Avital Horowitz Week 4 - Why do we get scared ?

Everyone has their fears. Some people are afraid of heights. Some are scared of bugs, clowns, the ocean, flying, rollercoasters; the list it endless. But why? Why are we scared of things? You are probably reading this and think, "Avital, come on, think. The reason people are scared of things is because they probably had bad experiences with them in the past." Well yeah, that makes sense. But there are also tons of people who are scared of things and nothing traumatic happened in their life that would cause that fear. 

Here is the perfect example; I have always been deadly afraid of spiders. The only thing is, is that I have never known why. Yeah, they are gross eight legged bugs and they are just creepy looking, but why am I so scared of them. I have never had a super traumatic moment in my life that had to do with spiders. I never had a scarring moment in my past that made spiders evil for the rest of my life. I have just always been so afraid of them and I have never known. why. My fear of spiders is so bad that I have slept on the couch in my living room multiple times because there happened to have been a spider in my bedroom. So yeah, spiders are definitely my biggest fear. But why? What made me so scared of them in the first place? I guess it is just an unanswerable question. What is one thing you are scared of and have never known why?

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  1. AnonymousOct 26, 2021, 11:05:00 PM

    Planes are so scary to me. I start panicking every time I fly for no reason. My irrational fear did not start because of any past trauma, I just started becoming paranoid out of nowhere.

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  2. Mrs. HOct 28, 2021, 7:57:00 PM

    Often our fears are based in the unknown. Spiders seem scary, because you never know whether it's one of the dangerous kinds or not. I've gotten past my fear of spiders somehow, though I'm not sure how. I'm not super scared of too many things, but I definitely have my moments.

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