Every day when I post my blog for the day, Wordpress suggests three topics for the next post. About every other day, without fail, one of the topics has to do with fear. Fear of....and fill in the blank.
For a nearly exhaustive (or is it exhausting) list of phobias, see the website phobialist.com. The website lists the fears in alphabetical order by phobia name, and it does a great job of showing how many fears there are in the world; my guess is that the list will simply continue to grow as time goes on.
In my experience, fear tends to come in one of two forms - fear based on experience or irrational fear that has no real foundation but is nonetheless just as intense. I do not find that one is more "real" than the other nor do I find that one is more incapacitating than the other. What I find to be true of all fear is that the emotional response to fear comes before the truth of the fear. Our intuition speaks to us far before the reality of the situation is clear.
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