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THE FEAR FACTOR ....... A DISEASE

A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. That is the definition of FEAR in accordance with the English dictionary. While on the other hand

DISEASE is  An abnormal condition of a human,  that causes discomfort or dysfunction.

Nw. The question is HOW IS FEAR A DISEASE

Let's take a quick look into what fear does to our brain and how it affects us negatively.

Fear begins with a frightening stimulus and ends with your body preparing to protect itself from danger.

It begins in the thalamus, which receives signals from your body’s senses. the thalamus alerts your amygdala. (is one of two almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep and medially within the temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans) amygdala triggers emotional responses and prompts your hypothalamus to turn up your adrenal glands and rush blood to your muscles to get you away from the danger, this is mostly in a case of life threatening events.

If the signal isn’t life-threatening, the brain takes the more rational high road response. The amygdala alerts the pre-frontal or sensory cortex. The cortex alerts the hippocampus and spurs it to compare the current threat to past ones. The hippocampus is the brain’s memory center. The hippocampus heightens your senses to an almost superhuman degree and triggers your flight response. Both processes are automatic and happen within “fractions of a second”. Though this response might seem helpful but realistically they are more detrimental than you think. once the fear pathways are ramped up, the brain short-circuits more rational processing paths and reacts immediately to signals from the amygdala. When in this overactive state, the brain perceives events as negative and remembers them that way.” That is why most Atimes you might be afraid even without any mental or physical threat present.

That’s unfortunate, because the brain stores all the details from that particular stimulus -- time of day, images, sounds, smells, weather, etc -- in your long-term memory. While that makes the memory “very durable, [it] may also be fragmented,” triggering the full gamut of physical and emotional responses every single time a similar fear stimulus shows up.

While fear can play tricks with your memory and your perception of reality, it also affects your body. Fear can weaken the creation of long-term memories and damage the hippocampus, short-circuiting the response paths and causing constant feelings of anxiety. Fear can also have long-term consequences on our health, including “fatigue, chronic depression, accelerated ageing and even premature death,”

So being inundated with messages of fear and constantly processing them prompts tons of negative consequences for your body and psyche. But you don’t have to accept them. You can beat fear; you just need to train yourself. That process is known as FEAR Extinction

Bright Needom (talk) 17:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)