Sentences with phrase «irrational fear»

The real threat to the public comes from irrational fears of nuclear power.

Each can be debilitating with irrational fears and worries.

When the anxiety results from irrational fears, it can disrupt or disable normal life.

In fact, bankruptcy is a great solution even though people carry all sorts of urban myths and irrational fears about filing bankruptcy.

From reading your email, I would not classify this as a potty training issue, but rather as irrational fear.

So, to address this issue, you have to address the fear and you have to remember that it is called irrational fear for a reason.

It can help calm irrational fears and raise rational concern.

Indeed, this widespread and largely irrational fear has become a second epidemic — one that must also be addressed by pastors concerned for people's spiritual health.

You can NOT talk someone out of their deep seated irrational fear.

This can often occur as a result of irrational fears apparent in one partner linked to jealousy in the past.

So many people want this lifestyle, but I think irrational fear holds most people back.

I have to confess that this sometimes almost irrational fear affects me to.

I think a lot of why I've stayed over the years has to do with kids and my own irrational fear that I can't get along without her.

Some attorneys have irrational fears of cloud - based software, worried about the security or potential ethical issues.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic - Programming) offers you a way to overcome irrational fears by turning them into something useful.

Here again I appeal to Susanne Langer's evidence, which consists largely in noting cases of irrational fear on the part of chimpanzees, fear that can not be explained either by instinct or by learning.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19 million people in the United States alone suffer from mental illnesses that involve irrational fear responses.

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

Prevent these triggers from affecting your dog, and if possible, try help your dog face irrational fears through desensitization and counterconditioning.

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.

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.

(e) Intense irrational fears, guilt feelings, obsessive thoughts, or compulsive actions.

Speaking about the decision to tackle his fear of heights for the stunt, Dr John added: «Isn't it a fairly irrational fear in a way because you know that everything that is around about you is going to hold you.

You get a lot of trash, a lot of fanatical ranting, a whole mess of irrational fear mongering, but zero actual facts or substance.

TheFabMom ® was born in 2011 as a living lifestyle experiment to cope with my then irrational fear of motherhood: To keep life Focused, Flirty, Fun & as close to Fabulous as possible After Babies (get it: f - a-b).

If your toddler demonstrates some sort of irrational fear when faced with the idea of using the restroom and you've ruled out constipation, there are several other possible explanations.

Now that your child is old enough to sort out fact from fantasy, irrational fears tend to abate.

«We all lose when we allow irrational fear, fueled in part by prime - time ratings and political expediency, to supersede pragmatic public health preparedness,» Spencer wrote.

Unfortunately, once irrational fears have been aroused, it becomes difficult to distinguish real risk from hypothetical risk.

The technique called «the fear tap» calms the fight - or - flight response, reduces irrational fear, and steadies your mind.

I just had this nagging irrational fear that the process would somehow agitate my pre-existing conditions -LCB- anxiety, worry, stress -RCB- and I would be left in a worse state of mind.

Consider talking to your partner about these feelings of mistrust — if they're worthy of you, they won't be bothered by a few irrational fears, especially if they know those feelings are simply a nasty by - product of being hurt in the past.

However, don't let irrational fears overcome common logic and sound judgment, let the objectivity prevail and make you a successful suitor of gorgeous Russian brides.

It strikes me that this question — along with, of course, various irrational fears, mistakes, biases, and conspiracy theories — was at the heart of the Blaine Amendment controversies, and remains a central problem of political morality today.

I think this second and equally irrational fear of halving our payout arises from the huge discrepancy between what online distributors pay self - published authors and what traditional publishers pay their authors.

You are ignorant and you are speading irrational fears!

Fear grows best when sown in fields of ignorance, while science, rationality, and education are the greatest weapons modern societies have against irrational fear.

The longer - term threat to nuclear power in the United States is the high cost of construction and the public's irrational fear Continue reading Can Nuclear Power be Saved?