How do you feel/act when your afraid?

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I'm not asking about what you are afraid of, but rather how do you feel when faced with something you fear and what are your reactions. For some people I understand, when they are afraid they break out in a cold sweat and their heart beat slows down. Some people are never afaid and do not feel fear. Also others completely shut down and don't think when they get scared. For some, it depends on the situation.

When I'm afraid, I feel this burning pain in the pit of my stomach, in any circumstance. Every thing feels like it's in slow-motion and my heart speeds up. I can still think rationally, but it takes a while because I have to rip my focus away from the thing I fear and figure out to make it go away, or get away from it.

Cheerful subject eh? I'm chalk full of 'em. So, how do you feel when faced with fear and what are your reactions?

Hm...when I'm faced with fear, usually what happens is I start to burn up and begin to sweat, and I feel frozen in place, I get the feeling like I can't do anything about it. Most of the time, I can't even think straight.

-TFS

I guess I would just freeze there, on the spot, while staring at whatever that I'm afraid of. It would take me a long time to look away or even to do something about it. This is bad, actually, because I could have run away instead of standing there like a statue, waiting for whatever that I'm afraid of taking control of me.

I freeze up. But that is only when I get extremely scared. Now this may come as a surprise to some, I don't know, but when I get fear in a relationship I get sick. The fear of my girlfriend cheating on me has come over me here and there and I literly get sick. Also when I thought we were going to break up, and when we actcually did...I felt horrible. That kind of fear makes me throw up. It's bad.

When I'm afraid I stay relatively calm and I survey what kind of situation I'm in and try to find a way to make it better for me. But I get extremely shy and I can't talk to people because it'll sound like I have a frog in my throat. Later on when I'm out of the scary situation, I break down and cry.

Me? Well, in true fear, my body turns to ice, but still burns (especially around my head), I can hear my heart-beat very clearly in my ears, I tense up, especially around my temples (I also get a banging headache, from the heavy heart-beat and tenseness), my stomach turns into a knot, and I might throw-up. I also turn extremely pale.

I used to have panic attacks, so panic doesn't strike me as much, and when I feel the first signs of it, I can usually calm myself down. I don't get scared much more, anyway.

When I get scared I try to be clam and think what I should do. And when I can't think of anything logical I run away as fast as possible. If not that, I freeze up and stare at the thing I am scared about.

When I'm afraid, my heart beats really fast. Like I can feel it in my mouth. Then whispered swear words are let loose, but once I come to my senses I pray. Then the problem goes away. Now I haven't had anything really, really freaky happen to me, but when there's a virus or something on my comp (or worse, someone else's comp), that's what I do.

Afraid? I just go away and reside in solitude. Somewhere safe, familiar. Otherwise, I would most likely shake. And if I am filled with rage, then I will burst out and then go back to the corner. Emo tastic

When I'm afraid, I freeze and loose control of my entire body. I stand perfectly still and my heart beats rapidly. Then I start to cry, and then run frantically screaming "Bloody murder!"

When I get very, very scared, my legs start shaking and feel really weak. My heart starts racing and it looks like it's beating right out of my shirt. My throat gets really dry and my stomach gets this kind of sick, empty feeling. In particularly severe situations I'll lose the ability to speak altogether.

It's been awhile since I've gotten that scared over anything. I've got this terrible fear of giving formal type speeches and presentations though and those are the things that happen. It's pretty embarrassing actually.

Originally Posted by Darth Numra

Hm...when I'm faced with fear, usually what happens is I start to burn up and begin to sweat, and I feel frozen in place, I get the feeling like I can't do anything about it. Most of the time, I can't even think straight.

When I'm afraid, I feel this burning pain in the pit of my stomach, in any circumstance

Samething that you two but I dont froze in place, I run away....

i feel sorta outraged????Like wonderign what will happen next!

How do I react to fear? Well... I try to cover it up with anger, to be honest. I hate to show that I'm scared (I grew up with three staunch older brothers so I think that I got it off them). Sometimes when I'm scared, I become enraged for real because it's an emotion that I was taught to see as a weakness...

I become very defensive when I'm scared. Like I'm ready to fight whatever the threat is. On the inside, though, my heart speeds to a ridiculus amount and I get butterflies in my stomache. :confused:

There is this thing, you get called an adrinealline(sp?) rush. And i have been through a serious situation of it.

Well, there was this one time, when this stray dog came up to me and my friend, we tried to avoid it, but it just kept on looking and walking around us all playful like.

We kinda let it do its thing as we tried to walk home, when all of a sudden it started barking and snarling really loud. The dog knocked my friend down and started trying to bite at her neck. I dont remember much except that i felt like i had this sudden EXTREAM worry, and fear at the same time. It almost was like, i acted without thought, I ran up to the dog, and kicked it in the gut really hard somehow, and my friend got up and hightailed it across the street to my house. We got home and called animal control/humaine society to have the dog taken up, as it had no collar. Luckily, it didnt bother to chase us for some reason.

I swear, it was the most scariest moment of my life. So i guess you could say, that when i am really afraid, there is just this rush of adrinealine, and my whole body seems to tense. Depending on the situatioin.

I panic out of the anxiety of the situation and things usually go all wrong. Usually, it's followed by me sweating excessively and talking in uneasily. Stuff like that. Really though, I go into a focus that's really fixated but still has a rather lack of balance to it. More often that not though, my judgement is kind of modified for worse.