What causes fear?

The unknown or sometimes the known can cause fears and phobias... think what would happen if you fell into a snake pit? Most likely you would be afraid of snakes from then on... :o(

Unpleasant or undesired outcome of an event may cause fear.

Unknown causes fear.

Creepy feeling or slimy feeling of insects/lizards/cockroaches etc. may cause fear.

Fears appear when we are not prepared to face the reality/truth.

Fear? What's that?

"There are three basic causes of fear. These are: the possibility of harm, the possibility of frustration (the failure to achieve), and the possibility of not surviving."

This website has a lot more info if you want it (but it's a church website, so take it for what it's worth):

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-...

Wikipedia on fear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear#Causes_of_fear

We all have strange fears I'm scared of bugs ants, flys, etc. you may have a bad memory that has to do with flowers and you just don't remember it because you're brain blocked it out.

Right, this is a hard one. Ive had phobias and fears on...

Spiders

Snakes

and some other animals. I think this is because i think they can do something to me, ei, hurt me. Because you know from tv and books they say snakes can be poisonous and so on...

Fear of the unknown. Things that are alien in nature.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

My school chaplin said this some years ago and I have never forgotten. Its so true.

FEAR is

F - false

E - expectations

A - appearing

R - real

Me, the Boogerman