How to overcome Fear?

Right Guidance from Elders Help to Overcome Our Fear

This painting is made by a team member using water color and ADOBE Photoshop.

Solutions to Overcome Fear

• Solutions to Overcome Fear

  Here are some of the Solutions for overcoming Fear, which the Team had learned during this Project through Thinkquest Interaction Tools, Interview and Surveys:

• 1. Know Your Fear
• 2. Self Confidence - Believe in yourself
• 3. Avoid people who always discourage you.
• 4. Be Positive
• 5. Discover the origins of your Fears and Understand it
• 6. To overcome Fear, one has to face it!
• 7. Gain knowledge about the thing for which you are afraid of
• 8. Find a suitable atmosphere, where you feel comfortable
• 9. Whenever necessary, do not hesitate to take the help of Elders
• 10. Humour helps us overcome Fear

Partial Information

A four year old child at a Aquarium gets afraid when she hears that she's going to see a Big Shark. She is old enough to understand that Sharks are dangerous, but not old enough to understand that she will see the shark safely from outside the Tank. "PARTIAL INFORMATION MANY TIMES LEADS TO FEAR". (The picture is created by using MS PowerPoint)

We overcame our Fear this way:

Humans as such have Fear of one kind or the other.The methods adopted for overcoming the Fear by by them are different.Here are a few interesting incidents narrated by the Students,in the survey conducted by us, as to how they had successfully overcome their fear, which once they had in them.

• Input received in our survey thru survey monkey-
  
  Response given below by Boy from,UAE age between 9 to 12 years.
  
  I have a fear of infection, actually when I was six years old I got congectivities from my classmate and in the same year I got viral fever twice again when my friend was not well in the class. After that I got so much fear of infections that even if any body sneezes I run away. I avoid going in birthday parties as people shake hands and share the cake. I am scared of going to public places also. Infaction is very scary.
  
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  Input received in our survey thru survey monkey-
  
  Response given below by Boy from,Czeh Republic age between 9 to 12 years.
  
  One day our school was having a programme. Our class had to present a skit and I was the narrator. While narrating I forgot some of my dialouges. When I came to my class I was scolded by my teacher and my friends started to tease me.When I reached home my brother started to scold me and he said that "All of my friends were teasing me because of you." From that day on I am having stage fear and till now I am having this fear.
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• Input received in our survey thru survey monkey-
  
  Response given below by Boy from,Poland age between 9 to 12 years.
  
  
  When I was around 5 years I was always threatened that if I do not do my home work, drink milk or eat food properly cockroaches will come on my bed and bite me. From that time onwards if I see any brown creature I would get scared. Slowly cockroaches were in my mind and I could not sleep well. Always I feel that cockroaches are roaming around me.To remove my fear my parents started saying that cockroaches are very small and can be removed by just a small spray of insecticides. One day I tried my self and cockroach was running fast when I threw a stick near him. Than I realise that it was my belief that cockroaches are dangerous.
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• Input received in our survey thru survey monkey-
  
  Response given below by Boy from,Brazil age between 9 to 12 years.
  
  
  When I was 8 years old and I was extremly scare of dark. The shadows of a nearby tree comes in my bedroom. With the breeze curtains in my room flutter. Once I saw a movie of ghost where ghost comes in the night and curtains flutter along with air. This all horrifies me and keeps me awake. I told this to my parents.They said there is nothing like this. I also have a yonger brother who was 6 years at that time. He has no fear at all of anything. One day my parents told me to go alongwith him and he took me outside in the night and should me the shadow of the tree and also showed how air comes in the room. Then my parents told how ghost movies are created using animations. After that I realise there was only a shadow and nothing to worry about.
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• Input received in our survey thru survey monkey-
  
  Response given below by Girl from Pakistan, age Above 12 years.
  
  Once i remember, i had watched a REALLY scary movie; it's called "The exorcist"... The dine/witch in the movie, was i suppose something my mind couldn't EVER forget...Most of the people around me didn't find it scary but i , myself, did not know why my mind found it really scary.. i would often be scolded by my parents and some other elders for my really silly fear, or rather a 'phobia'! I had to face insomnia, go through hallucinations and i could just NOT go in the dark... My siblings, being small at that time just like my myself, took it as fun and laughed and scared me more, which often resulted in "me-in-tears" situation. Once i got about 11, i knew the fear HAD to be finished and something to let go of...but the problem was how? Although i was just a little kid, i figured out that 'the more you expose yourself to your fear, the more its intensity decreases'. So, instead of waiting for a Messiah to cure my disease, i started sleeping in a dark and locked room, although i would face BAD, or should i say, really bad hallucinations, i would start praying and Somehow sleep.. most of the time it resulted in high fever and headaches in the morning..but eventually, i shook my fear off my shoulders! Now i am big enough to watch movies, and haunted movies, but i don't...because i just can't stand to go through the same...it has become a dark speck in my memory, the dark and locked room , is like a dark room in my blurred memory... But now i surely know the cure of this disease...and i can UNDOUBTEDLY understand and help another child going through the same..:)
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Remove Fear of Snakes

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FACTS ABOUT SNAKES! Some of the Facts about Snakes may reduce our Fear for Snakes and bring in us the curiosity to learn more about them. Some Snakes eat Insects, Bugs etc., which are harmful to Humans. Snakes eat Rat, Gophers etc. and protect the Crops from them. Just like Humans, Birds and Animals, Snakes also play an Important Role in maintaining the Chain of Living Things. (Painting by the Team member)		SNAKE IN HAND AND A SMILE ON FACE? Though Snakes are Fearful Reptiles, some Knowledge about them will definitely help us to come out of our fear. We will be able to differentiate Poisoness and Non-poisoness Snakes and accordingly take care of ourselves, without any Fear. (Courtesy: Madam Sarita Tejwani,Teacher, India )

How to Overcome Fear?

Over a period of time, we experience many fears in our life and learn to overcome it. We request our Visitors to share their experience about their FEARS and how they managed to solve them.

• Madalina C
  
  By reeducating the mind we can learn how to cope with fear and treat it as a normal fact and not as a paralyzing obstacle.
  
  
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• Dora S
  
  Fear is like a hologram. At first sight it seems real but if you look closer, you realised it is nothing but an illusion.
  
  
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• Oana M
  
  Discover the origins of your fears:
  -the impact of the family
  -personal experiences
  
  
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• Tania B
  
  if you want to overcome a certain fear, the first thing you should do is ask tourself some questions like why does this situation makes me feel this way or what about this situation frightens me. Afterwards you should create a worst case scenario and then ask yourself what would happen to me if it would become real. This way you may realize that whatever happens there are ways to deal with the situation, with your fear.
  
  
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• Ioana C
  
  When your courage is genuine, authentic, it comes with a certain caution. This prudence inspires us to act thoughtfully and keep your common sense in unexpected situations.
  
  
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Does Fear help to get good marks in Exams?

We often hear people telling the Students that if they had even little fear about scoring less marks and be shamed,they would have prepared well for the Exam. Is it true that a Student's performance in Exams can be compared with the fear that he has for score? Express your views here.

• Fear never helps anyone get good marks.On the contrary it worsens the situation.So we should try to find the root cause of it and remove it from the root to fare well.
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• I don't think fear helps a person to score well.but because of fear of getting less mark,we practice well,then we will be able to get good marks.
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• Good practice gives confidence. This confidence helps to score well
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• No, when I'm afraid, that block me and I become ineffective.
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• yes i feel that fear can get us good marks in our exams due to fear in us we study well for our exams and score good
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Fear to some extent is good for performing well in Exams

Regular and Systematic Studies reduce Exam Fear in Children. (Animation by Samarth - One of the Team Members)

CRUNCH CORNER _Think and be Fearless-A Story