![]() We’re encountering risk all the time, but maybe we’re not thinking about managing it very often.Īs you go about your summer activities, which may include several beach vacations, think about ways you could turn up the volume on the risk calculation part of your brain and turn down the volume on the anxiety. Most people place themselves in situations where they encounter stinging insects and ride in cars much more frequently than where they’d be bitten by a shark. In fact, you have a 1 in 144 rate of death from a fall, such as toppling off a chair or slipping from a high ladder. Now contrast that against your rate of death from a bee, hornet or wasp sting at 1 in 55,764 your rate of death from a severe thunderstorm at 1 in 6,780 or your lifetime risk of death for a motor vehicle crash at 1 in 107. The rate of death from a shark attack is 1 in 264,100,000. Take, for example, that bump on your foot as you were floating in the water. Too often our worries aren’t focused on activities that carry the most risk. Some of the most risky behaviors we participate in are the ones that either we don’t think about as being terribly risky or they’re the ones we do regularly. And when you add on top of that humans aren’t great at calculating risk, it exacerbates how scary an activity can feel.Īre you hesitant to go swimming in the ocean because you think that activity gives you a greater chance of dying from a shark attack? Whoa, we know that sounds heavy but seriously stop and think about it. Thalassophobia: fear of the sea and other large bodies of waterįear is a natural response but sometimes it is overactive and prevents us from having enjoyable memory-making experiences.Myctophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia, Achluophobia and Lygophobia: fear of dark or darkness.Kymophobia or Cymophobia: fear of waves.Galeophobia or Selachophobia: fear of sharks. ![]() Cryophobia, Frigophobia and Cheimatophobia: fear of cold, cold weather or cold things.Bathophobia: fear of depths or deep things.Here are some phobias associated with the ocean: A phobia is a fear of something specific that is so intense it inhibits daily life. This is one of the differences between fear (happening now) and anxiety (could happen). The stress response can be activated by an immediate physical threat (“A shark is chasing me!”) or even just thinking about the potential threat (“What if a shark attacked me?”). Most of the time, it makes sense to flee–escaping the threat means avoiding harm–but in certain situations we’re required to deal with the threat head on through a fight. The stress system prepares the body for two main survival techniques: fight or flight.
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