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  2. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats.Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response.

  3. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Another way individuals can cope with stress is by the way one perceives stress. Perceptions of stress are critical for making decisions and living everyday life. The outlook or the way an individual perceives the given situation can affect the manner to which the individual handles stress, whether it be positive or negative.

  4. Fight-or-flight response - Wikipedia

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    The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn [1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. [2] It was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1915.

  5. Paranoia - Wikipedia

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    The word paranoia comes from the Greek παράνοια (paránoia), "madness", [27] and that from παρά (pará), "beside, by" [28] and νόος (nóos), "mind". [29] The term was used to describe a mental illness in which a delusional belief is the sole or most prominent feature.

  6. Risk perception - Wikipedia

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    Factors of risk perceptions. Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. [1] [2] [3] Risk perceptions often differ from statistical assessments of risk since they are affected by a wide range of affective (emotions, feelings, moods, etc.), cognitive (gravity of events, media coverage, risk-mitigating measures, etc.), contextual ...

  7. Anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    A medical professional must evaluate a person before diagnosing them with an anxiety disorder to ensure that their anxiety cannot be attributed to another medical illness or mental disorder. [2] It is possible for an individual to have more than one anxiety disorder during their life or to have more than one anxiety disorder at the same time. [2]

  8. Acute stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    The DSM-5 specifies that there is a higher prevalence of acute stress disorder among females compared to males due to neurobiological gender differences in stress response, as well as an alleged higher risk of experiencing traumatic events (a now defunct assumption originating from the continued prevalence of the Duluth Model in the legal ...

  9. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A way to control stress is first dealing with what is causing the stress if it is something the individual has control over. Other methods to control stress and reduce it can be: to not procrastinate and leave tasks for the last minute, do things you like, exercise, do breathing routines, go out with friends, and take a break.