the human mind and the way we respond.

just close your eyes for a moment. then open it and relaxedthenface theproblem

After AOL i never face fear

I have a big fear of heights. I need to overcome this as we own a 3 story home. I've gone to a mountain climing place and it drove me nutz! Having to try to face my fears and yet I'm still afraid of them.

there many things from which people fear and they have been given words for it as for eg.the fear of water is termed to as hydrophobia,many people do fear of heights and i don think the can overcome their fears ever in their lives but many of them do like thers a show called fear factor where people have to perform stunts of which they fear !! and they get paid for it so they do it!! caz money now a days means life to some of us.