Fears forming is just as different as the fear itself. They form differently for every individual, because everyone's brain is unique. Fears and phobias form during particularly intense and scary situations. As a child we have many different fears because everything is new and we are vulnerable, it is important to outgrow these because we need to develop the understanding that monsters are not real and things like that. A common fear that many individuals have is the fear of flying, even though it irrational it forms so easily because when you hear about a plane crash it is a bigger headline than a car crash, even though " In 2016 just 271 people died in commercial plane crashes world-wide, compared with around 1.3 million in road crashes." Says Cheng, Eugenia of the Wall Street Journal online. The fears form because when there is a plane crash everyone hears about it, knows about and talks about it but when there is a car crash sometimes it isn't even acknowledged because it isn't that big of a deal, they happen all the time right? So people have this fear that they will die in an airplane but not a car crash, it anything they should be afraid of driving more. A phobia is a more severe version of a fear it is something a person cant think about without causing symptoms of fear to form. D'Arcy Lyness of Kidshealth.net says, "Someone might develop a bee phobia after being stung during a particularly scary situation. For that person, looking at a photograph of a bee, seeing a bee from a distance, or even walking near flowers where there could be a bee can all trigger the phobia." Whether it is the fear of flying or a bee phobia they all form the same, in your amygdala and in a particularly scary situation that your brain remembers as negative. Therefore it is a fear in your eyes now. Overcoming them is a little different and harder than forming them but it is possible and you can read about it in the blog titled, overcoming your fears.
For more information click on the link below for the wall street Journal article
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