Fear exists to protect us from threats and danger. It drives the fight or flight instinct. Sometimes we feel threatened by things that are not dangerous to our life and limb because the Amygdala has a programming ‘glitch’.

We call that irrational fear ‘glitch’ a phobia. The Greek word φόβος or ‘Phobos’ meaning “fear”

The sufferer recognizes it is irrational but they cannot control the fear and the physical and psychological effects it causes because the survival program is sending out false alarms.

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