What causes acute fear?

Answer 1

Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals that cause a racing heart, fast breathing and energized muscles, among other things, also known as the fight-or-flight response.

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Answer 2

Fear in human beings can vary largely from person to person. It is aroused by different stimuli and can vary in form and condition. Fear in people is mainly felt when people feel scared or threatened or getting afraid of something could possibly happen. In some people, fear becomes maladaptive, as they struggle with anxiety, phobias and sometimes can lead to panic attacks.

There are number of causes as to what actually causes fear. It can develop within our social environment in which we live or in our sub conscious mind. Sometimes it can happen with emotional relations with pain or anxiety, pphobia or trauma.

Fear is also caused to due day to day events such as threat or attacks by terrorists, or on account of death, war crime or violence. Sometimes people are also scared of insects such as cockroaches or Spiders. We at least get too fear once in life.

Answer 3

Phobia could be caused due to heredity or some incident. A person could inherit phobias too.

Answer 4

Fear results in both respect and desire to cause harm to the one perceived as fearsome.