Fear can have very serious effects on your brain, and it can even kill you. Fear causes a chain reaction in the brain, from experiencing something that gives us fear, to the body’s physical fight-or-flight response to fear. Fear’s effects in the brain are far-reaching, using five parts of the brain. The brain’s response to fearful stimuli varies by how serious the threat appears to be.
What Fear Does to Your Brain – And How to Stop It #spd
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Different ways to deal with the long-term effects caused by living in fear.
Our brains’ through response to fear can be detrimental for our health because when the brain is focusing on fear, it comes at the expense of other, more rational thought processes. Fear can create long-term health problems such as weak creation of long-term memories, fatigue, chronic depression, accelerated aging, and premature death. People can combat fear exhaustion with fear extinction, by creating a new, healthier response to fearful stimulus.
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But all that fear isn’t good for us. In fact, according to neuroscience, fear is killing us.
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We are bombarded with fear based propaganda in the Western world.
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Neuroscientists believe that fear may be killing us.
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Fear is a physiological response system which can be retrained.
