Emotional definitions such as a frightened person, panic fear, a restless facial expression, a terrible and terrifying object are used to describe anxiety and fear. Often people say that they have “fears”, they enthusiastically talk about them, but with their facial expressions they show anything, but not fear or fear. In fact, a person experiencing fear or a frightened person has quite expressive typical characteristics. They will be discussed in the article.
Fright
Fear or fright is a quality of a person's personality, a tendency from time to time to experience sudden fear, strong excitement from something terrible, frightening, terrible.
When frightened, the feeling of fear arises unexpectedly. A frightened person can forget his name, where he is, lose the power of speech. The companion of fear is always surprise.
Fear is a reflex reaction of the body to a terrible or dangerous sudden situation. The person usually shudders, sometimes urination or defecation occurs, often people feel cold all over the body. If you look at the photo of a frightened person, you can see that his pupils are dilated, his body seems to be frozen in one position, his head is pulled into his neck.
But besides reflex fright, there are fears with which a person lives all his life. Outwardly, nothing terrible is happening, but the person looks like he is very frightened. Fear and horror are written on his face.
Frightened and panicked faces
Everyone knows the expressions on the faces of frightened people - wide eyes, confusion, pale skin. The extreme degree of fear is panic fear, which is characterized by physical activity. The panic state is short-term, and the fright can persist for a long time. But if a frightened facial expression persists for a long time, and there is no reason for this, then we are talking about a feeling of fear, which is caused by a painful condition of a person. Most often, this facial expression occurs with a mental disorder.
Terrible, terrifying
These definitions refer to the experience of fear, but can be used to describe more complex emotional states. The facial expression of a person who is experiencing horror or fear looks insane: his eyes are wide open, which reflect both fear and surprise. It is this view that is called "crazy". facial expressionsface motionless and frozen. In mentally ill people, one can often observe such a frozen expression on the face: as if petrified with horror.
Troubled looking
The most striking example of a restless look is the look of a student before an exam. If a frightened person has already met with something terrible, then the restless one only anticipates or assumes that he will meet with something that will frighten him.
The facial expressions of a restless person are very mobile, without a constant definite facial expression, the person's state is excited.
Fear Manipulation
Manipulation is a method of mental influence that is used to covertly suggest into the human psyche the desires, goals, intentions or attitudes of the manipulator that do not coincide with the needs of the victim.
A person can become a victim of manipulation only if he himself acts as a participant in the process, that is, he wants to fall under the influence of the manipulator. Manipulation is a game on human vulnerabilities and weaknesses, which depend on the characteristics of the psyche and worldview of a person, his system of values and relationships.
There is no person who has never encountered a manifestation of extraneous influence in his life. Anyone can become a manipulator - a business partner, a family member, a boss, a TV presenter, and even ourselves.
One type of manipulation is the use of human fears. This is the most favorite technique of manipulators. Often they play on the ignorance and lack of awareness of a person. For example, inIn childhood, parents manipulate children, scaring them: “If you behave badly, a policeman will pick you up”, “If you study poorly, you won’t go to university and start cleaning up the garbage on the street.” When a person becomes an adult, the authorities scare him with dismissal, the husband with divorce, and so on. The media scares you with gloomy news, advertising scares you with the development of all kinds of diseases and the attack of microbes. How to cope with the fears that they are trying to impose on us?
To do this, first of all, you need to find out how real and serious the threat is. Clarify the degree and likelihood of danger, refer to reliable and independent sources of information, preferably several.
Fear is born in our head, so the main rule is not to let it completely control our consciousness and ruin our whole life.