Blogpost 6: Fear and Anxiety

Most of us make some distinction between fear and anxiety. Sometimes it's merely a matter of linguistics. We say we have a fear of something and anxiety about something. Sometimes we distinguish the two by our bodily experience. I'm sure you're aware that the fear is different than the anxiety. The sudden re-arrangement of your guts when an intruder holds a knife to your back and that is fear, is different from the mild nausea, dizziness and butterflies in your stomach as you're about to make a difficult phone call and that is anxiety.

 

I have read an article entitled Fear and Anxiety Produce an Stress Response written by Kaplan and Sadock from the site Panic Disorders. In this article that I have read it talks about how fear and anxiety produce stress response and what is the importance for. And it is like a trivia for the readers.

"Muscle tension, increased heart rate, and shortness of breath are a few of the physiological symptoms associated with a response to danger. These bodily changes occur due to an inborn fight-or-flight stress response that is believed to be necessary for our survival. Without this stress response, our mind would not receive the alerting danger signal, and our bodies would be unable to prepare to flee or stay and battle when faced with danger."

I learned that there's a response produce by fear and anxiety. I know now that when the response come from my  mind it will receive a alert signal or warning for our body to be able to prepare to face to the uncertainties. 

According from the site Medical Health Foundation written by Jenny Edwards and the article entitled  Fear and Anxiety. In this article that I have read, anxiety is just a type of fear. 

"Anxiety is a type of fear. It is usually associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future, rather than something happening right now."

The article defines anxiety as a thought of something going wrong in the future, rather than something happening now. I learned that anxiety is just a type of fear.

Poor people repeatedly stress the anxiety and fear they experience because they feel insecure and vulnerable. Most say they feel less secure and more vulnerable today than in previous times. They describe security as stability and continuity of livelihood, predictability of relationships, feeling safe and belonging to a social group. Forms and degrees of security and insecurity vary by region and differ by gender. Women are vulnerable to abuse and violence in the home, when widowed, and in the workplace. Men, particularly young men, are more likely to be picked up by the police.