What to do About a Fear of Being Attacked

What is fear and why do we experience it? How it can help or be unhelpful during an attack. Do you imagine yourself being hurt during an attack, and is it productive or not? How to use your fear of being hurt in a more productive way.

Fear is an emotional state we humans have hardwired into our brains. Its purpose is to switch on our alertness and make us become fully aware of what is going on around us. Fear has one important job… to protect us.

It only stands to reason that because fear is there to protect us, in an attack situation, it can be a good thing. You just have to use it in a way that will help you. One of two things will happen at the beginning of an attack situation: You will stay and fight, or you will run away. That is what fear was hardwired into our brains to do. You can also use fear in a non-productive way.

If you imagine yourself being attacked and you getting hurt, it is the same as if it actually happened. How often do you get physically attacked? Not often, maybe five times in your lifetime. So, if you are one of those people who imagine what it would be like to be attacked and hurt, almost on a daily basis, you are (in your minds eye) being attacked and feeling fearful feelings every time you do. Is this way of looking at being attacked appropriate or useful?

In order to feel that feeling called fear, you have got to evaluate things in a way that will lead to pain. By imagining yourself being hurt over and over during an attack, you are creating a response that you will use in a real-life situation. It is a response that will not help you, a response that will make you freeze up and go to pieces, a response that will lead to pain… but temporary pain.

If you jam your finger in a door, you know it will hurt, but you know the pain will go away. Pain is only temporary. The best thing you can do for yourself is to realize that if you are attacked and hurt, the pain you feel is not going to last for long. So, use your fear in a more productive way – use it to help you fight off an attacker or to run like mad.

In conclusion

Don’t use fear to build an internal response that will not help you during an attack. Decide that fear of being hurt is just that, fear. Pain is only temporary, and in an attack situation, it is far better to use your fear as it was designed to be used - to protect you. Fight if you have to, run if you are able to.

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