CONTRIBUTION FROM GROUP

1. Rashi ( Grp. Leader)

❖ Reference from deep waters
❖ Symptoms
2. Piyush
❖ Introduction
❖ Types of Fear
3. Hitesh
❖ Causes
❖ Recognizing Fear
4. Parth
❖ Conclusion
❖ Survey

OBJECTIVES
 ● To know about types of fear people of different
age groups face.

● Strategies they use to overcome it.

● How effective are those strategies?

● Have they completely overcome their fear?

● Outcomes Faced by different students.

INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS FEAR?
Fear is one of the seven universal
emotions experienced by everyone
around the world. Fear arises with the
threat of harm, either physical,
emotional, or psychological, real or
imagined. While traditionally considered
a “negative” emotion, fear actually
serves an important role in keeping us
safe as it mobilizes us to cope with potential danger.
The family of fearful experiences can be distinguished in terms
of three factors:

● Intensity: How severe is the harm that is threatened?

● Timing: Is the harm immediate or impending?
● Coping: What, if any, actions can be taken to reduce or
eliminate the threat?

When we are able to cope with the threat, this lessens or

removes the fear. Alternatively, when we are helpless to
decrease the threat of harm, this intensifies the fear.
 RECOGNIZING FEAR

1. Facial Expression of Fear

The facial expression of fear is often confused with surprise. While both
expressions show distinctly raised eyebrows, a fear expression's eyebrows are
straighter and more horizontal whereas in surprise they are raised and curved.
The upper eyelid is also lifted higher in fear than in surprise, exposing more
sclera (white of the eye). Finally, the lips are tensed and stretched in fear but
more open and slack in surprise.
 2. Vocal Expression Of Fear
When experiencing fear, one’s voice often has a higher pitch and more strained
tone. One may also scream.

3. Sensations Of Fear
Common sensations include feeling cold and shortness of breath. It also may
include sweating and trembling or tightening of muscles in the arms and legs.
 CAUSES
Some fears may be a result of experiences or trauma, while others may
represent a fear of something else entirely, such as a loss of control.
Still, other fears may occur because they cause physical symptoms, such
as being afraid of heights because they make you feel dizzy and sick to
your stomach.

Some common fear triggers include:

● Certain specific objects or

situations (spiders, snakes,
heights, flying, etc)
● Future events
● Imagined events
● Real environmental Dangers
 SYMPTOMS
Fear often involves both physical and emotional symptoms. Each person
may experience fear differently, but some of the common signs and
symptoms include:

● CHEST PAIN

Discomfort in the chest including a dull

ache, a crushing or burning feeling, a sharp
stabbing pain and pain that radiates to the
neck or shoulder

● CHILLS

The feeling of being cold, though not

necessarily in a cold environment, often
accompanied by shivering or shaking.

● SHORTNESS OF BREATH

Difficult or laboured breathing.

 ● SWEATING

Sweating from sweat glands, often in

response to heat, exercise, stress or fear.

● DRY

MOUTH

Dry mouth, also known as Xerostomia, occurs when salivary glands don't
make sufficient saliva to prevent the drying of the mouth

● NAUSEA

Nausea is an uneasiness of the

stomach that often accompanies the
urge to vomit, but doesn't always lead
to vomiting.
 ● RAPID HEARTBEAT

A rapid or fast heartbeat is when your

heart is beating faster than normal. A
normal heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per
minute

TYPES OF FEAR

● ARACHNOPHOBIA – FEAR OF
SPIDERS
Arachnophobia is an anxiety disorder
brought about by the fear of spiders and
other arachnids such as scorpions

● OPHIDIOPHOBIA – FEAR OF
SNAKES
Ophidiophobia is a kind of phobia where
you have an extreme fear of snakes. It is perfectly normal for adults and
children to have fears, but having a simple fear of snakes is different
from having a phobia

● ACROPHOBIA- FEAR OF HEIGHTS

Acrophobia is a mental health condition in which the individual
experiences an intense fear of heights. It's a type of anxiety disorder.

● AEROPHOBIA– FEAR OF FLYING

Fear of getting on a plane can be a heritage from childhood or it can
emerge from adulthood as a result of various triggering factors

● CYNOPHOBIA- FEAR OF DOGS

People with this anxiety disorder feel intense fear and anxiety when they think
about, see or encounter a dog. In severe cases, this phobia can cause people
to avoid places where dogs might be
● ASTROPHOBIA – FEAR OF THUNDER
Kind of phobia characterized by an intense fear of extremely loud but natural
noises in the environment.

SURVEY
1. Your Gender?
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[ ] Others

2. Which category below includes your age?

[ ] 17 or younger
[ ] 18-20
[ ] 21-29
[ ] 30-39
[ ] 40-49
[ ] 50 or older

3. In general do you have any fear? (Living or nonliving)

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Maybe

4. What category does your fear fit into?

[ ] Water/ Swimming
[ ] Being alone
[ ] Crowd/ Public places
[ ] Animals
[ ] Heights
[ ] Public speaking
[ ] Doctors
[ ] Other

5. How bad is your fear?

[ ] Not at all bad ( doesn't affect your normal lifestyle)
[ ] Pretty bad, but not severe (affect your lifestyle but u are ok with it)
[ ] Severe (have to avoid things because of fear)
[ ] Really severe (not only affect you but people in your surrounding too)
6. Did your parents suffer from the same phobia?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Maybe

7. What symptoms do you experience when you encounter any fear?

[ ] Sweating
[ ] Nausea
[ ] Rapid heartbeat
[ ] All of the above
[ ] Others

8. What strategies do you use to overcome your fear?

[ ] Avoid that person or situation
[ ] Fight from it
[ ] Run/ scream
[ ] Experience a panic attack
[ ] Anyother coping strategy
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9. Do you wish to seek treatment for your fear?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Undergoing treatment
[ ] Not sure

10. Describe any incident that grew up/ developed that fear?
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 REFERENCE FROM THE DEEP WATERS

● Deep Water is about the writer’s

journey of overcoming the fear of
water, which is deeply rooted in
him since childhood. The author
started fearing water at the age of
four.
● It starts when he was visiting
California with his father. He visits a beach where a wave knocks him
down and sweeps over him.
● After that, when the author is 11 years old, he experiences another
incident which escalates his fear.
● He is at a swimming pool in Yakima, trying to learn swimming. On one
fine day, a bully pushes him in the deep end of the pool. He reaches
nine feet into the water and starts struggling desperately to hold on to
something.
● The terror he experiences while
drowning never goes away. It continued
to haunt him for many years and even
spoiled his future expeditions concerning
canoeing, swimming, fishing and more.
● He decides to overcome this fear by
hook or by crook. He enrolls himself in a
swimming class and tries to learn from the instructor. The instructor
 teaches him many tips and tricks for swimming. He begins with the
inhaling and exhaling part then he practices it for many weeks.
● Finally, he combines all this with the final move of swimming.
Although the author knows how to swim, he is still terrified of water.
Thus, in order to get rid of the fear, he decides to confront it. He
mocks it by thinking what can it really do?
● Consequently, he plunges into the water and to his surprise, his fear
goes away. He faced it in many places and at last, manages to
conquer it.

CONCLUSION

● Fear is common in every human being but

what differs is what gives you the jitters.
● Fear affects everyone in some way, and some much more
cripplingly than others.

● Fear has driven man into wars, plummeted world economies and
some have made history overcoming their fears.

● However, you must understand that you are in charge of your

destiny and shouldn’t allow your fears to control your life.

● In fact, there’s nothing that should make you think you aren’t up to
any task.