In 1920, in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g), Freud emphasized the difference between fear and anxiety in terms of their relation to danger: Anxiety is a state characterized by the expectation and preparation for a danger, "even if unknown," while fear implies a determinate object. In Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety (1926d [1925]), he further insisted on the association of anxiety with a state of expectancy and the use of the term fear—"in keeping with current usage"—to represent the situation when anxiety has found an object.
So to understand the above, once fear has entered - you are in trouble! Anxiety is a worry but fear has reality.
Or so you think it does.
That is what is dangerous about fear. Fear is when you have allowed the anxiety to take control.
It is easy to fear. If you are like many people today, you have fear of the unknown. Your financial status could be in jeopardy because of unemployment or having to take a pay cut just to have a job. Your cost of living is rising even though you are doing all that you can to live off less money.
The world seems to be in a scarier, shakier place and that can cause anxiety.
How do you cope with the stress of life? What do you do when you suffer from chronic depression and then you have worry that comes into your mind?
It seems to me that many people have their stories of struggles today. If not theirs, then someone close to them. It is touching everyone.
You must hold back the fear. Worrying doesn't solve anything. Sometimes I believe that worry actually attracts fear and invites it into your life. It causes more problems than you had before.
Fight back the fear by learning how to deal with the stress. Don't sweat what you cannot change; instead learn how to adapt. It is a changing world and although we may not like the changes, sometimes we can only learn how to go with the flow instead of fighting to swim upstream.
So to understand the above, once fear has entered - you are in trouble! Anxiety is a worry but fear has reality.
Or so you think it does.
That is what is dangerous about fear. Fear is when you have allowed the anxiety to take control.
It is easy to fear. If you are like many people today, you have fear of the unknown. Your financial status could be in jeopardy because of unemployment or having to take a pay cut just to have a job. Your cost of living is rising even though you are doing all that you can to live off less money.
The world seems to be in a scarier, shakier place and that can cause anxiety.
How do you cope with the stress of life? What do you do when you suffer from chronic depression and then you have worry that comes into your mind?
It seems to me that many people have their stories of struggles today. If not theirs, then someone close to them. It is touching everyone.
You must hold back the fear. Worrying doesn't solve anything. Sometimes I believe that worry actually attracts fear and invites it into your life. It causes more problems than you had before.
Fight back the fear by learning how to deal with the stress. Don't sweat what you cannot change; instead learn how to adapt. It is a changing world and although we may not like the changes, sometimes we can only learn how to go with the flow instead of fighting to swim upstream.
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