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Conclusion
Why can’t we simply become fearless to overcome panic?
Fear is when your brain sense a threat of existantial crisis. Panic is the impulsive response, whereby it tries to take you out of fear immidiatly.
Fear and panic are real and everyone has it.
Fear saves us from doing things that are harmful for our life and health. For example, if you become fearless that jumping from a 10 meter hight may kill you, and if you jump, you may actually die.
The way panic inhibits our consciousness(or lack of consciousness leads to panic), and panic activates our limbic brain for threat reaction, lack of fear totally inhibits our limbic brain. We then stop feeling anything. Our brain takes decisions and judge the current environment based on feelings. If our feelings are stopped due to fearlessness, we will make upteen mistakes in the judgement and decisions, which will eventually lead us to risk our lives.
Panic disorder is an overthinking about a risk, and remaining occupied in the thoughts of the danger of the risk; fearlessness is totally not caring about a genuine risk;
Just like any other thing in life, the way overthinking about risk is bad, not thinking about risk at all is bad too;
You don’t have to become fearless; you have to recognize your risks, fear of the consequences of those risks, and then slowly address the fear in real life;
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Hi Rupam da,
This is a great article packed with valuable information.
If someone is suffering from memory functioning not properly and that in turn causes panic, is that something curable? E.g., in a sudden actionable situation his/her memory doesn’t trigger in time to resolve the situation, and instead panic occurs. So, no action is taken and a disastrous situation is imminent, in turn, that causes more panic.
Dear Subhajit, thanks for your comment and for posting the query.
1. Panic is a reaction of the brain. Brain panics when it considers a situation threatful.
2. In my case, I am severely dyslexic. I can’t make sense of spellings, and because of severe brain information overload, often tend to forget small things when I try to remember them. It happens all the time.
3. When I forget and fail to recollect information, it becomes frustrating sometimes, and such frustration may irritate me.
4. Such forgetfulness is limited to forgetting memory and may result in carelessness and diversion of focus from our actions. For instance, over the past few weeks, several times, I have forgotten to turn off the gas after making tea, resulting in burning the utensil.
5. Such incidents resulted in kind of fear and over-alertness whenever I went near the stove.
So, I can completely understand and comprehend your question. Here is how I have dealt with the situation.
i) When such forgetfulness occurs, note down the incidents.
ii) This convinces the brain that you are not worried or frustrated about the situation but taking them as an opportunity to learn why they are happening.
iii) When you are not occupied, open the notes of all the situations and think deeply from the last evening of the day of the event till the evening of the day of the event about every incident.
iv) You will invariably notice that the forgetfulness is a result of poor sleep, relationship conflict, someone triggering you already in the last two days, or suppressed anger.
v) Now, when you correlate multiple such incidents, you will see similar patterns.
vi) Write down this pattern as “Cause of Forgetfulness.”
vii) Next time a similar event happens, just open your notes of the causation section and check if the events and patterns are the same as what you have discovered.
viii) After pattern matching, you will see that you are no more panicking. Now your brain will device strategies to overcome or avoid those patterns.
Final Thought:-
Panic is a phenomenon of the afraid subconscious brain. Whenever panic situations are appearing in life, bring them into your conscious brain and analyze them. Helps you overcome panic attacks.