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Fear as root and symptom of psychoses

Fear leads to insomnia, which leads to hypomania which evolves into mania, and finally psychosis.

This only refers to irrational fears, not the fear reaction to imminent threat which lead to flight-or-fight response.

Anxiety appears to be both root and symptom of fear, and usually indicates anxiety of an unvoiced fear.

Phobias are when both anxiety and fear form a complex set of behaviors related to an object of fear with anxiety on exposure.

Desensitization of the object of fear and positive rationalization about the anxiety and fear leads to evolution from anxiety and fear to relief through calmness, peace of mind and serenity.

Thus it is possible to transform both anxiety and fear into healthy action i.e. ignoring the stimuli.

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