Glassophobia- When Fear Is A Disability!

Fear is a natural human response and has, thus, beenwe want to do or make us do something that we
experience by each one of us at some point of time indon't want to do. It is then that the fear becomes a
our lives. It could be a simple fear of saying somethingdisability. For instance, one is just too afraid to speak in
wrong in public, fear of lizards or fear of unknown.public, which is to say if he or she is suffering from
Fear basically arises out of distrust of people orglassophobia, one might want to convey one's point to
situation. And distrust here is not simply a lack of beliefeveryone but his fear, over which he has no control,
but it is actually a sense of uneasiness borne out ofwould prevent him from doing so. In this case it is a
the feeling that something might go wrong at ancrippling disability. (Glassophobia is a fear of public
unknown point of time. This sometime makes onespeaking)
reach preemptively, which means that one changesSince phobia is a product of mind, the only to way to
one's behavior too drastically and too suddenly. Whenfight it, is to make one's mind stronger and immune to
the reaction is of a disproportionate alarm, the personfear-thoughts. Identifying one's fear is the first step and
might be said to be suffering from some kind ofthen facing it gradually is how one could overcome
phobia.fear permanently. So, if you afraid of public speaking,
Another form of fear is called terror, which is nothingstart talking to a group of two informally, then with a
but a fear of extreme kind. When one is struck by thisgroup of three people. And then increase it to ten and
kind of extreme fear the chemical response in themore. You wouldn't even know when you got rid of
brain prevents the person from making a rationalyour fear.
decision, and therefore, reacts without thinking in panic.Fear actually is not all that bad because it is our natural
It is possible that a person's response might be farbiological response to the situations that may endanger
greater than what the situation demands. In otherlife. If it were not there, we would be far more inclined
words, the person might overreact in panic.to put others and ourselves in danger. But excess of
Fear does reside in all of us in varying degrees but iteverything is bad; so when fear is excessive, it
becomes a problem when this fear takes control ofbecomes a disability.
our lives and prevents us from doing something that