Day 9 of the February daily challenge

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My topic for today is eight facts you didn't know about fear! Their are many things we may not know our body is doing when we are afraid. There are benifits and downfalls to fear itself.

1. Fear is not caused by one, big, scary event
2. Certain fears are universal across cultures
3. Individuals with anxiety issues disorders experience normal fear responss to scary situations
4. anxiety in childhood is normal
5. Fearless individuals do not have normal fear responsis to scary situations
6. Fears can become extinct
7. Stress hormones ehance fear extinction
8. Virtual reality is for more than gaming

1) If you think having a fear of hights is because of some terrible experience, you are wrong. Actually fear comes form a complex mix of genetics and environment. I also need to point out that fear is a primary emotion which means we do not learn fear. Fear itself isn't because you are afraid of hights but because your body is theoredically saying 'no don't climb up so high' or telling you whatever fear you have. It is important to know the difference between the fear and where it came from, how you got that fear.

2) For example you have spiders, some people may have a fear of spiders because they look creepy but some may have a fear of spiders because in some place there are more venomous spiders there.

3) People with these disorders exhibit normal fear responses to scary situations. People witha nxiety are not "hyper" afraid of all situations, rather they experience higher amounts of fear and anxiety to specific situations.

4) Most kids who experience more anxiety grow out of it by the time they are in their adolescence. Though neurologists still don't know what the diference is between kids who grow out of anxiety issues and adults who haven't grown out their anxiety.

5) "So far, there is some evidence that people who are fearless have patterns of neural response that one might expect. That is, fearless people tend to sho a tendency to not engage the very same brain regions where highly fearful people show a tendency to overly engage the region." explaine Pine

6) Fear extinction is the process of reducing fear by creating non-fearful memory associations.

7) It nught seen strange for a stress hormone to ease fear but cortisol has been shown to enhance memory consolidation of new information in humans and animals, which helps in fear extincions during exposure therapy.

8) A person afraid of crowds, for example, would experience a simulation of walking down a street, with varying levels of people depending on the stage of treatment. Virtual reality exposure therapy is particularly helpful for patients who, for whatever reason, cannot tolerate or recieve traditional exposure, such as soldiers with PTSD who are no longer deployed.

 cited Work

Exchange, The. "Eight Facts You Didn't Know About Fear." Eight Facts You Didn't Know About Fear | The Science and Entertainment Exchange. National Academy of Science, 2017. Web. 09 Feb. 2017.

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