My Fear- Personal Narrative Essay

To you, I am just another story to tell. My phone is on, but I haven’t received a text in weeks. You remind me of that every day. You laugh at me, call me a whore, tell me I am crazy. To you, I am just another girl for you to destroy. Depression, you make me physically ill. You make me thoughtless. I can’t concentrate on conversations or school anymore. I am just so exhausted. I look forward to the moment I can crawl into bed and sleep my life away. You made my life not worth living. Anxiety, you lowered my self-esteem. I can’t even wear my hair up in ponytails because you told me my forehead was too big. You told me that everyone was watching me walk down the hallway, judging my plain outfits. You pulled me into extreme isolation. When you

Fear is something that nobody truly understands at first. There is a moment though when fear becomes clear and at that moment, it is truly scary. Fear is like a higher power taking control of you. It is as simple as the dark or death. Fear will overcome any willpower, courage, and any other feeling. You can tell when someone is truly fearing something when they become irrational and do not act as if they were themselves. I’ve heard many occurrences when someone is fearing something, because sometimes it brings fear into me as well. Fear spreads like a pandemic and it impacts everyone that even catches a glimpse of fear. When I experience fear, I don’t like telling people my own fears. Because I fear telling people, I become more prone to my

that I was having Obsessive tendencies with how often I had to clean things. I possessed certain

It was as if I was living an entire other life, comfortable in my dreams. But I would awake each morning distirbued; reliving my dad’s murder.

I opened my eyes to see nurses and doctors around my bedside. The bliss and serenity I had felt in the moments before... seemed to be the contentment they felt at the moment I opened my eyes. I had just survived a "Code

“Hailey it’s so childish to be afraid of heights stop acting like you’re five years old,” says Chelsey.

Facing fear helps my characters grow and develop through gaining courage and learning how to get through tough situations. By standing up to what scares them most they are able to overcome and from their experiences. For example, Taylor has been afraid of tires since she saw Newt Hardbine’s father get flung on top of a sign by an exploding tractor tire. On page 108, Mattie tosses a five-gallon Jerry can at her, explaining “That’s 28 pounds of water. 28 pounds of air is about what you put in a tire. When it hits you, that’s what it feels like.” This makes her feel better, even though it doesn’t completely diminish her fear. She says “live free or bust”, and goes on with her life of working at a tire shop. Also, when Estevan and Esperanza meet

I recall an event in my life that was definitely scary and soul searching. I am not greatly

“Most of the time when I want to write I get depressed when I think about writing. Sometimes I do have an idea but it's hard to me to put them on paper, I don't know why but sometimes when I'm trying to write about idea its look like I forget everything” this is the sentence that I start my first Journey of this semester and from this time until now I learn a lot of new things and now I have an idea that how I can write correctly. I think that I find my fear of writing was because I don’t know how to write and now I have an Idea about writing and all I need some practice. As I see my biggest problem is how to use verb tense and where should I put a comma, but that problem is not big as the problem that I have at the start of the semester. I

“Michigan Adventure is the best.” I claimed “Well” Mom chimed in “Do you want to go on the Funnel of Fear” Mom asked. I beamed “Sure.”

I remember waiting for a long time, on the cold, dark December night; feeling as though I were about to cry, not from the pain, but from the thought that I could worry anyone in such a way.

Maybe you are a writer who is scared to let others know what you write about, like I was. Maybe you think they will judge you, and they may. If you are like me then you know what it feels like to get a sudden urge to write where you have to pour out your heart and soul. I'm talking about those urges that just don't make any sense where you can't sleep because these wonderful thoughts keep flooding your brain. Maybe you can't wait to get home so like me you carry a writing pad with you just incase you get inspired. I now realize that these strong desires for me to write, it's not for me but for others. In the past I was afraid of sharing my thoughts with others, but one day I realized, my thoughts can help others as well. Fear is crazy, it has

There is a normal amount of concern throughout difficult circumstances in life. However, more than just general concern, anxiety becomes an emotional overbearing big brother that hinders from allowing healthy existence under the pressures of reality. Sometimes this fear grows into an almost unbearable, overwhelming state that keeps one from living life and hindering healthy, functional responses. People may turn to spirituality and spiritual development as they look to have a deeper understanding of their ultimate purpose in life, aiding in the overwhelming, burdened, unclear, anxiousness. It seems as if most common (non life threatening) mental illnesses have some amount of debilitating, excessive, overwhelming fear that is the driving force. Fear seems to be the emotion that drives many of our emotional responses. Fear of relationships, fear of failing, fear at not being good enough, fear of overload, fear that someone is watching you, fear of the unknown, fear of change, etc. Out of this fear, an increase in anxiety arises.

I believe in fear. Yes, you read this right. I believe in the stomach-dropping feeling you get when you flunk a test. I believe in the regret you feel when you’re about to ride a roller coaster more rapid than your mind can comprehend. I believe in the spine-tingling feeling when you’re watching a horror movie on TV. I believe in the reason why you can’t drown a fingernail-size spider that lives in your sink.

Around 10-17% of the general population will develop an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives (Kessler et al., 2007), and affected individuals are typically severely impaired in their social and occupational function. In order to improve current treatment options, a detailed understanding of the neural circuits that underlie fear behavior, and their dysregulation in patients with anxiety disorder, is critical. Neuronal circuits encoding fear include the amygdala, PAG, and dMT, among several other regions. The amygdala integrates fear-related sensory input and initiates fear responses through CeM output projections targeting brainstem or hypothalamic nuclei. Generally, input signals to the amygdala are relayed from LA to CeM via the