How does Gibbons use language and structure to convey a sense of fear in the novel? Fear is an emotional response from dangerous situations. In Psychology, It is a vital reaction to physical and emotional danger - simply put, we need fear to stay safe and protected. There are three types of fear: Superstitious, when you fear something that has been dramatised by your own imagination; Intelligent, when you fear something that is purely based on your knowledge of the world around you; Uncertainty, the fear of the unknown. Although these fears seem different, most people will experience a fear (or phobia) that consists of the three types.
Sally Sally is a 23 year old woman who has a relentless dog phobia. Negative memories with dogs at a young impressionable age caused Sally to develop her phobia. Currently, Sally goes to extremes to avoid dogs or places in which dogs may frequent. As a result, this behavior creates anxiety when she encounters strangers or unfamiliar places. It is not unusual for people to suffer from
As humans we are frequently held back by our fears, unwilling to risk losing for the chance to win. In ‘Look Both Ways,’ Sarah Watt demonstrates that a fear of death can prevent people from living fully, just as the blackness of grief and suffering can also cripple the human spirit. As we are faced with fear and hardships, we must each learn to cope and in becoming resilient, life is somehow more complete. Fear of death can play a major role in our life choices, however in order to experience life in its entirety, we must face our fears and develop resilience for the future. Fear can overtake the human mind, preventing us from acting as we would most desire.
Christopher showed courage in many ways throughout the novel. When he found Wellington, a neighbourhood dog, dead in the front yard, Christopher spend time ʺdetectingʺ, or talking to people on his street. This was a difficulty for him, because he did not enjoy talking to people he had never met before. To him, people were hard to understand (Haddon p. 34). Although he knew it would be difficult, he faced it, and got
Intrusive memories can include flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time as well as upsetting dreams about the traumatic event. Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing involve trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event, feeling emotionally numb, avoiding activities you once enjoyed, hopelessness about the future, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and difficulty maintaining close relationships. Often, a person with PTSD will change their entire outlook on life after a traumatic event. The symptoms of their PTSD will cause them to reevaluate their life, and often cause them to make irrational decisions based on fear of such an event occurring
Phobias and Classical Conditioning A phobia is a constant irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that the person feels impelled to avoid (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). Phobias can interfere with the ability to work, socialize, and maintain a normal daily routine. They can cause such an overwhelming anxiety that people who have phobias may avoid any situation or object that is associated with the phobia. Individual whom have phobias may experience sweaty hands, increasing pulse rates, anxiety, or stomach aches. They may also isolate themselves from society (Mc.
Bullying can be further resisted through further evasion, through covert retaliatory bullying and through overt bullying (if all else fails). Then bullying on each side can escalate to threats of violence and actual violence as is sadly too often the case in domestic and mainstream psychiatric situations. And, even the confronter can get sucked into using evasion tactics when more direct communication is rendered useless by endless evasion upon evasion. Evasion can be aware or unaware, and it’s unaware evasion that can be the most problematic because attempts by a confronter to expose that evasion are likely to result in unaware denial and unaware delusion. Then, in this situation, if the confrontation is stepped up and/or is supplemented by intimidation or bullying, then the unaware denial and delusion can become ever more entrenched creating a vicious circle of determined force meeting eternally stubborn obstacle.
The person’s patterns of thinking and behaviour differ from the expectations in society and they interfere with the persons normal functioning. Examples of this are paranoid personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Anxiety disorders – People with anxiety disorders respond to certain objects or situations with fear and dread. This can be mild or severe. The person may suffer with responses that are un appropriate in certain situations as well as the usual signs (rapid heartbeat, sweating and nervousness.
They will have no positive thoughts and can even have thoughts of not wanting to live anymore. Anxiety becomes an issue when it is so severe that it doesn’t allow people from doing what they want or need to do –the person stresses and worries constantly. Suzy presents us with both these mood disorders (Coon and Mitterer, 2012, pg, 564). Psychoanalytic theories hold that depression is caused by repressed anger (Coon and Mitterer, 2012, pg, 564). This rage is displaced by turned inward self, blame and self-hate.
[In the Psychoanalytic chapter of the book Critical Theory Today author Lois Tyson does a wondering job defining Fear of Intimacy.] Tyson states “ Fear of intimacy- the chronic and overpowering that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy us and that we can remain emotionally safe only by remaining at an emotional distance from others at all times.” (16) the way to put this is that we need to pick and choose very carefully who to get close to. There are many people that we often get close to and end up getting hurt because we get to attached. [Next Tyson describes] “Fear of abandonment- the unshakeable belief that our friends and love ones are going to desert us (physical abandonment) or don’t really care about us (emotional abandonment)”. (16) In other worlds she means when you get abandon by friends and