Am I broken? (1 Viewer)

[Pirioca]

Is my lack of fear mean I'm broken some how?! Is it bad?

Nope. You just intuitively know that everything will work out fine. There are people that live their whole life with such 'faith in self-regulating forces'. You could also call it faith in God in a more progressive way. It has nothing to do with the god they still tell us in church about.

Fear could save your life - for example the fear of cuddling with a 700 pound Grizzly Bear mom that had to protect her children. But most fears we have nowadays are unreasoned. We don't life in caves anymore, but we often still react like cavemen. The fight-or-flight response still works fine, but quiet often not to our advantage anymore.

85 Percent of What We Worry About Never Happens

Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." Now there's a study that proves it. This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize.

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Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." Now there's a study that proves it. This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize. In this study, subjects were asked to write down their worries over an extended period of time and then identify which of their imagined misfortunes did not actually happen. Lo and behold, it turns out that 85 percent of what subjects worried about never happened, and with the 15 percent that did happen, 79 percent of subjects discovered either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning. This means that 97 percent of what you worry over is not much more than a fearful mind punishing you with exaggerations and misperceptions.

 

[LoveYooShaSha]

Tomorrow I'm taking a friend to the dentist so he can have wisdom teeth removed. He's terrified because he's going under. On my Monday I'm having surgery in 3 places on my stomach. I'm looking forward to getting the problem fixed, I get good drugs, and anesthesia is the best sleep of your life. I have zero fear. I rarely experience fear and when I do I shrug it off quickly and get to doing what needs to be done. The closest I have to fear in my life is social anxiety. Is my lack of fear mean I'm broken some how?! Is it bad?

I dont think ur broken.

Personally i dont fear pain at the dentist cause its not permanent n tooth pain is awful when its cavities or worse. The cure is better than the pain beforehand(no matter how painful the dental procedure is at tat moment)

Iv also had nose(deviated septum correction procedure) surgery n i dint fear it. At worse i had good anesthesia(or if not id be in pain during the procedure) or id be living with a broken nose or worse, but it was worth the risk. The fix dint take as the nose(septum) redeviated, or so i rmbr the explanation. Being cartilage, the surgery to cut/remove it dint last n it (my nose) is still blocked by the deviation-20 yrs after the failed surgery i still hv same problems with my nose/breathing/asthma(maybe lesser tho)

PS unless we're both broken (for not hvg fear)