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In addition to the phyzical symptoms, fear includes an outstanding mental change. A frightened person is suffering from Intellectual disorganization. A person afraid is one whose thinking has gone astray. Not knowing how to think, he doesn’t what to do. A person who is experiencing true fear either does nothing, or behaves in ways, which are inappropriate. Fear may cause a child to run into a path of an oncoming automobile. |
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A well-organized adult, observing the behaviour of the child, may experience an intense, fear-like feeling. This feeling will not, however, prevent him from snatching the child out of the path of danger. In fact, the physical changes he experiences enable him to act more vigorously and quickly in the accomplishment of his task. In stage fright, the performer may be blocked in his thinking and so find himself unable to go on with he had palnned to say or do. His internal behaviour may be basic to the overt expressions of his inability to mobilize and integrate his inner forces. In extreme stage fright, as in an extreme state of emotion such as fear, the individual is suffering temporarily from the dynamics of disintegration.
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