Sentences with phrase «as irrational fear»

Driving phobia is defined as an irrational fear of impending danger.

There's the basic wish to be liked and agreeable, as well as the irrational fear of being left out.

Paula's illness manifested as the irrational fear that her boyfriend was an alcoholic and drug addict.

Not exact matches

I see a lot of Atheists responding to the last 2k years worth of mankind's legacy of irrational fear in trying to explain who God is, using those silly fears interpreted in the Bible (although yes I agree, they stated them as fact) as justification to deny the existence of God, & not the concept itself.

Being non-authoritarian, AA does not use irrational fear as a motivation.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

but because you're too cowardly to say that publicly for fear of the social stigma from your peers and parents, you're going to force them into a lifetime of irrational guilt as well.

Children with a phobia have an intense, extreme, and irrational fear of something specific, such as a dog, needles, or the dark.

As I have an irrational fear of frogs (still hard to admit!)

Your irrational fear of same - gender marriage, which changes nothing about your day to day life, confirms your status as a modest little man, with much to be modest about.

A strange, irrational fear that had been chewing at my mind for as long as I could remember.

Many things come into play such as, past memories and irrational fears.

Many things come into play, like what you associate with sex such as, old memories and irrational fears - all of which may be causing you issues and are not very encouraging.

Barring specific food allergies (which lately everyone seems to have an undiagnosed case of Celiac disease) or an irrational fear of certain food additives (like monosodium glutamate), there is little basis to label a food as being universally «dirty» or unhealthy.

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Try as he might to dominate her, Marnie just won't crack, leaving Mark no alternative save to solve the mystery of her strange behavior, which includes hatred of men, nightmares, and an irrational fear of the color red.

We laugh at their folly, their situations, and their irrational fears, just as we would a good friend in the same situation.

It plays up these qualities pushing them to levels of uncomfortable and sometime gut - busting laughter as the film brilliantly satirizes the irrational homophobic fear that can exist in straight men.

Steinberger considers those fears to be «irrational» as his best sellers tend to be comics that have a higher mainstream profile from movies, such as WANTED, HELLBOY, KICK - ASS, etc..

Such a high degree of volatility could be unsettling and drive irrational behavior, such as selling out of fear or buying and leveraging out of greed.

This paves the path to behavioral problems such as depression, stress - related disorders, irrational fears and compulsive, obsessive disorders.

We have seen a few cases of extreme and irrational fear in dogs that seem to be seizure - based as determined by the bout - like nature of the problem, EEG evidence in one case and positive response to anticonvulsant medication.

Rooted in common irrational fears, the show taps into the excitement and naivety of the computer age as what we've come to know as machines emanate more and more intrinsic human qualities.

Like a cognitive roll call, every repressed thought is buried here: the traumatically humiliating moment from your childhood, the impure dreams you had as a teen, and the irrational fears you disguise as an adult — this is a den -LSB-.....]

Like a cognitive roll call, every repressed thought is buried here: the traumatically humiliating moment from your childhood, the impure dreams you had as a teen, and the irrational fears you disguise as an adult — this is a den in which the taboo hibernates.

What strikes me as irrational is that an intelligent person like Dr. Lewis, who has devoted his professional life to science, would either pay no heed to, or dismiss, the mountains of scientific evidence, from neuroscience and psychology and economics and sociology, that demonstrates beyond any serious question that the way we perceive risk is affective... Our fears are a combination of the facts and how those facts feel.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

Many people seem to have an irrational fear of nuclear power generation plants, just as people a century ago were fearful of domestic electricity supplies using alternating current.

In Gleick's 2009 editorial identifying fear as an «effective tool», Gleick observed that «science and rationality» were the «greatest weapons» in combatting irrational fear — a point on which CA readers would agree.

But yes, Mr. Rose is spreading irrational fear of the «Green Blob» as it plays well on the high energy bills and anger about that.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

A bit of radiation does you good, certainly no har, up to 400 tims theevcuation evels that we can prove epidemiologically, but irrational fear and old hypothese that are just wrong keeps disproven beliefs as the basis for regulation and officials in hazmat suits waving meters where in radiation levels people all around the world live out normal lives in.

But I quickly learned, as I think most solos do, that fear is an irrational response to the solo opportunity.

Due to an irrational fear she had of the defendants, as SOA 2003, s 30 (2) provides that an offence is committed if the complainant «lacks the capacity to choose whether to agree to the touching (whether because he lacks sufficient understanding of the nature or forseeable consequences of what is being done, or for any other reason)».

Dental phobia is a fear, or phobia, traditionally defined as an irrational and exaggerated fear of dentists and dental procedures.

Some controversy exists with regards to whether the fear is «irrational», as dental phobia is most commonly caused by previous bad experiences.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.

Results showed that high fear of emotions and beliefs that emotions are uncontrollable, irrational and damaging are related withs specific behaviours, such as those involved in avoidant coping (i.e., behavioural disengagement, denial, substance use and mental disengagement).

The Good Men Project reported that as the child started to feel irrational anger, fear and even disrespect a family member lead to the deteriorating relationships and bonds, which could eventually result to erasing the family unit altogether.

Jack came to me because his parents were concerned about his high levels of aggression and what they referred to as his «irrational fears.»

Some of the typical symptoms of shell shock, now referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), are: hyper - vigilance, trouble sleeping, nightmares, irritability, irrational fears, heightened anxieties, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, numbness, obsessiveness, emotional dysregulation, violence, suicide.

This can be anything from the client feeling they are deviating from societal expectations to personal issues that present themselves as manifestations through irrational fears.

But (as usual) I felt more calm about everything the next morning - and (as usual) I knew in my heart that I needed to push myself, because I also know in my heart that most of my fears are completely irrational.