Fear is a basic emotion that has a very strong effect on a person's life. It is difficult to deal with it, but it is almost always necessary, since its paralyzing effect can lead to unpleasant consequences.
Assessment of your condition
First of all, you need to remember why you need and what emotions give a person. After all, fear is an experience, feeling, emotion. Just one of many. Emotions are a reaction to the conformity or non-conformity of reality with expectations and needs, an assessment of what is happening. Emotions energetically and functionally prepare the body for behavior that is adequate to this assessment.
There are several steps to be taken to defeat fear. First you need to stop, listen to yourself and your feelings (including bodily). It is the reactions of the body that make it possible to accurately recognize emotions.
If you experience fear, it means that something in your environment is perceived or recognized by your body as something dangerous to your mental or physical integrity. Realize this, calm yourself, look around and assess the situation with your mind. Based on this assessment, you need to determine what development of this dangerous situation you want, what development you can expect, what exactly you need to do.
Take action! It chases away the fear
After assessing the situation from all sides, realizing your capabilities, take action. By and large, as soon as you start doing something, changing the situation, fighting, fear disappears, because from a passive, waiting state, you go into an active one. Remember to evaluate the changing situation.
The fact is that people very rarely fully understand their emotions. In childhood, many are generally forbidden to feel in a certain area. Boys are forbidden to be afraid, girls are forbidden to be angry. Suppressing emotions does not lead to anything good. Especially considering that this suppression does not allow you to correctly assess your reactions, choose a course of action.
When you're scared, do your best to take control of the situation into your own hands. Once you feel that you are in control of the situation, the fear will go away.
When it comes to obsessive, disturbing fear, the most important thing here is to take action. Trying to analyze this kind of fear only increases it. Therefore, you need to stop, take a few deep breaths and begin to act, as if skipping intermediate steps. Perhaps the chosen line of action already in the process will seem illogical or incorrect to you, in this case, do not hesitate to change it, but do not freeze halfway, starting to analyze what is happening again. This will not lead to anything good, you just "wind up" yourself without any sense.
