False Evidence Appearing Real
I first heard this version of what FEAR is while attending Al-Anon. It’s the evidence part of this that is the problem. Why? Because the source of the evidence is not always reliable. Nor is the source always on your side. Fake News comes to mind. “They” present evidence that is not what truly happened or only from one bias perspective. Which in turn causes fear amongst many. Fear that doesn’t need to exit.
False evidence doesn’t have to come from the outside world though. I know there have been many times in my life that I have created a scenario of falsification that causes my own sense of fear. That is when I need to calm myself down and look hard at what is causing my fear. Once I recognize that, I usually find that there is nothing to fear.
