The fear of the future /the fear of time is known as Chronophobia. Fear is a primitive emotion that has evolved as part of a survival instinct. It is an emotion that is triggered by the threat of danger, pain or harm. Chronophobia falls under the category of specific phobia because time is a specific object that one can fear. Chronophobia is especially common in prison inmates and the elderly, but it can manifest in any person who has an extreme amounts of stress and anxiety in their life. Chronophobia is described as "an experience of unease and anxiety about time, a feeling that events are moving too fast and are thus hard to make sense of".
The basic symptoms are panic, anxiety, and a fear of being in closed in some more serious cases, individuals can experience shaking, shortness of breath, excessive sweating, and irregular heartbeats. In the most serious cases individuals can exhibit symptoms of sickening states of mind, inability to articulate words, tunnel vision, and overwhelmingly haunting thoughts.
It is not uncommon for prison inmates to count-down the days until their release. The elderly also exhibit more of a risk because they feel that death is closer than it had ever been before in their life. The threat of death can cause an overwhelming sensation of chronophobia.
The fear of the future can never really be prevented because it is normally caused by a traumatic experience that is not within one's power to stop. Some ways to relieve the stress that chronophobia can cause are to prevent anxiety or situations that could cause anxiety, to avoid getting stressed out about time, to be on time, and to participate in an activity that requires meditation, such as yoga or other forms of mild martial arts.
The most factors that causes fear of the future:
Fear of the future can be avoided by some essential things:
The basic symptoms are panic, anxiety, and a fear of being in closed in some more serious cases, individuals can experience shaking, shortness of breath, excessive sweating, and irregular heartbeats. In the most serious cases individuals can exhibit symptoms of sickening states of mind, inability to articulate words, tunnel vision, and overwhelmingly haunting thoughts.
It is not uncommon for prison inmates to count-down the days until their release. The elderly also exhibit more of a risk because they feel that death is closer than it had ever been before in their life. The threat of death can cause an overwhelming sensation of chronophobia.
The fear of the future can never really be prevented because it is normally caused by a traumatic experience that is not within one's power to stop. Some ways to relieve the stress that chronophobia can cause are to prevent anxiety or situations that could cause anxiety, to avoid getting stressed out about time, to be on time, and to participate in an activity that requires meditation, such as yoga or other forms of mild martial arts.
The most factors that causes fear of the future:
Suffering from terminal or long-term illness
living without money or source of income
not holding a job/losing their present job in the future
losing a loved one
Fear of the future can be avoided by some essential things:
Firstly, in order to discard yourself from phobia you should try to understand your own potentials and eliminate your phobia ,
You should create the future you desire in your mind through the process of visualization,
Plan for your future achievements. Your effort should make your dreams turn into reality,&
Believe in yourself and try to be successful in life.
