Irrational Fear

IRRATIONAL FEAR

(Lakshay Raja)

A caveman would fear more of his survival than his son not being what he thought of. A lost shepherd might sacrifice on killing his sheep for the rainfall from the heaven. And a teen with everything would burn his cigarettes up in a fear of his girl being with someone else. 

Nine months old Albert feared nothing. Nothing until he was introduced to the irrational fear. As the part of a case study, Albert was exposed to a white rat, briefly and for the first time. Albert showed no fear and went on playing with the little rat, poking and blocking around its paths. There was no past memory or any story his little brain could think of to arose any rational fear. 

Later, experimentalists went on making a loud noise with the hammer on a steel at the back of Albert, every-time Albert touched the white rat. Little Albert responded by crying and showing fear. Albert feared for the first time and his brain had probably something to make him aware of the danger around him. 

Irrational fear is a state that makes us react unknowingly. Of all the things we see, observe or hear, it generates thoughts that hop around until they get something to relate with. The easiest way to get a reaction out of someone is working over the irrational fears; the way media works. So if I overhear a conversation related to a serial killer on a bus and a news channel throws a related story as a news, it would get both my attention and reaction. But that is a different story.

Try not to pause yourself doing any activity just to let your thoughts wander around the past happenings. That might bring in anxiety or end up in a phobia of something. Growing up in a household you feel is not stable and constant makes you prone to seeing the world as a fearful place. 

The hammer at your back would bang all the time. Just don’t stop playing with that white rat. 

The case study doesn’t show how the white rat reacted. 

I am Albert and I am on a date with my love. The hammer at my back is banging. If I end up not being witty, if I end up crying, my white rat would leave. 

The white rat doesn’t react over the hammer, the white rat has its own disturbances.

The white rat has his own irrational fears.